that's thailand's kind of revolution. the precise tried and tested, and that business is booming for israel. unmanned drug produces by modifying expertise. games at any expense. inflamed global demand for western, which many see as morally indefensible. people empower investigate israel drone dealers on a just the for decade. drugs, pins made millions, trafficking, heroin, opium, and candidates through thailand. in response to thailand long became go to prison or 1st thing in the theme. but there's been a sounding change in policy that lead time, which i haven't gotten. even government ministers are extolling the virtues of candidates. we have seen that tend to be not only illness for people, it could become one of the major incomes. all people i think on the orders go even further, you know, major. i hope i got 111 east investigate whether these promises last night or reality. in a quiet afternoon here at van, said university in bangkok, security a type of van carrying half a ton of valuable contraband is about to arrive

we thailand for some ungodly reason. my face pops up. he says, well candidates products can make big money. thomas says that it will, the farmers out of poverty are unrealistic. what do you tell the tie? farmers now don't grow. don't grow. even if the rules and regulations are clear, you got to ask yourself, who am i selling the products to? i feel bad for a lot of people that are being lied too. right, because everybody wants. it's like it's like the gold rush. right? every went in and says g, let's go to for goal. and they end up with a lot of law. is it just politic legally on a medical point? we kept that promise. if you really need it, you can come and get it for free. in regard to the economics of it, i think where it's still a little weak on that. is it all politics? what in life isn't? oh, it's been a month since we met at the chat and was denied the temple. i checking on them for me. my time cow, cow, kill! kill, kill lou. why on me? i got bending me off, chris. mike. he tells me he's gained 3 kilograms. he even cracks a smile.

would have been completely legal, hold and leg land thailand. the minister of health explains the government sudden change of heart. i didn't pay people actually were ready for this product lobby for my party lunch. this campaign we heard what type you will one on the campaign trail. some people in your party are saying you could get up to $2000.00 per kilogram of candidates. is that realistic? this is typical economic philosophy, the man and supply people we have to compete in the quality of the product. so someone that come with good seat, good technologies and some kind of research and development will, will have a better opportunity. i ask him, how far the laws will go. recreational use is that the pope with our policies, we want ill people to have options in caring themselves. we one another business opportunity for farmers for industrial in thailand, openness towards new laws is tied to the country's deep history. with the plant traditionally tie people used cannabis, the tree, common element in spice of noodle soup. the plant has been ill

but like so many involved with the candidates industry in thailand. they are hopeful 0 one of the filipino work is a big boy should buy landlords to make them pay nobody prices to leave overcrowded . one or one a made the exempt exposes the business one al jazeera. ah, welcome to portal, your gateway to the very best volunteers there. an online content that you may have met. a new program that this through our platforms makes the connection and present digestible, seeing each the award winning online content on their audience portal with me. sandra gatlin coming soon on out there in the. ready head of the clock and down the top stories here on al jazeera and the head of the you, an agency for palestinians is corporate international support to find a long term solution to the israel palestinian conflict. france went further and called for a revival of the peace process, describing israel's occupation of the palestinian territories as apartheid. israeli jewish visitors are entering the lights are most compound and occupied through some further raising t

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that's on top of the loan he took out in thailand. on reaching the forest the work is quickly separate they work alone in fact i was with us a bright. chang is learning as he guns. for that but. the them to follow that. it would. work. well one time when you got but the one of. his bucket fills up very slowly. whether he finds a lot of berries comes down to chance. now call up which unlike yes i love. one minute. yet what. then and then tell. me about them. the plight of thorn workers like chang is of special interest to this man. swing gold is a swedish journalist we investigate slaby conditions in the barry industry he's concerned at the increasing number of time i pick is working you know. will some put it beside us and about about the little them about it's not in their little little what is there war on the limo now kill some forgot the box that or. paying at the end of call it all of the filamentous got the got us on the box or cohen's gold documentable. we show him the contract of the workers we phone when. we book says the gra

