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to the wall to show them what's going on exposing real world threats to objectivity often of our neighbor turned from moscow 11000 people were arrested the listening post covers the way news is covered on a jersey. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome you're watching the news hour live from our headquarters here and coming up in the next 60 minutes india's embattled government looks at ways to produce more desperately required oxygen as coded 19 infections and continue to collide. she's fought for press freedom in the philippines and now the investigative journalist and regular c.e.o.
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maria ressa has won a major international prize for her work joining us live here on al-jazeera. celebration and commiseration 100 years since the creation of northern ireland. no sales no exports and fears of even harder times to come we speak to people in chad struggling after years of conflict. and i support manchester united fans stormed their own stadium in a protest against the club's american and he supporters are demanding that the glazer family put united up for sale. ok let's get going we begin in india where almost 24000 people have died of curve it 19 in the past week for 12 straight days have been more than 300000 cases a staggering total that experts say has been driven up by political rallies state
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elections and religious festivals the surge is overwhelming hospitals and those who are dying aren't just people with covais one doctor has told al jazeera other patients are losing their lives because resources are being diverted to this crisis many countries have rushed aid to india but it's also working to make its own supply system more effective new delhi's 1st oxygen plant is now operational billiam a shortage there is a shortage of oxygen in delhi and when we are completely dependent on supply chains insulin does then these problems are bound to our right it is a great idea to overcome that problem we have created an oxygen generation plant here in simple words it is a kind of oxygen concentrator only with greater capacity we can give oxygen to about 18 to 20 patients at any given time with its help well the government has also expanded the vaccination program to include all adults but in some cases the queues are long and when someone shows up for their appointment there aren't any
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vaccines correspondent elizabeth purana in new delhi has been to one vaccination center. we are in one of delhi 76 public schools which are being used as vaccination centers i am getting my vaccine after trying for days to make an appointment all adults everyone over the age of 18 was eligible for a vaccine from saturday but delhi like most other states doesn't have enough i have had to wait for more than 3 hours in a line like hundreds of other people to get the stores and dia is seeing shortage is not just of vaccines but of life saving equipment of oxygen international aid is continuing to arrive the indian air force is using is airlifting cryogenic oxygen tank is from germany delivering it around the country but people are still dying because of the shortages the southern state of karnataka is the
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latest place where 24 car than 1000 and other patients died after their oxygen ran out the shortages the pressure on the health care system is why india supreme court is asking the government to consider imposing a nationwide lockdown but not before making the arrangements for hundreds of millions of daily wage earners people who have to work every single day to survive so that it won't. impact them like the nationwide lockdown that the government imposed last year. well doctor of in the soyuz chairman and chief surgeon at the mcdonald's a liver transplant institute in india he is a lead investigator in medications to treat my 900 patients he says he hopes the situation will be under control in the next week or so. i think to an extent the scale wasn't anticipated and wasn't thought you know in december or january that we will have such a 2nd. example of my hospital which is a 1000 bed coordinated care hospital indoor ground daily we normally use about
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$3.00 to $3.00 metric tons of oxygen every day we're now leading to use about 11 metric tons and somehow we are managing to get in about 6 to 7 metric tons every day so we are still falling short by about 4 or 5 and that means we have to cut down the use of oxygen within the hospital we have to reduce the number of oxygen beds that can be available for cold patients so it is a very difficult situation how long it will take is the 1000000 dollar question i wish i knew what the answer but we certainly hope it's going to happen in the next week or 10 days so certainly non-code can be suffering the elective going to be cases among the non-coding diseases being will spawn these people are not being admitted however we are counting on good life saving what transplants we are just not doing maybe 20 or 30 percent of them which don't need immediate surgery but the rest of the liver transplant us and carry on but this is at the country's premier
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hospital it may not be the case everywhere prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist party has suffered defeats in a fiercely contested regional elections seen as a barometer of his handling of the covert crisis voters in the battleground state of west bengal overwhelmingly back to the all india trinamool congress over moody's b j p party the b.g.p. also failed to win in 2 southern states tamil nadu and kerala there were 5 regional elections overall. i'm are going to have a covert 1000 will be my 1st priority i was working and will keep working to improve the pandemic situation across the state our officials are already working in this direction and this swearing in will be a low key event because of the coven $1000.00 situation although we had a landslide victory we move on monday is world press freedom day and this year the u.n. wants to highlight the importance of information as a public good in an era of misinformation reporters without borders journalism is
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completely or partially blocked and 132 of the 180 countries it evaluated china turkmenistan north korea and eritrea are at the bottom the philippines rating has fallen 2 places after a government backed shutdown of the country's biggest broadcaster and online harris meant of journalists africa continues to be the most violent continent for journalists to work in but burundi sierra leone and mali have seen significant improvements you know. a female journalist experience harris meant threats and abuse whilst doing their jobs every year the u.n. gives a special award to one person organization or institution that makes an outstanding contribution to press freedom this year's unesco world press freedom prize goes to maria ressa an investigative journalist and co-founder of route player in the philippines she joins us on skype from manila maria great to talk to you again
