tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera May 10, 2021 12:00am-1:01am +03
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and that is going to stretch into shanghai and our threat 1st storms is along the western ghats for india and toward west bank all into bangladesh on monday. hello i'm maryam namazie or watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes israel's supremum court delays a decision on the eviction of 4 palestinian families a case that continues to fuel anger in east jerusalem. in afghanistan funerals are held for the victims of bomb blasts at a kabul school most of those killed were young. you restrictions in india to
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slow the spread of the coronavirus but experts argue only a mation wide lockdown will break the chain of transmission. and chinese rocket crashes safely back to that critics say the space agency gambled and got lucky. to have all the sports world champion lewis hamilton comes out on top in spain to seal the 98th when of his formula one korea. come to the news hour after days of escalating violence in occupied east jerusalem israel's supremum court says agree to delay monday's hearing on the planned forced evictions of palestinians from land claim. by jewish settlers 4 families have
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resisted a court order to leave their homes in the neighborhood and their fate has fueled growing protests in recent days or crowds are once again gathered close to the mosque with police using water cannons to disperse them israeli police of violently crackdown on protests over the past 2 days with dozens of palestinians injured since police stormed the mosque compound on friday protests of also been taking place in the neighborhood this is just north of the old city that's where the forced evictions of palestinians a jew to take place and it's been another focal point for people gathering to voice their opposition. but i'll speak our a force that is that damascus gate an occupied east jerusalem and joins us now and so are you when we spoke this time last night there were images of palestinians hauling water bottles and offices in in riot gear responding with with grenades
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what is the mood like there now. well i mean on one level it's similar we've seen both those things taking place again would have bottles on the dude on the steps behind us here some other objects as well pieces of wood and stones and indeed at some points. as one going on right now they're being quite young children as well as use getting very close to this police checkpoint area and throwing objects in so far the response from the israeli security forces has been less than what we saw on saturday certainly there has been use of the skunk water the chemical laced foul smelling water extensive use of stun grenades in this area around here as well one journalist we were close to she was injured in the leg by a fragment from one of those. but. in terms of the sort of face to face close
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quarters physical violence that we saw taking place on saturday there's been less of that from an observer's point of view it does look as if there's been some change in the security forces strategy certainly there have been concerns about this continuing build up of tension and night after night of pretty serious skirmishes and violence and now we have this decision from the supreme court to have the hearing that was due to take place on monday about the appeal on the evictions from shakespeare or that has now been put off for a period where decision has to be made within the next 30 days when to have that so it could be longer than a 30 day delay it gives a little bit of room for things to calm down however we also have another significant date on monday jerusalem day as it's known to jewish israelis we see religious nationalist right wingers especially marching through the muslim quarter waving israeli flags singing dancing chanting if that takes place in the same way
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that it has in previous years that could be another serious flashpoint all right so tell us about it if you can about the demographic complection then of the people who a gathering there and and why they want to be there. well you know it's largely young men but there are also young women around there were some families after prayers as well the numbers are significantly reduced from what we saw on saturday night which was of course a lot of color the most holy night of the it was muslim holy month of ramadan when there were $90000.00 people inside the locks a mosque praying and then so obviously very many coming out and congregating here as well so the numbers are down it is largely younger men and some children and some of them are getting pretty close to the israeli security forces as i say throwing objects and there's been some some pretty close quarters
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attempts to engage in in a pretty obvious way so far although the security forces have been responding with with charges from the skunk water cannon from the horse back security forces as well and as i say many stun grenades we haven't seen the same amount of scuffling on the streets hand in hand with groups of israeli policeman wrestling people to the ground and beating them we saw a lot of that last night there was a lot of criticism of it it does seem that there's been some change for now at least hard to predict how long it will last some change in their approach thank you from occupied east jerusalem high force that joining us there so i'm now joined by skype a by david hearst founder and editor in chief of the online news outlet middle east i and david how would how would you describe the sort of depth of feeling in jerusalem right now and the nature of these protests and gatherings. well there are
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really 2 layers layers all of the protests this what's been happening day in day out. which the international media really have been covering out march. the addictions the also the demolitions all houses which don't have planning permission which is very difficult to get and the sort of demographic pressure change slummy slice tactics of families being forced out of traditionally arab areas by jewish settlers backed by all the organs of the israeli state. their stats and there is also. the events of ramadan not. the night of power as we talked about. and the the yearly praying that goes on there was a there was a big explosion when. a flashpoint on the. the
