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has raised the stakes and risks on the money markets. there's markets go faster, faster. we're opening up the possibility for an instability, for no, no use with money bought on our jesse ah, european diplomatic outrage grows off the battery, divest an airliner, entertains and opposition activists. what's being condemned as piracy? ah, hello there, i'm the soviet, hey and this is out of their life and also coming up, stepping up international efforts to end the violence between israel and the palestinians. talked about travel to the region to make sure a fragile face by a whole the un says the world remains at war with the corona virus. as health
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ministers from around the world meet. assess the state of this pandemic. and the laws also the, the on some future makes her 1st appearance since the military truth and says her policy will exist as long as people exist. ah, well, there are growing cause for tough action against bella ruth, off at diversity, passenger plane, is accused of reporting a bomb threat in order to force the jet to london mince so that it could then detain an opposition activist. the move has been described as piracy and a shocking assault on civil aviation. several countries now want valerie says s space blocked, the u. k. has already advise its airlines not to fly then. meanwhile, european leaders will also be taking up the issue meeting right now in brussels for a plan summit, which has been up by that forced grounding of that ryan air flight. the records for
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an investigation and also for sanctions to be imposed on batteries. pull, brennan has no the interception of ryan at flight 4. 978. is now a full blown international diplomatic crisis. salary. state media offense, president lucas shank personally ordered a military just to escort the passenger plane away from a shed your roots and diverted to minsk. it's an act with european leaders have branded state sponsored piracy, and there is now intense pressure for stone response flight track. as sites shared the ryan our flight from athens to vilnius change course, just 2 minutes from the lithuanian border. bella luce traffic control had flagged a supposed bama le to the aircraft, then scrambled a fight, a jess to make doubly sure. the plane came to minsk, the target of the extraordinary intervention with his men. roman protests of rich and opposition. journalist and blogger,
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who fled belarus after president lucas shanker. claim victory and last august disputed election. fellow passengers on the plane say he reacted to the interception 1st with disbelief and then resignation. one minute it was like 20 to negotiate me just you off but nothing to do but i feel that i didn't find him real. something like that. the incident will dominate the summit of european leaders gathering in brussels later on monday, nato will consider its response when it meets on tuesday. there are demands for yet more sanctions against lucas shanker and his closest officials, as well as call to suspend all transit from dollars into you. shanker is sort of testing the, the tolerance of the you showing that he can get along with, even at the, at the bed grounds of a strange relations with the west and being under sanctions and condemnation and his legitimate, she's not recognized by you literature. she can still make this powerful moves
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prosecuted his opponents, even those who managed to escape route. alexander lucas shanker has been fellows, president, since 1994, a leader described in some quarters of europe last dictator. the man who has a record of harshly repressing defense, he is strongly supported by his ally, russia. he is playing the trump card thing that we together with russia. i against the west, against your bunkers and purities. and that's what he's playing, and he is playing this card in order to ensure a russian support russian money and russian influence in light of very mild and very appeasing sanctions or grew up in america. it's now and the $125.00 passengers departed from athens and only $121.00. arrived in vilnius lending credence to report the protests of which had been followed onto the plane by bella,
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roost intelligence agents. the middle interception is looking less and less like an opportunistic act, a more like a planned and coordinated snatch operation. and the dilemma for the west is how to respond to that poll brennan al jazeera. now you are a secretary of state anthony blinkin is traveling to the middle east days into the israel palestine ceasefire. president joe biden has said his quiet and relentless diplomacy hope to end the conflict. but his administration is still facing growing criticism of support for israel. israeli attacks have killed 248 palestinians in gaza, while 13 people have been killed in israel as rockets were fired from gaza. and me bring can, has tweeted that he's traveling to jerusalem ramallah cairo, and mon adding that the united states has engaged an intensive diplomacy to bring an end to the hostilities and reduce tensions while there's also been significant arab diplomatic activity on monday with the egyptian angel damien foreign ministers meeting in amman to discuss the situation in the region. both said it's important