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welcome back to the news hour here on al-jazeera do you feel like an example to journalists around the world because the statement that goes with your award says that's what you are. it's daunting. you know peter i think i just try to update every day as it comes and do one trade and try to the other but i think one of the things we have seen you know you talked about online attacks these aren't just online attacks it's it's the same whether it's in the philippines or any other democracy around the world these are exponential attacks on social media followed by top down and legal attacks or lawfare or some people say so i don't know that's emblematic that's certainly what the nasco said all i know is it's so much harder to do our jobs today than it has ever been in business my 35th year it's as a journalists ok when you use the word illegal there. maria let's put that in inverted commas there were or there are 11 investigations into your business or
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your business of journalism is it your sense that this is payback from let's name him mr deter. we absolutely i mean it it's not just 11 right that was a 28 team so that what happened in 2019 as i've had 8 arrest warrants in 2020 i was convicted of a crime that didn't exist when the story we published 8 years earlier happen in 2021 january i got my 10th arrest for a great so 9 was november so it's a lot and it's not about the business alone i could go to jail for the rest of my life because i continue to push back and to say i'm not voluntarily giving up my rights there was a point come if i'm wrong here when you were getting dozens and dozens of in effect minuscule isolated hate crime attacks on facebook how do you react to that i mean you must be terribly thick skinned and i mean that in
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a positive way. not take skin you know what it was data understanding what was happening this was 5 years ago peter i mean this wasn't 2060 and like other women who investigated in the stories that people don't want me to do the a live in some of the cases the far right or extremist groups right in my case we expose the propaganda machine of the government a 3 part series and right after that was published i got an average of $9908.00 messages per hour so what i did is you know for 2 weeks i went back and looked over everything but then the day to work out the data was accurate and then i began to understand i began to try to understand what was happening how knees are coordinated how this is meant to target you to pound you to silence and to create a bandwagon effect manufactured consensus to tear down your credibility this is
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happening and this is the unesco report that just came out it's called the chilling there was a big data analysis of more than half a 1000000 social media. most of them attacks against me and carroll cadwallader the journalist who broke the cambridge alec a story she was the other big data analysis but it was a combination of looking at networks of dissent from ation and using natural language processing to take apart the message so difficult area of course to join the dots when you talk there about manufactured consensus because you have a president or a prime minister any place in the world i guess not just in the philippines you were talking there weapons to deter but this is going on around the world wherever you are you were in the world clearly manufactures or in cocaine an atmosphere of tinder dry anger and then other people kind of go with the message they go on
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social media and then they attack people like you female journalists as well operative killer in the crosshairs of these nasty people online and it's very difficult to find who those people are because they're hiding behind a web page they're hiding behind a fake avatar on facebook or instagram. and not only that is that the attacks also target specific the micro targeting that but i think where it's not so difficult because we were we are we remain facebook's fact checking partner in the philippines we actually have the information system in the philippines so we have the networks we know the risks to the missed networks that are there i like thinking about them as terrorist networks that's actually what we do the attacks against me for example when we actually did run them through an lp 60 percent who is tearing down my credibility 40 percent were attacking me in
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a visceral manner that was meant to. say to pound me to silence to d.c. humanize me so it allows that the networks are very clear unlike say saudi arabia or iran where blocks are a new russia the russian this information networks here in the philippines the networks are actually real people or at the very least fake accounts handled by real people and forensics little forensics can actually narrow it down ok there is a more dangerous hassling of reporters around the world because of what the the questions that journalists have been asking of presidents and prime ministers to do with cove it when the money starts coming back into the media how do we make sure that what we would recognize as being true the new traditional media websites like your own aunt involved in a media extinction event because the funding of those traditional import on our web
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pages unless you're the big big hits is like c.n.n. the b.b.c. the washington post say the guardian newspaper as well you know you can't finance that so how do you make sure that the new traditional status quo media doesn't die out as well. i think you know 1st of all you have we have to put guardrails 'd on the technology on the social media platforms that are delivering the facts but are in an environment where by design i lie 'd laced with anger and hate actually spread faster and sure there are all the studies have shown that so journalists traditional journalists the mission of journalists we are not going to be able to fight that unless the tech is the guardrails are in place the 2nd is you know there are initiatives globally international fund for public interest media is going to try to raise a $1000000000.00 a year to help small and medium size independent news groups public interest media
