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. more unrest in northern ireland's issues surrounding the u.k.'s exit from the european union are among the grievances. and chinese regulators have e-commerce giant alley barba with a record fine of $2800000000.00. an eye on fire fighters sporting creating gulf action from the mouth is england's justin berry is remains the man to capture to coughed up but his lead is now down to just one chopped cool . but we begin in myanmar where a coalition of 3 powerful armed groups of reportedly attacked security forces for the 1st time since the cease fire in 2019 at least 10 officers were killed in the eastern shan state last month the rebels had threatened and a cease fire with the military after the joneses violent crackdown on civilians and

then bargo details are emerging of friday's violent crackdown by the military at least 60 people are believed to have been killed tony chang reports. even before the sun rose the sounds of battle raged men miles armed forces moving into the city of fargo an important gateway to the south behind the barricades the protesters tried to stand. ground but the military advance was fierce automatic gunfire and evidence that heavier weapons pictures posted to social media appear to show rifle launched grenades and reports that 3 of myanmar's ethnic rebel groups attacked a police station in the far eastern shan state on saturday morning unity amongst these disparate groups could be problematic for the military as it faces attacks on its outposts and civil unrest in towns and cities at a news conference in yangon the gentle spokesman said support for the protests was

waning and the death toll is considerably lower than reported with an ominous warning sign i've got it if we really shoot at the protest group using automatic rifles the $500.00 you refer to could be killed within hours but the evidence from mandalay on saturday suggest protesters is still out in large numbers marching through the streets despite the threat of detention or worse. some have fled the cities however for the relative safety of the bases of the ethnic rebel groups along the border while the conditions may be basic the alternative could have been worse you will need you know you will need we know that if we were to get arrested the security forces would not let us live that kill us so we had to run away. and the steady flow of people heading towards the borders is growing as many now fear myanmar is on an unavoidable course towards civil war. a life that seems to

only change he's monitoring developments in myanmar from bangkok tony what do we know about these attacks. well it's being reported the attack was launched by these 3 groups 5 am at the police station it's about 20 kilometers outside on the mandalay last year highway an important road heading towards the chinese border one which the military control but as somebody described it to me you know as the area a little while ago it was a soft target you could see from from pictures that it was defended with barbed wire but it must have been a fairly ferocious attack. shantz. media sources in shan state are saying that between 10 and 14 policemen were killed in the compound families of the policemen were also living and a number of people are being reported injured. said the military then sent

a helicopter to fly over the area about an hour after the attack finished 7 am local time that then caused the 3 ethnic groups to to leave the area although there are conflicting reports as to whether there are still fighting going on but i think it is very significant that they have shown they're prepared to launch this attack since the coup on february 1st there's been talk about the ethnic groups forming an alliance getting together and we've seen various agreements being signed within some of these groups but it was also being felt that they were disparate they had conflicting interests well now we've seen them actually work together on an attack that could make the military feel vulnerable in some of their more extreme outposts just on that told me how significant is it that this coalition of armed groups have actually come together

what was prompted them to take this action. i think these these are all sorts of different groups they have different. abilities different levels of organization training different levels of weaponry but they are looking for opportunities and i think this is the the big picture is that. the military coup. has been or has always been a very precarious balance within myanmar with the military with the civilian government but also with these ethnic groups who control large areas across the borders with thailand and with india and now that we see the military fighting fate of the a war against their own population in their large urban areas it was perhaps not surprising that some of these groups should start to take control we saw messages from some of them saying they felt the military actions were on acceptable they

would act. to protect citizens now they appear to be doing so at this early stage it's very hard to say how much of an impact that will have on the military but if we look at what they've been doing in the last week attacking which is the gateway effectively to the indian border and bargo in the last couple of days which is the gateway to the south and to the border to tire that may well be the military trying to solidify their position and protect themselves against further attack but it must be said at this stage me amounts military is very advanced outguns most of these groups and it is it has far greater numbers so this stage i think to see one small attack is significant i would be putting too much emphasis on it ok tony chang then bring us the very latest from bangkok thank you tony. now on friday the un security council heard pleas from the people of myanmar for action to stop the

crackdown it's an unofficial meeting of council members so it's a promise of heads to james based reports. that as the military continues its crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protesters there are also now reneging on their own promises a spokesman for the jointer says although at the time of the coup they pledged to hold elections in a year they now won't take place for 2 more years at the u.n. in new york a meeting was held to give security council ambassadors a picture of the deteriorating situation now most people feel that they are left alone to face the brutal regime armed to its feet start from by the same international actors who preventing action the military nord are condemnations posing a test for the security council with the council well council where over language in yet another statement are we apt to save the lives of the people myanmar's u.n.

