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suffered ambushes by the fall soldiers were abducted in the hundreds the systematic killing led to the displacement of millions of people the paramilitaries dictated that lands in the zones they took on areas the state could never reach under pressure from the d.e.a.'s the criminals who came off the problem escobar hunted down their shell companies were dismantled under arrest increased. more than 100 people killed in the worst day of violence since me and mars military seized power 2 children are among the dead. hello i'm barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up why
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a rise in corona virus infections in india could jeopardize the delivery of vaccines to lower income countries iran and china sign a historic deal to strengthen their ally sanctions said tehran it's a major economic lifeline and food delivery service the liberal gets ready to list on the london stock exchange would be the rider is to say they're being left behind . the welcome to the program may and more as military has again turned on its own people killing at least a 114 unarmed civilians according to local media there has been international condemnation of the violence the us ambassador to me and marred the scribing the bloodshed as horrifying tony chang reports. of
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a war that. was. the inconsolable cry of a father whose dead son in his arms the 13 year old boy was shot at his home in central myanmar as the security forces moved in. on muslim just city yangon looked and sounded like a battle zone the soldiers and police roam the streets burning barricades firing stun grenades and live rounds. and pain everyday lives and these are these are doctors these are these engineers these these are all of these implicitly leaders and this is student this wounded man was dragged visibly bleeding into the road. rather than help or provide 1st aid the soldiers beat him as he laid in a pool of his own blood in the southern city of daraa way these 3 men on a motorcycle are shot at random as they pass police trucks to manage to get to
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their feet and flee a 3rd wounded trapped beneath his bike and those wounded or killed dragged away unceremoniously to be bundled into army trucks. all of this on a day meant to celebrate myanmar's armed forces but celebrate they did outside the capital naypyidaw on an enormous parade ground and or inspiring display of military hardware and might the gentle leader in his address avoided the fact these soldiers are now fighting their own people and reinforced his statement that members of the army are the guardians democracy. the armed forces unavoidably assume the state responsibility by lawful means due to the unlawful acts of the n l d led government in the 2020 election after the accomplishment of the state of emergency provision a free and fair election will be rerun and the handover of state responsibility
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will be continued while the military has faced little opposition so far manned mars armed ethnic groups have been threatening to intervene if the violence continues. they continue to shoot at protesters and bully the people i think all ethnic groups would not just stand by and do nothing but it's civilians who now face the military's role 7 year old bone man was shot in the head inside his home in mandalay don't worry everything will be ok but don't sleep say his parents as they try to treat his room. children are now facing the full might of myanmar's military machine tony chang al jazeera. rethink images coming out of me and mar well earlier i spoke to dr sessa who was appointed myanmar's special envoy to the un by the now the spend the parliament he can then to saturday's killings and called on the international community to intervene. this must occur
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was clearly plants and gordon needed at the highers the level of these cowardly reaching. our peaceful movement will be stronger than dear tori's him it is impossible to express the pain that we feel and what we have seen today the picture of turned being shot to death these people must be brought to justice we agree with the british foreign secretary donovan it is unacceptable to 54000000 people of myanmar that this foreign diplomats were enjoying this killer when this liberate by killing among the really the people of myanmar if one of them in the very hour war where the slaughter of almost 100 people men women insurance it is impossible
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for us to express the pain that we feel when we saw those foreign diplomats join hands with those celeb rationed of military it in others you call the military generals murderers and the terrorist organization mean we've seeing the violence in the deaths escalate since february 1st what do you hope that the international community is going to do what do we need more to should it even than these military to the reverse are there already is organization. therefore all international community we appeal to. that the merit of military janeiro's should be the same needed as for a bill is. the process of speaking to me
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a little earlier well at least 2 people were reportedly killed when me and more army fighter jets launched airstrikes on a village near the thai border a further 2 people are said to have been injured during the attack which happened in papua district which is controlled by the arm that karen ethnic group earlier the karen national union said it killed 10 soldiers after overrunning an army base . the delivery of vaccines to developing countries through the un backed kovacs programme could be pushed back by several weeks because of the slowdown of exports from a major indian producer the indian government has told international buyers they will now have to keep more available doses because of a rising new infections are india correspondent elizabeth pour on them reports from new delhi. for more than 3 months indian made cod 19 vaccines have been delivered
