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you tell me what the government you represent is now illegitimate and we listen we did not sell the fence material any country the conflict in yemen we meet with the global news makers and talk about the stories that matter is syria. india suffers another record rise in cold with 19 deaths as well medical aid arrives from abroad. my. father i'm having my head seen and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up . the workers' rights marches descend into violence in colombia where this fury about tax reforms u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan has begun but not fast enough for taliban leaders
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. and 4 astronauts have just splashed down in the gulf of mexico after 5 months aboard the international space station. but 1st india has seen another record daily rise in covered 1000 deaths the health ministry says nearly 3700 people died in the past 24 hours and there were 30900000 new infections down slightly from saturday the government is desperate to expand its vaccination program but it's still struggling to meet demand elizabeth purana ms in new delhi and says even as more medical aid of wives from abroad hospital beds medicine and supplies of oxygen are still critically shorts. india is seeing not just a shortage of vaccines but everything from health care workers to oxygen equipment
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and medicines and to national aid continues to arrive the latest from france and belgium on sunday and promising that in the morning is holding a review me saying on sunday morning. about these shortages and as he's doing that i mean that follows what happened on saturday more than 10 days after the delhi government 1st raised the alarm about the critical shortage of oxygen and tens of people that we know all dying when their oxygen ran out last week tens of coronavirus patients who were on oxygen support again on saturday we had another hospital in new delhi saying they lost 12 of their patients for that reason including one of their senior doctors the w.h.o. the world health organization said the large events were one of the reasons for the surge in cases and also said another reason for the multiple variants that have been circulating and and we have
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a group of scientists who've been appointed by the government who have come out and said that they want the government about these variants as early as march of the start of march and yet the government went ahead with all of these large gatherings . pakistan is expected to receive 1000000 vaccine doses from china on sunday over all its purchased 30000000 doses from 3 chinese companies still supplements the astra zeneca vaccine being delivered through the kovacs program. just over 2000000 people out of its population of 220000000 will come ohio's or is outside a hospital on the outskirts over islam of bugs and joins us know how important is this vaccine shipments to pakistan. it is extremely critical because progress on is one of the lowest rank in.
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one of the countries reject the lowest amount of vaccine this will be $3000000.00 after the arrival of another the 1000000 vaccines it in pakistan for a population of about $220000000.00 but next month progress on a day expected to get more wax scenes and also the fact that progress on and likely to start producing the go forward vaccine and collaboration which i need head head at the budgets done institute of medical sciences so dad of god like need to happen but at the moment the vaccination raid ready slow we are told that there are well 5000 patients on all kids in which is the highest number almost 57 percent higher than last june so the big question really be where the progress on really be able to come up with done enough vaccines and also read that it will be able to go in for the log downs because we're told that international flights will be deduced by
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up to 80 percent and we're told her door that from the $8.00 to $16.00 that country is going to see a lot down and that gives us an indication of just how bad the situation is on scene seem to come in pakistan given the covert situation where you are why has the light been so full. well of course the big question because august gone one day but in the 1st and 2nd wave of comprehensive log down today we're able to day in day. now across the country. and there are warning that if they take heat 15 but in their country where they have no other option but to go what are logged down. by that including ma and. congregation should have happened and people are not digging it out. problem kemal hides in their brain is the very latest there from islamabad
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thank you come all the large fire in iran has caused extensive damage in the northwest and industrial time it broke in a chemical factory near the city of qum which is known as a facsimile hope cruise managed to stop the far from reaching tanks for industrial alcohol was stores investigators are looking into what sparked the fire new initial reports on casualties. seen violence during may day marches in colombia where workers' rights protests combined with anger over proposed tax changes president ivan decay has backed down on some of the changes but people still say they'll be worse self. reports now from bogota. this fight raising kobe in 1000 infections and the risk of violence tens of thousands of colombians took to the streets for a 4th straight day on saturday in but with one group gathered at
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a national park to continue protesting against a controversial tax reform that they say would raise taxes on the middle class at a time of great economic pain among them 28 year old monique up at a this who lost her job during the pandemic dangle me were an area that i still haven't been able to pay my 9 year old son school tuition because last year has been horrible for me what tired of not having a decent health system over not having institutions that who work in our favor. rising poverty and unemployment following car with 1000 restrictions of people increasingly venting their anger in the streets openly defying official pleas to stay home. it's easy to stay home when you're not hungry but poor head of household women don't have that luxury and have to start on the streets to survive that's why we're marching to tell his government we're hungry and we need help. i said later looting vandalism and clashes marked the previous days especially in colombia's 3rd
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largest city kali where at least 3 people have died allegedly shot by the police but human rights organizations say the real death toll could be much higher on saturday most of the day was peaceful until the police stopped a group of demonstrators. the protesters are now trying to recapture the private home of president their van which is roughly a couple of blocks up here there's a huge police presence in front of this condominium and as you can see here the police say riot gear is stopping the protesters from moving forward. as protesters tried to move on the police shot tear gas and stun grenades protesters responded herding rocks and burning barricades. the chaos as force president took it to back pedal on the tax reform plans promising to rewrite the bill excluding taxes on basic food items utilities and gasoline that angered protesters but some