ambassador who opposes the generals called for a no fly zone an arms embargo and targeted sanctions leave the the state action. this meeting was organized by the u.k. all security council members were invited but it wasn't a formal security council meeting both china and russia which object to an official open meeting only sent low level diplomats not surprisingly both countries seem opposed to any sanctions on the generals we share the same concern and the main thrust of recent diplomacy has been in the region here earlier this week the indonesian foreign minister meeting her u.k. counterpart i'm told a meeting of the leaders of the 10 countries in the regional as the only group is likely in indonesia in the next 2 weeks but how do you persuade the generals to talk and to give ground the un special envoy christine sharana bergen has had her

permission to visit myanmar denied i'm told there are some countries that are contemplating the idea of appeasing the generals and giving them a future role in the governance of the country something that would appall human rights activists and those protesting on the streets james al-jazeera at the united nations. western powers such as the u.s. the u.k. and the european union have been imposing economic sanctions to try and push the germans are in service storing democracy in militaries cash flow through 2 huge conglomerates myanmar economic holdings ltd and myanmar economic corp now they own more than $100.00 companies from construction to tourism and banking these companies are often run by family members of current or former officials and that it also includes children or the leader of the military government general min own now and they are they have they are under u.s.

sanctions well for more on the speakon speak that it's a killed it's it washington d.c. he is the myanmar policy adviser for the ngo global went there said it's great to have you on. this news line there are some of the countries that are imposing sanctions on the myanmar military and their family members but given how interwoven the military is to the entire country's economy how effective are these sanctions likely to be because even if the west does impose these sanctions it's the people of myanmar who are going to get hurt. yes thank you for having me on and happy to talk about this look at the memoirs military has a vast network of economic interests and introduce interests have long enabled them to act with impunity and avoid civilian control like you said it's based around

these 2 major conglomerates that they have but in terms of in terms of the question of sanctions and employment no we actually don't think that saying sions on these companies will hurt the people of myanmar these companies are kind of set up with the explicit explicit purpose of benefitting members of the military and members of. and the military itself as an institution these companies are not providing significant amounts of jobs to nonmilitary people they're not provide members of the public are not significant shareholders deriving benefit from them so no i think i think that that's not true and the thing about sanctions that are being placed on these companies it's there they're highly targeted at these the military's economic interests but the these companies that operate with their b.m.r. they don't just trade with the west they also trade with the east they trade with asia they trade with china many countries there are not simply quite reluctant to put any kind of sanction or indeed any right codes of nation of what's going on in

there so. again what are these sanctions likely to achieve if the chinese government the into these who have are quite happy to continue with business as usual. yeah i mean you are you are absolutely right about that that these you know these companies do business with with international many international companies and that does that certainly limit the amount of effectiveness that they can they can have say 2 things one 1st of all it's important to these sanctions are important just as a as a condemnation of the militaries behavior i think the international community has kind of been horrified by what they've been seeing hundreds of people murdered in the streets thousands of people detained in night time raids and it's important for the international community to take a stand and say that this is this is not acceptable. but also these sanctions need to be played with with intense regional diplomatic efforts we've already seen that

the indonesian government and other governments within southeast asia have called for a reverse of this coup even the chinese government has explained express displeasure with the military for this so you know this is this is also part of this needs to be put sanctions need to be paired with a broader diplomatic push and regional engagement with the countries that do have diplomatic influence in myanmar in order to make them more effective and also the push diplomatic efforts to resolve the current crisis forward who is interesting you talk about this incident national consummation because we with her it's quite a lot of fence and actual condemnation certainly from nations like the u.s. like the u.k. and so on but but again. our diplomatic as a service was telling me yesterday the myanmar military don't care they really don't care who do you think is able to actually put the pressure on. to make the military success of and listen that at this point both sides in this have

