tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera May 16, 2021 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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what happens when an island bill for tourists suddenly has no visitors it's. one a when east travels to bali to find out. on al-jazeera. be the hero the world needs. washing. al-jazeera. over there and how he had seen and this is the news are live from doha coming up for you in the next 60 minutes of least 33 people are killed for an overnight israeli air strikes on gaza. the total death tolls to $181.00
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since fighting began on monday. the islamic world is condemning the sister of what it calls barbaric aggression the u.n. security council will meet soon to discuss the crisis in other news will report from one of the british terrorists were called with 1000 vaccinations are being scaled out because it fears over the variant from india. i'm told reached the baltic sea of sweden where they joined oxygen 3 dead so what is the latest symptom of climate change and i'm lee harvey and sports the world's oldest national football competition has produced a 1st time winner leicester city have won the english f.a. cup beating chelsea one nil and the final.
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israel's prime bartlett's of the gaza strip has continued for a 7th consecutive day with air raids dozens of palestinians are dead and several residential buildings have been flattened 181 palestinians have been killed since the offensive began where rescue crews are searching through what remains of this spilled saying there earlier there were hopes that see brothers who had called from inside that rubble would be phoned a lie if they did manage to get the most of their but sadly they died shortly after arriving at the hospital they were among the 33 people who were killed in that blast 21 of whom. from the same family i talked to save told us that roads leading to hospitals have been born and medical services are being inundated where of leaders met earlier on sunday condemning israel for what they called fully grant violations of palestinian rights and the u.n. security council will hold an emergency meeting in around an hour's time we've got
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a team of correspondents covering the story for you neither abraham is in ramallah in the occupied west bank harry forces the minds of all loops in occupied east jerusalem summing up asylum is in gaza as is your sires we'll go to her 1st as she joins us around the hospital. in the death toll continuing to rise in gaza what more can you tell us this are. just 15 minutes ago 3 girls were taking out from the rubble from a family in the street so we have 3536 sorry 3 more 36 more children that have been added to the the death toll of the children that were taken out of the rubble also targeting of a magical love holmes here and there across the gaza strip in the south an area in
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the central area which brings up the total death toll to $188.00 now according to the ministry of health the last statics and we have a warning call that there is. a building which is just in the neighborhood and just close to the ship complex where i am broadcasting from that is going to be there is a warning that this building is also going to be targeted so we're in a state of coast where we're trying to be cautious as much. it's possible because it's very close to the hospital which means that the hospital might also be. directly or might also be for sure affected by the targeting and the missiles that would target the building. we saw you looking skywards as
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we were introducing you both yourself. just a quick safety check are you ok can you hear any planes or missiles i'm coming at the moment. yes yes there was just like us there at the sounds of aircrafts in and drones around the sand honestly because of this warning call that we got about as you were building we're all in a state of consciousness where all the like just anticipating that anything would actually happen now also rockets were launched so they were just above us and this sounds whether by the aircraft the drones or the rockets they make huge sounds that are actually very frightening and chima ties into the people here in the hospital. you know you are inside a hospital. just give us a sense of what the situation is like in the hospital itself because with all the
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escalating violence the buildings the residential buildings that have been brought down. safe to assume they're being inundated how is the hospital coping right now. well because of the overcrowding those that is in the hospital any middle or maybe it injuries or light injuries are quickly sent out of the hospital or sent home where they can the weather is like by just bandaging there are the ruins or cuts or anything like that and just sending them out because there is there is a very very little space left in the hospital and the wounded out of the rubble are still until this moment coming by enough whether death people or when did to from the rebels and even from the targeting that keeps on happening every now
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and then the medical crews are extremely exhausted and sent out to different in multiple areas of the gaza strip everywhere we get cold saying that this building has got to work in cool that it's going to be targeted we find that there has to be medical crews and civil defense crews in that place in case of any. civilians being under any rubble or getting killed out of the targeting and this is what is so much exhausting to the medical crews and that the hospitals now the amount of people coming in and out of the hospital is just too much and this is what we spoke about earlier that the health system is almost collapsing very shortly due to these ongoing aggressions that are still going on until now ok you can hear the raids now we come in to hear the ritz now i want to make sure that you
