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accused of colluding with foreign enemies. japan is using a state of emergency a month out from the take your fixed, but current of ours concerns remain going further. china is done before 3 astronauts arrive, new space stations 1st time and i'm kind of most with all the 4th, including the latest from the european tampa ship. italy have reached a knock off stage is also making it to inform to ah, so police in ivory coast, if i tear gas, it demonstrated ahead of the return of the former president lauren blackberry. he's on a plane from brussels early hours away from returning home for the 1st time since he was arrested in 2011, was charged with crimes and crimes against humanity,

but eventually acquitted by the international criminal court. he refused to step down after losing the presidential election in 2010, sparking months of deadly violence. let's speak to, i'm going to dress who's dining vipers and john meds, bye bye soon to arrive. what's the latest? while the situation here be john is quite tense. what's supporters for president, for my president, laura will on the street as well as those who are post. these are homecoming already that are people who say that the government and the people are trying to code him. heroes welcome, which he is not because he's still struggle to several other crimes. they their lives that he committed while he was president and i because the result of his failure kind of a part to what the city is tense. now security has been deployed in nights numbers, but there are a lot of people who are not happy about the return of president back in the

predominantly provide district if you up a call. activists opposed to the former president are working on ways to frustrate just return the want him held accountable for stocking. what they say was an unnecessary conflict that killed 3000 people and just thousands more. but i gave them a new we don't want him to receive a here as well. come because he sanction killian's in this country. if anything he can come home like any other boring but support to say he is no ordinary. i've already and, and he's coming home here once we don't like people want to use our pin i what i walk back to your pan dependable compared to your, to monday predict in for a particular reason for that. do want to manipulate. there are no we we are, we cannot come up with not pan from because by boat, if he struck 7, if he told us on water, the current president elections 20 years ago. there was

a 4 month stand off that sparked a wave of violence. met. i'm p t coolie. body kareem says his leg was blown off at close range by government soldiers under the former president in the post election crisis. calamity about us if a reconciliation to happen, truth must be told. there must also be reparations. my little girl keeps asking me what happened to my missing leg. that hurts. it's hard to forgive. this man must be held accountable to the ivory nation. the government is restoring certain privileges. a former president just entitled to these include a decent to and personal security bubble and an 8 to trial of the international criminal court for the late role in the post election violence which included murder, rape, and persecution. there were kid of crimes against humanity 2 years ago by allowing

loring by the vote to return. the government is taking a huge gamble. the former president is popular among many i borders and he decides to join active politics that could fall the charge of bulletin political scene by the government says, because of the existing divisions in the country, not worth or risk. some political and at least have little doubt the former president can have a positive effect. learning what was going on with his coming back is also good for reconciling, not only the country but his divided party back, but is a politician. that's what he knows best. he could run in 2025. he's eligible. but most i've already unpopular front party is a need of reification after the formation of a breakaway function during this abscess. lessons government in civil society have for 10 years try to unite dave audience and field. what about was return? we'll have the reconciliation effort or divide it further remains to be seen

while basically most rec, tony is being targeted by all sides as i move towards rico fighting deeply divided mission. hybrid coast is divided along the lines of boston pro. what kind of comes as well as all the interests as well? now with the purchase we've seen so far today, the work of reconciling i 4 years, which is expected to be headed by, by william so, but other plus knowledge is met a bit harder. you know, now by himself will be returning to the capital. it's not clear whether he's going to move towards his village to rest a while, but they offered to reconcile. i, for instance, getting more and more difficult and we can so you can hear the background. police are still shooting kid guys or firing guys. protest is on some of the activists called al jazeera, but they will prevent his plane from touching down as long as the government is

going to make him a hero, or that is going to be heroes. welcome back. now with what we've seen so far, and the security measures put in place, it's difficult to see how these activities can move into the airport. i stop that come from london. we expect to be in about 3 hours. are back with you as things develop interest and john now, hong kong is largest pro democracy newspapers warned the cities press freedom is hang by a thread after 5 executives were arrested under beijing's national security law. police rated apple daily's news room for the 2nd time in 10 months, accusing it, colluding with what the government calls foreign enemies to home china. we have reaction from a journalist working the city shortly. the 1st report from adrian brown and hong kong. the office of hong kong is most popular newspaper. once more, a crime scene. in an operation involving up to 500 police journalists will order to leave the newsroom while their computers were examined. fight executives were

arrested, including the papers editor in chief ryan law. all were taken by police from their homes during early morning rates. there suspected of being involved in the publication of articles that encourage foreign countries to impose sanctions and hong kong. the suspects have been arrested on strong evidence that they are conspiring to endanger national security. the action is taken against the criminals who make use of journalistic work as a tool to further their criminal activities. the newspapers owner jimmy lie was arrested and charged under a new national security last year that followed a previous raid on the apple daily lie is serving a 20 month jail term for taking part in unauthorized assemblies. in may police

