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the scale of the campus, like nothing you've ever seen access to health care or something. well, we want to know, how does these things affect people? we revisit places day, even when they're no international headlines. also they're really invest in that not the privilege. as a journalist. ah, returning to the rubble age begins to trickle into garza to help families made homeless by 11 days of his very bombardment. ah, this is ally from doha. also coming up, the rallies are held in several cities in europe in support of palestinian calling for an end to the israeli occupation. political crisis and nepal, the president dissolves parliament and calls for new election. this country
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struggles to control the colona violence time. the next police in the state of louisiana are accused of covering up. our black man died in custody as video of a violent of us in 2019 is released. ah, this is far between israel and hamas holding families in the gaza strip. all heading back home and business owners are trying to get back to work. humanitarian aid has also begun arriving on the gaza strip. the reconstruction after 11 days of air strikes is expected to cost almost $100000000.00 us president joe biden has offered to help, but he says he'll work with the united nations to make sure that support isn't give it to hamas. the on group runs and 5 hundreds of rockets into israel during the
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conflict killing at least 12 people. solidarity protest for palestinians are taking place around the world. large crowds have gathered in several cities in the u. k as demonstrates a call for an end to his ready occupation. and we're going to have more on those protests in a moment. but 1st, let's hear from how the forces in gases were outside schafer, hospital, the main hospital in garza city. but all of the main, 13 hospitals up and down the street are facing very similar issues, which is just an overwhelming number of patients and a huge workload for the staff and exhaustion. not just of them in human terms, but also of a lot of the disposable and the treatment facilities required. of course, power lines a down fuel is in short supply. so that affects electricity, which in turn affects hygiene, sanitation, water. so it is a major problem. we were speaking to one doctor inside here and he looked just
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absolutely exhausted for one thing. and he was worried about not just what he been able to do in terms of treating, deciding prioritizing on what to do in various medical terms, but also about people coming in with really serious humanitarian questions and difficulties unable to really address one. he said, and as well as that there is all the usual day to day care and already stress system here. dealing with such a large population has to deal with. he was worried about pregnant women going into labor. he was worried about people just tripping over some of the rebel and all the rest of it. there is a huge capacity problem here in garza, some 8 now is in, but it, it is pretty small when, when compared to the need. diplomatic editor james base has more from west to whistle. the key diplomatic moment in the coming days is the arrival of the us secretary of state antony blinking in the region. we don't have any exact details of his trip, but he's going to be meeting is railey and palestinian leaders. clearly the
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international focus right now is getting humanitarian assistance into garza. a un security council resolution drafted by france is being rewritten to focus on humanitarian assistance. one of the problems there for the us is that it doesn't deal directly with the mass, so there's going to have to work through intermediaries and the united nations. the big question for the blinking visit is whether this changes the calculations of the biden administration for the 1st 4 months they've had in power. they've not seen this issue as a priority. they've been focusing on the nuclear deal on climate change on afghanistan and on relations with china and with russia. will they now change that and refocus on negotiations between israelis and palestinians. of the u. s. actively pursuing them, $100.00 to taking part in solidarity marches for palestinians and cities across
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europe. marches are being held in manchester, london, the new k supporters calling on the government to impose sanctions on israel after its airstrikes and palestinian cities are also calling for a military embargo to cut the supply of weapons. under the protest in paris, i'm demonstrations also planned in berlin poll. brandon is life from us, from protests in london. even though the cease fire has been cold fall, it's quite clear that people are still determined that things have to change on my shoulder. and i will step out of the way and back up every month and give you a glimpse of the crowd is frankly enormous. when organizers actually said that they would expect around 150000 after march in london, i had to confess i was a little judy by the evidence of my own eyes. now i can see that they must use pretty close to the to the mission because this stuff is all the way down
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piccadilly, huge nevada, in the center of london. the crowd is in passing me now for some 15 minutes into the hard part. i'm not sure it took a short distance away, so there are many more thousands who already gone into the car on so many more thousands of what i'm struck by by the crowd here is the youth off. i was here last week when a different march by the same organizes, went from model on to the israeli embassy. that was a small gathering and oversee the complex so raging at that point. now what we have is a larger group that much younger to say that they're in the twenty's early thirty's, big proportional them rather than the much wider age for solely for i'm a sentiment from talking to them is that they genuinely belief that the pressure the has gone through that protest helped to bring about the end of the complex
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during the past week. and that determine that, that pressure, you know, we left off now that, that should be possible a whole, gaza on 2nd of all continued pressure from last thing political. secondly, between israel and the palestinians, the organized stop, the war and the palace in philadelphia campaign, and the descendants that shouldn't be the end of the se. well, they want to continue the full points very much and do that whole branding, talking to some of those protests in london. the falls president has dissolved parliament and set a date for new elections. and the growing anger over the governance handling of the pandemic. prime minister k p show the only last vote of confidence in parliament this month, alexia bryan reports in napoleon, capers. ok, men, do, hospitals are so overwhelmed. they are now treating patients on the floor and hallways and even outside the they told me mom of his oxygen live with his low and
