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sworn to serve and protect from hostile to hostile war hotel seeks bluth geopolitical conflicts from the perspective of iconic hotels on the frontline and former south african president jacob zuma goes on trial for corruption may on al-jazeera. more than 200 people injured in violence between palestinian worshippers and israeli police in occupied east jerusalem. hello i'm a very sort of get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up several states go into lockdown in india as it sees another day of record deaths and infections from the coronavirus. allegations of genocide against ethiopia's military and the
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t. grider region in a video message smuggled out of the country. and anger in brazil over a police raid which killed $28.00 people the united nations joins calls for an investigation. more than $200.00 people mostly palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police in occupied east jerusalem violence broke out at the al aqsa mosque and elsewhere in the city thousands of muslims had packed the site for the last friday prayers of ramadan many stayed on to demonstrate in support of palestinians who face eviction from their homes by jewish settlers victoria gate and be reports . confrontation into.
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the al aqsa mosque compound as is raided police by a stun grenades to disperse muslim worship his. own 20 people all of a day and you will. not be more supportive. because of the book and i think you know what you're part of i think you because i know what you do you know not one. of them. apparently. was one of them police also use stun grenades inside a clinic treating in japan astin ians. fied tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters police say they responded up to stones bottles and fireworks with thrown at them. i could stay so now it is jerusalem day goes 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 the how are they so there is an attempt not only to apply time division at al aqsa mosque but also to divide a looks most physically should not be done we must work to prevent it from 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 ship as it answered the call from the islamic whack the trust they don't break 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 during ramadan and there's been a rest. they were an israeli court order to evict palestinian families in the
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shaikh ciaran neighborhood demonstrators tried to enter the neighborhood on friday but 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 a violent tactic. that seeing you know that are disproportionate firey. russian grenades and rubber bullets at unarmed protesters i don't want to. cause 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. prime consider this is a senior fellow at the center for american progress he says there's 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 the fictions 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 problem that is that those voices are then drowned out by more extremist voices that seek to use violence in other confrontational means that then lead to a spiral into a situation that ends does no good for the common good for everybody who wants peace and security in jerusalem if there is more condemnation coming from both
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israeli and palestinian leaders of those groups those extremist voices that seek to gain advantage in game 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 you respond several states in india are going into lockdown as the country's corona virus outbreak continues to spiral out of control it's become the 3rd country after the u.s. in brazil to record $4000.00 deaths in a single day it's also just out in the 400000 infections but experts fear the truth is a much higher 3 people dying from cova 1900 in india every minute poverty mittal joins us now live from new delhi tell us more about these numbers and the states
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thing in india that going into their own lockdown. yes another day another grim record setting day for india both in terms of the case count and also in terms of the death count 3rd straight day when india crossed the grim milestone of 400000 fresh cases and worse is that friday was the deadliest year in the pandemic so far in the nation nearly 4200 deaths recorded on friday alone this makes india other 3rd country in the world after the u.s. and brazil to cross 4000 fresh debts in a day remember we've been reporting that both the case count as well as the death tally room in under reported there are growing calls for national lockdown but you will remember the prime minister a few weeks ago said that a national lockdown 8 will be his last resort in the meantime states have been
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announcing their own cubs sort of creeping coffee was if you will call fuse that have turned into complete lockdown and we've seen that in states today this morning the chief minister of tamil nadu has announced a 2 week lockdown starting may 10th when only essential activities will be allowed remember the manado is one of the 4 states that held elections in april and we are seeing a correlation and the rise in cases by the way for friday was the highest. for the mulatto as well and the election rallies that have been held in the state of these numbers is there any particular trend that's worrying the government. yes the health ministry has identified 2 trends if you when one is it has identified 30 districts where just seeing a really steep upward trend in terms of the case count the other worrying trend is the high positivity rate in dozens of states $24.00 states have
