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a curfew in brazil the soaring coronavirus infections but thousands still join protests against the latest restrictions. everyone i'm come on sons of every of this is the world news from al-jazeera the netherlands and ireland are both suspended use of astra zeneca corona virus vaccine citing fears of a blood clots. in the turnout in london demanding an end to violence against women and that the police are under pressure to. iran files new charges against innocence of garri radcliffe the british government is
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demanding their immediate release. we are starting in brazil where thousands of supporters of the president john bolton are you have joined protests demanding an end to corona virus restrictions many cities and states have been tightening their lock down hospitals are stretched to capacity but the president has repeatedly opposed lock down saying they are necessary and are hurting the economy more than 1100 people have died of cove in 19 in the past 24 hours in what has become brazil's deadliest week since the beginning of the pandemic. he similar numbers the fast escalating number of deaths is actually more than anywhere else in the world brazil's now recorded around 100000 deaths since the beginning of this year alone the current surge being driven by a more infectious variant of the virus that was 1st detected in the amazon raging
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region let's talk to daniel schorr i met with us about the season buenos aires tonight. daniel the numbers should speak for themselves and i think they do and yet there is still so much opposition to the idea of of lockdowns and curfews. yeah i mean come out many many people are frustrated by that especially health professionals in brazil politicians in some of the states i mean take cell paolo the most populous state in brazil 44000000 inhabitants bigger and bigger than many countries they're imposing tight new emergency measures for monday on was minimum of 15 days they're going to close because in schools are the essential businesses will be allowed to open there be a nighttime curfew you would think those are measures that would people would take on board yet in sao paolo in the last few hours there have been thousands of people out on the streets many of them supporters of the president job also nardo opposing
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those measures and at the same time police have been raiding night clubs breaking up parties they raided one over such a friday night into saturday where there were over 600 party goers in a building with no windows and all the doors closed very few people wearing masks and people were. abusing the police who were breaking up breaking up the party another one was a v.i.p. casino where the brazilian international football. was found without the brazilian celebrities 200 people in that casino all defying the corporate 19 lockdown rules so this seems to be these 2 forces you have health professionals some politicians saying yes we must impose these measures to stop the collapse of overworked hospitals overworked health workers yet at the same time you have movement led by the president himself jabal sonando who as you'll remember called
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the pandemic nothing worse than a little flu brazilians to stop complaining about the pandemic so you have these 2 movements really fighting against one another as you mentioned the figures continue to rise does he just ignore those figures i mean look at it from the perspective of president olsen r.-o. he's not wrong in saying that it does adversely affect the economy when you lock down a country or any region but how can you ignore those numbers. you know the numbers and ignoring some of the testimony as you hear from people who have lost families whole families on occasion and we've seen these pictures of mass graves in places like my now also in the in the nor in the in the jungle region of now as a region of brazil we've seen those images he must have seen those images yet he doesn't blame he blames everybody but himself they're blaming the p one variant this very virulent variant which is spreading around the country he's rumored to be
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or reported to be replacing his health minister. plus way low any day now he's been interviewing potential replacements. this was a person who was his 3rd health minister appointed since the pandemic began so if you can't blame anybody else blame the health minister blame the variance but yes it does seem to be a bizarre situation i mean this is also a man who suffered from the cover of 90 virus itself a few months ago so he should in any ways know what he's talking about bras he seems to be defiant as are many millions of brazilians as well stick strawberries and thank you for all of that reporting from one of cyrus. protesters in jordan meanwhile are defying coronavirus restrictions as well in a show of anger over the deaths of several patients at least 7 people died in the city after the hospital ran out of oxygen all of those who died had been receiving
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treatment for covert 19 the government's promise to investigate several officials at the hospital have been detained and the health minister stepped aside saying he took full moral responsibility. meanwhile the netherlands and ireland have both suspended the use of the astra zeneca covert 1000 vaccine because of concerns about blood clotting a region in italy has also joined countries such as denmark norway and ireland in halting the rollout of the jobs as jonah hill now reports. arlen's decision to call a temporary halt to the use of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine could have far reaching consequences the country's immunization orthe already pointed to a safety alert raised this week by the norwegian medicines agency after 4 health care workers suffered serious blood clotting events within 14 days of receiving the astra zeneca jab denmark and iceland have raised similar concerns with the ripple effect extending to bowl garia and as far afield as thailand the irish move was
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described as precautionary we will continue to monitor the situation and if we can be satisfied that these events are coincidental and not caused by this vaccine we will reassess the situation the u.k. based astra zeneca has defended its vaccine saying that safety data collected with 17000000 doses administered so far shows no evidence of increased risk of palmeri embolisms or thrombosis pending further investigation the european medicines agency says the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks and the world health organization says it's rollout should continue it really doesn't mean that it is potentially unsafe it is been tested wide. lee they have be no reported problems beyond what you would normally expect with a vaccine with any of that see and really the occurrence of these robots against these blood crops is no greater in the vaccinated population round it is in the
