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a touching tale of family identity lifelong secrecy and reconciliation. becoming black eye witness documentary on al-jazeera. longing. dozens more injured in occupied east jerusalem israeli forces are accused of obstructing palestinian worship during the holiest night of ramadan. i'm sorry is a band this is al jazeera live from coming out. at least 55 people mostly schoolgirls are killed in a series of explosions in afghanistan. struggling to bury the dead through
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a 2nd wave of coronavirus leave cemeteries fall in hospitals overwhelmed. lost in space the out of control debris from a chinese rocket is said to 4 banks who were now. there's been more violence in occupied east jerusalem the israeli forces cracking down on palestinian protesters for a 2nd day the palestinian red crescent says at least 90 people were injured when police tried to clear muslims gathering on the most sacred night of ramadan fire forces reports from occupied east jerusalem. on the holiest load of ramadan violence on the streets of occupied east jerusalem. palestinian protesters threw water bottles israeli security forces use stun grenades foul smelling chemically
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laced water jets. and closer physical force. this man was beaten on the ground in front of us. and then i should away into the night with no attempt to detain him. it wasn't an isolated incident. so the period just before the round 3. relatively calm here and the mask escape in the last few minutes was a road runner who also another night of all the tension and scuffles broke worry is that another potentially violent night could ensue in the following hours that potential was fulfilled the anger here isn't just about the scenes from iraq so on friday when stun grenades we used inside the mosque itself it's been building over threats to forcibly evict palestinian families from their homes in the east jerusalem neighborhood of shakes. of i'm going to be up on
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a comment and i said if you look on the scene many people solidarity gave us the power to continue without peaceful resistance all that is peaceful solidarity against all if we also any organization or governments to stand with us and help prevent the false holy fictions in shaikh shara. nice help out of the way we are the rightful owners we are the owners of the land all we want is for them to stay away the forged papers they have to not make them the rightful owners i. it's been present since the start of the holy month when pandemic weary people found a major post prayers gathering point bought off and it's been exacerbated by interventions from the israeli far right we don't have no light at the end of that but we don't have a talent because there is no peace process east jerusalem is occupied by
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israeli sovereignty in jerusalem it hasn't been recognized by the international community so we are sitting on a volcano there are concerns of a further deterioration on monday thousands of jewish israelis a set to march through the old city's muslim quarter to mark the israeli siege of east jerusalem in 1967 on the same day as a supreme court hearing on the shakes if the. dangerous days ahead for a flashpoint city can be both a focal point and a fuse the conflict within and far beyond its streets are a force it out 0 occupied east jerusalem. on stuff about haughtiest secretary general of the palestinian national initiative political party he says this is the latest example of years of oppression but you see here is this lection of a system of racism and discrimination against palestinians not only we have been
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under occupation for more than 64 years but on top of that israel has established a system of apartheid and official discrimination and the vast majority of palestinians today article if it's only change it's a live man but support in prayer and almost as much as the christians would also predicted from participating in the eastern. during the easter time period to be in the church. because this is a discriminatory system and of course what you see here is protest against this discrimination and on top of that israel as you have indicated is trying to conduct ethnic cleansing in one of the major neighborhood cheers or that as much as they do that also in other neighborhoods in jerusalem so basically this is the evolution of a strong struggle against racism against apartheid and against the occupation that
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has lasted longer than anybody can tell that the israeli military says rockets have been fired towards israel from gaza in says it late launched ass strikes on a hamas military post in southern gaza hamas is merger wing said israel would pay a price for its treatment of palestinians in the occupied east jerusalem. at least 55 people mostly schoolgirls have been killed in multiple blasts outside the school in the afghan capital kabul more than 150 others were injured president bashar valley says the taliban was behind the attack but the armed group says eisel is to blame for your contra foray has bought from kabul should warn viewers report contains some graphic images. children screaming for their mothers scattered notebooks in casualty strong across the ground in western kabul. girls' school had been a place of safety education and hope for the future now the scene of an attack
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intended to create maximum casualties 3 explosions at about 5 30 pm local time the same time young women and girls were finishing school and streaming out of the gate dozens of wounded civilians were rushed to mohammad ali jinnah hospital many in a critical condition. unfortunately during the time when students were coming out of the school a powerful explosion happened and the number of our children will wind it and you can see that all the hospitals are full of victims. those who lost their lives lined up in the corridors a spam remembers checked to see they'd lost their loved ones concerned people caked up to donate blood because i'm not going to get to that but there were a lot of casualties there were a few male victims but most of them were female school students the victims were female school students the bodies were everywhere and some of the bodies were
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missing here the attack took place in duster bargee a predominately shia and huzzaing neighborhood these groups have often been at the receiving end of violence by armed groups in afghanistan due to religious and political differences rights groups say there has been a recent. surge in targeted killings of women and religious minorities no group has claimed responsibility for this attack but there is a circle of blame among. groups the taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility blaming eisel but president blame the armed groups saying the taliban have once again shown their unwillingness to resolve the crisis peacefully and. by as collating their legitimate war and violence in a country already torn apart by decades of war this attack will no doubt lead to more fear more anger and parents scared to send their children to school.
