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no matter where it takes a police fear you guys are my empower in pasha. we tell your story. we are your voice. you knew your net back out here. the candidates 19 cases saw in india and what's being called a 3rd wave. delhi chief minister test positive day after addressing a rally. ah, i'm sorry, say that this is out there alive from dell hall. so coming up, a warning of not being able to comply with a lot and they have to make up their mind. a warning for the media by hong kong as leaders. and now the news outlet shocked down. demons who the rebels release video
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from a see them are at the flagship saying it had weapons aboard the saudi lab coalition that it was carrying medicine for them. silicon valley sol, visible home, the face these years in prison for investor fraud. and conspiracy in india like countries around the world is saying it's highest curve at 19 infection numbers in month that he's chief minister, is among the latest to test positive a day after speaking at an election rally where few people were seen wearing masks, cases of also been increasing in the tourist tub of go, a cruise ship bound for the indian state has been prevented from docking after more than 60 people were detected positive. and the case, prime minister is warning, it's how service will be under considerable pressure in the coming weeks is only
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con cases search. but bars, johnson is ruled out. additional restrictive measures will have rory challenges outside the train station in london. surely. but 1st, let's go over the path to me, how she's doing this now live from new delhi. so, casey is a surgeon, control oversee is rising over some political events. what is it doing to the health system though so far? right. wow, hospitalisation haven't gone off that much yet. and that's because the surgeon cases is just a week 10 days or the medical job is getting up. the latest news is that help hospital and has institute has time for the winter break for the fact that you hand off all the doctor to make sure the back it was back at the desk because they are expecting an influx of patients coming in over the last couple of days about 50 people who have cobra. 1900 have been admitted into back. the other thing that
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we're learning and local media is the 40, is that jelly is expected to announce a we can stop you. danny. already one state which has a massive number of restrictions and that is expected to go up and we're expected to hear from the government anytime soon. and here's the other thing, but the dentist, you manage, that has also tested positive. we had been out there asking people to maintain over 900 protocol because marcus had been crowded, but he himself had been addressing rodney's, he has attended if he's to rally into coal bond series over the last few days. and so back has, i'm good a lot of people because at this point most of the country is under some form of restriction. and it's foster for even prime minister, the reasonable, the has been political events, but a lot of people are not maintaining 500 shorter goals. alright. restrictions, see, to tell us all about this cruise ship that's been turned away from go. what's happening to those on board now? the who have been told that the crew ship is just carrying about 2000 people,
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including 66 people that have tested positive is on its way back to mom by and the people on board who are over 900 positive are isolating on board. that's because there are a few, this involved and isolating the medical facility in glow, which is where the cruise was headed and where the tests were done. now go up as much as one of the biggest problem was positivity is 26 percent every for us and bus testing for the virus is positive. it is a widely popular place to visit at this time of year. and we've been seeing images and videos of people reading and been celebrating on the beach. and that's why the cases that are honestly alright. have limited, let's go over to the chance values live in london. it's back to the cost of the holidays. what is it looking like?
