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taking 18000 lives and igniting the world's worst nuclear crisis since the chernobyl disaster joining us as we revisit those most affected in a series of reports on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get this is that he was live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes unrest across southern goals capital as protests continue against the detention of an opposition leader at a struggling economy. pope francis encourages peace and unity between faiths in the middle east during a visit to an ancient religious site in iraq. egypt's president of the frontal sisi
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visits sudan for the 1st time since the overthrow of the former president omar al bashir. more protests in myanmar in some places militias a joining the fight for democracy. and i'm santa hamill's with all the sports for just a day away from the barcelona presidential elections that were the result set to have a huge impact on the future of this in a messy. to begin then and some ago where political turmoil has led to more on rest of the military being deployed in the capital dhaka banks petrol stations and supermarkets were attacked demonstrators and police have been fighting off the opposition candidate was mom song go appeared in court on friday it was the 1st time since his
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arrest on charges of rape rights groups say that they're concerned about the crackdown on demonstrators and includes arbitrary arrests and the suspension of 2 private television channels over their coverage. the violence let's go live now to what. is this so they arrest continues what's happening where you are now. well i'm just outside where we spend some cool he's being held in the police station right behind me and this is where it all started off when he was picked up and brought to this detention center and i just want to spin around and show you the neighborhood in which we are and where protesters have been throwing stones towards that police station and hope to try to free. the opposition leader ever since his arrest on wednesday we've seen mounds protests starting here and quickly spreading throughout the capital and beyond in major cities not just that we've seen protesters looting certain areas in the wealthiest neighborhood of the capital
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the ahmadis a strange supermarket was targeted with people going in there trying to get their daily cities take a look at what happened earlier on today. this is much more than than politics the the rest of respond song has crystallized this feeling and remember we spent on ko describes himself as the anti establishment politician he's been very critical of the relationship of big corporations with the state and the government specifically the president himself accusing him of corruption and not has really resonated among many people here as this typically after this year of pandemic where the government has put really restrictive measures on the on the on on people the curfew has badly affected some of these people to no longer can earn a living many of them have stalls fruit and vegetables stalls and they're not able
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to sell they're not able to compete with big corporations that sell their vegetables at half the price that they are selling it so there is this feeling that this protest is not just about paula. 6 about a social movement it seems you know protesters going on protesters these are people that live in this neighborhood young people that come here to get by and to get some food maybe for today. and it's not just happening here it's happening in so many other places not just in the capital but throughout the country. now a 3rd of people who live in senegal live on less than $2.00 a day their daily labors they have suffered through the current of ours crisis because of the government measures a curfew is in place people can all go out at night and most people like the people behind me are sitting idle their daily laborers and they're having it they did finding it challenging to find work and that's why you see so much protesting
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happening many of the people even in this neighborhood voted for monkies all supported him in 2012 during the 1st election and it is those very people who are now protesting against and we've seen the president earlier today going out assessing the damage showing its support to the security forces who have frankly been overwhelmed in the last 2 days and there's a sense that even if this is the crisis the court case that is that is to do with the opposition who since uncle is resolved that still those deep grievances that are that are that are really affecting the poorest of sinegal if those are not address then these protests that may continue adrian. many thanks indeed there was a serious nicholas reporting live from dhaka senegal pope francis appealed for common ground among religious groups on the 2nd day of his historic
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trip to iraq the leader of the catholic church was speaking into face meeting the ancient city of or a significant site christians muslims and jews. we. believe is a strong element that unifies us terrorism and extremism has nothing to do with religion terrorism exploits religion it is up to us to find solutions and is up to us to face and deal with those who betray religions. earlier the pope met with iraq's top share muslim cleric on the 2nd day of his historic visit the meeting with the grand ayatollah ali sistani was held in the city of najaf he's the 1st catholic pope to travel to the country of a spreadsheet to deepen his dialogue with other religions let's go live out of not just some a bunch of it is the talk us through what else the pope had to say in his address earlier and that meeting with the grand ayatollah. where the historic day
