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i'm not so beautiful north coast of the u.k. where the global green energy revolution is taking on new element. tries on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and. at least 178 people were injured in violence between palestinian worshippers and israeli police in occupied east jerusalem. ronald madison this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up warnings of
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a major coronavirus crisis in nepal across the border in india pressure grows on the prime minister to impose a nationwide lockdown. ahead of the ethiopian offer docs church describes ethiopia's actions in the tikrit region as genocide in a video smuggled out of the country. police in rio face protests after $25.00 people were killed in a raid on a favela united nations joins calls for an investigation. that have been violent scenes in occupied east jerusalem at least $178.00 palestinians and 6 israeli police officers have been injured in clashes at the al aqsa mosque compound and elsewhere in the city dozens of palestinian worshippers had packed into the mosque on the final friday of ramadan and many stayed on to protest in support of palestinians face. thing of fiction from their homes by
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jewish settlers reports. chaos on confrontation inside the al aqsa mosque compound as israeli police fire stun grenades to disperse muslim worship his. own 20 people all of a day and huge for the police. more supportive. of the book and i think you know what you're part of i think you because i know what you're for you know not one. of them. apparently. the police all say fied take gas and rubber bullets at palestinian protesters they say they responded after stones bottles and file what's with throwing it that. i could stay to save his jerusalem day cruise on the last friday of the fasting
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month of ramadan the annual event is a protest against israel's rule of jerusalem that the how they say there is an attempt not only to apply time division that al aqsa mosque but also to divide a looks most physically should not be done we must work to prevent it and the vigilantes are defending the mosque on behalf of the arab nation and the islamic nation. and he wrote friday thousands of his name was suppose it answered the call from the islamic whack the trust they don't pray to the compound under the authority of jordan to pray in and around. the compound is a constant point of contention in the palestinian israeli conflict but tensions in occupied east jerusalem have increased in recent weeks as palestinians have protested against israeli restrictions on access to parts of the city joining ramadan and there's been a. arrest over an israeli court order to evict palestinian families in the shaikh
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juwan neighborhood demonstrators tried to enter the neighborhood on friday the soldiers use sound bombs against the crowd and closed all entrances to the area the united nations has warned the post evictions could amount to war crimes this is a particularly sensitive moment and it was it was predictable and especially when israeli forces are using such violent tactics. that seeing you know that are disproportionate firey. russian grenades and rubber bullets at unarmed protesters. the u.s. says it's deeply concerned about the heightened tensions and called on all sides to what to deescalate them regional countries such as turkey and capital have condemned friday's actions by israeli security forces as an attack on human rights
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victoria gate and b. al-jazeera. and abraham has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank. we've been told that there are still ongoing clashes near the compound in the old city of jerusalem and we've been hearing from many palestinians who were going back to the occupied west bank from his troops and that they were subject to human league ation and torture at the checkpoint one of the checkpoints is separating druce and them from the occupied west bank and that they would where subject to. arrest as well so it seems to be the situation seems to be calming down at the moment but it could flare up again probably tomorrow or if it on monday when the israeli jewish israelis are marking the juice of the day by a march and this march is received by palestinians as a provocation and it is it as it shows that the israelis have the upper hand in
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this city and of course they already do for the palestinians they've long said that east jerusalem is going to be their capital president that past has its rate at that and said that this is the eternal capital of the palestinian people and he also urged the u.n. to hold a session an urgent session to provide protection to palestinians and it's also worth mentioning that on monday it is also considered late that's a other a very holy night the holiest night on. another covert 19 vaccine will soon be widely available to help in the fight against the virus the world health organization has approved the chinese made sign a farm it's the 5th vaccine to receive the agency's stamp of approval for emergency use it can now be added to the u.n. backed kovacs scheme which distributes coronavirus vaccines to poor nations an
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expert panel has recommended 2 doses for people who are 18 years old and above this afternoon they. gave emergency use listing to sign off on beijing's 19 vaccine making need the 6 vaccine to receive their validation for safety if you can see and quality these expand their list of vaccines that kovach come by and gives countries confidence to expedite their own regulatory approval and to import and. a vaccine. on a pole is one of the country's receiving vaccines from the kovacs skiing but only around one percent of the population has been inoculated it has $57.00 times more cases than it did a month ago and is reporting about 20 new infections
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a day for every 100000 people that's roughly what the situation was in india 2 weeks ago a lockdown has been extended in the capital cup and across the border in india by misaligned or more years under growing pressure to impose a nationwide lockdown some states have already announced law guns another 414000 cases or recorded on thursday as well as nearly 4000 deaths elizabeth proud of reports from new delhi. a doctor lies a car that 19 patient on her stomach so she can breathe more easily and helps her clear her chest others try to comfort a man who's in pain the patients in this hospital an utter predation might be suffering but in a state with only 125 beds for every 100000 people they're fortunate to be there less than 100 kilometers away from india's capital new delhi residents of one village in uttar pradesh tell our dizzier 40 people have died in the past 3 weeks
