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allegations of genocide against ethiopia's military in the 2 gray region in a video message smuggled out of the country. and china dismisses concerns that day brief from one of its rockets could crash onto a populated areas of the earth. welcome to the program israeli security forces have fired tear gas at palestinian protesters the guards at israel border at night comes after more than $200.00 palestinians were injured on friday night when israeli police stormed the al aqsa mosque compound the u.n. u.s. and e.u. are calling for restraint after a night of violence in occupied east jerusalem victoria gate be reports. chaos on confrontation inside the al aqsa mosque compound as israeli police fire stun grenades to disperse muslim worship his. own
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20 people all of a day and huge for the police. nothing more supported. if you want to book an i pad you know what your post i think you did because i got you for you know not one . of them. apparently here. was one of them police also use stun grenades inside a clinic treating in japan a skinny and sky. high to gas and rubber bullets at protesters police say they responded up to stones bottles and fireworks with right at that. i could stay so now it is jerusalem day cruise on the last friday of the fasting month of ramadan the annual event is
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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 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 breaks 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 no rest day for an israeli court order to evict palestinian families in the shaikh ciaran neighborhood demonstrators tried to enter
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the neighborhood on friday as soldiers you sound bombs against the crowd and closed all entrances to the area the united nations has warned the forced 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 being 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 victoria gate and be al-jazeera. brian katulis a is
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a senior fellow at the center for american progress he says there's 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 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 stream as voices that seek to use violence and 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 interests and if there was more condemnation coming from both israeli and palestinian leaders of those groups those extremists voices that seek
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to 'd gain advantage in game political advantage to 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. and several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control india is the 3rd country after the u.s. and brazil to recalled more than $4000.00 deaths in a single day and it's just recorded another 400000 and factions experts say the actual numbers a much higher let's get more on this from our correspondent in new delhi of course despite the vaccine rollout that we've been talking about all we hear the numbers just aren't looking very good are they when it comes to infections and deaths.
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not at all as he said to where my stones crossed on friday yet again in terms of fresh cases 3rd straight day india seen more than 400000 fresh cases friday was also the deadliest day during the pandemic for india nearly 4200 people died of the virus making india the 1st country after the u.s. and brazil to cross that grim milestone in one single day the news that we're getting today is actually a bit of a welcome news coming in from the health ministry which is that patients and we know patients are scrambling to get beds and oxygen they do not need a positive test result to be admitted in a hospital or a care facility dedicated to covert patients this is a revision of an earlier policy which mandated this test result and of course now this means that if you are your family members suspect are suspicious of being
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a covert positive you would be admitted in a suspect ward this is again welcome because as we have been reporting the medical system has been pushed to the brink which includes the testing system you know tests are hard to come by the results are taking a while so now people who need care without the test result could actually go ahead and be admitted of course we look at dolly as a hot spot being the capital of the country but are we seeing any trends that are reflective of the same sort of scenario that delhi is experiencing. well what we've seen in delhi is a bit of a glimmer of hope which is the positivity rate has been dropping today the latest numbers show the positivity rate to be below 25 percent now a few weeks ago that number was around 35 to 36 percent unfortunately that is not true in different parts of the country today coming out of the state which is one
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of the hardest hit has announced a 2 week lockdown starting in may 10th because it recorded a record pace rise of around 26000 fresh cases on friday so only essential services will be allowed for the next 2 weeks starting sunday we've seen states like karnataka and go on an outing similar strict lock downs because cases have simply spiraled out of control in cannot cause we reported bengaluru has emerged as a very hot spot with you know the city which is the hardest hit so bengaluru today has more cases than what delhi had or even moved by had at their peak probably a little bit of the uptake thanks very much joining us from new delhi there. more than a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine have arrived in pakistan that's been supplying for free through the un but kovacs scheme pakistan's trying to curb the spread of covert 19 by imposing a countrywide lockdown for 10 days now is concerned about a surge in cases cheering the mystery that holiday to how small from the capital
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islamabad. the national command operations center which are dealing with day call with 19 pandemic here in pakistan has announced a strict lockdown across pakistan from today all business and across the country will be closed shops will be closed people will not be allowed to go into the markets to do their shopping for eat because the last time the government decided to aid the restriction that. by and the number of corporate 19 infection their fear is that pakistan will not be able to call because of a lack of rain delay there is an oxygen if the situation should be the like which n.b.a. confronting and therefore the authorities are wired warning the people that they much take that seriously although there is complacency when it comes to the people at large who are not following the. not wearing their mark and also congregating
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a large number linda market. 3rd wave age gauge race and the government of course and what it regardless of the situation escalates it will not be able to deal with this problem the head of ethiopia is orthodox churches accuse government forces of carrying out genocide integrate province since december 19th between the central government and to very people's liberation front is believed to have killed thousands of people the commons. were filmed on a mobile phone and then carried out of the country to grain says that his previous attempts to speak out of being 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 the 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. that hung up on
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a crystal since the former ethiopian foreign minister he's also a member of the to great people's liberation front but he says the bishop has all spoken out against injustice and his words hold significant weight in the us for completely and. at the same time. and move the international court if. we don't have to not only call them but take it from should they can assist this. surely cause huge weight in ethiopia and in group internationally this is this a good. orthodox church and he has a great or in orbit or that experience or of course has exposed what was up and they believe has been silenced as he stated in the video the lead our.
