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one on one nice gets rare access inside a sport where tradition makes models on al-jazeera we understand the differences on this in some cultures across the world so no matter what we've been losing calendar for that matter to you. daily coronavirus infections in india exceed 100000 for the 1st time and even curfew is tightened in its worst affected state. so raman you're watching others are live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes jordan's detained former crown prince says he'll disobey orders banning him from communicating with the outside world. also floods and landslides
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triggered by torrential rain kill at least 90 people in indonesia and east timor. valencia's football team walk off the pitch in spain after one of the players is allegedly racially abused. welcome to the program india is reporting its biggest daily surging crowd of virus cases since the pandemic began more than 100000 new infections in 24 hours now the majority were in the state of maharastra home to india's financial capital manned by leaving curfew has been tightened and a lockdown will be enforced over the weekend 7 other states are also seeing a steep rise hundreds of infections with virus virus virus variants pardon me from the u.k. south africa and brazil are being reported the increase in new cases has not stopped large masculist. gathering for political rallies including for prime
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minister nuri and ramadi who's held multiple meetings ahead of the upcoming regional elections health experts are placing their hopes on the vaccine drive but the rollout has been slow only 76000000 indians have received at least one shot in a population of 1400000000 lots of problems has the latest from the capital new delhi. day on day for the past 2 months they've gone from an average of around 10000 cases in early february to more than 100000 cases on sunday for the 1st time in the past year. recorded its highest number of 57000 cases on sunday and maharashtra along with a handful of state states accounted for most of the cases in the country the other states. and. now here in delhi the cases were $4000.00 on sunday that's the highest since last year so
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promised in that in the board he held a meeting on sunday to review the situation and he said that the rise was due to what he called the shop decline and appropriate behavior like wearing masks and social distancing due to pandemic fatigue and also what he called the lack of effective implementation of containment measures sending medical teams to maharashtra to assess why the situation has remained the worst in the country they over the past year he's also sending teams to the states of punjab and. just the death rate is so disproportionately high in those states now punjab has recorded has seen the highest number of cases of the u.k. variant of the corona virus but health officials in india maintain that the variants whether they are from the u.k. brazil south africa. and variants that found and via those variants aren't responsible for the rise in cases they say it is because of people letting their
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guard down after the numbers sell as much as they did earlier this year. the unit. falls between mumbai he says vaccinations making people complacent about following social distancing measures. and i think changed. in this one to be. modest so b. was true state right. place at all $60000.00 cases which is a record of plus $24.00 initially the student was struggling a lot for bass but they've really. struck me for meeting our patients very. expecting this biggest school. for which you monitor bowman is already come up with some c.d.'s actions sort of curfew a night that all of the modes as well as the bobs are restoring bought
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all of their clothes you need to be a good morning 7 pm how did because i know maybe some guys just you know they have the people lined up all. the guns that come down the people have begun of big big like a photo shoot 3 point started going into space something into their mind you go sanitization the services they need to be for video specially basically the lesson to shoot and i will print definitely. the best state probably the best practice in writing all over the video. for better than good by nature and i. would just be followed by a number of cases other to maybe people have somewhere become begun again this season that one job of acting or one short of bison it will make him use immunity we did not the right. a week has been imposed in neighboring bangladesh and ahead
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of that lockdown a ferry packed with passengers rushing out of the capital collided with a cargo ship at least 27 bodies have been recovered so far so far more believed to be missing and bryant has the story. on the banks of the sheet alexia river desperate families waited for news. but as the hour was passed their anger. at the ferry capsized last night but it's yet to be retrieved was such a delay. the small ferry had been carrying about 50 people when it collided with a cargo vessel on sunday night it was finally pulled from the water on monday rescuers say they were delayed by bad weather however i don't want my appeal to the prime minister with please let us get the bodies of my father and mother the vessel was said to be packed with people rushing to their hometowns. the government had
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announced a weeklong lockdown to counter a spike in corona virus cases there were more than $7000.00 new infections reported on sunday the highest in a single day under the restrictions which are now in force all domestic travel services a suspended that's seen a rush on buses ferries trains and flights hundreds die in ferry accidents every year in bangladesh blamed on badly maintained vessels poor safety standards and overcrowding witnesses say the capsized ferry was carrying too many people and investigations underway alexia brian al jazeera. jordan's forward crown prince holmes or has said in a newly released voice recording that he would disobey orders by the army to not communicate with the outside world after he was put under house arrest on sunday the jordanian government said it thwarted what it calls a malicious plot to destabilize the country the half brother of king abdullah says
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that he's being punished for speaking out about corruption. the situation is a little bit difficult all the guards have left and the chief of staff threatened me on behalf of top agencies officials were recorded his words and send them to my family and those i know outside the country just in case something happened and now waiting for their action i'm not going to escalate but i will not abide myself by their orders to stay at home not to use to eat or not to be in contact with people and not to see my family but i've been told by the chief of staff is not acceptable under any circumstances so i'm still waiting for this matter to be sorted out. jordan's deputy prime minister says prince homs and other top officials have been under surveillance for some time hoda abdel-hamid reports. it was talk about the 0 hour to government said that prompted jordan's king abdullah to give the green light for the arrest of more than a dozen people including beslan my wife