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that includes the village pharmacist who has refused admission to the nearest hospital 90 minutes drive away his son explains what happened. medically. there were no beds available for him at that hospital we tried other hospitals in the city but they refused to we took him to a nearby hospital in the district as his condition became worse but they would know when to leave as available and the doctor said that he had died my father was a fit and strong person he was just 45 years old if he had treatment on oxygen then perhaps he would have been alive. all those who the father couldn't find medical care he was tested for covert 19 a test opposite the village haven't been able to get. you know people are getting a feel for a few days and suddenly they are dying almost every home has
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a member who's here no covert testing is happening people are aware of the disease but don't have the means to get themselves tested to do it best they need to travel far and that isn't happening when people are dying without a test there's no desert difficult. and i'm a short saying who also lives in a village says that's how his 80 year old mother hoover he died. she had fever 2 days earlier and when she heard that my brother had passed away in an accident she fell further the fever became worse we couldn't take her to the city hospital we didn't have time to even try and give her some treatment. this is the health care center in chandra but it's closed 65 percent of india's population lives in rural areas villages like where there are a few a public hospitals that in the cities but india is facing a shortage not just of hospital beds and medical supplies but health care workers
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to be gone. in with and. with in food aid in the field over there. medical personnel in. a lot of equipment there because. there is only one doctor for every 20000 people in. hospitals in india's but just cities including here in the capital new delhi have been completely overwhelmed by the certain cases but it's widely believed that the situation is even worse in rural areas where most cases and deaths are under reported the possible contesting elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. the head of the ethiopians orthodox church says if your actions into very province amount to genocide the common mathias were filmed on a mobile phone and then smuggled out of the country i think his previous attempts
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to speak out i've been blocked. i'm not sure what the 2 great people did wrong what their crimes are i'm not clear why they want to declare genocide on the people of too great i do not know why they want to white people to go from the surface of the earth the whole world should know actually they do not this is just to remind them. the un says there have been more than 500 reported cases of sexual violence since the start of the conflict in northern ethiopia stingaree province most victims are struggling to cope with the psychological impacts morgan has been speaking to one survivor who's fled to sudan's guttering state. when fighting began in ethiopia stigler a region last november this woman who we are calling but it's a can to protect her identity says she was working in a farm in her hometown of. fearing for her life and that of her 2 year old son she says she fled in search of safety but she says she and her son ended up in
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a situation she'd never imagined. 4 military soldiers from the i am here a region got me and took me to a house there 2 of them raped me for a day they refused to give me food or water they beat me whenever i tried to run away i still suffer from back pain i begged them to stop and asked them why they were doing this to me they said it's because i'm from to grey but it took and now lives in a camp in sudan's state along with 20000 other refugees more than 63000 degrees have crossed the border since the start of the government offensive on the regional to great people's liberation front the conflict has left thousands killed or internally displaced aid agencies say at least 5000000 are in need of relief supplies and the united nations says at least 500 cases of sexual violence have been reported its groups say sexual violence and rape are used as weapons of war in the conflict their government blames the ground forces but survivors say its troops
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from the neighbor. and. the atrocities in what appeared to be revenge attacks if you will in eritrea leaders have also accused activists from the group people's liberation front of phreaking rape cases as a propaganda tool that's despite evidence of rain from survivors and health workers in the region dozens of cases have been documented in the refugee camps in sudan aid organizations say the real number is likely to be higher. you know reporting is everywhere and you know there is many if there is i think things like. we are facing now is funding we do our best. and we want every woman. every. sure that she feels safe and empowered but it took on says with the memories of the days she was sexually abused constantly haunting her
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she's finding it hard to move on. sometimes i lose the will to get out of my tent and sometimes i get nightmares and wake up crying before i realize that i'm no longer trapped in that house she says she hopes the day comes when she can put the horrors of the assault behind her but is worried how long it will take people. out of state. still had an al-jazeera of the us post disappointing job figures with scientists recovery from the pandemic might be faltering. at the next un secretary general the female pressure is mounting on the organization to open its selection process to more candidates particularly women. for the perfect jenny. sponsored plan. the sun's out in
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japan for the time being the seasonal rain is this line here and these showing itself to be active in the chinese enters a big area of fine weather and within that there is cold enough air to produce some snow from north korea temporarily and that will produce showers across the whole shoe which will just ate with the continued melting of what was a lot of winter snow as the chinese and the things well that rains of tapers that isn't sure thing too dramatic come sunday further south and throughout malaysia thailand the whole southeast asia brain seems pretty abundant now and big thunderstorms is rather lucky in most indonesia and at least in java does seasonally normal as are these thunderstorms up in the northeast of india and bangladesh these are growing the dangerous ones more reasonable thunderstorms seem likely in carola contact up through go as well and to some degree in addition further north is getting hotter and hotter typically 44 in russia style and the
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dust is up as the winds pick up with it but this is a good season the fairly normal we have recently seen some pretty wet weather in yemen is now reduced to just a few thunderstorms which pretty hot everywhere including the levant. sponsored poll qatar airways 100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw a map. but what was the lasting effects of this agreement there is a regional set to 6 because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people who have to live with the. psychs pick up lines in the sand on al-jazeera.
