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are you to stand on cancer culture. the range of ideas that can be heard from international politics to the global pandemic and everything in between if tech companies are the ones with all the power what do we do with the solution we get organized what are world leaders or governments missing. 14. targets now up front with me marc lamont hill on al-jazeera. a hopeless situation in india a record daily death toll with no sign of a let up as a coronavirus wave continues to sweep the nation. this is. also coming up the u.s. troop withdrawal finally begins but it's not fast enough for taliban leaders. may
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day is marked with violence in colombia as protesters take to the streets of the capital venting anger over tax reforms and 100 years ago it was the birth of northern ireland the some said tina as a cause for celebration but not here in dublin the capital of the republic they see it as a disaster i'm andrew symonds and i'll be explaining why. india's coronavirus crisis continues to spiral out of control a record 3700 people died in the past 24 hours according to indian media there were 392000 new cases the government is desperate to expand its vaccination program but it's struggling to meet demand people are turning up to get the job only to find there are no doses left. for autumn reports from new delhi.
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a group of friends celebrate receiving their vaccinations in new delhi there some of the lucky ones who managed to get an appointment signs at many vaccine centers around the country read they're out of doses despite having a population of $20000000.00 people india's financial capital mum buy only has $20000.00 for those between the ages of $18.00 to $45.00 but. we were told that it would be a 1st come 1st serve thing here but the vaccination center years deserted we will see what we're going to do whether we'll get it or not. the government said everyone above the age of 18 would be eligible for a vaccine from saturday but most regional leaders say they don't have enough doses to expand the program the sign reads welcome to the world's largest vaccination drive but despite india being the world's largest vaccine manufacturer it concept
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why enough doses to its people this is one of just a handful of private hospitals in new delhi that were able to procure vaccines to inoculate people between the ages of 18 to 45 on saturday. the online registration also isn't accessible for the hundreds of millions of indians who don't own computers or smartphones and don't have an internet connection india is also running short on oxygen despite international aid arriving. on saturday staff at one hospital in new delhi said patients had died including one of their doctors when an oxygen delivery was late. hartman you hear what. we are doing what we can but we can't think about what we can't control god see please try to organize oxygen for us there was a gap of 45 minutes when we didn't have oxygen we did everything we could we used all our cylinders but despite that we couldn't save 6 of our i.c.u.
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patients. the death toll later went up to at least 12 health experts are asking the government to impose more restrictions to ease the pressure on the health care system currently i think india has to step up its containment measures these measures are to be very aggressive and we should also have localised law down there even necessary to get at least the transmission that is. scientific advice is appointed by the government said they want officials in early march of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus despite that the government didn't impose restrictions and allowed people to gather at large political and religious events elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. is the founder of helping hand a foundation that works with the most vulnerable people in the city of hyderabad he says that hospitals everywhere are
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a breaking point. dad about fight who speaks that it should be more to send in the city where i live in had about these hospital odds on being good before you get back to the day out of managing to get the oxidants up lies from other states and from you know different sources they're managing to beat the patients in whatever capacity they have by the moment these hospitals are also down and put the boot od in need of oxygen on or getting officers in the home. they're developing the symptoms of a b. and b. such a great thing and in the hospital too likely said mark to me and mourn but also in but i would toss with the long queue was that a long waiting list people are getting bad and in the process bores who out of you could take the gun dish and. so you're finding people being brought dead to many
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hospitals every day day in and day out in many households a number of people within the family effect that getting infected so doctor is actually leading to a lot of problems. in all patients in hospitals some people out in the suffering the toll so they don't have anybody to take care of the lot sites that is a very calm and back and just see in many households because several people live in one house i think and when somebody dies. of the day don't have anybody to call and do all the format of the situations and the body and of the missions. a 3 week and occupation campaign is underway in syria's branch and it's the last rebel held area in the country people began getting their covert 19 bank scenes after delivery of nearly 54000 astra zeneca japs there's been a surge of new infections there more than 640 people have died from covert 19 in
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the province and more than 21000 cases have been reported but with its health care system damaged by war it's not clear how accurate those numbers are and we started up. our main goal here in an old western city is to vaccinate 850000 people and the 1st batch of vaccines we've received is only 53000 doses so in the 1st round when vaccinating people working in the health sector and humanitarian sector as they're the front line is in fighting in a pandemic. way the 1st was the day that the u.s. troops were supposed to be out of afghanistan in a deal the trumpet ministration reached with the taliban instead it's become the day that the u.s. formally begins its withdraw on the president biden the commander of foreign forces in afghanistan has warned that it would be a mistake for armed groups to attack the troops who are still there a return of violence would be one senseless and tragic but make no mistake we have