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try to virus deaths in india could reach 1000000 by the beginning of august that's the stark warning from the british medical journal the lancet the government is facing mounting criticism over its response to the country's accelerating outbreak and as part of the mittal reports from new delhi people are increasingly desperate to get their hands on life saving medical supplies. rajkumar patiently waits for his next ride his passengers are family members of a covert patient admitted to a new delhi hospital and there waiting to be taken home. is one of many drivers in india's capital who are using the auto rickshaws as ambulances and
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ferrying patients and their families for $300.00 during obviously one is scared but if everyone's children will stay inside their homes then who will go out and fight at the borders so all of us will have to come out of our homes and the common people by any possible means be that money we all will have to help each other. in the state of mind to predation javid khan sold his wife's children to buy medical equipment and personal protective equipment of people for people in need. such as water and on news channels that people are cutting their loved ones to hospitals on their shoulders or on 100 parks and some are so unfortunate. i thought that by not i come forward in the name of humanity and do something. and here in chennai patients waiting for a hospital bed are given help from this bus it's fitted with oxygen cylinders and concentrate by people who want to have the schools are closed so we
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from the schools can bus and picking 6 cylinders in each bus and to. make. 6 buses. 6. persons can sit over there. and call another when it's of laying out say. it's. a small step but with india accounting for nearly half the world's reported coronavirus infections nasty and a quarter of the deaths anything anyone can do to help is now significant as people struggle in the face of a 2nd wave the hope ministry is now saying patients no longer need a positive test result before being admitted to a covert care facility but al-jazeera. more than a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine have arrived in pakistan has been
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supplied free through the un backed kovacs scheme pakistan's trying to curb the spread of covert 19 by imposing a countrywide lockdown for 9 days it's concerned about the surge in cases during the most the middle 5th holiday struction zol the toughest since april last year. like other countries in latin america peru remains in the grip of a brutal 2nd wave of chrono virus infections lost loved ones over crowded hospitals and a painfully slow vaccine rollout plunging many people into despair and as daniel schorr and the reports cemeteries are struggling to bury her there. it was only when her case attracted national media attention the local cemetery found a place for guinea bell just as brother joyal she was desperate imagine any human family and we have decided to bury him in the garden in the front of my house because there's no other solution what could i do with my dead brother in my house with that smell grew in the last 2 months is recorded more than 15000 deaths from
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the covered $1000.00 virus health experts say the truth figure is probably much higher symmetries are overwhelmed despite doing all they can to accommodate the increased demand. as you can see the sun is ours symmetry is on the verge of collapse which is complicated by the situation the world is in so we're trying to adapt our teams to mitigate the situation in our cemeteries but despite their best efforts it's not enough not with nearly 2000000 people in peru infected and 62000 deaths. unfortunately although peru is a rich country my people are dying they are buried clandestinely in the hills by just digging a hole grooves underfunded health system is overwhelmed an oxygen is scarce and the vaccination program beset by corruption scandals which is reach less than 2 percent of the population of with little hope some have taken extreme measures in my life.
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i saw there were no places in the cemeteries and was worried that there was nowhere to take the dead nor money to bury them that is my concern and that's why i'm building this so my grave is ready. if not for many regions of latin america simply don't have the infrastructure to keep. note the shopping creases in covered 19 deaths earlier in the pandemic bodies were left on the streets in the ecuadorian city of black ill and the symmetries of the brazilian amazon city of man hours overflowed. oh that is the 2nd wave continues to bite dealing with the dead is again presenting a huge challenge the anguish why there al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera calls for justice says burials begin for those killed in one of rio de janeiro's most need for police raids. the green gold rush why the legalization of marijuana with a little to help poor communities in mexico looking to cash in. the
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. big building again for the most weekend and here they are it's not surprising it is spring and it is in the u.s. and we always bring yet gulf air against the residual winter cobra still sits in the rockies and still exists in the midwest so you've got big shout developing with potential for tonight is more likely is going to be heavy rain was freshly in for example in missouri down through kentucky down towards texas and right down to the gulf coast nashville has a very wet sunday as a result and a thunder iwan with temperatures dropping as things improve by monday more likely choose to think and there's the picture for monday the showers going south the thunderstorms are going south we've still got a big potential contrast but it's docx tricolored in the midwest and you just
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frosty barnard not for it but of 11 degrees or you get in chicago and 12 in toronto but that is an improvement on recent days after say. the still the potential for brief flash flooding in jamaica and cuba since a big show recently and this mass that came through the eastern caribbean is still with this big show seemed likely in northern mexico as well and just recently in rio harf a month's worth of rain in less than 24 hours. on counting the costs redrawing the geopolitical map for a post oil world but is that lead to be oil producers colombia's tax revolt but the end the nation still needs to figure out how to cut its debt and where are the self-drive cars. counting the cost on al-jazeera the u.s.