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steps towards damascus gate which initially the police force to try to close saying talking about restrictions which is a hangover from last year and then. that blew into a confrontation so there's a lot of fuel in the air and it just takes one to use quarks and clashes to set the whole thing off what's different i think about this year and these demonstrations is that it involves a sort of new generation of protesters. if you look carefully at who who who is protesting they're not hamas they're not necessarily conservative religious and they're not. from the west bank they are actually what we would call $948.00 protestants and they come from everywhere they come from africa and they come from the middle class. and they are the boston or they walk in. there's there's there's
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a new. radicalisation all these roadies would call these radios and what we would call. palestinians and that's different about this this this new generation it feels different it feels leaderless it also feels fearless and it also has its own movement. right so what you seem to be describing you've got a series of events obviously the long term incredible significance of jerusalem but then what we've seen around the legality of these evictions and the frustration and sense of hopelessness over that but then you describe there this this intensity and momentum and fearless ness mongst a different generation that we've not seen before and it it's not happening in in the west bank in gaza or it's all with in jerusalem. yeah i wanted it in the west bank gaza suppressed i mean in and in the west bank but but they are they are following it's been and then and. and there and i mean. just to remind our our our
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audience one of the reasons why mahmoud abbas the palestinian president cancel all suspended elections was because israel refused to allow drew some rights to to vote jerusalem's become very very much the sort of epicenter of of all of this phase of the conflict. and it's the the position or even those arab states that have normalized relations with. israel is that the status quo in interest them is is being changed and they're right they are i mean i think the legality of these of actions in international law is very very dubious in israel or they they they now talk of the family says tenants to israeli settlers what you should so she
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a sions who persuaded the courts in earlier hearings that they own the land pre 948. this is not recognized in international law in international law this is this is as you said an illegal occupation so those are 2 totally different sets of. of legal norms being used and what undoubtedly is happening is that whether it's a little more not. there's a creeping. movement of settlers in arab areas joe biden was very clear about this is a candid he said settlements should stop the next question we should ask him is as president are you not prepared to say again to israel what you said as a candidate for the presidency. well indeed it's a new administration in a new president but
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a great deal has happened since 2017 we if anything have seen israel become more of a player in the region as we see the normalization and a new dime of the dynamism and its relationship with arab states desire not weaken u.s. leverage our should increase it. and. if you look for instance of states of the arab states that. normalize relations with israel there are also costs what's going to say it affects them look at the statements the bahrain has said or or indeed united arab emirates they get the idea that the state's interest is changing and it affects their relationship with israel as well. i think i think grew to a new dynamic and as we said. israel can't do absolutely what it wants in the way it wants. and i think it views an organization are going to produce hard with our
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states as an instrument an instrument for for for getting its own way but i don't think that's where it's going to play out thank you very much from the middle east i dated her best thank you or protesters across the world are calling for an end to the occupation of palestine where the scenes in neighboring jordan where people rallied outside the embassy in the capital amman several demonstrators were detained by security forces there but also there have been some protests here in the u.k. as well with people gathering in london manchester and birmingham calling for sanctions against israel pope francis addressed the violence in the occupy in occupied east jerusalem as well joining his sunday message from the vatican he says the multi religious identity of the holy city must be respected. so you will come but if you go to political posts i am following with particular concern the events that are happening in jerusalem are pray that it will be
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a place of an encounter and not a violent clashes a place of prayer and pace i invite everyone to sic she had solutions so that the multi religious and multi cultural identity of the holy city is respected and brotherhood can prevail violence only breeds violence stop the clashes. you're watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead on the program has been i go on the streets of karbala in iraq after the killing of another anti-government activist and. i just you know i said force the arch rivals to put their celebrations on hold or have those details and all. funerals have been held for the victims of 3 explosions outside a school in afghanistan the attack happened in a predominantly shia neighborhood of the afghan capital just as pupils were leaving their classes at the end of the day for their controversy has more now from the
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capital kabul. most of the debris is outside this girl's school may be gone but not the anger and grief among the people of. dozens of students mostly girls who were killed as they were leaving school 3 bomb blasts cutting their lives short. whoever comes in commits an act of terror should be prevented and punished and no other group conduct such kind of criminal activities in the future the security forces come to the scene after the attack and create more chaos that will never help prevent such brutal attacks witnesses say the attack appeared well coordinated and intended to kill as many children as possible this is the school's gate and the girls were coming out a car bomb and 2 i.d.'s exploded almost back to back in 3 different parts of the road outside the school. the taliban has denied responsibility and blamed.