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unvaccinated population so why why regulators in these countries are taking no decision beyond being extremely cautious is not really clear inevitably now concerns will linger the oxford astra zeneca vaccine has been beset by problems including political disputes and delivery delays now add safety concerns it's important to note that no one is alleging a conclusive link between the vaccine and these blood clotting events but the longer the doubt is allowed to persist the worse the effect on trust and therefore the overall vaccine rollout jono help al-jazeera london. let's stay in london where thousands of people joined a protest calling for an end to violence against women there is anger also at the police handling of saturday's vigil for sarah ever had a 33 year old woman who was killed as she walked home alone earlier this month now
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has more i i anger outside police headquarters in london a day after a vigil ended in seems that shocked many people here in the u.k. demonstrators gathered mixing demands for an end to male violence against women with claims that the police are part of the problem at saturday's vigil the focus was clearly on the we've been victims of male violence here the focus has shifted with denunciations of police brutality hundreds had come to the south london vigil near where sarah everard went missing initially police kept their distance but the decision to move in on the crowds and the use of force to arrest women created outrage i was. the pretty patel asked the metropolitan police schools for a political department said there were unanswered questions after she became a chief chris adik and london's mayor city column for the opposition labor party
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says he's unsatisfied with her account insisting that didn't enter its assurances that vigil would be policed sensitively but despite calls from some for cressida dick to resign she's standing firm and strongly defending what happened with her. big crowd that gathered lots of speeches. quite rightly as far as i can see felt this is now unlawful gathering which poses a considerable risk to people's health according to the regulations. really invidious position for most is defined. labor's now set to vote against a new policing bill in the coming days this week in parliament we start a policing bell $300.00 or so pages $170.00 something toward it and almost nothing almost nothing if you can believe it on violence against women and girls the gaping hole in this bill is why i will be voting against it on a complete missed opportunity by the government civil rights groups have also
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criticised the legislation saying it gives police too many powers to ban demonstrations if they'll cause disruption more protests are planned near parliament on monday as the pressure on the capital's police force and the politicians it answers to increases the dean barber al jazeera london. this is a case which is also drawing parallels with another issue confronting london's police force and that is race in a previous investigation into the metropolitan police when their handling of the death of the black teenager stephen lawrence back in 1903 found the force was institutionally racist they were logan was one of the u.k.'s most highly decorated black police officers a former superintendent played by the actor john boy again the b.b.c. drama small acts which depicted his. against racism in british policing he retired as a superintendent and is the former chair and founding member of the black police association we spoke to him earlier on al-jazeera he said saturday's police response highlights several systemic issues. but it's
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a major and go that way in which that robust response to a vigil seemed to be totally out of context totally out of sync with the reasons for people feeling compelled to come to them to vote happened clapham common to show their shared solidarity for the test of sarah and of course the circumstances behind it and instead of there being a light touch policing there were heavy handed element at the end which looks terrible on camera and is cannot be justified because even though there may be current regulations the human rights act actually states that people still have the right to peaceful gatherings and a vigil candy is the most people of that so are likely to think that that the met
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police understands what they cost and and i truly believe the commissioner should really question the opposition she says she's not going but i really think she passed their sell by date i mean i was one of the the police say members who said that the police service was institutionally racist 20 odd years ago in 1908 and it is because there was that disconnect especially when it come to working in partnership with minority communities and that's why the stephen lawrence case was an iconic case where there was a lot of learning and we saw a lot of learning through the maximum recommendations. really improving the internal culture of the organization to be more reflective of the community and of course how to improve service delivery hate crimes trial yates offices the race relations amendment act and build in critique is a not bias and we've seen that being eroded over the last 10 years for austerity
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and citizen focus. offices safe unable to names and safe schools offices they've been lost and there's this disconnect and unfortunately people are not responding to police officers in the way that they should and place are so not understanding the communities they serve. as a check on the world weather next and then dozens of antique demonstrate is killed in may in ma as the gentle declared martial law in parts of young go on and business is business is under threat in the folk and islands after it was left out of the bronx a trade deals between the u.k. and the easier. it was say some violent storms into the u.s. recently this big bowls of cloud brought some very heavy rainfall into parts of
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utah into parts of colorado as well and a number of tornadoes as well on this cold front as it made its way across the deep south that's going to be pushing some very heavy rain a severe storm still likely a possibility of a few more tornadoes as we go on through monday it is awakening feature but it's there nevertheless snow still out across the northern flank of that system monday into tuesday it topples a little ace words will see some what's the weather coming through here and say still seeing some heavier pulses of friends system as he makes his way up to also northeast not particularly warm new york just 3 celsius trounce out about 3 celsius as well as is the case to into casper and will be more snow just rolling in across the rockies as we go on into the middle part of the week further south it is generally dry and fine as is the case across the good parts of central america we've got a few showers along the spells of rain just making their way into the eastern side of the caribbean i think all the way up across several much of the windward seeing some showers as we go through monday grassi say in the east across the leeward says
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well meanwhile for the greater antilles fine and sunny. to alice. now posted to remote villages in. algiers follows the personal journeys of we women teachers their daily struggles with isolation and battles with physical hardships. sacrificing their lives for the education of future generations women in the wind on al-jazeera.