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analysts believe it will not be enough and i think that a woman hasn't understood that the political class is not discussing that they think that just we draw in the tax reform is going to be nasty piece that practiced but i think when. basically the sort of over station though we need from the small and on has to deal with many more issues than the tax reform. once again clashes continued into the evening signaling the protesters will not easily stop i was in the room and just you know. and anti-government protesters in venezuela say may day used to be a celebration but workers are no suffering the country is years into a deep economic crisis that governments and einstein was almost quadrupling the minimum wage that still doesn't match the searching cost of living for governments protesters also marched calling for an end to international sanctions against
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venezuela. for astronauts have just returned to earth from the international space station is the 1st time a crew has been brought home by space x. a private company has partnered with nasa the dragon capsule splashed down off the coast of the u.s. state of florida bring you the live pictures there as they approach that capsule space x. of course is hoping to refurbish the capsule and he said again. what's more still to come here on al-jazeera. 100 years ago was the birth of northern ireland for some certainly is a cause for celebration but not here in dublin the capital of the obvious republic they see it as a disaster i'm andrew symonds of i'll be explaining war. and we look at how election by x. in rules about where you're setting women on to perspire
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a seat. there's some very on the seasonal weather going on in europe at the moment it's a clouds moving to the southwest the northeast along what is really a waving front a difference between tarps and so long this heavy rain in itself isn't necessarily unusually and ninety's quite high it's already running through the alps doing that you're exactly on sunday this swirl it's a prop what looks like a spring storm these things shouldn't exist really such heavy rain strong winds probably thunder as well millions in the hail damaging hail running up through poland that's left rather nice the weather in his wake the northern side of this temperature on the low side well below where they should be to the southeast ill bred to be good higher than they should be in places but that's about to change so
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as this thing runs north as it tucks enough cold air to give snow for a listen and then look at this in what way is that spring weather that is really an autumnal storm running through the british isles and the same time the heat in the bottom right time cole is affected turkey in cyprus in particular also greece is leaking away so in athens for example the temperature is 32 what changed down to about 24 ball time to get to wednesday the average being 22 so that unusual weather is going back to normal. but. frank assessments on. what exactly happened and what may have now taking for a situation like a man not to be able to get ever again informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of we're going to us and this is a message to the region the united states appears rethinking its military posture
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in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. no in the in. the in the end the to. my. this is al-jazeera quit trying to all the top stories this hour india has recorded the highest number of daily deaths from covert 19 the health ministry says nearly 3700 people died in the past 24 hours and there were $392000.00 new infections down slightly from saturday pakistan is expected to receive $1000000.00 vaccines from china on sunday has purchased
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a total of $13000003.00 chinese companies across dan as an oculus is slightly more than 2000000 people it's the lowest number inside. and at forrester outside have just returned to us from the international space station is the 1st time a crew has been porthole by space x. 5 a company that's partnered with nasa the dragon capsule splash and off the coast of the u.s. state of florida. well that said bring me more now on our top story india school with 1000 crisis which tab askari is the founder of the helping hand friend ation a charity working with the most vulnerable people in the city of hyderabad he says hospitals everywhere are at breaking point. out of our fight to 6 that it should be more to send in the seed event i live in heaven about these hospital on sunday before we get back to the day out of managing to get the
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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 all sort of on and put the boot od in need of oxygen on or getting offices in the home. they're developing the symptoms of a b. and b. such a good 'd thing and in the hospital too likely said mark to me and learn 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 boards who out of could take the gun dish and. so you're finding people being brought into had too many 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
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actually leading to more of the 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 common back and just see in many households because several people live in one house i think and when somebody dies. the day don't have anybody to go and do all the formalities situations and the body and oakley missions. north korea has warned the us of facing what it calls a grave situation following president joe biden's speech last week where he called pyongyang a security threats the foreign ministry released a statement calling biden's speech intolerable and a big blunder north korea accuse the u.s. presidents of pursuing hostile policy and has warned washington of provocation. the u.s. commander on foreign forces in afghanistan said it would be a mistake for armed groups to attack american troops in the country it comes after
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the passing of the may 1st deadline agreed by the trumpet ministration with the taliban for soldiers to leave the country last month president joe biden said troop withdrawal will be complete says isis ember the 11th. a return to violence would be one senseless and tragic but make no mistake we have the military means to respond forcefully. type of attacks against the coalition and the military means courtly afghan security forces that would be a mistake. taliban spokesman so his shaheen has told out to syria all foreign troops must leave immediately we have not. struck the. second person that leaders were in. the city so that seriously here and we will not only work for you just
