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my company will tell. you what's most important to. understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible . your analogy we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. india calls in the army to help certain oxygen plants as the country accounts for nearly half the world's daily coronavirus case it's. really what you want is there a life my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next 30 minutes israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu misses a deadline to form a government giving his opponents a chance to end his political dominance also the former police officer convicted of
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murdering george floyd in the united states seeks a new trial and converging crises warning of more and more people are going hungry because of conflict climate change and covert 19. welcome to the program it was meant to be the 1st face to face meeting in 2 years of foreign ministers from the world's wealthiest industrialized nations but the g 7 meeting in london will now see guests in india joining virtually from their nearby hotel after 2 diplomats tested positive for corona virus the group of 7 wealthy democracies is discussing vaccines as they face growing pressure to share stockpiles g 7 ministers are arriving at lancaster house for the final day of the meeting in the british capital let's join leave barca outside the g 7 venue and neve we can assume that the indian diplomats were tested before they left india but
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worrying certainly that they've tested positive now in london. yeah it is concerning this was as you rightly say meant to be a return to face to face at least master mars diplomacy after a 2 year hiatus and delegates from the g 7 and other invited guests included india came here with high hopes that the british proceedings would be able to be continued in a secure fashion we know their delegates have been regularly tested we know that the meetings have taken place behind screens and the protocols were in place that's according to britain's vaccine minister but nevertheless news that 2 of the indian delegation have tested positive force in the entire delegation including for mr jay shanker to pull out from face to face negotiations and discussions carry on
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being involved in the g 7 talks video link up india of course was here to try and encourage the 7 nations to support india in its battle against coronavirus at the same time india for the u.k.'s become a pivotal country when it comes to britain's future trade ties and hopes of containing a more assertive china india recently was put on the red list red list of nations from the u.k. and the british prime minister boris johnson recently called off. a highly anticipated trade mission to india so this doesn't bode well for being able to nudge talk further forward unfortunately one step forward 2 steps back when it comes to. 'd a face to face level here and it does raise the question what sort of diplomatic freedom of movements and protocols that these very high ranking officials have at all levels of government and the diplomatic corps perhaps this is going to have to
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be reevaluated in the much wider global context if these meetings wherever they are in the world even if they are in london 2 are actually going to take place in the future. yeah you do get the sense that this g 7 was testing the water a little bit and although assurances were given from up high amongst british officials that all precautions were taken no corners were cut the testing was in place nevertheless 2 delegates testing positive from the indian delegation doesn't bode particularly well for similar meetings further down the line let's not forget that there are 2 other g 7 meetings planned in the next few weeks the g 7 finance ministers meeting at the beginning of june and then the 4 leaders summit in cornwall in mid june all of that will undoubtedly bring many many many foreign diplomats and delegations to countries like the u.k. and. raises big questions about whether or not it's too early really to be staging
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such high level events in a face to face capacity we'll continue to monitor events with you need through the day for the moment thanks very much nice work of course there in london while the official count of infections in india has surpassed 20000000 the country now accounts for one in 4 covert deaths throughout the world in the last week a lot of prodding now has more from the indian capital. we're outside one of india's biggest public hospitals where the army is setting up an oxygen generation plant it's using technology based on oxygen generation plants on its fighter jets and setting up $500.00 of these in the country over the next 3 months as hospitals struggle with shortages of oxygen 5 patients and the state of the truck and other places to lose their lives after the oxygen supply ran out in the southern city of bengal lou to hospitals
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a telling patients to make other arrangements but there are no intensive care unit beds left and the city like many of india's cities banga lose in the state of karnataka with 24 patients died when they are in the supply ran out on monday the state's former leader has written to prime minister in the interim or the asking him to prevent this tragedy and the government is facing a lot of criticism from across the country from many high courts the delhi high court said to the government that is living in an ivory tower of all people die from a lack of oxygen the. high court in the state of altered for the most populous but also one of its least developed where people are also dying because of shortages of hospital beds and oxygen but with the government the local government denies there are any shortages the a lot about high court said that it is a criminal act the deaths of people because of a lack of oxygen as a criminal act on the part of those who've been trusted to ensure its continuous
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supply. us president says he hopes that 70 percent of all our goals will have received at least one day's of the current virus vaccine by the 4th of july joe biden said independent state could when the united states goes back to normal. the lead in the tunnel is actually your broader right here so americans have sacrificed and served to make this progress possible showing the best of who we are as a people we need you we need you to bring it home get faction leave in 2 months let's celebrate our independence as a nation and independence misfires israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has run out of time to form a new government putting his political future in question lets you know he's been meeting opposition party leaders in an attempt to secure enough votes to form a coalition president rivlin rivet in the world now decide what to do next israel has gone through 4 inconclusive elections in the past 2 years how the force that