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began in this holy city of niger we are right across the line of. a significant really important to this year population worldwide to muslims revere the decide and hold in high esteem the grand ayatollah ali sistani the grand ayatollah for iraq who has played a pivotal role in edicts ranging from elections to recent protests and it's very important a figure in iraq and the pope making sure that he starts his 2nd day. out to the most important religious cleric here in this country and discussing with him diffs a port for christians as well as harmony and peace worldwide you have to realize that there is not just conflicts within iraq but it goes beyond the beyond the boundaries of iraq and within the wider middle east in syria and in the palestinian territories and other parts of the world as well and that is something that both leaders sat down and discussed and the pope discussed also how christians are need
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to be supported by the population here in iraq and that was something that was a short to him by the grand ayatollahs or that the pope visited as you mentioned the ancient city of or the birthplace of prophet abraham the most important site for religious people a religious site for most interesting jews and there the pope made his message as the messenger of peace saying that there is no peace without interfaith harmony the future of iraq has to be good. by people of all faiths coming together and making sure that divisions are not part of the daily discourse mentioning that violence and extremism is not taught by any of these religions then the pope has made his way to baghdad where he's going to be holding a mass in the evening and tomorrow the pope heads to the north where he is going to be with a thing of the cities of corrosion mosul where brunt of the ice and atrocities against christians were committed and ending that day in and in
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a mosque in erbil where he'll be addressing the faithful there and then heading back to rome the day after al-jazeera some a bit of a reporting live there from now jeff many thanks indeed asama egypt's president. has ensued dung for a diplomatic visit he's missing sudan's leaders including the head of state of the officer alba han they discussed several key issues including the dispute with ethiopia over the ground raisons term earlier this week egypt and sudan called on the international community to mediate in the crisis. we discussed the renaissance dam in ethiopia this affects all the countries around the nile basin we agreed to continue our efforts on coordination and consultation we insist on returning back to negotiations in order to achieve a fair balanced agreement regarding the filling and operation of the dam for the sake of egypt sudan and ethiopia let's go live to the car to mount
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a serious hit morgan is the head of the ground or ethiopian raisons dam seems to top the agenda in these talks in sudan what more was said at the meeting. well adrian the biggest thing that was being discussed in the meeting between now and c.c. they give him president and the head of the sovereignty council as well as to dance prime minister are going to have a dog is how to move on forward with the talks with regard to the ground if you can renaissance them now talks have stopped for weeks now because the 3 sides can't reach a deal on how to move forward and how to run the talks before it's you appear starts its 2nd filling in july with the coming with the onset of the rainy season sedan in egypt have stressed that they want the observers to have a greater role they want them to play a mediator role now this file is obviously being handled by the african union a former south africa now by the democratic republic of congo but what's sudan and egypt are saying is that they want the united states the european union and the
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union and the united nations to have a greater role alongside with the african union to be able to reach some kind of solutions that's because as per sedan the filling and the operation of the dam without a legally binding deal will impact at least 20000000 people who are living along the streams of the nile here in sudan as well as the operations of the receivers anderson our dams here in sudan egypt of course is concerned about more than 90 percent of the population who rely on the nile waters for a living so lots of talks over this issue over how to move forward with the 2 sides seeming to agree that they need to include more people more more international mediation more observers to have a greater role to be able to get this file moving forward before july before the feeling of the ground if you've been around them in the rainy season that is something if your piece says it's will go on forward with the issue of how long it should take if you're going to fill the dam how much water should be released sudan
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is worried about it through syria's dam and its capacity which is about 100 kilometers away from the ground escaping renaissance dam and egypt of course is concerned about the well being of the people who rely on the dam that's more than 90 percent of its population so that was the biggest issue that was discussed between the 2 sides in addition to other via lateral relations al-jazeera morgan reporting live there from courtroom. dood. this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program communities in rural south africa say that they're being left behind and it's covert 19 vaccination drive. polls open in ivory coast parliamentary election that could lead to the return of an exiled former leader. but in sports the lineup is complete for the final of the council open sunday here with that and the rest of the school's littlest. security forces have used tear gas and violence to break up another day of anti
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coupe protests in the. rock. despite the crackdown the large crowds have gathered across several cities more than 50 people have been killed in protests since the military seized power last month tony chang is monitoring the situation from bangkok in neighboring thailand he says that many a concern about armed ethnic groups taking part in the demonstrations. once again people have come out on the streets in da way young go on mandalay in many places across the country and once again they have been met by security services who a firing tear gas setting fires trying to force them back off using those weapons of fear using to kill a harshly for the last week interesting new the one place where they didn't push back was in northern shan state in the town of last year where a very large crowd came out at about 9 am local time yesterday evening the t.n.l.