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asked me to find a bid somewhere else because the hospital was packed. i tried many places and found one outside this hospital. the only one bid was making when we arrived here. we were lucky to get it. there's also a desperate need for oxygen canisters climb is on mount everest. when asked to bring back the empty tanks, so they can be refilled the corona virus patience. but the situation on the mountain is also worrying with guides describing an outbreak at base camp. although that's been denied by the government would either confirmed cases, we know now confirm from pilots from insurances, from doc stuff from expedition lead us. i have to positive test. so we can prove this. we have at least $100.00 people minimum positive for corporate in base camp. much of the world's attention has been on the crisis in india. the agencies and medical work is a warning of an unfolding,
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human catastrophe and neighboring nicole. it's inoculation campaign has almost ground to a halt after india band exports of code vaccines. transmission could be less and urban areas in the coming weeks, but it has reached the villages, which is a cause for concern. we would also to check oxygen levels, prescribe medicine, an x rays, but it's not available them. some accuse prime minister cape sharma, ali is fueling the crisis. he's repeated claims that covered is no worse than the flu. ali says his government's made every possible effort to save people, claiming a lack of resources and infrastructure. but anger over his government's handling of the outbreak has added to what was already a political stalemate. the president dissolved elemental saturday to make way for election. the pope of the state and politics is to protect people which is a pandemic. and now our attention has been diverted to the, to the election. elections are important for democracy,
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but i don't know what kind of election that we are talking. so i think it's a misplaced friday. it is to cover a political income pretenses of becoming experts. prediction of poll could see 40000 dates by july, the toll worse than any other country in the region for the size of its population . funeral pies and kept men do burn day and night, with family force to grief at a distance. and often alone. elixir brian l 20. 6 indian government is asking states to report cases of a rare but deadly infection that's affecting patients who had the corona virus. many regions are seeing an increase in new coma closest also known as black fungus . there's increasing concern because pharmacies are running out of the med since needed to treated, or india correspondent elizabeth put on his more emergency service work as an
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awesome stake. disinfect the border family, home and chum, olga village, a practice to reassure nervous neighbors. inside chandra border is in morning after the death of his son to morning. 2 days after the 27 year old recovered from coven 19, he fell ill with a rare infection called mucus. my closes or black fungus, ohio, and he had difficulty breathing. so we took him to the hospital, the doctor in being said, nothing can be done here and for him to go after reaching the gout, they said we can't do anything, he'll take him to go. then we admitted him to hospital. he was kept there for 5 days after which we found out that he died at 6 in the morning. full morning is one of more than 200 indians have died from nico, my classes this year, more than 8000 have been infected. like many with me, call my courses for morning not only had quoted 19 recently, but was also diabetic. doctors say corona vars. patients with diabetes and
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a weakened immune system, a particularly performed to infection. they believe the use of steroids to treat severe covert 19 could be contributing to the condition of the population largely and the 3rd to the middle age group. and that makes a little bit on to the sugar level and something like that. you know, i really jacked up a little bit more for the opportunity from the infection, the a group inside the body and break as it is doing. michel, my causes causes discoloration over the eyes and nose blurred vision, chest pain and breathing difficulties. in some cases, doctors have to remove one or both eyes or part of the joint has stopped the disease from spreading human villa. my friend who is suffering from black fungus infection, had a surgery 3 days back and his job was removed. the doctor has also said that they
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need to remove his eye as well to save his life, and i'm having problems finding him injections for 3 days. the government has taken over the midst an outlet, and this hospital says that they also have 70 patients for whom they need the medicine to. we let outpatient di many states are running out of the expensive medicine. used to treat the infection as case of the rico my post as rise valley is setting up special wards and 3 hospitals to treat patients while the high court has off the government to immediately import medicine from overseas. awesome, and a number of other states have declared nicole my post as an epidemic. elizabeth moran and al jazeera new delhi social media platforms in india have been ordered to take down posts, referring to a strain of corona virus. as the indian variant government says the world health organization has not traced the origin of the very and identified as b dash one dash 617 to any country. it was 1st detected in india last year,
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and it's feeling a devastating covered 1900 wave across south asian nations. still, i had another 0, the chinese scientists behind a hybrid rice crop that help stable hunger for millions of people dies. i sell it, you welcome to the freemans, buy $2400000.00 and we look at why new zealand government has been blamed for soaring house prices. ah hello, nice to see you. i want to take you to southeast asia where our heavy rain as it usually falls in toward the gang, seeing the pearl rivers, but it's starting to fragment on sunday. so it's not going to swoop in to shanghai, it's out toward the pacific. so we catch a break from heavy rain through japan,
