Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

Parents become the latest seem to be disrupted by the coronavirus as they came with strasburg is called off. Saudi arabia has reportedly arrested 2 senior members of the royal family the wall street journal says the crown prince muhammad bin nayef and the kings younger brother prince had been the lizzies all solid being held over an alleged coup attempts well just here as alexey obrien reports. The Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammad deny a physical to the throne and 27 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seeing him and his brother detained as well as the saudi kings youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes that there is term or within the family in the form of criticism but that doesnt justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass Security Forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin solomon known as has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him and 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an end to corruption drive Rights Groups disagreed. Hundreds of activists including womens Rights Campaign allusion all have to are also in prison. Hes not worried about people trying to make a call he doesnt want any independent voices that dont agree with him and its not boarded up a madman abdulaziz one of the 3 people on the council of royal members in saudi arabia that decides the succession he was one of the 3 who didnt vote for him had been some man to become the crown Prince Mohammed bin solomons most notorious legacy so far is between 18 killing of saudi journalists. In the kingdoms consolation a stent. She was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomons personal entourage his body dismembered and the of a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. Who is the most senior thats really and. Actually overseas for many years came back. 3 years ago to kind of try to calm things down. After b. S. Took over and there were some. Kind of turmoil within the royal family prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i say 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death elixir brian al jazeera. Joining us down the street here the troops wary whos director of the Gulf Study Center cattle university whats your take on whats going on i think its important to put things in a context what we. See today is actually has as great cling to what happened so that it is 2015 since consignment came to power and then he signed. The crown prince so basically its a process of change in saudi arabia its obvious that you know whats what was happening in the last 24 hours. An indicator that there is a crisis within the house of so it and this a crisis may be happening because of something may be basically happens to himself or with think hes in pressure on him instead of man to have more reform in when it comes to politics but what about these allegations of an alleged crew that could have been being plotted by by these 2 you know this this narrative has always been here the from saudi arabia there is no details about it and we know that for example 100 iraqis came to came back from london in 2018 with the guarantee of the british and european guarantee and he would not be able not have any role in politics we know that mohammed bin nayef and really you know house arrest so it doesnt make sense to speak about actually sort of coeli thing because we know that those people and severe political security. Presence and within the ruling family where does the loyalty lie with m. B. A. s or without it thats an important question because that what happened reflects a crisis within the house of saud that my boobs a man is not sure about the legality of the family and that that is takes us to the other where basically if man or he is in a situation to pass to pass away this means he needs people and he doesnt need any. I would say voices against him and those are the. The most important figures in the family so far so with these 2 men especially out of the out of the picture effectively no challenges now theres no one to stop n b s because guessing but doesnt mean that things will be easy actually it will show that the the crisis exists and deeper and deeper which may appear in few years in a few months so what will happen to these 2 men due to that sort of speculation but i dont think you know its expected that you know that there will be and the maybe house arrest or taken to the jail like what happened and thats carlton there would be Little Information to be leaked. At least until we know whether consent is fine or not if if if something happens to be examined i think we will have more information about what will happen due to those so apart from the issue of the kings health what what else could have could have triggered this what do you make of the timing of it why now i think its important to see that 100 percent man and this severe depression since the killing of jamal hostages and that is what so called the 2nd phase of my medicine man in part because basically the United States have lists you know had the support time he has he lost the credibilities that is communication with him but its generally with the americans as he used to have so there is severe pressure on him and also there is severe pressure inside saudi arabia about you know the economy is not moving in a good in a good direction that im cool project is fading apart you know theres a lot of could see about the entertainment policy hes basically promoting saudi arabia all of this together with him and theres a real pressure of how will this go down internationally as you said he already lost credibility both within the kingdom and with out of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi how will World Leaders people be looking at this development to be honest with you that is there is a high level of hypocrisy in the International Politics as you are as always you know. International community does not care about this a lot so they will they will use it maybe some time to put more pressure but im not sure this will actually affect their decision. Entirely and move them to the makers of different decisions about how to do it so that it always could still see so many thanks indeed for being able to just. Lebanons government is meeting right now to decide whether or not to default on 1200000000. 