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can get to a police of safety there. just a reminder to our audiences where it is you and me we're assuming. that the shifa hospital is the safest place at last something. else changes end like the previous war it gets targeted as well well let's hope that the shifa hospital continues to remain a safe place for no human outside it will let you get to safety just a reminder to our audiences watching it is actually a war crime to target a medical facility. let's stay in guard so we can process to sammy a solemn he's a palestinian journalist and a resident of gaza sami heroes are you ok where you are. right now yes actually we have just seen. over iran bombay is bombing and we have feared lots of explosions we have more details here it is just 2 minutes
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before and right now at this moment very schemes are evacuating that i've been be ever evacuating. toys of children from bedroom i have just been there and i inspected now and i have seen lots of toys and box and colors and the things that i leave on to to their kids and their neighbor to say is very. disgusting about a big group of children right there and one of them told me there are 5 expected to be 5 kids and that our bill not confirmed why not confirmed why is this just expected maybe 5 kids or more because logically we have to ask that east of the family how many guys that have been but that is of the family have been killed so no details and maybe the kids are dead or not we don't know. actually and another picture of gaza right now is. that funerals people have. people actually do
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here we are in i wish that street it is one of the main streets of gaza and this is 3 you are seeing now but those are and that is skewed teams are working but it is just one location there are 2 other locations saw in business 32 are there looking to look agents. are busy and there is working working to remove the rubble and looking for that but these there are. the other skating or in the 3 days with the time they are in the daily about why in a dynamo they have to work hard and very hard. to seize the time if there is a life people but in the meantime they have to be careful and slowly to keep. people alive so it is very complicated that it is very obvious that way. towards they are using is not enough. you can see primitive except this but those
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are ok. there live from a lot of the street in gaza to stay safe thank you for bringing us the very latest from the ground we appreciate that's the view from inside gaza we're going to keep a close eye on those pictures as well of hertz explosions going off in the background as our correspondents were reporting foreign ministers from the islamic world held a meeting to discuss the escalating conflict in his opening statement to the organization of islamic cooperation saudi arabia's foreign minister condemned what he called flagrant violations of palestinian rights and says palestine's foreign minister pushed the international community to pick and then steer israel's military operations harare was hardly. free people of the world all the people who believe in human rights and justice should reject this the palestinians are facing
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a cowards occupation that kills children and to rosa's families the patient must be faced it must be attacked must put an end to this occupation we need to know what should be done against the israeli aggression. across night in ramallah in the occupied west bank need a permit it is therefore a need what do you think people in ramallah will think of that statement from the palestinian foreign minister. helen to give you a better idea of how palestinians are perceiving the all i see meeting and also the expected meeting of the u.n. security council today it is going to be there. the open meeting to get more of an idea we are invited to a palestinian activist and we're joined here by. who is a palestinian canadian activist what are you guys expecting from these meetings well to be honest with you i don't think that many palestinians even know about
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this meeting and i'm certain that no families are sitting around their t.v.'s waiting to see what happens all the crimes that have happened in palestine over the last 70 years have happened under the era of the u.n. they've happened under the noses of the international community and i mean one has to ask what the point is of the u.n. if it is only condemning and there is no action to follow up of course we want to see the u.n. name what's happening by its name we want to see them talk about apartheid. about the genocide that's happening in in parts of that. but i don't think we're very hopeful and we've seen activists like you in the past few days and we've been discussing with them how they're viewing the situation and they say that they are disappointed frustrated with their leadership why do you think or if you at all think that this time the situation on the ground is different than any other time well i do think that this is one of the 1st times in my life that i've seen in my
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adult life that i've seen in every part of the palestinian interior and exterior so many parts of the international world of the people not the states. actually rising up in popular protests i think that we don't have much of a leadership to follow here i think most of our true leaders have been put in prison or assassinated by israel and the political leadership that we have here especially in the west bank has this a port policy of security coordination with israel and i can tell you from you know from my time on the ground. so often we have to pass through a row of is your palestinian authority right. before we can even reach our protests with israel and with a reality like that it's very difficult to follow any kind of leadership and people have to take things into their own hands when i've been talking to many people on the ground who are some are optimistic by the attention they're getting from the international community others are telling telling me that we don't we're not