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the government says the taliban is behind the attack there are more than 20 groups operating in afghanistan peace talks between the taliban and the afghan government are at an impasse and some analysts say even if they reach a peace deal stability in the country is not guaranteed now the time when the taliban are not blaming the responsibility for such attacks this means that the other actors involved in of on is the one who has the capacity of challenging the state and the stability and peace of honest sun which again means that the international community is leaving an unfinished chapter behind the attack was carried out as violence is rising across the country and foreign troops look to complete their withdrawal in the coming months hazaar ethnic minority lives in the neighborhood and has been repeatedly attacked in recent years its members have
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called on the government. protect them i so has claimed several of the attacks. for the region are at the border we will investigate and find the perpetrators were working very heard should be brought to justice but justice has rarely been served to the victims of the many attacks in dust. and so once more they bury their dead and pray for the carnage to end. al-jazeera kabul. early sunday morning iraqi activists at a was and he was gunned down in front of his house in karbala in the south of iraq is one of more than 30 activists killed in the country since the beginning of large scale anti-government protests in october $29000.00 which called for an end to corruption foreign interference and a new political order similar faults in reports from karbala. the agonizing way
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to put a body of a loved one this is the family of a was in the a well known organizer in iraq's anti-government protest movement he was shot dead of the night before just outside his home in iraq's southern city of karbala he had his mother told al-jazeera he had received numerous threats from paramilitary groups backed by iran the militias are everywhere in the streets they have a list which includes the names of all the activists they will kill them one by one today they killed my son and soon they'll kill another funeral procession arrived in the scorching afternoon heat their religious punctuated with desperate cries for survival. the parties are killing us screamed the man who once stood by you hop side in cabinets protest squares demanding change but is anyone listening inside the habs family said their final goodbye their anger
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directed at both the killers and the government who failed to protect him are looked at with we don't trust the government and we don't trust this political process if there is to be justice there should be an international investigation he is one of 34 activists assassinated since protests 1st began in october 21000 according to iraq's human rights commission a 3rd were killed after a new government was formed in may 2020 promising to end impunity when prime minister mostafa are probably came to power almost a year ago he promised the rain and the rubes that acted outside of the state's control and to bring those responsible for the that the protesters and activists to account but only a handful of iran have been made and no one has been convicted and so the killings and the funerals go on the protestors drove body to care about a central square once packed with crowds. railing for
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a cause but after the movement crumbled amid brutal repression they mostly just gather to mourn the last few here dare to speak on camera in fear they might be next some expect violence to further flare ahead of october elections why. these assassinations don't come out of nowhere they are organized it's linked to the elections that have been set for next october and all these politicians are scared and i think the october protesters will compete for their power to bring about change that's why they're targeting the activist and today he have paid the price. the prime minister promised justice and ordered and wiring but none of these investigations have borne fruit in the past leaving little hope for accountability in the future simona 14 al-jazeera. well in an interview with talk to al-jazeera iraq's prime minister must have a car the me says he's taking action to ensure the victims' families receive
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justice. also that these assessor nations took place during my term and before they have been happening for a long time now however we arrested several groups the notorious death squads and does or who were responsible for the killing of several journalists and activists teams of them are currently in custody the government is committed to its responsibilities and has 0 tolerance for such crimes. well now there are fears that a 1000000 indians could have died from covered 9000 by august the bleak forecast comes from the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation or medical journal the lancet says if that happens the prime minister narendra modi would be responsible for presiding over what it called a self-inflicted national catastrophe countries already recording the 3rd highest number of covered $1000.00 deaths in the world any matel reports now from new delhi . mass cremations like this are becoming common in india these
