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ah al jazeera, ah, ah, all the news the fragile peace between israel and palestine, the un warns the cycle of violence will repeat unless the roots of the conflict are properly addressed and tensions flare of the likes, a compound after jewish israelis are allowed to enter. ah, hello barbara, are you watching al jazeera life from london also coming up calls for sanctions
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against bell roofs after a passenger jet? is that verse 2 minutes? and then i'll position activist is the pain premier. it's continuing the democratic republic of congo after the overnight rupture of one of the world's most active volcanoes and dodging criticism over its handling of the con demik, brazil's president, to leave the defiant motorbike rally. which supporters ah, without sorting the underlying issues, that fragile peace between israel and palestinian groups will not last 3 days into a cease fire. that was the stark assessment from the head of the u. n. a. the agency for palestinians who fed a cycle of violence will continue if the occupation and displacement of people is not addressed with hospitals and medical facilities. both the more immediate
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concern and garza and the occupied westbank is an increase in corona virus infections. the palestinian health minister says it was actions, worship lame and the even if the rockets have stopped the tensions are not far below the surface palestinians were cleared out of the black. some mosca compound in occupied east jerusalem. and some employees are arrested, as is really police escorted more than 100 jewish visitors through is lands 3rd holy site where clashes just 2 weeks ago helped lead to the conflict diplomat to get her james base reports now from west jerusalem on the diplomatic efforts. the focus on a long term solution at a news conference at one of its buildings in garza, which was itself damaged during the bombardment, the un brief to reporters. the intensity of the strikes were without pause. too many homes were lost and loved. ones are gone. many people told me they feel
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helpless and even hopeless. they have no control over their lives. parents say they cannot reassure their children that this won't happen again. the head of the un agency that looks off the palestinians said that wal humanitarian aid and reconstruction funding, when now essential, they were in themselves. not enough. it is not the replacement for piece of the human rights of all the root causes of the conflict, remain the occupation, the force displacement, of which we had a strong reminder in ships lately. the blockade and the cycle of violence all remain. this must be result. next week, all eyes will be on the us secretary of state antony blinking, who visit the region on wednesday is vitally important that the palestinians feel hope and have opportunity and can live in security just as it is for israelis. and
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there should be equal measures in a, in a democratic society. that is, i think, an obligation of the, of any governments. so a somewhat different tone from washington. but what's most important is what secretary blinking didn't say he gave no indication that he's going to try to restart active diplomacy, leading to negotiations between the israelis and palestinians. james bayes out just era west jerusalem. well meanwhile, both of the border crossings between israel and gaza have been closed. checkpoints were briefly opened on friday, allowing foreign journalists to enter. israel is also close access to garza from the see, the u. s. has urged, greater access to the strip and the cross things are key to the delivery of much needed medical supplies, food and fuel. so what i'll conclude is in gaza and says, israel has given no clear explanation for the closures. this is got the normally
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what those are, they don't give a specific reason except for security reasons. nobody understands what are the security reasons because normally they don't get explanation. that's why most of the time. 1 gaza has been the crossings of god, has been closed for several years. this open over the discussion of the issue of god. god, this is the biggest open air president and the wall. it's controlled by 3 cra, think to control by egypt, by israel, one for personal, one for good. on the 3rd one, put blood, but you did. most of the time it glowed for security reasons because of the safety and stability in the sinai. so guys has been under emergency basis, most of the let's say the food or the aid or even for the industrial comes through guys are under a specific very restricted measure control by that is still there is no indication
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for longer or tedious. open inquiry with the few guys. i still flawed. $3000.00 fishermen are not allowed to go to the sea on a few fishing. also, still the road of guys are still closed. the municipalities trying to fix as much of the code to, to solve the problem of their profit. ah, well, the roof has been accused of faking a bomb threat to force a passenger jet to the ground in order to season opposition journalists. leaders from across europe are now demanding immediate explanations with the possibility of sanctions raised roman protests, of which was on board a commercial flight from greece to lithuania when it was escorted to minsk after reports that the war explosives on board the flight. and he was put on a wanted list after mass protest, the following last year's election. when president alexander shanker claimed
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victory against claims of fraud. well ryanair fly to f 44978 left athens just before 730 jim t on sunday heading north towards ville news. but after crossing into belive, we'll see an aerospace and just before the list, william border, it veered right at o 946 g m t landing at minsk airport at 1022. this one is foreign minister raised the prospect of sanctions from the e. u. were still in the preparation of the 4th sanction package, which is being proposed to the $27.00. i think it has to be adopted immediately. and obviously we, we need to consider either adding companies like the lobby or to a 4th package. if that would be not possible, then we should consider a package that would also take into account the events of today
