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pipeline. manned mars military is condemned around the world after the most violence day in nearly 2 months of on time who protest. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also ahead signs of movement the promise that a mega ship blocking one of the world's busiest waterways could be dislodged within days spiraling coronavirus outbreaks in several latin american countries spock urgent action from argentina to protect its borders.
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and a test case $5000.00 fans go to a rock concert in an experiment on the spread of covert 90. pressure is building on myanmar's military joint task global condemnation grows over its crackdown on tycoon protesters it follows the bloodiest day since the army's cease fire nearly 2 months ago media say at least 114 people were killed in the latest reaction military chiefs from the u.s. said nearly a dozen are lies issued a rare statement denouncing myanmar security forces saying they should be protecting and not harming the people tony chain has this report on saturday's events a warning you may find some of the images disturbing from the onset. her there was no mark was. the inconsolable cry of
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a father who's dead son in his arms the 13 year old boy was shot at his home in central myanmar as the security forces moved in. to 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 like these are the same these are engineers the. community leaders and he's a 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 or shot at random as they passed police trucks to manage to get to their feet and flee
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a 3rd wounded trapped beneath his bike. and those wounded or killed dragged away on ceremoniously to be bundled into army trucks. all of this on a day meant to celebrate 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 of the guardians democracy move to. 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 will be continued while the military has faced little opposition so far men miles
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armed ethnic groups have been threatening to intervene if the violence continues her young. 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. the military for a cease fire in myanmar nearly 60 years ago the coup happened in 196215 years after the country gained independence from britain on sense of cheese name came to prominence in 1988 when the military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters killing hundreds the following year since she was put under house arrest in 2010
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myanmar said it would. run elections for the 1st time in 20 years and 6 years later the military handed power to the democratically elected government led by san suu kyi the party won november's election by a landslide the military has insisted that vote was fraudulent without giving evidence a doctor i was appointed as nan my special envoy to the un by the disbanded parliament he warns if the international community fails intervene the country may plunge into a fully fledged civil war it is impossible for us to express the pain that we feel when we saw those foreign diploma join hands with those celebrations of military age and others these surely are small guns dissolute all those weapon that it is placed today was to only kill the people of
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myanmar is disgraceful it is unacceptable and today we know who are the friends of the people of myanmar and who are the friends of military in the region who are now because there are his organization we name all to shoot it with and these military to the reverse are there is organization. therefore all international community we appealed to them both did this member of the middle it in others should be designed it did as for aim there are always organizations labeled as stories of medicine because 'd they have been killing the enormous than arms people of myanmar so what do we need to prove more how many people would die before international take action we need powerful strong
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and target international sanctions economic early and diplomatic getting we need unify and strong message coming from our neighbors and also for me to us and a common india united nations if this no actions only words i'm afraid my country will have to go through the corridors see if you will that we have never seen before that it's almost impossible to imagine that the bloody days and months ahead this where we have to be a pyrrhic to international community to punish this is general as military to nutters who are not become the result the nation as soon as possible before my country call ups completely. in other world news new attempts are being made to move the huge container ship that's been blocking the suez canal in egypt's for the past 5 days a dutch salvage
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a firm working to dislodge the ever given says it could be successful by the start of the week they tarry gates be as it's. night time in the su is canal but work to free the giant container ship blokey one of the world's most important shipping lanes doesn't stop the stern of the vessel is now free and the egyptian authorities say they're hoping high tides in the arrival of more tug boats on sunday will help their operation the 400 meter long ever given ran aground in high winds on cheese day close to the south end of the canal but bad weather may not be the main reason why the ship got stuck. on us and you could have been a technical or human ever 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. 12 percent of global trade passes through the suez canal in egypt between the red sea and the mediterranean goods passing between europe and asia without having to round africa
