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well later in food recycling i have been reporting on how new technology is making this possible. in kenya i mean the farmers and scientists. the lab. was. just a. while in this in the somali capital between supporters of the president unveils who oppose the extension of his political time. though i marianna was even on to it with al jazeera also coming up on the program india's coronavirus emergency is continuing to escalate the u.s. and european countries of pledged life saving support as grief and anger in iraq
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after a hospital fire claims dozens of lives the country's health minister is suspended. and an oscar ceremony for the time scale back though because the pandemic list of this year's nominees achieves what previous awards have struggled with. or began in the somali capital mogadishu with been reports of gunfire and explosions that follows violent clashes between supporters of the president and those who opposed his plans to extend his term in office security forces want president obama to up to life are modular to step down and he's been given a few more hours to do just that the united nations has sides to reject violence and resume dialogue catherine soy reports. these are images many people in somalia don't want to see
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a political and security crisis is threatening to destabilize the country once again and now security forces are taking sides the soldiers arrived in the capital mogadishu from frontline positions in here in the south recalled by this sector commander who's opposed to the extension of president life our margins star in office by another 2 yes they went to the streets in protest alongside some city residents. who fought with police forces loyal to president obama just several times. to the most of the people are in defiance of the government extending term limits the president his term is finished could lead the country into war a peaceful demonstration is under way here now in the military a capturing new position of the country could be taken back into civil war. last week a police commander who was fired for trying to stop parliament from debating the presidential time limits retreated to his home in
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a residential area of mogadishu with forces loyal to him honestly say the security crisis is likely to. fighters to take control of areas that might be abandoned by military forces and step up their tasks this is actually a dangerous decision that has to go to all of these problems but the root cause is . often has some sort of a rotation or power that hasn't been in the leadership of the president parliament recently voted to extend the time of the president and his government after 8 expired in february and talks to organize another election have stalled after leaders fails to agree on the process the president is under pressure to step down but he accuses some leaders from regional states of making things difficult and some countries like kenya and djibouti interfering with somalia's political a thing as the president the need is to deescalate this conflict.
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go back to. negotiations with their own members that it is on the opposition there is no other way out that i can see the president for module has tried to get support from international partners including the african union with little success now he appears to be increasingly isolated but he and his supporters are standing their ground saying somali is a sovereign country and the presidential time extension was necessary love want a political vacuum catherine soy. we're going to chad now the intern military government there is saying that it won't negotiate with a rebel group accused of killing president addressed ab last week it comes after the front of the change in concord rebels said that they are ready to observe a cease fire and discuss a political settlement across into chad from libya 2 weeks ago calling for an enterprise an interest a base rule. as death was announced on tuesday the day also he had won a 6th term in office and when
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a tree council had advice on how much will oversee an 18 month transition to elections in the morgan report on the story now from the capital and jim ina the military company one word to describe the rebels are. saying that they are terrorists and they're not to be he said with they believe that the group because for them after the statement from the minister who the military force has asked for the statement that he put out the fact these groups because they went and spoke of who's outside the capital borders and that they they continue to wage war against the government therefore they are loath to be negotiated this is despite the fact that the military council appointed and i think that they will being targeted because of the government for the next 18 months while they hold up with various groups including civil societies an opposition group says that they want the old i looked and there was a little government to be formed of course we're expecting to fix them on a member a transitional council to be
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a point that included civilian office and members by the council saying that they want to go out of the open it looks like when they said well they did not think that the rebels from 4 to. the u.s. a new france and the united kingdom will pledge to send medical supplies to india as prime minister narendra modi admitted the country has been shaken by the coronavirus nearly 350000 new infections have been reported in the past 24 hours setting a global record for a 4th straight day hospitals and doctors in the capital new delhi of put out urgent notices saying they are unable to cope with the rush of patients and a desperate shortage of oxygen and medical supplies and is both proud of reports from you daddy. having them there i doubt that it was so they've bought breaks down as he pleads with staff in india's biggest coded mine hospital
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to admit his wife much meaning them in hamburg she's lying in the back of an ambulance breathing with the help of an oxygen cylinder he tells al jazeera they came here after being turned away by the hospitals we live in now that's way out of it i have no one else except my wife and child who have left in the world with an acquaintance who is no one to look after us we aren't getting a bed and i've tried many hospitals but there's no one around to give us a bed with folded hands i pleaded with the acquaintance to take care of my child. pick up tensions run high outside the hospice old family members tell stock they have nowhere else to go and that but look nyuk already has 1850 patients and only 1500 beds staff told us hundreds of lying on the floor i work is very hard we try to help and guide people but they
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don't listen people are becoming very frustrated some even become physical. but eventually after waiting for alice months to give up and begin this search for a bed again hoping to find a hospital where someone has been discharged. despite being and dia's biggest co the 19 hospitals stop at no naruto does it too that isn't running low on oxygen supply when the delhi regional government took the matter to the high court and the us for the for the general told it let's try and not be a crybaby. 50 people died in the capital after their oxygen supply have run out and on saturday 6 patients died in the state of punjab because of the same reason. health care workers say they are helpless in the face of such a calamity. we need oxygen in the revered. and my hour. wandering the. mall.