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a whole wave of in fact the people all right the world people pay attention to walk on here and i do see it is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines it's been more violence in occupied east jerusalem with israeli forces cracking down on palestinian protesters for a 2nd day the palestinian red crescent says at least 90 people were killed and police trying to clear most of this gathering the most sacred night of ramadan. 55 people mostly schoolgirls have been killed in multiple blasts outside the school in
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the afghan capital kabul president bashar vanny says the taliban was behind the attack but the armed group says i saw this the blame. the british medical journal the lancet is one coronavirus deaths in india could reach 1000000 by the beginning of august the government has been facing mounting criticism over its response to the country's exhilarating outbreak. leaders are urging the u.s. to lift restrictions on covert 19 vaccine exports the global vaccine shortage was one of the main items on the agenda as during the 1st in person summit of the year you council president charles michel says the white house proposal to suspend peyton's on vaccines would not be a magic bullet the leaders have also been discussing how to repair the economic damage done by the pandemic util don't ask a successful and your traditional gel we should work towards the vaccine becoming a global public product what does that mean firstly producing more that's why i'm
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calling directly on the united states to end the export ban on the vaccines but also on the components of these vaccines which is preventing production. the has posted bail for the release of georgia's jailed opposition leader in the hopes of ending a drawn out political crisis nick a male you know was arrested in february in a police raid on these party headquarters which led to protests and accusations of a government crackdown on dissent the political crisis was sparked by parliamentary polls last year which the opposition says were rigged for food shortages in parts of colombia as deliveries of caught up by hundreds of roadblocks set up during more than a week of anti-government protests police officers and the army of now been sent in to clear the blockades of protesters say their fight is far from over i descended on p.r.t. has more. a long line of cars waiting to go to a roadblock outside the capital for
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a week the youth of the traditionally conservative farming town of have slowed the movement of people in goods to a trickle adding their grievances to the young going national strike in colombia look to stop us from that what's happening here is an echo of what's happening at the national level people woke up to the issues of wealth distribution the country we are demanding a different world the sustainable ruler development no more transnational normal to a national searing our resources we want farmers with good living and working conditions down the road in the nearby town of luck another temporary road block organized by local truck drivers. we're all united the truck drivers are supporting the protests it's a just cause for all we are all affected the government says cities are running out of food because of us but the truth is that they started the earth with their fiscal reform since the start of the widespread enough times deadly street protests in the city's other groups in rural and provincial areas are also demanding action
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and poverty unemployment and police violence the roadblocks of produce shortages of food and gasoline the export of major commodities like coffee has been hard to compute. the government is deploying riot police in the army to lift the barricades all you look at. what colombia needs today is to get back to work to get vaccinated to open up opportunities and we're always open to listen to everyone and debated president. the roadblocks is the 1st step to start a negotiation with the protesters saying that they affect the rights of others but some farmers and tripper nurse here tell us that they support the strike the spite the losses like any other who owns a restaurant in town. we live off tourism and people have not been able to come we had to deal with the shortages but i. with the protest we want better health this
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is about the future of children president ducasse started a national conversation with different sectors of society to try to end the demonstrations but he has yet to meet with the leaders of the strike those on the streets they remain skeptical of the government's intentions in saved for the time being they don't see a solution in sight alison room. the death toll from a brazilian police raid in rio de janeiro has risen to $29.00 families started wearing those killed during the operation on thursday the action targeted suspected drug traffickers one of the city slums relatives are calling for justice saying their loved ones were victims of police brutality police denied carrying out the exit and say they acted in self-defense they don't get the best. i want justice i want justice for everybody not only the mothers of these families but these are the fathers of their family and we're suffering
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a lot because of what the police did to our children it wasn't right. and hundreds of protested in sao paolo holding a candlelight vigil they denounce the killings as illegal and the stark example of police violence most 3 black communities. now 2 suspects have been arrested in the maldives in connection with an explosion that critically wounded former president mohamed nasheed police have released security camera footage showing the she'd in his bodyguard walking through a narrow passage in approaching his car as the blast hits doctors say the 53 year old is now conscious and no longer on life support but still in intensive care no one has claimed responsibility for the attack fighting has resumed in ethiopia is to grow a region preventing international aid from reaching civilians caught up in the conflict between 2 grown rebels and the government. sporadic showing could be heard