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back to work day in the united kingdom yesterday was another public holiday monday . but that back to work name to come with a big bold point. asterisk leading to 3 very important caveats. first of all, should you even be coming back to work because the governments is advised that anyone who could work from home should be doing so. secondly, are you even well enough to come back to work? there are supposedly about a 1000000 brits at the moment, either sacred cobit or self isolating. and thirdly, can you even get to work because with so many absences around the country, the transport network has been here. there are thousands and thousands of train cancellations. i can attest to that for jenny guess they should have taken of an hour ended up taking 2 and a half. now the cabinet office can actually ministers talk ministers have been
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asked by the government to prepare for worst case scenario. perhaps a quarter of workers being off like many countries, the u. k. has tried to mitigate this by shortening the isolation period, but still to say, given that this is a main london train station and this is back to work. day rush hour should be a bit more rocky than if it's not very yeah, it does look a bit empty behind you. what about schools? how they going to contain and another wave if kids are going back to school, well, the government has pledged that schools should carry on teaching face to face for as long as possible. and so what they're saying is that high school students should be testing at least 2 to 3 times a week, either on site or a home thing. the test has to be done before students and staff come back today. and on sunday that we're lines in many of the main these papers saying that high
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school students are also expected to be wearing masks in classrooms. once again. now that has angered the teaching unions and in many teachers, guess again, the government have done this several times. during the course of the pandemic day with sags, that's why we're learning this on sunday, from newspapers rather than the government actually informing them themselves. but they're also complaining about how the government has not provided enough money to deal with staff shortages or to deal with improving ventilation, ventilation systems in schools and in classrooms. so yeah, that the back to school day. not looking particularly happy either. i think so much really challenge more than 100 passengers on board. a cruise ship in the mediterranean is tested positive for cove in 19 the m. s. c. grandiose dog to the northwest and italian port of genoa. on monday, most of the passengers from italy,
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bows with houses in the area have been allowed to this embark. foreigners are being accommodated in medical facilities in the region where they will have to stay until they have negative. the u. s. has reported another daily reco. it's more than a 1000000 coven. 19 cases. food and drug administration has expanded its booster program, including a 3rd dose of the 5 shots, the children age 12 to $15.00. hong kong lead a carry lab is rejecting claims the territories press freedom faces extinction. it follows the closure of a 3rd independent news outlet on monday. at atoria, leaders from citizen news said they're worried about the safety of that journalists . in october, the outlet was accused of misleading. the people about the national security law imposed by bay ging. i read news about because of the closure of online
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medium press freedom in hong kong faces extinction or hong kong, free free press faces collapse. i just cannot us up that sort of allegations, but nothing is more important than the rule of law in hong kong, and journalists and media organizations like all of us, have to respect and comply with the law if they are fearful of not being able to comply with a lot and they have to make up their mind and take the necessary decisions for pilots has more from hong kong. so here's is winding up its opperation and the building behind me will now stop updating its website after it said it could no. 1 longer continue, citing the safety of its stuff. it's the 3rd media outlet to close office use. last week. the arrests and raid over the news room and the for the closure. 1 of apple, daily and june, last year, citizen news described itself as
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a small boat and tremendously rough save it found a chris young said that he hoped it would not deterred young journalists from taking part in the industry. and that there's still a role for media here in hong kong. however, it's still unclear whether the remaining outlets, like hong kong free press can survive in this environment. chief executive terry lab said that it's not about press freedom that it's about upholding the national security law. while hong kong authorities deny there's a crack down here and say they are not targeting the media. the hong kong janice association says that attacks on the press threatened the status of hong kong as age as well. city. hong kong was once known as a thriving hub for media outlets. but since the national security law was introduced in 2020, that change. and now there are big fears over whether independent journalism here is being crushed, hong kong courts. a sentence lawyer child hung tongue to 15 months in prison. she was convicted for inciting, an unauthorized gathering. to commemorate this gentlemen squire massacre,