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but these times are anything but normal here in thailand and especially in india. the faithful now forced to participate through a facebook live stream not only is the temple community praying for family members facing the covered crisis there but they organized the delivery of donated oxygen. nearby the tight alleys of little india's shopping district would usually be flowing with shoppers from across bangkok. many who work here are part of an indian diaspora that have lived in thailand for generations india's influence particularly religious isn't twined in thai culture when he said has worked in her family shop her entire life her father's indian her mother tie i know her father is now in pradesh a state that had 40 percent of all the covert deaths in india last month she tries to talk to him every day. i am i worried about my father yes i am i don't want him to go but he's already about his son he wanted to go i want him to come back. because of the 3rd and strongest wave of cove it to hit thailand many here in bangkok india are struggling but the community is

laura: that was our report from thailand's border th myanmar.s been three weeks since a volcano eruption on the island of st. vincent. thousands were forced to flee their homes and the hurricane season is now only a few weeks away. our correspondent went to st. vincent and has th report. >> the aftermath of eruption is hauntingly beautiful. the explosion left hillsides denuded. the lava flows brought tens of thousas of men -- tons of material down and a hail of dust and stone shower the villages below. one of them was sandy, the picturesque fishing village reduced to a dustbowl overnight. located in the red zone, the villagers now risk fresh emissions and mudslides. >> we have 295 students. class a local teacher -- her pupils had been returning to school after months of homeschooling. the volcano ended that plan when the roof came down under the weight of the asphalt. so many students would be out of an education for a while >> there isn't a home, a vehicle, or a surface that isn't covered by a thick layer of this can it jt. with hurricane seaso

he told me a little more about the situation in thailand.ng of april which has turned into really a third wave, and as you said, currently there are around 2000 cases being reported today and yesterday, there were 19 deaths. and actually, the reason why there is some pressure on healthcare facilities is because thailand has a policy of admitting every single patient who tests positive for covid—19, even if they don't have symptoms. and i mean, this makes sense from a public health perspective, as long as there is capacity. that's really interesting because that's quite a strict — strict controls and that, part of that approach, although it must be stretching capacity now, is part of the reason it's been so successful. what are the other reasons that, up until now, thailand managed to have a handle on this so well? so i think i would point to a few things. one is that they do have very good early warning systems. as i think you probably know, they detected the first case outside of china which allowed them to prepare, to sensitise members of

but now thailand have super cluster. in major prisons in bangkok, an ad for wednesday is numbers of infection have been increasing by hours. chronic over crowding has been an issue for years. repeated promises of judicial reform have been sideline. according to one former attorney general, more than 80 percent of the $300000.00 prisoners are in on drug charge at the capacity of all the prison is supposed to be a 3rd of that. at 110000. the justice department is considering early parole as a way to stem the rapidly spreading virus. it denied our request for an interview as did the health ministry. like prisons all across thailand and not to worry prison here has a rapidly growing cluster. over 80 percent of the incarcerated population has tested positive. for coven, that's dangerous for those inside, but also for the community here. inconsistent messages from the government on a vaccine rollout have many ties concern about when and how this latest wave can be controlled. but one thing is certain. if there's not drastic ch

singapore's propertyguru makes its biggest acquisition in its history with deals in malaysia and thailand. we speak exclusively with chief operating -- with the ceo hari krishnan. rishaad: let's look at the markets. we had the factory prices out of china. generally it down drop. nikkei 225, 27% lower. perhaps the manufacturing index slowing down slightly perhaps suggesting the economy's recovery momentum may have peaked. the construction side of things strengthened. more on that coming up. checking on the other asset classes, looking into oil, at what we have, the opec+ policy meeting coming up. and bitcoin down over 1% right now. . we had the bank of japan governor weighing in,, get a speculative asset. the dollar index is steady. getting back to the manufacturing industry gauge, we saw that sleep in china in may. concerns about the momentum story. tom mackenzie will break. the figures. . having a deep dive, what did you find out? tom: it slowed in april. the number again slowed in may, as bloomberg economics had forecast. breaking it down, as you say, you do see some potential concerns.

way across the world from thailand's. life sweeter dates forests. in this endless expands thousands of thais are working plucking the wild berries the right . it's the middle of the picking say enemy here to catch up with chiang mai lin and. we've boyd sharing in the town of soda hall around 3 hours drive from the capital stock. it's a pain and the other workers have just returned from the forest with the berries they gather. he looks exhausted the valet have to live and. when i move on that day. that now my boy i'm gonna have to move i move on. leave now help with the government i mean i can look at that indian. but he's working day is far from over. the house to weigh his harvest. every berry count. each kilogram earns him around 2 dollars and 60 percent. have native plants and madame the man had an affair to get payment on i'm not a lot of people a man could give me back home in maine. for a final anything like mick. axelson runs the local berry picking company for the last 2 years he's hired mainly by these workers. and congo avignon of syrian p

