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anger in iraq because funeral take place for one to 2 victims, but fire a cubic, maintain isolation, hospital also ed walks on, also at hong kong. book fair when critics a free speech has been limited by new national security law. and his full limbic president, thomas black consists, the tokyo games will be a historic success. fax was coming is to report the highest number of new current of our cases, nor my 6 months. ah . so the story of the afghan taliban says it sees control of a main border crossing with pakistan and follows weeks of rapid territorial games. the spin bolduc crossing connect kandahar city directly with pakistan and is a major supply line for anyone who controls it is afghan us on 2nd busiest entry
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point and connects is vast south west with pakistan on the ports and the province of biloxi, stun picture show taliban fighters at the gate, it would be a major advance for the group, which was taken advantage of the withdrawal of us forces to push back afghan forces . but the government says its troops have repelled the faces. from cobble is charlotte bellis. then border is a very strategic border crossing because it is afghan, a stand 2nd, the busiest border crossing the location of it. it's just south of kandahar and south west and the son which is the telephone strong hole. but now with this border crossing, it connects them with talk of some where a lot of the senior leaders have been for many years. and it also allows them to get all that customs revenue that's coming through the border. the afghan government says something like 900 trucks across through the every day that the taliban and not taking customs duties from. now this isn't the 1st border crossing
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they have taken. it is the largest, but it isn't the 1st they have taken in the last few weeks. they've taken some smaller ones up on the northern border of afghanistan, minnesota to g, kasan. and also on the iranian border, they took quite a large board across and called islam color. now we've talked to truck drivers have come through this since they've taken the crossing. and they say yes, we're now paying taxes to the tele bond, thought we got a few kilometers down the road. only had a government checkpoint, we didn't pay taxes to them. also. this all started around april when you're, as president biden announced that he would take out american troops by september. the 11th that when the telephone really put their foot down, they say they're not controlled. 85 percent of the districts and that's going to some independent analysts say that back in april and bite and maybe announcement they had say 70 or 80 out of about $400.00 and i've got a son. those same analysts now put that number around 220, so that 3 times the number of districts and to treat they now hold more people now
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living on the telephone control and ask and then under government control, president ghani is trying to boost morale with the military to try turn this tight around in front of reassure civilians who traveled to the north this week to do that. yes. can government has also seen the high level delegation, which involves a dealer, a jeweler, who has the head of the high council for national reconciliation, as well as former president holman, as i, they going to do on friday to meet with senior taliban leaders in an attempt to try to find some type of diplomatic resolution to this. well the us and native withdrawal is nearly complete. and at this point, the afghan government controls mostly provincial capitals, many of which are surrounded by the taliban, who are capturing the areas around it. and that means supplies can only be brought in from the air. the afghan ministry of defense says it's killed many, $200.00 taliban fighters in the past 24 hours in its efforts to recapture territory . its last for him set up at the international relations department at card and
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university in cobbled, he thinks this incident will send a clear message to neighboring countries to take the taliban seriously. again, the battle field games, particularly with the economic choke points. we'll have 2 important messages, one for the government and the other for our neighbors. for the government, the time the bonds are i thing trying to control the economic to planes. so to pressure the government and as well as the population that is in the domain of the government because with controlling the border crossings, that there will be difficulties in the resupply in supply of a lot of things to these people. with that, with the external dimension, i think now they are managing or controlling because the, the crossing in this out with a rod in far, i'm in the not with condos or should have been better. and now if confirmed
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in the south, off of one is done in canada. so this sends a message to the neighboring concrete that taliban is not a force to be washed out now. and this will sort of make the neighboring countries to reconsider their approach as well. as the relationship as long as it concerns the taliban will saying in this region, china has asked pakistan to investigate a blast on board a past that killed at least 13 people, including 9 chinese nationals and was carrying around 40 chinese engineers, surveyors and mechanical staff to hydropower them construction site and kiper puck to a province. the boss plunged done a ravine. the pakistani authorities say it was an accident. china says it was an attack too. while you do your job. bob, on pakistan,
