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on al jazeera, talked to al jazeera, we only were attacking ring, and now they're attacking everyone in me on monday, you regret words like that. we listen, absolutely. nigeria with a woman present, it would be great. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on, sir. ah! returning to the rubble aid begins to trickle into god. help families made homeless by 11 days of israeli bombardment. ah, logan peter, i'll be here and know how you're watching. elsie are also coming up, we still need a 2 state solution. it is the only answer the us president joe biden renews his support for israel, but also promises to help rebuild. garza slang cur imposes
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a travel band to stop the spread of cobra. 19, but is under pressure to go into lockdown as infections rise? i still a q. welcome to freeman's bite. $2400000.00. and we look like new zealand government is being blamed for soaring house prices. ah. due to the seaside between the israeli military and i'm ass, appears to be holding in garza more than 24 hours. after that truce came into effect, humanitarian aid has begun to arrive. the devastation of 11 days of air strikes on the besieged gaza strip is expected to cost almost $100000000.00 to rebuild thousands of people in garza and now homeless. both israel and hum us of warned attacks will resume if the other side breaks the agreement, harry force,
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it has more from gaza. people are still out on the streets, trying to resume something, approaching what was even forgot a normal life. before all of this took place, but every way you go around here, you see the evidence of what has taken place in the last few days across the road from us here. a building whose top couple of floors were very seriously damaged by and israeli strike, which itself is right next door to a bank which was totally wiped out. and here, across the road here we are in the garage area, the, the parking area of the building belonging to the palestinian ministry of health. this is where the doctor's office is. we're, this is where a lot was you can see the rebel. the detritus from that explosion across the road has very, very seriously affected this building as well. and what is significant about this building is that it is what we're the only coven testing lab in gaza. was housed
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and so it had a very serious impact on what was already a burgeoning crisis inside the strip. they have managed to relocate some of that testing capacity, but only a limited amount elsewhere in the health ministry. while dealing with the crisis of all of these injuries that they're currently having to deal with and is overwhelming, the situation in the hospitals is now turning his attention back to the coven situation. because with all of those people displace those tens of thousands of people displaced a lot of them and pretty disorganized ways crowding into un schools and government schools. they came together in great number and there is informal word where getting that of those being tested in such places where they sent several days together in pretty poor hygiene. the positivity rate, the covert among them was nearly 50 percent. and so that is something new, something on top of the, the aftermath of all these,
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these attacks that the authorities, hearing gods are going to have to deal with. well, for many families in garza who are sending home, there's little or nothing left of those homes. humans outside them and some of the palestinians facing the daunting task of now rebuilding the tell me family was at home when the walls of their living room came crashing down. the father had actually been watching reports of these really air strikes on television when the house was hit, no means daughter's apartment, which was only built last month, has also been completely destroyed. not a lot of the gardening conveyed with 3 families living in this home. my daughter came along with the kids to suddenly the power went off and we heard violent bombardment. it was our 1st time to hear such a sound. the rebel suddenly started to fall on us and the kids were screaming. they will flying around. the family left their home with little more than the clothes
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they were wearing at the time and were taken 1st to hospital before being transferred to the united nation school. started the numbers and then when the raids were extensive, we went down because my kids were afraid of the upper floor when we got to the ground floor, my sons home, it was not destroyed. yes. but then the raids got worse and we ran to my brother in those homes right next. wow. and we ran from one home to another. it was all frightening. my brother in law totally destroyed to it was the 2nd dave eat. my kids didn't even get to where the new clothes the toby's were among the 1st to return to their home. after the use really air strikes, the conflict may have ended for now. but many goblins have now to deal with the damage and destruction coast. thousands of homes are gone and they habitants displaced. they need food, shelter, and medical help. there are many scenes of destruction and because this trip but
