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in a clear an unbiased and as an african i couldn't be more proud to be. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the line sentimentality taking will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. at least 6 people were killed in the latest crackdown against and you can protesters in manama. out on the blog this is al jazeera life and also coming up. anger in jordan after a hospital loses its all such and supply leaving 7 patients dead. for libya's
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former interim president janine and yes it is arrested on terrorism sedition charges she's accused of aiding a coup against even morality. the disappearance and murder of a young woman in britain puts a spotlight on violence against women. so the demonstrations against military have again turned deadly at least 6 protesters have been killed by security forces not long after midnight troops opened fire on a peaceful sit in outside a police station in yangon tony chang has this report it's a wounded protesters rushed through the bank streets of mandalay as police opened fire on protesters in myanmar 2nd city on saturday. despite the threat of injury and death there seems to be no sign the protest as a being to target. at his home in yangon on the body. of c 2
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a 37 year old try short peddler lies under green cover he was shot overnight on friday as the security services trying to disperse protesters who gathered outside a police station and district the protesters are calling for the release of 3 men arrested in raids earlier in the night. i told my son that we have nothing and will die if we go against them i'd go and shoot back at them if i had a gun now we can't do anything tell me do we always have to keep silent and die why are we dying for doing the right thing. filmed furtively from an overhead window these pictures show one of those arrests dragged from their homes several men a hit and kicked by the police. beatings like this have become commonplace conducted in public for maximum impact. so that kind of you know it as a valid soldiers shot at us sit in strike last night and arrested 3 people and
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we're beating them so all of us residents asked them to release the arrested people at the police station then they fired live rounds at us one died over there and another one died here. but the bullets and beatings haven't deterred the protesters using fireworks and petrol bombs behind makeshift bamboo barricades they're trying to slow the advance of the army and police and a rapid retreat under the returning volley of tear gas and smoke using speed and still they scatter and regroup to take another stand even if it means risking their lives and making the ultimate sacrifice tony chang al-jazeera. well india's government has warned regional authorities not to allow refugees to cross the border following reports that about 150 people including dozens of police officers have already entered india since the military coup officers from eman vowel in india's northeastern state say they fled to avoid taking orders from the military
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24 states have been ordered by the indian government to begin deportation without delay but some of them share ethnic and tribal ties with the refugees ms around states is pushing back it shares a 404 kilometer border with me but new delhi has called the influx illegal as india is not a signatory to the un refugee convention. what a calm apology or is editor in chief at the news website east major dot com that focuses on india's northeast and explains why some indians in ms around state have been vocal about their support for me and most refugees the state where we just seem excellent support for the unrest in myanmar its from ms around the knees also share ethnic relations with the chin comes the chin state could myanmar which is modest so there are relations people from the bear have come to misery and that matted symmetrical down so that's why there is
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a connection and that's why coffee fell off to the us a for supporting the refugees and are welcoming that and that's what it leads good the state government regional province said that we will welcome refugees strong myanmar but again the government of india has issued a notification thing that you know all refugees must be deported if you look at the in time not each because we also have a lot of tribes and not all tribes support the rectory just coming in the chief minister of another state which has significant boundary with myanmar in a statement to east logic when you give us an interview told us that yes he is willing to accept refugees from myanmar but they have yet to he said that we have to we have to follow the central government the government of india says. even went on to say that he'd better schools where refugees would be kept but again saying
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that if you have to wait for the central government audit. at least 7 patients being treated for corona virus have died at a hospital in jordan after the oxygen supply ran out the prime minister says the health minister has been fired and a national medical emergency has been declared. as this. and show outside assault hospital in a one hour cut to vital oxygen supplies has been blamed on the deaths of patients. it affected intensive care the tennessee and coronavirus wards a backup supply a right tonight to some. but my father and mother are at the coronavirus isolation zone inside the hospital by coincidence i was inside the hospital when suddenly the oxygen was cut we are starved who said they had run out of oxygen and that they are waiting for a truck for more supplies we received assistance from the civil defense some of
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them were inside the hospital and they provided oxygen cylinders and then started to resuscitate patients among them my parents'. security forces being called in preventing anyone unauthorized from entering the hospital. these people have no choice but to wait for nice. and has said. there was an oxygen outage and there were no measures to prevent this it is known that in all jordanian hospitals there are motors available just in case electricity goes down even before the crown a virus outbreak when there are surgeries at hospitals there is always spare equipment but here there was an oxygen outage. i gave my father c.p.r. 3 times and twice to my mother i called the director of the hospital at 1030 the isolation ward has only one doctor and 2 nurses to serve 50 to 60 patients this is unfair to kick. the fool out with swift health minister in the theatre obey that
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resigned. and king abdullah arrived to a mixed reception from the crowds at the hospital and he immediately ordered the whole rector to resign parliament to set up a special committee to investigate what happened but there are people here who say the hospital was under starved and ill prepared and many are asking why a failure like this went on noticed until tonight. al-jazeera. true and his government is brining full face coverings and closing more than a 1000 islamic schools it says it's taking the decision on national security grounds the president has promised to crack down on religious extremism but critics argue it's the latest measure by the government to marginalize the muslim community it recently reversed a mandate to cremate with 19 victims of crime among muslims and international
