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her hopes were fulfilled. in years after the arab spring the rebellion starts june 7th on g.w. . this is d.w. news live from birthday and tensions rise in jerusalem. palestinians clashed with israeli riot police outside a flashpoint mosque with dozens injured we'll explain what's behind the latest violence also coming out. india's coronavirus crisis worsens recording
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more than 4000 covert 19 deaths in 24 hours for the 1st time today that is getting through but experts fear things will get worse before they get better. and the e.u. divided over the facts a plane has come together in portugal to set the clocks 10 year agenda caught a split over whether to suspend rice on covert 19 jabs threatens to overshadow the summit. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program tensions are high in jerusalem following clashes between israeli police and palestinian protesters outside the al aksa mosque in one of the city's most sensitive areas more than 150 people were injured in the violence how to stand in anger has been fueled by possible. sions in
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many arab east jerusalem to make room for jewish settlers a court decision is expected in the coming days we have fears of more unrest. tensions boil over and the area around jerusalem's al aksa mosque descends into chaos. palestinian protesters take aim at israeli police crawling stones bottles and fireworks. officers in riot gear respond with a show of force. there throwing bombs at muslim worshippers to empty al aqsa mosque itself. dozens of protesters sustained injuries many to the face and eyes from rubber coated bullets and shrapnel from stun grenades. with nearby emergency rooms filling up fast the palestinian red crescent sets up a field hospital to treat the wounded. the violence at one of islam's
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most revered sites erupted after the final friday prayer of ramadan throughout the muslim holy month anger has been building over a bid by jewish settlers to evict palestinians from their homes in east jerusalem. the court case was the focus of friday's sermon at al aksa mosque and many worshippers stayed on to protest they were backed by international calls for calm and restraint the united nations warned israel would be violating international law if it approved the evictions we wish to emphasize that east jerusalem remains part of the occupied palestinian territory in which international humanitarian law applies the occupying power must respect and cannot confiscate private property in occupied territory israel supreme court is expected to rule on the evictions on monday both sides are bracing for more violence because on that same day israel will be marking jerusalem day an annual celebration of its addicks
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a show of east jerusalem in 1967. kremas in jerusalem and joins me now can you tell us more about the palestinian families whose potential eviction has stopped this latest under arrest. well i'm standing here in section this is a palestinian neighborhood in east jerusalem and you see here behind me that the areas with the police here this is actually where families are threatened with imminent election by claims by 2 settler organization this decision was postponed from last thursday to monday a grabby expected to sit in to be taken so we have seen you know over the past days actually the past 10 days you've seen you know young people many coming together here in this street breaking into time and then there were protests which were then dispersed by the police an issue is not new here this started almost
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a decade ago and eat and goes beyond with jews organizations claiming the land and the houses and i've talked to some of the families they would be as thrown out of the house now while family also apparently in court and more families could be addicted also by august but as you mentioned this has been ongoing for years but the violence has been ramping up in recent weeks terry in violence in the city what's being done to calm the tensions. and i think this is a bit the $1000000.00 question but it was also doesn't come as a surprise protests have been going on for now thanks to leaks and i think the many palestinians to red line was essentially last night what happened on the mosque compound now we also understand that arab israeli leaders from inside israel have called for more demonstrations and this weekend is particularly sensitive it's the
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last night a very important night tonight after ramadan not the last night of ramadan say that a lot of people did go into the old city and then the next days you have to jerusalem day where right wing israelis and a lot of settlers i'm opting into this. through the old city and palestinian neighborhoods to remind of the caps off east jerusalem $967.00 so this is to be also seen every year as the case in by palestinians all right time and thanks for that update 10 degrees tend to cram in jerusalem let's turn around some other stories making headlines around the world in mexico city hundreds of protesters gathered on friday to demand justice and pay tribute to $25.00 people killed on monday when a metro viaduct collapsed with 2 trains on it the protesters blame the government for ignoring repeated problems with the line. colombia's president ivan duke
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a has called for an end to the mass anti-government demonstrations gripping the country is due to hold further talks with protest leaders at least $25.00 people died in the unrest sending from anger over living conditions and heavy handed police tactics a large segment of a chinese space rocket is expected to make an uncontrolled free entry to earth this weekend beijing has played down fears the free falling rocket could cause any damage. to china's new space station into last month. india has reported a new record daily coronavirus death toll more than 4000 people have died from co that 19 in the past 24 hours and once again more than 400000 new infections have been recorded critics say these official figures undercount the full extent of the crisis international aid is reaching india but for many it's too little too late.
