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and a bizarre yet old dangerous attempt. at regime change in the bolivarian republic of venezuela. people in power the bay of pigs limits on al-jazeera. the situation in india is beyond heartbreaking. the w.h.o. and several countries are scrambling to help as india grapples with record breaking cases of coronavirus. roberson this is all to 0 live from doha also coming up every fighting in me and this time in an area controlled by rebels from the calon national union. and another year in prison for british iranian aid work and us i mean is
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a hearty ratcliffe she is found guilty of propaganda after serving a 5 year sentence for plotting against her. first minneapolis louisville kentucky the u.s. attorney general announces another investigation into policing after the killing of black woman briana taylor. for a 6 day india is reporting more than 300000 cases of covert 19 the highest daily case rate in the world's elite 35000 people have died in the 2nd wave in april many of those deaths are because of critical shortages of oxygen hospital beds equipment and medicines and the situation in india is beyond heartbreaking doubly joy is doing everything we can providing critically keep menton supplies
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including thousands of oxygen concentrator is prefabricated by field hospitals and laboratory supplies. u.s. and u.k. new nations saudi arabia and turkey are sending emergency aid to india and the 1st batch of russia's sputnik vaccine will reach india on saturday will also send 1000000 packs of the. vital drugs by the end of may and doctors in india fear the worst is yet to come elizabeth put on them reports from new delhi. india may be experiencing the world's worst outbreak of cholera the 19 but millions of people still turned out to elect to regional leaders in the state of west bengal on monday it's one of 5 states that has held elections in recent weeks despite the drastically rising number of infections that. hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of beds and oxygen the u.s. and u.k.
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have responded by sending life saving medical supplies to india we want to try them all the support because their close friends increasingly important partners but also we need this kind of international collaboration if we're going to get through the pandemic we don't can be safe until we're all safe. once the aid arrives armed police are deployed to escort the precious cargo that says regional states accuse each other of stealing oxygen. soldiers got a newly opened 19 care center and new delhi india there are 500 beds so far for the many family members who couldn't get their loved ones admitted to hospitals even where people are being turned away being told that they can only be admitted if they have a referral and have prevented just the center also says that it can't accept those who are critically leaving many with nowhere else to go. as many people die because of a lack of help promised on the day and the more he has been criticized for allowing
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the larger political and religious events to go ahead that led to the government. asking twitter to take down dozens of posts critical of its handling of the pandemic this stems primarily from the fact that this government does not take very kindly to criticism it's very sensitive to criticism and also from the desire to try and control the narrative as days have gone by this government has come in increasingly. for criticism increasingly from citizens and also i may day i do i may say from from the court. on monday them address high court and this happens he of chennai said india's election commission a single handedly responsible for the 2nd wave of the coronavirus elizabeth piron an al-jazeera new delhi meanwhile a top indian health officials are urging people to wear mosques inside their homes
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for work if you that i would say that the time has come when we should start wearing basques even inside our homes earlier we used to wear masks while going out of our homes but as infections are creasing and if anyone gets infected inside our homes then we should wear masks it will be very beneficial. u.s. president joe biden spoken to indian prime minister narendra modi washington will release up to $60000000.00 doses of the us to zeneca vaccine after months in criticism that the us was hoarding them as a white house correspondent can recall that. under pressure from global governments to do more to help fight covert dying team the united states is sending much needed medical supplies to india there are a number of areas that have are of great interest and are of great need to india at this point time oxygen is one of them at india's request that we are exploring options to provide action and related supplies and we've identified u.s. commercial suppliers of friends of beer that are immediately available to help
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relieve the suffering of cove in $1000.00 patients in india we've identified rapid diagnostic testing supplies personal protective equipment and additional ventilators on monday u.s. president biden called india's prime minister modi to discuss how the 2 countries can work together to protect their populations. india is experiencing one of the worst covert 19 outbreaks the world has ever seen and oxygen supply are short the u.s. and other developed nations have been under criticism for stockpiling vaccine doses while poor countries struggle after weeks of hesitation the u.s. now says it will assist india in boosting its vaccine supply 53 percent of the u.s. population has received at least one vaccine dose of them a dirda pfizer or johnson and johnson vaccines and appointments are now easy to obtain but vaccines for america's astra zeneca stockpile have not yet been approved
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in the u.s. still the bidens of ministration will now make up to 60000000 doses available for export to countries like india following a government review before any astra zeneca doses are shipped from the. united states the f.d.a. will confirm any such ptosis meet its expectations for product quality the u.s. is also sending a team of experts from the centers for disease control to help india manage its crisis the u.s. actions are reciprocal india sent the united states assistance in the early days of the pandemic when the us was hard hit now the biden ministration wants to return the favor medical professionals say the u.s. move is a good start but more must be done and what's needed in the long term is quite clear a waiver of all intellectual property patents. that control or that hinder district global distribution of the covert vaccines and other covert related