00 worth of debt by monday lebanon has one of the largest debt burdens in the world with 91000000000 dollars thats more than 150 percent of g. D. P. More protests are expected in beirut following months of unrest over the governments handling of the economic crisis of all this lets go live out of beirut and to aljazeera say the honda tell us about this this default this potential default zaina why. Well in the next few hours the government is going to announce whether or not it can pay its debts you mentioned 1200000000. 00 now that may seem like a relatively small amount considering that this is a debt for a state but at the end of the day this is a cash strapped nation it will be one of several payments that the lebanese government will have to pay before the end of the year if foreign reserves are dwindling there is a lack of foreign currency in this country so what we understand from ministers and sources close to the government is that they will be announcing that lebanon for the 1st time in its history will not be able to pay its that they need whatever money is left in the central bank to import the basic goods medicine fuel. And wheat this is going to cost 11. 00 on up to 10000000000 dollars this year so it needs whatever cash is available in this country and of course there are others who disagree with defaulting especially the Banking Association they say that a default would further damage lebanons image in International Markets but the banks really have a stake in all this because they own half the debt and if the debt is not repaid it wipes out their capital and already they are suffering from a liquidity crisis you cant go into any bank now and cash out your money there is caps on withdrawals so people are not accessing their savings it is really difficult times in the words of the Prime Minister we are facing immense difficulties and the state is no longer able to provide a decent life to the lebanese people and whats going to be the reaction to this that if indeed there is this to fold the protest planned from the nation today. Well there are people who do not have faith in this government and they believe that the government has not come up with a credible emergency 7 plan to get out of this crisis what makes it very difficult for the has to get any help in this because it has no friends the United States as well as its allies in the region gulf arab countries they consider this government is controlled by the iranian backed Hezbollah Group that theyve been trying to contain and reduce its influence for some time now so dont expect them to bail out the next government at the same time the only option lebanon has is resorting to the International Monetary fund and the Hezbollah Movement has repeatedly said that they will not succumb to quote the u. S. Imperialist think tools in order to save this country and the international and you know foreign donors they have all conditioned to reforms they want these politicians in power to reform for example the Public Sector trim the Public Sector size if these politicians were to do that and theyve made promises in the past that they will they will lose power because they use the Public Sector they use the states resources to give. Part of their Patronage Networks to give jobs to their support there is so it is very very difficult times inflation is on the rise and the value of the lebanese pound its crashing theyve lost its lost 40 percent of its value so people are worried what comes next and if this continues then we may see unrest returning to the streets of beirut and really across the country. To hold a reporting live from beirut so many thanks. Governments around the world are introducing new measures to limit the spread of the corona virus in south korea the sale of mosques is being restricted to every person once a week or more than 6 and a half 1000 cases the most outside of china its only the number of deaths has risen to 197. 00 after the biggest daily increase in fatalities since the outbreak the government has already ordered the closure of schools universities and cinema and theres concern in a straight after it was revealed that a doctor who has the virus treated 70 patients the doctored recently been on a trip to the us and returned showing symptoms or patients of clinic staff who came into contact going into home isolation the doctor from the 2 record clinic in mulvane roads consulted approximately 70 patients for 5 days between monday the 2nd of march and friday the 6th of march look i have to say i am absolutely flabbergasted that a doctor who has experienced flu like symptoms has presented to work in a moment will be getting the latest on the Economic Impact of the outbreak from. Hong kong but 1st lets speak to rob mcbride who is live for us in south Koreas Capital seoul rob bring us up to speed with the latest. Figures and with these measures that the government has introduced to try to limit the