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a hard positivity rate of 15 percent positivity rate basically means the parsonage of people that test positive when you take a test so more than $1.00 people out of 10 are testing positive in those states the leader of the pack in in those 24 states is the small state of a tourism sort of hot spot if you will known for its beaches on friday go on announced lockdown because it's positivity rate is nearly 50 percent which means that nearly every alternate person that is testing for covert 19 in the state is testing positive we're also seeing a high positivity rate in the state of her ya know the union territory of poor the cherry which again held elections in april and we're also seeing a very high positivity read in west wing god again elections massive rallies including the prime minister himself if there is
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a glimmer of hope it is that debbie would stand has a very high a positive attitude or it is seeing a tad to really show a 8 really really small decrease in that positivity rate but it's a remains pretty high from the maternal reporting live from new delhi probably many thanks indeed families in peru are being forced to consider burying their loved ones at home with some interest overrun by the surgeon coronavirus to us a pool as for the country's deadliest month since the beginning of the pandemic with one post dying every 4 minutes experts believe the truth toll between march and april may be more than $60000.00 hospitals are overwhelmed the less than 2 percent of the population has been vaccinated. but of recorded infections in brazil since the start of the pandemic has topped 15000000 last month was the worst so far pushing deaths to well over 400000 the daily number of fatalities is slowing but remains high with more than 2100 reported on friday. another covered by
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a team vaccine will soon be widely available to help in the fight against the virus the world health organization has approved the chinese made side a fun job 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 coronavirus vaccines to poorer nations an expert panel has recommended 2 doses of people aged 18 and of this afternoon they. gave emergency use listing to sign off on beijing's 19 vaccine making need this 6 vaccine to receive their. full safety if you can see and quality these expand the least of vaccines that kovach come by and gives countries confidence to expedite their own regulatory approval
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and to import and. a vaccine ahead of ethiopia is also talks church says that ethiopia's actions into the gras province amount to genocide since november fighting between the central government and the to grow people's liberation front is believed to have killed thousands of people were comments by a buddha tires were filmed of a mobile phone and smuggled out of the country the ethnic to grant says that his previous attempts to speak have 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 to great i do not know why they want to wipe the people that he grabbed from the surface of the earth the whole world should know actually they do not this is just to remind them that behind governor christie is a former ethiopian minister and the prime minister's office is also a member of the to grab people's liberation front and says things support of the
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could sway opinion anything. you wait because you have only miss out there my guess is cyclical or speak against injustice in a school in the end a guinness and. we. as the 2nd started from the 9th to sit in. london and yet they didn't immediately begin and when you played if you have to win over and stayed inside courses. and know that game is genocide this is. what they. used to call injustice and he has spoken to the people in the us at the same time. move the international court if. we don't have to not only
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condemn it but take it from should they can this get this taking place in. the weather next here on al-jazeera then. we're still doing it out of an economic collapse. it cost us $22000000.00 jobs the u.s. posts disappointing job figures a sign that its recovery from the pandemic may be faltering. and how taiwan's worst drought in decades is disrupting industries that range car production to video gamers. from. a few days ago yemen was hit by unusual rain quite
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a long way eastwards and this was a result in a place where historic buildings cannot stand it these were mud bricks dried in the sun and easily affected by heavy right now the good news is no more there are thunderstorms in the mountains of yemen and probably some in amman otherwise the trend is for a fairly high temperature including in the levant there be a change of type with that wind coming up into northern egypt bringing a dust storm and eventually dropping temperatures but not in the immediate future your noses tristrem briefly rises to 36 ahead of it you won't be alone it's true of most cities down the coastline there is the thing swings in temps will drop a bit and the sand has dispersed that could be a boob will not from the end has jumped south more significant weather this in the southernmost point of africa in a cape ago has been significant dropping of rain here by significant i mean 6 times the average normal recorded for may in this time which is just to the east of cape argo hoss and it's still raining so there'll be more flooding as
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a result in the western cape all part of a system that it does expand east was this low eventually will move east was so it's got the same potential as it moves to the eastern cape eventually beyond that even to mozambique. for. around one percent effective city he is consumed by data centers many of which provide for most storage facilities what is also known as the cloud i'm in no way to see how once into is harnessing the energy of these fields to stow our digital information without a heavy cop in footprints i'm going to get off the north coast of the u.k. where the global green energy revolution is taking on a new element. tries on al-jazeera. cool to.