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north of the town of a google or if the o.p.'s tree blocked the road to aid convoys including the u.n. world food program doctors without borders and world vision the military says it had safety concerns activists in chad are calling for more protests on sunday against what they're calling a military coup and saturday hundreds confronted police as they rallied against the transitional military council took control after president addressed davy died last month while fighting rebels the military is promising elections within 18 months successor is a member of the opposition in chad and president of the transformers political party he says repression is on the rise. our county has been the most subjected to a dinner stick kind of military coup that the confiscated power and we did people of we are marching because we don't want this a kind of deny stick transmission of power from father to son and without the
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willing of the people and last week and this week we are organized peaceful protests unfortunately more than 700. people were arrested and more than 10 people killed and even today our headquarters are a blog about a part of the army and my passport is confiscated and you know they are. shooting people so it's means that we are not moving in the right direction and this is the what the people of judge don't want this is a chart for a king it's not a chapter for democracy because we don't only the the leader of this military council is supposed to appoint people from the parliament people from the judiciary power people from the executive power which means that we are no longer a democracy so if you look at this chart then you'll understand that we are not moving on to underwrite that action and what we did people of just how to question
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is 1st to have a civil president and since the question of security is very important we can appoint a vice president in charge of the security so the people from the c.m.t. which is the military kind of council they can work with these devices presidency and more than at the security of the of the country. the united states is attempting to resolve the long running dispute over ethiopia's grand renaissance dam on the river nile u.s. envoy for the horn of africa jeffrey feltman is in sudan's capital khartoum for talks along with the head of the african union both sudan and egypt object to ethiopia filling the reservoir created by the dam saying it will disrupt their water supplies further downstream a feud over succession plans in the zulu royal family seems to have ended prince misuzu zulu will succeed is mother queen month she was named regent following the death of her husband we're listening in march but she died unexpectedly last week
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chaos when the prince was named successor in his mother's will police had to a scorched him to safety family opposition is since been withdrawn and has been returned to the palace on the other karla's been reelected for a 2nd term giving a boost to the opposition labor party after a disappointing run in local u.k. elections can won 55 percent of the vote became the 1st muslim mayor of a western capital when he was 1st elected in 2016. poor farmers in mexico are hoping to cash in as plans to legalize cannabis make their way through congress but critics of the reform say mainly favors multinational corporations under a pile of reports from mexico city. is a small village in central mexico it's a poor community lacking running water and electricity. villagers have relied on
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the sale of traditional medicines and more recently honey for their survival but it may drown in environmental degradation neither industry is viable anymore which is why they are looking to grow marijuana now legal under federal law as well up and. it's a medicine ill planned that treats many things so why not we would accept working with associations to use our fertile lands that are free of agro chemicals for cultivation of kind of banal which is medicine. many of you marijuana legalization as a potential boom for mexico's struggling economy a green gold rush to create jobs in poor areas and a new source of tax revenue for the government. policy experts however say the new reforms are not designed to benefit small communities like last. season so. unfortunately the side there of social justice to benefit rural communities who have been among the worst affected by the drug war seems more like fiction these communities will supposedly be given priority to obtain certain licenses for
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growing but the entry costs are too high for them to afford. critics of the new law see the mexican government has not only falsely promoted the legal marijuana initiative as an economic relief for poor communities but also a benefit to patients who depend on marijuana for medical use. the bed is has been treating her 8 year old son with medicinal cannabis oil for the last 6 years she says it's the only thing that's helped against his chronic epileptic seizures but the reform still makes it illegal to give minors products derived from cannabis little sample in the hand the white and the law leaves us out so we are left with no choice but to make this medical treatment for him and for many other children in mexico illegally and also cultivate illegally in order to obtain the oil extracts at home. the legal cannabis in mexico means recreational use will be decriminalized not everyone is pleased with the final outcome of the reform law in
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law hopes are still high the growing legal marijuana could lift the town out of poverty. unfortunately the law itself may not be entirely on their side for. al-jazeera mexico city. beijing says an out of control sanction of a chinese rocket is mostly broken up on reentry into earth's atmosphere the long march 5 rocket was launched 10 days ago carrying part of the country's 1st permanent space station. for the point of impact in the ocean somewhere southwest of india and sri lanka. let's take a look at some of the headlines here now just here and now still more violence in occupied east jerusalem with israeli forces cracking down on palestinian protesters for a 2nd day the palestinian president says.
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