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does either. calls for calm after more than 200 people injured in violence between palestinian worshippers and israeli police at the axa most. the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a record day of deaths from corona virus in india several states into lockdown. also wreckage from a border conflict standard to look at russia's influence. taiwan's worst drought in almost half
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a century is affecting its want high flying tech industry. welcome to the program the un the us and e.u. are calling for restraint after a night of explosive violence that the al aksa mosque compound occupied east jerusalem more than 200 people were injured in clashes between palestinian worshippers and israeli police be reports. confrontation inside the compound as israeli police fire stun grenades to disperse muslim worshipers. at around 20 people all of a huge for the police. nothing more check on. it one of the book i think. i think you because i know what you are you know not one. of them.
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apparently. police all say use stun grenades inside a clinic treating in japan. tinian sky was. fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters police say they responded to stones bottles and fireworks with right at them was. out could stay the same now 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 they suffer cuts there is an attempt not only to apply time division at alex a mosque but also to divide a looks most physically should not be done we must work to prevent it in the
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vigilantes are defending the mosque on behalf of the arab nation and the islamic nation. and here on friday thousands of muslim was shipper's 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 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 the soldiers you sam 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
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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. 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 victoria gate and be al-jazeera. lubanga to list is a senior fellow at the center for american progress he says there is a 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
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the in the middle who if you look at what was happening some peaceful protests about evictions 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 was more condemnation coming from both israeli and palestinian leaders of those groups those extremist forces that seek to 'd 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
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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 officials try to bring the current virus outbreak under control and is the 3rd country after the u.s. and brazil to record more than $4000.00 deaths in a day and it's just recorded another 400000 factions experts say the actual numbers are much higher. in new delhi she reports that the situation in rural india is likely to be far worse than official reports suggest. the 400000 mark in fresh cases was breached for the 3rd straight day in a row and friday was also the deadliest day of during the pandemic for engine nearly 4200 people succumb to the virus on friday alone and number was considered to be highly. conservative 'd and under reported as the call
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for a national lockdown bruce states are imposing their own lock downs individually and we've seen a number of them do it this week this morning we saw coming out of this the southern state which is one of the hardest hardest hit states in the country impose a 2 week lockdown starting me 10 when all me essential activities are going to be allowed over the last 24 hours we saw similar strict lock downs in karnataka and go on being announced but the picture is really really dire in real india especially if you compare the caseload this time around versus the caseload during the 1st wave which was in september last year so this time the death toll and the caseload is 4 times higher than it was the last time really putting a lot of strain on the system that is already spread bam and we've been reporting on how delhi and the city of bengal nuru are really struggling to you know with medical facilities so we can only imagine what's happening in rural india where villages only have you know primary health care facilities at best barely any
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ventilators more than a 1000000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine have arrived in pakistan it's been supplied for free through the un but kovacs scheme pakistan is trying to curb the spread of the covert 19. by imposing a countrywide lockdown for 10 days. concerned about a surge in cases during the mystery of the 3rd holiday well how to how small from islamabad. indeed. especially because the situation unfolding and then a warning sign gets on because there's particular why this can cross the border and gone to pakistan and already confronted with that. also the fact that pakistan is struggling to get enough vaccines that pakistan was supposed to get 17000000000 . seems like because of
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a ban by india on the export of vaccines focused on what's great great a problem so although the government doesn't allow for the import of these vaccines by the private companies the government has also gone into an agreement which i know what i can sign. that there's going to be a growing protest which i need again as an institute of health like they did is going to be important to see how pakistan is able to. live this long down because the number of cases are rising it's putting a strain on bridges and launch speed drama don there was a spike in a number of cases. to ease restrictions so the government different needs to. questing that people. need to add to home and to also follow the actual create such social distancing going wearing the marsh. now the