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will join now in the studio by nadine barbara who's been following developments. he had put an extraordinary story really. and now the plane has left back on its way to you any but roman protests of which has been detained. has an he definitely has . we know this because the bell, erosion, or authorities have actually confirmed that he was detained. not only that, they said that it was on the orders of president alexander lucas shanker, that the plane was actually told to divert and not land in vilnius, but to divert to minsk airport. now base say that was because there had been some sort of security threat reported. but opposition figures in better rosa, quite clear that what happens was that this was a pre planned operation by the location of government. they say these opposition sources favor rahman, protests, of which actually message to friends saying that he believed he was being followed
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. he'd seen somebody who was observing him before he bought in athens. he was going to vilnius the capital of lithuania, where he's now based in exile. and so he had spotted somebody, apparently the opposition is saying this was pre plans by the secret services of, of belarus, the government of lithuania, demanding that the opposition figure romance progressive which be released. they have used words like abortions and unprecedented for what say was a clearly plan of action. but at the moment, all we know for sure the plane has carried on after a few hours of all of the passengers having to get off and supposedly be checked along with their baggage for some kind of security threat they've now traveled. but the opposition figure is certainly in detention now. so strong words, they're from this way. now. what about the rest of the international community was they have to say, well, not surprisingly, the exiled opposition leader of,
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of bella, roosts, atlanta, chicken of sky, us. she was one of the 1st to react cooling for new sanctions on her home country. but not only that, we heard very strong words from the likes of the french and german governments. the president of the european commission is live on the lion, has, has caught for the immediate release of this figure and said, but any violation of the transport rules must have consequences and the consequences the, the strongest words i've seen from the polish prime minister. he has said that this was a, an active state terrorism, and he's called on show, michelle, who's the head of the european count. so the leaders of european governments to discuss fresh sanctions on betters when they get together for a scheduled meeting on monday. yeah. interesting to see how it develops for the moment and the baba. thank you. now, despite the number of new cases dropping substantially, india still reported more than 3700 corona virus deaths on saturday. now the
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government in author pradesh is denying reports that hundreds of teachers died after helping with elections last month. unions say they were threatened with suspensions or pay cuts if they didn't. elizabeth per annum reports from new delhi, tens of millions of people turned out to elect local council leaders in the state of author page or the 4 days in april. as india was recording the wolves highest number of corona vars cases now union say 1600 teachers who were forced to go on pulling duty have died from coal mine team. that includes me 2 things husband, rajiv, who attended this training session. and moreover, bob, on april 25th, about a quote that he got infected with cobra day. he suddenly felt sick and was struggling to breathe. he told them he wasn't feeling well and wanted to go home. he came home and in the evening and even after saying multiple times,
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he was too sick to work. he was forced to work the next day. roger died from clover 1912 days later. author page has been one of the states was affected by the corona virus candidate wade, but the baby died off the campaigning and the villages of more about district. what about john? look, i'm printing for her and suddenly one day she complained about the headache and later developed a fever. next morning, the cartridge and those were the doctor asked us to take her to move about city, but she died on know, read them. what other about? there was no oxygen in the sea, but she couldn't reach what other about the government and also for the says it and forced harvard my team protocols such as social distancing. and that only 3 teachers died from the virus that's denied by the president of the team. association who told al jazeera the organization repeatedly asked the government to call off the voting. as the number of teachers becoming ill increased. i got
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election met. if someone has election duty and they don't go, they're absent. they can even be a criminal case and action against them. they're under a lot of pressure. the nation must, as many teachers who refused to take part, had their salary cut and some remain suspended from work. the government has offered compensation to the families of those. it says died on duty, but teachers association said they must 1st acknowledge the actual number of lives lost. elizabeth per item al jazeera, new jelly filter come here and i'll just 0 merit and tragedy in china. as 21 of these runners never made it to the finish line. ah. hello,
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that storm system that slammed into the british shells. it's now starting to flick some rain into france, the low countries and a heavy pocket of rain towards southern areas of norway. we did have a heavy pocket of rain towards se section of spain, but that's now transferred into italy and we do have some severe weather outbreaks that we could see here through the alps. we do have some snow and this will spill into sylvania and croatia as well. okay, next step i want to take you to greece where it has been incredibly dry for the month of may. let's look at some of the rainfall totals. just about a trace that we have seen so far this month when you consider we should have about 14 millimeters, and that would certainly help with the firefight. there isn't much relief coming. temperatures will remain high above average on monday. and if we look at the next 3 days, the only one good thing that is going to help with the firefight, there is a light, wind and high humidity. you think the higher the humidity, the less dry, the air is ok off to north africa right now. and you know, some of that,
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whether that was in spain, we could see it's lumped into northern areas of algeria, where we have had some pretty major flooding in the past. otherwise we've got a high of 35 degrees in cairo on monday. the father should be a protector. who forgot tara? he was her tormentor ah! betrayed for years she carries the evidence inside her that will be enough to find justice in afghanistan. patriarchal society a 1000 guards blank me a witness documentary announces error. ah
