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tv   NEWSHOUR  Al Jazeera  March 27, 2021 1:00pm-2:01pm +03

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bottom line on the big questions on out is the. al-jazeera. hello i'm about this and this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. reports of at least 50 people shot dead in me and on the same day its military leader vows to safeguard democracy. india suspends the export of its covert 19 vaccines as its 2nd wave brings a surge of infections. homeless and heartbroken margaret is pushed back from the u.s. border pray for help in mexico as american politicians blame each other for the crisis
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. mozambique's military on high alert as an armed group place seems to a popular hotel dozens of people remain trapped. and he stammered with india's greatest davis spokesman searching to test positive for corona virus the cricket legend says he has mild symptoms and is now isolating. it's there was a day of violence and man marston's the military seized power nearly 2 months ago local media are reporting as many as 50 people have been shot dead in the latest crackdown against anti kook protesters. that's on top of the $320.00 deaths that whites groups have confirms since february the 1st although the true number is likely to be much higher. the violence coincides with
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a military parade in the capital over the leader of the ruling just to pledged to safeguard democracy no show of force as a tribute to the army's resistance to japanese occupation journey in world war 2. well tony jones across the border in bangkok is joining us live that crackdown continuing tony despite the fact that the numbers continue to increase. indeed and there may be. even in that we're getting information have been all through the day. people reporting on social media reports from sources on the ground that the armed forces have really gone into many of the big cities and towns even villages across me a month a day with a very express intention of cracking down on this protest as they were expecting large protests today because of armed forces the there had been a very explicit warning on state television yesterday evening their protest is
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shouldn't throw their lives away those are the words they used but if they did go out on the streets today they would be shot in the head or in the back and that very explicit warning has been carried out we've seen snipers in a lot of the big cities many of those cities looking like war zones with reeds of black smoke hanging on the horizon as the security services have gone and burning barricades that residents are put up to try and stop them getting into their neighborhoods and using tear gas stun grenades and live fire as we've seen and a lot of those wounded and dead appear to be coming from sniper shots we've seen a lot of people with very serious head wounds a lot of people very seriously injured as well at this stage it's very hard to get an accurate idea of exactly how many people have died because not only has has the incident been slowed very considerably by the military since the coup but they have been targeting
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a lot of those people who are working to help the 1st groups 1st responders who are trying to help the protesters or at least help anyone get medical aid but at this stage it seems to be a very severe. and the armed forces parade seem to have been an opportunity for the military to send a message. in. lead a very clear message they were before you've been the sun rose in the capitol on this huge parade ground that they use every year we saw missile launches helicopters tanks all sorts of armed vehicles and then as the sun rose thousands of troops marching representing the different sections of myanmar's armed forces but of course while this is a day which is held to commemorate battles of the past it's the battle against their own people that are really concerning the generals we saw gentlemen long live the leader of the joint giving
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a speech to the soldiers assemble and once again he repeated these claims that the army was forced into this position that it had to act in a very active lawfully against the illegal acts committed by the in the again he talked about the corruption of the unity the party led by a young son suchi but provided no evidence and i think again what we can take from that is that they are again they are unwavering at this stage all of the deaths all of the destruction we've seen over the past 6 or 7 weeks since the coup took place doesn't appear to have changed their mind in any way they may not have expected that resistance would be this strong and the opposition to the military coup would be as determined but they don't appear to be changing their course at this stage tony thanks very much indeed that's tony chang bringing us up to date from neighboring bangkok i want to bring in debbie started she's the founder of alternative us and she's joining us live by skype from bangkok in thailand it's
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good to have you with us in the early days of the coup the level of violence gave rise to speculation that the worst in some parts of the military that were acting independently that they were panicking under certain circumstances and carrying out violent acts from what we're hearing this now seems to be developing into a specific military strategy. just days i mean just a couple of days ago the military spokesperson actually apologized and expressed regret for killing 164 so-called violent terrorists and promised return to democracy and now it's pretty clear that they're what they said was absolutely insincere they were they were apologizing earlier this week in order to stave off sanctions because they were feeling the pinch and the pain of the international. international pressure and now we see their real agenda they have
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celebrated armed forces day by killing the largest number of people and armed civilians in a single day since this since this coup started it and 88 countries actually all went to support this armed forces day parade all those countries all the governments of those countries need to feel ashamed because they are also part of this massacre russia was one of those countries of course and was in front specifically mentioned during the speeches that were made to the armed forces day russia sells a lot of arms to me and more is there any indication that russia might be willing to step in and exert some sort of pressure over the center to stop this level of violence. at this point the president has been on china as an ally of the who into but i think in this point at this point it is also very important to target russia
