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once in all of this make our planet pretty good we have to meet the c o 2 emissions targets electric cars that need mitchum emission they need to be mindful when people are just talking about the sellers of. the world of business and commerce driving the energy transition it's the promise of clean energy an illusion the dump side of green energy. on al-jazeera. hope is fading in indonesia rescue crews recovered a brief from a missing submarine stuck 850 meters below sea level. and made 3 and so they can this is a 0 a live from go also coming up leaders from across southeast asia meet in jakarta
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high on the agenda how to handle a crisis in myanmar. india struggles to get a grip on the pandemic that's sweeping the nation of 1400000000 people as more die through a lack of oxygen. and a case of environmental racism people in the u.s. city of memphis are up in arms over a proposed new oil pipeline. we begin in indonesia with the 1st sign of the submarine which has been missing for days such teams have recovered daybreak believed to be from the vessel the military chief said that scurrilous detected the skin sub at a depth of 850 meters it's calculate that it's oxygen supplies right out several hours ago but the navy said it would continue to search for possible survivors $53.00 crew members were on board let's go live to casa al-jazeera is jessica washington as the ministry was giving a press conference which ended
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a few moments ago jessica what did we learn. well adrian military officials described these latest developments as deeply concerning the debris you mentioned they discussed what exactly was found and they've also declared that the status has now changed from sub miss to sub sunk some of that debris includes the torpedo launch pipe a plastic bottle of grease which is used for the periscope korean debris with some korean writing because this submarine was refitted in south korea and returned to indonesia in 2012 sponge is used to clear condensation and also items used for prayer now now that the status has officially changed to substance sub sunk authorities say they are deeply concerned about these developments because the fact that they have found this debris in this area this search of the bali sea indicates
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to them that there are cracks in the whole of the submarine as it sunk into deep waters now they do say that they are going to persevered with this effort this effort involving 16 indonesian navy vessels and to the straightly a navy ship as well they are continuing to search this area and making preparations for medical evacuations as you mentioned oxygen supplies on the ship on the submarine may have already deplete depleted in the case that there was a total blackout on the submarine authorities say they can't rule out that there may be a possibility that there might not have been a blackout and in that instance they should have been enough oxygen on the submarine for 5 days now authorities are being very careful to stress that this is a very serious situation but they say at this point they cannot comment on the 53 crew members and whether or not they are still alive for the moment just many thanks indeed just a washington reporter live from jakarta. military judge is in jakarta for
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crisis talks with southeast asian leaders general mina lyons participation in the summit has been condemned by anti coop protest leaders human rights groups and the newly established unity government in myanmar say the invitation gives the general legitimacy lanty cooper testers gathered outside the summit venue in into the sewers capital they condemned the months of violence against demonstrators that's been carried out by security forces at least $700.00 people have been killed since february the rights activists say the true death toll is likely much higher despite the continued risks amid the crackdown people are continuing to march across me on the hundreds of anti jointer protesters again but on the streets of the city of the way that speak down to al-jazeera study chang who's following developments from bangkok how much pressure will middle line be in jakarta today.
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i think the laws they were expecting that they were going to be sideline meetings with the indian indonesians with the malaysians with the singapore ins and they are part of a bloc within c.n.n. has individually as countries condemned the coup and the bloodshed the followed the 40 we haven't seen a universal condemnation for mass and as a whole and it's believed that there is some division with within the group other countries particularly thailand been less keen to push the military they're not being represented by their prime minister this c.n. summit instead they've sent the foreign minister and that is perhaps an indication of the fact that they haven't completely signed up to a condemnation we'll know in a couple of hours when we hear from the indonesian foreign minister who's going to be hosting a press conference which we're expecting an assay and this is where the summit statement summing up what those actions will be what they've talked about today but
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i think the expectations that it's going to take dramatic action probably needs to be tempered somewhat what was being talked about last week was the fact that c.n.n. may send a representative a special envoy to myanmar to try and broker some kind of communication between the protesters and the military but from what we've seen on the streets today much as we have for the last month neither side seems to be backing down and neither seems to be in a mood to talk meanwhile what's happening on the ground inside myanmar itself. well as you mentioned protests are still ongoing as they have been in fact the protesters seem to be bolder in the last couple of days than they have in the face of the crackdowns that we've seen over the past month they've even been out on the streets in central yangon lot of which hadn't been happening recently because the
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military would be reacting so violently we've also seen protests across the country in mon state in cairo straight up in the north think of chin state and i think they're very aware of what's going on in jakarta they've been sending messages where they want to send a message to firstly that those people who've been detained in that number now more than 3000 people are immediately released including the senior leaders like ansen suchi the taint since the coup and they want the military to step back they want the. election of november 2020 to be recognized and they want the new national unity government to be seen as the legitimate government of myanmar observatory chang reporting live from bangkok tony many thanks indeed. u.n. ambassador who's an outspoken critic of the military and was sacked by the joint hopes the progress can be made the u.n. hasn't recognized his dismissal he spoke to our diplomatic as a james bays whatever that did the asian made by the leaders of the earth.