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technologies as india battles its covert crisis some countries and airlines have banned flights to and from india but the white house says it has no plans to ban travelers from india to the united states can really help that al-jazeera the white house in other news a rebel group in mi amman says it's captured and burned down an army base near the toy border there and post lines in an area controlled by the calland national union that bring food shortages in the area in recent weeks thousands of people have recently fled from caught in state after airstrikes by me among his military the state's rebels are a vocal opponent of the zonta which seized power in a coup in february was called god is joining us live from buying called scott what more do we know about this. right now rob what's interesting is you know obviously the officials are concerned because this is right on the
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border literally just across a small river where this outpost for the myanmar army was burned to the ground an attack by the can you forces they are claiming that they now say now they they occupy they hold this position now this comes after a kind of a series of attacks from both sides over the last several weeks between the cane you and the tatmadaw that's the myanmar army we know that there are airstrikes as you mentioned rob there air strikes several weeks ago that sent people across the border into thailand to seek refuge and to seek medical attention the thai officials helped them but then said it was safe for them to go back what's interesting too now is the provinces that this side of the border if you will from where this this attack happened and official here on this side of the border in that province said that there was one who was injured in this early morning actually pre-dawn attack that kind of carried into the early morning hours today on tuesday they say one was injured but gave no more not much more information beyond
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that we have spoken to the spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs here in thailand and he has said that they're monitoring the situation very closely and obviously keeping a very keen eye on if there's any impact on the side of the border so when you look back over the last several weeks the can you has thrown their weight behind the protest movement in myanmar against the against that coup that took place on february 1st there has been kind of back and forth as i said fighting between the can you forces as well as the tatmadaw airstrikes so it'll be interesting to see as we move forward you know this is a very. public attack if you will right on the border pretty much known by the can you forces that there would be video that would come in that's we've seen come out on social media so this is a very public attack on the tatmadaw it will be interesting to see what happens moving forward will there be any kind of retaliation but again we've seen kind of calm. that going back and forth with kay and you and your forces but also other ethnic armies inside myanmar there are about 2 dozen of them so that is
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a concern that's been over the last several weeks as we see these ethnic armies kind of throw their weight behind the protest movement even some saying that they'll join this national union government does that mean they were heading more toward a broader conflict with the tatmadaw and the ethnic armies but today again this is some of the fiercest fighting we've seen in weeks and again right there on the border with thailand things called that's called hardly talking to us from bangkok an iranian court sentenced a british iranian woman in the us of these are guardian radcliffe to another year in prison she was found guilty of spreading propaganda this outrage from her family and supporters just a month since she finished a 5 you sentence in a separate case paul brennan reports from london. photos of a smiling and relieved nazanin cigar iraq left last month after have 5 year ordeal seemed nearly over having spent 4 years in jail she spent the final months of her prison sentence under house arrest at her parents' home in tehran wearing an ankle
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tac to monitor her movements but hope she might soon return to the u.k. were dashed by a new charge of making propaganda and now a guilty verdict which nelson and husband emphatically rejects last time around we're trying to court this time around and. saying you know we've watched this thing in front of you. we've clearly been and as collateral. and we are still. sick are exactly for project manager with the charity the thomson reuters foundation was arrested a tehran airport in april 26th seen after visiting her parents she was later convicted on a national security charge an allegation she has always denied the new propaganda allegation dates back even further this new conviction relates to an event here at the iranian embassy in london back in 2009 a full 12 years ago and antigovernment protesters attended by nasa in iraq cliff at
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which she gave an interview to the b.b.c. persian service now simmons friends and supporters are frankly astounded and appalled that it should be resurrected now for the purposes of this new criminal case in tehran and they fear that there are bigger forces at work here. nazanin is one of a number of jewel nationals in iranian detention many observers draw a direct link to a $550000000.00 debt owed by britain to iran for a consignment of chieftain tanks ordered before iran's islamic revolution which the u.k. never delivered there's also the issue of broader sanctions and iran's nuclear ambitions i don't think it's right at all that nazanin should be sentenced to any more time in in jail i think that it was wrong that it's wrong that she's there in the 1st place and will be working very hard to secure release from iran
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her ability to return to her family here in the u.k. just as we work for all our. national cases in iran now as an ns legal team have $21.00 days to appeal against her new conviction and they've already said that they will pull brennan al-jazeera london. still ahead an al-jazeera al-jazeera visit was a very ordinary people only where the government struggling to help families return to their homes despite the end of the civil war. and the legacy of physical virus hooted found it will lead to one mother who was infected while she was pregnant. it's time for the perfect jenny. went sponsored point qatar airways how i was swimming up nicely now across the middle east he really starting to build
