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those geopolitical conflicts from the perspective of iconic hotels on the frontlines and former south african president jacob zuma goes on trial for corruption. may on al-jazeera. india sets another record for covert 19 infections when the government demands social media sites remove posts criticizing its handling of the pandemic. makeshift one of the 19 and that's just. the case numbers of people who can't find hospital in the capital. hello i'm adrian forget this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up
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a russian court decides whether to shut down groups linked to the jailed opposition leader alexina valley we'll get the latest from moscow. and the ask. to. no man's land. a chinese director closure sweeps the oscars with her film no bad land but she's not getting much praise and a whole country. let's begin in india where the oxygen shortage of hospitals in new delhi is growing more urgent by the minute on monday the nation of barely 1400000000 people but just another record in daily covert 19 infections with more than 350000 cases a more than 2800 people died in the biggest single day increase so far hospital officials have been begging the government to step up efforts to tackle the oxygen
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shortage there only receiving enough to last just 2 to 3 hours at a time because supplies a desperately low are getting out of the way we are constantly afraid for the past $5.00 to $6.00 days we are getting oxygen in parts one ton 2 tons half a ton during different parts of the day we need 5 tons of oxygen every day only we know how difficult it is for us to get by through the evening we're not eat. having enough sleep at night because of the crisis i would like to thank the police and the government for doing the best they can but it is not enough india's capital has the best medical facilities in the country but it's also been struggling with emergency shortages elizabeth for autumn has more now from the just opened covert 19 care center in new delhi. we're outside and makeshift. center which is just opened to cater to the very large numbers of people who can't find hospital beds because all hospitals in the indian capital the center has 500 beds oxygen leaders
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said that they'll be adding hundreds more intensive care unit that's through the window to base an order the police are providing medical personnel and so we have a very distraught family members 119 patients trying to get them admitted here but they are being told that they still need referrals and that they need to pre-register and that's leading to a lot of frustration a lot of tears that they're having to go through the same thing here that they already have at many hospitals now and it's being at. a hospital bed oxygen and this is why we have a lot of foreign aid coming into the country now the u.s. is sending tons of oxygen concentrator has the u.k. is sending ventilators and often concentrators we have the indian air force indian railways transporting the oxygen both locally supplied and the oxygen that's coming from overseas to try and to people as patients dying because of
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a lack of oxygen and hospital beds president biden says that the u.s. will help india just as it helped america through its worst moments of the outbreak his chief medical adviser dr anthony found she spoke to a.b.c. news as the white house announced that it will immediately send medical and protective gear as well as war materials for producing vaccines. there's discussions about really ramping up what we can do on the ground oxygen supplies drugs tests p p as well as taking a look in the intermediate and long run about how we can get vaccines to these individuals both immediately now as well as in the situation where you help them to be able to essentially make vaccines themselves bangladesh is closing its land border with india in response to the record breaking infection rates the 2 week ban is effective monday that excludes transportation of goods bangladeshi citizens in
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india will be allowed to return home as long as they meet strict travel and quarantine rules and travel between the 2 countries is already suspended as part of a nationwide lockdown in bangladesh as india continues to struggle look government looks like it's trying to shut our criticism it's ordered social media firms to remove content that's critical of its handling of the pandemic dozens of posts on facebook twitter and instagram have been taken down the sense of posts include calls for prime minister narendra modi to resign and critiques from journalists and opposition politicians india's government says the posts were targeted for spreading what it called fake news and misleading information 108 people are going on trial in turkey accused of instigating protests and 2014 dozens of people were killed in the demonstrations in turkey southeastern region it happened after the turkish army reportedly failed to intervene during an eyesore souls on the syrian kurdish town of kabbani the defendants include the former head
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of the pro kurdish people's democratic party his group says the case is another attempt by authorities to damage the party. we'll have more on that in a moment but 1st we're getting reports that hundreds of arrest warrants have been issued in connection with an exiled cleric accused of attempting a coup against president bush one in 2016 let's bring in reza who joins us now on skype from istanbul reza what more do we know about these arrest warrants. the other in the operation by the security forces just started in the morning as a part of the investigation initiated by the chief prosecutors of istanbul and it is near paris where empty issued for 532 suspects and the searches are still under way so 459 of them the suspects are still on duty military personnel which is a very high number among them 158 of them are the member or the general commander of
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the gender marries and 233 of them are member of the land forces 46 of them if forces 41 navy forces and 22 part of the members of the ministry of defense call an old 1st mutinous a lieutenant corners and majors are among them the search are still underway in 62 cities as i said we do not know how many or physically being taken so far but it is a massive operation by all means just a quick reminder. on july 15th of 2016 after actually we can the turkish army has used the word planes helicopters and tanks in an attempt to overthrow president when and democratically elected government in the country and the fighter jets at the same night bomb the turkish parliament and some other important supports an uncorrupted a call by president out on thousands of people have to distance to start the coup
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the coup feel that that made by the consequences very were really grave 251 people were killed and more than 2700 people other people also were injured 2 days of creation is a part of this trial that's still going on about the queer town the prosecutor see these military personnel who are the member of the suspected network led by the exiled businessman and cleric based in the us in quetta. the government accused of being the mastermind of the coup and says that he's the the one who orchestrated the coup attempts. that is for now what we have as you ok as we reported a few wrestle one of the country's most prominent politicians is among 108 people going on trial accused of instigating protests in 2014 what's that all about well