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for israel and palestine to respect the cease fire agreement with his roof was the egypt and george. and we'll continue working together to keep an up put the legitimate rights of the palestinian people. we will ensure the creation of a palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital. the palestinian cause is central to the conflict and the people there have sacrificed. a lot of our international regional partnerships are important to create the proper atmosphere to resolve the issue. to learn about the priority now is to coordinate and guarantee the truth is always respected and that there is no repetition of the israel violations that exploded the situation. i am once warning against the israel, seeds of chic chava is very unwanted because this will escalate matters again. the issue over the illegitimate displacement of people must be dealt with and the international community must never allow that. the violations that alex a mosque must also stomach. does a medic editor,
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jamie phase has more now on anthony ben can business? well, i think it's interesting vert, already before he's even got here and he'll be leaving in a matter of hours, you have got most of the people with the exception of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who is going to be meeting having their own meetings ahead of it, they gyptian foreign minister going to amman, jordan, and then in the last couple of hours going to ramallah to see president bass. and it seems that they are all trying to compare notes ahead of the us, secretary of state arriving to see what they can get from this. there was a cool, a short time ago from the us, from a senior administration official, a 6, the senior state department official. and that persistent question was about what exactly the secretary state was trying to achieve. we know that he wants humanitarian aid into garza. we know they want to try and find a mechanism to rebuild garza very concerned. certainly the u. s. as is the israelis
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about any reconstruction material that goes into garza being used to rebuild tunnels. but the big question is whether they're going to go beyond that and rebuild some sort of piece process where they're going to actively restart negotiations between the israelis and palestinians. negotiations that haven't been taking place for a very long time. the senior official repeatedly batted away. those questions said the focus is on the seas fast sticking and keeping making sure the c spa stakes for me while there's been a stabbing attack. unoccupied. east jerusalem israeli forces say the packet has been killed. one soldier has died and another as engine and israel as owns a wave of mass, the rest of palestinian israelis took part in recent demonstration, supporting palestinians in occupied east jerusalem and gaza passed in. and campaign has denounced the operation as a war against protesters and activists. among con,
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has the details. these ready police have announced a major operation that is now currently underway to arrest hundreds of palestinian israelis. and that's worth reading you some of the statement. they say the operation is called law and order, and they say thousands of police and border fighters last night, all over the country, arrested hundreds of people. now they say that this was in the wake of violent incidents, the before than the state of israel in the past 2 weeks. and that's why they've launched the operation. now this comes off the back of 1500 palestinian israeli. that of all ready been arrested in the last 2 weeks now. they say, during the day today they arrested 74 people and more arrest will come in the coming days. but this is worrying activists. they said that the rest are taking place in over in nazareth, and i'll go and go for yes,
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all over the country of israel. now here's the problem, the active. it's also very worried that it won't just be people who may have taken, taking part in public order. but it might just be people who are activists, people who want some sort of change in israel. they'll be worried that they will be rounded up as well. and they're very concerned about these arrest. i'm this major operation now. moving on, and the wild isn't war against. quivered 19. that's a declaration from the head of the united nations. and tell you, tara is, was addressing health ministers from all over the world who are taking part and eventual wild health assembly. the session is expected to focus on post pandemic performance. while the world health organization chief says it's time that good leaders step up and make bold decisions to prevent another pandemic from happening again. if we gone the same old way, we will get the same old result. a world that's unprepared,
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unsafe and unfair. make no mistake. this will not be the last time the world faces the threat of thunder me. this is the moment for bold ideas, bold commitment, and bold leadership for doing things that have never been done before. well, john hall is following that nation for us from london. he says, ministers have also been criticizing the unequal distribution of vaccines. doctor ted ross and to an extent secretary general, good terrorist as well in those comments pointing to the sort of wide appointed purpose. all of this w h o assembly gathering of a 194 members, its annual assembly in this the, in this case, this year, the purposes reform namely to pick up on 3 independent investigations that have collectively. so to pointed the finger at the w h o, in its response to the pandemic saying it was too slow that it was inefficient,