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ah, come back is a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, the head of the un agency for palestinians has warned peace between israel and the post in territories will not last unless underlying issues are addressed. he said the cycle of violence will continue. occupation and displacement is not resolved. i mean we're both of the border crossings between israel and gaza have been closed with the you and warning at the shrubs, the delivery of much needed medical supplies, food and fuel. checkpoints were briefly opened on friday for, for insurance. and villa bruce has been accused of faking a bomb threat to force a passenger jet to the ground in order to seize on the opposition journalist roman progressive, which was flying from greece to lithuania when the plane was escorted to
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the lava flow from a volcanic eruption into the mccracken republic of congo has come close to narrowly spared the city of goma. several houses were destroyed. as the molten rock surged to the city's outskirts, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes with 8 people reported killed in related accidents during the panic. mountain near gone go is one of the world's most active volcanoes. and previous major russians have killed hundreds of people. unfortunately, when we arrived, we did not find anything at home. all the houses were bent and destroyed and everything was stolen by law. the law has already still no way, but we now know to disruption came from where the old eruption originated, came from the same place that the former option came from in 2002 that, you know,
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today school is a professor of vulcan ology at the university of compound yet, and we even vitale. he was in go my shortly after the near gong of ok, no erupt, it back in 2002 and he joins us via skype from naples, mr. to this school. thank you so much for joining us here. on al jazeera, is it just a perception of people just kind of reading the news today, or the disruption take everyone by surprise? no, no, he's true. it took over everyone by surprise. it was not expected. first of all, let's clear that the volcano was a radio rafting because if you have a level leak in try to meet the lobby, that surface it's already interruption is already there. what is the change of the direction from the inside of ok know when to outside of ok and is changed completely the story. and now we're, we're hearing that it's obviously a length, but there's earthquakes as well, like a never ending series. what are the similarities but you're seeing now to your
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experience back in 2002. it is exactly the same in 2000 to what we witness a because i was there was a week of huge safe me city. so very strong. there were felt by older population, we couldn't sleep for 3 days. and we thought at the beginning that they were related to a new possible events that was going to happen. but in reality, it was the rift was a real quickly break him in south after the 1st or option. it's obvious that if you compare the story to tell him to read the study over to 2021 yesterday is exactly, it should be exactly the same. so we suppose that is not a new event that will happen. but if the volt cain or end of rift itself, which door can depends on the rate that is really breaking to readjusting as it
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happened, the lava flow actually stopped short of despair did the city of goma, city of 1500000 people. but understandably people, they are still a bit wary. still a bit scared. what are the possibilities that the volcano may keep on interrupting more lava flow, that, that would eventually hit goma? or, you know, we know this was kind of very little. we have only 3. we experienced we, yesterday, a rupture and only 3 vents. 3 are active events, so we know almost nothing i would say. and for the little we know the will, can no, never repeated dear option. after a few days or few weeks. it started again, get timothy, but always from inside the credit with this lovely. and there's a lot of the instability, of course, and the democrat republic of congo itself for various political reasons. does that affect the kind of studying that perhaps you think it should be undertaken on this
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volcano? to then make it safer for the people around it? sure, of course. first of all, there are very few foreigners coming to collaborate with the observatory. all kind of study is a collaboration with the local. we didn't traditional and very few people. second, there is very little money that is giving very little fans that are given to the observatory. so there is always the needs to sensitize donors in order to have more funds to make them work, to create fellowship, the broad to give them to chance to upgrading their capacity. building a professor better to they score a professor of vulcan ology at the university of companion, luigi von vitale. speaking to us from naples, sir, thank you. you're welcome. vaccines are still working against the indian variant of coping 19 once people have received both
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doses. england's public health watch dog says the pfizer job is 88 percent effective against getting symptomatic disease with the extra zenick of vaccine at 60 percent. but both are just 33 percent effective after only one dose, and there are a warnings. the variant is becoming the dominant strain in the u. k. but the government says these findings mean restrictions there can still be lifted. brazil's president has led a motor bike profession, through revision ero, in his latest act of defiance against his critics. thousands of j to both scenarios . the supporters lined the streets, ignoring advice on social distancing. he's been widely accused of mishandling the corona virus pandemic, and is now being investigated by a senate commission despite the show of support poles show his popularity have fallen to its lowest level since he took office monica in a key, it was out that demonstration in the other scenario president j both so now it's on