everything to lose and nothing to gain by backing down so how do you see this playing out it's and is there any solution that's all a peaceful resolution that you can anticipate happening. well i mean that's a that's a very broad question and if i if i felt confident in solving the crisis you know giving a solution to the crisis as it exists right now you know it's very difficult to know what is going to happen but but i think what needs to what needs to be the focus is on providing an off ramp for the military to back down and it's clear that it's clear that the military underestimated the extent of opposition to their actions that would occur within that would that would be present within the people of myanmar in terms of in terms of the go back to your question on the efficacy of sanctions and kind of who has influence let me actually give you one really good example of how sanctions actually are having an impact. just just just over the

past 2 weeks last week and this week that the government has restarted the national . gemstones and korea where the government sells gemstones and this normally is a huge earner for me and mars government and specifically manned mars military which has massive interests in the g. 8 industry normally the sales are conducted in both me and chat and in europe but this year the military for the 1st time has announced that the import will be conducted only in myanmar chat and this is kind of a clear example that the military is concerned about the impact of sanctions by euro denominated sales could certainly at risk of being blocked and so and so this we've already seen the amount of money that the government or that the military is earning from this important is significantly less than in previous years and we think this is a direct impact of this at least an indirect impact of sanctions that have been played placed on the gemstone industry by the u.s.

government and also the threat of sanctions in the future so you know sanctions can still be effective here but there are you know there are also countries that have influence i mean the u.s. and u.k. e.u. continue to have some influence and will need to be you know continue to end. but that influence needs to be wielded. through negotiations and discussions with us and with the chinese has to be a real international effort and i think it's important to just keep in mind that there has been nearly universal condemnation around the world so diplomatic diplomatic cooperation is certainly it's not out of the question it's not something that's impossible to have happen and it needs to be the focus that's ok it doesn't kill kill dates there joining us from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed ever speaking to us here on the al-jazeera news hour and then just the last few minutes we are getting reports in from the reuters news agency that myanmar's military has killed more than 880 and see protesters in the

city of fargo that of course is where security forces launched a violent crackdown on protesters on for a day let's take you inside the new snow gun salutes have been fired across the u.k. and at sea it's owner prince philip. oakley lisbon's husband died on friday at the age of 99 he served in the navy during world war 2. rory chalons joins us now from outside buckingham palace. as military man at heart so it would seem perhaps very fitting that he gets this lengthy gun salutes but as we're talking to sports remember the u.k. is still locked day which makes it rather difficult for the people there to pay their own personal tributes to see prince philip.

yeah the recommendation or at least the request from buckingham palace has been for people to stay away from the royal residences not to come down here not to turn places like buckingham palace into the focus of public mourning but i have to say that we've been down there looking at the growing mound of flowers and the queues of people who have either not heard that request or of disregarded it and wanted to come down anyway. and expressed their respects we were talking to some of them they were talking about how they felt that prince philip embodied things like traditional british values and that his steadfast devotion to his queen and wife elizabeth and also to the country was something that they wanted to honor themselves as you were saying or introduction there was this $41.00 gun salute

a couple of hours ago various places around the united kingdom in london in edinburgh in cardiff and in belfast as well as ships out to sea h.m.s. diamond in h.m.s. montrose and in gibraltar gun batteries fired once every minute for 41 minutes it's the same order that was given to queen victoria when she died in 1901 and winston churchill when he died in 1965 unlike those figures though prince philip will not be having a state funeral he will not be having a lying in state either that's because of his request but due to there is going to have to be a massive skating back of the kind of funeral the buckingham palace star certainly planning for him before the covert period started so things we will find out later today what exactly is going to happen we think but it will be. a much more intimate

family affair no more than 30 people as per regulations here in the u.k. it isn't these where you didn't sit there rory went ahead of states dies he wasn't a head of state i have to he was very prominent royal being the concert see her majesty the queen but usually with the senior members of the senior prominent members of the royal family there are usually plans put in place and lots is ruled out over the coming days and weeks the boil family is of course the period of mourning but it's already indication that so at this stage what is likely to fall there in the u.k. over the coming week. well as you say they're the queen is in mourning now of course it began on friday when the news broke and she will be in official mourning for 8 days now that means that