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it further north and still some damp weather in the forecast want to shout between the black sea and the caspian sea just around the caucuses. from that it really is more the way of very very warm weather 30 celsius 39 so she's there for baghdad a 41 for kuwait which was the levant so little more pleasant temperatures is into the other the made to high twenty's over the next couple of days here in concert getting up to 13 celsius in the hollow of his go on throughout wednesday a 40 in dubai just notice a few showers just around the southern end of the red sea so western parts of yemen southwestern parts of saudi arabia along with the it happen harlan seeing some wet weather over the next day also the seasonal rains doing quite nicely of course pushing up towards cameroon into the gulf of guinea era across the heart of africa as shallow as pretty much where they should be east wet weather there and play schools across tanzania heavy showers continuing to into northern parts of maize and big northern areas of madagascar but to the south of that is generated dry
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although having said that we've seen some welcome rainfall gradually making its way across the southern cape by thursday. qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we all want to feed the hungry and be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are good enough to keep the new in each he could be part of today's discussion this dream on out is there a. door
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to go to see a reminder of our top stories this hour the w h o's chief as described baby is escalating covert 1000 prices as beyond heartbreaking india has again reported well over 300000 new infections for a 6 day in a row nearly 35000 people have died in april. and the world health organization says it's doing everything it can to provide support to india the u.s. u.k. european nations saudi arabia and turkey all sending emergency aid on the 1st batch of russia suspect that the vaccine will be genteel saturday. a rebel group in miramar says it's captured and burned down an army base near the thai border post lies in an area controlled by the current national union fighting between the rebels and the military has increased since february crude. u.s.
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attorney general many garlands announced an investigation into the louisville police department in the state of kentucky law enforcement there's faced scrutiny over last year's killing of briana taylor a black woman shot gypping a botched raid on a home it's the 2nd investigation in the past week into how putting separate and it comes only a few days after the death of a black man in north carolina joining a police stop rob runnels reports. as protests over the police killing of andrew brown jr continue his family members were allowed to watch a snippet of police body camera video showing brown being shot repeatedly they were outraged by what they saw my dad got eschewed it just by trying to save his own life you know he was not in no office was not and no harm of him at all is messed up how does happen. brown was killed on april 21st in elizabeth city
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north carolina by police serving a drug related arrest warrant the killing sparked days of protests his relatives and their attorneys say brown posed no threat to officers as he tried to leave the scene in his vehicle and you had his hands on the stand. he was not reaching for anything he wasn't touching anything he wasn't doing anything about he had his hands firmly on the stand will ever end up so his vehicle shooting was. 7 deputies have been placed on leave brown's family and protesters demand authorities released the full body camera videos from several officers walk in the family see all of the video. the truth will come out. the video will be same bad the public and we will get justice for andrew brown jr.
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the by did ministration is under political pressure to make good on the president's pledges to pursue police reform and end racial disparities it announced on monday that it would conduct a sweeping investigation of the police department and local government in louisville kentucky following the police shooting of briana taylor a black woman in her home there last year it will determine whether l m p d engages in unconstitutional stops searches and seizures as well as whether the department unlawfully execute search warrants on private homes. it will also a sas whether l m p d engages in discriminatory conduct on the basis of race. in the days since former minneapolis police officer derrick chauvin was convicted of murdering george floyd 11 months ago police around the u.s. have shot and killed at least half a dozen people leading to more nationwide cries for racial justice and reform
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rob reynolds al-jazeera the u.s. says it will give $310000000.00 in aid to guatemala honduras and el salvador in order to help stem the flow of migrants to its southern border the u.s. vice president coming ahead of us made the announcement after holding a virtual meeting with what a modest president the money will provide help with food from supplies one short it also aims to provide protection for refugees and asylum seekers who are often targeted by people smugglers. turkey's president has responded to the u.s. decision to label the mass killings of armenians as genocide the massacres in $1015.00 happened in the final years of the ottoman empire is uptight about it one says the us is manipulating a historic tragedy which is upset turkey and hurt relations. kinda argue a lot of misery is just not out of your heart you know it is true that these
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incidents were unfortunate similarly the muslims have also witnessed unfortunate events on these lands these tragic events cannot be manipulated by the west we as a people as a government cannot manipulate any of these tragic events a decade after the implementation of a landmark land law in colombia turning displaced families to their properties remains an uphill battle just a fraction of the land has been assigned and few projects have been established alessandra than p.r.t. reports from the amazonian region or put a male. since recovering is land causing me saying has been betting on peppercorns and heart of homes to rebuild his life it is a union for 7 years he and his family had to abandon their home after being caught in the middle of violent confrontations between fired gravels in columbus paramilitary groups that took over is land. it was very bad people were getting killed daily they'd have you dig your own roof then shoot you in cold blood we had
