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society, a 1000 girl, blank me a witness documentary announces error. i didn't cover all of latin america for most of my career, but no country is alike, and it's my job to shed light on how and why me . i see 5 between israel and her mom has health through its 1st few hours with both sides, claiming victory. ah, hello again. i'm associate hey, this is al jazeera life and we'll say coming up even as the conflict and gaza stopped. dozens of people are injured in skirmishes between israeli forces and protest and occupied east jerusalem and across the occupied westbank and other news
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concerned in india, about a fungal infection affecting curve at 900 patient health ministry makes it mandatory to states to identify and track every case and reports for me on laws electoral commission pounds to dissolve on from the national league for democracy policy. ah, well sci fi between israel and her boss is in 4th off now, 11 days of war. the conflicts left more than 250 people dead, most of them palestinians in the gaza strip. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called his operation a success saying they hit some, a hog that the palestinian group has also came to victory. while the head of her mouth is melania has claimed their military operation. as i said, a victory had done muscle allow these 2
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r palestinian people in 2 or 3 men worldwide. i bring to you this good news. good news of the victory. it is the victory created by the policy. i mean people, it is a victory carved by the noble blood of the fallen marchers. all resistance groups, joint forces, and delta, one heavy blow to the enemy. this blow will leave an indelible mark on these really occupation forces on their political security and military men. we salute our resistance and their leaders, what the he was about to be the horn that shook it. we stood united shoulder to shoulder looking only at one thing, bringing back the security and quiet to the people of israel as the prime minister of israel. the only thing that influences my decision is the safety and security of israel and keeping at citizens and soldiers alive. the main goal of this operation was to hit the terrorist operation hard and bring back peace to date. not everything is known to the public and to whom us, and it will come out in time. at the stage,
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what i can say is we did brave and new things. still though tensions remain high across the occupied west bank, where dozens of people have been injured during demonstrations on friday. have a look. these pictures are from ramallah where there have been clashes between palestinian protesters and israeli forces and bait. and earlier, there were also scholarships between israeli police and worship is at the alex and most compound. witnesses say that tear gas was fired as police trying to disperse the crowd of following friday. presently 15 people were injured. well, how do i go to me and joins us from damascus case that's at the entrance to the old city and occupied eastern eastland and white house correspondent kennedy. how it is in washington d. c. let's be to hold a fast clearly tensions obviously. so running high as we said, vividly saw that alex or today yes, absolutely. i mean, yes, there is a fire,
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but that the fire really concerns only gather all the rest of the issues between the 2 sides are very much and you know those, this is what we so unfold this morning at the compound. it was only barely 12 hours into the cease fire, and the tensions were already bubbling at the surface. there was also a little bit of tension in the shifter ra neighborhood by a large today people where it's also celebrating. and so they had a sigh of relief that the war on guys is over. the tensions are still very much there. well, how to, as we've been hearing them both sides claiming success. but given that the actual underlying issues really haven't gone any way, is it likely that the sci fi will actually continue to hold well, this is fine. what if we, based on what we saw in the past each is
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a war no matter how brutal it is and how much to cause guys, it pays for that war. this cease fire is usually hold for quite an extent of time. now. yeah. if you look at guys at the moment, it is a destroyed area, residents are exhausted, there is rubble everywhere. i mean they have to pick up the pieces. and also if you look at these really side, yes, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling this a victory. he said that it was a mutual and unconditional the fire, but he is. many of his political opponents are questioning. exactly why did this war take place? some of them i say that's with, that's just because the prime minister, who's actually caretaker prime minister, the moment is politically and that he hasn't been able to do to form any coalition government in 4 elections in less than 2 years. so he was trying to get some personal political gain through this war. others say, well, why did we do this war?