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that the member states didn't coordinate sufficiently with one another. member stations. institutions themselves were woefully under pret, prepared and evidence for that is in the vaccine shortages around the world that w h o. 's own kovacs initiative aimed at getting doses to the developing world is very low on supply because the serum institute in india, its chief supplier, has stopped exporting vaccines so that it can deal with the situation in india. specifically, on this talk over the next 9 days of the member states coming up with the sort of bones of a global pandemic treaty for future pandemic, specifically to deal with these sorts of problems. but mister ted ross, having to deal with the situation as it is his call going out to member states to particularly the rich world who hoarded vaccine doses, to hand them over as quickly as they can to kovacs. and for vaccines suppliers to commit up to 50 percent of their production in the coming year to kovacs and to the developing world. while still ahead here on our 0,
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struggling to get on the property. how england's over here with housing market is pushing prices alger reach. from many we look at how argentina's economy is worsening as a hospital struggle with a number of new corona virus cases. ah ah hello, we're going to start in the middle east where kuwait's we have seen some pretty strong winds that's kicking up the sand and dust. and there is also a risk of it's under storm inc. wait on tuesday in time temperatures and bag that have dropped your at 42 just the other day. your temperature was at 48. we also have weather warnings in play for sand and dust toward northwestern sections of oman. give you a look at the weather and turkey rate now and toward the south on tahlia $35.00
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degrees. that's a temperature that you should see in july. also high heat on cyprus, nickos thea. we've got 36 in the forecast for you on tuesday for central africa. you'll be hard pressed to find our usual tropic rains falling. i think really the most of it will be toward guy ball and camera rune into the gulf of guinea. ok off to south africa, we go and not a whole lot going on, but toward the western cape or just getting grazed with a bit of a weather front. moving through. this is nothing major, but if i show you the next 3 days and what it does to keep town, just some light instability. look at this about a 40 percent chance of showers on wednesday, but temperature is here. leave a bit to be desired because we are running below the average of 20 thursday. and northwind is going to press your temperature down to just a high of 70. the most people will never know what's beyond these. the deafening silence of
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100000 for how it feels to touch danger every day. most people will never know what it's like to work with. every breath is pressure with fear is not an option, but we're not most people. oh, a hello again, i'm the solve you're paying the home that's remind you about top stories. this allen you leaders are calling for sanctions on various after what they say was the hijacking of a commercial airliner. they say
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a fake bomb threat for the plains land. so an opposition john lift could be arrested. the u. n. a b ation agency is pushing for an urgent meeting. now on the us secretary of state is on his way them, at least from the c 5 between israel and palestine. washington has said to rebuild the gaza after israeli strikes $10000.00 and there's been a stabbing attack and occupied east jerusalem. israeli forces say the attacker has been killed, one soldier has died and another is injured. while ousted me, i'm a leader on some future. he has appeared in court for the 1st time since the february military cru. her lawyers who are able to meet with her for about 30 minutes, said that she did appear healthy. she faces charges of incitement to sedition, violating state secrets and other offences. she's been in detention now since i government was overthrown by the military john to at least 4000 other people are also being held. well, david matheson is an independent analyst on me, anna,
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and he says she has been targeted earlier, but this time around young citizens are not likely to accept the military's move. i think she's probably at the same level of risk that she's paying for the park more than 30 years. i mean, we're entering the full decade of this kind of military regression against or off that she's, she's been here before. it was 12 years ago that she was on trial to extend her how to rest order so that she couldn't run in the, in the election. i think this is a very dangerous game that the military flying and i don't think many people in the country are going to put up with them. and for at least many people they will rally around on that to chance. and, and other leaders of the day and not put up with it. and then the military is going to take all of these other people in the country that a furious that they want to fighting back in any way. in many respect, this is a much messy, a more complicated resistance to military rule than i think the capital. the 4th is
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a st. and several and for many older people, supporters of the data being through this before the party was made illegal and was subject great repression during the 900 not to them, and many members incarcerated and tortured and even an even keel. so for a lot of older support, this is from a very bit a date of the pain for this before. but for all the 1st time voters and others, the youngest supporters, the day they're going to say to what it is, which is a night to power on the part of the motor and to discredit on sensitivity and the body. and i don't think people will now a suspect accused of war crimes and who danced for conflict has appeared before the international criminal court. ali rondon is charged with fancy, one counts of crimes against humanity including rape and the killing civilians. he was the leader of the jungle with militia when the war began in 2003, the ethnic conflicts between various groups killed 300000 people and displaced