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russia has had very close security cooperation in the past 20 years with the military in fact russia has been the military the military super markets a weapon stave bought tons and tons of weapons in fact they have they actually made sick made us arms deal just a week before the military coup so we can already see that russia has has to take some accountability and russia deserves to be pressured we also have to understand that russia has been training for the past 20 years offices off the burmese military in such technology as information and communications technology so a lot of the internet interference a lot of the survey elements is actually a result of russian training the militias are into has been saying that it is prepared to offer elections hokum the military joins are given what has happened
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over the last few months expect to rule a country in which so many people are opposed to it and it has killed such a large proportion of the people who are against it. well the military is offering democracy by killing pro-democracy activists this is already telling us that it day intend to wipe out all dissent and install their own version of demo crissy in a year's time if the international community doesn't act now now is the time to ramp up pressure and the people of burma at stake how concerned are you about that international pressure because we have heard we've heard of sanctions we've also heard of certainly international governments making comments against this criticizing the drones over what it's done but in terms of the people on the ground there doesn't appear to least to those of us outside looking in to be very much happening that doesn't seem to be
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a lot of practical support there. we've we've already seen that the movement in the country has actually taken heart from the fact that $11000000000.00 worth of financing has been halted among the international financial institutions just a couple of days the u.k. and the u.s. actually impose sanctions targeting military owned companies so what we need to see is a ramp up we need to see the u.n. security council. imposing a global arms embargo to this military regime and we need to provide material support to the activists on the ground at this time. working very hard as you can see they're facing such a day in such lethal violence but they haven't given up and what the best we can do is to keep up the pressure in the international community and if this also means
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referring to the military junta for investigation at the international criminal court it needs to happen that it starts out as funder of real terms of us on network on burma we appreciate your time on thank you very much and. you know welcome. well the delivery of vaccines to poor and middle income countries through the kovacs program could be set back weeks because of delays from a major indian producer and the indian government has told international buyers it will now have to keep more of any available dozes off to rise in infections so the highest daily number for the year was more than $62.00 and $1.00 of the country's impacted by the decisions a run which was expecting a shipment of $375000.00 this president hassan rouhani has criticised india is also accuse the court's program of failing to live up to its commitments after yielding
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to international pressure elizabeth warren is joining us now live from new delhi given that this india has made this announcement it's going to be a big blow to put our nations that have been relying on these vaccines been delivered as. yeah and that's because india has so far explosive more close at 19 back things than any other country in the ceiling and stude of india is the world's largest that same manufacturer and it's been the biggest supplier to the international vax and lyons. india which had been is still manufacturing the that astra zeneca vaccine it says 28000000 doses to call back so far it was planning to deliver 14000000 this month 50000000 next month and callbacks have said that those. will now be delayed and the indian government has stressed that it's not going to ban exports in fact same but it's recalibrating how many they export because of the situation in the country with
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cases rising as they are and they has been criticism in india because as well as being part of the kovacs and mines india has exported vaccines to other countries as a and also because of commercial agreements 16. and 60000000 vaccines to 76 countries and people have pointed out that that 60000000 number is higher than the 58000000 people who've been inoculated in india so far the government is running behind its own vaccination sched jewel collecting 300000000 people in the 1st 6 months of this year give us an idea of what the situation and the reason the. well it is the worst it's been in about 5 months now and it's. very much concentration of the rise in cases rather in a handful of regions model for the western states and. continues to be the worst
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affected state as it has throughout the pandemic and via its recording more than hof of the $60000.00 cases that are now being reported every day more than half of them are from maharashtra and its capital which is india's financial capital they have according the kind of numbers that they had and yet in this pandemic and apart from maharashtra it's a handful of other states like punjab. and that accounts for about 80 percent of the cases in the country but what's worrying is that even in regions where the cases aren't as high as those other states the numbers are growing up going up rather exponentially in delhi cases and more than double since last week in may bring cases a full times what they were 3 weeks ago and so it looks very much like india is now going through the 2nd wave of national 2nd wave and that's why the restrictions of back in many places there are complete lockdown someplace in maharashtra more and