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a former head of the royal court and finance minister he then became part of the inner circle of prince hamza bin has seen the house bred of the king who was also a crown prince until he was removed from the role in 2004 jordan's deputy prime minister a minister 70 said that beyond a doubt the inner circle of prince hamza were coordinating with foreign parties and opposition abroad a plot to destabilize the country with. the state intelligence with already has been closely monitoring activity from his highness hamza surely for some bizarre but some of the lower and others whose movements were undermining our stability and security the surveillance intercepted movements including communication with foreign sides on a so-called 0 hour to trigger measures aimed at undermining our stability shortly after the arrests prince hamza appeared in a video saying he had been put under house arrest for bit in from communicating with the outside world a claim later denied by jordan chief of staff the prince also took the
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unprecedented move of publicly criticizing the leadership of the country. i am not the person responsible for the breakdown in governance for the corruption and for the incompetence that has been prevalent in. our governing structure for the last 15 to 20 years and has been getting worse by the year i'm not responsible for the lack of faith that people have in their institutions their response the former crown prince had been sidelined since his removal from power but he is said to have been forging ties with this gruntal tribesman and the loosely organized opposition known as head arc that has been calling for mass protests so far the government hasn't revealed the scope of the alleged plot but some say it's unlikely it was aimed at directly overthrowing king abdullah you can't have a coup or lesser security people involved so i don't think and you know this idea
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of a lot there is just not true there is clearly. an internal issue that's come out in the public and i think in a way it has turned out not in the favor of some of the people who began this process of a rests it's not clear what will happen to the former crown prince king abdullah said to favor an amicable solution for the sake of the royal family and the stability of the country there are still many questions that remain and answers the government says it will reveal all details in due course but if anything recent events reveal deep divisions within the royal family of a country considered a beacon of stability within a turbulent middle east but at that hamid al-jazeera. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is legal and political troubles are playing out some will taney asli his corruption trials resume too with the prosecutors accusing him of trading
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in favors while in office there's anyone who denies the allegations of bribery breach of trust and fraud at the same time israeli president of rubin rivlin is consulting with political parties about who he should choose to form a government after last month's inconclusive election a trial was the major issue in the vote. flash floods and landslides have killed at least 90 people in indonesia and neighboring east timor traditional rain caused a structure and destruction across a chain of islands in the ages disaster relief agency says thousands of people have been displaced rescue workers are struggling to reach remote areas with roads blocked and bridges washed away jessica washington has the latest from the capital jakarta. it is a massive challenge for indonesian authorities because of the scale of this disaster it's also difficult to get a sense of exactly what's needed on the ground but authorities say they are trying
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desperately to get reinforcements to under an hour we understand that is the island that was worst affected by this flash flooding we received from of these rescue workers on the ground and it shows them digging with their bare hands through some of the debris and soil trying to find victims trying to find whatever is possible in that soil there's a reason they are unable to use more sophisticated means firstly they don't have the heavy machinery they need and secondly they are concerned that they may be victims under the soil and they're also worried about the stability of the soil itself now we understand that police are sending 16 votes and there are further reinforcements on the way to assist with that rescue effort but it is complicated by the difficult weather situation there is a tropical low which is creating strong winds strong brain and waves and that makes it difficult to access this island but also the wider region of east new certain garra which the destruction is not just limited to one island but to several
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regions and many villages are struggling with the impact of these disasters. pacific policy straightly a pacific security college he says damage infrastructure could affect. vaccination companies. the unicef challenge flight as arrived in delhi at 1 o'clock delhi time today with the 1st 24000 covered 9000 vaccines just the the challenge now will be how to roll out the vaccination with the damage to infrastructure up until the the floods. there's a containment of covered in. there was quite and if it was part of the control unfortunately pushed through the floods the the lockdown around dili the capital and the other 2 major cities by cowing to. have a better becoming official so what we've seen is people from the capital specially
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moving out toward the districts. and not knowing which are which people have been affected it'll make it hard fitted to move to minister government to trace to contact trace these people which up until now they've been going to be quite successful well still ahead here on al-jazeera a warning that a reservoir could collapse in a u.s. state unleashing a wall of waste water. it's time for the perfect gentle. winter sponsored park qatar airways. ok the sun has returned to japan these clouds moved away in a spell of rain is part of the seasonal rain system is just starting up that is rather more obvious it is really gross from the southwest of china it fact the whole system stretches back down through me and mon thailand but there we go is
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stretching into china at the moment the winds dropped in beijing who are currently having been good for a couple days is probably on its way down once more but this is there is a watch what is really the spring rains developing they were a bit further north 3 or 4 days ago that a bit further sas now they wander around central in southern china for a while there have been if you show up showers on the eastern side of india but i don't think we'll see benny more of those are words too in kerala too but the principal thing at this time of the year is the increasing temperature and usually humidity and we've still got westerly disturbances coming through producing significant showers in northern pakistan snow showers in the foot of the himalayan across in the poll an increasing wind seems quite likely as well this combined with a heat wave in russia stands in problems of pakistan will change the weather up here and have a new delhi of course that's good if it produces thunderstorms even better because tensor was some of the poor air quality but it's windy again by thursday.
