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it is pushing millions deeper into poverty many are jobless and hungry there are nations says 60 percent or $12400000.00 syrians don't have regular access to enough food despite the battlefield being largely quiet for a year aid agencies say the daily suffering of syrians is worse than it has been a nearly any point throughout the conflict and the hardship does not stop at syria's borders. i am. a demand for action regional leaders call on myanmar's military the stop violence against civilians. the at. m 40 back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead hopes fading in indonesia rescue crews recover debris from
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a missing submarine stuck 850 meters below sea level guinea's capital is getting a make over but it comes at a price for many families and emerging from isolation many extreme study done in a cave that may shed some light on our own lives under lockdown. the at. the end of. south east asian leaders have demanded an immediate end to violence against civilians in myanmar leaders met in indonesia's capital jakarta early a saturday the military gentle leader gentlemen was also at the summit though his visit was condemned by protesters. but combine the development of the situation in myanmar is unacceptable and should not continue violence must be stopped democracy stability and peace in myanmar must be returned immediately the interest of the
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people of myanmar must always be the priority on myanmar unity government which opposes the military's takeover says it's looking forward to firm action from southeast asian countries after the crisis summit tony chang is following developments from bangkok. they were supposed to be in the private meeting for 2 hours that went on for 3 when they came out we heard strong messages from the malaysian prime minister who said that the killings and the violence they've seen since the coup must and president choco we have indonesia said the developments since the coup were unacceptable and we understand now that c.n.n. has met. has a can found consensus on an agreed meet statement with 5 points the 1st is to end violence the 2nd is that dialogue must start between those parties involved in the violence that humanitarian assistance will be delivered by c.
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and the special envoy will go and they've been talking about this for the last couple of days and we understand that special envoy will go. as a mediator between the protesters and the military and finally that all political prisoners will be released and presumably that will include senior leaders from the l.t. like in san suu kyi and the president when we understand from singapore's prime minister lee hsien long. to me i'm a senior general minong life was involved in the discussions was receptive to these suggestions and did agree to some of them. what is going to happen on the ground when he returns home is another thing here. now the news indonesia's navy has discovered the 1st sign of a submarine that's been missing for days on our search teams have recovered debris
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the submarine has been declared sunken is lying at a depth of around 850 meters oxygen supplies are thought to have run out several hours ago $53.00 crew members on board. with the discovery of evidences of equipment from the submarine this is the proof that there are cracks in the submarine due to heavy pressure that it depth of 700 to 800 meters across al-jazeera is jessica washington has more from jakarta. based on that debris which is evidence that they have so far they've concluded that they can now change the status of this vessel from sub mis to subs sunk now some of what they found includes the top ito launch pipe of this submarine this karen 402 as well as a plastic bottle with grease which is used for the use for greasing various parts of the submarine they also found sponges which are used to wipe condensation and
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they also found what appear to be prim outs now according to what they found and based on this evidence they say that it's likely that there are cracks in the submarine because if there weren't cracks than this debris wouldn't have been able to have been found now there's also they've also confirmed that the spread of the fuel spill that they found in this search of the seas or around bali was around a 16 kilometer radius now they say that the submarine could have sunk as low as 850 meters below the surface of the ocean and in that instance the submarine is well beyond the capacity of what it was built to withstand authorities at this stage say that it's quite unlikely that there was an explosion on board the submarine because in the event that that happened they would have heard it now at this stage they say they are still exploring the possibilities for medical evacuations because they cannot comment on whether the crew the 53 individuals on board this vessel are
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still alive or not they say that evacuation process will be incredibly risky but they are trying their best with assistance from international partners including singapore and australia. russia is due to close access to the curse straight in the coming hours moscow says is to conduct military exercises this would violate a treaty with ukraine but moscow says it merchant ships to pass through so they can access ukraine's force in the sea of as of this follows a move by russia to pull troops back from the border with ukraine after a major buildup in recent weeks when a smith has more from the kershner 8. over my shoulder is the bridge over the strait linking crimea to the russian mainland it was built by the russians in the years after russia occupied crimea and 2014 essentially to create a permanent langley link between crimea and the russian mainland and under that
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bridge passes maritime vessels naval vessels merchant vessels to the russian and ukrainian ports in the sea of our zone but from 9 o'clock tonight russia says ukrainian naval vessels and 3rd party nations vessels will not be allowed through here and that will stop the trading navy reaching eastern ukrainian ports it is essentially another way of russia cementing control over this area they're not supposed to be able to cement control here because there is a treaty allowing russia between russia and ukraine giving them equal access to the sea of hours off and this is clearly in breach of the treaty the exercises the well russia says they're going to close access until october until the end of october that's an extremely long time for naval exercises to go on for. hospitals in india's capital say they only have a few hours of oxygen left for their coronavirus patients more than 40 have died in
