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much higher than advertised researchers say the huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone. leaders of southeast asia demand an end to bloodshed in myanmar and a return to democracy. by money inside aids this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. emergency in india as patients continue to die because hospitals can't get enough oxygen to treat that cope with 19 patients. argentina's hospitals are also struggling to keep
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up with the number of patients coming in with around 500 people dying daily. no hope for survivors indonesia says its navy submarine sank deep into the sea with 53 crewmembers on board. southeast asian nations have demanded an immediate end to violence against civilians in myanmar as i am late as mess in indonesia early on saturday the head of the military gentle gentlemen on line was also with the summits though his visit was condemned by protesters tony chang has this report. senior general been online arriving in jakarta ahead of saturday's summit his invitation has caused uproar in myanmar granting legitimacy to the coup say protesters. that
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anger was reflected by demonstrators outside the assy and secretariat compound the ferocity of the military crackdown and the rising death toll has drawn condemnation around the world but as the southeast asian leaders gathered it was clearly going to be a testing day splits have emerged in the group malaysia indonesia and singapore have been openly critical others most significantly thailand have been relatively quiet since the coup but as they went into closed session it was clearly not going to be an easy ride for me and my senior general did put them on in that meeting i said several things one the development of the situation to me hamar is unacceptable and should not continue the violence must be stopped democracy stability and peace in myanmar must be returned immediately. what has emerged from the summit is a 5 point plan calling for an end to the violence and the release of all political prisoners but. he must restrain himself and his forces so that tension can be
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relieved a request for a 2nd commitment and inclusive dialogue process must begin immediately political prisoners must be released and then as he and special envoy need to be formed namely the secretary general and the chair of asean to encourage dialogue with all parties and be a mom. but will the military comply as u.n. has tried to reign in myanmar's military before in the ninety's and early 2000 to little avail. on the streets of dar way protesters were back out once again as they were in many of myanmar cities 1st in convoys of motorbikes and then on foot they will also be hard to placate having shared so much blood how will they accept returning to a system where their democracy is overseen by the military tony ching al-jazeera. 1010 is the president of the burmese writing organization in the united kingdom he
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says there's concern myanmar hasn't been getting enough support from the regional bloc as. i was yet he's dealing you not use of our almost 3 months now people were killed by these military and why i was in any squad and i hear only talking about documenting why i mean our line that terrorism is he is telling that you would love that again and these ones that are fueling people in burma are why he was at the meeting the people who were killed in burma this is what we need to look at. 1 o'clock a liar is like an idol that he will lose that's the problem it was again asking and should be more stroller and what i can see to the. meeting is one thing we need to get the international community should not rely on us again our neighbor countries they have done nothing since 2700 neighboring countries are
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nothing different from from us all the problem we had this is the problem is looking at. you we want to see certain lucian we want to see a genuine federal union are we need intervention we want to see other western countries late you create you with us those countries by asking time readers. who wish a stronger action. we want to bring you some breaking news coming into us from the united states president joe biden has formally recognized the massacre of armenians under the ottoman empire during world war one as an act of genocide now this move is likely to worsen already frayed ties existing between 2 nato allies turkey and the u.s. let's get more from hashem. it's a story more than 100 years old for turkey it's
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a chapter that's turned but for the united states and other members of the international community turkey must apologize for the events that started in 1915 that was when ottoman turks deported hundreds of thousands of armenians from eastern and atoll year to the syrian desert but what happened and how many were then killed remains disputed many historians say more than a 1000000 armenians lost their lives turkish officials deny any systematic killings took place saying it was a time of war and the death toll has been exaggerated turkey has always been angered by government describing the event that began in 1915 during the ottoman empire as a genocide. the armenian genocide remembrance day that takes place in armenia and is observed by many armenians abroad on april 24th every year is why this scene in
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turkey has a western propaganda aimed at a time machine the country's reputation turkey has very strong objections to the use of the word genocide they see it as being linked to the holocaust you know these are 2 separate atrocities 30 years apart or that's not really the case they also worry about some kind of legal claims against them but again these are tragic events that occurred more than 100 years ago that's very unlikely the announcement by biden comes at a delicate moment in u.s. turkish relations ties between the 2 nato are lies have been strained for years in 2020 the trump administration imposed sanctions against turkey over its bird chase of russian weapons systems but try and turkey's president reza they've. managed to prevent an escalation and described the relationship as friendly but when biden was