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a which is an armed insurgent group one of representing one of the ethnic minorities in that area become close to the city and made it very clear that they were supporting the protesters and we've seen this in other places too where soldiers from the qur'an ethnic groups have come out in support of the protesters. those protesters in last year stood off with the security services further down the road for a couple of hours they were waving groups representing different protesters around the country but also their own ethnic groups and the security services stood back they didn't push back as they had done so many other places and this highlights a big problem that i think many people are concerned about that these ethnic groups and they exist all across myanmar in many of the border areas and they very well and in certain cases these protests could be the potential for greater strikes in addition to which the military shows any weakness
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a tool groups could use this is an opportunity to push back against them. it was study was saying that the coup in myanmar has led to a rare unity among ethnic minorities who spent decades at war with the military faces from the korean national liberation army can be seen here with protesters in the southeast of the country on friday the group has been engaged in one of the longest running battles with the central government troops handed out water and showed the 3 finger salute an indication of the support for the empty coup movement . is a pony's human rights activist of the co-founder of forces of renewal southeast asia he said this is an extraordinary moment of unity for the people of myanmar. there is a radical reversal on the part of the majority here remember means public that have been brain wars too over decades to view these as insurgents record so these are communities that want to have
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a fair share in the way the country is run and the military is the major bloc and so now there are 2 things that that are happening that have not been captured on camera because it's not possible one is the you know complete and total ostracization all of the security sector including extended family members to no children of generals cronies families that have ties with the military or by the society you know the vendors would not sell water to police or like you know all food and also that there is what they call the protesters and the society called social punishment it's the religious equate this society society think with lentil excommunication excommunication of the entire city the security sector and it's a sub social system and the other one is forging all of inclusive
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society that recognizes that muslims and buddhists and other different ethnic groups they do not pose a threat to each other the common enemy at this point they suddenly realize is the national army and the the generals that have unleashed on president biden's an attempt to put society back under the boot. in thailand protesters are marching in the capital bangkok defying a ban on public gatherings there calling for the release of activists arrested under strict laws that ban criticism of the monarchy the government is accused of using those laws to stifle dissent. voters are casting their ballots in ivory coast's parliamentary election the polls the poll is happening 3 months off to what tara one of the presidential election that was boycotted by the opposition for the 1st time in 10 years the ivorian popular front headed by former president laurent
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gbagbo is taking part dozens of his supporters were killed after he protested against what others reelection in october ivory coast has a long history of political turbulence last october's disputed election sparked protests president ouattara who's governed for more than a decade won with 94 percent of the vote but his opponents didn't accept the result of a constitutional amendment following a referendum in 2016 allowed watada to seek a 3rd that led to violence between opposition a grueling party supporters and security forces ivory coast experienced a civil war afterwards about his 1st election victory in 2010 former president laurent gbagbo refused to step aside leading to violence of which 3000 people were killed but he is africa affairs analyst on the presidents of the africa international media group she thinks the opposition's boycott of elections in the
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past has hindered its ability to challenge the government. this is constantly stick zeeshan has been competing all over. again not by story in camera. you name it. whenever the we have an argument against the incumbent our or the iran against the president and the like the. election. there's 1st instinct to. see what cuts the next election we don't get that. in the parliamentary election which has been a mistake so they are what happens that they are excluded for food only quote you want it was that well gee jones now when they don't accept the results so we boycott what happens you don't see any opposition in the parliament they have
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no see what sort of the we buy just before election so. that if there is a positive dynamic. for them to break it's now john the time has come to what we lives and we sit in the bottom of that going to have to see dozens of people been killed over the last 24 hours in fighting between yemeni government troops and what they rebels in moderate province military aircraft from the saudi led coalition have been targeting coup thief isis rebels launched an offensive last month to seize the city and nearby oil rich areas. britain is reported to be planning to scale back aid around the world due to the economic fallout from the pandemic an investigation by open democracy reveals the severity of the proposed cuts aid to nigeria south sudan somalia and the democratic republic
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of congo could be reduced by around 60 percent compared to preplan demick levels much of that help supports health services and provides clean drinking water some of the world's poorest people aid to yemen is expected to be halted just as the country comes close to famine but elsewhere in the region the british government is said to be planning to cut assistance to syria by 2 thirds and lebanon may lose nearly 90 percent aid agencies say the cuts couldn't have come at a worse time dannie source come the rajah is the chief executive of oxfam for great britain he joins us now live from london these cuts have been described by some as a gut punch to the world's poor is that how you see it. absolutely in fact you know the united nations secretary general talks about the yemen cases being a death sentence for the people of yemen know one of the proudest things about britain's approach to international aid recent years is that it's become the 1st