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just pockets for horseshoe, and up to support on sunday. and some rain starting to slump into north korea. take you to southeast asia. we've seen some heavy pockets of rain toward the southern sections of indo china in particular hosting mon city that continues on sunday. but here's something we haven't been able to say for a while. so in the forecast. call them poor check sun also for singapore and jakarta in the forecast for you on sunday. want to show you the philippines right now because central in southern areas, we're getting a run of rain for see bu and also devote and $33.00 degrees will be the high. but again, just downpours of rain for you on sunday, off to the bay of been gall and we're starting to see that circulation here folks. so this will likely become a very severe psychotic storm o. d shot rate through to west bank all and bangladesh will be impacted in the coming days. but otherwise for sunday, some rain from mar roster rate down to care less stage just some light showers for you
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the killing the debates. don't leave the picture and amplify your voice. they're only given a certain narrative. the media will miss the true story, know topic it off the table. why in the world, what do we humanize an individual domestic care? this was an illegal occupation of a country. what they're doing is they're removing knowledge vision at the, the stream where a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera. oh, the the me
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what, you know, just a reminder, let's help stories this hour at the sci fi between israel and how much continue to hold your mandatory ratings. going to arriving in gaza. families are heading home and business owners are trying to get back to work despite severe damage to buildings and infrastructure. marches in support of palestinians is taking place and several european cities demonstrated a colleague and government to host sanctions on israel after the air strikes. and they also want a military embargo to cut the supply of weapons. the balls president has dissolved parliament and set a date for new elections. i mean growing anger over the government's handling pandemic prime minister k finish on the only last vote of confidence and parliament as sure like i has imposed to travel by in an effort to cover surgeon corona virus infections. and then a 3rd wave, the islands key medical associations of pressuring the government to impose
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a strict lockdown. scientists of war that if no actions taken, the situation could get worse and fernandez reports. scientists, a working overtime to understand she. lunk, her 3rd wave with 3500 infections a day and dozens of death. this is the country's only lab at the university of st. java, the napoleon, colombo, carrying out genome sequencing on samples from patients. the process helps identify 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 stream, 1st found in india. we have the core to see whether the indian parent is coming because again, the indian variant is shown to be even more transmissible than the video. and could also, because you'll see that if you sort of plan with the her strategy, the control strategy, the hospital resources to hear from an h months or to do all that sequencing in is
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important with the latest surgeon cases, the need for sequencing is more urgent than ever, but the lack of materials is delaying vital research. that's a global talk, a courtesy quincy region. so that's a huge delay in us getting the, the agent either because that shortage or the conflict order soon enough because that these lack of funds as muller begin team races again telling me senior doctor's a hold 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 goof over and then they got there to get there and then be in the spread off the infection again . so that's why we need to have a locked down at estridge without having interruptions in between. the country is also struggling to vaccinate its population of 22000000 people. only approximately
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one percent have been fully vaccinated so far. the government is facing criticism for mismanaging the vaccine. dr. leading to seems like this, where anger and frustration over busy they're trying hard to use the doses. they have effectively to counted. the current spike in cases by the highest and best thing that they said was going to be involving in the patients. so the study react by the current or the hyper. but in the dimension authority, the government says it's trying to get move ac, 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 the virus
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minute fernandez of the ra color that a she lung to germany declared the u. k. r. a virus variant region. that means people arriving from there will be required to quarantine for 2 weeks and the measure is said to come into effect on sunday. the covered 1900 very prevalent in india has been spreading in the u. k. any germans are fed up with the restrictions and they're planning a protest later on saturday in berlin to voice the frustrations the world health organization says the global death told from covered 19 could be $2.00 to $3.00 times higher than official numbers. they show 3400000 people have died from corona virus, but the w h o estimates the true number of desk directly and indirectly attributed to the virus is between 6 and 8000000. direct incorporates the reported cobra debts as well as those called the debts that were missed because
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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 living under. because of the damage of these conditions are made. our patients avoid health care, which has increased deaths and other causes. there's been a severe associate nomic toll, which has resulted in increases in view by depression. police in the state of louisiana have reduced body count footage of the violent arrest of a black man. after being accused of a cover up this video shows warmer, green, being tailored, punched and chokes by the white officers. 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. understand that the green family is grieving at any loss of life is