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world health organization has approved the chinese made sign of farm jobs for emergency use it's the 6 the vaccine to get the agency stamp of approval it can be added to the u.n. but covert scheme which distributes coronavirus like seems to low and middle income countries health experts say adding chinese jobs to the list could be a game changer with poorer nations desperate to cope with 19 injections. the number of recorded infections in brazil since the start of the pandemic has topped 15000000 almost 79000 cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours in the country that turns the 2nd highest death toll in the world brazil's top court also approved a criminal investigation into president viable scenarios and think of the pandemic it could lead to his impeachment families in peru while being forced to consider burying their loved ones at home or cemeteries or overruns aprils been its deadliest month since the start of the pandemic with one person dying every 4 minutes experts believe the actual death toll between march and april may have been
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more than $60000.00 fewer than 2 percent of the population's been vaccinated kyrgyzstan and to g q stand have agreed to use a viet era maps to end a decades long border dispute at least 50 people were killed during fighting last month a ceasefire brokered by russia is now in place but moscow's role as chief mediator is being questioned charles strategy reports now from bishkek. in the aftermath of the worst fighting between kyrgyzstan and tajikistan since the border dispute started 30 years ago one question is being asked louder than others how did you stand launch what analysts say was a well planned military operation while on the same day this was happening in the capital to john by a russian defense minister sergei sure go meeting his tactic and killed his counterparts at a meeting of the collective security organization that's led by russia that seems
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to say something either about the complicity of russia or relative remove of russia from what's going on in central asia or maybe some other sinister interests being played out in moscow and that's the 1000000 dollar question a statue of lenin in the cutest capital bishkek. the soviet union is no more but russia remains both kyrgyzstan and tajikistan's number one ally and rewards them if they do what moscow wants kyrgyzstan's relationship with russia has suffered in recent years analysts say the moscow is unhappy with a decade and a half of political instability including 3 revolutions and some say the kremlin is concerned about the new president leaning too much towards its rival china president so there is a part of has for many killed is finch who conciliator it towards to stand after at
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least 34 of the estimated 50 people killed in the fighting were courteous but he needs russia's support to deescalate the situation and help find a lasting solution russia has called for calm and negotiations but some analysts say it's relatively weak response maybe because of what's happening in another of tajikistan's neighbors afghanistan. nato pulling out of afghanistan means the importance of stand for russia is growing as you can stand as russia's 1st line of defense both kyrgyzstan to stand hosting russian military bases but the one until he can stand is my own port and because russia understands that have to stand explodes because of spillover from afghanistan then the whole region could follow this doesn't mean that as you can stand has the right to conduct what was a planned military operation on the characters borders and russia will not outright condemn it the curious flag flies over bishkek but many are wondering how
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kyrgyzstan until you can stand it can reach a lasting solution to their border dispute and whether their mutual ally can or indeed wants to help chance trafford al-jazeera bishkek. well still ahead here on out of there. we're still digging out of an economic collapse that cost $22000000.00 john an indication the u.s. recovery from crying a virus maybe coltrane's also allegations of genocide against ethiopia's military in which a gray region in a video message smuggled out of the country those stories after the break. from the recent big showers in southeast asia produce from flash flooding in
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cambodia vietnam a little bit in thailand and me a lot of those showers appear to be not as big in the forecast more of a concentration in borneo in the central philippines less so in java but equally sumatra is quite rough tickly northern sumatra and again this has been a place of flash flooding recently it's seasonally correct just repeating words like to happen is also seasonally correct this sort of pattern need australia these frontal system coming from the south of the bite with potentially quite cold air behind the but not yet so you get a few showers out of it in new south wales queens and again concentrated in the northeast of course and with sydney getting a bit of an onshore breeze 24 degrees the real culls just stays over the water so you just getting a drop down to the teens in melbourne novel a with rain this for monday tasmania sees rain early and become sunny and it stays sunny in perth in new zealand there's a good influx of tropical air that's mixed with what's come in from before so this side of south island is looking pretty wet and the caribbean is get the 1st effect
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warming wind on the least side of high grounds of christchurch 25 is just to away from your may record and you may yet reach it. redrawing the geopolitical map for a post oil world where does that leave the oil producers colombia's tax revolt but the endian nation still needs to figure out how to cut its debt and where are the self-drive cogs. counting the cost. the us is always the people in the world people pay attention to what. bringing the news to the world.
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welcome back you're watching our desire with me so how wrong the reminder of our top news stories the u.n. the u.s. and e.u. are calling for calm after more than 200 people mostly palestinians were injured in violence with israeli police the al aksa most muslims and to the side for the last friday prayers of the holy month of ramadan. also several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the krona virus outbreak under control india's 3rd country after the u.s. and brazil to record more than $4000.00 deaths in a day. and more than a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine have arrived in pakistan as the country imposed a nationwide lockdown for 10 days it's an attempt to stop cases spreading to the muslim holiday of this. u.s.