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seeking anything from them and i wanted to know how you are viewing that in light of the online campaign that is going on do you think that's changing do you think that's helping the cause i do believe in the power of the international community's people understand why so many youth so many people have very little faith in states and in international actors like the u.n. but i do think that. that that the people have power that they have the power to support boycott divestment and sanctions to push their countries to sanction and i think that they're raising their voices and we're seeing this that unprecedented levels and i hope it keeps thank you so much it. is a palestinian comedian activist and we've been hearing from many palestinian activists that the discourse is changing on social media that they are trying to counter the censorship by certain platforms and they say that they want to keep this going in show more people in the world what's going on in palestine that
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palestinians are still living under israeli occupation. ok did abraham there live from ramallah thank you need or press freedom advocates are accusing israel of trying to silence journalists covering the story. to build an international media on saturday we'll have an story terror held offices belonging to al-jazeera media network the associated press targeting media organizations is widely considered a war crime correspondent terry fawcett reports. in a moment with a phone call from the israeli army another gaza highrise became a condemned building minutes ticking down on a one hour warning this the office of the associated press as it staff made instant decisions about what they needed to salvage to keep on working across the lift lobby staff from the al-jazeera bureau were doing the very same thing on the street outside the building's owner pleading for
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a stay of execution home at the 7 as you can see there all around the press not people who are going in to get weapons out but there was no arguing even about the timing. and. al-jazeera gaza journalists. was live on air as he watched his workplace of 11 years vanish in front of him we've. been reporting to believe wouldn't believe what workable. which under 12 string that you think of when something very dark up in this building was home to families as well as media companies more to add to the list of homeless in a besieged and played during days of intensive attacks from the sky. in a statement al-jazeera said it condemned in the strongest terms the bombing and destruction of its offices by the israeli military viewing it as a clear act to stop journalists from conducting their duty to inform the world and
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report events and vowing to pursue every available route to hold the israeli government responsible israeli military said how operatives were using the building and media companies like al-jazeera and the associated press with human shields. i want to remind the world. that in firing on our cities hamas is committing a double war crime they're targeting our civilians and hiding behind palestinian civilians we've heard that from the israelis i can tell you that we've been in that building for 15 about 15 years with our bureau we certainly had no sense that hamas was there we would like to see the evidence we're not sure whether hamas was there or not we don't know but i can tell you the impact will be that the world will know less about what's going on in gaza because that building was leveled hamas is top gaza political leader issued this message during a visit to the qatari capital doha look. that
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has been besieged for 15 years. under siege from every direction. i must as military wing sent further major rocket attacks deep into israeli territory on saturday a 55 year old israeli man was killed when one rocket struck his home in a television in the midst of it all in the occupied west bank palestinian protesters confronted israeli soldiers on nakba day when palestinians marked the creation of the state of israel what they called the catastrophe scores were wounded many by live ammunition in occupied east jerusalem or scuffles around the neighborhood of shaikh shura where threatened forced expulsions have fueled the tensions. with violence on so many fronts still untamed israel's prime minister said he spoke to the u.s. president and informed him of israel's plan next steps. are a force that joins us now live from will keep an eye east jerusalem harry what's
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the latest where you are. ok we appear to be having difficulties with harry force at signs let's see if we can try and reestablish connection until then we can move on to gaza itself for families of the victims of the israeli airstrikes have been holding funerals across the street and warnings of yours there are disturbing images from the very beginning of war my burden mannish reports. at the funeral of a child in the city of rafah in southern gaza was that a woman in shock says only children playing with their toys mothers grandmothers and families left inconsolable. was. innocent victims of
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days of heavy israeli airstrikes and artillery fire that destroyed homes and neighborhoods. of what is used by be done we were sitting safely at hyde we didn't hear a warning rocket our house got hit violently why why why do they bomb houses and their residence. in the northern beit hanoun neighborhood people search through rubble for their belongings. gaza is home to about 2000000 people in an enclave under israeli blockade there are few places to escape the bombs gaza is probably the most densely populated spot on earth and it has been under 14 years of air sea and land blockade it is the place where the spare is extremely high and were civilians are trapped. tooth the bombs many children as sheltering in schools but they still don't feel safe. we ran out of the house after the air attacks and
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our house was bombed we fled to the school we're told that the smoke from the bomb was poisonous we don't know what the poison is and we only know that the thick smoke after the explosion was very choking for work in the united states on thursday house democrat rashida claimed made an emotional statement to congress reading the words of a palestinian mother i want to read something a mother named the man as a wrote 2 days ago she said quote tonight i put the kids to sleep in our bedroom so that when we die we die together. as al jazeera spoke to a man about the message it was interrupted as bombs exploded nearby you can hear it actually while we're speaking there is loud sounds of bombing the. people who are living refined grains. every single day. we