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elected president turkish officials expressed concerns that might get worse during the u.s. presidential election campaign last year when biden was democratic candidate he described as an autocrat and over the last few months the biden administration has pressed to improve its record and human rights with biden's latest move the u.s. joins dozens of countries that have declared the atrocities against armenians more than a century ago an act of genocide has some of our al-jazeera. all spittles in the indian capital of running out of oxygen for the coronavirus patients more than 40 have died in the past 2 days because of a lack of supplies the health care system is collapsing as india records the highest number of cases in the world more than 300000 for a 3rd day elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. a police vehicle escorts
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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 manage an 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 day is 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 of its patients after it went out but finding a hospital bed to free has become almost impossible in the city in atlanta. i came here to get my grandfather treated he's suffering from covert 19 they are 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
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where will we go 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 approach. countries including the u.k. in china today looking at ways to help india as it sees shortages of medicines oxygen and vaccines and the u.s. chamber of commerce has called on the part of the station to release millions of doses of astra zeneca vaccine from storage to ship to india brazil and other countries have bought a pandemic it said that no one is safe. to say this is the problem al jazeera. is part of
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a citizens' volunteer group helping families affected by case of 19 in new delhi she explained to me at what volunteers are doing to tackle india's health care crisis there are many volunteer groups that have come across that responding to requests from patients you know that are coming in through their neck while school social media and primarily what you know what exists is an information gap where people do not despite the government setting up information porters you know. you know to keep people updated with the over time information and bad availability of these bottles have not really been functioning nordoff so as have not been responsive in many you know hospitals and there's very little ordination between hospitals themselves and as a complete breakdown of their field services and that is the information gap that many volunteer groups have been filling you know read of begetting requests from from patients for oxygen for accessing ambulance of this is for finding out about it but if your hospital beds. and that is what you know that is
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a service that was providing invented fighting information that comes in in very fine you know bad oxygen is available connecting patients to these resources and the use of this is and using whatever you know connections people have whether that is you know doc goes in specific hospitals or somebody within the system who can help patients access health care. coronavirus deaths are also rising in argentina as hospitals that struggle to keep up the number of patients more than 500 people are now dying every day intensive care beds that one hospital in nearby is that is are full and the rest of the facility is almost at capacity to say a variant of co the 19 fast detected in brazil could be behind the sudden rise in cases i see more than often and we have a very high demand on the emergency room doctors on duty are receiving covert non-code patients in a much greater proportion than in the previous weeks which is what the 2nd wave implies we are afraid this wave will overwhelm us let's go live now to diagnose one
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knows in buenos aires daniel how bad is the situation there where you are. and it is getting worse and this is despite fairly tight lockdown restrictions that have been in they've been imposed in the last week or so we're seeing the numbers rising right across the country you saw those images from the hospital when osiris there are similar scenes in this in the towns and cities across the country more than 61000 people have now died from the virus more than 2800000 people infected this in the country of 42000000 are the big problem really is the vaccines aren't arriving in enough numbers in sufficient. that are birth often and this has said that he is talking to people to try to talking to world leaders talking to the pharmaceutical companies medical bodies to try to get more that scene's coming in
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but just over 11 percent of the population vaccinated with one dose less than true percent with 2 doses to people frustrated angry at the lack of vaccination waiting to see an end to this ever increasing crisis many thanks for that daniel there for us in when is there is. let's return now to our breaking news story that's happened in the last 20 minutes or so u.s. president joe biden who recognized the massacre of armenians on to the also an empire as an act of genocide we're already getting reaction coming in from turkey its foreign minister who has entirely rejected this move let's go straight talk correspondent alan fischer who is live for us in washington d.c. allan give us some context here because we were. this is not the 1st time biden had spoken about this we had anticipated that he was going to say this at some point.