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country in the world to legislate that point 7 percent of national income would be spent on international aid and that's been a crowd commitment of showing international solidarity with the world's poorest people but what we've seen in the last few months has been wrenching just as the world is shaken by this global pandemic as we're seen humanitarian need to rise across the world britain is counting. on eye on these aid budgets in the sort of countries you've listed and that's going to lead to loss of life to severe economic and humanitarian consequences point 7 percent does not sound that much. of that translates into a heck of a lot of money just how big a difference would losing more than hoffa make to the world's poor. britain is already the 2nd largest provider of official development assistance or a and we're talking about cuts in the order of 4 to 5000000000 pounds and what's
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particularly worrying at the moment is these reports that you're talking about suggest that much of that money is going to be cut from the lifesaving aid that goes to some of the poorest and most fragile pops of the world and not for example on some of those longer term projects to do with research and development or supporting economic development enterprise all of that stuff is really important but it feels particularly wrong to be cutting in the most extreme of humanitarian context where we know lives will be lost children will be denied access to school and you know they'll be direct implications immediately how would you answer the argument that at the moment having financial problems of its own due to the pandemic britain just can't afford this kind of aid budget. but there's no denying that this pandemic is wreaking havoc across the world including in countries like
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life britain but you know what developed countries spend on aid is a tiny proportion compared to what they're spending propping up failing industries in terms of their own trillions of dollars spent on on supporting their own economy and you know what was great about the british promise on the point 7 percent of its income when i was it was a promise made at the best of times but it is you know as the archbishop of canterbury said here in the u.k. recently it's particularly galling that this promise is now broken in the worst of times and the you know a few hundreds of millions of pounds will not save the british exchequer a huge amount will not make a tangible difference on the fiscal pressures on the u.k. government but will make a huge difference when it comes to the humanitarian effort that organizations like oxfam are involved in in places like yemen all the democratic republic of congo we started but by discussing yemen let's finish on the about again you say it will
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make a huge difference what sort of difference which we're talking about the countries already on the verge of famine what exactly the country that's on the brink of famine with 2 thirds of the population it is in need of humanitarian assistance i think this is where the withdrawal of in this case you know 100000000 pounds worth of international aid is going to really hurt it will make it much more difficult for organizations like mine to provide clean water to displaced people to provide shelter for those who are being displaced and affected by the by the war this is going to have immediate impact in a country that many are calling the world's worst humanitarian crisis of today because talk to so many thanks indeed that's the chief executive for great britain of ox fam. pakistan's prime minister imran khan has won a vote of confidence in parliament after suffering
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a surprise setback in senate elections he was able to secure 178 votes against 172 required to win khan's governing p.t.i. party won most seats but his finance minister lost to former prime minister opposition can the use of rosa golani khan called the vote on saturday after the opposition demanded his resignation in india thousands of followers of blocks a major road to new delhi to mark the 100th day of protest against the government's controversial agricultural laws the process began in november thomas say the changes could lead to a monopoly of big corporations and end guaranteed prices for their produce the government says that agriculture sector reform is long overdue. it's got a weather update now all that is are his role. there are still a few showers in australia in south australia but this white line might draw your attention that is now a virtually racing severe tropical psycho bitch moving so quickly other actually
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recall ever seen one go this speech now that could be bad because it's going the same direction as a spin which means the strength of the winds which are over $200.00 at the strongest a few hours ago when it went past new cardone you could add that to it and it could be some pretty severe damage but because he's going so quickly that window he lost it for a short time so hopefully damage isn't too bad anyways now over open water and we can almost forget it looks could be going towards new zealand but i rather doubt it now has left us well in the water so the coast of queensland in particular will feel that because it was churning so long in the coral sea. inland a few showers and in fact is warming up in new south wales cities up to the thirty's those showers are probably going to be thunderstorms unfortunately having taken the brief we're revisiting of summer in melbourne we're back down to 22 again here but unlike his 30 in person a few showers in western australia it recently got cold as you know in tokyo down
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to about 10 degrees but the skunk sun is coming back to work up to 40 by monday. many thanks still to come here on the news of the u.s. accuses china attack on the mock receiver beijing's plans to change hong kong as electoral system. a small but significant step will tell you more about the trademarks left on the red planet. and in sports product why this ice hockey game took a ugly turn details coming up a little later. it's one of the biggest clubs in south america. put its greatest rival is just a few blocks away. a mutual dislike between funds formed from a class divide sustained over generations. most book
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a junior supporters are born into these club colors. in an epic feud of rich versus poor the friends who make football on al-jazeera. an act of youthful defiant it's the memory of the return next hour of serve in the school will be arrested me at home with 4 in the morning was electric shock treatment or worse that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was very beginning of the armed struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war. on al jazeera.