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since if he didn't finish it off? some of the far right groups here with a preferred to see a grounded vision would have preferred to see much more decisive action against us . and then you have the military leadership who's just now is reading in these really media actually questioning what was the purpose of this military operation? and if really, how much was we can to the extent that is said, or if they really did it, or if they really met to their target or not. so there's a lot of questions going around here. given the extent of the humanitarian crisis that we've really seen deepen over the last 11 days. what are the priorities here going forward? well, typically the priority will be the humanitarian aid going into gaza. now we've
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heard some trucks, several ready gone today into through the selim crossing. we heard that egypt said that this will allow also a going through the rough and crossing on the other side of the southern side of the gaza strip. but there's also, you know, there's a lot of wounded inside the guys who need the urgent and medical help. they could be evacuated through egypt. and then there's also really for the whole issue to restart politically. there hasn't been any kind of peace, legal issues, anything coming close to a p stations for at least a decade. now there is hope amanda palestinian authority really that with the binding administration things good move a little bit. if you recall, under the trump administration president that was left completely in the cold, he had no, no contact whatsoever with washington. and then things got worse and worse because
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president trump had actually called announced that jerusalem was the capital of israel. and since then, really, the settlement, the legal settlements really took off quite vigorously. so there is hope that maybe within your american administration, they could get back on track. unless there is some quite some real tangible movement that the palestinians can see. i think the tensions will remain part of the me today for us on the ground and occupied east jerusalem. thank you so much for the while speaking of the us administration, president joe biden has applauded this sci fi agreement between israelis and palestinians, saying that his administration worked tirelessly behind the scenes. let's now be trial white house correspondent can be how can kimberly, given all the pressure that we've seen that he was under, this must be a relief for president biden. that we're watching for further reaction from the u.
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s. president. he will be appearing in a joint press conference later today with the south korean president, moon j. and so we expect that he may be out some questions about this cease fire. but there is no question that there has been a sense of relief, not just that the white house, but in washington overall. this is something that many on capitol hill were looking for and is being applauded. not only by pro israeli politicians, but also pro israeli group and pro palestinian groups. the fear that there would be further loss of life being the number one concern here at the white house. but at the same time, what we are noticing is that there is still dialogue going on about what happens next. the white house saying that they feel that they're quiet diplomacy more than 80 telephone calls with mid level diplomats as well as through governments such as egypt cut power. and jordan is what allows us to be achieved. but they want to keep
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those channels open. so that those discussions can continue to address what some are calling, including the united nations, the root causes of this conflict to ensure that the calm continues. kimberly, given the divide that we've seen within the u. s. political establishment, what should we actually expect when it comes to us diplomacy on this issue over the next little while? we should expect the prism of social justice that has been percolating in the united states for some time to effect foreign policy. you'll have to remember that one of the early foreign policy features by the secretary of state said that human rights would be a foundation of the bible ministration. foreign policy and many within the democratic party have been critical of the by an administration for abandoning that when it comes to the israeli palestinian conflict. and so there is a new generation of democrats, particularly younger democrats, college campuses,
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as well, who are putting the pressure on this administration, holding it to account, saying that when it comes to hey, when it comes to discrimination, that it doesn't just mean inside the u. s. borders, but must also apply to this issue to some of the president's own words coming back to haunt him in many ways as he signed legislation thursday at to counter hate in the united states. he said that silence is complicity. many on social media and in the general discussions that are taking place pointing out that this also applies to palestinians in terms of their rights. so this is something that is going to continue to be a hot issue, one that the by new ministration will have to address even internally as this party battles to deal with the strategy. moving forward. white house correspondent, kimberly how could there for a thank you. so much kimberly. while, meanwhile, across the wilds, there had been demonstrations, installer darcy with the people of palestine. habit fees with the scenes and