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family members have been waiting for our was to say their fine and good byes to their loved ones but in many ways didn't you go on. he was my relative and his name was reject. he had covered 19 for the last 10 days and was admitted to a private hospital last evening he got a bed until hospital here he was 35 years old and has 2 young children and he passed away this morning his wife is 30 years old me no one face such a tragedy ever accelerator many experts believe new strains of the virus are behind india's steep rise in infections and are worried about their potential impact on vaccines one that was 1st identified in india the b 1617 is likely to be a variant of concern because it has some mutations which increase transmission and which also potentially could make them resistant to antibodies that are generated by vaccination or by natural infection. some states are imposing
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restrictions and curfews to arrest the spread of the virus but many people believe anything short of a national lockdown is in adequate. that. the situation is really bad the problem is that the lockdown is not strict enough if the lockdown was stricter we probably would have been able to bring the change which we're not able to do right . now was able to break the chain after a month of lockdown. people are scrambling to get appointments to be vaccinated as states report doses are in short supply the government in new delhi has asked the central government for more vaccines saying it too will run out of doses in the next 4 to 5 days and although case is all falling here the state has extended its lockdown by another week at the al-jazeera. meanwhile doctors in sudan are concerned about steadily rising corona virus infections in 2 regions
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their cases and deaths have been on the rise in the capital khartoum and in. a state sudan's health minister said the situation is worrying because hospitals are in a poor condition with a shortage of oxygen medicines and equipment they've been more than 31000 confirmed cases in the country but the government admits the actual numbers are much higher. well impromptu street parties were held in spain overnight as the curve of 1000 state of emergency there ended the country is one of the hardest hit in europe but like all the e.u. nations it's now starting to roll back restrictions and putting its trust in the ongoing vaccination drive barbara ports and. partying into the night celebrating new freedoms crowds gathered on the streets of spanish cities in the early hours of sunday as the national state of emergency ended was the it's really very moving i keep thinking about well how great to
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finally be able to connect to seek to have a good time to say hi it's an important moment. here in barcelona police have the strange tosk of moving people on after the last curfew began at 10 pm only to let them back up to midnight infection rates have fallen and vaccinations are speeding up now all except for of spain's regions have scrapped local curfews bans on travel between regions are also being lifted at madrid's main train station some were setting off to see family others waiting for loved ones to arrive to eat you know that this woman says we have a family event to communion and it just happened to be the day the state of emergency ended we've not seen each other for 8 months asked how it feels. to me. when i'm not there she says very emotional. in italy 4 regions are having their coverage 19 risk level downgraded from monday most of the countries now closed as
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yellow the lowest under the 40 system now the government stressing the importance of the european union's plans green pass it would allow travel within the block for people with proven immunity full vaccinations or a negative coronavirus test and across the e.u. vaccination programs have been accelerating we have now delivered over 200000000 doses to the european people so we are on track to achieve our objective of enough doses being delivered in july to vaccinate 70 percent of the european adult population the commission's confirmed it's not renewing its order for astra zeneca has covered 19 vaccine beyond june it's already launched legal action against the manufacturer accusing it of not having a reliable plan to ensure timely deliveries but it has now signed a new contract with pfizer biome tech to receive 1800000000 vaccine doses by the
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end of 2023. 0. on the knees out. this algae is used in products we consume every bone but it's also one of the most important questions of proper planning and care. and install organizes insists they're still on track to host the ted kennedy exam i'll be here with that story. but. we have some turbulent weather rolling across parts of europe let me show you where this is so for that we head toward france is some portion of the country with the border of switzerland very heavy downpours of rain thunderstorms expected and we've got some snow for the alps elsewhere. monday the united kingdom particularly toward ireland remains unsettled and the potential for some pretty intense rain
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through norway at times on monday if i show you where this system is on tuesday still plaguing france it's now pushing into northern italy still that snow for the elves and some rain for southern areas of germany and we go now to north africa and we're seeing some of those showers some further to the south so impacting morocco and northern algeria the good news is this will not be intense rain like we have seen in parts of northern syria over the last little while which is led to devastating flooding temperatures have come down in egypt cairo at 37 degrees and that's because we've got a wind off the mediterranean also seem very wet weather pulled away from kenya and somalia but you know we got a drenching toward the western cape things are now beginning to dry out there as we head toward cape town a high of 21 degrees on monday and plenty of sun in the forecast.