spread of the virus. Thats right the number of confirmed cases rising for the 1st time to over 7000 weve seen in the past few days a fairly steady increase of between 4 or 500 per day if anything its a slight decrease day on day but were told by officials not to read too much into that they continue to see spikes and could expect to see more spikes as they as they go through doing more testing especially around the daegu city area of the southeast of the country and come across more clusters of cases especially amongst the congregation members of the sheen changi church which is at the center of the outbreak down in the south of the country the other thing that the officials here remind us about is of course that the testing now is almost on an industrial scale i think Something Like more than 170000 individual tests for the corona virus have been carried out here in south korea since this crisis began its got a very enviable reputation but south korea has found itself as pretty much world experts in detecting the corona Virus Testing for it and trying to contain it and you compare how the testing is so extensive here with for example neighboring japan which despite its sophisticated medical services has been criticized for not undergoing so many tests and also of course United States which is faced a lot of criticism for its lack of tests its not surprising that experts here in south korea are often being referred to are often being asked for guidance from other countries medical services around the world as far as the more immediate concerns for the south korean government the masks and the shortage of masks is dominating the headlines here bringing in these new measures to try to limit a face masks to just 2 per week per person theyre doing this by basically limiting the access that koreans can have to fire. Im a season giving guidance on how you keep a mass clean and reuse it there were various guidelines various advice on the use of masks when you should use them and so on but if you are using a mouse normally you should be throwing a mask away every day while there simply arent enough mask here in south korea for people to do that and they have to be limited to 2 masts per week per person says robot bride reporting live there from seoul rapini thanks to hong kong then and ill just serious to be a good partner in china admitting what i suppose was fairly obvious to anybody that after all of this its economy has taken a major hit. Thats right adrian for the 1st time were seeing confirmation of this though the release to export numbers exports are down nearly 20 percent trying to as the Worlds Largest exporter now these numbers usually come out every month but due to the lockdown and the shutdown in china and the Lunar New Year we didnt see any numbers in january so this is the 1st time so there is a stark realisation that chinas economy is going to take a massive hit now china is provides materials machinery other tronic items and all kinds of things to the rest of the world and the fact that china has had to shut down closed down factories people can go to work and industries in general came to a halt meant that a lot of products of the rest of the world relies on its own is part of almost every single Global Supply chain meant that the effects would reverberate around the world for china its especially bad they caught me was just starting to recover from the u. S. China trade war there was a socalled face one trade deal that had just been inked and there was seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel nonetheless that you had the coronavirus heads analysts had already been talking about a slowdown in trying to economy and that theyre saying that chinas economy will contract it will shrink for the 1st quarter this will the be the 1st time it happens in decades pretty much since 1976 and that was well before chinas economy started opening up and this is a huge concern for the government so the government has been telling people to try and go back to work now since it seems that the containment measures seems to be working chinas new infection rate has come down china wants the Chinese Government has been telling factories to reopen businesses to come back online. And workers to get back onto their desks their seats in factory lines but here is the other issue many workers cannot go back to their workplaces mainly due to still their restrictions in place and it also brings me to my next point the fact that chinas Migrant Workers now are going to feel the hits along with the economy got a large part of the population there are going to really really feel the pain of coronavirus in an economic sense china has about 300000. 00 Migrant Workers imagine that its almost the whole population of the United States they make up 40 percent of the workforce many of them have been unable to go to work many of them have been racking up debt and paying rent while not being paid so you could see a large part of chinas population suffering from coronavirus along with the economy slide 0 as to be a good pun in reporting live from hong kong to fear many thanks indeed in the u. S. At least 15 people have now died from the virus the number of confirmed cases is on the rise and now sits more than 250 among those cases 21 people aboard a cruise ship off the coast of San Francisco was when jordan reports. As the coast guard flew in a supply of corona virus test kits to the quarantined cruise ship grand princess passengers and crew wonder if theyll be leaving any time soon but u. S. President dahl trump said if it were up to him the 3400 passengers and crew would have to stay in quarantine if id rather have the people