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child was arrested last year. the day before the june anniversary of the 1989 crack down bay jane. she was convicted on similar charges in december. the sentencing on tuesday mean she'll spend 22 months in jail. police is bad. the annual chatham in video for the past 2 years. fighting corona virus restrictions, yemen hersey rebel, say an m r r t flag ship they seized was carrying military supplies. the cargo vessel was taken near the empty port city of data on sunday. the seas of released video from the ship saying, shows weapons and other equipments aboard the saudi le coalition says the vessel was transporting medical supplies. saudi arabia is leading a military coalition that's been at war with the hoses for almost 7 years. the laptop has more from the capitol center. we couldn't tell. oh,
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exactly. is telling the truth with the how these military spokesperson during his pressure, has revealed some pictures that he says, show the, the, the you a flagged cargo, cargo ship carrying weaponry, armored vehicles, and also marian boats. but, but we couldn't confirm such pictures that had been revealed by the how the spokesperson also the, the, the other side of the quality is saying that it was creating medicines or, or other civilian stuff. the situation is really developing rapidly. the, during the pressure during the process explained about the operation. how is how they have conducted this operation of the the cost of data where the have monitor kept to this ship. according to the statement of the how these
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spokesperson, he says that the have kept monitoring this ship for 4 weeks according to a to, to him. and also the, the, the, the, the accused it of carrying alto style activities and the long, the, the red sea. and still ahead on al jazeera, a fire road, south africa's palmer building re ignite, says the suspect is doing a court. and hoping for a smooth ron just one month ago, we'll look at how china is preparing for the wind tourism picks during a pandemic. ah, ah, look forward to running to scully's, the with sponsored by cuts on it weighs that was about to change threat. a good part of europe is demand for a long time. but there's now big sway the cloud here, and that is the area of change. but it's obviously not as simple as it could be
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that colder this is warmer and that's the area transition, which is can be quite messy, largely it's b. it is a rain to some degree, snow on the southern edge, and of course depend on the height above ground. so spain get some snow hit the pyrenees dos, get some heavy rain which goes into southern and central france. but look at the temperatures. they've been this high for a while now. they're 4 degrees above normal and happy for last month or so. so any change be a bit of a shock, but ready to return to normal. and that might be very obviously felt in north, literally, and the out stretching through switzerland into austria, huge madison. they're likely than rain. but the potential for flooding inordinately, this is come wednesday, temperatures will drop as result, madrid down to about 8 degrees. now tsar grabs a good example of that change taking place later in the week down to one degree as a max on friday, probably bit of snow around, but maybe it's a change in temperature. but this is the real winter. this is coming in
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a snow storm down through the british arctic t. scotland. then norway will sweep into mainland europe happily on wednesday. oh, the weather sponsored by katara always healing the debate. 90 percent of the world's refugees have come from a common impacted country. the climate emergency is putting more pressure on across the world and amplify your voice. it's not really the future. it's now not a lock can simply cannot lose hope. we know what to do and we have the tools to do all this on out. is there a ah,
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welcome back here watching out is there a time to recap? are headlines. a cruise ship bound for the indian tourist tub of go has been prevented from docking. after more than 60 cove, 19 infections were detected on board cases are searching nationwide. hong kong, the, the carry, lamb is rejecting accusations the territories press freedom, faces extinction. it comes after a 3rd independent news outlets in hong kong, close demons who the rebels say in them are anti flagship. they seize, was carrying military supplies. the congo vessel was taken near the ebony port city of a data on sunday. saudi like coalition says the vessel was transporting medical supplies, founder of collapsed blood testing style top fairness has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy. 37 year old that is with homes, was once hailed as a young tact visionary. she claimed her companies machines could test for dozens of
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diseases using just a drop of blood. another that was true. rob reynolds explains the story of elizabeth holmes became a cautionary tale about the limits of technology and the boundless nurse agreed. and gullibility homes is start up. thera knows, promised devices that would revolutionize medicine by screening. patients brought vast variety of illnesses with only a drop of blood. she adopted the attire and manner of silicon valley disruptors like apple pounder. steve jobs are actions that will determine this new stereotype around women being the best in science and technology and engineering. and it's that there are a little girls will see when they start to think about who do they want to be. he, when they grow up accepting the hype, homes was lauded in the media investments poured in from the likes of news.