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2000000. what at least kepler is an associate director with the international justice program at human rights watch. she says, while this case is significant, other key players must also be brought to justice. this is such an important moment for people in dar for who have had no accountability for widespread crimes committed across dar for they've waited more than 15 years to any moves towards justice and seeing the job to read liter alley crocheted in the job. in these hearings to see that the case goes to trial, that's what the judges will be assessing today. whether this me, whether or not there's sufficient evidence that the prosecution is put forward is a truly important moment for those who suffered the crimes to have access to just etc. but let's not forget that today's case and the proceedings in today's case are one piece of a larger puzzle. and i'm thinking here of the out standing fugitives,
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former president and omar this year, and 3 others who are still stopped by the international court to face charges for dark work crimes as well. and we are looking to the student is authorities to transfer those remaining suspects to the international criminal court. iran has told the un nuclear watchdog, it will extend a monitoring deal with the agency for months. the 3 months deal agreed back in february was set to end this month, and iran a told the regulator it would no longer have access to data from some of its new facilities. once that agreement had expired. the equipment and the verification and monitoring activities that we agreed will continue ass now us, they are now for one month, expiring. then on a june 24 2021. while there's been another
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unprecedented twist in the political crisis, gripping the pacific island nation of some law, the leader of the opposition fast party has been sworn in his prime minister during ad hoc ceremony that her rival says was unconstitutional. alexia bryan reports the you may not owe me matter after i took the oath of office and attained outside samo parliament. she was due to be sworn and inside the 100 nations 1st female prime minister, but was locked out by the parliamentary speaker. the head of the legislative office locked the building so we could do extra. that's the site, the supreme court ordering parliament to reconvene the chief justice and fellow judges joining a march to the building concerned to the rule of law wasn't being followed. they will also kept out and that's because this man caretaker prime minister to l i. s.
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i layla malia oil. he's been in office for 22 years since the ceremony was unconstitutional. at this time, there was only one govern custodian governess, but to it is also refusing to be sworn in saying, a part of psalm was constitution covering the number of women and parliament hasn't been observed. analysts say it's because he doesn't have the numbers to lead. i would say that it's what the nice thing aspects of the constitution to maintain power. there was a free fair and transparent election that happened in mind. april and members of parliament were elected. the people spoke and democracy was absurd. it just hasn't been carried out. so you may say she went ahead with the swearing in as she has the numbers she needs. and because parliament must search within $45.00 days of the election. monday was the last day. the power struggle began when fiance,
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who was once to lay his deputy broke ranks and started a new party, criticising her former boss 5 months. this dog off the 1st prime minister of san juan with 3 other politicians, was able to get the support of diaspora. but also found one's across the nation. the outcome will affect not only samo stability, but also its relationship with china. with fan a promising to scrap $100000000.00 port project backed by beijing pacific neighbors, a watching closely, we hold a huge amount of trust in fight and the institutions and some are in the judiciary in the democracy and of course, and the outcome that the election delivered in alco would simply be for all of those things to be upheld many and urging the rival parties to come together and find a way out of it. unprecedented constitutional crisis. and so bryan l g 0,
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when india has become the 3rd country to surpass more than 300000 covered 19 deaths . there are fans that the number may actually be much higher because many that's been counted. had been struggling to control another wave of infections. and the major georgia vaccines is now forcing several states to go alone and try to seek doses from abroad. meanwhile, japan has opened its 1st master vaccination centers ahead of the tow lympics in just 2 months time. it's racing to an alternate thousands of elderly people as it battles a 4th wave now of infections. some government buildings and turkey have been converted to accommodate the demand. in argentina, many intensive care units are almost full as the country battles and new wave of kevin 1900 cases. the country is back on the lockdown on the economy as struggling . daniel, trying to report from one of very we've been here before at the start