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that this is the 1st trial or the 100. 80 people on this prison predominately procure this a part of the d.p. it's all over the bunny protests that erupted in 2014 and including death by the way the politicians are being tried to the including them that they had the former coaches sent out and there were threats and. also or among them in 2014 when the isis was trying to get over the kurdish town called bernie in syria. be called people to the streets in a protest claiming we are seeing that the turkish army is how the isis and once called the people to to go on the streets of the streets have been vandalized hundreds of the cars have been burned and 37 people were killed during these protests so the judge sees that he has a role in india's one of the lies in these killings and release the burning of that at the weakest and the us or the people so that is the 1st trial or this this did
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they did they did this case that's happening now but the court so it's suspended now it's within a couple of minutes is going to just resume again i believe that within a couple of hours we are going to get a much better. much clearer picture ok al jazeera reza sayah reporting live from istanbul reza on that i thanks indeed. to russia now there looks to have been another setback for kremlin critic alexina valmy the prosecutor's office there has asked the russian courts to suspend the activities of the foundation for competent corruption which he sets up the valley was jailed for a parole violation of the earlier this year and recently ended a hunger strike in prison he says the charges against him are politically motivated let's go live to moscow or to serious but smith is there what more can you tell us at this stage but it. adrian later this week there's going to be a secret court hearing where prosecutors are going to ask the court to rule in the
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valleys corruption foundation extremist putting it on the same level in russia as al qaida and that the associated political groups with the anticorruption organization operate across across russia these groups have been helping people russians who want to vote out against putin's united russia party they've been telling people where to cast their vote as the best way of getting rid of united russia party's candidate now they were very effective in doing that in the 29 moscow city council elections that's why prosecutors want this organization shut down ahead of the court ruling prosecutors are asking the court to in the interim close down the volleys anticorruption organizations of the court is considering that prosecutors have already declared that the other groups the political groups around the country that help people people were to cast their vote
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they're already acting above the law so they have temporarily closed them down to now and of ali's people say that they've closed down the telegram channel now all their websites and various other social media accounts but that they will be back in different names and so it seems that what you're going to end up having is that even if this organization is declared as an extremist group the vollies groups will appear more anonymously perhaps they say but they'll still be there and you'll have this cat and mouse game between the prosecutors and the volley supports and ukraine's president selenski has been speaking within the last half hour or so it looks as though a meeting with russia's president vladimir putin is on the cards in the near future . well vladimir's lenski is once a meeting with vladimir putin last week invited putin to meet him in donbass this
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is this region of ukraine being currently controlled by separatists russian backed separatists lansky said to putin come and meet me here and we'll talk putin's office last week said well putin is going to meet him in donbass but he's willing to meet him as a lansky to discuss bilateral issues by saying that that excludes discussion of donbass and crimea but the landscape has moved it forward a bit it seems in the last in this last. in this last half hour by saying he's told his office to contact the kremlin to try and arrange a date and a time and selenski says he's he's got a positive feeling that this meeting will happen. brought us with reporting live from moscow but many thanks indeed some breaking news for you now iran's revolutionary court has sentenced the british iranian woman nuts nene's a gotti radcliff to a year in prison with a ban on leaving the country for a good after that's according to the website the british iranian charity worker was
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appeared to was ordered to appear in court on charges of propaganda against the regime and this is already. a sentence for allegedly working against the iranian government which began in 2016 we'll have more on that breaking news in the coming hours here on al-jazeera but just once again nazneen sorry radcliffe the british iranian woman sentenced to a year in prison with a ban on leaving the country for a. libyan government said to be loyal to the son of the warlord prevented a unity government delegation from entering benghazi armed men surrounded the airport off the delegations plane landed it was then forced to fly back to tripoli the delegation came to prepare for the 1st visit to the city by the interim prime minister the area is a long time strong stronghold more now from al-jazeera as mike traina who's in
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tripoli. when this government was sworn into office by the parliament in march last month i think many libyans and the international community in general wanted to stay positive they wanted to be hopeful that this unity government could unify state institutions but there's been a huge elephant in the room and that's how after this government the unity government didn't really want to discuss what kind of role have to take on in this government he hasn't taken on any official role as of yet despite him not having any any official role he's still he still is issuing orders he still calls himself the general commander of the armed forces so it just goes to show that libya is still deeply divided especially the military institution currently at the moment there are meetings insert between the joint military commission which is
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facilitated by the u.n. but it just goes to show now this cabinet meeting that was planned in eastern libya has been planned for a couple of weeks the prime minister the interim prime minister of the high means of eva has said that he doesn't want any ministers that can't work across all cities in all of libya we saw yesterday that him neither him or his cabinet can can go into eastern libya without the permission or without have to have given him the green light. the weather next still to come on i was there are palestinians celebrate the removal of barricades in occupied east jerusalem but there are reports of escalating on rest elsewhere. and childhoods disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic we'll look at the impact on education and the emotional welfare of children in the philippines.