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to survive you know as i'm an entrepreneur and i'll pick up still if i'm bout east valley of death we have to get through this valley of death and i think the last part of the corona virus is you know as we fight the virus in the real world this virus of lies in our information ecosystem we need to treat that with the same care as the virus in the real world because this infection real people the real people's world views changed and it will take years to get a shared reality back i think that's the biggest worry i have right now but without facts you can't have trust without trust we cannot solve any problems today maria briefly very quickly which i apologize because we have conversations backing up here on the news do we now live in a time where access to basic reliable accurate information is in effect a human right absolutely absolutely and that is a fantastic message
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a demand on were to press freedom day peter thank you maria really good to talk to you. as always a thought provoking conversation and congratulations on the award this we will talk to you again very soon take it. plenty more still to come here on the news for you being tooting as president announces tougher restrictions to try to get on top of a 2nd wave of covert 19 don't just say it's still not enough. controversial time for forms to show off the days of violent protests in colombia. and in sports offer a decade long waits these italian football fans are finally able to celebrate the title victory. pro british unionists marking 100 years since the creation of northern ireland for
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nationalists though there's nothing to celebrates they want the entire island of ireland unified under one irish flag under simmons reports from belfast. the drum beat of the flute small little islands 100 years of existence and the marches in defiance of code that regulations celebrates reading. a street away though you can see the underlying mood isn't happy many of these protesters feel like costs there's a lot of people in the pollo. they're not they're not criminals out there made out to be. false it's a pasta as well as a cultural but i think if that was even thought of the day that it will be focused what we did on the face of maybe a lot more. scenes views of i code by fellow band members marching all over this fastidious housing estates on the outskirts of. the police tried to get them
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to disperse. them. but they marched on under surveillance well above this isn't only to mock a 100 years since the birth of them all and it's aimed at the political close is the protestant church or are there. perhaps. it's a call for a return to the sort of hardline thinking of the late reverend ian paisley a firebrand preacher who founded the democratic unionist party that he could be he had kevin and year after year on the look want to keep on government and. the need the need there needs to be any structure rappers out in the working class people and tend to step down and that's one of the reasons for the ousting of alim foster 1st minister and de u.p.d. leader she may be replaced by evangelist edwin poots sitting beside her here he's a minister who's blamed catholics for spreading kovi. in west belfast republicans
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have a resentment to the 100 years celebration after the partition of holland and thousands of deaths on both sides that ensued and so more instability ahead on mcbride thinks he lost his wife for the liar a bombing lady 28 years ago and has campaigned for unity and i would just. just encourage and just a pain to our politicians to start to get around the table start to govern this place with us with a sense of just wanting to improve life for everybody not just their own particular tribe or particular organization or group or community where they're coming from you have to make it better for everyone. as long as people like dean feel alienated and others feel empowered the risk of violence still hangs over northern ireland. correspondent joins us live from belfast in northern ireland good morning good
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afternoon how likely is the prospect of a sustained peace and reconciliation. the peace situation is like this there is a new poll out now which is putting about a 3rd of the population in favor of reunification now that obviously isn't a majority but the one in 5 of the people don't know that a sort of new class appearing in northern ireland that neither favor of the nationalists or the unionists that is a new development but. the peace be protected when the political crisis is upon the more than a lot of people again right now there is something of a power vacuum in the building behind me that is stormont the northern ireland assembly is here and the d u p has a 1st minister who's resigned because of pressure pressure because of the
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grassroots you saw in that report wanting progress so in answer to your question the peace is reasonably secure but no the wall and which is a country built on anniversaries most of them violence is a place where it can look back rather than forward so easily and that means a lot of instability right now now the queen elizabeth the 2nd in making a tribute to the people of northern ireland and indeed the peacemakers for the good friday agreement 23 years ago taught to the diversity talked about the brave people who got that peace agreement a talked of the complex history now that history might be complex it's. also faithfully violent and so therefore there is a great deal of worry right now because at this disenchanted working class protestant majority these people feel they they've got their backs to the wall because of brecht's it because of that sea border economic border which separates
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the u.k. from the e.u. and leaves the northern ireland in the middle in effectively e.u. land in terms of trade and of course that's something of an attraction to many people in terms of having that photo about reunification of being members of the e.u. because northern ireland you must remember voted to remain in the un against its wishes bricks it took them out so you've got all of this dissent going on top of that you've got dissident republicans who are not happy with the situation continually the northern ireland police force is warning about them and then you have the union is the story of the loyalist paramilitaries also unhappy that is a recipe for violence unless there is political stability so a situation that is really a powder keg but remember is that one in 5 now wanting some
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sort of resolution to a more secure a more economically beneficial future and also the prospect of middle middle voters if you will associate with the alliance party which is a middle of the road party in the north a lot of which is making gains now there are elections next year in the in the northern ireland executive the assembly and there is worry about that but the alliance will probably do better at the expense of the d u p a possibly then you have shin fein the log largest party and a big shift of dimension here with nationalists in government all wanting to pull apart the northern ireland assembly room. zein pull out which would mean direct rule against which way of a way you look at it right now there is a vacuum and of many things anderson is there reporting live from our side stormed in belfast let's talk to donna kobach he teaches irish politics he's professor at