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only one, i bel thousands of fallacy in families. separate of almost 2 weeks of boardman. c, u. l 0 gods us president joe biden says he does remain committed to a 2 state solution. our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit has more from washington. you are, the president continues to be challenged publicly by some members of his own democratic party in congress over his support for israel, the u. s. president. as he spoke alongside the south korean leader moon j in at the white house was questioned about whether or not this shift and support could be a problem for his israeli palestinian strategy. moving forward here is what the president had to say. there is no shift in my commitment commitment to the security of israel periods, no shift, not at all. but i tell you what, there is a shift in the shift is that we have to, we still need
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a 2 state solution. we were going to make sure that we are going to provide for security in the west bank. and recently we renewed the security commitment, as well as economic commitment to the people on the west bank. i also indicated to the israelis and i thought i was very important that they stop in jerusalem, this inter, communal fighting. that is why extremes on both sides, it has to in it has to in and i'm prepared to put together and i'm going to attempt to put together a major package with other nation to share a view to rebuild the home. my party still supports israel. let's get something straight here until the region says unequivocally they acknowledge the right of israel to exist as an independent jewish state. there will be no peace us president joe biden believed that his approach of quiet diplomacy is what
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allowed for the fighting to end after 11 days and not last much longer. but now the concern does the cease fire whole the other big concern reconstruction in gaza and making sure that when it comes to israeli citizens, whether they be jews or arabs, that they be treated equally. us president joe biden saying that the forced expulsions of palestinians from their homes and occupied east jerusalem must stop holidays. india is a senior fellow at the middle east institute and formerly an advisor to the palestinian leadership in ramallah. he says the bite and ministration was not prepared for the crisis. i think it was clear from the very beginning the administration was caught off guard. they, they had not prioritize issue at all. and even in terms of staffing and personnel, this was just not really a priority. and then when the situation exploded and demanded attention,
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the united states was very slow to access. we can't forget also the united states on 4 different occasion block action at the security council. so they clearly did not have a sense of urgency about, about bringing this to, to a rapid close when in fact, it could, it could have happened. this could have been nipped in the by very, very early on, but there's no question that this is an issue that united states, these railey, the international community has put off for a very long time. they have sort of chosen to bury their head in the sand and that doesn't exist, or that it is the only to be dealt with insecurity and military firm. and the reality of course, is now come up as a much higher profile in terms of our venue politics. so it will be, it will be really important to see what happens next. will be integrated and kind
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of normalized in the context of palestinian poetry or will it continue to be marginalized? and therefore, essentially being a free agent to act as a spoiler whenever it feels that it can be in the world health organization says the global death toll from cupboard 19 could be 2 to 3 times higher than official numbers. they show 3400000 people who die from covered, but the world health organization estimates the true number of deaths directly and indirectly attributed to the virus is between 6 and 8000000. direct incorporates, the reported cova debts as well as those covert debts that were missed because people dive about testing. and what i mean by indirect. these are the debts that can be attributed to the difficult conditions that many people in the world are
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living under because of the damage of these conditions are made. our patients avoid health care which has increased depth and other causes. there's been a severe associate nomic toll which has a voltage in increases in view by depression. sir lanka has imposed a travel band and an effort to curve a surgeon corona virus infections amid a 3rd wave. this comes with the islands, key medical associations, pressure the government to impose a strict to lockdown. scientists have warned that if no action is taken, the situation could get worse than l. fernandez. reports scientists, a working overtime to understand lanka. the 3rd call would waive the $3500.00 infections a day and dozens of deaths. this is the country's only lab at the university of st . java, the napoleon, colombo, carrying out geno sequencing on samples from patients. the process helps identify
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how the virus works. what strain it belongs to, and if and how it's changing the strain 1st identified in the u. k. has spread rapidly in sri lanka, scientists, and now looking at another strain 1st found in india. we have a question to see whether the parent is claiming because again, the indian variant is shown to be even more transmissible than the video and could also be call him severe disease. so as to plan with the her strategy, the control strategy, the hospital resources to have some an agent all to do all that sequencing is important. with the latest search in cases the need for sequencing is more urgent than ever. but the lack of materials is delaying vital research. that's a global talk to sequencing region. so that have a huge delay in getting the the agent either because it's a shortage on the conflict orders soon enough because of that these local funds. as muller begins, team races against telling senior doctors,