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the murder turn means to respond forcefully. to any type of attacks against the coalition in the military means sport the afghan security forces that would be a mistake taliban spokesman so hale shaheen has told of 0 that all foreign troops must leave immediately we have not. stopped the. second person that he is will remain in. the city so that's very real and he was not only work for us as well if you are so they are. larry let me take you there if you very. well so very sad. very very not are. very well they have made commitments about. now the decision will carry
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our leadership what very disparate in future our doctor will be implemented we are a great team here with. some of been java has been following the ongoing peace negotiations here in doha there's little progress on the ground you've seen the attacks spiking you've seen the scathing criticism coming from the afghan government and if statements are anything to go by you heard the taliban spokesman there talk about investigating the logar attack which in which civilians were killed and you heard from the afghan president saying that the taliban were responsible so it is going to be a continuation of competing narratives in a very divided space in a gonna stand as u.s. forces prepare to leave their formal the drawl has begun from may the 1st and cording to the u.s. president will be completed by september the 11th and this is this to mainz to be the sticking point the taliban saying that because they signed an agreement and
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committed that they will drop by me the 1st and the other side saying that the taliban has not really shown enough progress in severing ties building bringing down the level of violence and negotiating in good faith with the afghan government and there's a lot of frustration doing the rounds not just on part of the afghan government but other officials as well who've been trying to tone down the taliban's rhetoric in saying that you are a party to the conflict in the sun is not going to look like what it did 20 years ago. violence against afghans has escalated in recent months with security forces and many civilians being targeted on friday a powerful car bomb killed at least 24 people in the eastern province no group has claimed responsibility. for the oh contraflow reports from kabul. afghanistan it's a cycle with no end body after body lying next to each other this time the victims of a powerful tribe bomb many were high school students staying in
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a dormitory nearby several buildings collapsed in the blast trapping dozens of people but. i treated my own family members wounded in the incident and we spent the night in my neighbor's house i don't know when this country will be peaceful i beg everyone for the sake of god to please stop it. a hospital was severely damaged several of those injured were transferred to kabul and recalled what happened. was at 1st i heard a blast and right after the blast all the windows shattered and i don't know what happened next such actions don't exist and. violence is increasing across the country fighting between the taliban and government forces is fierce according to the u.n. more than $500.00 civilians many of them children have been killed in the 1st 3 months of this year blog or car bomb attack comes at a tense moment for ghana stand the foreign troop withdrawal is underway and it will
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be completed well after the may 1st deadline stipulated in the doha deal that was signed between the united states and the taliban last year. the taliban has warned that if foreign troops stay past that date it will resume attacks against them the pentagon a nato i releasing few details about their departure and with america's war coming to an end and a stalled peace process afghans are facing a new and uncertain future for a counter free al-jazeera kabul the latest round of talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal and bring the u.s. back to the table appear to have made some progress in vienna iran's chief negotiator abbas archies says that sanctions on tehran or on banking sector should be lifted based or agreements reached so far he added that the 2 sides were on the same page on some issues but best so
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a long way to go. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then why welfare groups in the u.k. are demanding this emergency migrant facility be closed. and m.p.'s in somalia make a u. turn that could see tension come down after days of fighting in the heart of the capital. the biggest series of damaging thunderstorms recently away from arkansas back to texas and once you're the states close by but texas is the current focus and more recent then you look at that side being blown we've had strong winds and torrential rain and damaging hail and there's more to come the satellite picture reveals us or uk in the cloud and lots of lightning strikes is developing a area of low pressure area that's big storms widespread rain and hail all there
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throughout the rest of the weekend then late on sunday it'll edge eastwards into what towards mrs mississippi actually always in the gulf coast to missouri you got that same potential and it comes up again what is still winter in the cascades more especially the rocky mountains it's cold enough for some snow it's not as extreme as it was but those 2 areas gulf air and humid and the colder come together in the line of thunderstorms to the east of that currently is quite warm could say hot 30 in d.c. well that's about to disappear because almost every state in the midwest eastwards he's going to see developing rain or thunderstorms consequent drop in temperature at the same time that's where the snow shows itself more in colorado and we develop more thunderstorms in northern texas arkansas and probably oklahoma. on counting the cost of china's navy and its maritime militia dominate the south
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china sea as the u.s. lost control could the pandemic usher in the 4 day work week and environmental racism opposition grows to a u.s. pipeline. counting the cost on al-jazeera. i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. this is the main news this hour india's coronavirus crisis continues to spiral out of control a record 3700 people died in the past 24 hours according to indian media and there