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the you. the we. can back the main stories now after days of escalating violence in occupied east jerusalem israel supreme court has agreed to delay monday's hearing on the planned forced eviction of palestinian families from the neighborhood. funerals have been held for the victims of 3 explosions outside a school in afghanistan at least 50 people mainly schoolgirls were killed when the bombs were set off and called bill in a predominantly shia parts of the city. and there are calls for a nationwide lockdown across india with full costs of
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a $1000000.00 covert deaths by august new delhi government has warned it will run out of vaccines in the coming days. so more on our top story now on grover the planned addictions of palestinian families in occupied east jerusalem video of an argument and this has gone viral in recent days and israeli settlers attempt to justify a forcible takeover of one palestinian home sparked anger online when it was recorded and uploaded you have called you know this is not your house yes but if i call you don't go back. but if you have to go with me but you will of hard feelings my health and if i don't feel sort of no no no. there is no doubt just the unity i mean well we spoke to muhammad kurt the brother of the woman you heard speaking in that video he was attending a protest in nazareth. she was in
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a good accumulation and we're certainly not be very in the neighborhood continue. today in baiters our neighbor's house just how they invaded and how bugs the feel they have been in constant attack palestinian residents today 5 minutes away from the neighborhood. near the hebrew university so we are under the constant threat of that lower violence in jerusalem because that's what happens when you put summers in across the neighborhood they abuse the indigenous people. protests there in nazareth mass protests also taking place in ramallah and in the occupied west bank and supporters have palestinians in occupied east jerusalem now to ever him has more on that now. freedom for sure start off this is one of the slogans that palestinians are chanting here in the protest in ramallah city these protesters have said that they wanted to show solidarity with palestinians in east jerusalem because not many of them can access it for palestinians they need
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a permit from israel to be able to cross the checkpoints into the holy city and for many of them they haven't been able to do so but still jerusalem remains pronto and center when it comes to the palestinian struggle for freedom and independence and having a date with east jerusalem as its capital we've spoken to some of these protesters who say that they want the palestinian authority to do much more to support the people in jerusalem and they say they were frustrated by the palestinian decision to delay the palestinian elections they were the 1st in 15 years if they were going to be held by the and of may and the if the reason why they were delayed is because the palestinian president said that israel didn't give a positive answer when it comes to holding these elections in jerusalem so palestinians here want to send the message that they are with palestinians in east jerusalem even though they can't be there with them physically. the scottish
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national party's win in parliamentary elections has put the independence debate back on the table in the u.k. british government is firmly opposed to scottish independence but the election outcome has set the stage for years of debate and potential instability that's particularly the case along scotland's border with england from where jonah home now reports there might be change coming down the track from edinburgh to london shaking the time is that of brown scotland to the united kingdom since the 1700s. in the border regions the scottish national party's electoral reach wanes here specially a vote for scottish independence would have profound consequences basically i think the border and both sides of it is almost as one for people in this area separation is absolutely the last thing that people wants and my experience of talking to people locally and the idea of
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a hard border is completely unworkable. and i think scotland is so in twined this part of the u.k. it's. a separation we just build something absolutely insurmountable problems there are questions about currency and travel but more concerning is trade england accounts for 60 percent of scottish exports the possibility of border controls and trade tariffs could do harm to the economy and there's disquiet on the english side of the border to where the ruins of berrick castle are testament to territory changing hands at least 13 times during the late middle ages the walls of barrack upon tweed were built in the 14th century a great defensive structure for this town on the frontline of wars between scotland and england for hundreds of years now they'll never be that sort of conflict again of course but what may lie ahead for this border area for these 2 nations are new barriers new defenses are hard border perhaps with deeply uncertain consequences.