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it's called for an immediate 14 day lockdown of the country. this is short term restriction imposed at the moment. working to do the people come out and people go for work and then they got there to get there and then be in do spread off the infection again. so that's why we need to have a lockdown access to it without having interruptions in between. the countries also struggling to vaccinate. it's population of 22000000 people. only approximately one percent have been fully vaccinated. so far. government is facing criticism for mismanaging the vaccine. dr. leading to scenes like this, where anger and frustration the over they say they're trying hard to use the doses . they have effectively to counter the current spike in cases by the highest. yeah, go ahead and be seen. and they said to be to be enrolling in deployed
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patients. so that's the day before the high paid. but the next iteration of the government says it's trying to get move back. seen, not just for the 1st doses like those been given here in color, but also for the 2nd round of shots, which are now overdue. the reason serge, and that's an infection are adding to the agency. experts warn do that vaccines will take time to make a difference. the only solution at the moment is to stop the spread of the virus. minette fernandez out of the ra color that a she long to. still ahead on al jazeera, risking it all for a better life. we meet some of the moroccan migrants attempting to swim to european soil and dying to bury the dead argentina's grave. dickens demand to be vaccinated for they say they will go on strike.
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ah hello there, it's what we had been warning about heavy pockets of rain towards southern sections of indo china. let me show you a hold on city. $62.00 millimeters over the past 24 hours. your monthly average that you should see for me is $218.00, so that in extraordinary amount, but certainly you did put a dent and that rainfall total for the monk. still heavy pockets of rain towards southern sections of vietnam. and we do have some heavy bouts of rain running through devoe, on sunday. but otherwise we haven't been able to say this for a while. we do have some sunshine for called them poor singapore and also jakarta with a high of 29 degrees. also, plenty of sun across australia. we've been talking about high pressure in charge. it's both a good thing and a bad thing because at night time you don't have that cloud cover to trap in the
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warmth. so this happens, your temperature is fall off minus 4 degrees in victoria state, not too far off a record, but things do bounce back nicely. melbourne, 20 degrees on sunday, and then we do have a front just swipe in western australia on sunday. want to get you to new zealand where we do have some serious weather moving through the north island. heavy rain and also very gusty winds gets been could see winds up to 70 kilometers per hour on monday. the on canada because china is in terms of millions of we have question, honey, scrambling, one wine supply chains off the huge job losses. when will the tourism industry recover? cloth and how robot could transform the trade? counting the call hold al jazeera play an important role protecting human. ringback
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face in awe. the me watching out to 0 reminder about top stories to thought today. families in gaza returning home to cease fire between israeli and palestinian militants, appears to be holding. humanitarian aid is now beginning to enter. the is ready located enclave after 11 days of israeli air strikes, left thousands of people homeless. the last president says creating a palestinian things alongside israel is the only answer to the conflicts. job biden's reaffirmed his support for israel and also place to help rebuild garza and
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for lanka has imposed the travel band in an effort to curb a serge corona, virus infections and a 3rd wave. this comes with the islands keen medical associations. tomorrow the country go into lockdown for 2 weeks. ounces, ito is wrestle said i spoke to the palestinian foreign minister about the international efforts to achieve that seaside in gaza. in an exclusive interview with our talk 12, jesse or a program re add america, says it's unclear if the troops will hold when there are no guarantees or thought, no guarantees or thought. because you know, it's a, proclaim that you know, the fire. if c unilateral, that they have taken that decision on their own. but at the same time, you know, no one could ignore that. all that egypt has played very important role that egypt has played the role that has played that all the nation has played. and all of them combined was able to get the consent of all parties,