with the world's worst coronavirus outbreak the situation across southeast asia is also worsening thailand cambodia and laos are among countries reporting a major surge in infections the rising cases and the prospects of celebrations over either have prompted some nations to impose lockdowns and ramp up testing and vaccinations. killing for a test in bangkok latest hot spot and. has been set up next to. the site of a new plaster of infections in the city. many of the recent cases involve the b 117 variant 1st found in britain. this strain of coke at 19 is very infectious and spreads much faster in 3 to 5 days the patient status can change from green to yellow to orange to read and no time during the past 4 days we've had 100 deaths. just over 2 percent of the population have received a covert job in thailand and a mass vaccination campaign is not due to start until next month a lockdown that was due to end last weekend has now been extended. in indonesia to tougher restrictions have been reimposed ahead of aid roads were jammed and bus stations packed with travellers leaving jakarta for th

go for the coverage of this story except when the platforms take issue with what's being posted thailand used to be a safe haven for journalists on the run from me and mark those days are gone mammie just a bell and sapphire do they look familiar we examine the stereotyping of black women on screen and cartoon propaganda turkish style. that to the delight of the president's critics comes back to bite the heir to want to govern. what is currently taking place across the occupied territories is both familiar and unlike anything we've seen in recent times the israeli settler violence is not new nor are the forced evictions of palestinians from their homes to make way for israelis the police brutality on protestors and worshippers at the al aqsa mosque the israeli military is bombing of gaza in response to rocket fire that's coming from the other direction but in other ways this escalation is distinct in large part because of social media palestinians have been documenting every stage of this story starting with the israeli police cracking down on protesters in east jerusalem is shaikh shot

thank you so much for having me. thailand is starting border controls of the country faces. it's was good to know that it's outbreak around 80 percent of all cases. since the start, the pandemic have been reported that within the past 8 weeks, of particular concern to authorities is the arrival of barons believe to spread faster. the indian variance has been found at several migrant worker camps in bangkok, and the government has isolated 7 villages along its border with malaysia, where it's believe the south african variant has crossed over security forces control of road and thailand, southernmost region behind the barbed wire village under lockdown cases of the very interest discovered in south africa where detected hit after a person infected with a very and disbelief to cross the border from malaysia. get more bonding will look now knowing villages in the tucked by district, the district officials on how many cases we have in each village. this regional cluster is part of a nationwide rise in cases, infection rates and thailand, imaging new peaks. less than 3 percent of

a break on the news hour when we come back india's influence sits running deep in thailand we'll hear how the disastrous coated situation is affecting people there. parents around the world fundraise to purchase a $2100000.00 drug that could save their children's lives and in sport this 4 time major golf champion and his long wait for a titan. hello we've got some lovely warm weather across eastern parts of europe of the might be further west the great we have got some wet sand windy weather streaming through some very downpours on this weather front is it just makes its way a little further east was high pressure over towards the east that have lifted those temperatures quite significantly getting what up into the twenty's for many high twenty's there and also in vienna here's that what's the weather moving out of eastern parts of france through the low countries germany seeing some wet weather heavy downpours as we go on through watches day and the snow over the at the outs and some papers shall is there you notice across northern parts of italy you push on into wednesday now we con

i'm scott heiler in bangkok were thailand's indian community is scrambling to do what it can to help with the covert crisis in their home country. for more than 180 is this has been playing a part in science fiction movies and the dream for many flying away with your own coffee i'm stuck fast on a fortune from a dutch company who claims to have the problem the 1st commercially available flying car. and in sports this 4 time major golf champion has ended his long wait for a title when. the weather is so hot and dry across the middle a sun normal weather has been received. it is actually a little warmer than we would expect at this time of the year one or 2 showers up towards the black sea towards the caspian sea i just catch a rush out of the northern parts of iran still some shabby rain there and to move in areas of afghanistan a westerly disturbance for to make is went to northern pakistan as because through the next day or so brought us guys come back in behind it are the temperatures we are getting up into the forty's for baghdad and for kuwait and even here in we could touch 40 d

does have a history of working in thailand back in the early 2 thousands when memo was all star under military rule d.d.b. did a lot of its work on the thai side of the border as did many journalists and you'll remember from when we covered that story which is that the title thirty's were fine with it but things are beginning to change we spoke with the executive director of dv b. h. and 9 who says that the bomb is consulate in chiang mai has been. pressuring the thai authorities to deport the justice and they've even tried to visit the reporters in jail unsuccessfully i want to put in thing tonight should these jenna's get deported it would be a violation of international law the principle which protects the sign seekers who face persecution if they are deported back to me and mar what kind of fate awaits them there as you know richard media workers are still being arrested and the crackdown on dissent that continues we've been getting stories of journalists taken from their houses in the middle of the night and tortured and this past week a d.b. reporter based in young dawn was sent