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were 392000 new cases. the united states has begun to pull its troops out of afghanistan the taliban says that on the an agreement reached with the trumpet ministration they should all be gone by now. of the latest round of talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal and bring the u.s. back to the table appear to have made some progress in vienna but iran's chief negotiator says that sanctions on tehran so all the banking sectors need to be lifted. northern ireland is set to markets 100th anniversary on monday but the centenary is a likely to be celebrated south of the border as i was here as andrew symonds explains now from dublin. mary mcaleese is unlike any other former irish president she grew up in northern ireland a catholic living in a protestant area in the violent seventy's a family forced to move out as sectarian conflict grew the irish war of
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independence from britain between 1919 to 921 had led to the partitioning of the country and the birth of northern ireland exactly 100 years ago thousands of civilian lives were lost in the interim isn't conflict that followed mary mcaleese is calling on protestants not to mark monday's sent tina ri with triumphalism language that is used is so important to be to use language that that doesn't other the people that you share the island with or your share in northern ireland with but language that shows that you're sensitive to their concerns one word the right way can you know it can open people up and it can make them a concert and hearts where as one word the wrong way and you can harden hearts some are using the word celebration that is a difficult word and so for very far most of the centenary is that we have been through we haven't used those words we've used the word commemoration we've used
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softer words we've used words that open up to inclusion and that understand that there are some for whom this was a tragedy and not a when some feel it's ironic that the santini comes at a time when irish unity is edging back onto the agenda helped by bricks at the puts an e.u. trade border in the irish sea separating the u.k. mainland from the island protestants fear alienation the government here in dublin sees ari's unity as a distant prospect officially at least could it happen sooner rather than later well there's a growing body of opinion that it could do you will never solve the problems of northern ireland i buy. on the good friday peace agreement recognize something that fighting couldn't achieve i read for random on irish unity dependent on catholics becoming a majority that's likely to be confirmed in a new u.k.
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census then britain decides if there is a referendum this is the birthplace of irish democracy and there's another factor briggs it took northern ireland against its will out of the european union so for a lot of center middle ground people a united ireland is the only route back to the european union and the advantages which they enjoyed as european union citizens and many young people in the south support reunification and what their leaders to put more emphasis on the cheating and i think that the planning and preparation for a should be because immediately to mitigate some of the damaging impacts of bragg's it particularly and what we've seen with solar political leaders a lot of the time is putting it on the long finger and pointed to some indiscriminate days in the future but irish history with all of its overwhelming violence may be the biggest obstacle for now on both sides of the divide many feel reconciliation still has some way to go under simmons al-jazeera. the red cross system outing the closure of a former british army camp that houses migrants napier barracks is meant to be
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temporary accommodation and human rights groups say that the use of a military base is psychologically damaging for people living there many are thought to have been tortured in or trafficked from the countries they fled john a whole reports. napier barracks in kent has come to symbolize an asylum system increasingly hostile to asylum seekers receiving like us soon as they arrive a serious decline in their mental health and they really desperate they run they're running away. or they have suicidal ideation we've had several we've seen several suicide attempts already in the last few years a former british army facility long disused it's accommodation is rustic the buildings run down napier has been condemned as filthy and unsuitable by independent specters and while residents are free to come and go many see constant reminders in the barbed wire and barred windows of past trauma. ibrahimi fled
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religious persecution in iran he communicates with us using a translation app on his phone that is a pain. why like. i start a soldier in iraq i stayed at a military barracks in iraq. situation very well the situation is now. it's very expensive thanks to. the red cross among others has called for napier to be shot immediately some people might you know torture. and some people might you know have very badly experience it so leaving beside. it in the defense and leaving behind. is the need still for in forking off reason like when decisions which is contrary to what they want to come here to do to seek yet while to similar barracks sites
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have closed napier remains open the government says improvements have been made since napier was closed down temporarily after a big outbreak of coven 1000 in january followed by a fire said to have been started by the residents themselves and you can see the remains of that blaze over there all basic needs are now being met says the government and in fact there are plans to scale back up the numbers of people staying here from around 70 now to more than 300 in the coming week. one former resident who now campaigns for its closure believes napier's growing notoriety works as a deterrent to former residents up neatly when i were among them there are keen to take the dendrite journeying in and go back to france because of the conditions there appearing in navy barracks wars than they were experiencing through their journey so maybe people in the u.k.