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more states are asking for the 19 negative certificates from people travelling from outside the states there's also concerns about a double mutant variation that's been found in the states of maharashtra also here in delhi and health experts are saying that the rise and. this is because people haven't been following closely guidelines especially after the cases drops to. you know from a peak of nearly 100008 day in september 210000 day in early february and so that is why restrictions are back including a ban on celebration the popular festival of holy on sunday and monday elizabeth thanks very much indeed that's elizabeth proton i'm talking to us from new delhi. more than 3600 people died from corona virus in brazil on friday that's a new daily record and as the toll months there's concern that the growing number of young people becoming infected and dying from the virus has forced state and local authorities to take action on it can you not hear reports from rio de janeiro
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. an unusual holiday in rio de janeiro with empty streets in a crowded sidewalk protesters angry at the latest government to addict the mayors of rio one some have decreed an extended holiday and shut down brazil's 2 major cities keeping only essential services open and hundreds took to the streets saying they want their jobs back. informal workers see they're being punished for mistakes made by others much damage damage that we represent 50000 beach vendors who are left with no income the lack of vaccines and public policies to encourage the use of masks and control kind this time parties have led to this chaos where the ones paying the price. more than 300000 brazilians have lost their lives jacoby 19 since the ban demick began a year ago hospitals across the country are running out of rooms medicine oxygen
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for the growing number of patients and what's more worrisome the virus and its more infectious variants are killing young people since january been a number of brazilians in their thirties infected by cope of 19 or crazed by 500 percent infections among those in their forty's have risen 600 percent. doctors in this intensive care unit say they have seen a dramatic increase in the number of patients below 60 years of age i don't have a shower this tendency began in february during carnival the festivities were cancelled but people partied anyway especially young people who are now getting sick and spreading infections to others just this month a huge jump in their festival was held in the maddest slums of rio de janeiro. and the police had to break up this time this time party in a middle class neighborhood. on friday the federal government announced the brazil
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was developing 2 national vaccines one of them pulled them back is ready for clinical trials after a slow start there is hope brazil me jump start its inoculation program targeting not just the old but increasingly the youngest well monica you not give all just 0 we're just an ear. but i'm ahead of the news hour including anger and of arrests as the u.s. state of georgia signs controversial new voting rules into law. china expands a boycott campaign targeting western fashion brands as tensions rise over allegations of abuse in seeing john and meltdown in miami that arose on and off the court in the world of tennis it is going to be here to explain the sport. because politicians have been visiting migrant facilities in texas near the mexican
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border the number of the rivals has reached near record levels in recent weeks many are children traveling on their own it's being called a crisis and democrats and republicans are blaming each other she has answered reports macallan in texas. friday dueling congressional delegation has attempted to frame the us is latest border crisis light across the river we heard. michael are saying we are coming republicans have been using social media to bolster their narrative of a free for all being taken advantage of by traffickers and undocumented migrants we have an upside down border policy in america what do i mean we have open borders on the southern border there's no doubt by the way the people come in and were released immediately almost without testing at all open borders no testing for kovan but in fact president biden has retained the most draconian of donald
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trump's migration policies for asylum seekers in violation of domestic and international humanitarian law only unaccompanied children and in the last month parents with children under 7 are being allowed to claim asylum migrant rights groups say this is the reason why families faced with the uncertainty of homelessness in dangerous mexican border towns are choosing to send their teenage children across the border unaccompanied in the hope that at least they will find safety when asylum seekers are released those not sent to government run refugee facilities are sent to border cities like macallan texas the refugees release here have to rely on a local catholic charity which gives them a covert test in that tent over there and helps reunite them with their family members in the u.s. the democratic party congressional delegation said the fault lay with donald trump we need to be clear about something. president biden inherited situation where the previous administration had sought to dismantle the infrastructure for
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processing asylum seekers and settling asylum seekers in the united states the reality is more complex unfortunately us here on the border have to bear witness to . drones and more money for beer or wong. president to act swiftly to resolve the overcrowding at the border press conference on thursday he suggested his main strategy was pressuring mexico to take in more asylum seekers but migrant rights groups say the short term solution is to flood the border with resources to process refugees to meet the u.s. legal humanitarian obligations. macallan texas. president joe biden's described new voting restrictions in the