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job loss figures are rising again to levels not seen since the height of the current virus pandemic and that's raising criticism of president joe biden's recovery plan with some employers saying it's made the job market worse our white house correspondent could be health care reports 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 other to their clients that are selling unemployment 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 $1000000.00 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 lock downs wiped out millions of jobs and took the jobless rate
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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 our. checks to people who are hurting support for small businesses for child care 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 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
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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 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 in the group settings like restaurants and bars but president biden's republican critics have seen 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
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a supreme court justice in brazil is calling for an investigation into a police raid that killed 28 people in rio de janeiro. that's going on grave a tactic seized by police during thursday's operation talking to traffickers in a slum but activists are demanding to know why suspects were killed rather than wrested police deny carrying out executions and say they fired in self-defense or systems more head on about as you today we had during in brazil for 3 reasons lack of vaccines then covert and also from hunger on top of facts we see are like people dying in massacres of the hundreds the police. says is a senior america's research on human rights watch he says there's evidence of a police coverup. it's key that we have a thorough brumpton independent investigation into all happened but their early signs are pretty bad actually i have to say we human rights watch have received
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credible evidence that bodies of victims were moved from the crime scene that the people were dragged 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 he says 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 good job and and that you know this is something we have seen in many investigations in rio janeiro 98 percent of all of these killings in rio and without any charges and you know. i hope that we don't say the same about this one because he's been you know he's obviously. are shocking number of people being
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killed. and you know the force that this investigating the killings is the same force that committed the killings is a civil police. scuffles have broken out in mexico city has a vigil for the 26 victims of a metro disaster. was. demonstrators for riot police as they try to move towards the location of monday's accident earlier people laid flowers and candles next to the collapsed rail line the president has announced an investigation into the accident but more than 30 people remain in hospital. that of ethiopia's orthodox church has accused government forces of carrying out genocide integrate province since november fighting between the central government and to great people's liberation front is believed to have killed thousands of people the comments by abu nima tires were filmed on a mobile phone and then smuggled out of the country the ethnic to ground says his
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previous attempts to speak out have been blocked in. his i'm not sure what the t. grow people do wrong what their crimes are i'm not clear why they want to declare genocide on the people of the great i do not know why they want to wipe the people to grow from the surface of the earth the whole world should not actually they do not this is just to remind them that hunger blacklist all says a for me to be an foreign minister he's also a member of the 2 great people's liberation front and he says the bishop has long spoken out against injustice and his words hold significant weight he knows for. the sake of. peace. that national. we don't know if they. get. sure it does feel to a field where even your infield group of initially this is. this.
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orthodox church and the house. or over all that exchange. of course is exposed because our ability has been silenced as he stated in the video. since the clintons knew him and cindy videos who need help in block. and has been thinking you have recently saying that. he will be will be will be damned if he sticks. despite his say he would do nothing line. in all of them and you are only the russian military to no end
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and are today not more because this is. well the son of south africa's late has really a king has been named as in the latest turn in a succession battle his mother queen named him in her will and that was read out after a memorial service for her queen mother perform the mean the zulu died at the age of 65 last week about that as she became interim successor to her husband various members of the royal family have been trying to claim the throne. pakistan's prime minister is on a 3 day visit to saudi arabia a mystery man relations with his longtime partner saudi crown prince mohammed bin so man welcome to bring car to the city of jeddah and the 2 countries are expected to sign new agreements to bolster trade and economic links divisions around india have been her frayed diplomatic ties in recent years. ethnic current fighters in miramar say they've captured and burned down
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a military outpost they say they seized the our place in the metro district after the garrison fled fighting between the qur'an ethnic group and the army has increased since the military topple the government in a coup 3 months ago we went national liberation army x. opposes the coup and has sheltered opposition figures evading arrest taiwan is hoping that recent rain will finally end its worst drought in decades the changing climate in the western pacific is believed to be because it's a phenomenon that has implications for high tech companies worldwide as rob mcbride 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
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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 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
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to source and conserve water while visiting the hardest hit central part of the 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 robert bright al-jazeera sold. now there's uncertainty as to where a large out of control section of a chinese rocket will end up most of the $23.00 ton booster section of the long march 5 b. rocket is expected to burn up when it really enters the atmosphere but any remaining pieces could fall anywhere on earth china says that
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a pretty as unlikely to cause any harm. your children with me said the reminder of our top stories the un the us and e.u. are calling for calm after more than 200 people mostly palestinians were injured in violence with israeli police at the al aksa mosque muslims and to the signed for the last friday prayers of the holy month of ramadan several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control india is the 3rd.

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