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we want to go to 0 remind of our top stories this hour at least $178.00 palestinians and 6 israeli police officers have been injured in clashes in occupied east jerusalem violence broke out at the al aqsa mosque and elsewhere in the city thousands of muslims have packed the site for the last friday prayers in the holy month of ramadan. the chinese covered 1000 vaccines sign a farm has become the 5th to receive the world health organization stamp of approval for emergency use this means it can now be added to the u.n. backed kovacs. the head of ethiopia has offered off church has described ethiopia has actions in the tikrit province as genocide the comments by a bull in the tires were filmed on a mobile phone before being smuggled out of the country the i think to greene says
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his previous attempts to speak out were blocked. i mean more military spokesman says the young to will not permit a southeast asian envoy to visit until the country is stable and ask an envoy was supposed to travel to the country as part of a 5 point consensus agreed between leaders of the association of southeast asian nations last month plans louis has more. the response by myanmar's military giunta in not allowing an ozzie an envoy to visit the country until the security and stability in a way shows just how impervious myanmar military rulers are to international pressure senior general mina lang had attended a special meeting by the association of southeast asian nations in jakarta last month but friday's announcement in a way shows myanmar military rulers will continue to do as they please and many in the international community including a group of more than 200 global organizations are urging a tougher stance earlier this week they host the un security council to impose an
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arms embargo on myanmar meanwhile anti coupe protests continue to take place across the country and clashes in ethnic army controlled areas are intensifying the latest reports we're hearing is that ethnic corrent fighters burned down a military outpost on friday morning now and this could lead to retaliate 3 strikes by the myanmar military which in turn could lead to people being displaced or trying to flee into neighboring thailand now myanmar has seen and still is seeing several long running conflicts between the military and ethnic armed groups but these have intensified since the coup in february and one of the reasons is because several of these ethnic armed groups have thrown their support behind anti crew protesters earlier this week the shadow government formed by opponents of the coup the have said that it will establish a people's defense force
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a sort of precursor to a federal union army and it said the purpose of this is to protect people from attacks by the myanmar military but analysts have said that this in a way could lead to a more protracted and long running conflict that could spread to more parts of the country. united nations is calling for an investigation into a police. ration in brazil that left at least 25 people dead it says officers used a disproportionate and unnecessary force in thursday's raid on suspected drug traffickers in rio de janeiro i know is growing over tactics used by police in the jacket easier for vela in the north of the city activists are demanding to know why suspects were killed rather than arrested but he's denying carrying out executions and saying they only fired in self-defense. well much of the anger over the killings is being directed at the president. it's one of several issues where he's under pressure including his handling of the pandemic and the economic fallout that
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isabel reports. they are part of the homeless workers' movement taking to the streets of sao paulo on friday to demand vaccines and food supply is what we need an answer for the pandemic in vaccines for everyone. they also burned effigies of president. and economy minister this who they blame for the desperate situation they say they're facing today that they're the good that we don't have food and we don't have the basics to survive what's he's also doing he's getting rich at the expense of the workers. but it's not just covert 19 political opponents are also blaming for thursday fabulous shootout in religion a deal between police and the alleged drug dealers which left more than 2 dozen people dead they say the law and order precedent has created a culture that tolerates extreme and unnecessary tactics by the police the united
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nations is demanding a full investigation into the incident you know they're not succeeding in stopping these kind of really disturbing over the top lethal operations so something clearly is wrong and. as i mentioned the. supreme court has been involved in him in the issue and i have visitors as if he really back in 2020 i restricted please operations so you're right some things are working or lot of things are not working. but it was when i was brushing off the criticism and the congressional probe of his covert $1000.00 response instead he's looking ahead to the next year presidential elections on thursday insisting that paper ballots be approved for use by congress. claims that the 2000. 18 elections conducted electronically were fraudulent and that he was forced to go to a 2nd round as a result. if 3 fifths of the parliament and the senate approves and in that sits