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has more from west jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu spent the last few hours of his mandate the period during which he's officially entitled to try to form a coalition government by making increasingly urgent you might say desperate appeals to fellow right wing party leader naftali bennett to rule out joining a so-called change bloc in the israeli parliament the knesset that wants to see an alternative government not featuring benjamin netanyahu and commit himself to forming a right wing coalition then you know has already offered bennett the opportunity to go 1st in a rotational prime minister arrangement if he agreed to such a deal however even if that happened there are real doubts that the 2 men could form a coalition featuring the 61 knesset seats required for it to be a functioning stable government equally there are doubts that if bennett joined the change bloc there would be enough seats on that side either so now the next public
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decision belongs to the president of israel riven rivlin he has 3 days to decide whether to give the next mandate to who is the opposition leader and has the next highest number of seats in the knesset after netanyahu or give it to bennett or simply decide to throw it open to the knesset more generally that would mean a 3 week deadline to form a coalition government and if none resulted from that it would trigger an automatic 5th election all of this leaves that you know in the most endangered position he's been since the start of this 4 election 2 year political crisis however he is far from out of it even without the mandate he could try to maneuver behind the scenes to try to get a coalition government that favored him he could try to obstruct anyone else from forming one potentially blaming them for leading israel to a 5th of the action and even if he were forced out and into opposition there's no guarantee that a government that would have to be made a very disparate elements would survive all that long so there would still be the
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prospect of another netanyahu come back. those ready forces of attack demonstrators knocking parties jerusalem stopped other protesters from entering the area but they were seemed forcefully detaining people in the occupied shit neighborhood as i recall ruling forcing several palestinian families to leave the neighborhood despite them having lived there for decades mr far back u.-t. of c secretary general of the palestinian national initiative he says israel is committing a crime against humanity. what's happening now in jerusalem is very dangerous because actually this is a process of this new cleansing now the israeli army and israeli government is conducting in there any hope she had felt but once when other parts of. this is practically a. crime is the population of. this act of ethnic cleansing is not think of an inflexion. policy. that israelis follow
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and the system must consolidated market hundreds of muslim. and not into this incident now under way for the us this is popular nonviolent resistance which is happening now in the solent in chairs iraq in particular but when nobody looks a little this number. actual. existence is going by and with the 1st round of points of the international level. including included transmitting the quds force with. a passionate criminal court because what we believe is that it is a process of an imminent act here and the world community must intervene and pressure israel to stop the process of ethnic cleansing this is not a new think it's part of a systematic approach that the governments have been following. the panix in
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jerusalem the right to eliminate the by. syrian state media say the country's their defenses have intercepted an israeli attack on several more western areas including the coastal city of latakia a number of explosions were heard along the mediterranean coast israel has recently hit targets inside syria where iranian backed fighters a base. still ahead here on al-jazeera 50 days of hunger strike supporters of a detained type protest leader fear for his health and the race to get home while the world's most populous muslim majority country has announced an internal travel ban ahead of the religious festival of be those stories after the break.
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hello there heavy rain has been plaguing in indochina and sumatra and that is continuing wednesday into thursday so for example areas like bangkok we've seen these severe thunderstorms drop impressive amounts of rain and when you get that much rain in such a short amount of time bangkok about 100 millimeters over 7 days the sewer systems just cannot keep up and you get this ponding in the road localized flooding i do think the heaviest pockets of rain will steer clear of bangkok on thursday really going to be centered over western sumatra right across borneo a heaviest rain will be in western australia we've got some showers lurking around perth temperature at $22.00 degrees but the bigger area of concern is this feed of moisture into new south wales so sydney drenching rain in the forecast for you on thursday not only heavy rain but strong winds but as we get towards saturday things will dry out temperature at $24.00 degrees across new zealand looking good high
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pressure in charge so this was the scene in gives been on wednesday where temperatures are running above average so has been can expect a high of 21 degrees on thursday plenty of sun in the forecast but by the weekend that will change. but. around one percent effective city is consumed by data centers many of which provide for mode storage facilities what is also known as the cloud i'm in no way to see how one center is harnessing the energy of these fields to stow our digital information without a heavy cop in footprints i'm going to beautiful north coast of the u.k. where the global green energy revolution is taking on a new element. of troy's on al-jazeera. routes the
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way to. welcome back you're watching officer with the whole run a reminder of our top stories the indian delegation to the g. 7 is self isolating in the u.k. and will attend the meetings virtually after 2 members tested positive the coronavirus the group of 7 wealthy democracies will discuss vaccines as they faced growing pressure to share stockpiles. and india has reported another record number of coronavirus deaths with almost 3800 in the past 24 hours is accounted for one in 4 cope with 19 deaths globally last week the government has rejected the opposition's calls for a national lockdown. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has run out of time to form a new coalition government putting his political future in question israel's had