prose, more than $64000000.00 in assets belonging to lie. and on thursday, for 2000000 more belonging to 3 companies linked to apple daily. the papers known foot soft and strong criticism of china's government mixing pro democracy discourse with celebrity gossip. when the national security law was imposed on hong kong, almost a year ago, the territories chief executive, terry said it would only effect a small number of people. since then, almost a 100 people have been arrested. and more than 60 charged including leaders of what's left of the po, democracy movement here. lamb says the beth law has ended months of calles here and restored stability. and stability is what china's leaders want most right now. as the ruling communist party prepared to mark it's 100 anniversary, adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong. well, it's enough from tom grundy,

who's the editor in chief and co founder of hong kong, free press. he describes efforts to shut down apple daily as death by a 1000 cuts, the national security chain. steve lay saying that these relate to 30 articles that somehow were connected with a conspiracy to prompt sanction. again, hong kong and china, what we don't know whether these are articles, opinion pieces already tauriel close to his band, have a chilling effect unless we understand what exactly is being targeted to the apple bailey. thing that they're going to press on, we understand they may print off a 1000000 copies to night because hong kong of tend to in lieu of being able to protest, you're in cove, it voice support for apple daily by clearing it from the show. that's certainly what happened last year when they did, and we expect that to happen to more morning when these copies sent to new stands across the 50. and i think it's more in direct sort of pressure the patriot facing

whether it's arrest directive. so it wanted to coding, i suppose, is mitchell shutting down. the thing is but, but moreover, that $5000.00 cut over along the period. so who knows with room a swirling that the government want is paper shut down, whether it will still be in print by the end of the year. and you say that it's one of the leading pro democracy daily. it's the only one left. so although the prince edition doesn't make money, they sit down and taiwan, it's very symbolically important that they do go to print and you know, hong kong, the said that they will buy the apple daily, even if it's blank. iran that struggling economy will be on the minds of voters when they go to the polling stations on friday to select a new president, unemployment, and inflation. or at all time high, isn't one of the new president's 1st tasks will be to bring those figures down. i said, bake reports now from tara, on the streets of iran. there's one topic that everyone is talking about,

the economy hit by some of the toughest sanctions that one has ever seen. as well as what some believe is government mismanagement, the coven pandemic has caused the economy to commit further. in 2019 the country. so widespread demonstrations after a fuel price, like, according to the iranian government, more than $200.00 people were killed in violence. the still unrest, but it's not limited to fuel prices. the muslim social goods, we saw our basic necessities since last year. prices of some items have gradually increased by 30 to 50 percent pastor, noodle salad dressings, junior tomato paste. everything you can imagine has had a 30 to 40 percent price rise in just $1.00. yeah. iranian cough, it's a famous around the world, but even this trade has been hit hard a long time. they blame it on many reasons, but usually it's the sanction we have to live, but we're struggling economically. certainly the main reason is these thanks and

but management has a significant role to the new president would have an uphill challenge when it comes to the economy. when he can show us that we didn't have a room in the chronic problem with always faced his inflation. it's always been high in the past decade. was 40 percent on average. we had to inflation shocks in the last 4 to 5 years. inflation in the short term could be controlled by interest rates, which in turn leads to recession. we can't continue going on with the card 40 percent inflation anymore. the government should fillets budget deficit and implement reforms. and the size of thereon many people earn less than $150.00 a month. the woods here have adverts for labor is usually paying less than the minimum wage on get. and the cost of living is very high. it's very difficult. people have many problems, rents, and other miseries. you don't know whether to pay the rent or do shopping only god helps us. officials should think about us renters,

the youth in the future. i just feel ashamed when i can't buy something for my kid . a times i can't really buy what i want for her. but once that economic conditions are very bad, the price of cooking oil used to go up once a year, but cooking oil or butter went up 4 times last year. we can, we can meet our condition wasn't good, but it wasn't very bad either. now i can't buy butter or cheese. i expect from the new government to make goods cheap with them in this poor neighbourhood. some still hope things can change its working class areas like this one across iran. the picture establishment relies on fritz core support. i'm working with standard of living must be improved if the new president is there any sorts of success? i said vague. i just, there are there on plymouth ahead of time, including white climate change in urban develop is making the monsoon season worse than usual in the liberties businesses close in, protest against the growing economic crisis as questions are raised over what's