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neighboring jordan where people gathered at the border. and in indonesia more than a 1000. demonstrators rallied outside the u. s. embassy in the capital jakarta they've been urging washington to support the palestinians, while pakistan for its part is mocking its official palestine solidarity day. of course won't come out. hyder was as a demonstration in the capital as i'm about the board for palestine day pre k. and psyche of most focused on it and it doesn't matter whether you're on the religious part, right, or the people all agree that there has to be address from the indian issue. buckets on has always supported the palestinian and being aware of outraged and overwhelming. you go force against civilian population and god the people are focused on a been watching that on their screen. right. there's no surprise that how does of
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them have now come out on this trade show their scholar data day with the people of palestine. we have been talking to most of the papers have to ask them what had brought them to dish rotate, this is the brutal murder of the full opinion and your identity is on boarding days and there was a good deal who have got and i, they say we also condemned them and we did the method to the the next step is on my list. is there denied by the revision? by do you know, even though some of the muslim countries do have accepted the trial? but we want to say to those muslim country does that we need to stand together to deliver and send a message, a strong message to israel. we're with the by listen, you know, with him and we're with all those muslim a foreign minister already in new york where he had already met with the turkish foreign minister, the credit union for a minute. and a message from buggers on
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a day has to be more action than just diplomacy when it comes to the black and white lation of international law by their state are very still ahead. you here on al jazeera and joining forces against coded 19 italy co host g. 20 summit for the pledge to give poor countries more vaccine spain send back thousands of migrant to morocco after a huge influx and to say usa in recent days. ah, ah hello, we've got a run of sun across the middle east and high temperatures to a lot of heat going on. but there is also the risk of some sand and dust being kicked up toward northern portions of saudi arabia, into kuwait,
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and southern sections of iraq and also southern areas of pockets on incorrect she was just earlier in the week. we saw an intense dust storm, but i don't think we'll see a repeat of that on saturday. and that high heat we were talking about can be found in doha. 44 degrees on saturday, that wall above average temperature will come down a bit over the next few days across turkey. we've had some rain sweep across the boss for us. that's knocked down temperatures. same goes for on cra you were just 31 a day ago. and now you're down to 17. are heavier, strange toward the tropics of africa, can be found into the central african republic on saturday, right through into the gulf of guinea. ok, now let's go to southern sections of africa and we're drying out toward the western cape. or we did see a bit of heavy rain over the last little while. conditions are looking good in cape town with the high of 17. let's see if we can keep it go and look ahead to the next 3 days. temperatures will actually come up will pop up above average. so high of 22
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degrees on sunday with plenty of sun the a life and death struggle for racial equality in a deeply unequal society. unfortunately, that was fine for the apartheid regime within that group. they've been very close friends like a family living together over 50 years of torture and death in police. custody of jesse or world tells the remarkable story of anti apartheid campaigner in they're mark darma her or south africa, the mammal, 4th apartheid on a jazz. oh, a
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hello again, i'm sorry you're paying the home that's remind you of our top story of the salad. sci fi between israel and her boss appears to be holding. it went into effect on friday after 11 days of fighting, which killed at least $243.00 palestinians, 12 people drive in israel. both sides. meanwhile, claiming victory. news that sci fi has been met with celebrations across the palestinian territory. this base families have begun returning to their homes, the following news of that truth. and us president joe biden has also welcome that agreement, saying israelis and palestinians deserve to live together in peace. he says, washington will continue to support israel militarily and has pledged humanitarian aid palestinians and gaza. now, in other news, a major conference on how to beat the current of viruses, kicked off with a pledge to give poor countries more vaccines. italy is co hosting
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a g 20 summit with the european commission to try to address the global health crisis that you use as it will donate 100000000 korean virus vaccines by the end of this year. well, leaders are also expected to discuss scaling up vaccine production and also avoiding national export bands corresponding natasha butler has all the latest, all not help summit from paris. the focus in this global health summit was very much on vaccines. how poor countries can be helped by wealthy nations with their vaccine rollouts and access to vaccines is now there are a number of commitments made at the end of this summit. many countries a committed to boosting the amount of doses that they share with poor countries. the european union, for example, has committed to 100000000, shared with poor country treat the kofax scheme we also heard from pharmaceutical joins including bon tag 5, the maternal johnson johnson,