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this should take into account of saving lives or in north sensibility and. buying the millet saving life or in north and say billions in ma and they're providing humanitarian assistance to the people in need. we need to stop the atrocity the inhumane act committed by the military this 3 point that the need to take into account whatever decision that the mit because that is very important saving lives in north and civilian is very important for the everyone that is there nobody touched for the human kind please see life or in your sensibility that is the visit point that take into account one never did take that position you know that the commander in chief of me and why our military gentlemen on line is going to be attending this summit what do you want other leaders to say
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to him and is it as some have suggested time while the military are in control to expel or suspend myanmar from r.c.n. for now. you know all the at the beginning what we want is the us the end should listen. to not only from the the military but also from the democratic forces so that you know but unfortunately anyone found the the national unity government was. no one from the national unity government was invited to the meeting but it is disappointing. china russia and the european union are offering india oxygen generating equipment as the covert crisis that deepens they need 2 dozen oxygen generating plants from
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germany are expected in new delhi in the next few days india once again recorded the world's highest number of new infections on sunday more than 346000 the health kissed kelce caste system that is on the brink of collapse with hospital short of everything including beds and that's in the uk to say that running away patients every day. is still a need which is often being. left i guess been eating at me and i you know trying to figure out what would be the best. possible option. because i know it could. be i'm having a lot of recent school week and i get it oh you're. having to. be at market or them u.s. regulators are lifting a poor's on the use of johnson and johnson's single short coded 19 vaccine it
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follows a recommendation by the centers for disease control and prevention which says the benefits outweigh the serious but small risk 15 cases of blood clotting have been identified 3 of which were fatal rob reynolds reports from los angeles. after an 11 day pause to evaluate rare but serious side effects the u.s. centers for disease control and food and drug administration will allow the use of johnson and johnson's one dose coated 19 vaccine to resume an expert panel voted 10 to 4 to recommend resumption of the vaccinations without restriction for everyone aged 18 and over with these actions the administration of johnson and johnson covered 1000 maksim can resume and. that's that f.d.a. will add more details to the health care provider and patient backseat including information about the rest of bonds have occurred in the very small number of people who have received johnson and johnson. out of nearly 8000000 people who
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received the vaccine 15 developed blood clots and low blood platelets after their shot several became seriously ill and 3 died all women but the expert advisory panel and health officials concluded the benefits of the vaccine outweighed the risks and that new guidance for doctors could help mitigate any damage we found that for every 1000000 doses of this vaccine the james j. vaccine could prevent over 650 hospitalizations and 12 deaths among women aged 18 to 40 and this vaccine could prevent over 4700 hospitalizations and nearly 600 deaths among women over unlike the pfizer and moderna vaccines johnson and johnson's version doesn't require a 2nd dose and it can be transported without deep freeze storage j.n.j.
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is important docs in offering key advantages including its single does option and its viability when the supply chain may not allow for. health officials say administering johnson and johnson. vaccine will resume almost immediately likely as soon as saturday robert oulds al jazeera los angeles a weather update next here on syria then we'll look at why there are fears that libya's vaccination campaign could be marred by political infighting favoritism. and we take a look at the exciting developments aimed at wiping out by larry at once and even during the coronavirus. hello there let's look to southeast asia and was typhoon sergei foamy out of the
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picture conditions are looking more settled across the philippines manila seeing some showers and sunshine at 31 degrees temperatures here slightly below average elsewhere things are drying up as we come to the end of the rainy season we will see some heavy downpours across parts of thailand particularly in the south and other areas of the mill a peninsula as we go into monday those heavy downpours across parts of indonesia but the west the weather can be found in australia to the north of queensland we've had quite a wet month here and that rain is going to continue into sunday and monday can seeing some of those showers elsewhere things are looking hot and dry towards the west perth at $28.00 degrees so temperatures a little higher than we expect here much of the cooler weather is going to be in the south for victoria with cloud cover and some isolated showers those continue into monday as we hop across the tasman sea into new zealand we can see plenty of
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sunshine here ahead of that band of cloud and rain that's going to affect the south island but we will see some sunshine in the north with 17 in wellington. on counting the cost of the climate emergency and the price of going green and why it doesn't need to cost the earth new zealand unlikely leader of economics becomes its prospect for controlling house prices plus no gold deposits so why is it one of iraq's biggest exports counting the costs on al-jazeera. there is no channel that covers world news like we do we revisit places of the state and as there are greedy invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. well
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again this is al jazeera the main news this hour search teams in indonesia have recovered daybreak believed to be from a missing submarine the country's military treats said that scans detected the sub at a depth of 850 meters it's calculated that its oxygen supply route several hours ago . myanmar's military jointer is in jakarta for crisis talks with southeast asian leaders are expected to call on coup leader met online to end the violent crackdown on protests on protests. india has recorded the world's highest number of new infections again more than 346000 cases were confirmed on saturday the healthcare system is close to collapse but hospital shorts short of beds medicine and oxygen.
