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with detail coverage, health officials say that transmission of this virus among humans is very rare, but they're worried because the summer season is about to begin from around the world formula. you'd probably be okay, living in a building like this with plato, windows, but the temperature plummets tough conditions really take that whole ah euphoria in argentina, huge crowds gathered to welcome home their faithful world cup champions. ah, hello, i am emily and gwen. this is al jazeera alive from dough house are coming up china races to install more hospital beds, and the u. s. warns the surgeon corona virus case. this is a concern for the world. and
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u. s. panel recommends criminal charges against former president donald trump over the january 6, riots, and traffic pollution. and to many people we explore how unchecked development makes the bangladesh capital one of the world's most. i'm livable cities. welcome to the program, the world cup winners, argentina, and their captain linelle messy are harm ah. they arrived at the international airport and one a series around 3 hours ago. argentina won the football world camp, beating france on penalties in what is considered to be one of the best finals ever . crowds line the straits in a sea of blue and white is the tame boss, made its white from the airport. the teams official parade will move through the center of the capitol. later on tuesday, millions are expected to be out in the straits. what is
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a public holiday in the well bank has slashed its growth forecasts for china because of coven 19 outbreaks and economic slowdowns badging. has started to loosen its tough 0 corporate policy, but remaining restrictions and a search in cases of putting pressure on the economy. that will bank is also blaming weakness in the property sector. uncertainty over the corona virus situation in china has been rattling investors in the asian market. name of the us state department says it's concerned for the rest of the world because the increasing cases in china cities, there is scrambling to install hospital beds and there are shortages of drugs to treat the virus. 5 covert related deaths has been reported by health. experts warn the situation is worse than official data suggests. let's bring in rigid kimber,
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whose live for us with more in hong kong. hello there, richard. firstly, let's take a look at the economy. what is the impact of the easing of restrictions having on badging, economic forecast. the, well, initially, the hope is that things are very much get back to normal that manufacturing in global supply chains, we get back on track international investors started pouring money into the chinese stock market just hours after these relaxation announcements were made. but now the world bank and many international banks have started fairly, aggressively scaling back their forecasts. what they think is possible for china, not just that this year, but also for next year, speaking to employers over the phone yesterday, based on the mail. and i was told that multiple cases of co, 19, almost every country that everybody was speaking to. and that's affecting hiring, it's affecting long term planning, and it's affecting those very same supply chains that the international world. we're hoping we're going to get back on track. and so basically the expectations from the international economic well that china is growth story next year is going
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to be very much hampered by what's expected to be a long drawn out recovery period as it transitioned out of this 0 cobit policy. we're looking not at growth levels at 567 percent as had been projected earlier on last year, but now much closer to 34 percent. those kinds of levels because of the length of time it's expected. this transition period could take and richard, how else is the virus effect in the country? how difficult is it to get infection and fatality figured? well, it's very much a gray area right now. china's health authorities have been reporting around $2500.00 cases per day since the relaxations were introduced. they reported 7 debts since that time as well. but international health experts are looking at this data and they're trying to make projections based on what's happened elsewhere and look at the size, the chinese population and try to figure out if these kinds of numbers can make sense here in hong kong, for example,
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medical experts have looked at the way that hong kong dealt with, relaxing its own rules, and they say they expect that could be up to a 1000000 deaths in china in the coming months. if the country does not manage to find a more efficient way of vaccinating its most vulnerable, china's health authorities say that's exactly what they're doing. they're not just boosting vaccinations among the elderly, but they've even said they're going to stop procuring vaccines from overseas in order to try and make up for a short full in domestically produced vaccines. and a certain amount of vaccine hesitancy among the public towards china's own vaccines . because of a sense of concern over the efficacy of those vaccinations. so this is all putting pressure on the chinese health system. and there's also been reports that the way that china is viewing covey debts is also be narrowed slightly. the, the clarification and the classification of what can be called a cove at 19 death has been narrowed in the last few hours off to the most recent health media conference. and this is again, a raising questions from the international health community about how much can be read into this data, or is one health textbook put it that these numbers need to be looked at with