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family to send certain ones who try to ascend the indios who in media are going broke. and has been threatened have they been saying that. he will be the one beaten down if he sticks despite his say that he wouldn't not mine. places like. that and into it with them and good for our russian military no end and are today not more because this is getting so i think there's. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the u.k. and the e.u. take different paths when it comes to travel as the world struggles to reopen. we're still digging out of a new economic collapse that cost us $22000000.00
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jobs and an indication the u.s. recovery from coronavirus may be faltering those stories after the break. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways tokyo is about to get nicely warm in quite big contrast to the other coast of honshu so that looks like this cloud string up here was rain is going to divert and head out into the western pacific leaving us 27 degrees in tokyo it won't feel like that if you are on the north coast of honshu or long shore blustery wind and the cold that was in north korea is just about gone away now the sun's back out shower too is possible in beijing in fact there's a streak of clabbered probably increase the rain like you had in this part of china but the seasonal rain is further south and it's trying to fall over the yanks it
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was not really concentrated yet the next little lump is forming here one could have a wet and to monday as a result hong kong looks quite dry there was just a humid. i was that tally of the dangerous big sunder storms in the northeast of india physically as some and in bangladesh and down towards west bengal even a dish and there they are in the forecast there's an increasing likelihood of rain up through the coast from carola up to go and beyond and of course it's still hot in the northern plains the is staring little bit cold is not as bad as it was in their new delhi little real change from day to day the showers form during the day they don't tend to last overnight as i remind you again these are the dangerous ones. sponsible qatar airways. from the north of africa they crossed the mediterranean and made huge their home. building their future in a secular land. in the light of france's 2021 contentious so-called separatism the
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us we'll look back at the history of muslim immigration to the country in a 3 part series muslims of france episode 2 on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me cell running a reminder of our top stories israeli security forces have fired tear gas at palestinian protesters at the gaza israel border and it comes after more than $200.00 palestinians were injured on friday night when israeli police stormed the al aqsa mosque compound also 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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country after the u.s. and brazil to recall more than 4000 deaths in a day and the head of ethiopia is orthodox church has accused government forces of carrying out genocide into grey region since december fighting between the central government and tea great people's liberation front is believed to have killed thousands of people. space agencies say that they're uncertain where a large out of control section of a chinese rocket will end up many of the $23.00 tons of remnants of the long march 5 b. rocket are expected to burn upon re-entry into the atmosphere but some pieces could fall anywhere on earth adrian brown reports now from hong kong. china's space program has traveled a long way very quickly as it races to catch up with other nations but as the rockets and what they carry get bigger so to the debris they leave behind.
