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but that's the way you are you have to be in the can relate to the feeling in 5063 clicks. is the light and it's my job to shed light on how and why. kills in battle last weekend's a funeral was held for chance former longtime leader interesting. of the amount of my he did and this is al jazeera vi from doha also coming up medical workers in kenya are being forced to decide who to save because of a lack of supplies in their battle against call that 19. and a new vaccine against malaria could be
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a game changer after clinical trials show it's 77 percent effective against the disease. the us russia begins pulling troops out it's of a region near the ukrainian border after holding military exercises in a show of force. we begin in chad's capital and where a funeral ceremony has been held for the late president idriss deby he died from injuries he sustained on the battlefield last weekend after rebels launched an offensive from libya several foreign leaders were in attendance despite warnings from rebels to stay away from the funeral well the former president's son mohammed idriss deby is now in paris and he will lead to a transitional military council for the next 18 months hipper morgan has the latest from john miller. they've raised at least at the time when the country and the
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region is facing several security threats chad has to deal with the rebel activities in the northern parts of the country and we also see chuck participating in counterterrorism operations in mali and in the lake chad region which is why it comes as no surprise that the g 5 representatives who have come to attend. the funeral as well as the president met with the head of the transitional military council mohammed to be who's a son of the slain leader it reads debbie as well as other members of the transitional council to discuss that issue to discuss the issue of regional stability you know ahead of the processions of the funeral of president idriss deby the proceedings of the funeral started with the arrival of various heads of states around the region as well as many other senior officials from various countries all coming to pay their condolences we've heard from the family of idriss deby as well as his widow who was not able to hold back her tears we also saw the crowd and
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heard from them as they cried expressing their pain at losing a leader who has been leading the country for more than 30 years the death of it and the burger processions and the funeral processions closes a chapter of 30 years in chad's history but the one that is opening now is full of challenges many people in the country many groups as well as many opposition leaders have rejected the fact that the the one that will be leading the country during these times for them and for the next 18 months will be the sun how much interest there be a military council as for the constitution the person who should be taking charge is the speaker follow and who purports apologized saying that it's extraordinary circumstances which he will not be able to lead the country through therefore the military should take charge so with the funeral processions and with debby now being flown to be buried at his home state of many people here in germany and inversed parts of the country are waiting. see what comes next now that this
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chapter closes and there's a new one opening in chad history. french presidency madam across says his country will not let anybody threaten chad he's called for a peaceful transition of power this so therefore see the people of the region enjoy a peace partner with france we have too much shoulder the pact lives on them but of liberty and independence france will not let anybody question operating today or tomorrow child is w.t.f. until a total integrity for us will be here to ensure that the promise which was made will be realized we're all part of your stability literally see from a local and democratic chance and this is what i'm watched by your site. for a 2nd straight day india has reported the world's highest daily tally of covert 1000 cases but more than 332000 meanwhile of these 13 coronavirus patients have died in
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hospital far in western india the far destroyed an intensive care units around 70 kilometers north of mumbai one major hospital in new delhi says it could run out of oxygen in the next few hours as infections rise in kenya health workers say they're having to decide which patients get beds in intensive care government hospitals are also desperately short of oxygen for 2 more lives at risk and as catherine saw a report so much arcos currencies some people and companies will be accused of hoarding oxygen cylinders. his wife pauline died from 1000 complications in march a government isolation facility in quito in eastern kenya where they leave did not have enough oxygen. or way for suffering to move or to not obey we were told by the waffle when we finally got one we had to quickly appeared on
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payment because 6 of the people were on the queue in neighboring much cackles county health workers stake us to the intensive care unit or i.c.u. or 12 beds have been occupied for a while when we get there patients also require. care then we talk to their neighboring countries to see whether they have beds available. the country's nearly 600 i.c.u. beds fill up fast and demand for oxygen has almost doubled to about 800 tons government hospitals don't have enough and health ministry official says thousands of cylinders are being hosted by individuals for private medical or industrial use . but their recent hope this is a country's largest privately owned steel factory it has stopped all production losing about $30000.00 u.s. dollars a day to provide the oxygen to hospitals for free i'm told and i'll get
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there yet but i. feel that every day. even if not nearly enough to me that one patient is taking almost. 3. or. even it is impossible for any was produced. with this. to have the total collapse of the health care system the government wants to reach hard immunity to the disease through vaccinations as quickly as possible. 1000000 people have so far hired the fastow's of the u.n. called distributed astra zeneca vaccine but the supplies are running low and there's an insight into about the availability of astra zeneca for the 2nd jobs chuckles hospital has vaccinated about 1000 people but authorities are concerned about those falling ill and dying in rural villages so what have we done now we've