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state of georgia as outrageous and an atrocity the law will shorten polling hours on make it a crime to provide water to voters while they wait than a crowd say it's intended to suppress minority voters on an official reports from washington d.c. . from the white house condemnation of georgia's new voting laws their curiosity you don't need anything you. know that this is nothing but you hear this i think people from both. demonstrators gathered in the state house as the republican governor signed the sweeping measures behind closed doors why is the governor trying to sign something in private one state legislator was arrested for banging on the door not pulling on a. georgia voted for joe biden in the presidential election then sent 2 democratic senators to congress in a runoff election is panty democratic. is un-american. to try to
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make it harder for people to vote. rather than making it easier. for people to vote here are some of the key measures in the new law there will be voter id number required for absentee voting that replaces the old signature checks there will be a limit on the number of drop boxes for early voters in each county so it will be less convenient the law makes it an offense to hand out food and drink to those waiting in line to vote and those lines get long but it does expand in past an early voting the man who signed the bill into law says this cuts the chances of electoral fraud georgia's will no doubt be soon overwhelmed with t.v. ads mailers and radio spots attacking this commonsense election reform measure. in fact left wing groups funded by the state billionaires are already doing that now they're using outrageous false read it to scare you into millions of dollars in
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their own pocket there was no bribe this is not about being there this is a response to is the increase voter turnout black and brown voters in the state of georgia georgia's election process is already seen as one of the most efficient in the country so critics claim this is the solution to a problem that never existed one imagined by dole trump and his supporters it will put pressure on politicians in washington especially democrats to come up with a national baseline for voting rules and regulations and to do it soon alan fischer al jazeera and the company which supplied most of the electronic voting machines for last year's us presidential election is suing fox news for defamation hosts and guests on the conservative network repeatedly and falsely accuse dominion voting systems of helping to rig the election so joe biden could beat donald trump
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dominion is now funding a $1600000000.00 lawsuit if machines were used in $28.00 of the 50 states including most of the crucial swing states attempts are underway to dislodge the container ship which has been blocking the su is canal for 5 days the ships japanese owner says crews will try to take advantage of high tide 9 tug boats involved amila dragged around the bottom of the ship the $400.00 metre long vessel on the ground after the crew lost visibility during a sandstorm. iran and china have signed a 25 year copra cooperation pact chinese foreign minister one yeas in techron meeting iranian foreign minister java zarif and president rouhani the deal is set of political economic and strategic components iran's economy suffered from international sanctions after the u.s. withdrew from a 2015 nuclear agreement of which china remains a part i said biggs joining us now live from tech crunch said what more do we know
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about this deal and the kind of agreement that they're planning to sign. well we understand the agreement has now been signed we don't know the exact details of this agreement but we do know some of the areas of cooperation they range from the economy trade free trade zones science and technology cooperation and also military cooperation now this. relationship between china and iran was stepped up to further cooperation back in 2016 but until now the agreement had been signed now increasingly iran has been turning to russia and china especially since the former u.s. president donald trump imposed sanctions on iran sanctions are still in place today but this visit does come at a time where china has reportedly stepped up its purchase of direct oil sales for from iran and also this is the highest chinese official that's visited iran since the election of president joe biden in january so both politically and economically
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iran has been turning to russia and china and back last year in october when the united states and the president donald trump was planning to put forth a motion to the united nations to stop an arms embargo being lifted the foreign ministry here told us that their understanding was and that they were confident that russia and china would intervene with the veto but this deal does has and does have some critics inside the country even though it's been backed by the highest authority the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini now the former president mahmoud ahmadinejad said that the details of this deal have not been made available to the public and the squid not be really passed by parliament but there were also rumors that iran would be handing over control of some of its islands to china no government here have denied that this that nothing inside the deal that gives any country control of all chinese military forces presence in the country but it does have widespread political support inside this country and it's
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a way for iran to be independent and build a country in an economy that is sanctions resilient i said thanks very much let's bring us up to date from. a growing number of western retail giants into the h. and m. and nike are facing a boycott in china after raising concerns about the suspected use of forced labor by wiggers in cotton fields the companies made the statements last year but they were reposed hit by the communist youth league after western governments imposed sanctions on chinese officials that created a backlash on chinese social media with a hash tag i support cotton getting more than 5 and a half 1000000000 views several chinese e-commerce platforms have also joined the ball caught by pulling h. and m. products from their online stores in good alibaba and j.d. dot com dozens of chinese celebrities have cut ties and terminated contracts with
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the brands one of them wrote the country's interests are above all and the list is growing with state backed newspaper china daily naming more companies that voted to stop buying talk from john. still ahead on al-jazeera state elections began in india's and west bengal by the b j p party and may have a hard time securing a win. hit by covert 19 why many artists on the island of bali say they're struggling to get by. in sports we're going to show you a stunning finish at the world match play golf tournament in texas. the snow's almost finished in turkey not quite finished the scandinavian and most of the weather is coming in from the atlantic but not so much from the north and