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there will be printed ballots in 2022 and that's it i'm not going to say anything else there will be a printed vote because without a printed vote it is a sign that there will be no election. but whether by paper or computer the election isn't scheduled until october next year giving the divisive and brazil ample time to prepare. u.s. jobless figures are rising again to numbers not seen since the height of the coronavirus pandemic last year is placing a spotlight on president joe biden's recovery plan with some employers saying it's making the job market worse white house correspondent kelly holcomb has more from washington d.c. . at this busy miami restaurant the biggest problem isn't finding customers but finding staff we would like to give a 5 lot more. attention to the to their clients the calmer more service and we
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can do that because we don't have enough personnel hoarding to ferret cheli many people simply don't want to work lots of people are so on employment and they're not coming back that could be one of the reasons the latest u.s. employment numbers show jobs rose by just 266000 in april that's a fraction of the 1000000 plus jobs expected i don't plummet is up in the united states now 6 point one percent numbers not seen since early april of last year when covert 19 lockdowns wiped out millions of jobs and took the jobless rate to a peak of more than 14 percent we knew this wouldn't be a sprint it be a marathon on friday the biden administration tried to put a positive spin on the disappointing numbers today's report just underscores in my view how vital the actions we're taking are. checks to people who are hurting
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support for small businesses for child care and school reopen support tell families put food on the table but some employers blame president biden's $1.00 trillion dollars american rescue plan for making the job market worse it pays unemployed workers $300.00 a week removing the incentive they say for workers to apply for jobs as the covert economy opens back up some restaurants like individually owned mcdonald's are even paying people to interview for their jobs the largest business lobbying group in the united states the chamber of commerce is also calling for an end to covert unemployment benefits. but the biden ministration says it's rescue plan was just the beginning and what's needed now it's 2 trillion dollar american jobs plan to rebuild infrastructure and create work i believe we will reach full employment next
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year some analysts also just you criticism that government benefits are affecting hiring trends and discouraging a recovery in many parts of the country the virus does not is still not under control and there are lots of people who remain appropriate as it turned out i mean back into group settings like restaurants and bars but president biden's republican critics have seen as to on the disappointing jobs numbers as proof they say that his american rescue plan is not working can't really help it al-jazeera the white house. until you go tell us has made his case for a 2nd term as u.n. secretary general but pressure is mounting to open the selection process to more candidates particularly women in the history of the international organization no woman has ever been named to the post christensen of me has more from the united
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nations. on the international political stage it's the equivalent of hitting the campaign trail thank you. antonio good terrace answering questions from member states and civil society groups submitted ahead of time on video he's making his case for a 2nd term as u.n. secretary general what's happening in the general assembly hall is what the united nations refers to as an informal interactive dialogue the idea was to make the secretary general selection process more open but given antonio good terrorise is the only candidate for the job the outcome seems to be a foregone conclusion a handful of applicants are challenging that assumption however 7 have declared their own candidacy to reach the un's top floor in 2022. why do you think you are qualified there's a reason among them rosalia are tejada the 1st woman vice president and for
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a brief period president of ecuador i don't see him fighting because i strongly believe me. feeling. as being released and united nations but her backers say she lacks a process to be heard forward is a london based advocacy group claiming thousands of supporters who demand change we know work unity to be present our statement and be part of the process we wanted to do was send shock waves to the un and the process and the lack of democracy hasn't evolved since its creation which is a huge problem in itself and an additional product problem is the fact that we've had 76 years of mao secretary generals the security council has an outsized role in the process its permanent members must agree on a candidate before referring him or her to the general assembly for approval if the 2 presidents so the general assembly and the security council doesn't write
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a joint letter even if a country presents somebody as a candidate not necessarily because it becomes a cat. so important thing is the joint letter to. the general assembly president concedes the process is not spelled out in the u.n. charter to terrorise has pointed out that more than half of his executive team are women for now it appears that's as close as any will get to leading this organization kristen salumi al jazeera the united nations. this is al jazeera these are the top stories of these 205 people mostly palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police in occupied east jerusalem while this broke out at the last and elsewhere in the city thousands of muslims have packed the site for the last friday prayers of the holy month of
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