stay but i go with them i told them to make the final decision i would rather because i like the numbers being with they are i dont need to have the numbers double because of one ship that was our fault trump said this while visiting the centers for Disease Control and prevention the agency that tracks Infectious Disease outbreaks in the u. S. The president and the agency have been criticized for downplaying the severity of the crisis some patients and Health Care Workers accuse the c. D. C. Of making it harder to confirm coronavirus cases the head of the c. D. C. s lab denied the allegation at no time during this response has c. D. C. Ever denied a request that came from a Public Health official either state or local to test the patient so all the patients who needed to be tested and the opinion of the Public Health officials have been tested but officials also struggle to answer has the corona virus in the u. S. Been contained were going to see more cases because were getting more diagnostics out there but i would say that again what i said before that at the present time dont receive your public remains low but also on friday new cases were confirmed in houston minnesota colorado and maryland and while sanitation workers tried to scrub the gritty subways of new york the arts and cultural festival south by southwest which brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to austin texas every year has been canceled more than 8000000000. 00 federal dollars will now be spent on Urgent Research and treatment of the disease but from coast to coast it seems more americans may be deciding to not take any chances until they know its truly safe to be out and about roslyn jordan aljazeera washington. Turkeys president is expected to head to brussels on monday amid a border standoff with the European Union last week turkey said that it would open its border with europe because it could no longer cope with the number of people fleeing conflict in syria greek police fired tear gas and migrants refugees trying to cross tens of thousands people have been attempting the journey will volunteer organization supporting refugees and migrants on the greek island say that theyve become theyve come under verbal and physical attack from locals tensions are especially high after turkey opened its borders johnson reports from the recount of the blast boss rob is in greece after escaping from an abusive husband in iran and religious persecution in her native afghanistan now that she has asylum here ron how wants to help other women living on lesbos refugee camp be doing her cause in a car and a police every single were doing here free but its make me happy. Because i dont my job i dont think about money just i was i want to help them because i understand the woman shes one of the refugees helping other refugees at the hope project many of the donations of goods and labor come from locals but after turkey opened its borders to refugees heading to europe they saw a different reaction anger and intimidation aimed at nongovernmental organizations like theres this has been a wind up by the government as well as the local authorities everythings the ngos fault. You know the ngos come here they take all the money everything cows the refugees are getting 400. 00 a month and think that it is just the constant lies coming out in the press and everything counts and the constant propaganda coming out at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015 lesbos became a symbol of humanitarianism and tolerance more than half of the 1000000 or so Asylum Seekers who arrived in europe from turkey came here and locals and close to them 5 years on however island communities a tired of protecting europe from irregular migration those who live near the refugee camp at moria are upset about the loss of security and property but our people are straight through the house next door has been burgled 7 or 8 times weve lost count he even took the roof tiles off to get in on one occasion they took what they could and destroyed Everything Else like you know i mean but refugees living in moria are desperate they barely have clothing and food and even less dignity that is what the hope project set out to provide seeing that the state could not now that a ceasefire has been agreed in syria there are early signs that turkey may alleviate refugee pressure on europe but it will take time to rebuild trust in this complex community on the frontlines of an ongoing crisis jumpstart ople us al jazeera lesbos turkeys defense minister says the ceasefire is Holding Around province in Northern Syria the agreement brokered by turkey and russia ended airstrikes for the 1st time in months but theyve been reports of some fighting in the southern part of the province between Syrian Government forces and a section of the opposition. The 1st syrian woman to run an underground hospital in rebel controlled areas is urging the International Community to stop the humanitarian catastrophe thats unfolding in it live dr worked at the once perceived on play of eastern for 3 years until she got a star for forced to evacuate her work is the subject of an oscar nominated documentary seriousness russia butler sat down with her impervious. To how or when documentary the cave follows Pediatrician Dr armani as she runs an underground hospital in eastern guta before the enclave fell to the Syrian Regime in 28. Dedicated exhausted and at times terrified staff battle to save lives as russian backed Syrian Forces relentlessly area i was after it all for us well after you know being in and we were in a hospital its our gift of bombing we saved some lives we helped and thats make us inquirers