essentially the official business certainly of the royal family but also of the government's really constricts there won't be any royal signatures put to government bills there will be a limitation on the campaigning for upcoming local elections. that mourning period for the queen certainly will end after 8 days but then even the following month she will not really be much insight. she will be i think staying mainly within the palaces behind closed doors and i think until you get the funeral taking place then officially or in government buildings around the country flags like the one you can see behind me over buckingham palace are all going to be flown at half mast until the morning after the funeral so that yes the u.k. at the moment is

a country in an official period of mourning. ok rory chalons there bring us up to date from buckingham palace thank you very much indeed laurie keep it here on out there there's plenty more ahead on this news hour including accusations of intimidation after a failed unionization drive at an amazon warehouse in the united states the med school official who performed george ford's autopsy says police action caused his death. and in sports we build up to one of the biggest games in world football el classico between barcelona reality hits. the as. iran says it's begun testing new advanced you rhenium enrichment centrifuges just ahead of another round of talks in vienna president hassan rouhani made the

announcements during a virtual meeting of iran's national nuclear technology day serono has been steadily moving away from the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal since the u.s. pulled under the leadership of donald trump all of the parties to the deal are trying to revive it as said big has more now from the iranian capital to her on. this is a national day of nuclear chief this day came about back in 2006 when iran managed to enrich uranium to about 3.5 percent using centrifuges made in the country now we were expecting over $130.00 announcements of new achievements in relation to its nuclear program now iran is using more advanced centrifuges and feeding into them but it's also began production of the 6 centrifuges that's important because under the 2 $1015.00 nuclear deal iran is restricted to using older and less efficient centrifuges not these ones but also. apparently the production of the centrifuges

was damaged because of apparent sabotage some and iran says now they are producing this now this is all in the context of those talks that took place in vienna and did yesterday continue next week on wednesday and this is just iran showing that they will continue along this line along this path as long as those sanctions lifted and. the europeans are not living up to their commitments and iran has been pretty transparent about it they've told the international atomic agency of what they've been doing and as far as iran is concerned they're within the agreement to take what they see as remedial measures but the europeans and i think this is a breach but the supreme leader said just 2 weeks ago that iran will continue down this path as some of the other countries don't fulfill their responsibilities but it does add that extra layer of complexity to those talks because as time goes by iran continues to take steps further away from those restrictions imposed on its nuclear program as part of that 2015 nuclear deal. several police officers were

injured in another night of street violence in northern ireland's protesters in belfast threw petrol bombs and rammed the burning car into a police vehicle despite calls for calm might have respects since for young probation british loyalists have been rising every night for more than a week angry about post break said issues from belfast andrew symonds has more on the causes of the violence today after the good friday agreement on peace to northern ireland. many had warned about the fragile peace in northern ireland being threatened by arrangements over bricks it coming back to the good friday agreement on this day it was signed 23 years ago and it is being the center point of those bricks and negotiations the end result was to avoid a hard hard border to put it across the are a scene that caused chaos and trade for northern ireland it led to

a whole area of dissent and then this intermingled with a whole range of other issues with republicans demonstrating quite clearly their strength during a funeral exactly well nearly just exactly a year ago bob the story and i are a member of a better i remember had died and the police did took no action with the 2000 people amongst them in fein leaders who broke covert regulations apparently now the loyalists of the unionist politicians have said point blank the police should have taken action and we have amongst this or all of this with the police under pressure a call from the 1st minister ali and foster for the chief constable of northern ireland to resign which he refuses to do so you have that going on as an irritation to loyalists who are furious about that add to that the nature of the paramilitary

. is that loyalist paramilitaries being involved 'd in organized crime some theories suggest that they are the cause of a lot of this violence they're actually organizing it and in fact calling for a low in all of the violence because of prince philip dying that was breached on friday night as we saw and now there is a worry that this could go on this is not going away by no means brigid laffin this is director of the robert schumann sensor at the european university institute's she says it was clear well before the referendum the brics it would be dangerous for northern ireland and the current events were predictable. it's happening because there's an impossible problem there once the left single markers in the customs union it has an international border with the aren't and it's a member state of the wind main room so a border has to go somewhere and from the beginning it was realised that you can't

simply couldn't police the 300 crossings of the land border and people who live on that border voted decisively against bretz so they simply would not give their consent so then the only result to get the kind of brecht's that the forest johnson wanted which was sovereignty 1st breath was that they're here to a border in the i'm seeing having himself said that no british prime minister. and this has undermined. the loyalist. their sense that london will take care of them it has raised issues of identity the demographics in northern ireland are shifting so the lawyer loyalists immunise feel more vulnerable now and this then comes on top of a lot of socio economic problems in loyalist areas so what we're seeing in the minority and today it's very dangerous it's not just a problem for the u.k.