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the ever given mishap has temporarily closed a route that's used by 50 ships every day with the canal blocked more than 300 vessels are now waiting in maritime traffic jams that either rend more than a dozen ships have live animals on board and his tank is q oil prices are rising the blockage another blow to global trade already disrupted by cave at 19 well this you know $89000000000.00 a day actually is quite small relative to the overall global economy obviously there are there are ripple effects and we're already seeing water. it remains unclear when the ever given will be refloated the salvage firm hired to extract it says it could be free within days but some maritime experts. skeptical it's going to take a month or perhaps longer they need to lighten the ship which is to remove various things the person earliest ones and i'm surprised this had all to wilbur cape the
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machinery and them with the water on board ship. the hope is a combination of mood tug boats dredging and high tides will succeed in dislodging the ever given if they don't plan b. will involve lightning its load something that could take weeks and would be another setback for global trade victoria gates and be al jazeera. chile has begun its strictest coronavirus long down so far as it tries to curb a spike in cases more than 80 percent of the population is under mandatory isolation the president says it's necessary to ease pressure on the health care system about 40 percent of the population has been vaccinated and most of any latin american nations filing outbreaks in brazil mexico and chile have prompted argentina to suspend flies from those countries that measures came into effect on
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saturday and include mandatory tests and quarantine for people arriving from other parts of latin america every or some by osiris. there are 3 of the worst hit countries in the region brazil mexico and chile. but argentina also has a nervous on his other struggling neighbors. and the truth is that the neighboring countries are doing very poorly regarding the pandemic and it's good for us to close a bit to restrict to be able to resolve the problem internally. argentina has suffered more than 55000 deaths from the covered 1000 virus but the authorities in one osiris are particularly concerned about the situation over its long border with brazil where more than 307000 people have died and nearly 13000000 have been infected many of them by the particularly virulent p one and p 2 strains of the virus. i called covert and when i arrived here i was almost dead 10 others that
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it's serious because because when it hits you when it hits your lungs you get weak weak weak. neighboring chile soar record number of stepan 1600 infections in a single day despite a tight lockdown covering almost the whole country and the robust max nation program does reach more than half its 90000000 population and some not all been scattered we all thought that when received the fastest of the vaccine we were protected and that we were immune to the virus but that's not the case. mexico last week became the 3rd country in the world after brazil in the united states to suffer more than 200000 deaths from cobbett 19 to him. when ak lots of people good people and bad people have died and it hurts not being able to say goodbye as they deserve. they to join the list of countries no longer able to fly in and out of argentina and others may soon follow. peru has now registered more than one and
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a half 1000000 infections 11000 in one day 40000 confirmed as the more infections there ian from brazil. the brazilian variant which is a lot more contagious is collapsing our health system. the vaccines are coming but few are a much slower than everyone would like it was apparent from the start of the pandemic that the covered 19 virus was no respect to reporters forcing governments like the one here in argentina to take whatever measures necessary to reduce the impact of the corona virus until their vaccination program started to bite. that are from their 0 to 010 cyrus still ahead on al-jazeera and national day of action as protesters across the u.s. demand an end to prejudice against asian americans and iran signs a corp deal with china the 1st of its kind with a major world power and. it's
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time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways the winds up again the sheer miles blowing down the gulf which means the terms of the drop in news initially will be quite a dusty one that's the brightest of funding out into the far south society arabia where the wind is blowing quite strongly now still through northern egypt funneling down to the northern red seas series as well but beyond that the weather is quite quiet the sun is out and it's warming up slowly in turkey doha is forecast because of the sure how we'll see a dusty day on sunday then temperatures drop by 26 and they start to rise again as things become a little quieter on tuesday it's a standard feature of this time of the year sometimes when last for longer but beyond the wind and that fanning dust which is dying out things are going to get
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quieter on monday and if anything got time to get to choose to the winds turned around and it's going to be northwest and sorry maybe jordan the seasoning trees in that dust yes he's done a complete loop at the same time there's an increase in cloud rate and little chilly weather some parts of turkey ankara's gone down to 6 for example. mostly south africa is now free of showers or significant rain there are a few in the eastern cape cape town is slowly warming up but only to about $25.00 then you drop down to 70 the proper rains of the i moved a long way north following the sun. cooper spoke to qatar airways. it's the political debate show that's challenging the way you think i want to know where you're to stand on cancer culture decreasing the range of ideas that can be heard from international politics to the global pandemic and everything in between if tech companies are the ones with all the power what do we do with the solution 'd we get organized what are world leaders or governments missing thread