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hello again a very interesting and with you here in doha with the news out on al-jazeera the headlines rights groups say that that concerned about suttles handling of the protest against the arrest of opposition count that it will spawn song cope on the sense nationalists condemned the use of live in its ammunition 4 people have died in 3 days of demonstrations egypt's president a bill fattah el-sisi met with sudan's leaders during his 1st visit since former president obama will share was ousted they discussed several issues including the disputed the theos over the ground renee soames down. the pope francis appealed for common ground among religious groups he spoke at a meeting between people of different faiths of the age and city of who are on the 2nd day of his historic visit to iraq or is a place of historic importance for both christians and muslims at
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a summit of fall t.v. reports the business is raising hopes of development in the long neglected area. the ancient capital of mesopotamia it was 1st settled 5000 years before christ and became the seat of samarian kings but this was not just the cradle of one of the earliest civilizations in the world according to the biblical book of genesis or it is also believed to have been the birthplace of abraham the father of the 3 monotheistic faiths judaize and christianity and islam part of. this visit is important in many respects tourism and would become a pilgrimage site for christians of course that will serve our province archaeologists hope the papal visit will usher in funding to further develop the site only around 10 percent has been excavated the walls of the royal tombs opened around a 100 years ago and left unprotected from the elements have been weakened by salt
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and humidity and are at risk of collapse of. the fluctuations and with the conditions greatly impact the buildings which are made of mud bricks and one stone. of the great ziggurat of abraham's house are the only structures that have been rehabilitated in recent decades for muslims abraham is known as prophet abraham who sacrifice is celebrated during the islamic holiday of . i will be. a father used to take us to every homes house every 3 to 4 weeks since our childhood we were raised to love abraham's house his words his dialogue. shaken he has traveled to the vatican himself and hopes the pope's visit will result in formal collaboration. with and i hope this 1st visit will be followed by other visits and the institutes will be established here for mutual understanding an interchange where students from the vatican come to iraq to study
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for one or 2 years and our students can go to christian institutes the people who live around or would have more practical demands like this new road paved just ahead of the pope's arrival and. we hope that after the pope comes there will be better services there will be more developments i'm jobs such expectations risk being left unfulfilled during a profound financial and health crisis still the pope's visit will at least for a day cast the limelight on a site that has had few visitors in decades of war and instability simona fulton al-jazeera in iraq's ancient city of. at least 20 people have been killed in the somali capital after an explosion at a cafe that's popular with government workers soldiers there is under schapelle reports. for the 2nd time in a year a popular restaurant is attacked in somalia's capital dozens are dead or wounded. yemeni was crowded on friday night when this rickshaw carrying explosives was
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driven into it a nearby building collapsed burying people under rubble. but. among those killed in the blast was my brother whose name was up to salaam it's really very sad to witness this tragedy. the un and police have condemned al shabaab for the attack . the targets a stark evidence of how the terrorists don't want any joy of safety for the residents of the capital and the somalis in general who conduct investigations into the circumstances of the bust and inform you of the final results of another suicide bomber attacked the cathay in august last year prevented from entering he detonated his explosive vest at the entrance. controls rural areas in southern somalia and frequently targets government and civilian targets in mogadishu and al-jazeera on the.