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more than a week ago a chinese long march 5 rocket was launched from heinen island carrying part of the country's 1st permanent space station. after its separation from the maggio the rocket began to all but the earth in a lump land trajectory as it slowly lost altitude now of 30 meters section is hurtling towards earth a 29000 kilometers an hour the u.s. military is tracking its. we don't have a plan to shoot the rocket there were hopeful that they're all. in a place where. or harm anyone awfully in the ocean or someplace like that under international guidelines rockets are supposed to return to earth in a controlled way but that's not happening this time i'm afraid of the remaining part of the rocket is right now without control but it has its trajectory and it
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has its old process re entering into the atmosphere and hopefully it will lead naturally without causing any damage or injury china makes no secret about its space ambitions over the next 18 months at least 10 more launches a planned to support its space station program here on earth cold war politics means that china can cooperate with other countries in space that's because the united states continues to bar china from participating in the international space station also backed by other countries who have fraught relations with beijing right now. china wants to become a major space power by 2030 and has demonstrated this in recent years with visits to the moon the launch of a long crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. is
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a professor of astrophysics at the university of warwick now he says scientists really cannot say where this will land but it's extremely unlikely to injure anyone there are predictions right now where it's going to. the areas or so large that it really could almost anywhere on the truck. so the current addictions are somewhere near you zealand probably a 1000 miles away from new zealand but really that's just an approximate location and it could be anywhere from well from madrid to the water to china itself i really don't know because it all depends on the state the atmosphere at that time and and the orientation of the rocket when it hits you atmosphere and things like that so normally when you launch into low earth orbit he use of a booster that doesn't actually attain sufficient velocity to go into orbit itself so you would launch it in a safe manner east coast of the u.s.
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and the rocket would just fall into the atlantic in this case it was launching a large part for the 1st part of the charlie space station and so it had to have to be a big rocket to get that large part into orbit and pull whatever reason it managed to attain just about the last the going to war with itself but the orbit it's reached is a very a little show that and so what that means is that it ends up brushing into the atmosphere for a partner or bit which slows it down slightly slightly and so consequently the orbiter carries or quickly england has unveiled a green list of 12 countries where residents can visit without going into quarantine when they return the new rules come into effect on may the 17th then will mean that international travel will no longer be illegal australia new zealand on the list even though they've both closed their borders to u.k. tourists the european union plans to allow tourism from countries with low
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interaction rates by mid june the 20th messina is the managing director of the world travel and tourism council she says the measures are too cautious. we certainly welcome any positive step towards the reopening of international travel but unfortunately we don't believe it is or not i mean our sector has been devastated by this pandemic as we know and more than 62000000 jobs have been lost globally so even the advanced and rate of the vaccination rollout here in the u.k. were hoping they would take a bit more of a risk based approach and hoping to see more countries particularly and the market within the e.u. and also the u.s. in that green list i mean 2020 the global economy suffered a drop of 3.7 percent in g.d.p. travel and tourism g.d.p. dropped by 49 percent so that's kind of the difference between the impact of your sector i mean this crisis has hit is 18 times harder than the global financial
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crisis so i mean it's certainly devastating wherever you see it across all of the different industries i mean airlines hotels absolutely and not only that but also yes it needs that are the backbone of this sector and all of the small businesses that are owned by women and other minorities that have been disproportionately affected by this crisis so unless we see very clear bold steps towards a reopening of travel in a safe way and all of these devastating hardship is going to continue repairing the damage done by the pandemic is the top priority as european union leaders meet in person for the 1st time this year during the so-called social summit in portugal discussing long term targets for employment equality and reducing poverty more immediate matters on the agenda include plans to shaq over 1000 vaccine technology
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with poor countries. top u.s. steel pipeline operator colonial says it shut its entire network after i signed for attack the covenants network transports 2 and a half 1000000 barrels of oil a day through almost 9000 kilometers of pipes across the u.s. clonal says it took it systems offline to contain what it called a threat now the company hasn't said when operations will was here and launched an investigation into the attack u.s. jobless figures are rising again to levels not seen since the heights of the krona virus pandemic last year and that's raising criticism of president joe biden's recovery plan with some employers saying it's worse than the job market a white house correspondent kimberly halkett reports now 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 lot more. attention to the to their clients the 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 i'm going back into 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 really help get al-jazeera the white house on time to get terrorists 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 and particularly women christensen he has more from the u.n. . 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
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civil society groups submitted ahead of time on video and 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 a brief period president of ecuador i don't see him fighting because i strongly believe. feeling. as being released and
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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 it works unity to be present our statement and be part of the process we wanted to do was send shock waves to the un 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 that i 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 a joint letter even if a country presents somebody as
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a candidate not necessarily because it becomes a kind. 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. with me said the reminder of our top stories israeli security forces have fired tear gas at palestinian protesters at the gaza israel border it comes after more than $200.00 palestinians were injured on friday night when israeli police stormed the mosque compound several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the crowd a virus outbreak under control india is the 3rd country after the u.s.
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