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more than 200 people injured in violence between palestinian worship us and israeli police in occupied east jerusalem. hello i'm adrian said again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. on
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the prepared and under-resourced doctors in the poll warn of a major crisis as they face a corona virus infections. in brazil over a police raid which killed $28.00 people the united nations joins calls for an investigation. we're still digging out of an economic collapse that cost us $22000000.00. the u.s. posts disappointing job figures a sign that its recovery from the pandemic may be faltering. more than $200.00 people mostly palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police and 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 of ramadan many stayed on to demonstrate in support of palestinians
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facing eviction from their homes by jewish settlers victoria gate and he reports. confrontation inside the compound as israeli police. to disperse misname worshipping. 20 people all of a huge force the police. nothing more check on the way to find them out of the book and i want chipotle i think it is because i know you are you know not one. of them . police will say you stun grenades inside a clinic treating in japan a skinny and. fired
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tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters police say they responded up to stones bottles and fireworks with thrown at them was. was i could stay to say no it is jerusalem day goes on the last friday of the fasting month of ramadan the annual event is a protest against israel's rule of jerusalem not know how well are they suffered cuts there is an attempt not only to apply time division that alex a mosque but also to divide a looks most physically should not be done we must work to prevent it in the vigilantes are defending the mosque on behalf of the arab nation and the islamic nation. and here on friday thousands of muslim was schippers it answered the call from the islamic black the trust they don't break the compound under the authority of jordan to pray in and around al aksa. the compound is a constant point of contention in the palestinian israeli conflict but tensions in
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occupied east jerusalem have increased in recent weeks as palestinians have protested against israeli restrictions on access to parts of the city during ramadan and there's been a rest over an israeli court order to evict palestinian families in the shaikh ciaran neighborhood demonstrators tried to enter the neighborhood on friday as soldiers you sam bombs against the crowd and closed all entrances to the area the united nations has warned the post vixens 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 you know that are disproportionate firey. russian grenades and rubber bullets at unarmed protesters i don't want to blow off the u.s.
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says it's deeply concerned about the heightened tensions and called on all sides to what to deescalate them regional countries such as turkey capital have condemned friday's actions by israeli security forces as an attack on human rights victoria gate and be out as they are primed to turn this is a senior fellow at the center for american progress he says that there is a serious risk of further escalation on both sides that's the problem that's been in demick for a long time which is extremist voices actually not listening to those who are in the in the middle who if you look at what was happening some peaceful protests about addictions and shift your are and other parts of easter islam people using peaceful means to try to lift their voice up and then lift their voice up through social media and the the problem that is that those voices are then drowned out by more extremist voices that seek to use violence and other confrontational means
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that then lead to a spiraling to the situation that ends does no good for the common good for everybody who wants peace and security in jerusalem if there was more condemnation coming from both israeli and palestinian leaders of of those groups those extremist voices that seek to gain advantage in political advantage and lift their voice up if you had kind of nation from the israeli leadership and palestinian authority leaders. rather than those who seek to stoke the flames that would be a good thing but i really worry about what will happen in the next 36 to 48 hours and jerusalem. 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 off on jab for emergency use it's the 6th vaccine to get the agency stamp of approval it can now be added to the un backed kovacs scheme which distributes
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coronavirus vaccines to poorer nations an expert panel has recommended 2 doses for people who are 18 years old and above this afternoon the bluto gave emergency use listing to sign off on beijing's 19 vaccine making it the 6 vaccine to receive the validation for safety if you can see and quality this expand the list of vaccines that kovach come by and gives countries confidence to expedite their own regulatory approval and to import and. vaccine the poor as one of the countries receiving help from the kovacs came but just one percent of its population has been vaccinated it's warning of a major covert 19 crisis as daily cases hit a record high with hospitals running out of oxygen limbo reports now from cup