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a grain of salt, at least for the next few weeks. mcgriff's hunting goal. thank you very much for the update when she came to life has all in hong kong to the u. s. now and the supreme court chief justice john roberts has extended a controversial trump era immigration policy, which restricts asylum claims, the rule known as title $42.00 was imposed in 2020. it allows the government to use coven 19 protocols to block migrants entry on the border with mexico. the supreme court decision follows a legal challenge by republican lead states to continue the measures which were supposed to lapse on wednesday. petty calhane has more from washington dc. this is the chief justice don roberts, you say, let's put a pause. let's keep this in place for now. he wants the rest of the justices to weigh in on this and you want to done pretty quickly. it seems like so as you mentioned, title 42. this was it's beginning of pandemic. donald trump, who was very anti immigration, used
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a health code to say we can stop everyone coming to the border. i will call the southern border, instantly gets turned around and they're not allowed to apply for asylum. so there's been a lot of different legal loss. a lot of lawsuits about this. but a judge recently said, no, this is in human, it's in germane. it ends december 21st. so as you mentioned, the states. these states read lead by 1900 and republicans. they sued and they suited to the appellate court. that said, no, you've waited too long. such day just today they took it to the supreme court and by 5 o'clock the chief chief justice had put out this order, basically giving it a temporary stay. and hydra castro has more from el paso, texas, near the us mexico border temperatures. here in el paso will be low freezing, meaning that people here are digging in for it will will likely be a restless night. there recently arrived asylum seekers from nicaragua and columbia
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who crossed the us mexican border and have just been granted temporary permission to stay here. in the us while they fight for their asylum cases. one man i spoke with says he had to leave behind his 7 year old son and he described what he felt the moment that he turned himself into us order agent. i don't know. so when we arrived at the border between mexico and the united states and turned ourselves in and it was a huge relief that we were finally out of danger. when the worst was behind us. our look for all of the people who are camped out by this recitation and local churches, and at the el paso airport. there are still more waiting in since the year 2020. the u. s. has use a pandemic related world to quickly expel them to 1000000 border crossers without allowing them to seek asylum. that rule have been set to fire this week, but now the us supreme court says, not so fast,
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the rule will remain in place for now, as the court considers whether to hear case brought by republican. let's say that argued that an overwhelming title wave of migrants will come if the border restrictions loosen. and indeed, there has already been a historic surge of migrants with more than 2000000 people trying to cross the border into the us this past year. shattering previous records, funerals have been held in garza for 8 young men who died trying to cross the mediterranean relatives blame the israeli blockade for forcing palestinians to make the risky journey to europe in search of work. you may see that may met one family who lost 3 children. there is greece and angering god, 8 palestinian migrants who died when they're both sag of the canadian coast in october. have finally been late to read. thousands of mourners came out to support
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the status. please, if they received the bodies, the young men were heading to europe in search of a better life union as yet in one of the necessary things. his father died when he was a child and he said, i will work. i may come to you all the years you spent raising me. i didn't want him to leave by. he insisted on the 3 of the victims. eunice, sammy and mohammed were members of a shy family and 20 year old man. here is still mistake. relative say they were tricked by god, the smuggler who lives in france. they say he promised them safe passage to italy. instead they crossed to egypt than li be. then in october, 6 months after the young men left, the showers lost contact with their children. more in legitimate, lynn, he saved them with promises of work and brought future what they found with torture and captivity. they were bait and tortured and robbed,
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and in the inland they died. and the smugglers said they were in prison in libya. but coast guards found the body of eunice, a shy, plotting off denisia. the search was broadened and the others were recovered. the family's pleading with authorities to keep searching for my hair and to bring him home, even if he is in a coffin. before a 100 minutes a little issue, tomorrow after the suffering man, the other families have seen unexperienced in the past months. i say that staying here for a 1000 years. jobless is better than migration and the torment hold and the price you pay. poverty is pervasive in god's cell. the you on says more than 80 percent of the population relies of food assistance. 15 years under and israeli blockade has destroyed the economy. import and export restrictions have led to the collapse