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say they've bought a leaves look nyuk after his ambulance driver tells him his wife will die if they keep waiting there elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new daddy. well dr ritesh malik is the director of radix health care that's a private hospital in new delhi he says india is facing one of the biggest battles in its modern history. we are in the midst of one of the most grevious challenges our country has faced since the partition of 947 seeing in very very vulnerable population continuously in search for oxygen basic remember medicines and even like the mall in smaller towns in india point 35000000 new cases each are being recorded and this is when we do not have adequate testing happening on the ground. massive so it's of young
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population getting affected by the 2nd wave. and i truly believe that the you have not achieved the peaking yet we are going to see the peak in the coming one on one and a half weeks from now that is massive shortage of oxygen in hospital and. morning we just have 10 minutes of oxygen left in hospital that have been more than 45 deaths recorded deaths in that he nods and then he hospital because of lack of oxygen and the other on oxygen s.o.s. calls and until and unless the government provides us with oxygen which is an essential medicine to fight this is the only medicine which actually works this is something which is the need of the hour and if you do not do that you will see a lot of bloodshed in delhi and other parts of the country i believe that any patient who dies can use or can i stephen out for even
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a minute dance that is no oxygen is a basic necessity and specially for me it is like very savvy and other drugs have questionable clinical clients oxygen is the only essential medicine we have something by the government called the essential medicines act that the source of medicine is oxygen and if you do not have oxygen how do we fight a polluting injection like victor is so also agreed isn't nature and so infectious . we go to iraq now where at least 82 people were killed in an explosion at a hospital in the capital baghdad late on saturday evening 110 of those suffered injuries the blast is thought to have been caused by the poor handling of an oxygen cylinder which then exploded the ensuing fire broke out the intensive care ward of the hospital where coronavirus patients were being treated this is iraq struggles to contain a 2nd wave of the pandemic with daily number of infections reaching the highest
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level since early last year and years of conflict instability means the country has long grappled with deteriorating infrastructure and the absence of safety or protection measures simona fulton reports from baghdad. a neighborhood struck by grief after an explosion ripped through a crowded covert 19 ward sod lost his father who had been a patient at the hospital as well as his brother who had stayed by his bedside to care for him. my father was about to recover they even took him off the oxygen and in the hospital burns down i lost 2 of them we couldn't rescue them the explosion and but that's even possible where around a 120 patients were treated for cope with 19 was likely caused by a poorly handled oxygen cylinder doctors say the facility lacks basic equipment including a central oxygen supply system and that patients relatives often handled oxygen cylinders because of
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a shortage of medical staff how much was there to attend to his elderly on 20 blast went off but he couldn't save her when the knowledge is not everyone left behind the patients and just ran out in a few seconds the entire floor was ablaze with heavy fire despite the risk of covered 19 infection there was no restriction on the number of relatives allowed in the wards which further increased fatalities. this is neglect from the hospital because you shouldn't allow anyone to enter the family members a greater number than the patients inside the i.c.u. the. witnesses say the emergency response was slow while iraq's human rights commission told al jazeera the hospital lacked adequate fire safety systems we know very well that there is absence of. occasional safe it is. confronting such fire and such buildings when we look at the official
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reports about. entities we see there is no extinguish. or fighting says the prime minister has ordered and invested. ation and has suspended several officials including the ministry of health and the governor of baghdad the deadly fire at the hospital has stirred a fuel public anger over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and for many it's a manifestation of the deeply rooted corruption that has crippled the healthcare sector. on sunday families began holding funerals but few have hope for genuine accountability from the government or that the structural issues that lie at the heart of such accidents will be addressed. al-jazeera but that. marshal still ahead for you on the program the on the water footage that confirms $53.00 crewmembers on board an indonesian submarine didn't survive and then we look
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at why one of iraq's holiest sites is asking. to turn against single use plastic. hello there let's go to north america and those southern states are seeing a rather fine and dry conditions after the severe storms rolled off towards the east there heading up north you can see them curling round we could see so what a weather along the eastern coast of the back of those storms but up in eastern canada we are seeing a bit of a wintery mix some brisk winds blowing in as well from those storms but look to ontario now we've got wet a weather here extending down into the great lakes a bit of a brisk wind blowing across there too but for the final drier weather we have to come to central areas colorado seeing lots of sunshine denver up 23 degrees but