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to countries around the world 60000000 doses have gone to 76 countries as part of aid and commercial agreements bought india recorded its highest number of cars on a virus cases in 5 months this week and the government says it must now prioritize local supply the director general of the world health organization says that's understandable but it's important and the it continues to export vaccines we're already in discussion to keep a balance sort out they can use locally but at the same time continue to provide. other countries back scenes from the institute of india. the serum institute of and dia which is making the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is the world's largest manufacturer and the biggest contributor to the u.n. fact that for lions india's decision to produce exports is already being felt on
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the seas more medium as you go and buy vaccines from a country pay for it part of the shipment arrives in the country and want to 2nd plane flies there their attorney general blocks the shipment these are unpredictable things that we think's botched they will be some relief in india itself health workers in maharashtra the worst affected and 2nd most populous state struggling to deal with the highest number of cases since the pandemic began. there were no beds available for them here there's also a shortage of resident doctors even the resident doctors who are available overloaded with work and getting enough corn there is also a shortage of supplies from the administration to an extent that is being resolved but it's not fast enough because the number of patients is so hot as cases rise the government has faced criticism that its exports more doses than for the 58000000 of its own citizens who have so far been inoculated the government is running behind
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its own backs a nation 300000000 people but all this is to address that is expanding the criteria was eligible for baxter as the plans to carry out an occupation dr elizabeth cohen of al-jazeera. well as the brazil and u.k. variants of cope in 1000 tighten their grip on latin america chile is government is considering postponing an election shojo for the 11th of april that was supposed to select the members that would draft a new constitution in santiago infections have risen 57 percent in 2 weeks this fight having the world's fastest vaccination program meanwhile brazil. makes up a quarter of global daily coronavirus this in the past hour it reported another 3438 couvade 1000 related deaths argentina has banned travel to and from chile brazil and mexico. the philippines meanwhile is again
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tightening restrictions as hospitals in the last struggled to cope with a rising number of coronavirus infections the measures include a ban on nonessential travel mass gatherings and restaurant dining and they will last for a week and will affect 24000000 people living in the capital and nearby provinces more than 1000 new cases have been reported in the past 2 days. china and the iran have signed the landmark 25 year cooperation agreement in a challenge to the biden ministration the deal which has been in the works since 2016 was signed by the chinese foreign minister and his it rainin counterpart china is expected to invest in key sectors of iran's economy as part of the deal including energy and infrastructure the lengthy practice tehran's 1st with a major world power as a big as worn out from the rainy and capital have on. increasingly iran has been
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turning to russia and china especially since the former us 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 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 a veto but this deal does have some critics inside the country even though it's been backed by the highest authority the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei 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
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parliament but there were also rumors that iran would be handing over control of some of its islands to china and the government here have denied that they said that there's nothing inside the deal that gives any country control of islands or chinese military forces presence in the country but it does have widespread political support inside this country and it's a way for iran to be independent and build a country in an economy that is sanctions resilient. still to come here on al-jazeera was. calling out violent attacks against asian americans protests are held in dozens of u.s. cities aren't stuck in the so as a dutch salvage firm hopes they can solve a $400000000.00 an hour problem.
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the weather has settled down quite dramatically in australia there are still frontal systems and then that coming through the bite and hitting tasmania rather than you where else for the most part it's draw and find that includes new south wales in the immediate future there are showers of in the tropics no where else really is warm in person if anything it's getting warmer in this part of westminster is that 3 on monday this is something you may not want to see though the return of shows to new south wales exactly over the area which caused the flooding and is still course not entirely better so you may not want to see it and they shouldn't be significant but they're they're all the same rains also the story in east asia more so japan than china but you can see the thing does trail off into china for at least the start of sunday significant rain for a time when the weather get knock of the cherry blossoms on its way out the
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following weather is always going to be fine drawn spring sunshine warm with rain then started to gather over the yangtze in the central part of china there's another westie disturbance once again producing snow showers in the finals of pakistan and india and as it moves slowly east was it doesn't really affect most places in delhi in particular should produce power by tuesday and wednesday some pretty windy weather. mexico's coded 1000 death toll is one of the world's highest with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital with the deadly upsurge inevitable often really of visitors every day there's really no way that they persevered through 3 guards without food or has the government's own orthodox strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against 19 on al jazeera.