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wake up to the light and as it is like iraq. and. we're scared every single night we are names. hamas and its allies have responded to the attacks by firing a barrage of rockets from inside gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the bombardment will not end soon. as bombs fall rescue workers dig for survivors after a house was hit an all shouty refugee camp on friday killing 10 members of a family funerals are taking place throughout gaza for those killed which includes dozens of children for those who survived the bombs they're now in the traumatized and terrified of further attacks. nor about a man the al-jazeera. well let's get some more 1st person testimony from inside gaza itself we have 2 guests willing to speak to us those are russia just
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the residents of gaza teacher a mother and 5 we're also going to speak with some one gasser residents and also a journalists both of whom are standing by ready to talk let's go to you 1st russia . just give us a sense of what life is like for you you're. you're a teacher you have 5 children the city you live in is being bombed right in the cork what does that mean for your every day life right now are you so able to go to work. hello. first of all i would like to say this is not really a kind of life in one would love like. it's not normal in any way we don't go to work actually we were supposed to have our. holiday but we didn't
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sense this aggression has started 5 days ago they are bombing and they are targeting innocent people all the time day and night it's like living in total. hell i mean it's not a life i'm a mother of 5 and each minute i hear a bombing or an airstrike i just look around me and just look for my kids are they all safe i can't can i see them all i don't worry about myself whatsoever i'm worried about my kids it's not about me anymore and her and her are your children coping with this how are the children coping there. they're not coping actually they are terrified all the time they're just listening. carefully if it's going to be any warming he stood there just afraid to close their eyes that the night they don't want to sleep might struggle every single night to put them in their beds it
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want to go to sleep because they know once they close their eyes something bad will happen they will wake up panic listening to those airstrikes and they will never come back to school because the kids mother i just don't know how to deal with this . much and many other mothers listening to this will be similarly short on answers . to my being your children holds are they. i have 5 children the eldest one is 10 years old and i have been 8 years old daughter and 6 year old daughter and i have twin boys they are like 2 years and they are the most 2 of them that really really frightened because there just to come explain what they are hearing when the bombs happening they just stand up and they just run around the house creaming and shouting and yelling mom mom. meanwhile my eldest
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filters they kind of understand what's going on they are fully aware of the situation because i make sure that they know that this is the life that we're living since 948 since the 1st disaster if the next has happened and we are allowed still struggling till now and it's funny that the 2nd they're to the 73 anniversary of next is mark smart now by this and other type of which is happening now in gaza at the moment ok that's really hard i meant it is incredibly hard. word to we're just going to bring in our other guests now stay with us or if you would russia. one you're also a resident over gaza you're a journalist a though and working on the grain. seem you've been following our coverage as well what would you say we're missing what sort of stories do you think
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you aren't making it all to our coverage al-jazeera arabic is there anything that that you see in your work on the grains that perhaps it isn't quite so. make it into the coverage of the international news networks. you know i believe the meth the missing thing about the media coverage and understand the continuous coverage because the media outlets thinking that we are dying and we are being killed during those 42 wars as we have missed in the waters of 200820122014 this war as well but gaza has been dying for the past 15 years because of the blockade because of the absolute intention of policy to kill every normal human being to existence is getting people alive medical care and medical expertise our belief and so many other levels of their humanisation and killings as well not only
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on the context but was it because it is is it's not really proper to decentralize the issue fine on the little does that because the seniors are suffering they're suffering they're stopping in the palestinian groups they're suffering in the west bank but in the diaspora you're going to be fair and i colleagues at al jazeera over this is this a certain way a story that we try and get out there i'm talking more about the events happening on the ground right now you. tell us about your work as a reporter rather than the broader themes which i do feel our network at least has been has been covering tell us about your dad average day as a reporter do you have an office right now or has that been bombed like ours has. if we're not numbers basically we're working with we're working under the name we are not members we are good with your rights as well to try and we are having the mission to kill the under the under all the stories behind them but we are trying