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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 calls into question and even when use the 4th encounters are handled within the law and policy, it can be shocking. it is critical that we get it right and when we don't get it right, must hold ourselves account. fisher has more from washington d. c. the family say there has been a cover up. it's taken that long for this video to emerge and louisiana state police only releasing their version of the dash cam and the body comes after the associated press leaked, a copy, the state police initially reacting with anger to the fact that the associated press had leaked. that the family were told that ronald green was killed in a car accident. what we can clearly see from the video is that that is simply not
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the case. he was stopped because of what the police say. it was a traffic violation. he put one hand up, he was comply with the police officers, yet he was still tase, dragged out of the car, violently arrested at one point, even with his feet shackled. he was dragged by the police. now i really pro and on the ground, and we've had a lot about that over the last few months about suspects being left to lie. fleet face down on the ground. he was complaining and he was mourning, but the police they ignored him for a full 9 minutes. when medics arrived, they found he was unresponsive. and within a few minutes of arriving in hospital, he was declared to be dead. know the family are demanding answers. they say this is simply taken too long, and as i say, the alleged that there has been a cover up by the louisiana state police. what is interesting is that none of the state troopers have faced any sort of criminal action. they faced internal
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discipline, but no charges have been raised. and his 1st television interview since the february military coup me and was just a chief. i said, i said later on, so she is in good health. mental fung, says sue, she will face trial and a few days she's not been seen in public since she was placed under house arrest. following back to switching faces, several criminal charges into the one violating the countries colonial era officials, the secret sac local media and me and my reporting that a rebel group has attacked. the military and the northwest make a change in dependence on me. targeted an army can, but a j mining turn in this guy and region k is one of a number of groups opposed to the february military troops fighting between rebels and the military has escalated since to take over the president and south korean counterpart. say they are king to engage north korea in dialogue over it's nuclear
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weapons, joe biden. and jay, and how talks of the white house and their 1st face to face meetings is vital to. first, both leaders fairly completed the nuclear zation of the korean peninsula. it's a priority house and i will by you don't have to move the month. prison and button also expressed support for the into korean dialogue and cooperation and the close cooperation with the us. we work to facilitate progress in into korean relations. so as to achieve dialogue moving forward, korea and the united states will continue close communication while exploring how north korea approach through dialogue and diplomacy. i expect a positive response from north korea on that which only scientists known for boosting rice harvests and stating of hunger for millions of people has died. one long pain is regarded as a national hero, developed a hybrid strain of vice during the 1970s. that could feed an extra 70000000 people a year is work, help transform china from food deficiency to food security. within decades. non
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long thing died in hospital in the southern city of chunks shop. it was 91 years old, and china has become the world's 2nd country to operate a rover on mars, named out of the chinese girl to fire. the june on rover, drove down from his landing platform and began roaming the surface of the red planet. and searching for evidence of life on mars. over the next 3 months, china landed the spacecraft carrying the over a week ago its most ambitious space mission. to date a surprise surgeon, house prices. since the start of the pandemic has put home ownership out of reach for many people, but investors are making shoes, profits, and using and house prices have shut up 20 percent. now the government is paying a $1000000.00 a day to how's the homeless in hotels, wayne, hey, reports from oakland, in the 1st of our 4 part series on the rising cost of housing. i sell it. you welcome to freemans,
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by $2400000.00. another quick successful auction results in another high price sale in new zealand largest city, oakland. ah, we're looking for probably 45 months is pretty crazy. prices have gone up a lot in the last sort of 6 months or so i was trying to get a handle and we prices or it was probably the, the 1st part of the al genie. 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 cd new zealand has the most unaffordable 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 a global pandemic. when so many other industries like tourism a struggling, the government will take what it can get. it's a similar situation in australia's major cities where prices have defied economists
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. 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 are 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 for the 1st time. but getting to 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 in further boosting prices, but there isn't enough emergency or state funded long term housing to help those at the other end. the government is trying to catch up with de bond, but there were more than 22000 people on a growing waiting list for social housing. some experts believe new zealand needs to rethink what housing means. we have the housing very much of the commodities. that's something that can be bought, sold, traded a seat of
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a social good. when we think about how we really need to start thinking about housing as something that's critical for people's well being. for people to function for people to thrive and communities. 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 welcoming wayne. hey, al jazeera oakland on sunday, the 2nd part of our series, we're going to look at housing in nigeria or some struggle to put food on the table, the capital, the seeing of boom and the luxury home market. ah, this is all just these are the help stories, families in gaza returning home as a seas far between israel and palestinian militants, appears to be holding humanitarian aid is now beginning to enter the israeli blockaded. unc.

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