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more from the west now again that is spring that's probably fairly promising so though it's wet and windy there's the blue in the errors going cross the british isles northern germany scandinavian the baltic states and there's an old frontal system warning through ukraine giving rain to kiev not snow there's nothing much else so temps you can start to rise in the twenty's very happily in spain in italy were coming up that way really in bowl garia and turkey they could desu shooting to get there copenhagen shows the dramatic change in the wind comes in from the west we're starting off at 6 or light rain and then for 11 then faulty that's probably where we'll stick maybe a fluctuation still snow possible in norway but you words for much anywhere else there's a little bit still running through the baltic states do western side of russia otherwise enjoy the warm sunshine and it should be fairly warm london's going up to about 2021 by chews day which is pretty high but a welcome bit of spring sunshine and his turkey story not much in the sky anchors
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scheme could be set back by weeks because of delays from the major indian producer it's being blamed on an increase in demand in india which is recorded the highest number of new cases this year. democrats and republicans are blaming each other for a surge of people crossing the u.s. border from mexico the number of arrivals has reached near record levels in recent weeks. nearly $200.00 people including foreigners a still trapped in a hotel in northern mozambique as fighting rages for a 4th day a model a hotel as in palma which has been under attack by eisel linked fighters the government's trying to take control of the situation in the coastal town where several people have reportedly been killed in this all happening near africa's largest liquefied natural gas project in caledon gado province where amnesty international says war crimes are being committed its latest report blames several parties including an i sell if elite on group and
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a government backed private military firm for the deaths of hundreds of civilians since the conflict began in the province in 2017 it also says government troops have arrested civilians without reason tortured detainees and carried out extrajudicial. killings the humanitarian crisis has forced more than half a 1000000 people to leave their homes capital gado is rich in resources but it's been largely neglected because of the violence which has been open is a senior researcher at the armed conflict location and event data project she's joining us live by skype from pretoria in south africa it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera why do you think this hotel is being targeted. good afternoon. john itself be docketed by the insurgents because you had it below couldn't ministre death and he's family being against at the hotel interesting to note that they were the 1st ones to be evacuated but more to this i don't think we
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should just focus on though tell this attack has been brewing for some time now we have seen for it tax preceding this it tank. in terms of preparation we have seen the insurgents intimate didn't he and. actually froze and isolating parmar and i do think that opportune moment for a high even back gag was a given with the us designations then don't talk to release did not enable the attack that dec west to well planned but the whole even by amman local dissatisfaction again security forces and the insurgents the opportunity to proceed. gaining a momentous victory against the government i want to ask you about the infirm for
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most of the us here because as you mentioned the u.s. has designated the isis mozambique as eisel i should say mozambique as a terrorist organization it also great to deploy some of its its troops to train mozambique's military was that a tipping point in this. i think we must be clear about this it will not be a tipping point that designation of the of the insurgency is let me state laid all linked to i says a complete over simplification the insurgency is not being led by these men extend the designation has given the united states the frame they need to expand the influence in mozambique it has given them americans a mandate of self-justification and to fight the so-called find against
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the islamic state how convenient can it be the islamic state has taken not just of the insurgency we have seen 45 claims to create it the last one in your power since then silence but to bruce even saying this is islamic state is simply showing me a lack of missed understanding and a 2 month training period by that very race will make no difference in terms of what is needed in the security forces of mozambique how do you see the situation in mozambique in particular in this area moving forward over the coming months given everything that you've said. i forsee sadly too sane and it's a human tragedy beyond believe that defect speak for themselves i feel i foresee the insurgency as we have seen now in pommel to brew seed this interesting question and the level of coordination tells me that we are experts in guerrilla fighting
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training these fighters being involved in directing and i do foresee that a dex as we have seen confined to nagar the most somewhat of a pariah bulma due to the rain season that is coming to an end will again start spreading south and i am worried that move weird hour will be the next target of attack he is no u.-turn he is no quick fix the insurgency is directing them into him and they simply no end in sight we appreciate your expertise and his judgment over a month thank you very much indeed for joining us and others are so thank you. there's been anger in bangladesh over the visit by india's prime minister narendra modi was attending the country's 50th independence celebrations a process to join his visit turned violent at least 4 people died and dozens more were injured when police fired at protesters and their charter reports from dhaka.