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with al-jazeera and these are the top stories thousands of supporters of brazil's president john wilson otto have joined protests demanding an end to coronavirus restrictions more than 1100 people died from covert 19 in the past 24 hours it's been brazil's deadliest week since the pandemic began. the mile island and the netherlands have joined a number of countries in halting the use of the astra zeneca vaccine of a blood clot concerns drug from the says it's reviewed data and says there is no increased risk and thousands of people protested in london over violence against women also anger against the police handling of saturday's vigil for sara a 33 year old woman abducted and killed earlier this month. britain's foreign secretary says it is unacceptable that iran is pursuing
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a 2nd case against nelson in cigar iraq cliff she is of course a british iranian woman who's been detained in iran since 2016 and is now in court on a new charge facing a charge of propaganda against the system doesn't finish her previous 5 year sentence for a separate conviction only last week her husband is richard radcliffe and says the treatment against her is tantamount to torture. this has been a 5 year ordeal where she's had one for charge country and it never anyone. has carried a huge toll on her we last week submitted to the british government you know how medical pointing out that her treatment is tantamount to torture. and you know i i do worry for her the longer this ordeal continues how long it'll take to put the pieces back together so i think that last name is being held over a british. government dispute over money she's
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a hostage in albany and i would like the government to make it clear that that is an acceptable. beginning and they should also be make it absolutely clear that you cannot shoot an innocent person. is out rutty different things they could do 10 to distant had to take you. and we'll see which ones the military courts the most recent request we had was for them to tantrum what happened. that they declined to company her and we will see when advantage the bunch of very strong it is evident in the statements today condemning the court appearance but we'll see what happens in the coming days and i think there's been a reluctance on the part of most western governments to what to call it hostage taking to acknowledge that states can do it in the top states but certainly iran practice it more and more and certainly a reluctance to work to challenge the practice so the british government for instance would prefer to talk about consular cases and treat nothing like she's
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a regular case with british and that's got into trouble overseas and need some help so i think there is an interim state and there is a need to look at what are the reasons why iran's taking hostages and addressed those and then also look at that distance into bars in the practice of the moment it's a reason effective tactic we're in 30 minutes once grown. a police investigation is underway in britain into the wife of syria's president is accused of inciting and encouraging terrorist acts during the war in syria she faces possible prosecution and the loss of her british citizenship. the case was opened in response to a dossier filed by an international law firm meanwhile security forces killed at least 38 protesters on sunday state television says one police officer has died as well from injuries sustained at one demonstration earlier the acting leader of me and the civilian government supporters to stay on the streets and also called on
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ethnic groups to unite against the will of the house not with tony chang. defiant protesters again marched through the streets of mandalay on sunday in strong voice and in large numbers they were clearly unbound by the violence of the day before that's when the security services shot dead at least 6 people in a crackdown in myanmar 2nd city and injured many more but with the death toll rising a call for revolution from the former vice president now leading a civilian administration in hiding. this is the darkest moment of the nation and the moment when the dawn is close this is the time for us citizens to test their resistance against the dark moments speaking of a new federal democracy the message was clearly aimed at bringing diverse ethnic groups together to overcome the army and their coup. when forming
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a resistance unity plays a vital role despite our differences in the past this is the time we must grip our hands together to end the dictatorship for good. these diverse ethnic groups are scattered across myanmar's borderlands divided they don't represent a significant threat to the military who've been fighting them for decades united they could be a considerable obstacle but there's long been distrust between these groups and the n l d the national league for democracy bringing them together would be no small task. in peaceful defiance protesters break the curfew to honor the dead in candlelit vigil as across the country remember the name of a man we come out on the street to show that the are against military dictatorship by breaking the curfew order imposed by day one ta leave you continue fighting that is the military continues with its brutal tactics on the streets calls for
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a revolution that's not so peaceful may gain increasing support tony ching al-jazeera have been 2 explosions in the afghan capital kabul police officials say at least 3 people were killed and 12 others injured but no group has claimed responsibility yet for that attack. just 3 days now before the netherlands goes to the polls and there is tension over the government's tough coronavirus lockdown measures in the hague police used battens and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters police accused the demonstrators of breaking social distancing rules at least 20 people detained early voting begins on monday for people in high risk groups. the future of many businesses in the folk from the islands is under threat after it was left out of bragg's that trade deals between the u.k. and the e.u. it means firms in the british overseas territory that export products like fish and