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of both the private and public sectors. and although there are no official static media report suggests that more than 860000 palestinians left the gaza strip between 272021 did not return a generation, especially of the young who seized no future at home. you may see it al jazeera gods still ahead, don't al jazeera, we look at how poverty and inequality has deepened. perused political crisis. and why those daring to criticize the president and one of the biggest democracies could face shout time a hello. then now the big chill has eased across northern and western parts of europe
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. we're seeing more in the way of milder conditions, temperatures on the up, but also some rounds of rain moving their way in from the atlantic heavy rain once again for spain and portugal. but it is an improving picture for the north west for britain and islands. brightest bells coming through the cloud. now we have already seen some disruption in germany, thanks to black ice caused by freezing rain. that's off the mother conditions swept in. we've still got warnings out across eastern areas here, but you can see that rain edging its way across into poland over the next few days . since no continuing for parts of scandinavia, more snow on the wife, western parts of russia, that was to record snowfall in moscow. the temperature improving in st. petersburg by wouldn't say that was we move further south. it is a very wet picture washout. once again for portugal and spain, it's not looking good for lisbon on tuesday,
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but there's some improvement coming through on wednesday as the was that weather shifts across into northern italy. but it is looking miles if a grease 13 degrees in athens on wednesday that sure ah ah ah, ah, ah oh.
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a hello. you're watching audi 0. i'm emily. and when he's reminder about top stories, our, let's head straight to the live pictures of the world cup winners arriving home hands, and will defend the grading the champions to be front on penalties in casa, as they make their way from the airport to their accommodation. at the football association, it's now a little after 5. i am a local time captain at leim l messy and you same will to the capital one a series later as part of an official parade. millions are expected to turn out to the us state department says is concerned for the rest of the world. after a surge of corona virus case in china, washington says the virus could mutate, posing a renewed global threat and
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u. s. supreme court chief justice john roberts has extended a controversial trump era immigration policy. it allowed the government to use co 19 protocols to restrict asylum claim. it was due to expire on wednesday still in the us and the congressional panel investigating last year's capital hill attack has recommended criminal charges against former president donald trump. it comes after an 18 month investigation into his role in january 6, riot. trump says it's an attempt to block his 2024 white house run. my tenant has the details from washington dc. without objects, it was the committees, 11th and final public hearing tension. to summarize that report that we made public on wednesday best and to highlighted belief that the former president's actions were criminal. no man who would behave that way at that moment in time,
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can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation. again. he is on fit for any office. a video presentation. 3rd, as a reminder of the events on january, the fix 2021, and further extracts from some of the hundreds of interviews the committee conducted in an attempt to find out what happened and how to prevent it happening again. as one fact to add, lee is most important in preventing another january 6th accountability. and the committee made clear its opinion. trump must be held accountable and we'll send the letter to the justice department outlining reasons for recommending criminal prosecution. mr. chairman, on this vote, there are 9 eyes and 0 knows the motion is agree to the justice department to so far prosecuted more than 900 people in relation to the events of january, the 6th. and today,
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some $300.00 had been found guilty on the 1st charge recommended against donald trump obstruction of official proceedings. the justice department is conducting its own investigation into attempts by donald trump to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. and the committee hopes that its findings will provide a roadmap to the special council who's in charge of that process. the committee has also recommended that the actions of several republican members of congress be referred to the ethics committee for defining subpoenas, including to who will be buying for the how speak a position when the new congress convenes next month. but with the republican majority in the house, that recommendation is unlikely to be accepted. and any decision to attribute accountability for the insurrection now lie solely with the department of justice. mike hannah, out 0, washington bureau is facing a political crisis. after