us to continue but a lot of the children we couldnt help them out of them died because of being a lot of them died in the chemical attack at the time in 28 the head of the United Nations eastern kuta under the bombing hell on earth i think it was like that it was very. Scary this is everywhere and its officially in 20th before we. Leave in the last month they started to bomb every 2nd they did install their own doctor money also faced another challenge she battled prejudice for men believed a woman should be in charge of running a hospital. How did that feel there you are saving lives and then you have men say a womans place is in the home its really frustrating its make me very angry but i insist to. To stay and to insist to sex it also because i was a brawl that that woman can do. Like the men already better than them in. The cave was nominated for an oscar through the spotlight on dr armani shes using it to campaign for an end to the humanitarian crisis in the northwestern syrian province of it lip intensified bombing at the area by syrian and Russian Forces in recent weeks has killed hundreds of people and left millions in desperate need and not optimistic and i think a lot of syrian are not optimistic we need International Community to pressure on them to stop killing people and you know that the situation now in its catastrophe situation people are dying every every minute every day off to paris dr armani will visit other european capitals to urge governments and people not to ignore the millions of syrian civilians particularly children trapped in what seems like an endless war. Aljazeera paris. Now time to break out the extra strong toupee tape in the u. K. On the bradley meanwhile positively balmy its been this winter in moscow with the details jenny. You need a lot of that my goodness that so yes theres more of that west and windy weather on the way that of course is what age is referring to and it is once again heading in towards land and the u. K. But weve still got a little bit when she weather around so you know of cold air in place with the moisture to produce scenes that this is sleet in Northern Spain across the basque region so that is likely to limit more of that in the forecast and then we look at the forecasters suffered a this is where weve got the west the windy weather coming in weve got a mix of shower as some heavy amazement snow is the high ground across mainland europe but just have a look at that temperature in moscow 13 degrees celsius today now the average for march is 1 point 5 and look at this because we are now officially in in spring sunny from moscow december january february those are considered the winter months and throughout the winter months it has not been the warmest winter ever on record thus for over 140 years 7. 5 degrees celsius that is how much above average june those months the temperatures have been and within that there have also been 11 days where the daily High Temperature has actually been a record so it stays very mild as well as we go through the next few days meanwhile across the u. K. This is the next system speeding in through saturday but a break on sunday some showers as well but get ready for monday the next system piling in very heavy amounts of rain and again some very strong winds so no real signs of spring just yet here adrian. You see to pay tape jenny many thanks indeed still to come here on the news hour well look at the prospects for the go see actions between the Afghan Government and the taliban the talks to to start within days a new generation of type protesters will tell you about the backlash following a ban on Opposition Party. And how bron james helps the l. A. Lakers get a jump on the Milwaukee Bucks in a big battle that he tells coming up the joe in the schools. Once Hosni Mubarak became president so began a story of conflict and isolation on one side a wife and son their sights set on succession on the other president the crease in the distance from the egyptian people when his beloved grandson died mubarak need to step down but then the flames ignited in tunisia exploded in egypt and everything changed episode 2 of the family just hearing. Hello again everyone forgetting here in doha with the news out from aljazeera the headlines saudi arabia has reportedly arrested 2 syria members of the royal family but the wall street journal says the crown Prince Mohammed bin nayef the kings younger brother prince ahmed bin abilities all solid being held over an alleged coup attempt. The lebanese government is meeting to decide whether to default on a 1200000000. 00 worth of debt by monday lebanon has one of the largest debt perkins in the world 91000000000. 00 thats more than 150 percent of g. D. P. South koreas government has limited the sales of mosques to 2 person to person each week its trying to replenish stocks which have been running low due to panic buying of the corona Virus Outbreak the total number of infections there now stands at more than 7000. 00. The proportion of people who have died after contracting the corona virus is being disputed the World Health Organization says that its around 3. 