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u.s. senate passed a compromise by democrats and republicans on federal benefits for millions of unemployed americans politicians have approved additional weekly unemployment aid of $300.00 until the start of september the agreement of a come as one of many obstacles to president joe biden's near 2 trillion dollars covert 19 relief bill and a gallica reports now from miami. the senate will come to order in a u.s. congress evenly split between democratic and republican politicians passing president biden so-called american rescue plan was never going to be easy the senate debates been delayed by hours long readings a marathon voting session and compromises by democratic party to pass biden's 1st piece of major legislation republicans who support isn't needed to pass the bill so it's a wasteful parade of left wing projects 200000000 for the answer to the museum and library services what's that got to do is nothing this legislation is the most
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consequential in a blow to progressive democrats a push for a $15.00 minimum wage failed with several democrats voting the proposal down there of also being compromises on unemployment benefits trimmed down from $400.00 to $300.00 a week and i appreciate you being rude comments tell your story from president biden meeting at the white house with the families struggling to make ends meet a last minute plea with less than. 2 weeks from enhanced unemployment checks. and 7000000 kids don't have enough food. 30000000 people are behind in iran. and the american rescue plan i believe according to polling to out of the vast majority of americans believe is essential friday's unemployment numbers show signs of a steady spring recovery still of a 9000000 people remain out of wood if you look at job losses most have been in the
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service industry a huge sector here in florida reducing unemployment benefits will hit those still out of work hard but the by the administration is keen to pass the bill quickly president biden didn't get the bipartisan support he'd hoped for but it's thought the bill will pass eventually if passed the almost 2 trillion dollars will help struggling families businesses and states strapped for cash leading democrats say the sooner it's passed the quicker the u.s. will bounce back the clear majority of the american people democrats independents and republicans all support the american rescue plan it seems the only group in america who doesn't support the american rescue plan or washington republicans it's hoped the bill will hit the president's desk sometime next week and for many it can't come soon enough to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. in paraguayan protests over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic turned violent on friday night. police fired tear gas rubber bullets
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at hundreds of people as many broke into shops and set fire to cars in the capital hard wired as health minister has become the latest official to resign as record numbers of infections overwhelm hospitals. there's been chaotic scenes in rio de janeiro as thousands of elderly brazilians lined up for hours for covert by $900.00 vaccines many had queued overnight after a city mayor said the jobs would be given to people over 60 but only a fraction of the doses needed are available lines of people and vehicles stretched for several kilometers. the world health organization is brazil to adopt more rigorous measures to combat the virus after president triable sonando criticized new restrictions in some states w.h.o. says that it's concerned all of latin america could be affected affected rather and as ward countries against letting down their guard i really am very concerned that
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all of us governments and individuals alike think in some way psychologically i understand what's driving we think we're through this we're not and countries are going to lurch back in this 3rd and 4th searches if we're not careful need to be the party pooper here but that's unfortunately the way i see it and we should not waste the hope that vaccines bring we should not waste the precious gift of vaccines we'll bring by dropping our guard in other areas it's really really important. south africa's plan to vaccinate most of its people by the end of the year is running into problems one major challenge is getting the vaccines to rural areas where a 3rd of the population lives or a serious form of the middle reports now from a towel or some say they're being left behind. limps among buried her brother behind a family home into about 2 by inquisition
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a toll just months ago she says he died from cove in 1000 well she says a family's been devastated by his and the death of 2 other relatives they're not convinced the vaccine will protect them some say that no it's not clear if vaccine to be take him because it can continue killing us. you can say that if it really airbags that it can continue maybe you are going to die more after these likely 10 days he lives in the village of some killer which is nearly 200 kilometers from the city of durban the main clinic years already under pressure its limited resources have been further strained by the cold than 1000 pandemic a much island exist now and we have many challenges we have fewer nurses and not doctors. in its 1st phase of the vaccine rollout south africa's government has vaccinated tens of thousands of health care workers across the country here in cars
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do not tell fewer than 2000 have received the jab so far only after all health care workers are immunized will it vaccinate essential workers the elderly and the vulnerable more than a 3rd of south africans live in rural areas that are often difficult to get to and have poor infrastructure well tens of thousands of health workers in urban areas have been vaccinated it's unclear how the government plans to inoculate those who haven't been and others in areas like this one. in addition to its current supply of johnson and johnson vaccines the government is expecting $20000000.00 doses of the pfizer job later this year but it requires storage at minus 70 degrees and that's unlikely in rural areas with facilities a limited our population is going down. but for now we can't just our process because we will create an expectation that will not be 4 feet if mr in
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now get be vaccinated then they would say when and then we are not rid the with specifics because we are still life that we've only $10.00 in a bowl term dolls in. the government expects more vaccines every 2 weeks and it's increasing the number of vaccination sites but as time does heal as family mourns the loss and fear of becoming sick themselves their faith in the vaccine and when it will come remains uncertain for me to malaya al-jazeera president to tell south africa. discovered $1000.00 vaccinations were out around the world books claiming that inoculations a dangerous are becoming increasingly popular online prompting calls for health warnings on advertisement the bestselling book in amazon's children's vaccination immunization section is anyone who tells you vaccines are safe and effective is lying one of the sections top 10 books of all of the sections top 10 books 5
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claim to expose the dangers of vaccines at one criticizes what it calls misconceptions and mis reporting on medical issues amazon says it urges customers to read official government sources and removes products that breach its guidelines but the firm says it recognizes there are different views on freedom of expression jonathan berger is the author of empty vaccines how to challenge a misinformed movement he says that amazon should be doing more to tackle misinformation i wouldn't say amazon should get rid of the books. but. bookstores have always done a degree of curation you walk into any bookstore and they've selected which books to carry in shelves and amazon is trying to be that in a database of all of the books that are available. but they choose which ones to put in front of you and that's based on their algorithm and i think this is a case where there's