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down across a good parcel of india of course the pretty monsoon heat continuing to build some very warm weather continuing here 43 celsius so i'm at about add also for not pool play monsoon showers just started to pop pop increased the across the foss out of the country flying through also seeing some rather lively showers as we go on through into the middle part of the week for a time those shows grassy make their way up towards goa. sponsored by qatar airways frank assessments there are a lot of ways and the government needs to watch what exactly happened and what measures never taken for a situation like i'm not to believe you could ever get informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing ministry assets this is a message to the region the united states years are rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.
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hello again this is al-jazeera the main news this hour hospitals in india's capital new delhi only getting oxygen supplies last 2 to 3 hours at a time because of severe shortages india has recorded the world's highest number of new infections for a 5th day. 108 people are going on trial in turkey accused of instigating protests in 2014 dozens of people were killed in the demonstrations in turkey's southeastern region. on the looks of it another setback for the kremlin critic alexina valmy the prosecutor's office has asked to russian court to suspend the activities of the
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foundation for combating corruption which he says the. israeli police have removed barricades from near the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem they've partly been blamed for provoking several nights of tension and violence protesters were angry that they couldn't gather all the damascus gate steps during the fasting month of ramadan israel says the barriers were put in place as part of coronavirus restrictions there were still some scuffles though and 10 palestinians were reportedly the tamed carrefour supports now from occupied east jerusalem. as is often the case even a times of heightened tension even at a hot spot like the area outside damascus gate it is pretty quiet and calm during the daytime the difference this time though is that it follows what took place on sunday night the israeli security forces deciding to dismantle the barriers that they directed along these channels these steps to prevent people gathering in this plaza after ramadan prayers that something they've been doing every night since the
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1st night of ramadan and it's been contributory in the sorts of seems that we've seen during these past 10 days or so protests and some violence some skirmishes between the security forces and palestinian protesters especially on thursday night when there was a a rival faction or a group of jewish supremacists and the arab racist protesters who tried to come here and confront the palestinians so what has happened is a decision it seems by the israeli security forces to try to lower the temperature by allowing people to gather and congregate and they did they were celebrating chanting a large number of people here for some time there were still some minor skirmishes the security forces intervening when palestinian flags were brandished but nothing along the same lines that we've seen in recent days however there still is a tense atmosphere here in jerusalem and indeed more widely again there were rockets fired out of gaza some 5 rockets fired overnight sunday into monday 2 of
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them entering israeli airspace and they were intercepted so it remains a pretty fragile pretty tense situation but a palestinian israeli lawmaker who was here earlier on monday said that this has been a step in the right direction for more gunfire and explosions in the somali capital mogadishu supporters of president mohamed. a fighting against those who are opposed to him extension of his term in office parliament recently voted to extend. and talks to organize a new election of stuart the un has urged both sides to reject violence and resume dialogue. interesting 15 the zico virus swept through central and south america made its way to the islands off west africa it costs of facts and babies and today children with severe disabilities reports from its capital on the island of santiago. alice was not the child her mother expected cloudier was 3 months
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pregnant when doctors told her she was infected with zeke of iris and that her unborn daughter would suffer from lifelong disabilities realizing that alice will never have a childhood like other kids her heart sank but 4 years on. the disability turned out to be a blessing. she's loved by her neighbors the family and most of all by children who seem to be able to communicate with her better than i can and she wants to play with them but sometimes her disability gets in the way she has convulsions her muscles are weak she can't sit properly ellice is born with what doctors call microcephaly her brain is failing to develop fully it's a consequence of her mother being infected with busy through a mosquito bite during her pregnancy there are no vaccines no cure for the virus that spreads through mosquitoes and sexual contact in 2016 the world health organization declared a public health emergency of international concern the outbreak started in brazil