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criticism no fernando's has details now from colombia. the minister of public security. said that the ban of the burka is all about national security he described the burka as basically a symbol of extremism and he did that in previous years gone by that you didn't see the use of the burka that much but this 9 is very much something that is more prevalent in today's context so basically the government also looking very carefully at what dress or sort of religious schools the minister said there were over 2000 schools in the country and he did say that any schools should come under a sort of a national education policy and over a house and he mentioned. facing being banned by the government now in addition to the book about we are also seeing another set of regulations that have been introduced under the prevention of terrorism act signed after the hand of the
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president basically it's about the. radicalization it's called the deed radicalization of violent extremist religious ideologies those holding those views and it essentially allows for those who are suspected of who are arrested with as well as those who essentially by the by court by word by deed who essentially commit acts of violence intend than committing the acts of violence or a sort of foster communal disharmony and now this law will allow such people to be detained for up to 2 years maximum to ascension to be rehab militated not the government did this with the time of tigers at the end of the war and we don't know any details so far but certainly seems that anyone found to be fitting this bracket a very large bracket that the government has given that you know it can be
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interpreted very widely that such people can be essentially rehab related or haloed essentially for rehab and taishan for up to 2 years. to bolivia where the former interim president jeanine 9 years has been arrested after allegations of a coup against her predecessor even morale as i know is is facing charges of terrorism sedition conspiracy as she took over as interim leader when mirallas fled bolivia in 2019 made violent protests against his reelection he returned after his movement for socialism party won october's election party members claim in years and her former cabinet promoted the overthrow of morality which she denies. even though it is an irregular detention because i was never summoned in addition to all that you know that as a former president i have a very particular situation but even with the abuse and the outreach and yeah. let's return to rome here to joins us now live from bogota colombia. tell us more
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about this arrest of the former president and what the reaction has been. well yes nick i knew it was actually found by the police hiding underneath a bed base in the house of relatives in the city of 3 that in northern. she was discovered by the police around 18 am we understand also that her family members try to physically stop the police from taking their way to her family members was were also arrested and this operation she was then transferred to the capital. during the night that she's now being held in custody at a prison. in a special forces against crime she was able to briefly speak to some journalists during her arrest we just heard are saying that this arrest is
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irregular she believes that the socialist government. is illegally doing this for process is this against her and against a number of other officials of her interim government. cassio who is a government minister of the current administration i say confirmed that another 2 ministers were also arrested during the night and that the police is going after at least 10 facials among them the former chief of the police the former commander of the military forces there all accused of conspiring to overthrow who won the elections in 2019 for an unprecedented 4 term 6 but many consider those election in the country
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on constitutional given the fact that had this lost the referendum that was to decide if you could do it run again or not so we can see is that the political crisis that started in 2019 continues in believing. the. situation in libya thanks elizabeth. still ahead here on al-jazeera researches in the philippines are on the hunt for bax to learn how to prevent another pandemic. if i could get him back i would give all that is back the largest settlement for wrongful death in u.s. history the city of minneapolis agrees to pay the family of george floyd $27000000.00. it's time for the perfect janet. sponsored plan qatar airways
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not the best of days in japan out the moment this rather active storm system is on its way through hong to towards hawkeye dozers wet and windy not particularly cold with still cold enough in the back portion of a snow wet snow up on the mountains increasing the avalanche risk in northern honshu i'm probably al qaida once i was gone for sure the sun is back again the same activity coming through much of china is a would rather weak frontal system but it's gathered on its northern edge shores north and circulations a pretty cold air so early on but instead of minus 7 happens to 7 that snow is going to cross north korea i suspect i might end up going further east that our watch but has not disturbed the sky much in beijing save that 15 degrees bad average temperature the air quality still pretty much right down there the significant rate developing further south along the yangtze if a significant rain but if there were the same and it's looking particularly wet in
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the philippines at the moment still flood warnings around central philippines could well be wet it's movie dilute zong by the time we get to monday and there's also been some useful i think snow up in the middle of valley the finals of pakistan and there's a bit more to come during sunday but disappears and we get to monday. sponsored paul qatar airways levanon is grappling with its worst economic crisis in generations. exasperated by the coronavirus pandemic and then this place one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history shone a light on a nation already in economic and political freefall people in power travels across the country to find out what's next for the trouble states lebannon the state to collapse on a just you know. arrogated
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watching al-jazeera might have our top stories at least 6 protesters have been shot dead in the latest demonstrations miramar police reported to have fired on protesters in mandalay on saturday overnight security forces used live ammunition on crowds in yangon. 7 patients being treated for corona virus have died at a hospital in jordan after the oxygen supply ran out the prime minister says the health minister has been fired and a national medical emergency has been declared. true lanka's government is banning full face coverings in closing more than a 1000 islamic schools on national security grounds critics argue it's the latest measure by the sri lankan government to marginalize the muslim community.