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a strong argument that the algorithm isn't enough that there should be a degree of curation of what it shows you as its 1st result of the data is that it has been growing significantly over the years you know. quite a bit in it seems to have to have merged with the entire masque movement so what the entire mass movement gets is the expertise of people who've been doing anti public health work for decades in what their axes get is a new large audience the u.s. has condemned new feature powers by a proposed by china or hong kong selection of election candidates saying that it's a direct attack on the territories autonomy beijing revealed the legislation on friday at the opening of its largest political beating the national people's congress the changes were effectively dismantle hong kong's opposition by giving beijing appointed committee control over who can run for office observers adrian
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brown has been speaking to opposition leaders in hong kong about the proposed rules and they say they won't give up without a fight. located in haiti represents what's left of a once thriving opposition party many of its members have been arrested with others now on trial accused of subversion loz doing court in 6 months to face unlawful assembly charges but is free on bail he says china's government can eliminate hong kong's political opposition but not the aspirations of its people their tiny skull and or the whole whole government they can suppress the whole competitions they can suppress the opposition politicians but they couldn't suppress or the oppositions the opposition come from the people beijing's electoral overhaul of this territory will likely mean the opposition's landslide win in district council elections 60 months ago was probably its last. many of the winning candidates were linked to the
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protest movement a year later the hong kong government canceled the more important elections for the mini parliament citing code with 19 now it seems that poll could be persona to gain until 2022 china's leaders say that only patriots can hold elected office in hong kong without specifying exactly what that means but it does though raise serious questions over the future of the opposition and whether credible elections can be held without it no can hayes says with only candidates approved by mainland china to choose from many people will be dissuaded from voting in elections already rigged in china's favor the reform means that they want more control they want more secure election system in hong kong and i think whenever you want to control an election more. representation of the election for the people will just be less and
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less chills one calls himself a patriotic the probe asian businessman was born on the mainland and heads a new political party that could benefit from china's new electoral rolls he says you don't have to love the chinese communist party to be a patriot actually people should respect communist china and also respect the communist party but having individual china hong kong to love a party which they have very little knowledge or experience with is and realistic i think those are 2 different things supporters of the chinese government deny the new laws will weaken hong kong's already diluted democracy and insist the promises made before this place was returned from british to chinese rule have not been broken but to some those guarantees now seem worth a mess adrian brown al-jazeera on cong. the white house is warning of
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a powerful cyber espionage campaign that's targeting microsoft exchange email software the so-called hafnium hacking group has been remotely breaking into e-mail service since january the group is believed to be based in china microsoft says the targets include infectious disease research as law firms higher education institutions defense contractors policy think tanks and norm governmental groups this is significant vulnerability that could have far reaching impacts 1st informants this is an active threat and as the national security adviser tweeted last night everyone running the servers government private sector academia needs to act now to patch them we are concerned that there are large number of victims and are working with our partners to understand the scope of this test drives go it's literally out of this world the malls rue the post severe and has traveled its 1st few meters since landing last month the u.s. space agency nasa says all systems go rob reynolds reports. making tracks
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on mars the perseverance rover went for a spin 2 weeks after landing on the red planet. and milestone on a mission and the mobility of home like we've driven on earth but driving on mars or even the off call and. tell me if i can even how i work toward the ferry moment for here it wasn't a long trip just over 6 metres in total nor was it a fast drive the whole exercise took 30 minutes and almost 0.02 kilometers per hour but so far perseverance is working perfectly we haven't had any hardware issues you know everything i've been working that we've been checking out. and so it's it's actually been amazingly smooth and in that respect and what here in this picture of
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a rock formation near the landing site you can clearly see stratification or layers of rock they may be made of sediment washed down billions of years ago when mars was rich with surface water either executive or air grokked are likely to populate by rivers flowing into the engine right gender out and perseverence has been flexing its robotic arms with the instruments named sherlock and watson mechanical detectives searching for signs of ancient life within weeks the rover will deploy its mini helicopter ingenuity for a test flight scientists have named the landing area in honor of the late octavia butler a novelist who was the 1st african-american woman to win top prizes in science fiction and a macarthur fellowship for her books including parable of the sower with the help of a spacecraft orbiting mars scientists are plotting possible routes for perseverance to reach its goal an ancient river delta that may hold some. signs of long extinct
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microbial life forms if found such signs would be evidence that life perhaps even intelligent life exists in abundance beyond earth throughout the vastness of space robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles just ahead here on the news out in sport as a solo meta after round 2 of the arnold palmer invitational the details coming up next. from. frank assessments the world is on a brink. that model fabian is that a fair assessment you catastrophic global hialeah to twice and valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bitcoin ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth
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analysis of the day's global headlines the inside story on our. one in 3 brazilian women is a victim of domestic abuse it seems every day a woman dying spend it just becomes a statistic that some have broken away from the cycle of violence it's not easy to leave you have to ask for help and inspired others to turn their lives around i called the straw hat program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change on i'll just be around. you are the the i.