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security forces have taken measures to control the situation. the windows have been properly transferred to receive medical treatment. china has asked pakistan to thoroughly investigate the truth as soon as possible. capture the perpetrators severely punished them and effectively protect the safety of chinese personnel. institutions and projects and pakistan. south africa was biggest crisis in decades is seeing no signs of an end. after days of violence and looting, politicians are urging president to deploy more military to try to calm what's going on on the streets. at least 72 people have been killed in the unrest. now, there are shortages of food and fuel with transport. links on supplier routes disrupted by violence. what began as a protest against the jailing of the former president jacob's rumor, as that turned into an uprising against poverty, hunger and inequality. the police in johannesburg, going door to door in some neighborhood to recover items that was stolen from stores and shopping centers. community leaders helping collect tips about where
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t v. 's and other items are being stored. we have the responsibility, it is our total. it would destroy everything in the old infrastructure. we see the ownership. what are we going to pull it up? but it's not about juma. it's about the poverty that you cannot dodge. people are hungry or there are no jobs albums. there was, i was, i stole a few things like cold drinks and electrical appliances as well as the paint. i guess the real reason is because we have nothing when i see other people stealing at some point, you realize that chops will close and you will be left with nothing. so you ask yourself, after all of this, how will i survive with the way things are? so i was pushed because of the situation and i asked myself, after all of this, how will i survive when i only had to random my pocket after recently? so well, a number of residents are patrolling the streets to stop the loosing from the miller reports. now, from the township of the way to the looting and violent scene at various hot spots
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in the province of posting has a deep calm down. yeah, so we don't see a significant police isn't also being like hospital police remain on the sand by the looting and violence. yeah. outside of the law to move in the chair. yeah. my move, a small group of residents, community members and small business owners have come out to protest polluting, saying that the economic impact that's been seen in other areas is devastating. and they refuse that to happen. yeah. they say we're not talk to the new thing and they also say things like, no more. that's more that hasn't had any incident so far and also been shut.
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remember the saying that it's also up to them to protect their communities. me see some of the events in places like was due to the po, do thing and writing does appear to be continuing. there being a number of warehouses, city lights, the lights, and impacted very badly by the ongoing rioting. the, there are a number of organizations like the durbin chamber of commerce, who have said that they would want a state of emergency, at least in that proven specifically because police off struggling to get a handle on what's happening. it's traveling to battle these ongoing riots and the approach hits the, the largest oil refinery in south africa and southern africa has now been suspended and they are going to that point. i mean, it will be greatly impacted protection of much needed to tickle materials,
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even water, possibly impacted, while road and train services, roads remain closed and trained services potentially impacted. and the concern now is around the economic impacts of device and the system so that you're having me, the miller reporting there, the unrest is taking a toll on the south african economy, which is one of the continents biggest, more than $200.00 shopping moles have been looted according to one estimate costing retailers more than $137000000.00. that's about 2000000000 rand. on tuesday, the currency dropped to a 3 month low against the dollar at a time when investors are also worried about tight corona virus restrictions. and the folding price of copper port operators in durban and railways companies connecting the 2 provinces while they're experiencing violence as well. they are going through severe disruptions left out now to country p a. he's an economist and
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the founding director of nascent advisory and research. he joins us now from cape town, country p. welcome to the news out here on al jazeera. how far away or how far removed is the government from understanding the day to day problems that people are experiencing. they have nothing and they behave in this way. well, i mean, i think that's actually a very interesting question and it seems from what i hear from what the president certainly said on sunday. and some of the responses we've seen in terms of, you know, in terms of the government's response to corporate 19th and some of the ways actually we are hearing the responses to this particular crisis. but the government is a little bit removed and that actually they have doesn't quite know how to respond tabs. is that understanding? but it's their response that seems to actually evade the government in being able to actually close the gap both in terms of, you know,