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reporting its highest number of covert 900 cases in a single day more than 100000 some states are impose new restrictions to stop the spread jordan's prince homs are has said that in a newly released voice recording that he would not obey orders by the army to stop communicating with the outside world after he was put under house arrest jordan's government says it's wanted a malicious plot to destabilize the country. and the recovery operation is underway in but mother where a ferry and cargo ship have collided police say the ferry was packed with passengers at least $27.00 bodies have been recovered so far several more are believed to be missing. the hundreds of protesters a near are marching against the military coup. of the if there's been a major crackdown on dissent says the jointer seized power of more than $560.00
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protestors have been killed and thousands more have been detained. 22 members of india's security forces have been killed during a raid on a maoist rebel hideout in eastern just the scope of state is the deadliest battle between the 2 sides since 2017 the maoists for the government for more than 4 decades demanding land and jobs for farmers paul brennan has more. the security personnel included paramilitary officers from the central reserve police forces elite cobra unit special forces police who were supposed to be well equipped to tackle the maoist fighters known as next else instead their intelligence led raid on a naxalite hideout in the dry brush and sparse forests rapidly escalated to 24 hour firefight of extraordinary for all city. the chief of operations in the region described how the rebels used rocket launchers and hand grenades against the security forces he denied that the police tactics had been at fault the casualties
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were unfortunate he said but the rebels also suffered numerous losses the extent of those rebel losses on not clear but the police casualties were abundantly obvious as they arrived at hospital in right for more than 20 elite police officers were killed and more than 30 others wounded including several left in a critical condition. our security personnel have been killed i pay tribute to them and i want to assure their families and the country that the blood they have sacrificed will not be in vain a fight will continue with more strength and firmness we will continue our battle against the maoists and we will take this to a conclusion security forces have been fighting the merest rebels for decades the rebels fighting they say for the rights of poor farmers and landless laborous active across a wide swathe of central and eastern india the scale of this latest bloodshed though has some calling for a dramatic rethink of police tactics and political strategy this is
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insurgency lowing against it and that's been going on more than 3 decades. and in this period about 15000 people have been killed so that to give you an idea about the scale of what we are dealing with so i think the indian state would have to go back to the drawing board to see what could be done better certainly what happened in chat is gar could scarcely have gone much worse paul brennan al jazeera . in the u.k. people living in england will soon be able to get tested for credit iris twice a week the new kits which can give a result within 30 minutes will be offered for free at existing testing sites and pharmacy as the move comes as prime minister boris johnson seeks to continue easing in glens locked china help us more from london. the government at the moment is engaged in gave them a sort of deep exercise in trying to figure out how to carry on doing this safely
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specifically how to avoid jeopardizing the very advanced vaccine program here so the question you know how do you get groups of people into venues big and small be they pubs or concert halls or sports stadiums do you for instance use something like a covert passport scheme that sends shivers up the spines of civil liberty liberty groups and libertarian m.p.'s something the government has said it has no intention of doing while we're here more from the prime minister later it does though seem as though the government does have the intention of looking into this he's likely to announce a series of trials in large venues of covert certificate scheme of some sort that will give information about whether you've had the virus and have antibodies whether you've had the vaccine whether you've had a negative test and so on so as to safely allow people into those venues and going along with their massively expanded testing regime everybody in england being given access to 2 free lateral flow tests every week now both of these headline measures
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have already 'd come in for quite harsh criticism on the covert passport front from those who say that when you give up a freedom like this it's very very hard to claw that freedom back and on the testing front from those who say the government still isn't doing enough to promote people isolating at home to into incentivize isolating and if people aren't isolating after a positive test well then no amount of testing at this point is going to make very much more difference. columbia is bracing for a surge in corona virus infections after the easter holidays intensive care space is already near capacity in some cities and health authorities are warning the system is on the brink of collapse and the sun developed yet has more from buckets . on a regular easter sunday tens of thousands of colombians would visit the sanctuary of months overlooking the capitol. hill with covert infections once again on the rise tight restrictions mean just $170.00 faithful are admitted to each mass.