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a former president, pedro his stay was impeached and detained last week. but peruvians are also facing an economic crisis. inflation is up and so is the cost of living, john, home and reports from when a vista on the outskirts of the capital lame. we met because one of the much is the right to improve the impeachment and imprisonment, the vex president pedal castillo for those protests are about much more than one man. many peruvians are angry at their anti political clothes ever wanted to show us why he invited us back to his neighborhood. this is when a vista on the outskirts of lima, where he lives with his wife. she'll be to and therefore children just 40 minutes from the high rise buildings and chic restaurants of the capital. here,
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there are no sewage pipes, no hospitals, no schools, no paved roads. there is no running water either. this is the family system. they have to pay for a water truck which comes once a week to fill it. it's seldom in the days in which the children can wash and days the car when there's no more water, we help each other between neighbors. afterwards i sat down with them in the family home, the room partly made a top pool in one of the wall since the side of the hill. it's a small monument to the country's gaping inequality on the one that you say. there's more know that if it trains this heel could collapse at any moment that could fall into my children. but what can we do? it's the only home we have element. it's obvious that children and their education at the center of this house ever works in construction 12 hours a day to keep them fed and uniformed near school for his son, stephen is an hour away by foot motor, taxi, and bus. my son,
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the community desperate for a local school. they've set aside this land paperwork. they say authority even agreed to build it. they say that was 5 years ago. the plot still looks like this is a political solomon petitions come just to get our vote. do say we're going to get your water health clinic and it never happened this. nothing happened. look at our community that this is the reality for so many peruvians who have gone out to margin a quarter of peruvians live in poverty. the same pleasing complaints play out in a multitude of shanty towns and forgotten ru villages. what do you think the politicians are answered the call for hospitals, the schools for the things that you need her. but a gay because those who govern us have always been corrupt. they start project and hauled them up for years to complete them. inflating the budget, they've always done it. we have resources, but they take them here and the people are left forgotten. well,
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that's why they're angry and below the rank is still spilling out onto the streets in a nation that's felt let down by the politicians for too long. john holman, al jazeera lima to ukraine, where the government is rushing to restore power to several cities after russian strikes destroyed, parts of the energy grid shall strap that has moved from key torchlight . guide. shoppers along with shelves, rushes almost nightly bombardment of ukraine, electricity and energy infrastructure means millions of ukrainians. spend much of their daily life in the dark. victoria shopping with a 3 year old son daniel. they flit, fighting, neither home in the care of san region in april, given a keel, establishing on the authority is tell us they've stabilized. feel like tricity situation. and then there's another attack. it's been like this for the last 2
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months is week. he's got used to the darkness and importantly, he's not afraid. we have no choice. we have to get through this emergency services battle fires across cube and various locations throughout the country after another russian bombardment, early monday morning. this home was completely destroyed in a village close to caves by one of 30 so called kamikaze drones. ukrainian military says it intercepted miriam, perfectly her philosophic at all because we got used to what is happening. it's scary, thoughts of possibly becoming homeless is terrifying. every one is scared. we are bearing at sampling, which is that get maria and denise have to carry the 2 and a half year old son david, up the stairs to their apartment on the 13th floor because electricity is down again. so the elevator doesn't work. he was 10 days off to the invasion. as russian
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forces advanced towards their apartment block in european, they fled to the netherlands and then france. they have only recently returned. maria come puts her son in bed. she tries to send him to sleep. denise has put plastic sheeting over the windows for additional protection against the sub 0 winter temperatures. the satellite? no just no, it's pretty hard but we try not to complain because we think of our soldiers living in the trenches in dismal conditions. but on one occasion we didn't have electricity for 2 days, like i had seattle, so yes, it's cold. sometimes the child is coughing, it's winter. but we can get through this and we wait for spring and victory. not until the nearby is one of thousands of heated tents with generators put up in recent weeks where people can get warm and charge their devices as work continues around the clock to fully restore electricity and heating across the country.