happened to the end, the millions of dollars in a goes for coming up to the collapse for the ages can be a player faction coming up at the bit later to japan, which is announces bees in current of ours restrictions a month out from the start of the limbic games, a prime minister yes, the heat is to get it says the state of emergency will be lifted in tokyo and other areas, but the government is replacing it with what's being called a cause, a state of emergency which will limit the set of alcohol and the opening hours of bars and restaurants, none, the just don't that i wonder why they left in with state of emergency. now i feel like it's for the olympics and i think it's unreasonable. but at the same time, when it's lifted, honestly i'll feel more at ease going on because it's so obvious or lifting it only to hold the tokyo olympic. i can't even hide that. it's so obvious and it makes me

frustrated. he works so hard to bring down cobit cases. the point is to invite people to come from overseas football. i have various concerns, but if we consider the olympics and think about japan moving forward, i understand we need to lift it now and monitor the situation. i, let's explore this further. we can speak to john nichols who's a clinical professor and pathology at the university of hong kong, joins us from hong kong via skype. professor nichols this evening of restrictions. you convinced it's a good idea. well see and listen to the, the people and job in japan. they, they don't seem to be in favor of it. and, but i think the, it's the i see in the japanese government been determined that the link. so going to go ahead. so i think the trying to release the pressure bit and just to see what they can, what they can, what sort of restrictions they can relieve starting, being very interesting to see, you know,

what they actually are live people to do. because to real big concerns, is that basically will there be extra spread of b vos or to rock premises present in japan? right now, my suggestion is population. and then we'll have the situation of the athletes come in only 80 percent of them have been vaccinated. but they're coming from all around the world and that will be bringing potentially with them every single variance of the process. and the vos, this point of view, it cannot for anything better is no doubt that japan is being forced into this degree. hold of elim picks in the midst of a pandemic is far from ideal to say the least. what's, what's your best guess as to how this is going to pan out? well, i think probably the line of least danger. i think it was some he's going to be advocating is to say ok, we're going to have them but either have no fans or just restrict the fans to be very, very, very limited. so i think the epidemiological point you,

the main thing is to try and keep the, the spectators and those running the lympics far away from the jetting population. but from jesse's population, there will be one, as one of the people mentioned they, they want to get out. and this will be a time when there'll be some public holiday support. lympics that people be crowded together, who is summer, so they'll be using their conditioning. so they'll be together indoors, which i'm so i think it's all these have an intrinsic ability to lead to an archie uptake in, in infections in the japanese population even. but i haven't the, the olympics. and i think most of the problem is, is that only a small percentage of the japanese population i've actually been faxed by 7 or 8 percent right now it's one of the lowest in one of the developed nations. and then we also have the demographics of japan being when the bus, elderly population,

so i think it's arrest people and not to all endemic cases. not to mention the possibility of virus being spread amongst the athletes. and then going back through countries, it could be serious problems ahead. the ultimately that does come a point doesn't when, when we do just has to carry on to, to live with the virus. look, i think, you know, what they say is it's just trust the right is that, you know, this is where i think the conundrum which is being chased by some countries like out here in hong kong and you know, where we were having some braces, travel restrictions astray, new zone which are going on a, you know, no cases at all. and then we have places like the u. k in the u. s, which is saying, you know, we're going to have to live this farce and we, we will allow a certain number of cases. and i think the, this is one of the, the challenges that when we're dealing with a current process and are in a boss, i think we've never been, that was getting me into influenza. and i think most countries are actually now

adopting very pragmatic approach to say that it will just allow us a small number of cases most of the restrictions which are brought in in the last year. we're basically, as some countries said, you know, to flatten or some barrow whatever was speech, basically dampened out the number infectious not to overwhelm the hospital care system until a vaccine is around. now the vaccine is here, most countries now st. we will allow a send number cases number of cases in the, in the community but will still allow people to at least half as much of normal life. but i think this is what the japanese government is trying to as some of these the comments, as mentioned earlier, they want to get back to normal. and this is an attempt to say that we will hold the lympics. yeah, lots of difficult calls to make a professor john nichols. appreciate that. thanks a lot. that's right. have a good evening. well, surging current of ours cases in namibia or a pushy,

it's hospitals close to collapse. one of its biggest struggles has been trying to fax nasal health care workers in south africa restrictions are being tightened. following a rise in cases, the nighttime cathy will be extended in the sale of alcohol limited, and daily infections have doubled over the past 2 weeks from all its cross to american web. in net nairobi. and malcolm, what's the latest and infections not any. in the south, across the continent, the director of the africa, cdc john and kanga song, the speaking just short while ago said this 3rd wave is he said that more than 15 countries in africa now experiencing a 3rd wave and the others will follow soon. you see in recent sharp increases the number of cases in namibia you just mentioned, also south africa and you've gotten no reporting. significantly increased numbers in the last week will save a lot of countries. the data is gas testing is minimal. the south africa is one