[laughter] david: you were born in thailand and you grew up there, was it difficult?ou are the product of mixed race and there is some , discrimination. did you feel that discrimination when you were growing up? young children would say your father is an american? or was that not a problem? sen. duckworth: it was a problem. i am biracial and i think a lot , of biracial folks will understand what i'm talking about when they read the book, but i did not fit in because i was half white. when i was in asia, i was seen as half white. when i come to the u.s. on the mainland, i'm seen as more asian. so it is a unique asian experience to always be considered an "other." and you really see that with the aapi experience today. but when i was in asia, my thai cousins would make fun of me and call me names and all sorts of stuff. that was a common experience post-vietnam in southeast asia. david: your father had a hard time finding a job, so in the end you had to live on food stamps, and you also had to get a job for yourself. you were selling roses on the streets and other thing

thank you so much for having me. thailand is starting border controls of the country faces. it's what's going on about us outbreak around 80 percent of all cases since the thought the pandemic have been reported that within the past 8 weeks of particular concern to authorities is the arrival of barons believe to spread faster. the indian variance has been found at several migrant worker camps in bangkok, and the government has isolated 7 villages along its border with malaysia, where it's believe the south african variant has crossed over security forces control of road and thailand, southernmost region behind the barbed wire village and de lockdown cases of the very interest discovered in south africa, where detected here after a person infected with a very and to leave, to cross the border from malaysia. and more bonding will look down knowing the villages and the tuck bind district. the district officials on how many cases we have in each village to layla. this regional cluster as part of a nationwide rise in cases, infection rates and thailand, imaging new peaks less tha

in february we can cross live thanks to scott hyde like he joins us from bangkok in neighboring thailand scott what do we know about this helicopter apparently being brought in time oh we know what happened to this according to the chaos the kitchen independence army a spokesman for the group saying that this took place just after 10 am local time today on monday and what they say it was used was a show what appears to be i should say a shoulder mounted missile system that was launched at the helicopter and brought it down they are saying that this came after air attacks overnight and in through the morning both by fighter jets and helicopters and this was the retaliation they say the ethnic armed organization k.o.a. was a response to the military the myanmar military airstrikes that happened overnight but then also this is something we've seen hala kind of staging up over the last several weeks when it comes to this part of me or in the north with the kitchen ethnic areas held areas as well as in other areas around the country. and this kind of appears to be part of in the span of fight

on march 28th thailand implemented a state of emergency 19. as knockdown measures were introduced to bangkok it's good to institute to close to the public it's the same for the other $157.00 of them around the world corona has brought the world of institutes to a halt this also means that their main source of income has disappeared language courses make up almost 40 percent of the 414000000 euro budget in germany the president and buddha fighting to keep the cultural institute going. there. constantly speaking to m.p.'s ministers the foreign office which has been very helpful and supportive i do think it's good that i'm still here in this crisis that i'm available this year just because of my connections and experience which i didn't and these times i think i would have suffered if i had only been able to experience this phase as an onlooker. the german government reacted to the crisis quickly and granted the go to institute emergency aid of up to 70000000 euros it's a sign of the importance accorded to the cultural institute's worldwide netwo

thank you very much. thailand is tightening border controls to contain its worst corona virus outbreak. cases have searched over the past 8 weeks. authorities are especially concerned about the arrival of variance that are believed to spread faster. the indian variance has been detected in several migrant worker camps in bangkok and the south africa variances believe to have entered from malaysia. authorities have isolated a number of villages along the border. security forces control of road and thailand, southernmost region, behind the barbed wire village under locked down. cases of the very interest discovered in south africa where detected hit after a person infected with the very end is to leave, to cross the border from malaysia, get more bonding. we'll look now knowing villages in the tucked by district, the district officials with checking on how many cases we have in each village to lower this regional cluster. as part of a nationwide rise in cases, infection rates and thailand, imaging new peaks less than 3 percent of the population have been vaccinated so far . while getting