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well on april 24th last year joe biden who was then the democratic presidential candidate suggested that he would recognize what happened to the armenians at the end of the 1st world war as a genocide and as the day it got closer there were certainly questions to the white house asking if that was going to happen just in the last 15 minutes the white house has issued a statement saying that it was marking the ottoman era genocide of the armenians this is hugely symbolic it is a slap to the turkish president right to know and certainly we know that joe biden and the turkish president don't have a great relationship and that's been the case since he joe biden was in the white house and vice president as well joe biden was under pressure from a number of. people in congress to recognize this as
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a genocide and that's exactly what he's done nancy pelosi is the speaker of the house welcomed the decision she said her heart is full of joy over this recognition by the white house and it's really the 1st time that an american president has acknowledged this wrong reagan came very close in 1991 but other presidents have come under pressure and haven't quite gone as far as joe biden has in the last 15 or 20 minutes those who support joe biden more say look if you look at the historians they all recognize this as a genocide the turks in the past have said well you can't hold people to account for what happened in 1800 by today's standards but of course there was a military tribunal in turkey after this incident and they found those guilty of war crimes the people that were responsible for this so it is a significant moment we can expect that there will be some harsh words from ankara we nor the turks in the past have condemned comments from the catholic pope when he
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has recognized the genocide and other world leaders when they have either recognized that. come close to recognizing it relationships between washington and ankara haven't been great over recent years that has in the eyes of many here in washington post the tarts more towards vladimir putin this would help it's interesting talking about the reaction from turkey because we actually heard from president red tape earlier this week on thursday in at to space and at this announcement from joe biden he said he will continue to defend traits against the so-called armenian genocide lie and those who support the slander with political motivations why do you think joe biden has made this move move what does he hope to achieve because it's not legally binding is it there was a concern for many years in washington that by taking such
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a step it would alienate a very important ally remember the u.s. is air bases in turkey they are a member of nato they were seen to be part of the club defending western europe against soviet aggression and so there was a real reluctance in the white house to take this step joe biden thinks that this is a politically savvy move he understands that it will certainly fit in with his argument that human rights are worth protecting and he felt that you have to make a statement when something like this happens so that you can prevent genocide again in the future and so that is why he has taken this step it's why he flagged it up a year ago that he was going to do it and it's why in the last 20 minutes the white house has issued this statement which condemns autumn an era genocide of the armenians and do you think this message goes beyond turkey and armenia is is joe biden sending
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a message about human rights out to the world. it's going to be very difficult to read a lot more into this statement until we can start speaking to people at the white house to find out what the thinking about it was certainly over the last couple of days we were told there was likely to be a statement and there would be more details then it's a politically smart move for joe biden solidifies support among our many communities across the united states of which there are many most of them has to be said in california which is already a very solidly democratic state but he's certainly stating an issue here he is he's going to call it genocide or when it happens and in his view and he believes that this is linked to his whole human rights policy and certainly he sees the 2 as being very much intertwined many thanks for that alan fish our correspondent there in washington d.c. . 53 sailors on board
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a missing submarine into nazeer are now presumed dead after the 1st devery from the vessel were discovered it was missing for days some rain has been declared sunk and is lying at a depth of around 850 meters jessica washington reports now from jakarta. after days of searching by and sea crews found this debris in waters near the island of bali a torpedo launched piper bottle with grease sponge isn't even bought appears to be a primitive this debris is crucial evidence but also cause for concern. with the discovery of evidence of equipment from the submarine this is the proof that there are cracks in the submarine due to heavy pressure the carolina gullah 4 o 2 was initially classified as missing authorities now say they are certain it sank crews found an oil spill with a radius of 16 kilometers in the search area. and the vessel could be lying as deep
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as 850 meters below the ocean surface exceeding what the submarine was built to withstand 53 people were on board experts say it's very unlikely any have survived my x. information in my experience would say the time for searching is past the time for for risky. now is the time to understand what happened in tunisia navy ships are on the scene and other countries including australia singapore and the u.s. are assisting with the search days after the submarine lost contact indonesian authorities say they are committed to finding it and trying to start the evacuation process but they warn it will be risky and complicated when the search began navy officials said if they had been a total power outage on board the crew only had enough oxygen to last 72 hours that time has now passed. we cannot say how the victims