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prime minister sheikh hasina welcome india's leader with rant and praise gloating nor in their modi for supporting bangladesh especially through the global pandemic . for the government of india has always been the side of good and bad times this time india has handed over 109 ambulances to the people of bangladesh i extend my heartiest thanks to prime minister narendra modi his government and the people of india. but violence flared among opponents of modi is visit some clashes turned deadly as police fired on protesters. still narendra modi was keen to honor his country's role in bangladesh's emergence as a new nation 50 years ago following a brutal fight for independence from pakistan are learning. today in bangladesh the blood of those who fought for their liberation in the blood of injured soldiers are flown together this abroad for such
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a relationship that will not break down under any type of pressure and will not fall prey to any kind of diplomacy. or these hated figures for some groups in bangladesh their point to what they see as his anti muslim policies in india and the influence he holds over bangladeshi politics penalty all agression against the current ruling party is still able to hang on to power because of the aggressive policy and support given by india this is clear to the people now and to protect their own interests they've nakedly attacked the interest of the citizens to dish out to the least those who are currently in power are involved with modi to cling on to their seat which is why the ruling party now needs modi support to stay in power. they kami has stabilized and bloomed in recent years under prime minister house enough. but activists say as those fortunes have grown human rights have deteriorated many on. the dish to day we are supposed to stand in bed well into the mission and these 30 did not get engaged every act just
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park exercising their public station and just. mr not a little more that the prime minister of india bangladesh as leaders have criticised demonstrators for overshadowing an important independence milestone and growing in an ally they see an increasingly important. dhaka. internationalist party of indian prime minister narendra modi is hoping to secure an unprecedented win in the west bengal as voting gets under way for state elections a victory for the b j p there would consolidate modi's control in india's parliament polling is also underway in assam the 2 states are at the core of tensions about a new law that grant citizenship to minorities from neighboring countries but excludes muslims more than 119000000 indians are expected to vote in the months long state assembly elections that will take place in phases west bengal and some
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in the east kick off the polls that's going to be followed by tamil nadu put the cherry and cattle in the south the governing b j p considers this a chance to ramp up its strengths in the states the party says its got a winning chance in india's 4th most populous state of west bengal. it's up against the state's chief minister mamata banerjee who's governed there for a decade now and it wants to mark a political presence in kerala where power has alternated between alliances led by the communists and the indian national congress. akio non john does a professor of political science university in india he's joining us live by skype from doha to it's good to have you with us and al-jazeera thanks very much indeed give me some context with these elections please if you would how much of this in terms of the issues in those 2 states particularly how much of this is about regional identities verisign versus a national indian identity and how much of it is about religious tension.
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i think all his identities have been playing a very important truth in elections 2020 quid pro quo don't point to one you cannot call it entirely national off regional in a sum and with the bangle if you look at something example does appear has been talking about in a can truly dating it's been a christian emong small our national or smaller ethnic communities it has indeed been successful in building a rainbow a liar and you know bringing in smaller but equally to tribal groups that way it's trying to give complete regional image of the party but at the same time it has almost been passed through its national and end up but equally its original zenda it has consistently been talking about civilizational blessed in
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kids of a son they have been the. blood glitter seed has been targeting the turkey pipe percent muslim but equally east bengal origin muslim population which has primarily not been group presented by the political party all india united democratic front now busy white it has been trying to win disillusioned by constantly talking about its developmental attribute mance that it has been partially since it came to power in 2016 s. and crudest it would have been 16 assembly elections they have been passing number of benefits year is in the us including giving school kids today are you know coal is going girlz but at the same time they have almost been critiquing really easy just pull our i just been devil it is more to national its original but at the same time it is all
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a short very relieved yes in that shop in west bengal. sure if you look at the political it all street is is or literally street is it mr tears it is it has been bought regional national ever less religious in the sense that it has been constantly focusing on big citizen save act and cities and see amendment at not citizenship amendment at has been very very strongly opposed been a some if you look at election manifestos in as some by business be they have not talked about car citizenship and men act but in kiss was to bangle they have been consistently focusing on this particular ad once they come to power they will be implementing it but ed to sim time they have all the sugar in talking about the bengali pride they have been trying to you know control it down into the culture shock of the local culture of the bengali population now if you look at this
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success of billick since for example 2 children $14.00 and $2.00 cubs in $1000.00 but limit during election there has been conflict polar ideation into told and 14 bizet be had in order this 3rd around 21 percent of the book club board which had gone up to 40 percent in line in or 6 percent in 2019 and if you look at the division of votes their votes say or have increased particularly among duchene builds hindus across all strapped up if it gets a runner entertainer the call is forgive me i'm going to interrupt you because unfortunately time is again to spoil bridou appreciate you giving us the very comprehensive round up of the situation thank you very much indeed and that's. still ahead on al-jazeera but both set the pace in bahrain ahead of the opening race of the formula one season is coming up with peter in sport.