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dublin city university school of law and government he joins us on skype from dublin professor great to talk to your on the news hour so there are so many variables and competing issues here can i just ask you a really simple question how long until we see unification on the island of ireland . that was put to the people of northern ireland in a recent opinion poll and a majority said that they force irrespective of what they would like to see but they pour salt happening within a generation and i think that fear. it's more or less i think what most people are going with right now it may happen before that there are a lot of variables one is of course what happens in scotland as you know scotland goes to the polls next week and. if you have a momentum towards scottish independence that would have a profound impact on what happens in northern ireland because then you would have essentially unionism in northern ireland fighting for a union that no longer exists in its current form and unionism as as your reporter under simmons correctly assessed is under on president to pressure north martin and
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is a century old today but it's never been more vulnerable for those protestants in effect that's what they are the protestants in northern ireland who look to london before long before they would have a look to dublin can you explain to me or do we understand their anger over this kind of sleights of hand that boris johnson has pulled off when it comes to the border right down the middle of the irish sea because he managed to kind of sneak in under the wire because everyone was thinking about covert a few months ago and they're angry because they see that as them being cattle or corralled into a much closer relationship with dublin than it could ever be with london. that's true and that's a common theme in amongst loyalists among unionists of this fear of betrayal from london and it's a theme that has been there for for decades but you must remember that unionism or
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at least the majority of unionists campaigned for greggs that so you know there had to be a border somewhere as a result of leaving the single market in the customs union the e.u. had made it clear that it couldn't be on the island of ireland and johnson accepted this as part of negotiations and indeed that's why we have the the border now down the irish sea but northern arm has always been different norden and has always been an arena of conflict it was built on essentially a gerrymander in the 1920 s. a subversion of the the will is expressed in the 1918 general election which was overwhelmingly for national independence and for the century of its existence it's been you know marked by repression by discrimination by the troubles and it's been on life support from westminster for most of its existence it depends on huge subsidies from westminster estimated to be about 10000000000 pounds a year or so and it remains divided to date and irrespective of whether you have a united ireland or united kingdom those divisions will remain belfast has
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a kilometer after kilometer of what are you from mystically called peace lines keeping apart people who don't want to live together and that hasn't changed since the good friday agreement to try to groom and didn't resolve the conflict in many ways it just managed the conflict but the conflict remains irrespective of the constitutional outcome will we see this actually happen you want to use in the a generation at the top of a conversation as a generational shift in as much as there is a political generational shift in dublin as well you know martin mcguinness dead he's gone gerry adams former head of sinn fein but there was a point when they were very much in the public eye when people were saying look we will get unification on the 100 year anniversary not of the creation of northern ireland but on the 100 year anniversary of the east uprising because after the good friday agreement there was 'd a lot of speculation that they might manage to pull off unification by 2016 but it didn't happen why not. well the demographics are showing
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a trend in one direction only so whether it's 2016 or 2021 or 2031 bertie ahern for example the irish the shock who signed the good friday agreement was saying there should be a referendum on irish unification in 2028 stuff provision as they are in the good friday agreement but it's increasingly likely if you look at demographic trends the majority of schoolchildren for example the greater number of people up until university up until their thirty's and forty's are more likely to be of a nationalist disposition than the unionist position the only course where you find a strong pro-union majority are those who are advanced in years and then detention or so so the trend is in one direction and that's why the lawyers that you spoke to in the report are under simmons respond to can feel the tectonic shift occurring in me you could really feel that there is a critical juncture here where the political ground is moving underneath our feet in a way that it did a century ago when the united kingdom was broken up and a new state which has now the republic of ireland became independent we're seeing a similar thing now a century later
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a similar momentum towards change within the united kingdom i said but scotland looking likely to be going for independence in the next decades and indeed for perhaps moving towards united ireland so i think this is this all goes back to break that by the way as well because briggs had refocused minds on the constitutional issue in northern ireland as your report said it took the majority people out of the european union in order not against their will and the irony there is of course that breaks your thought that by by voting for greg that they were going to break up the european union in some way or subvert it but the only union that's really in jeopardy now is the united kingdom ok we must leave it there professor buckle in dublin good to talk to so i thank you very much. you're welcome peter still to come here on the news hour for you. time to dance at the u.k. music festival the entry fee a negative coronavirus test result and in sports the los angeles lakers suffered another disappointing loss as their star player struggles with injury.