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for inconclusive elections in the past 2 years. more and more people are facing acute food insecurity a new u.n. report says at least 150000000 people in 55 countries are at risk of hunger war and conflict are the main contributing factors but economic shocks exacerbated by the pandemic and climate change are also major causes yemen south sudan and parts of the kenya fast so a northern nigeria is said to be at all approaching catastrophic levels of food insecurity mohammed are reports. it is a survivor of the wall that's ravaged south sudan for years displaced many times during the conflict she now lives with her husband and 4 members of their extended family in an informal settlements in the border town in the volatile jungly region they receive some food from charities and supplement that with vegetables from
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a small garden they tend near their makeshift shelter and that again. i don't want our enemies always attacking us we have really suffered a lot we're always on the run they kidnap our people mostly women and children now our area is empty we lost our food during the floods now we face hunger i hope this will stop somewhere able to go back to normal life. but hunger is a global problem and it's growing every year a new report on food security provides green reading 150000000 people in 55 countries are in crisis say the office the un's world food program and the food and a cutter gonna zation that's an increase of what on 20000000 people from 201-913-3000 people in brooklyn a fossil south sudan and yemen also facing a catastrophe a need
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a giant action to prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods thousands of people also dying of hunger in yemen south sudan a month and judea the country is highlighted by the report as the was affected to a vote farm and to meet a giant food needs the world food program says $5500000000.00 will be required this year. covered 1000 has also shown the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor and how the most economically vulnerable households was thought to be the hardest hit in the food chain. who has undergone we are going to praise the war in the country the hunger in the country the food crisis is getting worse we pray to god to bring these to an end. and then we have climate change in sub-saharan africa where most of the world's food insecure leave the situation is only getting worse punishing countries that did little to cause the problem. here
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they don't speculate about the crisis they're suffering because of it once proud farmers and hard is have now been reduced to depending on foreign aid how about the world is either. in the u.s. for minneapolis police officer don't chauvinism asking for a new trial citing multiple grounds including jury misconduct lassman chauvin was convicted of 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as manslaughter for the killing of george floyd the white police officer was still kneeling on the unarmed black man's neck for more than 9 minutes during in the rest last may mike hanna has more. this motion was not at all an expected in fact it had been predicted that there would be an attempt by the defense to declare a mistrial in this particular case and the 4 page protest from the defense team basically hones in on 3 important issues one it criticizes the judge for failing to
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change the venue of the trial saying that it led to a tainted jury pool secondly it complains about the public around the case and thirdly in the main points that the defense makes the judge fail to sequester the jury for the entirety of the trial making them open to public comment or public issues on the better that they were adjudicating on so those are the main points that are brought up in the. proclamation made to the district court of minneapolis the defense also contends that there was jury misconduct in that the jury felt intimidated says the complaint it also maintains that the jury did not fully consider the instructions given to it by the judge in terms of defining between the 3 various charges that were laid against eric chauvin but at the same time the complaint alleges that the judge himself did not correctly brief the jury
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in terms of the procedures and in terms of the specific charges that were brought before the court so it is a multiple series of complaints which has now been submitted to the minneapolis district court it's now up to the court to decide where to go from here. on $10.00 facebook will announce whether it's suspension of donald trump will continue the tech firm down the former u.s. president 4 months ago after he was accused of inciting supporters to attack the capitol building on january the 6th some praised the decision while others accuse the company of censorship and applying double standards to world leaders. well this is a madrid returned the right wing government to power in regional elections conservative party leader is about diaz defying to pressure from the national government to impose covert lockdowns and kept open now the vote saw a record turnout despite the pandemic and tricia poll reports. rewarded for her
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defiance isabel diaz salusa leader of the rightwing popular party has won madrid's regional elections the p.p. has been in charge of spain's wealthiest region for 26 years i am yet i never got to today's the beginning of a new chapter in the history of spain because today from madrid from the starting point it will regain our pride s.n.p. mend it and in our you so defy the left wing national government a prime minister peter sanchez consistently resisted pressure to impose coppa 19 lock downs on the w.b. by not yet she has been brave when we had to face the pain that maybe she didn't hide like others did she made a stand she defended those who were in sick but also the people that had to go to work and earn money in the end we have to go on living in the something that i did before i think we need to enjoy life and not close ourselves in our homes like the socialist want us to so the popular party you need to win and long live are you so here you are you still there i have she campaigned on