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corporations, rupert murdoch, and oracles, larry ellison, former trump education secretary, betsy divorces, family sunk $100000000.00 into the venture to elderly secretaries of state. henry kissinger and george sholtes were sufficiently beguiled by homes as blandishments to join the company's board of directors. but it was all a fake. the blood testing machines, homes promise never worked. investigative journalists and prosecutors began poking holes in her claims. eventually the whole enterprise toppled like a house of cards. there are nos closed down in 2018. prosecutors argued homes performed fake demonstrations falsified reports and made misleading claims. the 37 year old homes testified in her own defense, blaming everything on her ex boyfriend, co defendant and former thoroughness executive, ramesh bonnie. but in the end,
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unlike so many before the jury wasn't buying it, homes faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for each count. she is expected to appeal grub reynolds al jazeera los angeles. our suspect in a fire at south africa's paula buildings expected in court. later on tuesday, it started on sunday at the back of a complex that houses the old assembly chamber firefighters had declared it under control, but the flames flat up again on they jenny and wolf has mo, from cape town. well, this is an incident that has attracted a lot of attention in the past day. crowds from all over cape town have gathered to take a look at what is happening here, including danny. tell me how you feel. seeing lee along the national assembly bar rules, mainly like very said to me a day ago, we've just been with everything
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i actually have lost was receive these calls are worth a lot of people here, a loss for words, including the firefighters who have been here flights in tirelessly they were fighting for 24 hours the day before and the temperature for as high as a 100 degrees celsius. and now they're back out of the gander. and they're fighting this, which has just been flared up again. now this building is very important to south africa from a place that is the heartbeat of democracy is where the parliamentarians gather to debate policy and legislation is also where the president delivers the state of the nation address. i had is where nelson mandela would like to pass the 1st black privilege of south africa. now there will be some significant cost involved in refurbishing this building. and there's obviously a lot of history behind these buildings walls. and at the moment those walls are
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burning down and down. there will also be a lot to be answered to in the coming days. sedans, military leader is calling for an urgent care take a guffman to new badges to deal with demonstrations. it follows the resignation of prime minister abdullah hemlock pro democracy group saw planning more protests in the coming hours. hebert morgan reports from the capital. ah, these people have recently heard prime minister of the lam doke the 1st to hold the position following sedans. 2018 revolution has resigned and many in the country are divided on his departure is developmental disorder. good humbugs, departure is a big loss to the nation. he had made a lot of achievements and brought progress to saddam, but the military with the reason he was unable to move forward on so many issues, the military is the reason we're in this cross of godaddy. ah, and it doesn't make a difference just like he doesn't make a difference if he stays. no hum,
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doke no longer serves the demands of the people on the street. he legitimized a take over and blessed what they have done and this was much less than what the people of sued on have been calling for. ham doth, was torn in in 2019 after the overthrow of long time president amaral bashir. he was picked by the coalition known as the forces of freedom and change to lead to dance transition to democracy. the coalition represented the protest movement that lead anti government demonstrations against bashir is government, but impost month the coalition has been divided. that became the basis for the military to stage a takeover in october. placing him, duke under house arrest and putting members of his cabinets in prison. a month later he was released and then find a deal to form a government of technocrats side lining political groups. when he 1st took office ham dogs, popularity was high among the protest this and when he was closed under house arrest during the military takeover, many regarded him as a symbol of civilian rule. but the deal he signed with the military in november
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made him lose support of not just the protest movement, but also of the political parties that brought him to power. some activists say ham dukes resignation could be in the interest of the protest movement. now that ham dock has stepped down, they realized that they need to get their houses into order. they need to get their, you know, they need to get everything organized, need to start from scratch. and i think also the military side needs to understand that the people will knock that up. ham duke has cited lack of consensus among political parties as his reason for stepping down. and as the political parties remain at odds, there's little hope of both coming together to name some one to replace him. hey, morgan, alta 0. now at least 23 people have been killed in fighting between armed rebels on columbia as border with venezuela. the army blame drug trafficking for the violence in our province columbia. the president accused venezuela's leader of sheltering armed groups, tens of thousands of people that fled their homes is heavy. rain causes flooding