government i think london dublin brussels and i would also say washington needs to look carefully at the protocol grama time at the checks if necessary some of those checks should happen in fact before breaking the pay to northern ireland and now the e.u. see all of the computer and the computer systems and data systems on what is what is crossing and then de dramatise everything but that still doesn't solve the political problem which is there must be a border and the one thing about the sea is people don't live on the sea where is a land border in my view is completely impossible. so the protocol would have survived but he they really and i don't just mean london but everyone involved with power and authority need to make sure that each is streamlined to the extent possible that it is now in the minds to the extent possible but there still would

remain a problem for loyalism at a time as i already said all that is significant democrat demographic shift in northern ireland and the group in northern ireland meeting right and sizes lower as unionist or nationalists are the group who will determine whether or not northern ireland stays long term in the united kingdom it's time for the whether his efforts and i once again we've got some rather nasty weather now pushing across western parts of australia to tropical cyclones moving through here in the form of debts and serota in crisis are also that's the dominant feature to mixing together of that's getting sucked in but cicero's it will take over some very strong winds 120 kilometers per hour and rising over the next 24 hours or so until it does make landfall late on sunday going on into monday by that stage it will be moving in a general southeast direction just across southern parts of the way fading towards perth and as we go on through the next couple of days it does bring with it the

usual has establishing when some very heavy rain flash flooding some exceptionally dangerous ties and we are likely to see coastal flooding as a result of that as the system just moves in across the southwest quarter into the early part of next week down to was the southeast of course we got some showers fading for here they are going to be quite blustery as well city cooling down as we go through the next day also on the other side of the ditch into new zealand some bits and pieces of cloud in the right will make their way in here as we go on through the next day or so so western parts to the increasingly wet fine and dry for longest to the east. still to come on al-jazeera we meet syria's war widows who are struggling to make ends meet. and in sports will have major these league baseball action including an historic nights for the san diego padres.

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the or. this is al jazeera our minds are off our top stories this hour at least time police officers in the eastern shan states of reportedly been killed by an alliance of ethnic rebel groups a police station a long wall was attacked by fighters who opposed the military coup activists in myanmar say security forces killed more than 80 people in a raid on 5. was around 100 kilometers northeast of the commercial capital young gone the military's imposed a series of restrictions on the internet which is making it harder to confirm incidents of violence. iran says it's begun using new advanced uranium enrichment

centrifuges just ahead of another round of talks in vienna president has someone harney made the announcement during a virtual ceremony to mark its national nuclear technology day fighting between government forces and rebels in yemen central region is intensifying a battle to control of the oil rich province of mary pass left more than 50 people dead in less than 24 hours whoever controls the area will also control key supply lines or institute 100 rebel fighters have been killed by security forces in central african republic according to the president's security advisor valerie sahar of witnesses told al-jazeera that government troops and russian forces surrounded the town of men and attacked rebel bases the rebels have been fighting the government of president for star jones for data since his reelection in december. forces in chad's will go to the polls on sunday to choose the country's

next leader despite opposition calls to boycott the vote president is set to extend his 3 decade long rule hippa morgan reports from the capital not jamma. cold in the presidential election officially open on sunday for the civilian population or day before that's happened on saturday. a military has started casting their ballot for who they say they want to see winning in this presidential election incumbent president agrees that he is seeking a 6th term after 30 years in power but notably absent from the political arena i do opposition candidates and opposition leaders at least 6 have their candidacy rejected by the hardcore and to the opposition members who are deemed to be strong enough to compete with the president very well their candidacy following up on the opposition leader. need for purely. family members killed the political

opposition say that they believe this election will be free and fair and that there has been a militarization of the political climate hundreds of protested in the weeks leading up to the presidential election and the 2nd president to be seeking for any power they say that they want to speak they will match where the women rights watch says a ruthless crackdown of course after political opposition in the days leading up to the vote following the attack on opposition leader you know health and need for purely. family members killed the political opposition say that they believe this election will be free and fair and that there has been a militarization of the political climate the interior minister issued a statement on thursday saying that several happen arrested in connection to a plot to profit from the sunday elections and that opposition leaders at the.