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in the fishing port of i mouth boat surtitles post breaks it rules limits seafood exports to major european union markets a border with england could make matters worse for some here there's only one solution i'm sure some day i'll come in a friend yes but. i think it's one taint in the road it's wash knowing when when what and direct it because it because we were there to. export. products no it's just it's just a name people walk and so forth and obviously the 1st thing that got us started is when you go independence when we get back into europe. out of one union and back into another recognition perhaps that an independent scotland can't afford to be entirely alone the break up if it happens will be hard sell to in this border
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region joho al-jazeera on the scottish border the main segment of the chinese rocket long march 5 b. is finally returned to earth splashing down near the maldives early on sunday the rockets orbit track meant it was most likely to fall somewhere between 1441 and a half degrees north of the equator to $41.00 and a half degrees south an area bounded by new york and rome and wellington new zealand it's also an area where the vast bulk of the world's population lives it did fall to earth within that window splashing down as hopes in the indian ocean off the coast of the maldives but critics say china was lucky nasa administrator bill nelson said china is failing to meet responsible standards regarding the space debris while harvard astrophysicist jonathan mcdowell wrote china won its gamble but it was still reckless well the rocket rianne to the earth's atmosphere over the arabian peninsula and was seen from saudi arabia jordan and amman most of the 30
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meter long and 5 meter wide corps band up on reentry traveling as an estimated 28000 kilometers per hour so earlier i spoke to former nasa astronaut dr david c. illness he said he was relieved about the ocean landing well i am for the world i wasn't personally feeling that it is a significant risk but when you multiply myself times the number of inhabitants hug the earth i was. you know relieved that someone was not hurt which you know if you play this game another time somewhere maybe hurt so you never know when that's going to happen how does china lose control of a 20 ton rocket. well apparently as in the design of the way they put this rocket. other space faring countries such as the u.s.
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the european union and russia. we have designed our rockets so that these large pieces of. what we call the core rocket stage or the 1st stage end up in an area that we can determine before hand and so that we know that that's a safe area in fact if you look at what spaceship does with their 1st stage they actually went it back on the platform so it's very piers precisely done and so for some reason china his design and their rocket that it. that the whole course cajuns up in. an orbit it's low enough that it's going to do return to earth in within. within days or a few weeks experts have been saying that we would probably be ok because 75 percent of the wild is covered in ocean and that has much more empty
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land than populated areas so the risk of being hurt by rocket deborah was always very small. that's true. but the risk is not 0 and i kind of equate it to playing russian roulette roulette the more times you play the game the more opportunity there is for a bad outcome and so it's it's a game of probabilities and i think it you know but if someone said that you have a 70 percent chance of. taking a surgery and 30 percent that you might have a bad outcome you may you may think about that before. does anyone actually have a been hurt by. falling chunk of rocket. not that we know of. over the course of. the areas
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that we've had spacecraft being launched. there has not been a hit and interest but again it's something that can happen in the odds go up. particularly when you have rockets like this that are being used is there a bigger problem with space step breathe it's been left in orbit that could affect the spacecraft well that that's a bigger question that's even larger question then this is the case that we've had this weekend that is very much the case because it's kind of a. ping pong the fact is you have to pray at higher orbits higher altitudes. they gradually come down into a lower orbit and then they can hit things that that are in that war bit and then they can cause more debris and you get this kind of exponential effect where.
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when there is a collision it it causes even more debris and so this is a serious problem particularly for manned spacecraft such as the international space station that are an orbit where there's a lot of debris and we try to keep the space station safe by warning or taking maneuvers when objects are coming close but the more objects you put up there they become more and more dangerous and even small objects even things this small is maybe 10 centimeters that is whizzing by at these very very high speeds 18000 miles an hour. when they hit something they have a lot of. kinetic energy to do some serious damage. now a chill a exports most of the world's alga net which is used to make
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a range of products from cosmetics to plastic it's found in the forests of brown seaweed that grow along chilies coast which are now under threat our latin america at its early c. in human explains why from the cheekily. added lentz it's obvious the planet earth is more water than land. but instead are at 1st it looks like there's nothing but underneath there is extraordinary biodiversity one trunk of our can sustain more than 400 species there are snails see a chance and then many it's where life begins at all these are map grow algae forests as indispensable for our survival as those that blow above ground to photosynthesis they absorb just as much c o 2 gas and together with phytoplankton and sea grass they produce nearly half of our planet's oxygen are there also like nurseries for small fish to find shelter