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across malaysia. the rainfall started on sunday, causing rivers and several states to rise to dangerously high levels. maybe 50 people have died in flooding since mid december. more than 125000 have been displaced. florence louis has more from color them for. it is quite severe flooding . we're talking about 7 out of 13 states that have been affected now according to figures from the national disaster management agency and the moment around 15000 people at flood relief centers. but that doesn't reflect the total number of people affected by the floods. at its peak, around 125000 people were affected. and for some states, this is not the 1st way for floating. it's the 2nd, even 3rd wave of flooding. during this monsoon season, which typically last between the months of october and march and this season has been unusually heavy rain around mid december rain that lasted for several days and
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the government was caught unprepared. it didn't do enough in terms of flood preparedness, even though the major article agency had issued whether warnings wasn't flood warnings, issue to people. and in many places, aid didn't reach people in time. in fact, the 1st people there, what volunteer groups or individuals that has been a lot of anger directed at the government because of this. now, in terms of damage, you've seen pictures of buildings, vehicles submerge that has been tremendous impact in terms of damage caused by these floods. and this is coming on the back of 2 years of pandemic, prolonged periods of lockdown. so it is having severe financial strain on many families and it's not even over yet. the department of irrigation has forecast. there will be high tides in several parts of malaysia to run through till wednesday . and in some places where the river, water levels in rivers are already high, this could potentially worse and flooding how
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a legal agreement between the late sex if and the jeffrey yet seen in prince andrew's accuser, virginia jeffrey has been made public. the documents were released off for an order by the judges in the us. they revealed jeffrey was paid $500000.00 as part of the deal. she launched the civil case against prince andrew accusing him of sexual assault when she was 17. but that prince andrew lawyers had argued the 2009 settlement could release him from liability in the case, he has consistently denied the claims. michelle simpson teagle is a women's rights lawyer and founding partner at the simpson teagle law firm. she says victims should not be afraid to seek justice. what really dropped and i think change sort of the face of this type of litigation is the me to movement. and not we started seeing people come forward and saying it does not matter if you are
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a prince, or if you are the president of the united states, you should not be above the law. and you should face justice for the wrongs that you have done to people that really can just be the word of a survivor. if that survivor got victims word is believed by the burden of proof that's required by law. whether it's proof beyond a reasonable doubt, in a criminal case, or the preponderance of the evidence in a civil case, one witness, and most american jurisdictions can be enough if a jury believes them. and i certainly have cases where that has been true. by that being said, we want to build and have other pieces and corroborating evidence. and i think the settlement agreement that we're seeing in that case, it is really to me a distraction. i think her attorneys likely knew about it. and it doesn't mean that prince, andrew should not still face justice because he was not jeffrey at stain. he has his own person by doing is just one month away from hosting the winter olympics.
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the city is the 1st to host both the summer and when to games for the upcoming event has been plagued by challenges including diplomatic born calls and the current virus outbreak. katrina, you folds from junky. i chew on the outskirts of aging. weeks away from the opening of the beating winter olympics, the slopes are full of avid scares and snow borders. many are looking forward to the games and go home for hi of course i am very excited and proud because the winter olympics will be held in my motherland law. it makes me very happy. this balls have become very popular in china in recent years. the chinese government has poured billions of dollars into preparing to host the games in february, including investing in italian snow making equipment to help build up its fledgling winter sports industry bids will create a whole culture around the winter sport. we create a home mindset also in the,
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in the chinese head as the now the time has this aspiration of bringing 300000000 people on snow and ice. $30000.00 international athletes and support staff will be among the 1st to stay in a new olympic village and trial. a chinese digital currency. these resorts have had their busier season this winter because of the olympic games that they will be forced to close the week. leading up to the opening of the event, this entire area will be sealed off to control the spread of the corona virus. doors taking part will be restricted to a tightly controlled venue bubble. china is battling the delta variant in its more severe flare up of curve at 19 for months. with 13000000 people in the western city of she and under lockdown. authorities are anxious to contain that and prevent any outbreak of the on the cross strain from spreading across the country. the pandemic isn't the only challenge organizes face. some western governments,
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including the u. s. the u. k. at canada, had announced diplomatic boycotts in protest against the treatment of wiggers and she and john, the jing accuses them of politicizing the games and as warn they will pay the price over hasn't made clear how analysts say additional boycotts by you or asian countries, would be very embarrassing for china, no teams are going to boycott games themself. but if the english speaking democracies are being followed by other major countries, then if that will be much bigger. but there is here say they won't be counting the number of foreign officials who attend the games. instead, they'll be keeping an eye on the number of metals one by china's team. especially the golds katrina you al jazeera john jocko beijing. ah.

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