activists are now. being interrogated and then they sent to those iraqis a sense of trying to disrupt the election now at least 7000000 people have registered support the embassy election and they say that one of the most important issue for them is improving the economy more than half of type 17000000 population live below the poverty line so they say they want to see change and they want to see problems in their economic lifestyle it's all just here when spoken to say that some of the most pressing issue for them is the issue of security because tad right now is involved in several counterterrorism operations along the border with money cameroon and nigeria so the thought to say that they want to see someone who's able to handle those issues i lead those operations as well as insurgencies in the east and along the border with libya this is their this is but i also told them to have someone in the president be able to handle those affairs and lead them because that is their number one if. i.

i. the medical examiner who performed the only opes autopsy on george floyd has told us courts he died from a police neck restraint and no drugs for a police officer derek chauvinism killing floyd by kneeling on his neck on fisher reports from the trial in minneapolis seriously the prosecution has produced a number of experts to see george floyd died because of police action latest to appear in court lindsay thomas a forensic pathologist who reviewed the videos of the night and me and analyzed all the photos and lab reports what it means to me is the the activities of the law enforcement officers resulted in mr ford staff and that specifically those activities were the subdual of a restraint and neck compression and does this not also represent your own conclusion yes a conclusion you have reached an opinion you hold

a reasonable degree of medical certainty yes. she said police officers find no pulse and george floyd is really on the ground but continued to accept pressure on him she ruled out drugs or heart disease is the cause of death a theory put forward by the defense she suggested if george floyd had not encountered the police that night he would still be alive do you have an opinion to reasonable degree of medical certainty if mr thwaite would have died that night had he not been subject to the subdual and restraint of the police there's no evidence to suggest he would have died that night except for the interactions with law enforcement. another witness was andrea baker the man who carried out the autopsy on george floyd he didn't watch any videos before his examination he ruled the death was home a sight i did not want to bias my exam by going in with any preconceived notions that might lead me down one pathway or another he said he found underlying heart

issues in george floyd and the altercation with police would not have helped what that adrenaline is going to do is it's going to ask your heart to beat faster it's going to ask your body for more oxygen so that you can get through that alter cation and in my opinion the law enforcement subdual restraint in the not compressional is just more than mr floyd could take by virtue of those hard conditions under cross-examination dr baker agreed there were many factors involved in the death that drugs and heart disease may have played a part but he said they were contributing factors not the direct cause of death it's expected the prosecution will end its case early next week the defense will then get the chance to present what it believes. is not responsible for the death of george floyd alan fischer. minneapolis. workers as an amazon warehouse in alabama against forming the company's 1st union in the united states

it's a setback for the u.s. labor movements but not to the say the fights isn't over she had reports. this was a blowout by a more than 2 to one margin employees at this amazon warehouse and bessemer alabama voted against joining a union the campaign to unionize had been seen as a potential turning point in labor relations in the u.s. amazon is the nation's 2nd largest employer none of its workers are unionized but it's not over yet the retail wholesale and department store union says it will challenge the results. the results demonstrate the powerful impact of employers intimidation and interference we will be calling got the labor board to hold amazon accounts of all sorts of great just say hey if you're going to care paying the union says amazon unduly pressured workers to vote no creating an

atmosphere of fear from organizing mandatory lectures for workers that argued against united nations to having managers encourage workers to vote in front of them and employing an agency to monitor workers social media posts amazon also asked the u.s. postal service to install a mailbox outside the warehouse even though the national labor relations board a government agency overseeing the election has said it did not want voting on the amazon site in case it suggested amazon was directly involved in collecting the votes if the n.l.r.b. accept the union's complaints the election could be rerun or the results could even be overturned and the union certified how about amazon has dismissed any concerns in a statement it says it's easy to predict the union will say that amazon won this election because we intimidated employees but that's not true amazon didn't women our employees made the choice to vote against joining a union long time observers of labor relations in the usa the r.w.d. su is partly to blame for the results. this is the birth of the shooting action