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a simple slogan freedom which appealed to those with coded pretty simple messages tend to be very well be lectured. popular party. which is to say very much anybody from the center right. the right way which is not all that's a sector of the electorate. after a resoundingly defeat the leader of the left wing pajamas party public place yes says he's quitting politics altogether he resigned as deputy prime minister to stand in the madrid election. the capital has some of the loose. restrictions in europe 6 bars and restaurants have remained open despite infection rates far above the national average madrid has the highest percentage of occupied i.c.u. beds in the country nearly 45 percent. 3 years after a corruption scandal brought down the last popular party led government it remains the 2nd largest party after the ruling socialist tuesday's victory is likely to
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boost the party at a national level and influence locked down rebels far beyond madrid and al jazeera . one of the main protest leaders in thailand has been on a hunger strike now for 50 days but it. has been detained since february on charges of insulting the moment and judges have rejected multiple bail requests. for the 10th time a request for bail was submitted at bangkok's criminal court and for a 10th time pro reform protesters gathered outside. there there to support a product known as penguin and the movement calling for reform in the government and monarchy. has been detained since february and faces multiple charges of defaming the monarchy or less majesté each count carries a 15 year prison sentence one of those in the crowd is chief mother. i want to ask
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the president of the supreme court to direct this in your role or anybody who has power to police i'm saying explained a video reason to dismiss why my son doesn't get bell. the 22 year old has been on hunger strike for 50 days his personal protest against the court rejecting i spoke to a defiant in january just a few weeks before he was arrested he was not concerned about less majesty also known as article 1121 you know. less about just a is something that is written on a piece of toilet paper nobody stuff is this law no matter how hard they're trying to enforce this law it won't help suppress criticism of the monarchy. the human rights group amnesty international believes the strict has been weaponized by the authorities nearly 80 people have been recently charged including 6 children the reason that they do not get them get bail i'll be watching it with
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a tougher working guest like this has always seen as one of the political tools to put. one of the latest complaints filed against she followed this protest in front of a pharmaceutical firm owned by the king she was accusing the royal family of using its influence for the selection and manufacture of coded 1000 vaccines there's a section of society here that strongly supports the monarchy and they see this movement calling for reform within the monarchy as an attack on the foundation of thai culture to me out of. even though there have been many role families without a monarchy tolland would no longer be thailand and be a different country and i believe that the law isn't used to bully people who think differently it's based on facts. there are also health concerns for another protest leader. known as wrong she's been on hunger strike for more than a month after being denied bail 5 times. and what appears to be an attempt to keep
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protesters off the streets of stories continue to deny bail for the program former leadership i know but the move is having the opposite effect giving protesters a reason to gather scotland al-jazeera bangkok. indonesia's economy has shrunk for the 4th consecutive quarter is struggling to overcome a pandemic in just recession southeast asia's most populous country has close to 1700000 cases or more than 46000 deaths. but the government is going ahead with an internal travel ban from thursday thousands are trying to return to their home towns ahead of it now they're all says a cave of 19 infections will rise after the 5th there are celebrations as jessica washington reports. in needed asian capital thousands packed houses are sent in station hoping to get home before it's too late but the mood i'm going today before
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the start banning people from the 6th of may i'm afraid i won't be able to get home after that for the 2nd time indonesian authorities have banned the traditional mass exodus of workers before the celebrations you do not return to your home town do not go on holiday and your hometown. these travelers are trying to leave jakarta before the ban takes effect later this will. only business travelers and those with special exemptions will be permitted to travel under the restrictions under normal circumstances more than $20000000.00 intimations would travel back to their hometowns each 1st year at the chapel or switching to war but that's sort of a mass movement from happening this year the godless indonesian authorities say they have to anticipate it was uncovered 19 holes. in the past 12 months major holidays have coincided with an increase in cases and occupancy rates in
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intensive care units we should learn from what happened last year so that's why we want to limit the people mobility because of the potential impact it gets from one area there's. in recent weeks scenes of crowded markets have led to concerns that people are dropping their guard during the holiday season health experts warn the situation is far from under control at least in the region already have been the ones we already have the $670.00 we already have the sort of. the decision to cancel travel isn't popular with everyone so many this aid will be a period of financial hardship some transport workers have had their wages cut. the situation has had such a bad impact on my family my income now is only half of my expenditure for millions this time of year is difficult for other reasons for the 2nd year housekeeper in
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a washing will be away from her loved ones during what is normally a family celebration. because i'm so sad thinking about my family back home but i can't go i'm alone i am far away. but the government says it's putting safety 1st that people must be patient and stay put to protect themselves and their families jessica washington to syria to counter. what you have to say we sell robin a reminder of our top story india delegation to the g. 7 itself isolating in the u.k. i will attend the meetings virtually after 2 members tested positive for corona virus the group of 7 wealthy democracies will discuss vaccines as they face growing pressure to share stockpiles and india has reported another record number of trade virus starts with almost 3800 in the past 24 hours.
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