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our best to humanize the stories of people died of sort of the stories of people enduring and the stories of normal people trying to live their lives in peace and with dignity what about 5 years we have been covering those entering stories trying to amplify the stories of palestinians to listen to losses stories of from them not about them and this is the proper approach of media. what should be amplified that those stories should be coming from not. of a journalist not living out. and political action does that we have we have been witnessing this ongoing debate to tell a tea this ongoing cleansing severe brutality the killing civilians are getting of ben's neighborhoods and what we're witnessing right now is is a different level of brutality for instance yesterday what happened the targeted hours continuous mom boardman launched on one specific neighborhood as happened and they were in the street all neighborhoods were bombed to a continuous hours and they did not only bomb those residential buildings and
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people innocent civilians targeted the roads to listening to those neighborhoods and also bombed the roads going to that again ok no ambulances what a lot of ok i'm afraid is i'm going to have to cut you off there thank you very much indeed sorry to cut you off as is a journalist there let's take you back. to center in garza. where a rescue operation is still underway and i remember speaking with their colleague earlier. said that they were trying to evacuate the rescuers because of incoming airstrikes. we understand that they are of course a poor body from the rubble so it just seeing on these pictures here and a reminder also of years who are just so joining us here on ars is
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it has been a particularly deadly nights of airstrikes the death toll in garza is currently it's over 100 mi c one we understand that surround 188 people who have been killed in these airstrikes. now that building on the streets we had heard from our colleagues. he was giving is. a real sense of the devastation that is a lying a right around the rubble when you look at the pictures on television you do see. we do see the boulders in the storms summit was also telling us about the personal items that are found bearing in mind these are residential buildings that have been born and brought in and he was describing the children's toys coloring books. in that rubble so that's wait and see higher the rescue teams are getting on in
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their let's cross to harry forces to be established connection with you thank you for joining us by these jerusalem once more just give us a sense of the situation certainly within israel right now do things stand the movement. well i just wanted to bring you up to date on a couple of developments in the last half an hour there was a very substantial barash rocket fire coming out from inside gaza targeting a number of urban areas in israel ashdod ashkelon and also. to the east in the negev desert one building struck directly in ashdod so far no reports of any injuries or deaths in that strike but obviously you know fire to the surrounding area and also developments on the political side as well the security
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cabinet has now broken up the israeli security cabinet on the way and we were getting some reports that ministers according to officials were going to discuss the prospects of starting to at least consider the idea of have discussions about a cease fire and an end to all this all of the reporting now indeed from the same source that was originally reporting the other way was saying that in fact no there were no such discussions that israeli security cabinet ministers agreed instead to continue with the military plans as they currently exist although if there were a decision by the prime minister and all the defense minister to start approaching a cease fire then the security cabinet would act on those instructions so at the moment no public at least any admission or confirmation of the various reporting we've been having that both the u.s. efforts and the egyptian efforts have been ongoing and that potentially a cease fire might be on the horizon ok how far is that there bring us that live
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update from what you pastries than thank you harry. well the united nations security council meets in under an hour to dress the conflicts that's close overnight in kristen salumi she joins us from the u.n. chris scenario where should maybe the kick out for this meeting at the u.n. . well this will be the 3rd meeting in 6 days of the u.n. security council the 1st 2 took place behind closed doors and while individual nations have been making statements via twitter or their foreign offices this will be the 1st chance for them to do so in an international setting on the record formally at the united nations until now the security council has been taking publicly anyway this way in sea approach at the insistence of the united states who has been. holding back more vocal action on the part of the council
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but i can tell you that behind the scenes intense diplomacy has been going on for the past week 14 council members as of friday wanted to make a public statement in the u. knighted states encourage them to hold off and put its foot down i should say. saying that diplomacy at higher levels needed time to work out so with the pressure mounting and the violence escalating we did get this agreement to hold a public meeting today the format will start with the secretary general making opening remarks his special coordinator for the middle east toward venice land briefing the council about the latest on the ground in gaza in particular and then we will hear from a number of member states who have direct concerns in the region from the palestinians to the israelis to. egypt jordan and then council members themselves
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now as a sign of the gravity of the situation many countries are having their foreign ministers speak it is a virtual meeting so it will be done. on line as opposed to in the security council chamber but there will be a stakeout in person here at the united nations after that meeting where. certain a bastard heirs are expected to brief them. the overarching question remains is will the council act with one voice and make a statement or take some form of action again the united states has been reluctant to do that instead choosing to let regional players work things out and work behind the scenes but again intense pressure we're hearing from other countries to go on the record and condemn the violence and call for some form of calm ok kristen salumi there at the u.n. thank you kristen.