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london. capital of katmandu is in lockdown and its hospitals are struggling to cope with the surge in people infected by corona virus and. our emergency room had 5 beds but now we have 25 beds we have added 20 beds in our emergency room until now we have not returned anyone from here without providing them with oxygen but the situation is getting complicated near the border with india more workers from nepal are arriving home from indian cities stricken by corporate 19 and that's adding to the health crisis. staff in hospitals are forced to turn away patients as beds and medical supplies are in short supply. and many cremation sites are filling up as families say goodbye to their loved ones from a distance. northeast of cuts one to an increasing number of climbers arriving for
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the spring climbing season on everest are testing positive and being evacuated. so we try not to mingle and we used to have a lot of fun that base camp and would sing and dance but we're not doing any of that now and we're only speaking to those teams. with the corona virus outbreak in neighboring india growing suspending international flights and travelers like. are rushing to leave. as a last to worry i'm very lucky to be able to take a flight on the last day of them operating i'm so glad i'll be able to leave nepal workover 1000 is getting really bad. domestic flights were also halted earlier this week and the government has announced other measures to curb the corbett crisis they include finding more space to store the bodies of cord patients who've died and i voting oxygen cylinders from industrial use to hospitals funds are also being allocated to build oxygen plants and lockdowns in and around london are being
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extended by a week but health experts say all this has come too late and the red cross is warning that there could face a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. india's prime minister narendra modi is under growing pressure as we impose a nationwide lockdown as the country's outbreak spirals out of control a further 414000 cases were recorded on thursday and nearly 4000 deaths but experts fear the true number is actually far higher 3 people are dying every minute across the country some states have already announced lockdowns to control surging infection rates. oxfam india he says the crisis is much worse than what's being reported. the numbers are hugely under portrait both in terms of the number of cases and also deaths if you just speak to people in fact i'm heading of 3 to 4 dead in the network that i have with which means this imagine one
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person out of 1300000000 people is heading of 3 to 4 deaths in immediate serpens so the number is going to be very higher than what we're looking at this is an absolutely tragic unprecedented crisis that we are facing i think. be our moving gnome in that i did action with a bit into a bow i must say it's really ironic that india which is known as the pharmacy of the world is gasping for oxygen we may even now i think 21 percent of the vaccines have been produced in india but if you look at that actually vaccination india it's just around 2 percent people who got bought the japs so it is critical now that we don't listen to the farmer lobbies we cannot continue looking at profits and we need to look at a people's vaccine so this is absolutely the right step that we move to words we
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were on beat tinting and other who had related technologies which hopefully again. production through several other manufacturers not just in india but hopefully in several other countries to visit is going as a lockdown in 24 hours that's the latest measure to deal with the current virus which the prime minister there as described as the worst health crisis in the country's history this from the chief says the health care system could collapse mosques markets non-essential businesses will be closed for a week just as muslims mark the end of the fasting month of ramadan. england has unveiled a green list of countries where residents can visit without going into quarantine when they return the new rules will be based on the so-called traffic light system countries are ranked green amber or red based on their perceived coronavirus risk the rules will come into effect on may 17th the british transport secretary hopes it can help reunite families the summer will get
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a weather update next here on al-jazeera then allegations of genocide against ethiopia's military in the to grow region that video message smuggled out of the country and out taiwan's worst drought in decades is disrupting industries that range from car production to video games. for. temporary lateness it was temporarily the weather's fairly quiet in the u.s. the moment the last tranche of stalls has gone off or show we have got the couple a frontal system and this one still sucks winter in behind it or drags it off the rockies that's a line to watch at the southern end where it's gathering up this wall in the gulf you're bound to develop big storms and those orange openings suggest that in well
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oklahoma kansas nebraska probably across into missouri as well significant thunderstorms on their way slowly east new eventually the whole little spurs southern states and we get another round of potentially dangerous thunderstorms but the winter hasn't gone entirely is to with this known wyoming for example in colorado denver's down to about 40 degrees or i should just show you the pacific coast it's sunny optically warms northerly breeze but it is sunny all the same. now the sun's disappearing behind the clouds in cuba his fun year in the bahamas and frequent shots seem like the yarn in jamaica but the bigger ones of all like to be that south in for example guatemala and mexico a good pasta the northern half of the of the culls in south america is fairly rest in the moment but there's actually a bit of a chill breeze with these flowing north was through brazil.