like prisons all across thailand and not the very prison here has a rapidly growing cluster. over 80 percent of the incarcerated population has tested positive. for coven, that's dangerous for those inside, but also for the community here. inconsistent messages from the government on a vaccine rollout have many ties concern about when and how this latest wave can be controlled. but one thing is certain. if there's not drastic change inside thailand's prison system, the cycle will keep going and put the general public at risk. it's got either al jazeera banker sen, attention to iran, where the supreme leader is urging citizens to vote in the forthcoming presidential elections. i told early how many has called on iranians to ignore calls to boycott the votes. in june, there has been condemnation of a decision to exclude several prominent figures from running the president. hi, sandra honey, is among those expressing concerns that limited competition will mean a low turn out time for whether it's kara hello, their china is bracing for a particularly heavy flood season. we've got

well india and thailand centuries old cultural and religious ties so many communities in thailand say their lives are being affected by the diet situation in india scott hardly has the support now from bangkok. the devon and dear hindu temple would normally be filled with hundreds gathered for morning prayers. but these times are anything but normal here in thailand and especially in india. the faithful now forced to participate through a facebook live stream not only is the temple community praying for family members facing the covert crisis there but they organized the delivery of donated oxygen. nearby the tight alleys of little india shopping district would usually be flowing with shoppers from across bangkok. many who work here are part of an indian diaspora that have lived in thailand for generations india's influence particularly religious isn't twined in thai culture when he said has worked in her family shop her entire life her father's indian her mother tie i know her father is now an pradesh state that had 40 percent of all the covert deaths in india last month she tries to

obviously going to be said to stopping the spread of infections among his neighbors indonesia and thailand also seeing a surge in coronavirus cases dave is there concern that new video could potentially slip into when they see her. there's certainly concern now you need to break this up into 2 categories here people who are coming into the country legally and people are coming to the country illegally people are coming in legally you know obvious the most common way would be at the airport well they believe they can really catch those people here you have to take tests negative for covert $1000.00 within 72 hours of travel and then when you get here it's a mandatory 14 day quarantine and it's not a home quarantine it's a quarantine and a government approved hotel there are several tells most hotels set aside for this you got to stay in one of those and you'll get tested why are there so they feel confident they can catch anyone who's coming in with kovan 1000 that way but then the other question that comes up of course is what about people who slip in illegally you don't come through the p

a court in thailand has granted bail to 2 high profile leaders of an anti-government protest movement products sure what arc and child born a kiwi born upon have spent weeks in pretrial detention on charges of insulting the king that bail was granted on the condition that they stay in thailand and don't participate in activities that quote create unrest china's population is growing at its slowest pace since the fifty's thanks to falling births a rapidly aging population the results of a once in a decade census also revealed that the population grew by more than 5 percent to 1410000000 people but as katrina reports now from beijing experts predict that will begin to decline within the next 5 years. one surely and is 44 and looks forward to retiring at the age of 50 but she may need to wait a little longer the chinese government is set to raise the age of retirement by at least 5 years just one of the policy changes expected in response to the country's rapidly aging society. i couldn't accept a my retirement have been delayed much longer i was very concerned why i heard this news acco

has been plenty of rain in the form of big showers in thailand and vietnam they will be more the same and maybe more dangerously as things wolf from the cold become more humid throughout india and bangladesh is the time of year we get these big slow moving dangerous thunderstorms that particularly focused on bangladesh really could even hit kolkata. qatar airways. a tale of 2 presidents. venezuelan military defectors. american muslim race. and a bizarre yet or dangerous attempt. at regime change in the bolivarian republic of venezuela. people in power the bay of piglets on al-jazeera. without jazeera and the top stories this hour india recorded more than 400000 new coronavirus cases accounting for nearly half of the world's infections in the last 24 hours the government's expanding its vaccination drive as well but it is struggling to meet the demand. that 12 people have also died in usually hospital because of a shortage of oxygen and encourage out a fire at a hospital killed 16 covert patients. and in other news thousands turned up to international labor day or may day protests acro

with the world's worst coronavirus outbreak the situation across southeast asia is also was saying thailand cambodia and laos are among countries reporting a major surge in infections the rising cases of the prospects of celebrations over either have prompted some nations to impose lockdowns and ramp up testing and vaccinations. queuing for a test in bangkok latest hot spot and. has been set up next to tinged and market signs of a new plaster of infections in the city. many of the recent cases involve the b 117 variant 1st found in britain. this strain of covert 19 is very infectious and spreads much faster in 3 to 5 days the patient status can change from green to yellow to orange to read in no time during the past 4 days we've had 100 deaths. just over 2 percent of the population have received a cave a job in thailand and a mass vaccination campaign is not due to start until next month and locked down that was due to end last weekend has now been extended. in indonesia to tougher restrictions have been reimposed ahead of aid roads were jammed in bus stations packed with travellers leaving