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talking about targets like 2040 we're trying to see when we're talking right now up front with me marc lamont hill on al-jazeera. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera the pressure is building on myanmar's military giunta as global condemnation grows over its crackdown military chiefs from the u.s. and nearly a dozen allies denounced the security forces after they killed more than a 100 people on saturday. new attempts are being made to move the ship blocking the suez canal in egypt for 5 days the dutch salvage from working to dislodge the ever given says it could be successful by the site of next week and chile has begun is
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strictest coronavirus tone down as it tries to curb the rise in cases more than 80 percent of the population is under mandatory isolation the president says it's needed to support the health care system. at colombia's government has blamed dissidents from the fock rebel group for a car bomb attack in a town in the southwest residue of on duke a visit at the blast site outside the mayor's office inquiry into where more than 40 people were injured on fighting looting 11 public officials fock rebels have rejected a 2016 deal which ended the group's involvement in colombia's armed conflicts. going to. go we know that the ones behind this attack are the bandits from dago beto rommel's bandits from that group of descendents we are facing them and we will keep facing them wherever they are because those cowardly acts against the people are unforgiving they have only one party left either they surrender or we will
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fight them forcefully. the french energy giant oton has halted operations in mozambique after an attack in the northern town of palma nearly $200.00 people including foreigners are trapped in a hotel where fighting is taking place for a 4th day the amr allowed 10 has been under attack by ice or linked fighters there which is use agency is reporting the deaths of. indians who try to escape now the conflicts in mozambique's kabul delgado province began in 2017 and amnesty international says war crimes are being committed as rageous report blamed several parties including and i salute philly ated armed group and a government backed private military for the deaths of hundreds of civilians it also says government troops have arrested civilians without reason tortured detainees and carried out judicial killings the humanitarian crisis us forces more than half a 1000000 people to leave their homes god who is rich in resources and home to
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africa's largest liquefied natural gas projects but there are also high levels of poverty as well as frustration over an equal access to land and jobs and i just mean open men is a senior researcher at the armed conflicts location an event data project she says the attacks are showing a level of sophistication in given a 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 back. in terms of preparation we have seen the insurgents intermittently ambushing remote actually shrouds 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 sane and it's a human tragedy beyond believe that defect speak for themselves i feel i foresee
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things as we have seen now in pommel to proceed this if it's the question and the level of poor nation 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 nagar the most somewhat of a pariah bomb are due to the rain season that is coming to an end when the game starts spreading south and i am worried that move 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. the delivery of vaccines to developing countries of the u.n. bad program could be pushed back by weeks after india where hold on or so
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prioritize its own vaccination campaign as infections arise elizabeth or some new delhi. for more than 3 months indian made that 19 vaccines have been delivered 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 coronavirus 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 a continues to export vaccines we're already in discussion to keep a balance so that they can use locally but at the same time continue to provide. their countries vaccines from the serum in astute of india. the serum institute of india which is making the oxford
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astra zeneca vaccine is the world's largest manufacturer and the biggest contributor to the un backed kovacs alliance india's decision to produce exports is already being felt or the seeds more medium as you go and buy that scenes from a country pay for it part of the shipment arrives in the country and want to 2nd plane clients there their attorney general blocks the shipment these are unpredictable things that we think but they will be some relief in india itself health workers in maharashtra the worst affected and 2nd most populous state are struggling to deal with the highest number of cases since the pandemic began. no beds available for them here it is also a shortage of resident doctors even the recent doctors who are available overloaded with work and getting enough. and there is also 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
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that its exports had more doses than for the 58000000 of its own citizens who have so far been inoculated the government is running behind its own szechuan affects a nation 300000000 people but all this is to address that is expanding the criteria was eligible for vaccine as the plans to tailor its an occupation dr elizabeth brand of al-jazeera new delhi. they could be held for the music industry and promoters hit by the pandemic after thousands of people attended a rock concert in spain they did so without social distancing after taking rapid result over $900.00 tests the experiment is being seen as a potential model for future shows which could help the music industry recover the has a story on. the return of live concerts without social distancing is a moment many music lovers have been waiting for. far fasten finds turned up to