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no option but to leave. years later a judge recognized this rights to his land issuing an order of comprehensive ripper asians like most farmers in this remote region on the border with ecuador he used to grow coca the basing region for cocaine but now he's hoping that with the help of the government is new legal in there will be successful where you go to launder situation helped us return reestablish ourselves and start growing this which seems to have potential we've rubel to khalid's and even if we don't make much of him i'm not worrying about my children's anymore. his return is a relatively successful story in one of the largest reparation processes in the world 7700000 have been forcibly displaced by the conflict 10 years ago a law was implemented to return legitimate owners to their land and 4 years ago a peace deal with 5 rebels promised
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a comprehensive rule reform but the process is stagnated as the cologne be in state failed to stop the reemergence of bile and initiate true reforms. i have a land fund of 4000000 he has to return we have executed team pursuit it's a complicated process and it's the violence the lack of titles and one without any real president at this scale abandoned houses still dr land here a reminder of just how difficult to show our in parts of the country where the reasons behind the violence of the past persist and much of the land has never been registered. political professor that you have to hire a dog who has studied the issue closely since powerful interests that control the land don't want to process to advance. the more than 40 percent of transactions in the country are not registered which makes long drives easier and we have one of
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the was a concentration of property in the world we need to connect these remote regions. to the rest of the country with road channel porch unities. back at the farm close in his family are worried because of fields are appearing again in their territory as are drug trafficking groups putting once again at risk the fragile stability and peace achieved allison that in beauty and just c.w.t. when they see dozens of migrants have been rescued after trying to swim from morocco to the spanish in on klav or so at about 100 migrants set off from beaches in northern morocco aiming to spend a few kilometers north to soweto one of the 9 populated spanish territories in africa spanish police say some managed to reach on their own almost were rescued and set up in groups of $20.00 to $30.00 including several children a complete quarantine for coronavirus before the asylum applications can begin. dozens of people in the somali capital mogadishu are calling for presidential
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elections. they're opposed to an extension of the president's term in office and have been violent confrontations for the past couple of nights president mohammad dubbed the lucky for marginal failed to hold planned elections in february saying there were concerns about security and the pandemic m.p.'s recently voted to extend financials time for another 2 years in chatter leading politicians called on the country's interim military government to negotiate with a rebel group accused of killing president idriss deby last week the government's refusal to negotiate has raised the fear that the armed fighters might attack the capital fighters from the front for change and concord say they would join forces with other on the groups who oppose the late president's son taking control of the country in. in total 15 this virus swept through central and south america i made its way to the islands off cape verde from west africa and caused
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a severe bust in fights and babies and today children are growing up with severe disabilities reports will keep the pressure on the island of sunset. alice was not the child her mother expected cloudier was 3 months pregnant when doctors told her she was infected busy and that her unborn daughter would suffer from lifelong disabilities realising that alice will never have a childhood like other kids her heart sank but 4 years on proudest says the disability turned out to be a blessing. she is 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 alice is born with what doctors call microcephaly her brain is failing to develop fully it's a consequence of her mother being infected with fizzy through
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a mosquito bite during her pregnancy there are no vaccines no cure for the virus that spreads through mosquitoes and sexual contact in 2060 in the world health organization declared public health emergency of international concern the outbreak started in brazil spreading to keep bird as a result of the epidemic more than 3700 babies worldwide were born with birth defects. at the time countries issued travel warnings including asking citizens. pregnancies there was this fear that it 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 knew from the country's health ministry believes zico ran its course infected a large portion of the population and herd immunity developed halting the spread
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still you look in the capitals drainage system that's a breeding ground for mosquitoes saying there could be another outbreak. as the years we believe can be. a can be again. unprotected. surveillance of infected secret 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 2 has been avoiding hospitals . when alice is in pain or has convulsions. she plays a song that she would listen to when she was pregnant to soothe her daughter's pain . al-jazeera. buckland's only female political prisoner has been released. he was sentenced in 2019 and stripped of her citizenship.
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after weeks of protests denouncing the living conditions of people in jail there's also been a coronavirus a break in the prison where she was being held. and finally they're calling it a pink super moon has been gracing skylines around the world a superman happens when it all but it's closer to earth making our lunar neighbor appears 7 percent bigger and 15 percent brighter than normal it's going to be 2 this year the 2nd one is coming in about a month's time. i'm not by this in with the headlines on all does either of the w.h.o. sheaf is described india's escalating covert 1000 crisis as beyond heartbreaking india has again reported well over 300000 new infections for the 6th day in a row nearly 35000 people have died in april the u.s. u.k.
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