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look what happens as we go into choose day with that wintery mix blowing down across the rockies denver coming down to 12 degrees if you look to the west coast things are looking rather fine and dry temperature in san francisco it 18 degrees and we will see the much needed rain showers here heading to central america and things are looking rather dry and fine across much of the caribbean a few showers for haiti if we look to mexico we've got some showers essentially but as we head further south things are looking rather fine and dry with 29 degrees in cancun. from the al-jazeera london broil cost center 2 special guests in. versation when society is divided when women are to tighten the only thing that benefits from the speech itself unprompted uninterrupted says the 1st words are those who don't work
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for him and in fact. people like to think that there's nationalism is not as ugly as someone else is nationalists in part one of studio b. unscripted. the. main stories now been reports of gunfire and explosions in somalia's capital mogadishu have been violent confrontations between supporters of the president and those opposed to mohammed up to life are much as extension of his term in office. the u.s. and european countries of pressure to send urgently needed medical supplies to
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india to try and strengthen the coronavirus response that even 350000 new infections have been reported in the past 24 hours setting a global wreck or for a 4th straight day and at least 82 people have been killed in an explosion at a hospital in the iraqi capital baghdad 110 others were injured. the blast is thought to have been caused by the poor handling of an oxygen cylinder which then exploded. or the wreckage of an indonesian submarine has been found at the bottom of the bali sea ending hopes that any of its 53 crewmembers could have survived it was spotted north of bali island not far from where it was last seen taking part in a training exercise on wednesday. reports. what were search and rescue boats returned to port on sunday prepared for a change of mission a day after indonesia's navy declared a missing submarine sunk with 53 souls on board k
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r 402 last saw the surface on wednesday off the coast of bali debris was found on saturday indicating the hole collapsed under pressure and on sunday the wreckage itself was found. the cause of the accident is not yet known the navy has previously suggested it could have been due to an electrical failure preventing the ship from resurfacing the chief of staff is adamant the crew did their jobs. you know it's not human error they follow the right procedures during the dive from the very beginning of the dive report we've heard the preparation procedures were carried out properly. as family members arrive at a naval base and venue on the east java president jokingly dodos his search and rescue operations will continue. we the people. would like to convey a deep sadness for this incident especially of the family of the submarine crews the crew of the mission's based son's best pages who safeguarded the nation's
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sovereignty the as members of the publics in their condolences many are sharing a video of the men that's become a viral tribute of a submarine crew on eternal patrol. and al-jazeera. at least 10 palestinians have reportedly been arrested after scuffles with israeli security forces near the damascus gate steps in occupied east jerusalem protesters have been celebrating their move of barricades from the site after 3 nights of clashes with security forces over restrictions during the ramadan period and also been reports that israeli security forces and use tear gas off to protest as threw stones and but thai is now the gaza israeli border. now maritime private maritime piracy has long been a problem off the coast of east africa a new report says west africa is actually the world's piracy hotspot by the i.c.c.
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international maritime gear as piracy reporting center found almost hoff of the piracy attacks in the 1st 3 months of 2021 occurred in the busy shipping lanes of the gulf of guinea and navies in the region of being forced to fight back i just went on patrol with benny and maybe. these navy commandos are setting out on a hunt for pirates at sea. it's a dangerous assignment that security forces of this small west african nation have been carrying out for years. they face pirates and criminal gangs that seize cargoes and kidnap cool members for ransom. at sea the team escorts vessels in and out of the maritime. been in economic no center then constant touch with their operation bases where larger vessels stand by to deploy in case of bigger threats. but
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these operations lead to a significant decrease in illegal activities it's a dangerous operation but we're professional officers who are well trained to do just that for 3 consecutive years the gulf of guinea has been the world's most dangerous shipping road. more than half of attacks at sea happen here a maritime territory that covers nearly 2 and a half 1000000 square kilometers. the international maritime bureau documented 190 quite minor deterrents in the gulf of guinea last year 32 more than the previous year been in snake he says only one of those attacks happened in its territorial waters and he wants to keep it not so exhausting merchant ships coming into its waters also high up private security team and safety. every year the sophistication of the attacks has grown and countries of the region desperate not to lose control of the maritime an economic lifelines are looking for international support. previously the pirates
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target tankas but now any ship is a target and they have vessels that travel far offshore although the criminals attack close to shore as well that belong to one. of the neville headquarters knew speed boats are prepared for deployment. the navy chief says big of ourselves on their way to reinforce operations and for the right reasons. been in supported cotton 190 percent of its 40 trade and generates more than 60 percent of its g.d.p. it processes 12000000 tons of freight and all of. it delora. america texan ships in ours we feel it it affects our revenues from g.d.'s all attacks or even attempted negatively impact the country's economy we're not only investing to tackle attacks but also preventing them more important to us is preventing attacks because intervention costs more in terms of money and human lives. been in has an