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libya has begun its covert 19 vaccination campaign it's reported more than 170000 cases a daily 3000 deaths the health care system has been severely impacted by years of political turmoil and violence and it's struggling to cope during the pandemic al-jazeera is manik traina reports now from the capital tripoli. after years of conflict and another recent battle against a health threat officials in libya are happy to be launching their covert 19 vaccination drive this center in the capital tripoli has opened its doors for health workers and the elderly as part of the government's plan to curb the pandemic according to the national center for disease control libya has secured more than 400000 doses mainly from russia and through the un backed kovacs scheme the. who started distributing the vaccine across the country the number of
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registered is now about half a 1000000 people priority has been given to health workers the elderly and in those with chronic disease. for those here on this day it's a sigh of relief most of us the glances he has been careful since the beginning of the pandemic an only lisa's house for essential items he says the vaccine should have come soon he already i've been feeling very bad lately there's been a surge with dozens dying every day and thousands of new cases unfortunately our officials are not qualified but today i feel good to see people and the elderly like me who have come to be vaccinated for him half the men but i've been staying at home as i've been so scared to get covered 19 we didn't think they would ever get vaccinated when they asked for people to register my daughter slimy up getting the shot now gives me hope our country can make it. libya has recorded slightly more than 173000 cases though many health experts believe the true number is much higher there are fears that the vaccination campaign could be marred by political
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infighting and favoritism the covert 19 pandemic along with years of conflict have had a toll on an already struggling health sector here reza roll out begins many are hopeful that things will start to be better now traina al-jazeera chablis russia's president vladimir putin has backed a proposal by health officials for a 10 day normal working period in early may in order to curb the spread of the corona virus the health minister says the covered situation is stable but warns that it may worsen when people start to socialize more in the warmer weather russia has reported almost 9000 new cases in the past 24 hours but that's well below the 29000 a day at the country's peak in december. what is the word here i will it all of my colleagues to listen to the opinion of specialists to virologists to those who are not just professionals in the area but who have also been fighting in fiction
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especially in the last year and have received such diverse and end it them from asian about covert 19 if you think the measure to prolong my holidays is necessary then fine we will do so and today i will sign the corresponding decree let's take a moment now to take a look at india's oxygen shortage experts there have been warning about it for some time saying that medical oxygen is expensive and complicated to transport that compound a pressure on creaking health infrastructure now the courts are stepping in judges in new delhi have urged the government to beg borrow or steal oxygen to meet the city's needs the government has begun diverse ng oxygen that was destined for the industrial sector to be used in hospitals while air force planes are transporting large oxen chuang tankers to filling stations across the country were not sika is a journalist and senior correspondent for scroll which is an indian news website he
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says the uneven supplies and logistical issues are the biggest problems. because i literally don't gossip about it. and i mean because there's not too. india has them individually as a current docs in the wyman's their own ecology and metric tons and don't you know it was supply of farms you think humans industrial oxygen of just or was them talking i think that's and that's an element of tons of police around but i think i think guns the student know what to do with critical industrious which cannot do without oxygen so it is a massive shock fun and a lot of the chalk fall at all but by the fact that transporting might be up to them oxygen is the complicated process and india has also os running out of crowded and those that been used once fox oh i'm glad we didn't last east in the up the more effective is the not and gently india kids are growing up at
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a very merry. christmas and to date unfortunately as i pointed out before you know it or not often lands in the states when it is the excuse me high points and speeds like that in us capital daily it's more mediocrity manufacturing capacity. meeting with the abuse in the us not to state and want to force the effect it. had been any capacity then there is another big state law just like states and you know much but the issue which has no production it's all so that has really compounded problems there is a man does poorest parts of it recently reopened travel bubble with australia flights between israel and the state of western australia are on hold for its largest city puffs of a nearby region were put into a stamp 3 day lockdown it's in response to 2 people testing positive for covert 19 travel bubble arrangements are still in place between new zealand and other australian cities. a new malaria vaccine is being hailed as
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a game changer in the fight to eliminate the disease the oxford institute vaccine has proved 77 percent effective preventing infection and is now entering lodge a human trial is to rule out any side effects malaria kills half a 1000000 people each year many of them children i'll just erase the cholas hock reports from dhaka. it's in this 100 kilometers away from brick you know fox news capital ouagadougou deep in this how the region that a groundbreaking discovery was made here blood samples were analyzed from 450 children given an experimental vaccine against malaria developed by scientists from oxford university's jenner institute scientists say the results of their year long study are extraordinarily i have been part in other studies like these but never have i seen such good results all the mothers that are taking part in this study say the children are feeling great it's an extraordinary moment to see that the