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you know, for this fight. and we got that approval william laurence's professor of international relations of the american university. and also formerly a u. s. diplomat. you says strengthening the electoral process could help a future palestinian state. well, the big problem was the postponement of elections that happened before the fighting in may. but now there are extra re to keep the elections postpone, which serves said that sir. israel for very different reasons and doesn't serve from us, which will be riding a wave of popularity, given their reason, the ability to reign 4000 rockets down on israel in response to they are all of the grievances that the palestinians are facing. but i don't really believe myself that it would really significantly change the election results if the elections were held earlier. and i think elections would be very good for a long list of reasons,
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including building resiliency in policy and institutions and give a pallet giving policy, giving stadium civilians a voice in their own affairs. and they've been gradually losing over the last 15 years with both political parties. and so i think that's where some of the energy should be working on the future, palestinian state by holding the election. now the u. s. has been somewhat allergic to election in palestine since the 2006 tobacco. that how much one with a certain increased pressure on vitamin with you and un supports for elections. i think they could be put back on track if not for late 21. the than into 22. and i think it's very important that the palestinians take that step forward again for many of the reasons i said and in power some to handle the their own affairs in a way that commensurate with international standards. desperate families in morocco
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looking for their children who may have crossed the border into the spanish enclave of sea utah. nearly 450 unaccompanied miners were among 8000 people who tried to make the swim in effects into europe. now that's after morocco did appear to loosen its border controls. bounded smith is there. this young man's dream of a better life in europe ended before it began. his body washed up on the shores of pewter, a spanish enclave, morocco's mediterranean coast. he was one of around $8000.00 migrants who hoped to take advantage of what appeared to be a decision by the moroccan authorities on monday to relax. border security people swam or waded across the ty drug who caught the spanish parties completely off the
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moist head and we bought it that it was a serious problem. we're used to migraines coming over the fence or arriving by boat, but we have never seen so many people arriving in such a short period of time. and from one place in the moroccan government has been on good by spain's decision to offer hospital treatment to the western sahara independence leda raheem. golly, loosening of the border has been widely interpreted as retaliation. but by wednesday, the slow migrant ended not enough. we came here looking for a better quality of life. we don't have anything in morocco, everything is terrible. we're looking for a better life. so much suffering over the year. we came here without any fear and was nothing. what happens happens? most of the migraines and now willingly going back to morocco from the risks they took into cross to this little bit of europe on the northern tip of africa is an indication of just how difficult the economic circumstances remain on the other
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side of the border coordinates. i'll just there are few nice, serious military since the head of the army has died in a plane crash, lieutenant general, ever him. a 2 heroes plane went down during an official visit to the state of could do not tell other people on board also killed in the accident. police in the us state of louisiana, hebrides body cam footage of the violent arrest of a black man. after being accused of a cover up the video shows ronald green being tasted, punched and choked by the white officers, then laughed without medical help for about 9 minutes. he died on the way to hospital 2 years ago, but the footage has only just been released following an investigation by the associated press. green was detained after leaving troopers on a high speed chase. police initially blamed his death and a car crash with no mention of a use of force by offices. one troop has been fired, the f. b i is now investigating. i understand that the green family is grieving at
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any loss of life is tragic regardless of how i realize there is a great concern with regard to the incident. we share that concern. anytime the actions of our employees are called in the question, and even when use the 4th encounters are handled within the law and policy, it can be shocking to it is critical that we get it right. and when we don't get it right, must hold our self account. argentine is under a nationwide cove is locked down for the 1st time this year. but cemetery workers are among those exempt from such measures. they say they're overworked and they're bearing the brunt of a recent increase in the death toll. and it's daniel swan, the reports now from when it's iris. many of them are threatening to go on strike unless they are vaccinated. they've been designated essential workers