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those we have in those we have they, we have much more and also actually what you've seen for quite a long time, especially exacerbated by covet 19, which is really the deprivation that done the inequality that we've always talked about over the last. many tickets. always saying the, the narrative here is being framed in the wrong way because up to now, it seems to me it's been framed in terms of inequality. you're talking about deprivation. but we're also discussing real deprivation when we're talking about a south africa almost 30 years since the end of a party. this simply should not be happening though. i'm lucy and i think i'd like to know that there's an equality thing. you know, inequality suggests in a baby great that we are actually discussing a gift within, in a growing economy that has been something, you know, of the past 25 years, including me, has growth. there's no doubt about that. and certainly that credit is going, but actually there are many, many people that have been left behind. you know,
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that, and of course, this has been exacerbated by the corporate 19 and we see for them to unemployment the 30 percent. but youth unemployment itself is double about it over 60 percent. the young people are feeling complete. she, you know, hopeless. and i think you can see that in some of the images that you've seen, where people are looting or sitting in front of cameras and they're hoping to introduce themselves and put a camera heavy, you know, committed a crime because i think they look at that. they think what could get worse. so, you know, people are not afraid of the lot people are actually out there because they're saying, look, what have i got to do so all the rest of mean much to them because actually sitting at home in the kind of poverty, hunger and deprivation that they're going and it seems that you know, that, that thing and i think, you know, you sleep open the response that the government, if i speak in terms of what the response of being, you know, we all know, you know, we've been talking for years about that to couldn't we just have the freak i know the way to rich and the kind of of the point informa and in the response that
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government has given in terms of, of could be 19 affecting, you know, most of that has been directed to the 1st economy. you know, people who employed people with systems to, to coordinate these things. this has been to businesses that have, you know, doing well. and that's able to actually access some of these local crated guarantees. and you know that you almost stick to his drug, the b v d p and they continue to be beaten down in terms of some of the things that we are seeing today can say, but listening to sit around a post, what $48.00, to go. now there was no contrition and had that feeling of if one extracts specifics, the tone of what he was saying, had a feeling as if he could have said it a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. kind of trying to almost duplicate people saying we feel your pain. could this come back and bite politicians when it comes to the next election?
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now they don't doubt about that, that this is going to come back to by for the patient. because i think in some sense, you know, the president was talking about, you know, this local reconstruction of the economy. and that's an important thing. but it's very much a long term discussion because you have to talk about here, you know, issues of, of infrastructure, including those of a big, long term goal. then the immediate goals, and these are the ones that people are reacting to at the moment in history. bla thing, look, we are struggling. you know, we are under locked down. many people who unskilled, the able to go to work. you know, restaurants had been close. we know that, you know, alcohol treatments and africa, entertainment that big treated people are not able to, to work with. and they have a visual that they can rely on in so the total of the prison that seem to be more criminally to them. the probation has also been cut, problematic, so i think it will buy them because people will say, you know, we need to do at a time that with ugly and well met with the police rather than actually
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a good measure that the president of the book we are in a desperate situation to help. we need to change the tone until the intervention is the state and gaps actually people people to say to come down, we have a plan. and so i think that is a tension that you are facing between actually what we're going to do now is to go to do in the long term and the conditions of people on a daily basis. and i think the visuals, we've seen garrison to the condition of people to day and daily, that daring major in terms of thing. look, we are going to do this regardless. and i think it's not you for this kind of language that you know, people are being instigated because the people at something to lose it will be difficult to instigate them to the kind of criminality that okay, we must leave it there, come to pay there in keep time. thank you very much for talking to us. plenty more still to come for you here on the news, including a new report showing how many rising number of refugees migrants are dying at sea while trying to cross to europe. picking up the pcs, 2 months own from israel war with garza,
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the social and economic impact is still being in northern israel with and in sport, the asian champions, cattle and target. another trophy details coming up later. here on the news. ah, cuba restricting access to social media and messaging up soft, widespread anti government process in that country. state media saying one man was killed during demonstrations and have been on monday. thousands marched over the weekend against the economic crisis. and the government's handling of the corona virus pandemic. the cuban president is accusing the u. s. and cuban americans of stoking the protest. let's talk now to our correspondent reporter who's joining from havana. read, lindsay. read. is it quiet today relatively speaking to what we've seen over the past few days?