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this is the bitter reality of india's covert emergency nearly a quarter of a 1000000 lives lost as the bodies mount the crim atory a struggle to cope. and there's no end in sight to this crisis. hospitals to a buckling under the pressure. there's a lack of beds and a lack of staff but the one crucial thing that has made this 2nd way different and more devastating than lashes emergency. is a lack of oxygen. for the. percent of. those. more than for pupils and also 50 percent of. the recording. these people could have a greater chance of surviving the crisis there in the queue to be vaccinated but
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the rollout seems slow and jobs are in short supply. international aid has begun pouring into india. supplies of medical equipment are now arriving from all over as other countries wake up to the scale of the tragedy and the threat posed to their own populations. but the aid cannot arrive quick enough to slow down the dying. families are helpless as their loved ones succumb to what researches say is a far more infectious strain of the virus. but there is anger too. with some asking why the government decided to allow election rallies and other large events. call it the system or government or whatever was it necessary to conduct elections right now not. for this family and countless others that
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question comes too late. as mating in portugal will focus on relations with india on day 2 of this summit they're expected to boost trade ties integrate to work together to battle india's pandemic block members are divided over a u.s. proposal to waive peyton rights on covert 19 vaccines while some countries favor the plan germany is firmly opposed great of vaccine production instead. normality is slowly returning to portugal. bars have reopened and the 14 day infection rate pair 100 ties and residence is below 60. e.u. leaders are meeting in portugal to discuss further handling of the pandemic their response to washington's call for the release of vaccine patents is divided.
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the key to success is not the transfer of patents but the transfer of production technology so that developing countries can also produce vaccines more quickly. besides releasing patents we also need to encourage passing on our knowledge. this summit central theme is actually social rights. it must work for youth and for women. who were the 1st to lose their jobs during the lockdowns because they did not have a proper contract europe's plan has been criticised by employers associations you have to understand that companies are really struggling to get out of the crisis now it's not the moment to be confronted with me burdens currently 21 percent of the e.u. citizens are considered poor or at risk of poverty. they have a nice bomber of angels covering that
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a huge summit for us and joins us from porto in portugal where it's currently taking place bob wrote why the reluctance for some from some european leaders to back away even of. they really are in a diplomatic conundrum here because they feel that joe biden is sort of painting them into the corner of the the bad boys all of a sudden they're in the next quarter however what they say is their argument is and one that was particularly made very strongly by the french president in monreal mccrum giving away the patents is not going to secure a single dose affected within the next year even of the negotiations in the w t o 2 world trade organizations would be very slow they would be dragging on for months and plus if you give the patents cured have anything you don't have production sites you don't have a supply chain and all of these seems a much more important so the majority of leaders here say we are willing and happy to cooperate we will help was knowledge transfer and transfer of high tech and that
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we have developed but we don't want to just throw out the patents because probably and that's what some nobody really says out loud here china would just grab them and run with them but many developing countries are on their own not capable of setting up these very complicated production sites now india has been one of the champions of releasing those payments on kind of a vaccines if you're a one off of that what can they offer india what can europe off india in the talks today. they will of course offer to operate they will of course offer to sort of produce vaccines under looser licenses that that is possible there are many legal possibilities to do this in just a ready producing astra zeneca under a license and they can do this without asking for money they can just grant them the license ok so try this and we'll help you set it up we'll help you with the
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technology will help you sort of educating your workforce because you need specialists to do this and so yes they will offer all of this and that might probably be just enough because for the indian side it is important to sort of come back into business was the european union after breaks it they know that britain is not the gateway anymore to europe and so they will want to give another try to revive the trade talks that had been suspended 7 years ago and that is the sort of aim of the exercise and of course the european union has promised $100000000.00 euros in immediate aid and they will go for the net no question so that is the pos way that is sort of really being made here during during this day when. he will so only appear on the video screen because of the upand demick in india of course when barbara thank you for of a so important. now in german football when this league match
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