that does have relatively good testing, relatively good data, and they've reported a 60 percent increase in hospitalization in the last 2 weeks. and so south african government reintroduced some of the restrictions that were in place last year, restrictions on the number of people gathering on which kind of public venues can open. and these are the kinds of restrictions that have also been devastating in a measurable ways across the country as people in some of the world poor communicate communities or their livelihood. the devastated by restrictions on travel by the economic downturn generally. now the delta various which originated in india is not being detected in 13 african countries and some health care experts are concerned that africa is yet to see a cobra crisis like india is or possibly worse in the weeks or months that had compounded by the fact that the continent has the least access to health care for

it population and the greatest shortage of health workers and what would help with that situation as a decent amount of back to nation. how is the role going in africa? absolutely and can't get on himself was saying that vaccinations are the only thing that's going to stop the succession of ways one coming off to the other. and he said, just point 79 of people in africa, point 79 percent people in africa vaccinated. so far, he welcome the recent pledge of the g 7 to deliver nearly a 1000000000 vaccine by next year. but health care activists say that this is woefully inadequate and say that the world is still facing a terrible case. the vaccine apartheid where as many of those g 7 countries are continuing to hold hundreds of millions of excess surplus doses for their own population. that very few people less than one percent and very few of even health

care work has been vaccinated in africa. so far, africa has $16.00 of the world population, but less than one percent of the world's vaccine doses of be nominated here. health care activists say that there's an urgent need firstly, for many more donations, but also a significant increase in vaccine production in the global south for this part to possibly be redressed. and until it is that we're going to see more waves and we're going to see more variants, of course, in parts of the world where there isn't much, i mean, see it because i haven't been many vaccines yet. all right, markham, thanks michael with the and know ready when did easier has reported it is biggest increasing k with 900 infection since january with more than 12000 cases. the world health organization is warning restrictions on people need to be increased. president jercker, my daughter has ordered authorities to speed up a vaccination campaign. he wants

a number of people not related each day to increase to $1000000.00 by next month, around half of that, a currently being vaccinated. nepal now has deployed soldiers and helicopters to rescue people's trying to buy flash floods in the himalayan. foothills rivers burst their banks. after 3 days a monsoon reigns washed away homes in it's in the district, at least one person has died and 7 are missing samples. robbie, as the monsoon comes to nepal, every year farmers rely on heavy rains to revitalize rivers and their crops. but now flush floods and landslides made worse due to the loose soil from past earthquake for people living in the foothills of the himalayas. the perils of the wet season have only just begun yet to think about making a new start. all the riches that we are in lie in that house which is now covered

in mud, and it's not accessible. we don't have anything now, not a thought about way to go and how to go. the soldiers have been air listed in and have rescue dozens of people, but many more remain at risk incentive power. chuck, district, and heavy rains are expected to continue for at least the next 2 days. the situation is being compared to an earthquake 6 years ago saying something about this. flush flood is attributed to heavy rainfall and upper lying areas, incessant rainfall and movement of masses underneath the glaciers. trend down hill . these have dumped into low lying areas here. we suspect it's a glacial outburst. survivors are streaming in to make shift shelters. more are likely to come, was approved for us, but took away our land properties and all her documents of value. our family a form must survive either by doing labor or any other means of the conditions. go back to normal, villagers traditionally go to the highlands. this time of year to escape the summer

heat with climate change and soil erosion from urban development have made the impact of seasonal rains more severe every year. more than $200.00 people died during the pause, monsoons last year. and a season that once symbolized the renewal of life is now associated with hardship. and then basra, v o z here. well, it's of the weather. now jeff has more of those ones who range. hello, it's been an intense monsoon season rate, out of the gates and nepal has been hit particularly hard in sun spots. it's been raining non stop for 24 hours. we've got dozens of people missing. hundreds displaced here and part of what is making matters worse is we've got this disturbance in the bay band gall, which is amplifying the rainfall amounts. it's had a big impact for the northeast of india and also me and bar where we have seen some flooding. give you a wider look right now at india. monsoon range are really having a big impact toward the west coast as well. so up and down by to coche,

she at that continuous rain will be falling on friday. that relentless rain asia pacific looks like this. we've got some windy conditions across beijing. we're seeing those winds gust up to about 40 kilometers per hour, but that's going to help dial up our temperature. meanwhile, the rain pulls away from korea, but we've still got some scattered showers for q. issue a suck. i think you should stay dry, but the better chance will be at tokyo with some sunshine and forecasts with the high of 27 degrees. next up, we're going to southeast asia and you know, i think we're going to get some spells of sunny here, particularly as we look to thailand, but then some thunder downpours and we can find those to the south of sumatra and rate across java including jakarta. still here announces her a well 1st why the u. k. is conducting a study to see if a boost job will protect people. different versions of the virus goes for coming out whales on the verge of the euro. 2020 round couple action coming up in 20

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