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and i get time to support his son i thank you very much adrian all over just a day away from one of the most important elections in the history of football club barcelona on sunday the spanish giants who elect a new president to form a bus the president while a porter is the favorite he helped the club win 13 major trophies it during his 7 year reign he is up against a media technology entrepreneur victor font 26 who has served on the club's board over 111000 club members will be voting on who will lead the club at this pivotal moment all right now the club isn't in a good financial state has reported debts of more than 1000000000 dollars then here there's a message future his contract expires on june 30th meaning he could leave for free also barcelona are far from their best on the field their league title defense
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across towards the end of last season and they're on the brink of the last 16 exit from the champions league. well the election is also taking place after what's been a controversial week for the club a former president just about tomorrow who stepped down in october was one of 4 people connected to the club arrested on monday as part of a corruption investigation well we've been speaking to spanish football writer rickshaw my he believes assault and out the message situation is boces immediate priority and that laporta has the best chance of getting the argentinian to stay. i think it was it is the neighbor and he probably is also the guy who has the best chance of keeping messi because he has a relationship they know each other like water that was possible just 3 to 10 which is the latest that stages they are. the best is the best possible owner in history possibly the best football team in history perhaps pep guardiola gaza
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208-000-9010 look also was there and he knew messi and he speaks to messi i would say regularly but he does speak to messi unlike us attorney frazier and thinks of what we don't have a personal relationship with messi look water to me is the guy with the best plan he's not the guy with who's been working on this this election years and years and years that's because on top of is the one who's going to know he's a businessman he's carefully plotted out how he wants things to go if and when he becomes president but look water is a personality he's a character he's a showman and people like that and that you know they haven't liked upon him in the last week they've been 3 debates between the candidates and one of the accusations aimed a lot was a by point of the pressure was that he was avoiding debates and avoiding speaking but in the debates it's been a look also who's come out on top because he does have that natural character and i think if he was a bit of a star the week he's
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a favorite now. tapper roger federer has arrived in doha for the cattle pen as he gets ready to make his competitive return to tennis after a year out with entering it has a 9 year old has undergone a toonie said reason since his exit from last year's australian open i got very very excited and this may be also a moment where i can maybe thank all the people involved and made this possible it's been a long and hard road i know i'm not at the finish line yet but. it's go you know where i'm at a good place i've been practising very well and just really pumped up. pitcher cavuto played. in the final of the women's qatar open later on the czech number 4 seed to convey to the beat american qualified jessica 6461 the semi's well growth of spain advance to the final without hitting a ball on her opponent victoria azarenka would drew from their semifinal due to a back injury give it to the into the title decider for the 3rd time in 4 years.
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canada's korea connoisseur has taken the lead after round 2 of the arnold palmer invitational connors carded 3 on the 69 to get to 9 on the path of the torment leading by one stroke going into the weekend 2018 champion roy marko is 2 shots behind and it shall now in the boston bruins it beat the washington capitals 51 in a game that was overshadowed by nasty fights boston took the lead through a brad mashal and the game took an ugly turn when capitals forward tom wilson checked brandon carlo into the gloucester in the 1st period no penalty was called on the play carlos helped off the ice and was taken to hospital later on the bruins responded with a 3 goal 2nd period to help seal the win. and also as well from a 100 back to adrian somebody thanks to the 4 but he was out but i'll be back in
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al-jazeera. and. unrest across some of those capital of its protests against the detention of the opposition leader and the country struggling economy. i'm nicholas hawke in the wealthiest neighborhood in the capital the car outside of the supermarket that was looted by protest.

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