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scientists say the source for the ongoing boger outbreak in guinea may have been a person infected in the last outbreak that ended in 2016 if true it means the person carried the virus for more than 5 years before spreading it well the health organization says more studies need to be done but the data rules out animals as being the source of the current outbreak there are at least 18 cases of bona confirmed beginning of this year more than 11000 people died in the last outbreak the w.h.o. says brazil is not moving in a good direction in the fight against corona virus deaths from covert 19 now exceed 275000 the 2nd highest number of fatalities in the world after the united states want to have reports now from rio de janeiro. aside for sore eyes a couple of empty beds waiting for couvade 19 patients and enough professionals to welcome them but the administer to give out a hospital in the seaside town of money is an exception in most of brazil the
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health care system is on the brink of collapse as the corona virus is spreading and claiming lives at an alarming rate. as a question there we're seeing an upsurge of infections and deaths everywhere partly because people have stopped prospective social distancing last month's carnival was cancelled but that didn't keep brazilians from partying without masks doctors in this intensive care tell us they're admitting a greater number of younger patients than a year ago beds are scarce but so are vaccines in rio de janeiro diana finally had to wait in line to get her mother admitted to a single beso as a spit on there were 5 people ahead of her personally she was able to wait but i'm sure that many others who were in the more critical condition didn't make it brazil is facing the worst phase of the pandemic since it registered the 1st covert 19
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deaths exactly a year ago this week saw a rise in the daily rate of deaths with 2000 people losing their lives every 24 hours. mass inoculations could have been a light at the end of the tunnel but president jade maddow downplayed the pandemic and delayed the acquisition of vaccines less than 6 percent of the population has received the 1st shot so far as a result governors and mayors have decided to take matters in their own hands the city of medicare for example just announced it will buy 400000 doses of the russian vaccine enough to not relate its entire population thank you we're going to get all . i day we can't even count on the numbers the federal government gives us at the beginning of march the health ministry said it would buy 48000000 vaccines then it reduced the number to half at this right brazil will finish the 1st round of
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vaccinations and i pull may next year by then new variants will be circulating which maybe i'm into the vaccines we have now poor states and cities with larger populations will have more difficulties in fighting the pandemic on their own but doctors and scientists warn that if no action is taken brazil will represent a threat to itself and others. neighbors many countries in latin america almost all of them except a couple and some countries are doing better in the neighborhood but if the situation in brazil continues to be serious like this then the neighboring countries will be affected and it's not about the neighboring countries but it could go even even even beyond. the fear is that mutations was curt at a much faster rate outpacing the vaccines and spreading to the rest of the world monica
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i'll just sirrah we addition narrow. such as in the philippines of taking an extra step to prevent another outbreak like cave at 19 they've been focusing on diseases from bats to try and find out more about other types of strains and is genuine in degree puts the efforts have been vital for vaccine development. local folklore here is steeped with stories of just how mystere use philippine bats can be. but we are not climbing mt mckee link to explore legendary tales like these filipino scientists are testing bad spring new strains of coronaviruses they hope to prevent another global pandemic. philip a live your life has been recording and testing bats across the country for more than 10 years the bat species found here on mount mckinley is that close this gene is to the one in one china where the 1st case of covert 19 was recorded give us all
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the more recent to be urgent about doing. this virus work for the government in more ways than one we focus their priorities. working on for all g an epidemiologist so it's $530.00 local time the mist that have been set up and researchers here tell us any time now the bats are going to come out of the cave. we stay quiet for a few minutes. the air is cold and the night's creatures soon start to make their presence felt. over and then the 1st bet flies into the trap and water. then another. and another. the researchers say about $5000.00 bats come here during the meeting season. now they think only
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a few 100 are left. with the captured bats a safely contained. we make our way back from the forest. the bats are identified or. measured. around. and swept. before they were released back into the wild. dr and his team of isolated at least 7 kinds of viruses over the past decade including corona virus and an ebola virus. they say their work serves as a blueprint that can be used to develop vaccines globally including those for coronavirus. and their children by their belief that every evolution in human history has been late because of a scientist's determination. dugan al-jazeera manila. the us