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spreading to keep bird as a result of the epidemic more than 3700 babies worldwide were born with birth defects and the toy countries issued travel warnings including asking citizens delaying pregnancies there was this fear that would spread from the islands of cape verde to the rest of africa on to the rest of the world but that did not happen the virus suddenly disappeared just like it appeared. dr george from the country's health ministry believes its course in. affected a large portion of the population and herd immunity developed halting the spread still he fears eks lurking in the capital's drainage system that's a breeding ground for mosquitoes saying there could be another outbreak. as the years we really have been also can be again. unprotected and
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can be infected again surveillance of infected cheek at children has stalled due to the covert pandemic and mothers fear bringing their children to hospital children with cerebral palsy need continuous physical therapy and good nutrition support and commitment of parents makes a lot of difference because of the pandemic cloudier too has been avoiding hospitals when alice is in pain or has convulsions. she plays a song to her that she would listen to when she was pregnant to soothe her daughter's pain nicholas hawke al-jazeera. the film won big at sunday's scaled back oscars ceremony it was a goodbye for diversity with the most nominations ever for women and ethnic minorities both in front and behind the camera to save us from brunell's reports from hollywood and the oscar goes to. no man's land
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nomad land dominated the 93rd academy awards the film won best picture it starred frances mcdormand best actress and director chloe xiao best director the 1st woman of color and only the 2nd woman ever to win the category so this is for anyone. to have the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themself and to hold on to the goodness in each other. in the critically acclaimed film mcdormand plays an aging widow up rooted by economic change traveling the back roads of the western u.s. in a battered van it's her 3rd oscar. and i like work. thank you for knowing and thanks for this anthony hopkins the father in a surprise anthony hopkins won best actor for his role in the father many hollywood
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observers thought the late chadwick boseman who passed away last year from cancer at age 43 would be chosen for his dynamic performance in ma rainey's black bottom. is not a question of barney's a noun bonnets is there a question of resistance to fasten or not exists is what do your parents as well why performers won the top prizes 9 actors and actresses of color were nominated for awards the winners included daniel kalu yet for supporting actor in judas and the black messiah and yo jewel use as supporting actress in the nare elected things. to my 2 boys who made me pull out and. so. did out stan oh and. if this is their visa because the money will still. see the best international feature award went to another round from denmark it
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looks at how alcohol impacts relationships. due to the cold and 19 pandemic the traditional red carpet was downsized and socially distanced a severely limited number of nominees and guests were allowed inside the venue at ellie's union station with cold and tested participants rotated in and out during the show. the show's television ratings in decline for years were predicted to be its lowest ever. that's represented but there were some fun moments like big dormant howling at the moon. and glenn close doing the rope shaking dance in a sparkling blue dress. the movie industry is going through sweeping changes as streaming video rapidly overtakes cinematic releases of films but with all that
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the oscars remain hollywood and the film industry's most sought after prize and it's likely to stay that way for years to come rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles . successes but essentially ignored in a country of china a trainee reports from beijing. chloe job is being congratulated around the world for making history but not here in a 100 country early on monday there were some reports of her winning best director and best movie but these were taken down shortly after nurse comments about her in chinese social media have been censored and an oscars viewing party in shanghai organized by her alma mater was disrupted after they had trouble with the internet connection coach i was actually born here in beijing to an elite family have father was head of state owned steel company and his stepmother is a famous actress and initially had success at the golden globes was lauded but that was short lived after a 20000 interview she gave resurface west to criticize china saying that here there
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were lines everywhere shortly after that all. it's. about monday but if your week needs a bit of brightening up take a look at the night sky the 1st super bowl of the year as arrived people in australia got an early glimpse of what's known as the pink super moon it happens where the moon is at one of its closest point said its orbit to earth. it's good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera iran's revolutionary court has sentenced british iranian woman names of gotti radcliffe to a year in prison she's also been banned from leaving the country for a year the charity worker was jailed in 2016 for allegedly working against the iranian government to claim that she's always to.

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