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are because we haven't found them until now so the conditions of the victims cannot be determined the submarine was built in the late 1970 s. and completed a 2 year refit in south korea in 2012 now after 40 years the karen 4 o 2 has made its final journey and the family and friends of those on board are waiting to know what happened to their loved ones jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. russia's jews are close access to the current straits in the next few months ago says it's to conduct military exercises this would violate a treaty with ukraine but moscow says it will allow merchant ships to pass through said they can access ukraine's ports in the sea of ourselves this follows a move by russia to pull troops back from the border with ukraine after a major build up in recent weeks. bennett smith has more from the cat straight over
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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 in 2014 essentially to create a permanent langley link between crimea in the russian mainland and under that bridge passes maritime vessels naval vessels merchant vessels to the russian and ukrainian ports in the sea of bought 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 ukrainian 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
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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 the dutch government has decided to ease restrictions as hospitals are facing the largest influx of patients in months large test events involving thousands of people also being organized to see how to safely reopen society the doctors want strict lock downs kept in place sas death us on reports from a hospital in brega this is where the impact of the nat'l and 3rd wave of covert 19 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 a covert can do to people and that's frightening them and us as well. operations are being cancelled and the recovery room is now filled with coronavirus
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patients on fancy later doctors and nurses are exhausted. we have long been stretched 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. 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 plants need a hospital to celebrate the kings day holiday but was cancelled after an outcry while many in an evidence 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 for this worst case scenario but says delay in reopening
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the economy would help prevent it acting balancing on a real them court. we are managing at this moment the situation but when you open 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 pratt 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 at the economical reasons are valid we have people dying we have hospitals who just simply can't deal with the amount of patients anymore and i really don't think that this is this is
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a time to go easy on the restrictions by medical records for you right. now the easing of rules from april 28th has medical staff worrying that their worst fears could become a reality star fasten al-jazeera. the moral services are being held across chad to all of the late president idriss deby who died off to being injured in a rebel attack he was buried on friday in a village near his hometown son mohammed is now heading the military council that will be in charge for the next 18 months and has the story. funeral ride for tat flame president idriss deby princeton after a state ceremony was held in the largest public square here in the capital and jemaine on friday on saturday a much smaller one was held for a brief debbie's family and friends in one of his home here in germany now president idriss deby was announced that by the military on monday saying that he
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died from injuries he sustained fighting the rebel front from change conference room and the northern region can name the announcement of his death nation it came just hours after early election results showed that he had won a 6th term in office and always said to be room for another 5 years now many people here are wondering what comes next for their country and the biggest concern is how that will shape up the political arena here in chad with the opposition have rejected best about a military council headed by his 37 year old son mohammad will be leaving the country for the next 18 months people on the streets who are full time who are also confused about what comes next they say that they want to see their country united and they want to see the stability of the country especially because the country is facing many besides the rebel group that attacked the northern region of scanning men to bessie over the past 3 days there are concerns about the geo political stability is active in many counterterrorism operations and legs as well as are
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along the border with mali and major so many people are concerned about the stability of the region and the country with the president now dead deliver growth also rejected the fact that the military body is in charge a $69.00 member transitional council will be appointed as well as a transitional government all to be appointed by the deceased president agrees that the son mohammed there be so many people here are rejecting that but the focus right now for them as they grieve their president of 30 years is how to move on forward how is the united that's something that we've heard from people the funeral on friday and from family members here as well saying that they are concerned. would the best of it prove that people have been running the country for 33 decades thing through move on forward from here for tad i mean people. recycle space x. capsule caring for astronauts is arrive safely at the international space station the new arrivals will spend 6 months at the station replace 4 of the crew members will now head back. the space x.
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mission blasted off from the kennedy space center in florida on friday reusing a falcon rockets and a dragon capsule is part of the company's plan to make space travel. this is al jazeera these are your top stories u.s. president joe biden has formally recognized the massacre of armenians under the awesome an empire during world war one as an act of genocide move is likely to worsen already frayed ties between the 2 nato allies take his foreign minister says his country and tali rejects the decision south-east asian leaders have demanded an immediate end to violence against civilians in myanmar as young leaders mess in indonesia on saturday june to lead a gentlemen on line was at the summit the protesters condemned his visit.
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