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phones and her daughters say they came to pray for help in these challenging times pretty closely to end this pandemic that has harmed the entire world then for health of our family and our business it's been a tough year. the authorities in colombia are also praying to avoid the expected arrival of a 3rd wave of coronavirus after the easter holidays but in some cities the situation is already critical with i.c.u. units on the brink of collapse and on sunday the government announced new restrictions. health experts are particularly worried that the surge in infections will easily overcome the slow rollout of the vaccination program in the country seniors hear of the noun still lays in complications in getting an appointment. in colombia we have vaccinated just 4 percent of the population at this rate it will
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take us well over another year we don't have that luxury the ministry of health lacks management skills. to try to increase daily those seniors over 70 are now allowed to get a vaccine without an appointment 74 year old enery sanchez said he had been waiting for one for a month until his niece saw the announcement on twitter. i called him and said i was going to pick him up immediately he's been waiting for a cold for a long time i thought this was our chance and. limited resources delayed starts and political scandals have affected the roll out in much of latin america where only a fraction has been inoculated but hospitals are at the brink of collapse even in chile where more than 35 percent of the population has already been vaccinated the country surpassed $1000000.00 infections on sunday with more than $8000.00 new cases every day the spite
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a total obligatory lockdown. in brazil the worst affected country in the region where more than $66000.00 people died in march a special mass was broadcast live from the foot of religion narrows he cannae christ the redeemer statue a somber occasion to remember doe's who died in what would usually be a day of joy and rebirth. a leak at a waste water reservoir is causing concern that a wall of water overwhelm hundreds of homes in the u.s. state of florida now the water contains hazardous waste from an old fertilizer factory as particle hate explains. it's the one question thousands of people in the u.s. state of florida are asking will this spill turn into a giant flood. we're talking about the potential of about 600000000 gallons within
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a matter of seconds and minutes leaving that written in pool and going around the surrounding areas the danger one pond collapses and the other 2 near it also breach the potential of 3700000000 liters of water running into hundreds of homes nearby the concern is that could lead to a nearly 7 metre tall wall of water barreling down still not everyone nearby has chosen to leave even with the hurricanes and everything and we didn't evacuate but one concern has been alleviated initial reports said the water was radioactive officials now say it's not but to be clear the water being discharged to port manatee is not radio active and is primarily salt water from the port manatee dredge project mixed with legacy process water and storm water runoff but some of the water is a by product of processing phosphate or into fertilizer and it contains nitrogen and ammonia and that could be
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a problem if too much pumped into nearby water since i retired from the fire department i'm now i'm a full time commercial fisherman and crab are and of all of this water is pumped in or leaked into the bay it could be catastrophic to the entire fishery and could in essence put us out of business state officials insist the water it's really seen is safe but that the bigger concern is a potential flash flood they're hoping that by pumping out more than a 1000000000 liters a day they are slowly averting a much bigger crisis political hang out to 0. players of spanish football club valencia have walked off the pitch cheering their leader today is after one of their players was allegedly racially abused but they claim they were taken they were then forced to play on by much officials who threatened punishment david stokes us the story. this was the moment the valencia the aca b. reacted to what he claims was racist abuse from an opponent the french defender furious with what has been described as
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a very ugly insult by the kid is player one karla jacobi reported the incident to the referee who showed to be yellow card for unsportsmanlike conduct the valencia captain decided to take his players off the pitch in protest and the game was stopped but the team then said they were threatened by officials that they would have to forfeit the match and maybe lose extra points they agreed to play on after discussing it with the activity who himself was not in the right state of mind to continue he was substituted and watch from the stands as his team went on to lose the game to one where you know. i was very far away but i saw dia car being very upset about something he told us that he was subjected to a racist insult and that's why we decided to walk off the pitch it is regrettable these things still happen in football and we need to stop it when. we went to the locker room but we were informed that if we did not return to the pitch we would be sanctioned we spoke with diac could be and he told us he was not ok to play but he
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said he understood us playing to avoid any punishment. yacoobi is said to be devastated by what has happened when carla deny saying anything racist and his coach believes him it is say they have complete confidence in their squad members but anyone found guilty of racism must be punished whether part of their team or not palencia said it was a sad day for football and how the incident is fully investigated they did stokes al-jazeera. there with me said the reminder of our top stories india reports its highest number of new couvade 19 cases in a single day more than 100000 some states have imposed new restrictions to stop the spread elizabeth program possible. held a meeting on sunday to review the situation and he said.
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