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they traveled thousands of columbus it's hard to pick berries. but to tie workers mistakes like tyson in the forests of suede and when i went east investigates one outta there and. al-jazeera. went after. the. hello again this is al jazeera the main news this hour more than 200 people mostly palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police in occupied east
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jerusalem violence broke out of the al aqsa mosque and elsewhere in the city many muslims had gathered there for friday prayers and stayed on the demonstration support of palestinians facing eviction from their homes by jewish settlers. china's side of fun corona virus vaccine has become the latest to get approval for emergency use from the world health organization it means it can now be added to the un backed kovacs scheme which aims to ensure fairer distribution of vaccines. and coronavirus numbers in the poor have shot up as the crisis spills over from neighboring india really hard for tests coming back positive talk to say that hospitals are running out of bag beds and oxygen. the head of ethiopia's orthodox church says that if he of his actions in good i a province amount to genocide the comments by a board of a tireless were filmed on a mobile phone and then smuggled out of the country the ethic to grind says that
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his previous attempts to speak out of him blocked. you to get out his i'm not sure what the people did wrong what they crimes are not clear why they want to declare genocide on the people of the great i do not know why they want to white people to grow from the surface of the earth the whole world should know actually they do not this is just to remind them. the former president of the maldives is in a critical condition after being injured in a bomb a sock outside his home talk to say that mohamed nasheed who's the current speaker of parliament has had several operations at least were investigating what they call an act of terrorism a shade was the maldives 1st democratically elected president in 2008 and in 30 years of autocratic rule he was ousted in a coup in 2012 and then prevented from running again in 2018 because of criminal charges the supreme court in a supreme court justice in brazil is calling on the country's top prosecutor to
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investigate a police raid in rio de janeiro that left 28 people dead. is growing over tactics used by police during the bust on suspected drug traffickers of a slum on thursday it's the deadliest raid in the city in more than a decade activists are demanding to know why suspects were killed rather than arrested over easter my carrying out executions say that they only fired in self-defense. today we had during in brazil for 3 reasons lack of vaccines then care of it and also from hunger on top of that we see our black people dying in math because the police the united nations has joined calls for an independent investigation into the operation so it appears as you say that collectively. you know they're not succeeding in stopping these kind of really disturbing over the top lethal operations so something clearly is wrong now.
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as i mentioned the federal supreme court has been involved in him in the issue and had to issues specific ruling back in 2020 restricting police operations so you're right some things are working more a lot of things are not working and i think there probably needs to be a collective review or as he suggested. you know really a broad broad review of what is going wrong and how to fix it. is a city america's researcher at human rights watch he says that there's already evidence of a police cover up risky that we have thorough and that investigation into what happened. but there really sounds pretty bad actually i have to say we human rights watch have received credible abbie that is that bodies of victims were moved
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from the crime scene that the people what dragged that actually and the crime scene was not preserved and that's very important because you can lose. key evidence of what happened there the 1st you know our son on the 1st day oh they've missed the case and he sees that most crucial moment you know when when you have the evidence there you know you have the neighbors there you can interview them and you know i have to say police is not doing a whole job on and that you know this is something we have seen in many investigations in rio down nato 98 percent of these killings in rio and without any start of this. you know. i hope we that we don't say the same about this one because he's been you know he's obviously. are a shocking number of people being killed. and you know the force that this investigating the killings is the same force that committed the killings they see
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the police for former u.s. minneapolis police officer has been charged with federal civil rights offenses over the death of george floyd group of officers includes derek chervin who was convicted of floyd's murder last month and all accused of depriving george floyd of his constitutional rights including ignoring his basic medical needs the case last year sparked a global outcry against police brutality u.s. job loss figures are rising again to levels not seen since the heights of the coronavirus pandemic last here that's raising criticism of president joe biden's recovery plan with some employers saying that it's making the job market worse a white house correspondent kimberly hell could reports from washington. at this busy miami restaurant the biggest problem isn't finding customers but finding staff we would like to give a lot more. attention to the clients the column our service and we
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can't do that because we don't have enough personnel. 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 2 $166000.00 in april that's a fraction of the $1000000.00 plus jobs expected unemployment is up in the united states now 6 point one percent numbers not seen since early april of last year when cope with 19 lockdowns wiped out millions of jobs and took the jobless rate to a peak of more than 14 percent we knew this would be a sprint would 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 the actions we're taking our checks to people who are hurting support
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for small businesses for childcare and school. support to help 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 the infrastructure and create work i believe we will reach full employment