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was bring you some other news now when india is reporting a fall and daily coronavirus infections but an increase in deaths recorded more than 310000 cases in almost 4100 fatalities in the past day where police are patrolling the ganges after the bodies of around 2000 suspected covert victims were recovered from the river families sort of being offered money to help them crates or barley their loved ones federal health officials say the overall situation in india is stabilizing. britain's health minister says the 1st spreading variance of covert 1001st identified in india is becoming the dominant strain in parts of the country vaccinations and testing have been scaled up in the northern english tones of bolton and blackburn despite the variance the number of key new cases across the u.k. it's steady at around 2000 per day over kinsfolk nice to join a whole year isn't bolted in jordan are worried or people where you are about this
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so-called indian variance. well take a look behind me you can see the response locally to news of the indian variant hundreds of people in a queue as they have been all weekend waiting to get vaccinated basically as quickly as they possibly can will swing around and show you the scene this is a mobile pop up vaccination center here the white tents over there the bus beside it 42 vaccinators at work in there and they have been pushing people through this center at a rate of around $600.00 an hour throughout the weekend as i said everyone very well aware of the presence here of the very 1st discovered in india aware that it is thought to be up to 50 percent more contagious that over half of the new infections being recorded here in bolton are of the indian variant and bolton here in the northwest is currently posting the largest number of new infections of any part of the u.k. at the moment a number of measures in place to try and contain this so called indian variant in
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the areas where it exists parts of the northwest pockets in the middle and pockets as well in london there is surge testing going on door to door the vaccine program stepped up scaled up as well as you can see the army said to be on standby potentially to intervene in the days to come logistically to help all of this be carried out and you know the great concern is that if these measures were to fail if the indian variant was able to escape these localized pockets and spread more widely well then warnings from leading scientists and scientists at the moment that that could provoke a 3rd wave potentially a very significant 3rd wave of infections and hospitalizations and you know what kind of threat to sis new theory it pulls to england of life returning to normal. yep it's being much talked about at the moment the prime minister and the government are pushing ahead on monday tomorrow with the next stage of the unlocking process promises saying he said he doesn't see at the moment sufficient
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evidence of risk to warrant a delay to that although he's warned of potential serious disruption later in june when the final stage of the unlocking comes a big moment monday it's the reopening of indoor venues indoor gatherings it can happen again closer physical contact all conditions in which the virus. likes and these able to spread traditionally through the pandemic so there's a lot of concern about that and a lot of scientists is to say striking a rather different note of caution they've been urging the government to delay even by a couple of weeks to allow them to to learn more about this variant that they really know very very little about warning as i say that this unlocking could provoke a 3rd wave albeit this time and not focused on the elderly and vulnerable they're mostly all vaccinated now now then focused on the unvaccinated and the young and because we know so little about this variant nobody can rightly predict at this point how that may turn out ok john hall there reporting live from bolton there
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jonah thank you. what isn't charities and our kids' school rewrites tator ship era constitution or many hope the new draft will address the social inequality that led to violent protests through the 2 years ago a latin america at a service in human reports now from santiago. it's a historic election in more ways than one. it's the 1st time chileans will have a say in who will write a new constitution and document that will determine the country's economic political and social roadmap. l'oreal paris and her husband believe it's no small feat. this will define our future that's why this day is so special and a quarter of them in order to make the necessary changes to social changes that we've been waiting for for so long that. chileans are also electing mayors governors and city council members but the constitutional vote is regarded as the most significant the current constitution written 40 years ago under the pinochet
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dictatorship is regarded by a great many as illegitimate and the source of many of chile's ills for the 1st time anywhere in the world 50 percent of delegates to a constitutional convention will be women 17 of the $155.00 delegates will also represent chile's indigenous people their existence isn't even recognized in the current constitution. and another 1st to prevent long lines because of the pandemic the election is taking place over 2 rather than one day that means these votes won't be counted until sunday the end of the 2nd day in the meantime these bins will be taped completely covered with fields that according to electoral authorities will break of anybody tries to tamper with the votes and there will be taken to a special security area and kept under guard by the army even so
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a lot of people. don't press the system lethally don't know you that's why daniel who works in front of his designated polling station is staying out there now that obama would only have a common way to vote but more of us will go tomorrow because we've seen in many countries that when they leave the votes overnight someone changes them. while chile doesn't have a reputation for vote tampering it's a reflection of how discredited political institutions and politicians have become in this country where millions are waiting for a new constitution to prioritise the social rights of the majority rather than the privileges of a minority you see in human al-jazeera santiago. the oceans have been a powerful ally in combating global warming but a mix of her temperature is on police and since creates a dead zones there oxygen's of heated areas measuring tens of thousands of square kilometers of plants and animals can't survive oh really strip orts from sweden