movie solidarity extremism where the so sweetly chicago got on a well strike what went wrong was they didn't build enough support. and so they tried to rush this and so now we see what we have to do is build a new movement of amazon workers nationwide co-incident long term labor advocates argue that the history of union organizing in the u.s. has always been a gradual process facing as it does such powerful opposition the r.w. diaz who says it's received over a 1000 and priories from amazon workers across the country about uniting since this election began without a fight or aright. if you will be right back in addition there is no renewed focus on a union rights bill that's already passed the house of representatives in washington the would make some of alleged cut digs during this election illegal times the. chinese regulators have find the ali baba group nearly $3000000000.00 for violating

ansi monopoly rules the world's biggest e-commerce platform has been penalized reportedly of using its dominant market position on the baba billionaire founder jack ma has been under scrutiny from chinese authorities after he criticized the country's regulator the system elliot cyclon as the host of the podcast china tech investor he says the future of ali baba in china may lie in how much it can distance itself from its high profile finder. the practices of you know ali baba are not that much different than the anti-competitive practices of say facebook or amazon but what's different is that usually in the west they'll just slap him with a fine and they'll move on in this situation we see it at ali baba and jack ma business empire particular really seems to be in the not in the good graces of beijing and what this and that ends up happening often is that it leads to the sort

of reputational damage where a lot of companies don't want to do business with companies or individuals that are not in good with aging i think that's the big risk for alibaba going forward i think of a big question for ali baba's future is about how much they can separate themselves from jack but another story that hasn't been as widely reported it as this fine is that over the past week jack ma executive business school had stopped taking on new enrollment by order of the government essentially what the government is saying in this situation is that they do not want jack ma to have influence or power in china under huge and that jack ma thought and she jinping thought are not in this and not compatible with one another and i think that the future for alibaba really lies in what they what can they do without jack ma they need to shed jackpot if they are artistic the talent has set up 10 field hospitals in bangkok to

deal with the surgeon coronavirus patients new beds can accommodate up to 3000 people thailand is struggling with a new wave of infections with 500 new cases on friday coronavirus infections in india have hit a record high for the 4th day well the 145000 cases of course since on saturday. in all the syria areas under rebel control say they need more humanitarian aid to some of the most vulnerable people including women and children struggling up to move in 10 years of war they harden reports. these women share a common thread each one has lost her husband after a decade of fighting this camp is the place they call home but for these survivors of war making ends meet as tough as martha we are a group of widows and i am one of them and the situation is difficult life is the fickle i have to sick kids i want to give the medicine tens of thousands of women

living here have no source of income and rely on aid from humanitarian organizations these widows say women without children have it worse and find it harder to get support but even with some child support life is hard. the month of ramadan is also approaching i want to be able to give them something new a shirt or pants to make them feel happy but we are not getting any aid widows are not getting any aid we don't see anything outside of aleppo in the city of this department a family council in cooperation with international organizations is trying to help . as a caseworker and says the pandemic is making things worse problem a little and before the coroner crisis were active in giving psychological support and guidance to the families of the orphans and widows in but now it is limited because of covert the number of widows in syria is increasing as fighting continues

in parts of the country even after 10 years of war they're struggling to patch up their lives leo harding al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera w w e wrestling prepares to hold its 1st events for the long march on to and since the start of the pandemic that's coming out in sports after the break. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a catastrophic model saying we have is that. their assessment of the catastrophic global hialeah to weiss a valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story.

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england's justin rose continues to meet the masses but timely by one shot there was some low scores on friday several top names failed to make the cut davis sites has this report day 2 of the masters in augusta national was playing a lot easier than on day one but not for leader justin rose after going 7 under in his opening round he could only manage a level par $72.00 on friday and that allowed the chasing pack to close in his 4 shot lead was whittled down to just one. american wills on the tourists is one of 2 players breathing down his neck on 6 unda the 24 year old still doesn't have a full p.g.a. toll card but doesn't seem fazed i'm excited to be here and you know i've wanted to be here forever so there's no reason to feel intimidated now i mean i made it to here just a shot further back jordan spaeth is looking well placed to make a challenge he won the masters back in 2015 and has twice finished runner up. last week he won the texas open and being a 4 year victory drought on if you can just get one percent better each day here on