4 percent but some Health Experts believe that that bubble would be much slower if more people were tested treating us spoken to a will harm resident who was considered asymptomatic he didnt know he was infected until he had the test. For change and daily mail delivery a highlight of his day there were hundreds didnt has recovered from the current a virus but he has to stay quarantine at this hotel for 2 weeks he says getting infected came as a surprise. Almost had 0 symptoms i steer a few times i was a drowsy for a few days thats all i always want to sleep but i was never feeling too bad ching jen is considered a symptomatic displaying few or no specific symptoms his parents also caught the virus his mother had a fever but his father also had very few symptoms after 2 weeks at a makeshift hospital and without undergoing any treatment and tested negative for the illness former World Health Organization official. Says asymptomatic patients are not unusual. Weve seen that everywhere all over the world these people test positive show no symptoms if we group them as patients after the tested positive with have too many patients they are not strictly patients but rather the virus carious while the corona virus can cause pneumonia and lead to other Health Complications Health Officials say 80 percent of people who catch the current virus only have mild symptoms experts say this means asymptomatic patients may go untested and can spread the illness without knowing but there is good news the good news is many people who dont show symptoms can develop immunity if people develop this immunity the epidemic eventually with slowly disappear medical experts are still learning about the severity of the virus but those over the age of 60 and with other Underlying Health concerns appear to be the worst affected change says his experience shows theres no need for people to be too alarmed this is a bad thing for the whole society but as individuals we dont all have to panic for me i didnt feel. I had no fever it was a better than a code with a week left in quarantine hes looking forward to leaving the hotel and daily food deliveries behind katrina you aljazeera beijing. The family ac attacks in afghanistan since the u. S. The taliban signed a peace deal a week ago despite the continued violence the taliban are due to hold talks with the government the coming days. Reports on the hurdles those negotiations are likely to face. Celebrations have been taking place in taliban held areas since an agreement between the u. S. And the taliban was signed in doha nearly a week ago that was going to this is a big achievement for all afghans says the local commander they lost and now we have gained their freedom for civilians caught in the middle and welcome relief. Its been very difficult there were a lot of the taliban fighters were escaping and its civilians who suffer we were the victims not the taliban the message here is that the taliban inflicted the historical defeat of the u. S. But theres another war going on one between afghans at least 80 attacks have been carried out since sunday killing dozens of people mainly members of the afghan Security Forces. The increase in hostilities was triggered by afghanistans president a 70 refusing to release up to 5000 taliban prisoners as guaranteed by the doha agreement the Afghan Government did not take part in that agreement and says this is a matter that should be negotiated during the upcoming interim afghan talks the taliban insist they must be free before the negotiations start they needed it in east to be free to sooner rather than later degree wind has been criticised within the talibans ranks and there are reports of fighters defecting to other groups like isis. But inside there are differences there are taliban in afghanistan there are taliban leadership from parks and you dont agree there. Prior systems and all through politically theyre trained and educated in one place and groups who are educated in another one that has a difference the group feels this now in a position of strength or the ancient worry says it has also evolved since the day he was attorney general of the taliban government in the 1990 s. The taliban is definitely the winner but before we rule alone that is change the taliban wants to have a government that will include all ethnicities but there are red lines one is the withdrawal of all foreign troops and their advisors the implementation of islamic law is also a red line because we paid a heavy price but whether the country is called Islamic Emirates or not is open to negotiation the government wants the taliban to desire after agreeing on a ceasefire that attacks are likely to continue just as they did during negotiations with the us leaving afghans paying the price once again but at that heavy the edges the a couple of. Reports of attacks by i saw fighters in Northern Iraq as the group takes advantage of an uncertain security situation in january Iraqs Parliament called for foreign troops to be expelled after iranian general custom samani was killed in a u. S. Strike in baghdad i was there a sort of 14 spent people in the north have been left to defend themselves. Overlooking the tigris river iraqs mccoll mountain seem peaceful at least on 1st glance but the crevices and caves up above have become a refuge for fighters and the villages below the target for their campaign of terror last month members of isis set up a fake checkpoint and opened fire to people. When they were returning home from work i saw ambushed and they attacked them one of them was badly hurt and the other suffer. Id like to injuries. Now villagers stay up at night to keep watch they say its the only way to protect themselves theres no army no police only on the main road this land is open all the way to syria so anyone who wants to come can come. Until late last year at the u. S. Led coalition and their iraqi partners conducted regular air raids in this area forcing eisel into hiding but since tensions between the u. S. And iran escalated on iraqi soil earlier this year those operations have largely stopped and i saw has taken advantage its areas like these honeycombed with river beds and surrounded by mountains that