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from the baltic sea. sweden's dilip baltic coast a chilly spring has held back the tide of domestic tourists expected to hit these beaches juta forward travel restrictions but it's not such a pretty picture under the water rising global temperatures and the impact of fertilizer and sewage have caused huge areas with no over very little oxygen known as dead zones the baltic sea is the largest human in the dead zone in the world it is somewhere around 70000 square kilometers and it can increase global warming at a rapid rate the baltic zone may be the biggest but the problem is worldwide increasing by millions of square kilometers in the past half century. the so-called dead zones are either in small pockets along with coast where they lose or gain oxygen according to the seasons all that far out to sea where they can be pretty
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much permanent. if. they get worse the. seas like the baltic have been a buffer against climate change absorbing excess heat and carbon dioxide. but tests have shown that is surface water heats up oxygen from the atmosphere can no longer get through creating the dead layer beneath so sea floors that should be full of vegetation and life empty it's one of the reasons cited in cases where thousands of dead fish have been washed up on beaches. solutions have been tested in the baltic such as a wave powered device to pump oxygen down below. a more low tech solution is here in a unesco wetland near the city of christian start. up draw this wetland means we hold water on land for longer before it reaches the sea so the vegetation
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can absorb fertilizer and pollutants and prevent algae blooms in the baltic so it's one part of the puzzle in preventing dead zones. some hope emerged last month in the indian ocean where ecologists found a sea grass meadow the size of switzerland a vital site of carbon capture and supporting thousands of marine species but with evidence that areas like this are receding it may not be enough to mitigate the ever increasing loss of oxygen from the world's oceans a number that stands at 77000000000 tons of o 2 in just 70 years whole race al-jazeera on the baltic coast of sweden. so ahead on al-jazeera a new start for professional basketball in africa real we'll have the sport for you after this.
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frank assessments there are a lot of poison but the government needs to watch what exactly happened and what measures are now taking what a situation might not be you could ever get informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing ministry assets this is a message to the region the united states is rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day school ople headlines inside story on al-jazeera. killing the debate you don't see this stuff action and amplify your voice you're only human narrative 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 revisionism the stream where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. you're
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. the owner. of the sport piers we are thank you hala the world's oldest national football competition has produced a 1st time winner leicester city have finally lifted the english f.a. cup beating chelsea one nil in the final and the richardson reports. every great. treasures are trying to match fans were back in numbers for the english f.a. cup final 21000 in all at wembley the u.k.'s biggest mass participation a vent since the start of the covered 19 pandemic. i feel certain testy got to 5 jobs one p.c.r. test one falsely test and all i'm hoping is that shell's is the friends person been
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simple as i'm feeling right now sadly for all chelsea fans it didn't point will account that way when one goes in the 1st time off. of it after the break lest the city's produced a moment to remember. a stunning goal that put his team in touching distance of a 1st ever f.a. cup when chelsea surged forward in the time that remained only to run into the inspired efforts of less to keep it cost the smikle. in the final minutes chelsea thought that equalized. the video intervened to rule this goal out for offside leicester finishing up as one no win is. one in their fake cup for for the 1st time in the history it's clearly a special day so just so happy for the players they're so courageous in the game
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for the supporters the last 4 finals the 95th time we've been able to to get the victory for them. lest his fans and play is able to celebrate the club's biggest day since defying the odds to win the premier league back in 2016 and the richardson al-jazeera. in germany has been this league a byron munich striker robert lewandowsky has equalled the record for most goals in a season he scored the best penalty against freiburg for his 40th of the campaign to draw level with the legendary guard muller which the feet 49 years ago lewandowsky has the chance to break the record in the final league game of the season next saturday. well the late basketball legend kobe bryant has been inducted into the n.b.a. hall of fame michael jordan presented the award to bryant's widow and daughter it's a star studded class including tim duncan and kevin garnett kobe bryant died in a helicopter crash last year along with one of his daughters and 7 others. you once
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told me if you're going to bet on someone bet on yourself i'm glad you've been on your stuff you overachiever. you did it you're in the hall of fame now. champ you're not just an m.v.p. you're an all time great. i'm so proud of you i love you forever and always. being right. was also a memorable day for basketball in africa with the launch of a new league backed by the n.b.a. 12 teams from across the continent have qualified to play in the basketball africa league the competition has been delayed by more than a year due to the covert 19 pandemic all games are being played in a bio secure bubble and the rwandan capital of gali now the north american n.b.a. is basketball's most lucrative leak this is the 1st time though that it's helped