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the past 2 days because of a lack of surprise the health care system is collapsing as india records the highest number of cases in the world more than 300000 for a 3rd day and there's a number of for some new delhi. a police vehicle escorts an oxygen tank at a hospital in the indian capital new delhi the life saving gas is now the most desperately needed commodity in the country hospital directors in the capital say they're managing hour to hour waiting for supplies. we have just received 500 liters of oxygen this will last for maybe 30 to 45 minutes the requirement for a 1000 liters start at one hospital say 20 critically ill patients died because the oxygen delivery was 7 hours late on saturday another had to discharge all that's patients after it out but finding a hospital bed that a freak has become almost impossible in the city of atlanta. i came here to get
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my grandfather treated he's suffering from covert 19 they're not letting us in we don't understand anything the security guard is saying there is no doctor available here if there is no doctor need the emergency ward then where will we go through his oxygen level is dropping alarmingly. india recorded more than 300000 cases for the 3rd day on saturday the situation in india is a device stating reminder of what this virus can do and why we must marshal every tool against it in a comprehensive and integrated up ruge countries including the u.k. in china today looking at ways to help india as it sees shortages of beds and medicines oxygen and vaccines and the u.s. chamber. halmos has called on the biden administration to release millions of doses of the astra zeneca vaccine from storage to shipped to india brazil and other
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countries had by the pandemic it said that no one is safe until. the safe elizabeth pool on an al-jazeera. or liz's report they had an interview with the head of the hospital in new delhi when i spoke to another doctor hospital doctor he says the government's priority must shift to health care. the situation in but there are supporters like any other big hospital in the city of delhi really precarious we were using about 8000. $1000.00 all for. joining because we needed but then unfortunately in the last few days it has been reduced to about 200-1508 does but days coming in with that is that you know patients need to create trouble we are trapped then and discharge them we're telling them to
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find a different hospital if they can they can know we're giving them written instructions that we have short of the supply and when we try to bring up the supply at the supplier who has been supplying oxygen great read but the last 30 is going to get their lead they're pulled off their telephone cause we can't email them obviously they don't have any oxygen i think that. they should be had here let us forget about elections that are for get to vote rallies let us forget the vote was going to be in which state because that has been going on for the last couple of weeks maybe a month we need to concentrate our energy how to get people oxygen how to use you know spatial rays in which you can you know make oxygen sup lays the drains on you know special tracks which are you know absolutely not interrupted only and squatted by police because you have to escort them with forces because of the
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demand when did is a so much of demand is a place little people tend to people tend to stop them in. the us so i think it has to be a c.v.s. multipronged attack on how to get oxygen and what. festivities are in effect for making it is good you know to augment it as far out as possible you just. older germany's sending europe is sending sending its very good that is welcome but we need to an expedient thing so that every day we're losing people and the number of people dying i think. you know under reporting that that is not there's not going to help us and still ahead on the program libya rolls out its vaccination campaign but there are fears it will be sidelined by politics and a spectacular view from above as the international space station one consists of new residents. had
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a an. hello let's look to asia now and japan seeing some of those cooler conditions the back end of a weather system working its way up over bringing with it some of that wet weather little bit of a wintery mix as well we're going to see temperatures in tokyo dipping down slightly things are going to cool as well across the kony korean peninsula 23 degrees in seoul and it's looking rather fine and dry for northern parts of china as we go into monday we'll see some wind kicking across into beijing for much of the wet aware that we have to go to the southern and central parts of china you can see those yellow peaks say where the rainfall is going to be heaviest hong kong going to see some of those showers and downpours so we have to southeast asia things are looking more settled across the philippines now that that typhoon has
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pushed off firmly into the sea we've got $31.00 degrees in manila plenty of sunshine with some showers much of the heavier rain is going to be across the middle a pincher with some intense storms across southern parts of thailand where we're going to see the hotter weather is going to be in india things the heating up across central areas with 36 degrees in new delhi. it's the political debate show that's challenging the way you think i want to know where you stand on cancer culture. the range of ideas that can be heard from international politics to the global pandemic and everything in between is tech companies are the ones with the power what do we do what's the solution get organized what are world leaders or governments missing we're talking about targets in like 2040 or 2050 when we need targets we're now up front with me. on al-jazeera
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. the eh. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera a southeast asian nations have demanded an immediate end to violence against civilians in myanmar leaders met in indonesia early on saturday the head of myanmar's military gentlemen and allow was also at the summit search teams in indonesia have recovered debris believed to be from a missing submarine the navy says it will continue to search for possible survivors but it's believed their oxygen supplies ran out hours ago and russia is due to