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required that every person who dies in my course has to be tested it. did some of them before did at home especially all the people. back in a look at the he wants the government to provide facilities for patients who cannot afford private hospitals so they don't go through the same trauma he's family catherine saw al-jazeera. senior citizens in peru are receiving their covert vaccines and it's one of the hardest hit countries in latin america with more than 1700000 cases and almost 59000 deaths the government says negotiating for more doses in a bid to reduce infections it's imposed new restrictions in the capital lima after the country reached a new records of covert tests one day. the european union has signed a deal with pfizer bio and sank for the supply of up to 1800000000 doses of their coal with 1000 vaccine that's it companies have already agreed to deliver 600000000
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doses under 2 previous contracts e.u. countries are pinning their hopes on vaccine wallets to help contain a 3rd wave of the virus stephanie decker reports from berlin for many this moment is a long time coming bringing with it hope that soon life could at least partly return to normal we've come to honest with you i'm in my seventy's i'm not interacting with many people these days i would like to see my children and grandchildren again i hope once i'm fully vaccinated that i can say hey here is your grandfather germany's had a slow start to its vaccination campaign around 90 percent of people have had one job and around 6 percent have been fully vaccinated the moment they call at that moment we vaccinate around 660 people a day and our maximum capacity is around 1000 but we don't have enough of the vaccines and that's why we come back snake as many as we could the moderna and
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pfizer biotech vaccines are being used here at the moment this is the recovery area and people are being told to wait around 30 minutes to make sure they don't have any fight effect now it's not at full capacity we're being told that this is mainly because of a bureaucratic complicated registration process north of simply a lack of access. it's a message we hear repeatedly we don't have. as many as we need the policy on. the buying of their vaccination goals this was led to a situation where we are at the moment. the european union decided on a communal buying program but it's been hit by numerous supply problems and delays scientists say the vaccine is the best option for controlling the spread and the symptoms symptoms that can be unpredictable this clinic in the north west of germany is dealing with what's called long term covert these it has. in you know
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been at these patients are often between 18 and 50 years old the symptoms team to return after a period of remission of about one to 4 months suddenly they develop symptoms of take and a sudden decline in their ability to perform. high corish says even taking a shower can exhaust her and often forces her to have to take a nap 100 i mean. you can't just body you can't trust fear and a mind and then the question is how understanding will people be when i get her. there is much deal to learn about the virus and the longer it takes for governments to vaccinate their populations the longer it will take to contain it stephanie decker al-jazeera berlin. turkey pakistan and afghanistan are calling on the taliban to reaffirm its commitment to reaching an agreement from last in peace the foreign ministers of the 3 countries made the joint statement after talks in
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istanbul on friday they condemned the growing level of violence in afghanistan and called for an immediate cease fire u.s. backed afghan peace talks have been shuttle for saturday but have no been postponed . well leaders are holding a virtual meeting on climate change for a 2nd day joe biden has praised the renewed commitments by many countries to cut emissions the u.s. has placed a hobbit so an emissions by 2030 by then said the world should see corporation on climate change as an economic opportunity rather than a challenge we've made great progress in my view so far and i'm grateful to all the leaders who have announced new commitments to help us meet the existential threat of climate change the summit is a start a start of a road that will take us to glasgow for the un climate change conference in november where we're going to make these commitments real put in all of our nations
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on a path to a secure prosperous and sustainable future today's final session is not about the threat of climate change poses it's about the opportunity in addressing climate change provides an opportunity to create millions of good paying jobs around the world in innovation and innovative sectors still ahead so on al-jazeera. very true but there. has been history in the make it once again after a successful rocket launch carrying out students to the international space station . and we need south korea's a multipurpose robots something fights with 19. that's
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valuable and sunny in japan despite that north of the drift in the breeze spring sunshine and the same is true in the korean peninsula with this rain which has been persistent the yellow sea is dying out on its way back into the east coast of china beijing's ackroyd has been quite good reason enough to get a drop very much shanghai shanghai has not been so good may change a bit with the on shore breeze and the rain is fairly obvious that you might expect during spring that line to extend through japan has been interrupted by typhoons sort of a which remains out over the open water producing a big swell admittedly this rain is going sags towards hong kong to give you a rather wet day or at least end today on sunday and of course a pretty humid one as well for indonesia other rainy seasons fairly much stopped at the moment the rain is gone all through malaysia and beyond that through thailand cambodia and vietnam with his heavy downpours recently and certainly true in sumatra not to be the case of course the next few days if not weeks. having seen
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significance there recently in the finals of india is now in the poll and fading away temperatures are rising in northern india they're a bit above the average that is that time of year we get the primo heat and certainly there was showers confined to mostly kerry. welcome to down from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes . so you can relax enjoy the perfect break a new journey. and when you leave with a smile we know our day's work is done qataris welcome to our home.