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as you are so they are clearly a mistake to that degree. also very sad. very very not are. very well they have made a commitment. now decision 3 our leadership what very disparate in future our doctor will be implemented we are a great team here. but some of inch of it has been following the negotiations 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
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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 committed that they will drop by may 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 been escalating on friday a large car bomb killed at least 24 people in the eastern logar province no group
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has claimed responsibility oh responsibility for your country for 3 reports now from kabul. afghanistan it is cycle with no end body after body lying next to each other this time the victims of the powerful tried bomb many were high school students staying in 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
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the u.n. more than $500.00 civilians many of them children have been killed in the 1st 3 months of this year blogger car bomb attack comes at a tense moment for ghana stan the foreign troop withdrawal is underway and will be completed well after the may 1st deadline stipulated in the doha deal that was signed between the united states and the taliban last here. this the taliban has warned that a foreign troops stay past that date it will resume attacks against them the pentagon and nato are 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 counter for al-jazeera kabul. has been a candlelit vigil for in television for the 45 orthodox jews killed in the stampede
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the crush the large bomb or religious festival in northern israel has shocked the nation around 100000 people went along to the event which is popular within the ultra orthodox community. international organization of migration is concerned more people will attempts the dangerous mediterranean crossing from libya as the northern hemisphere summer brings better weather on saturday the libyan coast guard rescued 334 refugees and migrants they were on 4 small boats heading towards europe crew on boards another rescue ship the sea watch for say they saw libya's coast guard violently detaining people and taking them back against their will. and more than 200 people from 15 countries arrived on the italian island of sicily they were picked up by the ocean viking charity ship rescue groups are pleading for european countries to open their doors. and all the new orleans turns 100
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on monday as scenery that's unlikely to be acknowledged south of the border a former irish president has told that arlen's partition in 1921 was a tragedy that continues to have consequences today under simmons reports 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 her family forced to move out as sectarian conflict group the irish war of independence from britain between 1919 to 1920 warm 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
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to use language that that doesn't other the people that you share the island with or your share 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 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 bill in the irish sea separating the u.k.
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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 a referendum on irish unity dependent on catholics becoming a majority that's likely to be confirmed that a new u.k. 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 with cheating
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and i think 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 in the future but irish history with all of its overwhelming violence baby the biggest obstacle for now on both sides of the divide many feel reconciliation still has some way to go under simmons al-jazeera. thousands of people have marched in supports of brazilian president's jiah boasts an auto facing continued criticism for his handling of the pandemic the president's supporters agree with him that the break is overblown even though brazil continues to be ravaged by infections many were seen without mosques as they chanted against octane measures of closed businesses olsen our own who fell ill with covert last year has consistently downplayed the dangers. one of the world's most
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recognizable landmarks has reopens in his silly living terra peason was closed for nearly 6 months following a 2nd wave of covert 19 a number of visitors a late in has been huffs and special systems put in place to monitor social distancing. now in rural some bar boy and you electric powered motorcycle is changing how women do business is helping bring incomes of poor women and using the birds and looking after families are much faster has this report from words or . shallots kindness chickens are ready for the markets and this 3 wheeler known as which means to go in zimbabwe is going to help her take them there. the farmer pays an equivalent of $15.00 a month with a group of friends to lease the electric power to motorcycles she can now sell her goods much further away from
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a small village i had said. before i got this bike i couldn't come this far now i sell my chickens and vegetables at a business center that's 20 kilometers away i can get more customers here and more money even carry more goods. the bikes are being tested by a local startup that's leasing the motorcycles to women in the community our aim was to bring green mobility solutions to women in communities because you notice that you remain. under rated and they spend most of their time doing the whole sword chars instead of. making money and improving their incomes so we thought that if for the pilot who tested the reman to see if they're going to improve their labeling rules and if the product is your board to be used by many others most of the solar charged lithium ion batteries the bikes used are charged in here this is the solar charging station 18 batteries any ties in here at the
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same time on a good day when there's lots of sunlight if you take about 7 or 8 hours to charge a battery so in the community whenever someone has a flat that they just come in here and swap it for a fully charged one. the bikes made in china and assembled in the capital harare are proving useful in communities with no reliable public transport or tarred roads passengers call or send a whatsapp message to stage or pick up times the drivers say they can make up to $8.00 a day transporting people money that helps make the more financially independent in zimbabwe a country where jobs are scarce had a al-jazeera with zimbabwe what's being described as an extreme funder storm has killed at least 11 people in eastern china strong winds destroyed buildings and trees in junction province officials say those killed were hit by fallen trees or were blown into the yangtze river very senior people have been
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