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next year some analysts also just criticism that government benefits are affecting hiring trends and discouraging a recovery in many parts contrie the virus does not is still not under control and there are lots of people who remain appropriate as i'm going back into group settings like restaurants and bars but president biden's republican critics have seen 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 the united kingdom's governing conservative party has scored a significant election victory in a town that's traditionally been a stronghold of its main opponent the conservatives to size of the one the vacant parliamentary seat of hope the pool that's been held by the opposition labor party for more than 50 is for a challenge. box by box bag by bag and vote by vote the heart of all counts
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through the night tallied up the size of this seat electoral realignment the conservatives ended up with twice as many votes as labor in a former industrial constituency that has been red for generations i mean credibly proud of the campaign my team and i have run in harlech poll. based on local issues of real concern to the community here and i would like to thank all of the people of this great town who've responded so positively to it i'm also immensely proud to be the 1st conservative m.p. in harley pulls the 57 is an inflatable boris johnson sprung up overnight anticipating the win with a victory in the bag on friday afternoon hard to pull out of the real thing this is a place that voted. breaks it. we got breaks it done and they were able to do other things thanks to that johnson is enjoying
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a bumper poll boost would be in working class pro breakfast areas like heart the pool that never used to vote for his party the u.k. successful covert vaccine program has certainly played a part but so have the struggles of the main opposition parties one of particles most famous sons doesn't exist in real life andy capp was a working class newspaper comic strip character and a neat encapsulation of labour's current electoral problems in the north now if had he could actually vote he probably never would have considered voting anything other than labor then in 2016 he might well have voted for breakfast and then the brits are party now though and he is most likely voting conservative. whether it be down to breakfast cove it all personality labor's new leader kid starmer hasn't yet managed to reconnect with the large parts of the country that deserted his party in the $2900.00 general election having labor its worst defeat since 1935 very often we'd be talking to ourselves instead of to the country and we've lost the trust of
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working people particular places like bill i intend to do whatever is necessary to fix that but to fix won't be easy it is something that is difficult but i don't think it's impossible and i think it's by thinking carefully about which vote might be within reach for the party and how to reconnect with those rather than trying to we know that everybody when some some of those photographs may be far away from. the results of the countries many of the local elections for councils mayors and assemblies will come in over the next few days that picture isn't yet as clear cut as hard to pull but so far it's looking strong for the conservatives to rory chalons al-jazeera hard to pull in northeast england iran the celebration says the 4th round of talks on the country's nuclear program a began with a new positive energy it's the latest gathering in vienna to try to revive the 2015
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nuclear agreement which crumbled after the us withdrew in 2018 washington says it's ready to lift many of its sanctions but ron says if we're rejoined until or sanctions are removed taiwan is hoping that they arrival of rain in the past few days will finally bring an end to its worst drought in decades it's thought to be the effect of changing climate in the western pacific but it's a phenomenon that has implications for high tech companies worldwide as well proprietor explains the water shortage being suffered by this small island off the coast of mainland china could have a global impact. taiwan's reservoirs normally fed by summer rains and typhoons storms like parched producing the worst drought in more than half a century to live this is it last year 2028 was the 1st time in 56 years that we didn't have a typhoon passing through as an island state that's our main source of water the
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impact is being felt island wide including taiwan's water hungry semiconductor industry like other companies t.s.m. see the world's biggest contract producer of microprocessors is making up the shortfall by trucking in water but while one tanker carries 20 tons the company needs 200000 tons of water daily. in addition to water trucks there's more recycling in the short term it's not a big problem but it is an uncertainty in the coming quarter. and it's an uncertainty that adds to a global shortage of microchips as companies in taiwan and here in south korea have tried to increase production to meet the demands of changing lifestyles caused by the pandemic and that's led to hold up in tech hungry industries like car manufacturing back in taiwan president citing when has called for greater efforts to source and conserve water while visiting the hardest hit central part of the
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island where high tech industries compete with local communities for it when dealing supplies that. we will try our best to keep people's lives from being to steps to much and at the same time to choose the impact on thai chung's industries . but farmers have also come up with their own solution as they look ahead to what should be the bountiful rains of spring and summer. prayers and offerings to the sea god s mazu thought in chinese culture to hold sway over their fortunes bright al-jazeera soul. it's good to have you with us i wager ian finnegan here in doha the headlines and i'll just terrible than 200 people mostly palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police in occupied east jerusalem and the muslims gathered for friday
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prayers stayed on to demonstrate in support of palestinians facing eviction from the homes by jewish settlers.

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