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it's a very bleak picture for a lot of americans out there white supremacy impacts all of our patients you're putting more money into the hands of some taking money out of the hands of other workers their own goes to their camp it becomes us versus them this is the deal about constraining your nuclear program the bottom line that they questions on out is they are the river narin flows through the coldest region of kyrgyzstan temperatures here could drop to 20 degrees below 0 this time of year for the driving snow and bitter winter conditions on the nuff to keep these men from working on the ice and in the freezing water because the river nari contains gold men from villages along the river have been panning for gold in d.c. area for centuries the best time of year to do it is the winter because the river is lower than your in the summer months these tiny little yellow flanks you can see
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not look much like they were around $50.00 a gram. time for the supporters peter thank you very much as india experiences a surgeon to run a virus cases they greatest ever sportsman cricket's a session 10 as announced he himself has tested positive the 47 year old a should fans on social media that he only has mild symptoms and is now self isolating and oka lives in. by in the state of maharashtra which reported an all time high of nearly 37000 infections on friday india's virus numbers are at the
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highest they've been since october with more than 160000 lives lost in dhaka who retired in 2013 is known as the little master and scored more runs than any other player in international cricket. india's one day series against england will go down to a deciding 3rd game after england squared things up on friday they were set 337 his victory in pune a jonny bairstow made 124 and ben stokes smashed 99 runs of 52 balls as the world champions chased down the target with 39 balls to spare the winner takes all matches on sunday. formula one world champion lewis hamilton in the miss eighties team have dominated the last 7 seasons but that could all be about to change red bulls max for stop and fired a warning shot in their direction when he went fastest in both of friday's practice sessions ahead of the season opening bahrain grand prix the red bull has shown itself to be quicker than the mercedes in pre-season testing to the dutchman topped
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the time sheets with hamilton managing 3rd in the 2nd session. you know been a good day again of course with the heat not easy food to find a really good balance around the whole lap but i think 'd it was a positive day for still things to look into what we can do better for tomorrow 'd but again also tomorrow thing is going to be even more when this or that will be even more difficult to drive but that same for everyone so we will see what happens here is sports f one correspondent for duncan is in bahrain and he told us that he expects things to be a lot closer this season. well i guess the the form book naturally over the last 7 years points that state and lewis hamilton sadie's have won the past 7 drivers and constructors championships how it's enormously with this world championships he got up the way to the to the championship last year one of the 3 races to spare but the impression here in bahrain is that it's going to be
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a bit closer red bull seems to have closed the gap so i think there's a real hope i guess that we might see red bull and max a step in really taking the fight to lewis hamilton and miss a piece which should be great i think that's what the sport is really crying out for a bit more of a competitive field so hopefully red bull will be able to follow through on their encouraging pre-season form and really take the fight to. moto g.p. is also gearing up for its 1st race of the season here in carter because he dominated practice on friday with australia's jack miller setting the best time ahead of his italian teammate francesco a bang now they are qualifying is coming up a bit later ahead of the race on sunday. to the n.b.a. and james harden says he feels like the m.v.p. after yet another spectacular performance for the brooklyn nets he was back on court after missing a game with nick soreness but there was no sign of injury hard and scored 44 points as the nets aged out the detroit pistons 113111 since joining the net in january
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harlem is everything 26 points a game so no wonder he considers himself the best player in the n.b.a. right now several top tennis players have displayed their support for canada's better possible soul of his meltdown at the miami open. possible smash these records and verbal abuse the umpire which resulted in him losing the 1st set against mckenzie met donald he also launched this foul mouth rant against the tennis establishment. and our. party for our. fear of. them out of your. office a lost the match and afterwards issued an apology for his behavior saying he had been unnerved by a meeting with the a.t.p.