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but. there we got some lovely sunshine across the pasta southern year through the mid it's rated it is the law as he said i want to show us best of the sunshine down towards the southeast and further north we got some rather wet weather some cold weather making its way across the baltic states snuffing over towards that western side of russia and we've got some very wet weather some proper bank holiday weather rolling in across the u.k. in the form of this deep area of low pressure so increasing clouds some very heavy rain some damaging winds possibly as we go on through the next 24 hours as i winds could gust around 100 kilometers per hour so i said something to watch out for a notice possibility some snow yes over the higher ground here as well temps isnt
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asco to around 7 celsius to 13 there for london let's look further east ahead of that cloud and rain around the baltic states moscow getting up to 18 celsius this on a par with monaco and for the time being as we go on into choose day to bat the across southern parts of france and west the weather just coming up across the other low countries already have low pressure just making its way into scandinavia and you must go cool so significantly a 10 degree drop as we go on through choose day but the waltz continues into the southeast athens with a high of 25. discover a world of difference. determination i'm talking about we need we are moving to. freedom we planned this keeps us in the shop so we just put it on the 16 people that corruption and get it going on compassion. i'll just 0
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welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news my name's peter told me your top stories india has reported more than 300000 new coronavirus infections for 12 straight day in the official death toll is now around 200 $19000.00 but experts say the true figure is likely to be much higher. the u.n. is calling for governments to respect the freedom of the press and its awarded its world press freedom prize to maria ressa an investigative journalist and co-founder of the rappler website in the philippines. one of myanmar as most powerful rebel groups the catchin independence army says it shot down a military helicopter near the town of momo fighting between the army and ethnic enclaves has intensified since the general seized power in february. latin america is struggling with a high demand for curb with 19 vaccines only a small number of people have received them in argentina where recorded cases have now passed 3000000 with few other options to respond the president says reimposing
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restrictions and curfews as daniel the reports now from point a cyrus. the numbers keep rising argentina like the rest of latin america is suffering a 2nd wave of coverage nineteen's infections and deaths the government has imposed a further 3 weeks of new tougher lockdown restrictions a nighttime curfew and schools returning to online classes your thirty's say their main aim is to relieve the strain on hospitals or is it don't say that you're not know nor support today the health system can cope with another patient not one more we've reached our limit but now. but of contaminated patients even if it doesn't go up has reached a breaking point it's overflowing we can keep extending measures every 15 days or 2 more years but what we've got to do is test and vaccinate. the vaccines has been slow sporadic the argentinian government says it's doing all it
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can to find new supplies but so far ne a small percentage of people have had both jabs the elderly and those with already serious health conditions in the meantime the only other option is to keep asking these people to be patient and cooperate. people need to be more aware and realize that our hospitals are full that the health workers are exhausted and we only to understand what we as citizens need to do to fight this. there have been demonstrations against the government measures the argentine economy already facing severe difficulties before the pandemic has been hit hard is it the mustn't get out we're trapped in a situation which we understand is for our own good but we've got no help from anyone to help us fight through the nomic. the constant requests to pack up early stay indoors keep your distance have become for many an annoying drone in the background even though they understand that it could be
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a matter of life or death 3000000 infections is a grim statistic in a horror story that's also includes growing unemployment homelessness and poverty figures that will only keep rising until the coronavirus is brought on the role. primarily to 01 cyrus. ok let's take a live update now on one of headlining stories here on the news helicopter being turned in me and our correspondent scott hyla joins us live from bangkok in neighboring thailand so do we have a claim of responsibility that we can trust scott and if we do what's your reading of it. yes it's from the kitchen independence army and they're one of the largest most powerful ethnic armed organizations inside myanmar peter and they have claimed that they shot down this helicopter they're saying it was a most likely a shoulder launched guided missile that brought down this helicopter they're claiming that we haven't heard anything from the tatmadaw that's the official name
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for the military in myanmar now peter this is part of this escalation we've seen of fighting between armed ethnic organizations that really occupy the borderlands or are surround the center parts of myanmar there are many different groups but the kitchin independence army is one that has really kind of been engaged in heavier battles more frequent battles with the army since the coup on february 1st so this is i guess kind of of the latest round if you will they claim pretty soon after i would say maybe 2 or 3 hours after they said they brought down this helicopter which was 10 am this morning that they did in fact bring it down this again they say is retaliation for airstrikes that happened overnight sunday into monday today and then also on monday morning they said they retaliated because the helicopter involved was attacking position their positions but also they said that earlier in the day there were fighter aircraft doing the same i mean we're talking here about such a big groups got one of the things that came away from the old world that we took