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close access to the kurdish straits in the coming hours in order to conduct military exercises violating a treaty with ukraine and moscow says it will still allow mission ships to pass through to access ukraine's force in the sea of ourselves. the dutch government has decided to ease restrictions at a time when hospitals are facing the largest trucks of covert 1000 patients in months at the same time large tests events involving thousands of people are being organized to see how to safely reopen society the doctors want to dance kept in place step us and reports from a hospital in breda business where the impact of the nat'l and 3rd wave of covert 90 becomes visible inside hospitals medical workers are trying to save patients mostly in their fifty's and younger patients are really scared because they have seen for a whole year with whoever can do to people and that's frightening them and us as well. they're going to hook. operations are being cancelled and the
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recovery room is now filled with coronavirus patients on ventilators doctors and nurses are exhausted we have a long stretch to the limit but we can't give up we have to continue patients continue to come from 24 i.c.u. beds we now have 39 we simply can't say we will quit. the outside it feels like a different world the government is easing some restrictions and is testing more ways to make crowded events safe one was plant near the hospital to celebrate the kings day holiday but was cancelled after an outcry. while many in an ambulance believe that the worst of the pandemic is over this is the reality in many hospitals at the moment doctors are warning that the intensive care units are approaching the so-called code black when all bets are full and difficult decisions will have to be made who will be treated and who won't and field hospital is ready
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for this worst case scenario but says delay in reopening the economy would help prevent it acting balancing on a real them court. we are managing at this moment the situation but when the opening leads to more and more patients we are. becoming getting a situation like the dutch government has been criticized for its response instead pandemic began documents show at one stage it pursued herd immunity by letting the virus brat and was slow to begin vaccinations my main concern is that from the offset this government chose a strategy that does not protect most of us but is willing to sacrifice most of us and they do so they said they did they did so because of economic reasons but we we are now seeing that one of the reasons also not the economical reasons are valid we have people dying we have hospitals who just simply can't deal with the amount of
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patients anymore and i really don't think that this is this is the time to go easy on the restrictions by medical research for you right. now the easing of rules from april 28th has medical staff worrying that their worst fears could become a reality stop fast and al-jazeera. libya has began its cover 19 vaccination campaign it's reported more than 170000 cases and nearly 3000 deaths the healthcare system has been severely impacted by years of political turmoil and violence and is struggling to cope during the pandemic. strain of reports 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
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pandemic according to the national center for disease control libya has secured more than 400000 doses mainly from russia and to the un backed kovacs scheme. who started distributing the vaccine across the country the number of registered is now about half a 1000000 people priority has been given to health workers the elderly and in those with chronic diseases 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 and only leave his house for essential items he says the vaccine should have come soon he already said 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 but names have been added but i've been staying at home as i've been so scared to get covered 19 we didn't think they would
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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 infighting and favoritism the covert 19 pandemic along with years of conflict have had a toll on an already struggling health sector here reza rollout begins many are hopeful that things will start to be better now a trainer al-jazeera. armenians around the world are marking the mass killing of their people during the 1st world war a ceremony was held in the capital yairi vine with the prime minister and president among those who pay tribute to the victims armenians say the killings committed in the final days of the ottoman empire amount to a genocide but turkey's government rejects that. more than 600
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families in guinea have lost their homes in the latest wave of demolitions the government says it's part of a cleanup campaign to develop the capital conakry as promised to compensate people but many say they have received no help or data hamid has a story. it's a huge campaign to clean up going to be in what the government says is an effort to develop guinea but in the process thousands of families are being evicted their homes razed to the ground in the interim we saw these machines come to destroy our houses dools windows everything they said that they wanted to widen the roads because of that they destroyed everything many of the forced evictions are happening in the capital areas with a mix of small businesses residential buildings and informal dwellings. begin government says the land belongs to the state and those living there are squatters even though many have proof of ownership. these satellite images show the extent of
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house demolitions in 200-1008 loan an estimated 20000 guineans lost their homes then and many more since the president alpha condé said people will be compensated but rights groups say it's slow to come and often people are left in limbo many of the people robin victim in conakry not only live in the house they have the business in the house shops and they might have the children going to school in the neighborhood and survive in the space of such a short time losing all of that and the government really has an obligation to make sure that it provides for the people being evicted so that they don't suffer in the process. residents complained they're giving very little notice before they see the reduced to rubble. to come are i was informed just 72 hours before his home and livelihood were bulldozed. this is where i had my 2 shops one was a store it's all gone now i have to live in a minibus they destroyed everything in