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who will pledge 1300000000 doses for poor country, for the much cheaper rate. than which they've been sold to wealthier nation also help from wealthy a nation's to build code vaccine production and development hubs in africa. we know, for example, in africa, few within one percent of people have been vaccinated. there are some countries that have had no vaccine doses at all. however, nothing in terms in terms of vaccine waivers, a g 20 leaders actually decided that they would not waive paintings on the vaccines, nevada, as seen as something of a snub to the united states. jo biden's administration in may and he did the calls of countries like india and china in pushing for a waiver on vaccine. peyton's is a way to help boost production while meanwhile, india is current virus death. toll is continuing to rise,
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but the number of new infections is falling. more than 4200 deaths were reported on friday. well, new cases fell by around 15000 on thursday, one of the countries local vaccine manufacturers also announced plans to ramp up production. india is currently facing a severe shortage of jobs with just 3 percent of its population actually inoculated . all this as an alarming new health problem is complicating the country, is battle against the current a virus. and the doctors are dealing with an increasing number of patients diagnosed with so called black fungus. it typically affects people whose immune systems have already been compromised. some doctors are suggesting that steroids that are being used to treat severe cases of covered 1900 could be one of the causes. mythos has more now from new deleon. the rapid rise in cases of black fungus amuse my causes have complicated matters in india. but quite a lot. 1 at least 7000 people have been diagnosed with mutual my courses. at least
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200 people have died. the government of india has now called this disease in notifiable disease under the epidemic act. what this means is that every time a case is detected, states have to notify the government of india and also follow certain guidelines on screening and testing and diagnosis. the prime minister also today called it a big challenge in india, fight against coven 19. actually 6 of the states including coming now to tell and gonna and roger on have also called it a notifiable disease under the epidemic act. now the over use of steroids and diabetes make people if passionate vulnerable to this disease, it is a disease with high fatality rate. according to the c, d. c, at least half the people who do get infected do die. but it is treatable if detected early. so now hospitals are dedicating wards, especially to treat black fungus. but there is
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a growing concern about is shortage off the drug use to treat this disease. 7 hospital saying they do not have enough of this drug. and so the delhi government has now regulated the sale of this drug to prevent hoarding. and the government of india has now off several other pharmaceutical companies to start manufacturing it . now the political party of man was asked to leader on some future is being dissolved by the country's electoral commission. and that's according to reports from some of the local media outfits there. not commission, which was appointed by military rulers following february's true accused party of electoral fraud. florence louis is following developments for us from calling them for the military when they took over power in february, it justified its position on the basis of electro fraud. so it's following that line. now, one of the 1st things it did after the coup was detained election commission officials and investigated senior members. then it appointed its people,
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people who trust it to the election commission body. now there's new genta appointed electron election commission held a meeting on friday and it's chat person said that they've made that division. this was a meeting attended by political parties as well. but many of the pro democracy parties refused to attend. so it was attended mostly by the pro military parties. now the chairperson is non set that the election commission intends to dissolve the national league for democracy party. this is a party led by on sushi and it 182 percent of elected seats in last year's election . now the chair also said that the end of these leaders were he considered them traitors, and he said, action would be taken. that's as far as we know now, it has to be said that no credible election monitoring body has supported the military's claims of intellectual fraud. in fact, quite the opposite. they were to foreign election. observe the missions in myanmar
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during the polls last year. and they both said that by and large, the voting and the results result reflected the people's, when the military did say that when it took over power in february, but it intends to hold an election. but i think from what we're seeing that whatever election, whatever shape the election takes, it's not going to be one that will be free and fast. while meanwhile, japan's foreign minister has warned that it will have to rethink its assistance to me on law. if the political situation that doesn't improve managed davis, if this situation continues, there is a possibility that the official development assistance will have to be revised. or even if they want to, the private companies will not be able to invest the memo me going to. i mean, as a country that has provided various kinds of support for me and mars democratization. and as a friend, we believe that is necessary to clearly convey these points to me and more. and we have been doing so. while the situation for journalists covering that military crackdown and miano has grown increasingly dangerous,