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away from the ass in the recent past the end summit was the way that all the local neighbors bordering and the joining me in mult they do not want what's going on in me and to descend or to pivot towards being a civil war but if you're talking about unarmed ethnic group successfully done in a helicopter that sounds like that could be the beginning of of something majorly difficult and serious. the thing when you look at you know again just to put a little bit of history on this these armed ethnic organizations have been fighting the central army of myanmar for decades about 7 decades actually being one of them the kitchen independence army the qur'an the held territory which is right along the border here with thailand we have also seen an uptick in violence there they actually over took a checkpoint outpost i should say from the myanmar army just last week and a pretty brazen attack a daytime attack they overtook that so we've seen these stepped up attacks by these
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armed ethnic organizations and again the really in the borderlands and again peter that's what you said that's why the region is concerned if this could become full full. out civil war inside myanmar one thing interesting that might even point further to that direction is yes you have these armed ethnic organizations that have been battling the army for decades again but also what you're seeing now is you know the protesters out on the streets again fighting against the germans are in their way fighting against the giants and they have started to see what the these ethnic groups have had to deal with over these centuries and these decades i should say and that's why they have been battling the central me and mar army so they are starting to see that they have no kindred spirits now they have a common enemy now we've seen pretty small cases those small numbers at least now some of those urban dwellers people who live in the cities who have been protesting on the streets across myanmar they are now training some of them a few 100 are now training with the armed ethnic organizations out in the jungles
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so you're seeing there there's a bridge now between what they're fighting for in the streets and now what they've been fighting for in the jungles for decades so now you seeing that they have a common goal if you will be interesting to see how they can organize that more but also what we're seeing is these armed ethnic organizations that have had experience they are starting to coordinate as well peter scott many thanks go to the reporting live from bangkok. kyrgyzstan's leader is calling for a cease fire with g.q. stan announced on saturday to be respected as displaced people have started to return home a violent dispute about a reservoir the both countries claim as their own has killed almost 40 people in the last week it's the heaviest fighting seen along the border of the former soviet republics charles stratford has more now from one village cook tosh. this is one of a number of villages along the curators and township border a border that in many areas like this isn't even marked villages up until a couple of days ago had civilian population made up of tactics and kirghiz most of
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which have been evacuated to the curious side of the tactics the tactics side of the border there is a great sense of unease calm yes the ceasefire does seem to be holding although we've heard reports of minor violations in other areas along this along this border area some of the people who were evacuated have begun to return to their destroyed properties we went with one family to see a home that had been completely leveled a very distraught family as you can imagine and one thing they kept saying and as as it has been echoed by other people you speak to in the villages that there was no animosity between the 2 communities before independence before the breakup of the soviet union 30 years ago but it's since independence that we've had this border dispute a border dispute remains unresolved. a decade of attacks
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a rebellion in the north and the pandemic economy in ruins business with its biggest trading partner in the region nigeria has in effect ground to a halt and people are worried there are a tougher time still to come. to dress reports from. these animals endure a sweltering 43 degree celsius weather waiting for buyers most of them have been here for weeks with only a few customers stopping by to make enquiries it's the same story of the cattle and camels section just a few 100 metres away traders say poor sellers only got worse recently. there's been little or no export to nigeria because of boko haram cutting off business with nigeria then coronavirus the rebellion and now the political uncertainty after the death of the president. for years chad has exported animals heights and skin traders than buy cheaper goods from countries like cameroon and especially nigeria
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not anymore boko haram attacks have cut off those supply routes. goods destined for nigeria and are being routed through eating into any profit at this market in germany a truck loads cartons of. one of the few products people here can afford to buy. mustard has been sitting at his shop all day and was unable to sell even a grain of rice. to get a job in business for us the stuff. is too expensive the audrey chaldean cannot afford to pay the extra cost. the discovery of oil in 2003 was hailed by the government as a new dourness cotton production the main export fell behind then oil prices crashed in 2020 due to convert 19 punching a big hole in government finances last year charged warned that it will have to
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default on commercial payment it's not only trade that's been crippled many hotels here in the capital like this $1.00 either operating well below their capacity off shut down altogether and that's what the unemployment in this landlocked country economists say any recovery will depend on how fast the country and that a 1000000000 and achieve political stability create. a unity government should quickly be put in place and political dialogue must start immediately the army must also quickly tackle insecurity that's how will revive the economy win back investors and re stablish trust among chaldeans. charts economic and political crisis made worse by high unemployment figures an estimated 75000 graduates in this country of 16000000 have no work experts warn unless the country find ways to engage them non-state actors hungry for power well. greece.