in on that leaves me with a pretty good opportunity i think. there were 10 players within 3 shots of the lead including south korea's sea would kim who did well to post a 3 under round of $69.00 despite not having a putts or for the final 4 holes he broke it in one go and had to use a fairway metal instead. the big hitting bryson to shambo recovered from a poor acting day picking up 7 birdies to give himself a chance to be 6 shots off the pace. i feel i can go i can go out tomorrow and shoot a good number a little earlier than the in the leaders and you know put myself in a great spot for sunday. well number one dustin johnson won this tournament with a record score in november but it was a different story this week he bogey 3 of his last 4 holes and failed to make the cut along with rory mcilroy brooks kept lee westwood and sergio garcia. veteran

jose maria of the fire ball did make the weekend though the 55 year old spaniard a 2 time champion from the 1990 s. posted a halfway score of 2 over par but if justin rose he remains the man to catch top of the leaderboard heading into round 3 thank you stokes al-jazeera thanks now to one of the biggest games in world football a classic oh in spain el messi sponson are up against their arch rivals around the dritte later on saturday now this is the boss a team arriving at their hotel in madrid it's a crucial game in the spanish title race both of them have a chance to replace let's come a trade at the top. we need the best missy but we also need the best barcelona to win i think we need to do things perfectly and create opportunities and to do that we need messi i hope will be decisive for us was wenger's from a legal aid as manchester city have just been beaten 21 by leeds who played most of the game with just 10 men before kickoff both teams paid their respects to prince

philip the cheek of edinburgh who died on friday at the age of $99.00 and i will also be a tribute at the grand national horse race in liverpool. just over $100.00 days to go until the olympics are one of the gold medal favorite says she's right where she wants to be 5 time lympics swimming champion katie lizza he won the 200 meter freestyle at an event in california and she did it was 2nd it was a 2nd fastest time of a critique winning the u.s. open record. so you're 2020 starts on july 23rd but the rest of them pick committee says it plans to help us off these gets a coded 19 vaccine but it won't be forcing them to get one. we will not mandate the vaccine either for team usa athletes north who are any other members of the delegation but we are encouraging it and we absolutely are facilitating that access to to try to help connect with either local public health who are lost in the system local providers so that wherever they are training around the country they

have an easy to to get back needed in africa kenya sports ministry is also doing all it can to help get the job they kicked off a nationwide program which aims to give 3500 sportsmen and women the vaccine over a 6 day period. that's major league baseball and it was a record breaking night for the sunday go padres against the texas rangers joe musgrave pitched the 1st of a no hitter in the 52 year history of the franchise that's when the opposing team failed to get a single hit in the whole game was making only his 2nd start the team. and in the n.b.a. zine williamson impressed as the new orleans pelicans beat the philadelphia 76 of his school's 37 points 15 rebounds and 8 assists philadelphia missed the chance to tie the net at the top of the eastern conference. as i meet up in a wrestling a set to host its 1st large crowd for more than a year 25000 fans of g. to attend wrestle mania aside how magic reports. the superstars of world

wrestling entertainment are getting ready for the biggest show of the year wrestle mania. normally a sellout socially distant seating means tampa 65000 capacity raymond james stadium will be less than half full and won't look like this we're getting back into the essence of our industry of our craft and i'm excited man i'm hoping that people are as excited as we are and they're loud and they're into it and we get to put on a great show the viper's ballroom host state florida has already recorded more than 2000000 coated 1000 cases but organizers say safety is a top priority based mosques must be won by fans and there will be temperature checks on arrival. party separated it not many people together at once so i know that we're taking all of her passions

because. everybody and their families say so. when to be direct as if we didn't. fire oh since the pandemic began most doubly doubly events of taking place without hands the lack of atmosphere contributed to a drop in t.v. ratings responded by creating a virtual arena known as the thunderdome in a bid to win viewers back to the. way except for the upcoming event in tampa this is about as close as it gets for most fans to be part of the action these days each week they can log on to one of these digital channels and through the camera on their device they can be beamed live onto one of the screens in a virtual arena that should. be set to return to his virtual arena off the rest of mania organizers have still not confirmed when live crowds will be able to make a permanent comeback so he'll malick al-jazeera. sawyer spoiler thank

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