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evil force of only a few 100 personnel but is able to effectively reduce attacks in its territorial waters and officials here say more countries in the gulf of guinea collaborated more closely shipping route would become much safer how many trees al-jazeera cortical. the city of karbala in iraq is struggling to manage tons of garbage death behind by millions of pilgrims who visit the holy site each year the waste ends up in landfills rivers and eventually the sea activists are urging people to reduce their consumption of plastic and become green hell clams and some of the reports now from karbala. this is what happens to single use plastics all over the world many items end up in waterways and eventually the seed. iraq's holy sites are no exception millions of pilgrims leave behind tons of trash in karbala. a lot of it gets dumped on the streets with an army of workers employed to clean it all up. for
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the municipality it's a major challenge. and we have seen kabul receives 50000000 visitors every year about 2000000 pilgrims friend of research and the rest for weekly gatherings it's a challenge for the small city which doesn't have enough roads and services we need the help from citizens n.p.o. grams plastic is more than 50 percent of the waste we have $200.00 acres allocated for a project to better manage dumping trash but we are white and grisman and there are fewer visitors due to the pandemic but garbage continues to mount and this is where it all goes the stench is unbearable and it goes on for miles in the absence of recycling facilities garbage collectors sift through it with their hands they sell to a number of factories which reuse the nylon and plastic about $100.00 kilos sells for just over $15.00. it can take up to 3 days to collect that amount of dust.
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i collect plastic bottles nile and cardboard only during the pilgrimage days i collected 100 kilos a day i have 2 kids and live in a slum we start working from 6 am and sometimes 11 pm this is a situation of children and youth working here no one cares about our suffering and yet tons of plastic trash still floats in the canals and waterways of iraq what appears to be solid ground is water from the euphrates river covered in plastic environmentalist believe in the clergy can play its role to persuade residents as well as visitors to adopt a greener habits it could create a major impact because people never get to see what happens to their trash they generally don't care. zahra comes to the holy sites a few times a year she says local population and wildlife is a triscuit of programs don't change their habits i'm here to raise awareness about the excess use of plastic here i would request every program to bring to gain their own do you think that that larry said and then you really was able cuts so that we
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were using all kinds of plastic a styrofoam or paper cuts that a lot needs to be done here in the year to also provide alternate solutions to educate the local communities 1st and then it's our responsibility as visitors who are coming in from more than 40 countries. hundreds of deaths have been attributed to water borne diseases and pollution in war torn iraq and the people who come to the country to pay homage might be putting its future at stake unless millions of them produce using their billions of pieces of plastic some a majority down to 0. as he also has promises to be unlike any other right comp it has still been rolled out at phyllis i'm the nominees of south arriving at the 93rd academy awards often lots of testing and a quarantine period because of the pandemic there are no fans to grant them and this is our money won't have a host but the night could still be packed with surprises with a number of 1st time nominations brunell's has this preview.
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the emirates red carpet no adoring crowds no comedy acts instead of a fancy theater the awards will be handed out in an art deco era train station after a pandemic year in which the movie industry itself struggling and streaming video extended its dominance over cinema releases the oscars will be more low key this year not a lot of fun maybe i'm i am so sick of virtual award shows right now and people in their living rooms on zoom among the best picture nominees director chloe joust no man's land is the front runner since last year how much since the true no 2 months i'm test. of the same thing right now best actor award may come down to a choice between honors for the late chadwick boseman in ma rainey's black bottom got 0 or that got me here and anthony hopkins in the father who you see it's me.
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who lives here who is just nonsense i would have said chadwick boseman for sure and i have predicted that but i'm noticing that some members talking about how they think chadwick's going to win but they're voting for anthony the best actress award is up for grabs with strong performances by viola davis in my rainey's black bottom . line frances mcdormand in no man's land carey mulligan in promising young woman but nessa kirby in pieces of a woman ceasing this. and andra day in the. united states versus billie holiday season ends you grandkids of the c. street in contrast to recent years a large number of black hollywood professionals were nominated and steven un is the 1st korean american nominated for best actor in minara riz ahmed is the 1st muslim and 1st person of pakistani descent nominated for best actor in sound of metal
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a job you do understand i can't adapt. and no badlands joe is the 1st asian american woman nominated for best director it may have been a rough year for hollywood but the cache of the little gold figurine remains strong the ratings are going to be in the tank but the oscar still stands for 'd something it is the primo thing everyone wants one in the industry in a year like no other the show somehow goes on rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. and main stories now gunfire and explosions have been heard in somalia's capital violent clashes have been taking place on the streets of luck edition between supporters of the president and opponents of a proposed extension to his tongue.

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