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germany. colombia's president is withdrawing a controversial tax reform proposal after days of violent protests across the capital even decay insisted the plan was necessary to maintain economic stability at least 6 people were killed as protesters for security forces. the reports from bogota. after 4 days of intensifying protests in widespread opposition from lawmakers president didn't have many options left but to withdraw his controversial tax reform. i'm asking congress to withdraw the law proposed by the finance ministry and urgently process a new law that is the fruit of consensus in order to a wide financial uncertainty the reform is not reform is a necessity to withdraw it or not was not the discussion the real discussion is to be able to guarantee the continued team of social programs. celebratory consider
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lasser's beating on pots and pans could be heard in the capitol just minutes after the announcement was friday dukie had already promised to make changes to the law removing the most controversial point like new taxes on food but in the face of a growing death toll looting an accusation of abuses by the police he pulled it all together. protestors hailed the announcement as a victory but they still have a long list of grievances and say that the protests will continue i mean if a lot of. there's also labor reform pension and health reform the issue of corruption increasing violence against community leaders the protests will continue and we will not grow tired some analysts in the country consider a tax reform necessary to stabilize colombia's finances in maintain its international debt credit but blame the government for pushing forward the bill nobody liked the government still court have prevented all the pain all. the
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suffering that went into the 1st 4 days of protests if it had at least listened to people if he had listened and consulted with the political parties if he had listened and consulted with public opinion but they decided this by everything to go ahead and introduce the reform in spite of their knowledge that it was deep popular some parts of that with role shows just how isolated president who is in a country increasingly on edge while he's hoping to gather support for a revise tax reform with less than a year to go before new elections the political reality on the streets and in congress might make it unlikely alison that i'm i'll just you know what the u.s. court battle begins later on monday which could have repercussions throughout the mobile tech world the company behind popular video game fortnight is taking on apple aiming to break the i phone makers grip on its store epic gains accuses apple
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of abusing its store monopoly and charging too much for commissions apple denies that its a fortnight from its online marketplace last year. hollywood stars including jennifer lopez and selena gomez have hosted a concert to raise money to help distribute cope with 19 vaccines worldwide prince harry also took part in what's called the vax live concert in los angeles as did the u.s. president joe biden the 1st lady who joined online organizers say it's the 1st large scale music event in the u.s. for a fully vaccinated audience since the pandemic began the event will be streamed online on saturday. i think that's why we're all here we want to come together which is exactly what we want the world to see we all want to come together for one thing just take it which. crowd of 5000 music fans to flock to the city of liverpool in the u.k. for one of the 1st live in person concerts there since the pandemic began the crowd
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was able to move around with no distancing or face masks but only if they tested negative for covert 19 before they arrived in stone home. imagine a time before masks and social distancing elbow greetings and hand sanitizer. on sunday in the band the blossoms played to a crowd of $5000.00 under a big top tent in liverpool sefton park it was the 1st live gig without restrictions in more than a year part of a series of trials hoping to point the way towards mascot the rings beyond the pandemic a resumption of life as we used to know it is it. does feel a bit uncomfortable almost but i just feel sad to see also happy that it's going to has been precautions tests and making sure that everyone's you know before we even got to the. people that's the negative entry required proof of
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a negative test result with tests provided to be taken during the following week. the weekend also saw liverpool's club scene rise temporarily from the dead $3000.00 people partied like it was 2019 does a really exciting opportunity for liverpool to be part of the events research programme which is the national program evaluating the impact of holding events in this way we're hoping to learn loads from the events that we've got this afternoon from the ones we've had over the last couple of days certainly around transmission of the virus but also around how people move and react within different venues what the airflow in the ventilation looks like within different venues and how you need to organize. events to be coped safe in the future other events have included football in front of actual fans the $8000.00 who were allowed to attend last weekend's calibur cup final at wembley hoping the days of canned crowd applause are numbered various test events will culminate at london's wembley stadium again when
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a quarter capacity crowd of $21000.00 fans will gather for football's f.a. cup final on may the 15th that'll be just 2 days before england reopens further with the planned resumption of international travel heading into a summer in which the government hopes all pandemic restrictions may be lifted by late june jona whole al-jazeera london. still to come here on the news hour for you the sports news munched united fans make their feelings clear but other club's owners actually listening and he's here with that story.