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squid could pay higher tariffs mysteries about reports argentina's government is seeing it as an opportunity to strengthen its claim over the audience. the falklands islands in the southern atlantic also known as my levinas for people in latin america are considered part of the overseas territories of the united kingdom but 2 days after finalizing the brics it agreement the european union and oust that it would stop recognizing overseas territories under british rule and the benefits that came along the decision came as a surprise for residents of the islands that of the other surgeries were allowed to vote in the referendum even though. we respect that decision after it was quite a bit of a shock i think when the when the result came through we hadn't really expected that relationships change that next piece of the puzzle does need to be addressed because. you need a relationship with the cape. as well for years industries here have benefited from
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being a member state until now jane wallace is concerned about what's coming next i find a very concerning of the situation is that at the moment any fish or squid to react sport to europe attract a tariff of between 6 and 18 percent i mean to give you an idea in terms of the conservative view based on our recent financial performance that 6 percent represents 30 percent on average of our profits over the last 5 years so as extremely disturbing the decision by the e.u.'s perceived as a victory for argentina which has been demanding before plans are moving a silence the south georgia and the south sandwich islands belongs to them. the thought printed dispute over the islands led to a war between britain and argentina in 1982 it lasted for 74 days and left almost 1000 that in spite of losing the war argentina continues to demand that
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the islands are part of their territory inherited from the spanish colonial war manual females who is in charge of the mill venus issue in argentina says he's government is going to continue pushing for a negotiation for the most rudimentary we're still in the early stages of the brics it but europe has signaled a change in its position on the islands there was a similar case of the un when the child was archipelago the u.k. lost 114-2686 months to return the island to marie shifts the only e.u. country to vote for the u.k. was hungry. on the islands argentina's ambitions are perceived as a threat that's why people here are hoping their needs from now on one being annoyed. when a site is. but levy is former president evo morales is backing a crackdown against politicians accused of conspiring to push him out of power the
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former interim leader janine on years was arrested on saturday for plotting to overthrow his government in 2019 years though denies the allegations. 4 months ago janine arness was president of bolivia now she's under arrest accused of staging a coup against her predecessor evel morales shortly after being detained in the city of the me that she was flown to the capital to face charges of terrorism sedition and conspiracy anya is a conservative senator and at odds with the socialist party that now covers under president luis atsic he's a former prodigy of moralists the former president she's accused of pushing out in 2019 to seize power she says the charges are fueled by political revenge. even though it's an irregular detention because i was never summoned in addition as
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a former president i'm in a unique situation even amid all the abuse and the outrage i'm here was a group of opponents and supporters gathered outside the prosecutor's office that was a again no there was no coup the former president was involved in fraud and she took over the presidency through constitutional succession. although divisive her detention isn't a surprise while in power our news was accused of siding with security forces to shut down dissent cheek came to power undemocratically within her 1st week she oversaw 2 different massacres and offered immunity to the soldiers that carried out the massacres and for the next year carried out a slew of human rights abuses the the political crisis goes back to 2019 when proto . serous took to the streets accusing moralists of stealing his reelection under
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pressure the once a steam president resigned and fled bolivia. then proclaimed herself interim president more protests followed and dozens of people died after she took office now other politicians in her party also face charges that most of the longer. we are talking about 2 former ministers the former minister of justice and the former minister of energy people who have conspired or committed crimes of sedition in our country will be investigated. well some say the arrest of onions could lead to her political downfall it's already reigniting tensions in the south american nation katia locus of the young colleges era. family space x. is making history again after launching its reusable falcon 9 rocket for a record 9th time. if. there goes lifting off off even from nasa kennedy space center in florida the rocket is
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carrying the latest batch of space x.'s internet beaming satellites called star link once complete the satellite constellation aims to offer high speed internet as the world's most isolated places. are fast they are on al-jazeera these are the headlines thousands of supporters of brazil's president jaya belsen are joined protests demanding an end to coronavirus restrictions of an 1100 people have died over 1000 in the past 24 hours in what has been brazil's deadliest week since the pandemic began more from daniel schorr and. sell paolo the.
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