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start up a new competition on a different continent the n.b.a. already has many high profile african born players including joel embiid and pascal the stated aim for this competition is to drive economic growth and support even more up and coming players. well we've been talking to the man in charge of the new league about his hopes for the future of basketball in africa. these games are going to be seen around the world in $215.00 countries and territories so you know as far as touching we are super excited and looking forward to building this the into one of the top professional possibly in the world our youth is of biggest assets and we want to make sure that you know with the right tool and we should the best of all you know by promoting engagement and positive social activities that you cation being 1st and foremost educating these young people building the sense of a mission and self-confidence and most importantly
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a sense of responsibility too of giving back to their communities we're seeing it across the board raise all players from the continent playing in the n.b.a. and other needs around the world who are coming back to help grow the game and the system it is to be it is have cemented our belief in the potential of the african region as not only a hotbed for tundra because it was already export to taiwan but a place where we could actually grow a professional league to complete the puffery where a young boy from my rugby or legalists. salaam can dream about starting to play basketball at home and have a computer software to get to the pros the bus the bus the lead being the 2. all the attention was on the horse that finished 3rd at the 146th preakness stakes
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medina spirit was allowed to run despite testing positive for a banned substance after a victory at the kentucky derby 2 weeks ago the horse was the subject of additional testing ahead of this race was the surprise winner in baltimore. already that's it for me when you back over to hala thank you so much. and finally fast fashion is easy on the wallets but the environment's pays the high price however many are coming round to the idea of a more ethical and sustainable approach to clothing slow fashion the whole the mindless consumption excess production over complicated supply chains photo slurry reports from kuala lumpur. saving the environment one garment at a time that's what these 2 friends who cohen a fashion label are trying to do they make coats from upcycling old fabric and even go to the extent of using threads diving i can see how much. damage human cost thing. and then i want. a model iraq
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to help mother. fashion is one of the most polluting industries it's responsible for 8 to 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 60 percent of all clothing produced eventually ends up in landfills the most profitable business model is fast fashion mass producing pieces based on the latest catwalk trends these sell fast and are discarded just as quickly but some people like chong are doing their best to keep close in circulation for longer she and a friend started a close walking event several years ago. as we grow we actually influenced more people to accept this concept of secondhand clothing. they charge $5.00 per person and everyone brings at least 5 items for swapping but is allowed to leave with as
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many pieces as they want so i think we should be recycling things much more we should be prolonging the value of these items more. another way clothes are kept out of the landfill is through research. customers shopping at secondhand stores waffen those who couldn't afford new items but as it's becoming trendy to be thrifty the popularity and number of these stores is increasing the pandemic too has gone some ways in changing consumer habits people have become more careful with their spending cancellation of fashion shows disruptions in supply chains to help shoppers break the habit of following the latest trends but as the global economy slowly recovers and consumption bounces back to prepared demick levels and viral mentalists will be hoping the trend for sustainability in fashion stays constant florence louis al-jazeera. well sir for this new server to keep it here and i'll
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just say i'll be back with you after a very short break with more of our coverage of the israeli palestinian conflict the united nations security council is expected to hold an emergency open meeting only escalating violence seen as shown palestinians in gaza will bring your life so you keep it here. cultivating food is the foundation of human civilization but food today is a global commodity if the industry did not make money how many people would be at work and how it's cultivated a contentious debate public interest in the public safety is definitely not taking precedent and in-depth examination into agribusiness and the conflicting interests that play industry doesn't want any regulation interest want to put their products on the not get the price of progress on al-jazeera. covered 19 has compounded the
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homelessness crisis in l.a. and abandoned impoverished families a force of radical jane she decided to say hey we're going to stand out. as a human rights by claiming properties left vacant by the state the 1st thing i did was i changed the locks my duty is to find out are safe that means breaking the law then i want to do that fault line shelter in place l.a.'s fight for housing on al-jazeera. the health of humanity is at stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o. is the guardian of global health delivering life saving tools supplies and training to help the world's most found mobile people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and of that scene working with scientists and health workers to learn all we can about the virus keeping you up to date with what's
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happening on the ground in the ward and in the land advocating for everyone to have access to essential health services now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. and making a healthy a world free. for everyone. my . at least 33 people have been killed overnight air strikes on gaza he has cured cancer is about to meet steve discuss the crisis. my mother and how my he's in and this is al jazeera life in doha also coming up
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