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this is al jazeera quite right all the top stories this hour a funeral ceremony for chad's late president idriss deby has been held in the capital in germany not to be was seriously injured last weekend for battling rebels launched an offensive from libya he died on monday. at least 13 people have died in a fire at a hospital treating covert patients in india becomes a somewhat fossils were on their short of oxygen gita searching cases across the country. and world leaders are holding a virtual meeting on climate change for a 2nd day joe biden has praised the renewed commitment by many countries to cuss emissions the u.s. has pledged to have its emissions by 2030. now malaria is
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a disease that kills $400000.00 people every year mainly children but finally a vaccine is showing promise a year long study carries its own $450.00 children and bikini fassel shows it's 77 percent effective based on these results approval for use could be granted by the end of next year but the vaccine was developed by the general institute at oxford university and the developers made a deal to have it manufactured by india's serum institute's producing up to 22000000 jobs. professor ian hill is the director of the jenner institute at the university of oxford stanky so much for joining us on the news hour and congratulations on the early results this is of course the 1st malaria vaccine candidates across the 75 percent threshold for effectiveness how much for breakthrough do you think this new vaccine could be when it comes to treating malaria. yeah i think it's going to be very important for
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a few reasons really firstly it's more effective than anything that has been reported on before the world health organization wanted the 75 percent effective vaccine this is the 1st time we've gone just anyone's gone just above that level with certainty certain percent really importantly it can be manufactured at last the large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they will be able to produce 200000000 doses or more on registration of this vaccine and so far very importantly the vaccine looks serve in small numbers 450 trials some jerks we know are planning to go into a much larger trial and try to get there's a scene registered so it can be used ever were quite a bit with with the coronavirus pandemic we're almost getting used to seeing vaccines being developed and then rolled out almost instantaneously given that how
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soon do you think you can expect this vaccine to get rolled out and start going into the arms of children. well we do know that we are drawing exactly that analogy 4 times as many people died in africa from malaria last year as died from code and africa has registered many. vaccines on emergency legislation so if we could do the same for malaria we would get rid of much faster assuming the the results are good enough because the last malaria vaccine that went into phase 3 took another 6 years to get a decision from the regulatory authority that really is too slow these days ok so. let's hope you do manage to get that trial underway and get your emergency approval but looking for words how. easy it will this vaccine be to
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administer because we understand your institute is trying to get this manufactured at cost and doing some cheaply to enable a lot of doses but the logistics are also a fact and we saw that with the pfizer biotech vaccine for a covert 19 with the cold chain storage we were hearing earlier that this vaccine takes 4 dorsets to ensure protection is that not a challenge. well a lot of that seems are given as 3 doses in infancy and that's exactly what we plan to do with this vaccine which of course can be kept in a fruition no freezing required and then what you do after the 1st 2 years doses as you asked the children to come about. 18 months or the age where there are birds and they get a booster shot now we already do that for other vaccines so there's nothing that hasn't been done before here that would need to be done with those malaria vaccine and your institute the generals that you're oxford university as many people will
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have heard about the oxford astra zeneca vaccine. is there is this an entirely separate project project or is there some kind of similarity that said mabel that the t. breakthrough is to come at the same sort to be similarity. only similarity is that we did fry that you know carol back to back soon for malaria we got some protection but not close to the certainly certain percent we're seeing today with this new vaccine so this is a next generation malaria vaccine with a new attitude and with a new design to the immunization it serves so in a sense we have not actually been published on this before so it's very exciting to see this really working working 1st time absolutely it's very excited we're seeing all the we're all becoming armchair epidemiologists and experts and vaccines are watching this said whole but now that you find the world just talking about vaccines helping treat these diseases that some of which we've never really heard
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about before in a more general terms are you more hopeful that we're going to see people more receptive to medicine and to science and to vaccines on the whole or are you worried about some of the concerns we hear from people who are very hesitant they don't like the idea of these vaccines being developed more quickly your institute as a driving force in getting more vaccines out and seeing this technology come forward just. looking even further ahead stuart see progress on the horizon when it comes to treating disease with vaccine or is there still a concern that people are very hesitant and skeptical of. 2 things are really changing the 1st one has changed already vaccines are being developed faster people are asking questions why should it take you 5 or 6 years to develop a vaccine if it can be done for coded in in one year and of course the answer is due to many factors often simply funding not being available it has taken longer
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than it should be taking their head taking and that that is as i say already changing on the question of vaccine hesitancy it's different everywhere really so we found in the u.k. doing early surveys something like 60 percent of people certain they would cope with vaccine when the vaccine became the middle of all the numbers or more like 94 percent of people who are invited to a vaccine actually coming to take it and particularly for malaria the good news is that up to a great sort of general childhood vaccines are actually higher and higher learned in europe there is less vaccine presidency so many african infants as many as 10 vaccines during infancy which is fantastic because like scenes are really needed in sub-saharan africa so i'm pretty confident going forward it's been an extraordinary year of vaccines and i think we're going to see more very useful products coming along and coming along more quickly and say very good news there indeed we're out