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cool. well again this is al-jazeera the main news this hour at least $205.00 people mostly palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police in occupied east jerusalem violence broke out at the al aqsa mosque and elsewhere in the city as of course there was a park the site for the last friday prayers of the holy month of ramadan. several states in india are going into lockdown as the country's corona virus outbreak continues to spiral out of control it's become the 3rd country after the u.s. in brazil to recall $4000.00 dead in a single day. and the head of ethiopia's orthodox churches describe ethiopia's actions in the to gripe province as genocide is a bit of a tire's comments were filmed on a mobile phone before being smuggled out of the country the ethic to cry and says
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that his previous attempts to speak out were blocked. a supreme court justice in brazil is calling on the country's top prosecutor to investigate a police raid in rio de janeiro that left 28 people dead. anger is growing over tactics used by police during the bust of a suspected drug traffickers at a slum on thursday it's the deadliest raid in the city and more than a decade activists are demotic to know why the suspects were killed rather than arrested police deny carrying out executions saying 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 of the hundreds of police the united nations has joined calls for an independent investigation into the operation. so it appears as
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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. as i mentioned the federal supreme court has been involved in him in the issue and i have to issues specific ruling back in 2020 restricted police operations so you're right some things are working more other things are not working and i think that probably needs to be a collective review recipe suggested. you know really a broad broad review of what is going wrong and how to fix it. is a see the america's research or a human rights watch and says that there's already evidence of a police coverup ski that we have thorough and that investigation
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into what happened. but there really sounds pretty bad actually i have to say we human rights watch have received credible evidence that bodies of victims were moved from the crime scene that the people were 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 of the investigation is 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 de nato 98 percent of all of these killings in rio and without any charges. and you know. i hope we that we don't say the
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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 the civil police fights in supporting somalia's whole position have withdrawn from the capital ending a tense standoff with pro-government troops they've been occupying several positions positions in mogadishu since late last month a dispute over delayed elections tricky triggered the country's worst political violence in years the fighters agreed to leave the city after a deal was reached this week. a former president of the motifs is in critical condition after being injured in a bomb attack outside his home doctors say that bahama nasheed who's the current speaker of parliament has had several operations at least were investigating what they call an act of terrorism the shade was the maldives 1st democratically elected president in 2008 ending 30 years of autocratic rule he was ousted in
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a coup in 2012 and prevented from running again in 2018 because of criminal charges . ethnic corrent fighters in myanmar say they've captured and burned down a military outpost they say that they seized the outpost a district office of the garrison fled fighting between the caret ethnic group and the army has increased since the military topple the government in a coup 3 months ago the correct national liberation army opposes the coup at a shelter the opposition figures who are evading arrest. iran is still a geisha and so is the 4th round of talks on the country's nuclear program of the gun with a new positive energy it's the latest gathering in vienna to try to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement which crumbled after the u.s. withdrew in 2018 washington says that it's ready to lift many of its sanctions but ron says that it won't rejoin until all sanctions are removed. the
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figures are rising again to levels not seen since the heights of the pandemic last year that's raising criticism of president joe biden's recovery plan with some employers saying it's making the job market worse a white house correspondent kimberly 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 can't 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 selling 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 $266000.00 in april that's a fraction of the $1000000.00 plus jobs expected unemployment is up in the united
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states now 6 point one percent numbers not seen since early april of last year would 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 of vital the actions we're taking our. checks to people who are hurting support for small businesses for childcare and school reopen support 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
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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 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'm going back into group settings like restaurants and bars but president
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biden's republican critics have seeing used 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 for former u.s. minneapolis police officers have been charged with federal civil rights offenses over the death of george floyd the group of officers includes derek chervin who was convicted of floyd's mudda last month but 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. vice president's comedy horace says that washington and mexico must work together to fight violence and corruption she's held virtual talks with mexico's president on that as manuel lopez obrador to discuss ways to tackle immigration from guatemala honduras no salvador the surge in migrants from the region known as the
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northern triangle is one of the biggest issues facing by the ministration our nation's faced serious challenges. being an obvious one and economic replications coming from and as well as the surge of migrants arriving at our shared border i together we must fight violence we must fight corruption and impunity it is in our country's mutual interest to provide immediate relief to the northern triangle and to address the root causes of migration taiwan is hoping that the arrival of rain in the past few days will finally bring an end to its worst droughts in decades it's thought to be the effect of a changing climate in the western pacific but it's a phenomenon that has implications for high tech companies worldwide as world mcbride explains the water shortage being suffered by this small island off the coast of mainland china could have
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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 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
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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 island where high tech industries compete with local communities for dwindling 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 robert bright
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al-jazeera sold. china says the daily brief from its latest rocket launch is unlikely to cause harm even though no one knows where or when it will come back to earth the remains of the long march 5 b. rockets have been signs of the above the united states u.s. space command is calling it an uncontrolled re-entry the rocket was launched just over a week ago carrying the 1st part of china's new space station that is expected to reenter earth's atmosphere over the weekend. interview with the soloway very unforgiving here in doha the headlines from al-jazeera at least 205 people of mostly palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police and all the parties to roussillon violence broke out of the al aqsa mosque and elsewhere in the city thousands of muslims had packed the site for the last friday prayers of the holy month of ramadan several states in india are
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going into lockdown as its corona virus outbreak continues to spiral out of control .

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