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operating on the front line as a number of deaths from the virus in argentina, climes to 73000. but strict hygiene measures have not been enough to protect them with a growing number of symmetry work is infected and is the 2nd wave strikes dying, which goes to blue. and then if there are many things that can affect you in this place, on top of it all we have covered to and that's unhealthy, we're fighting a war every day. the world health organization says the true number of copied 900 victims in latin america is probably much higher than registered something this, you know, direct confirmed in the virus is not always listed as the cause of death. yet it is handling the bodies of covered 1900 victims was not the only risk they faced. principal for kentucky kick on the main point of contagion. we collect the bodies with the families. we don't know if those family members have cope it or not. in
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their or when we go to a hospital, funeral workers have also had to deal with the emotional trauma of consoling relatives and restricting how many family members can participate in funeral proceedings. will be in every clamor. and we're seeing people begging for a moment just a moment to say a formal good by a minimal farewell. they say they're overwhelmed. that 20 percent of about 10000 symmetry work is there affected you the have or have had the virus and other 10 percent ca work since they're considered vulnerable. we don't normally talk about death until we have 273 workers, the central work because they used to that. but now they're shouting to be heard because they're dying in the fight against the pandemic, and say their industry can't take much more. argentina has vaccinated, less than 5 percent of its population in the process which started across latin america. the symmetry work is said, not enough to be designated essential workers,
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if they're not given the greater protection vaccines can offer. longer time will be in the subs. what we're asking for is absolutely just and i heard the listen to us that to see us please. the union negotiations with the government are on pause while both sides consider their position, your book and i am a symbol. so we know that if we take industrial action will only add to the pain, we don't want that because we understand why we see it every day as the 2nd wave hits and with vaccines in short supply governments across latin america, imposing it more unpopular locked downs to try to alleviate the strain and an already overburdened infrastructure. those on the front line keep working. the city can take much more than usual and there are 201 cyrus a surprise surgeon, house prices. since the start of the pandemic has put home ownership out of reach for many while investors are making huge profits in new zealand house prices of shot up 20 percent. now the government is paying
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a $1000000.00 per day to have the homeless in hotels, wayne, hey, reports from oakland, and the 1st of 4 part series on the rising cost of housing. i sell it to you. welcome to freeman's by $2400000.00. another quick successful auction results in another high price sale in new zealand largest city oakland were looking for probably 45 months. it's pretty crazy. prices have gone up a lot in the last sort of 6 months or so i was trying to get a handle on where prices are. it was probably the, the 1st part of the l journey. in fact, those prices have searched more than 20 percent in the last year. among the 37 nations that make up the organization for economic cooperation and development or a cd new zealand has the most affordable housing markets. the new zealand government has taken steps to cool the market, but there are limits to how far it will go. because a strong boy and property sector is good for the economy and in the middle of
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a global pandemic. when so many other industries like tourism a struggling, the government will take what it can guess. it's a similar situation in australia's major cities where prices have defied economists . predictions of a 20 percent drop to increase by 10 percent in the past year. fueled by cheap money and government subsidies, we've got investors who were saying that housing is going to be a much better investment for them than money in the bank. and we're saying 1st time buyers and is always encouragement from the government. the 1st time bought into market in new zealand, the property boom is exacerbating a wealth gaps that was already widening at an alarming rates. not only is there a shortage of housing at the top and further boosting price, but there isn't enough emergency or state funded long term housing to help those at the other rains. the government is trying to catch up with de bond, but there were more than 22000 people on
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a growing waiting list for social housing. some experts believe new zealand needs to rethink what housing means. we have new housing, very much of the commodities. that's something that can be bought, sold, traded the seat of a social good when we think about house. and we really need to start thinking about housing. is something that's critical for people's well being for people to function for people to thrive on communities. if the treasury is predicting a shop slow down in price growth, but at the moment the only people who appear to be thriving, those already on the property lead up $1900000.00, appreciate the offerings. so welcome in wayne. hey, al jazeera oakland. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, families in gaza returning home as a ceasefire between israel and palestinian militants. appears to be holding. humanitarian aid has begun to arrive into the.
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