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and wish to take you to say it mentally means that the people who want to come to say maybe are pushed back from that region and that may be precisely the point jonah how al-jazeera at napier barracks in kent the international organization of migration is concerned that more people will try to cross the mediterranean from libya as weather conditions improve on saturday the libyan coast guard rescued $334.00 migrants they were found on 4 small boats heading towards europe another rescue ship sea watch for says that it witnessed the coast guard violently pulling the migrants back to libya against their will more than 200 migrants from 15 countries of arrived in the italian island of sicily they were picked up by the rescue ship ocean viking rescue groups are pleading for european countries to open their doors to desperate migrants more than 130 people died last month off the
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coast of libya. thousands of people joined may day demonstrations across europe despite covert 19 restrictions to demand social and economic justice integrated job security the pandemic has crippled many of europe's economies leaving young people concerned about their future leave barca reports from london. to gas in paris an all too familiar sight france's may day demonstrations traditionally a show of force by the country's mighty trade unions. a message for the government the power lies not with politicians but with people. this year labor unions who are joined by members of the yellow vest movement that kicked off a wave of anti-government protests 3 years ago. the french president emmanuel micron remains under mounting pressure to abandon economic and social reforms as the country reels from 3 crippling coronavirus lockdowns for some this was about
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more than workers' rights. it was a show of rage. on may day. but to has a global context we keep on having protests and then we protest happen for nothing no one is listening to us but i think it's important to keep coming back. in the british capital hundreds gathered in trafalgar square under the banner kill the bill against a proposal that would give police extra powers to curb protests is fear the changes will have a chilling effect on the rights to demonstrate among the crowds black lives matter supporters and climate change campaigners is still in rebellion he paralyzed parts of london in 2019. under the proposed laws people could face 10 years in prison for defacing monuments and large fines for breaching noise limits. state repression the government saying that we don't want you to. concerns
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against the system all these demonstrators are keen to remind the british government is that protests by their very nature destructive and that any new laws designed to cattail people's rights of assembly damage the country's democracy. in the german capital berlin a peaceful march by protesters on the eve of mayday demanding affordable homes after the constitutional court overturned a law the set of rent kept on apartments in the city 85 percent of berlin is rent rather than own their own home 3 countries 3 different struggles but a common thread these are the faces of europe's young students those struggling to find work others looking for security in a fragile labor market. as europe starts to emerge from lockdown a reminder that many old frustrations haven't gone away and in some cases they've deepened leave barca al-jazeera london. rallies have been taking place across the
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world to mock may day or international labor day in colombia has coincided with protests against government tax reform plans anger that continues even though president has backed down and ordered the proposal to be rewritten police fired tear gas to disperse crowds in the capital bogota have been 4 days of protests by people who say the changes could make them poorer. without one protest in bogota. most of the demonstrations or practically all of them have been absolutely peaceful up to this point we haven't seen any of the violent scenes that we've seen and in the past few days and particularly in this city of cali where the mayor now has confirmed that 3 people have died there one shot in the head by the police however
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the human rights groups say that the real toll of the violence seeing these protests might be much higher they are talking about several days there have been reports of at least 14 if not more people that have died in protests in the last $3.00 to $4.00 days much of these need to be confirmed obviously so far the national government has confirmed just one protester has died and another policeman and the city of so watch yesterday consequences. being heard the 1st day on wednesday in this out in that city have to watch us out . but so far today a may day these rallies have all been extremely peaceful we haven't seen any attacks on property or anything like that that people are there's a lot of anti government feelings here a lot of anger tollways president to pay for this tax reform and also for the
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consequences of the restrictions of the condemning that have people extremely hard to hearing from them. in brazil thousands marched on sunday in support of president jaya balsam although he's facing much criticism of his handling of the pandemic the president's supporters to smith's the outbreak because overblown and also now to focus on the economy some of them one wearing mosques resume experienced a deadly 2nd wave in april resulting one in $100000.00 deaths in just a month also naras consistently downplayed the effects of the virus. so malia's lower house of parliament has unanimously voted to cancel extending the president's term in office president mohammad of the law he mohamad has directed the prime minister to prepare for elections parliament approved a 2 year term extension last month but that sparked protests and fighting in the
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capital 100 and in february but he stayed on as talks on a new election stalled for astronauts are on their way back to earth from the international space station that capsule will splash down in the gulf of mexico off the coast of florida the 1st crew to be brought back from the station by space x. as part of its partnership with nasa once it lands the company hopes to refurbish the capsule to be used again on the future missions. it's good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera india's coronavirus crisis continues to spiral out of control a record 3700 people died in the past 24 hours according to indian media and there were 392000 new cases the government is desperate to expand its facts of the.

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