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the campaign trail. he flew over in brazil. yeah. the capital to rio de janeiro to join a motorcycle rally. since the early hours of the morning, 10000 motorcycles and their drivers like the people behind may have been waiting for the president to cross the city. the rally was organized by one of also not as best friends as a show of support to the president, especially after polls have indicated that he would lose next year's elections to former president lucy, now sula silva no longer was ban from running the 2018 election which was so not a one because it was charged with corruption and imprison this year, the supreme court on know that trial and said that the judge had treated law unfairly. so now it's back on the scene just as brazil faces the covert 19 pandemic
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. this is right now, meeting an investigation on the government handling of the pandemic. and this enquiry, this probe is one of the reasons why the president's popularity has dropped. so now the president is trying to show that he has the support of the treat. meanwhile, let's go shading with other opposition party to see if they can find a common candidate for next year's election school. i himself has not yet said he will be the candidate, but he has indicated that if the majority want him to run, he will run again for you. a secretary of state says he see no sign. iran is willing to comply with the nuclear deal and have sanction lifted. it runs president last week said the u. s. was ready to move sanctions, but anthony, blinking and fist iran hasn't yet done what it knows it has to in direct talks to
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resurrect the 2015 nuclear deal has been continuing in vienna. but the latest round showed little progress. a 3 months monitoring deal between iran and the un expired on friday, meaning inspectors have now lost access and cathy is foreign minister, has vowed to support all efforts to maintain stability in libya. mohammed been a lot of tiny met his libyan counterpart, alma kush in the capital tripoli. he's also holding talks with the prime minister abdul needed bay bay cap back that libby as you and recognize us government against the rival eastern ration before the united. at least 14 people have been killed after a cable car fell to the ground in northern italy. the alpine rescue service says 2 children were seriously injured and taken by helicopter to a hospital interior. and this happened near to the final pilot on the route to the
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summit of the motor on a mountain where the cables are particularly high off the ground. 21 people have died running the old tro marathon in china, after the race was hit by extreme weather. official said 151 runners were now confirmed. safe on the 8th of them were injured alexia bryan reports, they see it off early on saturday. for 100 kilometer ultramarathon, 172 ran as crossing the stoplight and just t shirts and shorts for a track that winds its way through the mountainous yellow river stone forest. and china's northern gone soup province. but hours later, the temperature dropped, and the race was hit by hail, freezing, rain, and high winds. goza did see this incident is a public safety incident caused by sudden changes in weather, in the local area. the provincial authorities have established an incident investigation team to further investigate its cause. the race was stopped after
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athletes went missing in the extreme weather and a search was launched. hundreds of rescuers tackled complex terrain, including narrow, high altitude paths, helped by thermal imaging, drones and radar to take his local media say some of the runners had fallen off the track into deep mountain crevices. temperatures plummeted further over night, making the search more difficult. so if i should go by phone, as the organizer of the event, we feel deeply guilty and blame ourselves and express our deep condolences to the victims and their families. and the injured the. by early sunday, the rescuers had found all the missing runners, some injured, but also 21 did. it sparked public outrage over was some c, as a lack of proper planning. alexia bryan al jazeera protestors have gathered in the georgia capital to show their anger against the multi $1000000.00 dam project. the
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government says the development on the rio and he river will generate about 15 percent of the countries energy needs, but protest there is a say a north quake could cause it to crumble, needing it to a devastating wave of water. demonstrations have been growing in scale over the past few months with the government to expressing frustration at the antique hydro electric power protests robin forest walker was at the demonstration in tbilisi. this is something new. i've seen a lot of political rallies in my time in sibley, in georgia, and usually it's political parties that are organizing them. will that support it. but this is very much a grassroots movement and it distracting a very broad range of support from the local people who said to be directly impacted to you know that the capital city middle class is who concerned about how big hydropower projects may appear to be suddenly greener than burning hydrocarbons
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. you know, the oil and gas powered power station, but they want to see more when they want to see more solar. and they're not concerned just about the risks that a huge on that in its size make area could have if there was an earthquake, which is the big fear that, that a barrage of flood waters could strike the country. second largest city, which is down the street, they're worried about the huge impact that these kinds of mega engineering project on the local ecology. i've spoken to a scientist who's working on the surgeon population. that's very interesting of fish that lives in the black sea. and it's desperately being depleted by pollution and by hydro power plants that already exist on, on the river that this one is going to be filled. they say, look, if there's one more noise power station that could show the extinction for the species because it will affect the flow, but also the temperature and you won't be able to breathe. i've even met church
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with a priests who are concerned about this being a turkish project. it is quite a lot of phobia in this country. the very diverse mix of people with, with different concerns about the project. and you can find much more on our website. the addresses al jazeera dot com the me take a quick look at the top stories on al jazeera, the you and the agency for palestinians warns that the fragile 3 day cease fire will not last unless the underlying issues are sorted. it comes as both of the border crossings between israel and gaza, have been closed. checkpoints were briefly opened on friday, allowing foreign journalists to enter the strip. israel is also close access to garza from the c.

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