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this show in barcelona with confidence it wouldn't be a simple spreader event everyone was tested for cave 19 before being allowed entry plus that. is quite good at 1st i was very nervous because i was scared to be with so many people and you had to do the antigen test and all that at all times i felt very safe the organizers have done a very good job. 18 his card up antigen tests to filter up people with positive results it took just a few minutes to swap each person in what could be the future of concepts in the current of virus era. there are a lot of services people into any of the 3 venues do the n.t. gins test and leave pending the result of it arrives through an app on their mobile phone and as it takes about. 10 or 15 minutes would be awesome to wait out here. similar events have been held in madrid and berlin recently as more people are
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vaccinated it could allow empty concept friend used to reopen in one sense this is the classic forwards it is a wage economy however in the short term but we also need one i about everything outside of. countries within europe or u.k. or he not sufficient. man to strip face must wear a reminder that corona virus remains a threat but the experiment could be a blueprint for the label music an arts industry to rebuild audiences decimated by the pandemic. out to sara. china and iran have signed a landmark 24 year corporation tax for deals been in the works since 2016 it was signed by chinese foreign minister one knee and his iranian counterpart jobs everything beijing is expected to invest in parts of iran to qana me including energy and infrastructure as part of the agreement william nauruans is
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a professor of international relations at the american university in washington and it former u.s. diplomat he says the agreement extends an existing partnership with china standing to gain more than iraq. something else is going on here it's about global influence and global positioning and i think this may have a little bit less to do than some people think that. oil and oil and the delta growth initiative and more to do with chinese overall global reputation and nasty diplomacy a big part of this deal that wasn't talked about much is all of the accedes and other equipment that iran badly needs that china's going to be providing in a rant was hit very hard but damn it and this is also going to do your china to the iranian population so there is that aspect of chains influence that they're playing a long game here and want to injure themselves both of the government and the people who 'd are here it's very significant for to herat it's very significant for
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china i don't think it's as significant for the west as some people think china has already been buying uranium oil in direct lead for some years now would have continued to do so anyway this will bring some badly needed investments to iran now that of course depends on the devil in the details you know what is around giving up and china does have a history of sometimes making certain predatory deals we've seen a lot of those in africa i mean remains to be seen what concessions iran is made privately to china and he said people have been injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack on a church in indonesia was carried out in the city of mecca as a congregation was gathering for the 1st day of the east a week media say the attacker died in the blasts. the protests have been held against a rise in violence and discrimination against asian americans in cities across the united states a number of ronnie's has increased since
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a gunman killed 6 women ovation dissent in atlanta cast her reports from one rally in washington. as burials for the victims of the georgia asian spa shootings continue people gathered in cities across the country for multi-day rallies against asian hate the crowd in the chinatown neighborhood of washington d.c. numbered about $100.00 among them was lille new when who left vietnam 8 years ago to study in the u.s. i didn't travel across the border to america to stay silent he says he had to speak up after the georgia mass shooting and after seeing a growing number of unprovoked attacks on asian americans this past year many of the victims have been elderly asian culture is we put our our our oldest our elder 1st so to see the most vulnerable people in our community and also the most well respected people in our community being attacked. we're we're even young agent of
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young people we could take that personally and we partner fear has been growing in a good american communities across the country many who had protested that they had never taken their voices to the streets before but were now pushed to action because of everything violent that i was on the street people were calling names out of nowhere and why why would you do that to the people of this kind of inherent racism there even as the protests continue more asians are being attacked one woman was punched in the face last weekend after attending a protest in new york with her daughter and near los angeles a man drove through a crosswalk during a stop asian hate rally yelling racist profanities asian americans are speaking out in a lot of white. black americans according to at the a.p.a. for putting the full force in this together the protesters blame former president
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donald trump for stoking racism against asians by linking them to the coronavirus they fear that open. floodgate of hate that led to the killings and the attacks and they demand it ends castro al-jazeera washington. again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera pressure is building on myanmar's military giunta as global condemnation grows over its crackdown on tycho demonstrators in the latest reaction military chiefs are in the u.s. in nearly a dozen allies denounce myanma.

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