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of time unfortunately but adrian hale there director of the generals to cheat at the university of oxford thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera if you're. now russia has begun moving troops away from its border with ukraine it sent tens of thousands of soldiers into the region they didn't attention with ukraine and its western allies will school says it was a military exercise and some equipments will be left behind for a drill later this year nato and ukraine's president welcomed the move but say they will remain vigilant with his war on the troop withdrawal from moscow russia says it will have been withdrawn its troops from the border with ukraine by the 1st of may it was a mobilization that the russians said was a military exercise but that has concerned the u.s. the e.u. and nato the e.u. estimating that at one stage there were more than 100000 troops amassed along the
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border it's not a total withdrawal russia has ordered one unit to leave its armored vehicles at the base near the border by 120 kilometers from the border and to leave those wiggles that until the autumn and satellite photographs of shown tanks and vehicles many hundreds of them up this particular base from saturday russia is closing access to the hours of see through the carriage straight to ukrainian naval vessels this means that the ukrainian navy will not be able to access its eastern ports or the russia says merchant vessels will still be able to pass through the courage straight these restrictions will be in place until the end of october again for what russia says are military exercises jailed russian opposition leader alexina valmy has ended his hunger strike after more than 3 weeks in the valley had been urged by allies to end the process chooses deteriorating health condition it been
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demanding access to his own doctor when 1500 supporters were arrested during what's fair process on say calling for an immediate release. now if you're at a south korean hospital and not following the covert rules then you can expect a telling off from kimi not so a robot that can detect if people are too close to each other or not wearing a mask properly bright. don't let those cute rolling eyes for you this robot is basically a pandemic policeman wandering the corridors taking the body temperatures of any body or passes and if it sees a group of people too many people congregating together then he is straight in their. turn you keep your distance he says and it doesn't stop there he can detect if you're wearing your mask properly or not and will tell you to put it straight. and in this it seems he will not be thwarted. told you
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yes all right to neil to the machine and when he's not busy keeping an eye on us he's off busy disinfecting the hospital day or night sweeping surfaces with ultraviolet light rays it's all part of using the latest in technology to make our hospitals as safe as they can be and that could become the norm for the future on the was an earth. this robot uses 5 g. vision technology developed by us which can detect the mosque wearing and social distancing to provide a safer environment for patients and visitors and integrated with a centralized hospital wide smart system that can tell him where problems might be occurring such as people on wittingly gathering in numbers once more then he's off again and hope pursuit on his next bust. now has had a busy week sending astronauts to the international space station aboard
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a recycled rockets also creating oxygen on mars and flying a helicopter on the planet for the 2nd time and that's left some countries feeling left behind i'm just as. if it. is. a lift off before dawn from nasa kennedy space center in florida the 1st time a recycled rocket spacecraft have been used now making their way to the one and only international space station the crew of astronauts onboard will change shifts with 7 colleagues on the international space station or i assess i really can't wait to get back to earth my love being up here in space but it just doesn't compare to being home on earth crew 2 is due to arrive at the i assess on saturday and for a few days to us spacecraft will be docked simultaneously for the 1st time traveling up or 2 american astronauts and one japanese plus the 1st european asked. not to
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travel in a commercial spacecraft. and i think we're living in the golden age of mount flight right now i don't think people realize it we have to look back at the sixty's and the morning missions or but in just a few years we will have done something even more ambitious people. and beyond this mission this week nasa has created oxygen on mars literally out of thin air and it flew its ingenuity helicopter for a 2nd time higher and longer than the 1st a so-called high risk high reward technology that's proved humans can conduct flights on the red planet there's a lot of excitement going on in nasa right now and you all have seen the fly the little helicopter on a celestial body some 80 to a 100000000 miles away as china prepares to launch parts of its next space station other countries seem at risk of being left behind and some argue europe must decide
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whether it wants to go to the moon and mars on its own or not. you up is a world power in terms of economy of political of weight and the world stage but in space is not compatible with us always china i think the style ok to be had has to be made in order to see where you'll want to go one s. as perseverance rover is searching for ancient signs of microbial life on mars europe's space agency the e.s.a. is due to play a crucial role on a future mission to return samples to earth. enter chapelle al-jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines a funeral ceremony for chance late president idriss deby has been held in the capital to mena said he was injured last week while battling rebels who launched an offensive from libya he died on monday and his son the high.

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