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from predators. along 2000 kilometers of chile's pacific coast these forests can grow 40 metres high and live for up to 25 years but they are in danger i thought america from the road access there are areas especially in the north where the algae is being extracted indiscriminately. killing other muslims almost every day maybe a compass walks on to the edge of these rocks to catch needle as it's called in chile it's hard work but it's escalating price has allowed her to send her 3 children to university. these widows are out there are drying out here so that they can then be taken off to be sold and why is this in such a high commercial demand because they are the source of alginate you probably have never heard of it but believe me you have consumed it this is making your car's
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dashboard since the most expensive type this variety for making greens. and this one called the black widow is used in making the plastics that we use practically every day. it's also used widely in the cosmetic industry from here it's taken to a processing plant to be chopped and shipped primarily to china and japan chile produces 40 percent of the world's alginate but much of it is harvested illegally and media companies says she only takes what the ocean throws out in the thick of it all this is what we call the head of the tree the ocean to root out to shore because it was no longer needed this isn't the same we're oh that the boat extracts the fishermen dive cut it off from the head and kill it. licensed fishermen are allowed to rip out the algae a technique that was illegal until 1980. last year 500 tons were exported
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half of it harvested without authorization in a thriving black market. chile's long coastline makes it difficult to police but there are other ways to help turn the tide like steve's therms for example from sitting or regrowth open. of the wood box. it requires an investment yes but employing science to counter the depletion of natural species has already become a necessity so that as darwin once said we don't all perish you see in human al-jazeera peachey coolie chile sunday is my lamar's ochs birthday but it's unlikely she'll see her 2nd unless her parents can find more than $2000000.00. skeletal muscular muscular atrophy a genetic disease that affects more than $10000.00 babies every year
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a new drug can save them but most countries neither approve nor fund that sort of treatment ballasts explains. was born with a genetic disease skeletal muscular atrophy her nerve cells a dying causing her muscles to waste away she will die on michiru sinew gene therapy coots ogun sma the problem is it's the most expensive single dose truck in the world the $2100000.00 and her parents must raise that money how do your new law i know she has a. why she has them of course. nia is a life support but we still have time she can still get the treatment if she's less than 2 years of age she's only a year old so she can still get the treatment. in summer is approved in 15 countries mostly in europe and north america more than a 1000 children have received the drug since moved us brought it to market in 2019
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but in places where it is not approved parents must fundraise lifesaving parcels also cannot be developed so as to school like 98 percent of the children in the world the drug company says it appears expensive because it's a one time injection and says alternative treatments run into the 10s of millions of dollars over a person's lifetime and it also cost more than $1000000000.00 to develop the company says it's lobbying governments and insurers to make slogans meant more 6 of all we are doing everything in our power to get access to this product is all jammed up with these maybes in every country. as much as we can and we working with the governments and we prepared to be and i can see this mexico as possible to enable access there is another lifeline a lot of free novartis gives away 100 doses free each year maybe fast mo one m.
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receives 0 gains made in india in january a family had a son who died of the same disease and $28.00 aine. dr and matthew treated fatima she has seen $38.00 children die of spinal muscular atrophy with the drug not covered in india and $2000000.00 out of reach for most she regularly into his babies in the novartis lottery i am used to going to disappoint letters from every fortnight i'm sorry dr matthew be patient are not being allocated but a lot mixed so far the ask you are so i've been living with these emails so for now thousands of parents around the world live to reckon with 2 realities if they lived in a different country or if they were rich they could save the baby for most their children's lives depend on the generosity of strangers shelob ellis al-jazeera. coming up after a quick break we'll have all the latest sports news and really quite a spectacular comeback the spanish grand prix and all the action from barcelona
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shopping. and russell beard in southern england where 2 farmers turned safari park pioneers of that's the track is made in the driving seat and just absolutely astonishing the life of the poor back even the very 1st so much and i mean. when won by layering companies revolutionizing the 4th 5th district once an artificial intelligence here inside you have science you have technology earthrise on al-jazeera cultivating fruit is the foundation of human civilisation but food today is a global commodity if the industry did not make money how many people would be on board and how it's cultivated a contentious debate public interest in the public safety is definitely not taking
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precedent and in-depth examination into our great business and the conflicting interests at play industry doesn't want any regulation interest would put their products on the market the price of progress on al-jazeera. time after the sport was santa. thank you very much mariam all rating formula one champion lewis hamilton has won the spanish messi this driver getting the better of red bulls max their stuff and you know it was a thrilling race in barcelona samak has the action. reigning world champion lewis hamilton was made to work really hard for the latest win starting in
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pole position in spain the misstate is driver didn't have the best start his arch rival for the championship max misstep and beating him to the 1st corner to establish an early advantage. hamilton did manage to get back in front when pushed up and it did. but the dutchman read took the lead when hamilton took his 1st dog. miss a day is decided to gamble and it paid off. after changing tires again on lap 42 hamilton was flying. despite emerging from a stop 21 seconds off the lead with 24 laps to cultural stuff and hamilton remained unpaid. off to overtaking teammate valtteri bottas who was told not to cause a hold up hamilton would go on to pull off the defining moment of the race. he