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the only the in. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera mia mars military has again turned on its own people killing at least 114 unarmed civilians according to local media there has been international condemnation of the violence the us ambassador to me and maher describing the bloodshed as horrifying. the delivery of current a virus vaccines to developing countries through the un backed kovacs program could be pushed back by several weeks because of the slowdown of exports from a major indian producer the indian government has told international buyers it will
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now have to keep more of any available doses after a rise in infections china and iran have signed a landmark 25 year cooperation agreement in a challenge to the by the administration the deal which has been in the works since 2016 it was signed by the chinese and the radian the foreign ministers. people across the united states have been protesting against the recent rise in acts of violence against asian americans. events took place in 60 cities across the u.s. including new york there's been a sharp rise in violence and discrimination against people of asian the said since the start of the cove in $1000.00 and then make which many blame on china concern in the asian community increased after 6 women of asian the center showed that in their clientele this funds. castro was at one event in washington d.c.
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. it was a pretty good turnout a few 100 people fewer than there were here last weekend but the activists here said that they were in a keep up the pressure because even as the victims of those georgia shootings 6 of whom were asian american women even as they are being laid to rest this weekend the number of attacks on asian americans across the country continue to grow these are attacks have been captured on surveillance cameras in various cities older people being pushed to the ground unprovoked stabbings people being slashed in the face and of course the racial slurs and comments that many in the asian american community have grown accustomed to and they said that this is simply a pass to stop that it's been enough the group stopped a.p.i. hate has accumulated reports of more than 3800 incidents of hate against asian americans just in this past year and its founders say that very much to blame is
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former president donald trump and his rhetoric blaming the coded pandemic on china using racial slurs to describe the virus and that's why the activists were out here today also new york city and los angeles many other places and 60 cities all together and what they're calling a day of action to protect asian americans and demand that these attacks against them stop. the french energy group took has stopped its operations in mozambique following an attack by an armed group on a hotel in the north of the country 200 people including foreigners are trapped inside the emma rule a hotel in power it's been under attack by ice so linked fighters for 4 days now the government is trying to take control of the situation in the coastal town where several people have reportedly been killed just when oprah man is a senior researcher at the armed conflict location and event data project she says
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the recent attacks are showing a level of sophistication in guerrilla fighting not seen in the region before. this is a tactic has been brewing for some time now we have seen 4 attacks preceding this it tack. in terms of preparation we have seen the insurgents intermittently ambushing remote access for outs and isolating poem our local dissatisfaction again security forces and the insurgents the opportunity to proceed we're gaining a momentous victory against the government i foresee sadly to same and it's a human tragedy beyond believe that defect speak for themselves i feel i foresee they see as we have seen now in pommel to proceed this if is the question and the
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level of coordination tells me that we are experts in guerrilla fighting training these fighters being involved in directing and i do foresee that attacks as we have seen confined to nagai most somewhat of a pariah bamma due to the rain season that is coming to an end when the game starts spreading south and i am worried that move weird hour will be the next target of attack b. is no u.-turn the is no quick fix the insurgency is directing them amend them and they simply no end in sight. new attempts are being made to move the ship that's been blocking the suez canal in egypt for the past 5 days that that salvage for more king to free the ever given says it could be successful by the start of next week the stern of the vessel is now free and they're hoping that higher tides and the arrival of 2 more tug boats on sunday will help the operation the 400 meter
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long container ship ran aground on tuesday close to the south end of the canal after the crew lost visibility during a sandstorm. it could have been a technical or human have and that will be revealed through the investigation many different mistakes might be the reason but we cannot prove anything yet the only clear reason is that there was strong winds under some storm but they might not be the only reasons and you'll this will be revealed during the investigation. one of barcelona's top music venues will hold a concert for 5000 people in a cold 1000 experiment they want to see how well they can prevent the virus from spreading at large events people must present a negative cova test taken that day and wear face masks a similar event was held in the center well earlier we discussed the experiment with oksana peacenik a senior lecturer and global health advisor at the university college london school of pharmacy writing and this is actually really important to better understand how