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quiet today from what i've seen in havana seems like a normal day here. it's hard to know what's going on and other parts of country again, because of, as you mentioned, some restrictions on, not just social media, it's really internet in general. cell data was introduced here to cuba, not, not that long just a few years ago and, and, and it's predictably exploded. everybody's got cell phones in there, and they're connected on their phones in the street. but that has been cut since the protest. mostly at 1st was little spotty and then the last day i haven't had any small data on my phone. i do have why fi access at my house, but most people don't have why fi access in the house in their, in their home. so it's been difficult to to know what is happening in other parts of the country. there was a state media released a report yesterday confirming that there had been one death on monday of, of somebody who was in a group of people approaching a police station. the details are a bit spot in that as well,
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cuz it's coming from state media. we don't know much more than that. but outside of that, things do seem at the moment, usually reach when a government, any government pulls the plug on messaging apps, whatsapp, twitter, facebook, f, l. that means that the government is realizing or be at perhaps a little late that it's in trouble. is that your sense as to what's going on there now? yeah, in fact, when again it, it's not just social media apps. it's the internet's just off in the street. so, i've been able to access social media apps through why fi without a problem. but again, most people aren't on why fi? interestingly, the foreign minister was asked yesterday, is this a defense mechanism? he didn't, he didn't answer that directly. but, you know, he basically said that the, the cuban government would defend itself. he also spend more than an hour detailing
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what he says was as a us instigated social media campaign. before his protest there was a massive sort of viral campaign called s o s. cuba. that was talking about the problems about acute, difficult recent, difficult a few but hadn't in facing cove it. and that was just sort of catching fire in social media in a peculiar way. and. and the foreign minister says that that was driven by, by boss. and he says the u. s. government was behind that and, and, and sort of seem to, he didn't directly say that, that was the reason they cut the internet. but i would say so, you know, i was an egypt during the, during, during tyra square, when twitter was caught, didn't stop, the protest remains to be seen if, if there will be more protest, you're in cuba. ok. read many things. read. lindsay, that with belly of the beast in the cuban capital, have enter the brazilian president hamilton arrow has reportedly been admitted to hospital after experiencing abdominal pain. earlier in the day,
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local sources say both and out has been complaining about persistent hiccups and was taken to the hospital to investigate the cause. he'll be under medical observation for between 24 and 48 hours. the number of refugees and migrants dying in the mediterranean has more than doubled compared to this time last year. at least 1146 people died, attempting to reach year by see in the 1st 6 months of 2021. that's compared to the $513.00 migrants were known to round the 1st 6 months of last year. those figures are believed to be much lower than the actual number. there are hundreds of cases of so called invisible shipwrecks reported by organizations in direct contact with those on board all with the families. but the difficult to verify international organizations migration, which tracks the data says there are insufficient search and rescue operations in the mediterranean and on the atlantic route to the canary islands. let's talk to
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andrea garcia. she's a data analyst for the missing migrant projects of the international organization for migration, she joins us from berlin and re garcia. this idea of ghost ship rex break that down for me. what does that mean? yes. hi. thank you. and little shape red basically mean that we know we might believe that both departed, but it disappeared afterwards. so someone know that the people departed maybe as or maybe someone that witnessed it, but then no one knows what happened to them. they completely disappear, that the so unfortunately, that means that most probably people have died at the however, the numbers are incredibly difficult to, to document and to know the real numbers that does that mean the, the ships have gone down because a foul play or bad weather or perhaps a combination of that yeah,
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it really depends on the shade but it and on the road, especially on the fact that route to the country, people get lost that be because they run out of you'll and then they just straight off or weeks at the sea so people usually passed away from dehydration and so on in the mediterranean. it's more likely that the ship actually but there was a shipwreck. right? so people around. so it depends on the route what happened to the people. but the problem at the end is that that's right. ok, we're talking primarily here about 2 main routes. so 2 main areas of routes. we're talking about people who make their way to west africa. i guess they don't want to get to the canaries because that's part of spain. and then they assume once they're there, they're safe and they can get to mainland europe. we're also talking about the roots from places like libya, to nicea across the mediterranean to that low lying heal of italy,