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executives last year he set up a player's union the professional tennis players association with novak djokovic to rival the a.t.p. players council and that's clearly caused a lot of tension jock a bitch says he's concerned by what happened in miami and hopes players now recognise the importance of standing together. croatian player evoke all of it said unfortunate what happened on court with fast whistle i was not at the meeting but from what i heard from players that were they it's now more obvious than ever that we need players only association hash tag players voice hashtag p.t.p. a former world welterweight champion oscar de la hoya is coming out of retirement and already has a date confirmed for his 1st fight since 2848 year old does not yet have an opponent lined up but says the bounces should yield for july 3rd he says he wants to box against floyd mayweather to 40 in 2007 with mayweather winning. well as of this year 6 nations champions of scotland beat the french in france for
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the 1st time since 1999 bronze needed to win by at least 21 points insecure bonus points when paris in order to win their 1st side since 218 but the scot said other ideas scott unschooled 3 tries including a late winner from doing fundament of a 42723 when in the final standings france finished 2nd while the scots a 4th and there was no doubt about the shots of the day at the world match play golf in texas sergio garcia was locked in a sudden death playoff with lee westwood but the 4th extra holy did this. spring's former masters champion hitting the ball straight in for a hole in one and that's a cue the winning now goes through to the knockout stage of the tournament of the unlucky westwood is out will the one dustin johnson also fail to make it through. and that's all the sport needs rob peter thanks very much indeed now the indonesian island of bali has been a cultural hub for centuries with galleries museums displaying the work of
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traditional artists but the pandemic has forced many to close the doors some artists have found ways to keep selling their work but many say the struggling to get by jessica washington reports from jakarta on the island bali inability to learn why and montreux has been making and filling mosques for more than 50 years they are used for traditional dances and are often sold a souvenir to. yes but with the closed to foreign tourists because of the pandemic he struggled to find customers walk out why young. there are 304 families in this village 95 percent of us are masks craftsman because of covert all cells were canceled. some artists in the village have turned to other jobs but that's not an option for everyone so you know that when the going to be something i'm old only i cannot do anything else i can't walk across structures site i don't have the
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strength. since indonesia's shut its borders he earns 30 dollars each month from sales nearby and other experienced artist works in his studio he could do it soucie is one of a group of artists who created this style of painting look at me. i'm a guy that i'm i paint to maintain balinese culture i want to show people with the supported by leave the island the harvesting paddy fields cultivating the land cows ducks flowing water this is. his granddaughter set up an instagram page to help sell his paintings online although he's forced to sell at a cheaper price he says he's fortunate. that you get better. these days many people are stop painting entirely because it's so hard to sell their work gallery owners are also feeling the impact with almost no walk in
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customers at this wood carving showroom nothing has been sold in months yeah. this is the darkest moment for the tourism industry there were incidents like the bali bombings and the volcanic eruption that impacted tourism but it's worse now. he's determined to stop his business from closing down like many galleries have delicate i noticed he took we will never shut down even if there are no customers i want the world to know that we're fighting. even though he isn't making any sales he still orders new sculptures from local artists to keep the industry alive while they all wait for better days jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. so how raman is going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories including miramar saying its worst day of violence says the military seized power nearly 2 months ago on what madison often are.
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it's one of the world's most powerful and dangerous criminal enterprises central to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people and behind the deaths of many more exceptional access to some of its key flay is reveals the in a what kings of an organization telling the name to many as the blood alliance inside this in a low a college town part 2 of a 2 part investigation people in power on al-jazeera when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages
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police intimidation and charges of said dish on the state line becomes the default so media man wayne dumond looking for images that lead to the letter to these guys and just how did he create a new science makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. the u.s. is always of in fact the people to all people pay attention to what gets on here and how does it is very good at bringing the news to the world.
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reports of at least 50 people shot dead in me in mar on the same day as military leader downs to safeguard democracy. and the whole raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes india suspends the export of covert 900 vaccines as its 2nd wave brings a surge of infections homeless and heartbroken migrants pushback from the u.s. border pray for help in mexico as american politicians blame each other for the crisis.

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