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economies that you have high rates of vaccinations should move forward with any. confined space so this type of experience not the 1st we've seen similar again back in december we had the experience again barcelona with i 100 people in 3000 and equally also in berlin and germany and this is all going to be critical and terms of understanding exactly how we can provide interventions that keep people safe. jerry a pandemic when we near us of course the rest of the world is lacking access to back so in one sense this is the plan is a way to ensure that economies now recover in the short term but we also need one eye about everything outside and i don't think that countries within europe or you
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carry not sufficient. in the knees an island of bali has been a cultural hub for centuries with galleries and museums the spleen the work of traditional artists but the pain that make us forced many to close their doors some artists have found ways to keep selling their work but many say they're struggling to get by just to washington reports from jakarta on the island of bali in the village of 5 to one lion montreux has been making and selling mosques for more than 50 years they used for traditional dances and are often sold a souvenir to us but with family close to 2 foreign tourists because of the pandemic he struggle to find customers what a couple are young. there are 304 families in this film i say 95 percent of us are masks craftsman because of covert all sales were canceled. some
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artists in the village have turned to other jobs but that's not an option for everyone so you know that when the community a place of of itself i'm utterly i cannot do anything else i can't talk of course structured site i don't have the strength. since indonesia shut its borders he earns 30 dollars each month from sales. nearby another experienced artist works in his studio he could do it soucie is one of a group of artists who created this style of painting. i'm a guy that i paint to maintain balinese cults or 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.
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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 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. you noticed that 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 just in washington al jazeera to counter
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u.k. based food delivery company delivery was you should be listed on the london stock exchange in just a few weeks but some of its rider is say it's an exploitative business model that makes it impossible to earn a decent living there urging the public to think about how they get their takeaways but now reports. it's wrong get paid for the time we get paid for pickup we get paid for drop off shot hussein has been a delivery writer in london for 5 years he says when he started working with a service he made decent money and could help support his parents but as delivery has taken on more writers and switched to a complex algorithm to calculate pay it's become harder now $26.00 chef calculates his average hourly earnings at below half the adult minimum wage or less than $6.00 now with the fees so low are as he had to cut back on a lot of things the only thing that's actually keeping me afloat is universal credit and. government scheme even. even buy the parts for
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my bike fix my bike out here actually rely on the government scheme to actually. find the money shaft one of the delivery workers who took part in a nationwide survey it analyzed thousands of invoices collected by the independent workers' union of great britain representing people in what's known as the gig economy it found that a 3rd of delivery riders earned less than the i don't minimum wage the union says conditions are pushing some workers to do longer hours pushing themselves to the limit but i've seen from my experiences i've seen writers turning up to work with broken limbs hands in cars forcing themselves to work i've seen women cycling well into their pregnancies because they can't afford to have the time off we see women coming back to work 2 weeks after giving birth because they don't have to money to take maternity leave this is what the king county looks like this is the business model deliver a champion and deliver ruth says it has 50000 writers who appreciate the
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flexibility the work provides and it's dismissed the new survey as one representative in a statement to the press delivery said writers in the u.k. are paid for each delivery they choose to complete and earn 13 pounds an hour on average it out busiest times we communicate with thousands of writers every week and satisfaction is current. at an all time high but the company knows it's under pressure to change delivery was due to be listed on the stock exchange next month but several of the u.k.'s biggest investors say they won't be buying any shares because of concerns about how the firm treats its workers and the status of the riders cost and self employed contract is on the question the supreme court recently ruled against which operates a similar model the taxi companies now granted all of its drivers holiday pay a guaranteed minimum wage and pension contributions it could have legal implications for other gig economy firms shaphan hundreds of other riders are planning to strike when delivering launches on the stock market they want the
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public to take part in a boycott at the same time they say the job's precarious enough without having to struggle to a minimum wage al-jazeera london. iceland now where river is of lava a river upton from a volcano southwest of the capital for the 8th successive day geophysicists say the volcano could continue to erupt for days weeks or even in years drawing streams of lava for up to 15 kilometers below the earth's surface it's the 1st eruption in the region in about 800 years with the last one lasting 3 decades. now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera local media and me and lara has reported that at least $114.00 civilians have been killed during a crackdown by the military.
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