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that bits of italy that goes down towards north north, east africa between those 2 areas, which is the more dangerous for the people who feel the need to meet this crossing it's really hard to, to give you a straight answer and that from the available data, the central medic, uranium continues to be the most dangerous for people crossing it. however, we know that we have larger data gaps yet plan that route. so it might as well be that that one is the most dangerous one. we just don't know if there is good settled weather in europe at the moment across the mediterranean, certain parts of europe are experiencing a heat wave right now offset. for me, andrea, if you can against the reality of where we were, say, a year ago or 18 months ago, there was a point about 12 months ago when the european union and all the frontline countries were saying, look, we're going off to the people's traffic because we're going off to the people smugglers. we are keeping the migrants safe where they come from,
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or where keeping them safe on land. but given the numbers and how the numbers are increasing those 2 efforts to solve this problem. it doesn't seem to be working. yeah. i think that long term solution requires many things, right? the 1st thing that requires a more broad search and rescue operation both in terrain in and in the atlantic. it should be a state lead. and the restriction and gilbert should be listed, but also there at the long term solution requires better migration management and better policy in origin and destination countries. so in europe, more solidarity would be maybe to rainy and also the travel. and what do you think? what's your intuition telling you here? what do you think the actual number of debt is?
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extremely hard to answer your question, but i, i would believe that maybe in the mediterranean is a 1000 higher than what we have right now in the atlantic root. it could also be up to thousands and your reports say indicate over 2000 that base year. so really the pen, all of our numbers. ok, we must leave it there. andrew garcia, thank you very much. thank you. iraq's prominent shia cleric says the government will be held responsible if it fails to act. after monday's fire at a hospital, at least 92 people were killed. inside the cupboard, 19 ward in the southern city of nasiriyah monk to the al serra says, the government must act firmly and seriously punish those who allowed it to happen . there have been protests for a 2nd day despite the government ordering an investigation. people are blaming corruption and negligence for the accident from natalia. he has not went up dell
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whitehead. people are very angry here. for example, in this isolation what this is the place which was that is that they don't trust authority. they don't trust the government, so they come, they come here, local victims, families, relatives, they come on, try to find any remains of their loved ones that you know that only 39 of the victims have been identified about 21. others have not been identified because there is a lot of f, a t p like this, part of the body of human flesh park that cannot be identified. and many people have been coming here trying to find any remains of their loved ones. now the responsibility, according to about 50 members of the parliament is on the government. in fact, they have issued joint statement demanding,
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holding decision of integration with the government over prime minister, most of us cousin. now many people believe that there was no safety measure here in this isolation ward. if you look at the construction, there have been the name of materials used in the construction of the walls of this world, including food which help you with the fire. and now the victim time is still claiming the health officials and the cut in fact that many other hospitals has been taken measures in order not to have the same treasure did they say that such isolation was would have built in a haste swiftly, but it turned out that it is, it has caused disaster still to come here on the news for you. politicians in the
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netherlands are criticized for reopening the economy to soon offer a huge increase the number of cobit 19 infections and in sport. find out why they're calling this faithful star a once in a century, talent, that story coming up in about 20 minutes. ah hello there, it continues to be very hot and dry across much of the levant, and the middle east. temperatures are sitting where we expect them to be apart from the gulf states, we're seeing temperatures a little bit below. 6 average for this time of year and with that we feel the humidity kick in, particularly in guitar. it's been feeding rather humid of late. but to the south of this we, i think she was creeping into yemen. an oman we've got to 70 when.

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