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vaccine against malaria actually works. malaria kills almost half a 1000000 people a year globally mostly children living in africa there's been efforts to try to slow the spread of malaria by distributing mosquito nets and repellents but during the rainy season malaria thrives and last year more people died of it than cove at 19 and so and effective vaccine would save and protect not millions of people but billions of people living in tropical climates exposed to mosquitoes that carry the deadly parasite. larger trials on nearly $5000.00 children will now be carried out in 4 african countries but the general institute which was behind the astra zeneca covert vaccine is already seeking world health organization approval for the malaria vaccine 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
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with certainty certain. really important lee it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they would be able to produce 200000000 doses or more making the vaccine affordable for those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research center in pristina faso where there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough not just for science but for humanity nicholas hawk al-jazeera. at least 8 people have died after an avalanche near india's border with china it happened after part of a classy a collapsed in with our current on friday it hit a group of labor as it will working on a road india's army was able to save 430 people in a rescue operation. israel's army says that it struck an observation post belonging to hamas in the gaza strip israel says that it was responding to at least 10
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rockets which have been fired from the palestinian territory it's the worst cross border violence in months some were shot down by israel's. defense system u.s. president joe biden has called on global leaders to work together on a transition to clean energy jury in the 2nd day of a global summit on climate change biden laid out how washington would achieve the target of cutting carbon emissions and hoff by 2030 invited climate advisors and business leaders including bill gates to look at what he called the valuable economic opportunities of tackling the crisis we need to develop and deploy breakthrough technologies that allow us to eliminate emissions through out the physical economy 2nd we need to tap the power markets to fund and deploy these innovations for example by finding creative ways to finance technologies and by leveling the playing field so they can compete with fossil fuels 3rd governments
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and corporations need to adopt policies that will make it faster and cheaper to make the transition and leaders will need to reward those who take difficult steps u.s. politicians and activists have been running against the construction of an oil pipeline in the city of memphis they say the pipeline threatens the drinking water of low income residents the majority of whom are african american and as manuel ruppel 0 reports now from tennessee some of called the proposal the proposed energy project a case of environmental racism. for months residents in south meant this had been fighting against the construction of an oil pipeline dorsey says she's worried over what it might mean if a proposed oil pipeline were to cut right through the neighborhood she's lived in for most of her life my file. why now would be buying it the rule man may behold there's
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a growing movement among the local population against the plans for the energy project the concern from activists like justin j. pearson is over the ground being proposed for the pipeline which is expected to pass over the memphis awkward for so one of the most severe negative consequences is to our environment they're planning to build a $1500.00 p.s.-i crude oil pipeline atop the memphis sandakan for what supplies drinking water to over a 1000000 people in addition to this they're building at the top an area that's the most seismically active in the southeastern part of the united states. the pipeline would also pass through box town a predominantly black neighborhood that critics say is already exposed to pollution from several nearby industrial sites in recent weeks a growing chorus of voices have spoken out against the project including at least 28 members of congress and former u.s. vice president al gore it is reckless racist it is a real we're trying to stop this i cloud it's called the i tell you i climb the
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memphis mayor just came out and yes days ago which gave us all some great encourage with the 2 companies i know believe the city with threats of lawsuits i do that everywhere even though they're legal theories are often nonsense but let's assist standing up because the black citizens of memphis and they're not white allies are standing up to say no more of this and our middle races a controversial aspect of this pipeline and others like it across the united states is the use of nationwide permit 12 which allows phone. fuel companies to fast track projects like the behala connection pipeline the parent company responsible for the project valero energy corp did not respond to our request for a comment but the company has defended the project promising the pipeline will meet environmental standards. al-jazeera memphis tennessee space x.'s endeavor capsule
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has finally reached the international space station a begun to dock the crew blasted off from the kennedy space center just over 24 hours ago they'll spend the next 6 months on board the station replacing the current crew who were turn to us next week it's the 1st time the 2 dragon capsule sippin docked at the i.s.a.'s cymbalta any est. ever wonder what it would feel like to disconnect from the world and hide away in a cave for a few weeks well 15 people in france found out the group of french scientists an explorer says a merge from the cave after spending 40 days inside they were in deep isolation without any sense of time the volunteers a part of an experiment on the pyrenees on which hopes to better understand how humans perceive time and how groups of people can adapt without it.
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