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a few seconds they leave nothing to the poor like me ford is also running his small business from the bus and has so far not received any compensation. the government is likely to continue his drive to gentrify the capital at rights groups say that without providing a tour it is for people those living in poverty will only see their lives deteriorate further but at the humid. now where months after the government shut down most camps for displaced people iraqis are still struggling to find shelter aid workers estimate more than 100000 people have been made homeless or in the pandemic and no money has been provided to rebuild homes destroyed during the fighting. for some hash and camp in northern iraq. i am not sure how to take care of his 5 children this tent all they have after being made homeless for the 2nd time the iraqi government has shut down most camps
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for the people displaced by years of fighting and of thousands an hour left with no shelter. my house was destroyed by a strike where poor i lived in a camp for 3 years they asked me to leave the last one and i heard about this camp i have been here for 4 months 12 year old self on his abdominal cancer but he and many others don't have access to health care at this remote camp in the northern self-governing kurdish region. we believe the iraqi government's decision to close the camps isn't military but a political decision or kurdish regional government opened its doors we don't benefit from the refugees there are a burden on the. it's a government but we look after them for humanitarian reasons. aid workers say 70 percent of the people here are in debt many for trying to find food in a home it's kitchen there's barely enough to eat. living here is also difficult but i don't have a choice i can only buy potatoes rice eggplant we can't afford meat i haven't
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tasted meat for months since of the camps for shut down 300 families have arrived at the house and charm you to camp those in charge say the government is intentionally making matters worse to force out people. the iraqi government did not include them in the food baskets for displaced families and help from n.g.o.s is not enough for the world food program gives money which is not sufficient and fears that the situation is going to become more difficult for the last 2 months there have been no electricity in this camp which is home to about 5000 people but even in the conditions people find life easier than what it is when they try to go back and rebuild their homes which have been destroyed in the fighting. has found shelter in this construction site he's angry for being forced out of his tent with nowhere to go and no opportunities to rebuild his life. yes they forced me to leave the camp kick me out without any alternative my house is totally damage if the
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government pays me i will rebuild my house i want to return but the situation has forced me to live here in addition to destroyed homes there are security issues arab residents of said. groups such as the y p g n p k k. others displaced from the province are afraid of fighters aligned with the popular mobilization forces iraq's government told al-jazeera people were not forced to leave an official with the ministry of migration says 26 camps are still operating in northern iraq but he admitted the financial compensation promised a dog who left has not been paid. iraq's budget issues for several years has been an obstacle to receive and distribute money for iraqis like ahmed those reasons just sound like excuses from people who no longer care summer. camp kurdish region of northern iraq. saudi arabia is banning the import of lebanese fruits and vegetables until further notice the decision comes after
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a huge cache of illegal drugs were found in the pomegranate shipments going through jeddah or heaven anzai culture minister says it will have a huge impact on its economy fruit and vegetable export society arabia worth $24000000.00 a year. at least 8 people have been killed in an avalanche near india's border with china it happened after part of a collapsing with a constant on friday it hit a group of laborers who were working on a road the indian army saves 430 people in a rescue operation every cycle space x. capsule carrying 4 astronauts has arrived safely at the international space station the new arrivals will spend 6 months at the station and replace for the crew members will now have back to earth the space x. mission blasted off from the kennedy space center in florida on friday reusing a falcon rocket and dragon capsule its father company's brand to make space travel cheap that. now ever wonder what it would feel like to disconnect from the world
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and hide away in a cave for a few weeks while 15 people in france have found out a group of friends scientists and explorers emerged from a cave after spending 40 days inside they were in deep isolation without any sense of time and has a story. a jeweler an anesthesiologist a security guard and some scientists walked out of a cave and back into the. deep spent 6 weeks in isolation deep inside the pyrenees mountains in southwest france as part of a scientific study. the 15 men and women lived in a humid cave in partial darkness without phones watches natural lights nor any other indicator of time. the deep time experiment is led by swiss french researcher and explore chris young close to studying how extreme isolation affects people's cognition and emotions. close widely known for carrying out expeditions alone to remote reaches of the planet and this study focuses on how people can be
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disorientated by extreme events and explore ways to prepare for them. we want to be true of. all we believe how they can synchronize their. i ducked trying to lead. the kind of the environment in situation the group sleep patterns behavior and social interactions were watched closely and sensors measured help thoughts and feelings are impacted in what seems a timeless space. out of the cave but not yet out of the woods the study is carrying on now that they've been reintroduced to the world outside. al-jazeera. and i'm fully back with the headlines on. the station nations have demanded any media end to violence against civilians in myanmar leaders met in is asia on
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