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many have now gone into hiding or escape to neighboring countries. scott jaila has more from been call. night rates like this, one of the many dangerous journalists are facing in myanmar kung me at ly was live streaming for the democratic voice of burma, known as d v. b. when he was arrested in march a few days earlier, he'd reported on a deadly crackdown by security forces. since the coo, on the 1st of february, more than 70 journalists, have been arrested. many independent media outlets have had their licenses revoked, including v. b reporters face intimidation, torture and are in constant fear of inform. it's turning them in. i spoke to don, went to d. v. be in an undisclosed location. he escaped through ethnic rebel held territory . all was all the people who know you are going to be the same time, you know, or informal secret informant of the police, the military around you, you can know who's going to install us to the military. he says he suffers from
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survivors, guilt he's left, but many of his colleagues remain the need to continue their work is paramount. he says, and he's not alone. many other journalists have gone into hiding or fled to neighboring countries, including thailand. but 3 d, v, be journalists and to activists were arrested in the city of cheng my earlier this month for entering thailand, illegally, they said they had to escape me and mar, fearing they might be killed. they're being held in jail, awaiting a trial that could lead to deportation. so with thailand, they have law played host to many displaced communities. and so we're really urging the time already to continue providing safety not to court, these journalists and activists, or anyone really from me and my who is coming for safety for ty, foreign ministry is said they are concerned about the case, but they are seeking a humanitarian solution for the group of 5, but it's a very delicate situation for the administration here. ty, prime minister pro 10 or a former general, who initially came to power through
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a coo, has a close relationship with me in mars. jones leader, gentlemen, on line for the journalists still in me, unmarked. they have a decision to make almost every day stay and continue to report. or if they have the means go into hiding or leave the country and continue to work in exile. got either al jazeera bangkok. well now spain says it sent back more than 6500 migrants after a huge influx of people from rural code to its enclave usa in maine and africa, around 8000 people and to the spanish on play this week. madrid is accusing morocco of temporarily relaxing its border security, allowing people to end to say that's the strain, the relationship between the 2 countries, which has spiraled into a diplomatic route. but smith has more now from say, it's clear that americans did relax temporarily. that controls along the border because the migraines we've been speaking to made it over to the tiny little bit of
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your up on the tip of north africa. tell us that yes, there was little security on the opposite side. why? well, we know that morocco is displeased with spain, allowing in the leader of the policy mario from him. golly, he was left in last month for hospital treatment because he was suffering from complications all cove. it polish aria from want independence for moroccan control, western sahara. so we know there's been tensions in the relationship between spain, morocco and spanish defense minutes, actually get to the moroccans of black male by allowing so many people to cross and to people. we know off a cost in their lives, one body washed up on the shore. here. yesterday we saw about to happen earlier on this week. there was another body discovered in the war water. so it was a diplomatic incident, really with deadly consequences. while a 3 month deadline for iran to allow international inspections of its nuclear facilities is set to expire. european signatories to the monitoring deal once it
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extended it, including inspections of iranian nuclear facilities by the you and watch dog. and the deal is important to ensure the continuation of those indirect talks between iran and the u. s. on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, jabari has moved out from vienna, whether it talks resume next week. the decision of whether or not to extend this technical agreement will have to come from to around in the coming days. but it is most likely that they will extend this agreement to that means that they will renew . officials will continue to store security footage from the 6 nuclear sites, as well as limit access to spectra, so they don't have snap inspections to those facilities. the talk here, according to the political director and re k mora, he's confident that there will be a good deal reach. it's not a matter of, if it's now a matter of when the americans are also optimistic, they said that following the 4th round of discussions that wrapped up on wednesday,
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they are beginning to see the contours of what a final agreement would look like. and the re needs are now saying that the next round of talks should be the 5th, due to be held here from next tuesday, but could be the most crucial. there is a sense that time is of the essence because the europeans are, are really looking to try and secure disagreements that will see the united states return to nuclear agreement of 2015 as well as iran to return to for compliance before the presidential election set to take place in iran on july 18th. there is a sense that these next rounds could be the most important. and as for this deadline for the technical agreement, it is expected to be extended in the coming days by raining officials. ah, hello. this is al jazeera, these are the headlines a sci fi between israel and the mass appears to be holding. it went into effect on
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