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city of minneapolis is agreed to pay $27000000.00 to the family of george floyd it is the largest settlement of its kind in the country's history floyd died when a policeman knelt on his neck sparking global protests the officer is set to go on trial in the floyd family says the cash payout is just one step on the road to justice john hendren as. the city of minneapolis has put a price on just how much black lives matter in the case of george lloyd $27000000.00 that's the amount this city's agreed to pay in a civil settlement with lloyd's family in the racially charged case of a black man who died beneath a white police officers knee i think the state of minnesota for getting this settlement taken care. but even though my brother is not here. he's here with me in my heart 'd because if i
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could give you back it i would give all that is bet the settlement is the largest ever in a minneapolis police shooting it also eclipses the 12000000 dollars the kentucky city of louisville paid recently in the death of briana taylor gunned down in her own home by police one year ago a floyd family lawyer says the beneficiaries go beyond one family the financial compensation most directly impact george floor and his family their future of their family but it is the policy reforms then to fix all of us other cities will think twice he says before allowing police to use chokeholds no knock warrants and other controversial tactics because in cases like this one as george floyd's family reacted to this settlement the man who knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds was less than a mile away he has spent the week in
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a minneapolis courtroom where the court is selecting jurors to decide if he should be convicted of murder derek chauvelin faces 2nd in 3rd degree murder and manslaughter charges and the risk of decades in prison the other 3 officers will face charges later this year of aiding and abetting him those officers will be held accountable. there is a prosecution team that actually cares and is fighting and if you need a reminder just think of the george floyd case and that if you don't get police and correct if you don't make these changes if you don't fix the policies that are happening. then you'll be seen as again despite this settlement the floyd family insists justice won't be served until that happens john hendren l.g. 0 chicago. saturday marks a year since brenda taylor was shot and killed by police in the us state of kentucky like george floyd who was killed 2 months later i mean became a rallying cry for losses but lives matter protests taylor was shot by officers
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when they forced their way into her apartment during a botched narcotics raid in louisville no one has been charged over the killing a family received $12000000.00 in compensation. vigil 2 on a murdered british woman has been cancelled because of coronavirus restriction a police officer has been charged with kidnapping and killing sarah everett the 33 year old disappeared as she walked home on march 3rd a body was found on wednesday everard's killing has ignited international conversation about women's safety well femi he told you is training director at challenge consultancy in london which is an organization that works to further equality for women and diverse groups she's also part of 1000000 women rights she says preventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility. women have had enough now the numbers are not going down we're still seeing male violence being the leading cause of temperature of death amongst women and it's not just a u.k.
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problem this is a global problem and that's why our campaign like the 1000000 women rise movement started by sabrina question is a global movement when we had our rally last week we had literally women from all over the world there has to be change now i think it's not really interesting that men are surprised when they hear about how frightened me not to go out alone who are these men living with and who are they talking to because every single woman knows the feeling of being frightened whose responsibility is it it's everyone's responsibility the problem is that women are sheltered most of that burden up until now and now men need to step up every single man needs to be a role model to our boys they need to be a conscience don't need to their friends to their colleagues to their brothers and most of all they need to go and i to me there is absolutely a big role for the government to play here and if we could ask the government to
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make some changes we'd be looking for things like massage any being made to hate crime we'd like to see street has meant a crime and a criminal offense we need to see our social media organizations being held accountable for the contents that they allow on their platforms and yet we need to address pol culture as well because of course in a lot of these cases we see men enacting things that they've seen in violent porn in more life on women's bodies. this is a 0 these are the top stories at least 6 protesters have been shot dead in the latest demonstrations in manama police are reported to have fallen on protesters in months late on saturday overnight security forces used live ammunition on the crowds and the young girl. 7 patients being treated for corona virus have died at a hospital in jordan after the oxygen supply they were on ran out loved ones of the
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