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overtook for stepan with 6 laps to go hamilton completing an exceptional comeback to take the checkered flag with bush happened in 2nd and bought us 3rd such a close start obviously there was a lot of rubber down on the right hand side and know that it was a great start and then after that just punting and i was so close to so long that i didn't think in doing that i was going to have to make the ties dots but i just managed to just keep them in somehow and. always come back for 20 odd seconds that . this was when number 98 of how much an f one career will have the chance to make it 99 in monaco later this month i. extend his 14 point lead at the top of the championship. so hell malik al-jazeera. damages hopes of winning the league i have been majorly dented while they managed to escape defeat against severe texan to an injury time on goal 22 draw means that they trail league leaders athletico
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madrid by 2 points with just 3 games remaining manchester united came from behind to be aston villa away a defeat would have handed a man just to city the english premier league title city can seal the top spot with victory over newcastle on friday hundreds of athletes have been taking part in a track and field test event at tokyo's olympic stadium there are less than 3 months to go until the games are due to begin although more than 400 competitors were involved only 9 were from abroad those spectators were present in the stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies will be held to a cure remains under a state of emergency due to a rise in corona virus infections. in the build up to these games limping organizers are releasing a series of playbooks essentially a list of rules designed to ensure a safe and secure event all participants must pass to code 900 test before leaving
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their home country athletes will also be tested daily while in tokyo competitors a must avoid public transport and will stay at the athletes' village which is in a so-called by a secure bubble and they'll be sharing rooms with teammates and have been told to bring their own face masks as organizers want people won't be providing them the playbook also informs actually they're attending the games at their own risk. killer is rob killer is the director general of global athletes a group aiming to give a limb peons a more of a say in how the games are being organized. i think athletes do want the games to occur but they want the games to occur to ensure that the most robust safety measures are put in place to ensure they're protected and to ensure everyone around them is protected and the i.o.c. is right that you know the feats of trained all of this time tends some 101212
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years to prepare for these games that could be their only shot and they do want to attend but not at all cost when you have a crisis management plan in place you normally have the most robust plan possible and as the risk starts to minimise you draw back that plan the i.o.c. is seen to do the opposite so they've come out in waves of a playbook which they've had a year to develop and they have rolled it out slowly by increasing the you did the different protocols and restrictions and what that does is it leads to lack of trust from the athletes from the general population and from health experts that are going to be hosting these games and in tokyo and the concern is that the protocols are not robust enough and we've expressed our views amongst other player associations that the international be committee has really come up short when it
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comes to protecting their essential workers unpaid workers the athletes to ensure they have a safe environment. could be a winning horse medina spirit has failed a drugs test a post-race sample of a field that the holes that tested positive for 21 people grams of and drug big time with us on over the legal limit in kentucky racing to had given train above benefits a reckless 7th kentucky dopy when. pakistan close to wrapping up a test series victory over zimbabwe the tourists and need to just one more wicket to complete the went for them by their close down to london 249 in the 2nd innings and they trailed by 158 runs the 2 matches one to nothing. and that's it for me back to maria as lovely santa thank you very much that's it for the news hour but i'll be back with a roundup of all the day's top stories in a couple minutes time to join me then now.
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visit lights made to look like a city from the sky but they're fishing vessels just outside of argentina's exclusive economic zone the united states launched operation southern cross to combat illegal and regulated fishing in the southern atlantic argentina's coast guard say their main task is to control their movements so they do not cross into
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arjan time territory from this form large in time forty's and money for what's happening in its economic exclusive zones but what authorities here are saying is that what's important is to regulate what's happening in international waters. killing the debate. and your voice only. known to the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world what was humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just historical truth in this in this story where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera 100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can dora. but what was the last thing affects of this agreement that there is
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a regional set to sikes because it's not those borders were drawn without consulting the people who have to live with the. psychs pickup lines in the sand on al-jazeera. israel supremum court delays a decision on the eviction of 4 palestinian families a case that continues to fuel anger in east jerusalem. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program in afghanistan funerals are held for the victims of bomb blast at a kabul school most of those killed were young girls.
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