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thank you small as news with andy thank you so much pizza will manchester united fans have stolen their own stadium in a protest against the club's american arness many supporters want the glazer family it's what united stuff a sale and accuse them of loading debts on to the club are a small reports i and the anger that's been simmering for the best part of 2 decades boiled over at majestie united state and on sunday was the of. the protest was focused on the club's owners the american placer family. the most recent catalysts for supporter unrest was the pleasers in doozie asked him to join me ill fated european super league the owners quickly pulled out of the project and apologised to the fans the distrust remained to.
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supply the belief that saudi yes that's right and worth the club could just be my drive by the place to cash out for our 6 months you got the british you can say you are angry everyone is here today which you know culmination of anger from all those years decade and a half of being straight and i will be like this is a silly. silly gamble. malcolm glazer bought united in 2005 and quickly loaded debt on to the club while the glazer family have profited from the range meant the club has a debt of more than $600000000.00 they've got a huge debt so outstanding on the cup but they're extracting money out of the cup they're paying themselves personal dividends the pangs of personal bias since the time the members have taken money from the top and that's money the fans fear should be being spent on players they've ignored fans they've no protests. going back to the store but they don't they very rarely attain merchandise or they stay
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in america that happens and to take the profits and unfortunately the way that english football is structured means that there are perfectly totals to do that the fans have made their feelings clear but it's unlikely united donors are listening to closely fire a smile al-jazeera people spoke to that i should join when i was 18 a man found out a more positive reason to gather in public they've been celebrating the club's 1st sorry outside since 2000 and sent him to say it was going to say thanks to atalanta's failure to be to swallow on sunday eventis had worn the last 9 championships. now despite the salaries being decided the race for champions league places that still on you very boosted their chances by boots. c one couple 8 goals here by christian or an elder this when moving you very up in suits. a couple of goals from middle messi helps keep barcelona in the hunt for the spanish league
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title messes effets haven't seen come from behind 32 his 1st goal coming only after he just missed a penalty with 4 games left in the season pass at sea points behind leaders atletico madrid boss apply athletico next saturday we know that it's not completely in our home and that even winning the 12 points there is some chance that we will win the league but if you know we have to fight until the last day for us for our fi and for everyone now the indian premier league game between the knight riders and royal challengers bangalore has been perspiring to kolkata players have tested positive for coverage 19 well this is footage of the not rawest same travelling to chennai earlier on in the competition cricket's most lucrative league is carried on despite the rising number of cases in the country games are taking place i would not fans in attendance. the l.a. lakers suffered another disappointing loss this times that's runs or runs is worse
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than that le bron james was forced to leave the game early james did score 19 points before exiting it was just the 2nd game back after missing 20 games due to an ankle injury her own sorrows cari had a season i 37 points for pascoe succumbs scored 39 the raptors winning this one and once when she wants a 114th and a 3 game losing streak the lakers lost for the 6th time in 7 games lewis hamilton once again out in front in the race to win the formula one world championship the defending champion started 2nd on the grid at the portugal girl prix but managed to win ahead of red bulls max the staff and his mercedes team both syria bought us was 3rd leads the driver standings by 8 points after 3 races. and several drivers crashed out during the 1st lap of this indy car race in texas no serious injuries but sir none of those involved were able to carry on mexican drivers not irish promise you a ward when so on so when the reiss. i can't that is i suppose looking for
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a basket of hurts in the morning is never ending hell is here from 11 gene we have another news out of 13 season for the moment about. vaccines a promising paul thought of the pandemic but implementing the greatest inoculation in history is testing the global community around the world already a clear gap as the match between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating their populations from the geopolitics to the pure economics the misinformation and the latest developments what's going on here is very different
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for a start the boxing comes in the form of the nasal spray special coverage of the corona virus pandemic are not just. they traveled down thousands of kilometers from lawyer to pick berries. but to tie workers with exploitation in the forests way to want to waste investigates on al-jazeera. that the tories terraces of the football ultras what club loyalty become a violent confrontation when i was young when i was a football match we were crying because the fans got to go crazy but in indonesia one group of revolutionary supporters has taken a stand against male aggression with a con of alaska display of peace and unity to fans who make football ultras and angels on al-jazeera.
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now all jews are. india's embattled government looks at ways to produce more desperately record oxygen and school with $1000.00 infections and deaths continue to climb. my. the i'm having my kids in and this is al jazeera my from doha also coming up she's fought for press freedom in the philippines and now an investigative journalist and rappler c.e.o. maria ressa when a major international prize for her work.

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