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roger's drone and miss, i'll attacks targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure are happening with increasing frequency. and that means that many people in neighborhoods like this one face another night without heating and in the dark cha, stratford al jazeera, give human rights activists in indonesia, consent and new criminal code will stifle free space in the world's 3rd largest democracy. any one saved insulting the president could face in jail time. as jessica washington reports from jakarta. for more than a decade, tony milwaukee on his painted sum of indonesia is best known politicians for national newspapers and magazines. he's known for his unflattering depictions of political elite, including the president. i can draw an i have a perspective about human rights in a niche as all, i just, oh, yeah, i show her my feelings, my expression, my speech sir as of freedom. oh,
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as my as human rights are fillings? yeah, just short with her drawings. garten veteran, but work like this could land the artist in trouble in coming. he is under the new criminal code ratified earlier this month. any one perceived to be insulting that president vice president or state institution could be imprisoned for 3 years or longer if the offense is on a digital platform. i think this is, you know, a series term to worse with our side of the recent policies, which is an authoritarian turn. so we have to, i think, how to rollback how to push back. ah, this, this a maneuver many fear critical reporting will be construed as an insult. some activists journalists and political commentators have raised concern the vague
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wording of the law might contribute to selective enforcement. and create a climate of fear. with unclear what can and cannot be. the ministry of law and human rights says the government welcomes criticism. it has promised to clarify uncertainties about the hundreds of articles in the code during what it calls a socialization period. under the moral people will need permission before organizing a demonstration or risk. 6 months behind bars, journalists can also be jailed for distributing news that's considered on their side, exaggerated or incomplete. some human rights lawyers are planning to challenge the law, the exercise of a freedom of expression, which is, oh, it is also critics to our government. whether it's, it's bad performance is it's bad services and so on. which also done by the very glass little people in indonesia. even if attempts to change the code are
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unsuccessful. tony says he won't stink. speaking out. his latest comic shows how those who challenge the criminal code may become its victims. jessica washington out to sarah to carter. over the past 20 years bangladesh, his capital has lost more than 2 thirds of its wetlands to land, grabs, unregulated development, is raising the risk of floods and is tanveer changi reports. it's making jacka, one of the world's most unbelievable cities with the population of more than 20000000 people, dark eyes, a mega city, and the economic harbor, bangladesh. the rapidly growing economy has led to high demand for land, but it comes at a considerable cost to the environment and estimated 70 percent off its wetlands have been lost to unplanned development. in the past 2 decades. dock, i used to have canals and wetlands all around it. now by no longer exist. it's all
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concrete. many people have moved for rural areas to the city. 3 rivers and circle duck up. but there, polluted and the surrounding forest are gradually disappearing. as the city limits expend. environmental experts say in many instances, land grabbers fill up wetlands with waste and sand. then the got a lease agreement from the government and gradually build commercial and housing projects on it. the process eventually legalizes, what start says something illegal. urban migration is also increasing as a result of climate change. more people are migrating to dhaka from low lying areas which are prone to flooding. a sea levels rise body loaded, i guess i left boiler island a long time ago. my ancestors, family and homes got washed away by the sea. so i moved to dark. awful work. one study suggests 2000 people movie or every day. authority is said, there is a shortage of adequate housing infrastructure and water and waste management
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systems which is increasing the spread of diseases. yes. land grab yes, long to grabbing is a problem in the canals and river are narrowing and losing their desk due to the dumping of pollution, which causes flooding. the government has taken the initiative to fight against land grubbers and those who occupy parks and other spaces are been planner, said development projects in it to be regulated. if the government wants to reclaimed wetlands and expend sustainably cocora denominated, there are laws and a plan for the development of the city. but these are hardly implemented or enforced by the city development authorities, district administration, or long foresman agencies. the category of the un says duyka could become the world's fort most populous mega city by 2030. but few believe it's prepared to handle this growth. tanveer children al jazeera deca ah.

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