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of the pandemic. it was grim then, but it seems much, was now. then there was hope the virus could be contained later, the vaccines would provide salvation. that so far hasn't been the case. so you can see, and i'm very aware i'm fully aware these restrictions create difficulties. faced with this reality, there's no choice but to choose the preservation of life. i'm not going to accept this amount of contagion or death as something natural yes. only essential businesses remain open. school is a close or religious. social and sporting events have been suspended or non essential workers mistake home between 6 in the evening and 6 in the morning sierra to say i don't, i'm going back to year when he's voice because people the worst of economically. yeah, feeling down. in other words, everything is going backwards, everything backward up, but i mean that, but i think it's good because this way we can control it because the virus won't be
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controlled. any other way should be more than 9 days. and the may 15 days would be good. the 2nd wave is killing an average of nearly 500 people a day. one of the worst per capita rates in the world. another cold, miserable day and what a fire is no way to go and nothing to do with the corona virus more virulent and before and the vaccine flow to arrive. most k reluctantly accept the nother lockdown is the only way to fight the virus. less than 5 percent of people in argentina receive both maxine be more more than 90 percent of intensive care beds and some their occupied health workers are exhausted. the locked down those on entwined, there are 201 a cyrus. while the property market in london is booming despite a downturn and the british economy due to this, pandemic price is all being driven up. but economists, a warning of
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a potential market crash, the bulk of reports now from london and the latest of our series on the rising cost of housing. choosing west london, one of the case most desirable areas. the economy may have nosedive during the pandemic, but the housing markets booming with a number of sales at the highest since records began on the market. there's 3 and a half $1000000.00 home. remote working normalized during the pandemic means the sellers no longer need to be in the capital for work. many bias looking for more space, especially outside. so 180000 transactions is what the government data is anticipating for march 2021. and that's the highest level on record since the they record the data from 2005. so it's miles above what we, what we typically say. the average across the last 16 years has been sac 80000 transactions a month. housing market is so important to the nation's economy,
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that the british government simply couldn't let it fail, which is why it introduced a property tax holiday, allowing buyers to save thousands of dollars on purchases. buyers was, are allowed to take 95 percent mortgages from banks. and lending agencies, the problem is in cities such as london, they simply owned enough houses with the kind of space, especially gardens that people now want. and we've seen house prices go up steadily by several $1000.00 every month. according to recent findings, most people in the u. k. thing owning a home is more important than getting married or early retirement for the countries, no exception. house prices have risen in many big western cities. fueled by a mix of low interest rates, land shortages and construction that cannot keep up with demand. for when the british government coves 19 support schemes such as the property tax holiday come to an end. in the next few months,
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the bubble worn economists 1st house prices now higher than they've ever been before. it's not stable positions that we're now in, particularly given that the half of the holiday from stamp duty is time limited. people know when it's going to stop. so when it stops that may trigger quite a significant reaction, particularly as the economy, it's soft as well. the over heated markets also push prices well beyond the reach of many, especially 1st time buyers. for the past 20 years, price is about pace. the rise in average earnings despite the current surge and sales that just simply aren't enough affordable houses available for many buyers owning a home has rarely felt quite so insecure. the pocket al jazeera london and the final installment of our special series on rising house prices. we look to the united states, low income families,
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they're all being priced out of the market. and a shortage of building materials is exacerbating that problem. you can watch that on tuesday right here on out of their max mosley, the former head of formula ones governing body has died at the age of 81. the son of a prominent fascist politician. mosley had careers as a racing driver and a lawyer before becoming a president in 1993. he served 3 times before stepping down in 2009. he'd been suffering from cancer. ok. hello, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. you leaders are quoting for sanctions on batteries after what they say was the hijacking of a commercial airliner. they say a fake bomb threat forced the plane to land. so an opposition journalist could be arrested. speaking ahead of a summit, the president of the european commission on the lion says.
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