offer ideal terrain for eisel to operate in they lay low during the day but at night they emerge from their hideouts to terrorize the population villagers here say they have noticed an uptick in iceland doing since coalition activities came to hold in january as a result of growing u. S. Iran tensions. Useless family survived in iceland tak last month they are now staying in their relatives home in the nearby town for the moment going back is not safe they were targeted because her husband the matata or village chief an arabic cooperates with Security Forces has suffered a broken jaw and serious injuries to his stomach had not in months the incident was very terrifying theres no security in our area its finished from dinner time until the morning were watching we never sleep i swear the families arent sleeping. You start daughter the ha was shot in the leg during the attack well lie on it for us to find someone who army is trying to do their duty but they dont manage to contain the security situation we want more support for them because the army cant control the villages at all support that until recently came from the u. S. Led coalition. When we had the sound of the american airplanes we know its safe. Its unclear when or if. Fully resume this climate of uncertainty office Fertile Ground for eisel with iraq civilians once again paying the price seem want to fulton aljazeera in Northern Iraq the u. S. State Department Says that its working with trinity and authorization to investigate a suicide bomb attack at its embassy in tunis on friday one Police Officer was killed 5 people were injured in the embassies main gate its believed the true bombers on motorbikes were behind the attack no group has yet claimed responsibility Amnesty International is calling for the Immediate Release of protesters in algeria after a new wave of demonstrations thousands rallied in the capital algiers on friday continuing year long protest calling for the removal of the ruling elite and for sweeping reforms amnesty says that more than 70 people have been arrested the joint arab list the party that represents palestinian israeli has made history and israels election by winning more seats than ever before but what is the party plan to do with its new found power among com reports from haifa there are nearly 2000000 palestinian citizens of israel this is haifa mix between palestinian israelis and jewish israelis the party that represents the palestinian israelis the joint arab last one a record of 15 seats in israels knesset the parliament that gives them more power than ever before power they say will allow them to represent more forcefully the interests of palestinian israelis but what is on the immediate agenda ousting the current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the Prime Minister is indicted in 3 different Corruption Cases which presents the opportunity for the opposition to pass a law if they can form a government to ban indited Prime Ministers from sitting in office this is one. We can do 2nd if someone. Would appeal to us. To use a lot of our 15 seats he would. Hear demands civic demands for the Arab Community the joint arab list my support Opposition Leader benny gantz and his blue and white polity to maximize their new found power but that comes with conditions gads must give a statement that the palestinian citizens legitimate and to have a statement against. That try to diligent denies the votes you can not go with the gavels when he is silent about the major things supports doesnt mean that the joint arab will join the government theyve already said they wont do that but what it does mean is that they may support a government led by blue and white leader benny gantz the palestinian israeli vote hit record levels nearly 98 percent according to official figures. Was one of the people who worked on the get out the Vote Campaign in haifa at the beginning i think it was a little bit hard and a little bit difficult because a lot of people in the city didnt you know somehow trust the politician they dont like politician that much but when we so the things that happen you know. And all the things that they were saying about the our society we we we we wanted to you know to raise our voice right now palestinian israelis feel that there is no opportunity to push the demands of the knesset but it still anyones guess who in israel be able to form a government and when that might happen. Hi folks. Thailand could be facing another period of political unrest for the banned Opposition Party calling for further protests but its widespread run by students that may be of more concern to the government which critics say is not democratically elected way hey reports. One University Campuses around thailand there is a political awakening underway students representing a new generation of thai protest is a coming out to call for the removal of a government still largely run by military generals who staged a coup in 2014 it took them on and if this is just the beginning at that moment students have come out to express that awesome concern we just started to show our strength in numbers and. They have many concerns but the catalyst for the protests was a Court Decision 2 weeks ago to ban a popular Opposition Party a decision widely seen as politically motivated as. Well large scale student protests are rare in thailand so not towards university has a history of political activism and was the scene of one of the countrys darkest days in 1976 dozens of students were gunned down and murdered on the campus of tom assad university theyd been protesting against the return to thailand of a former military ruler whod been overthrown 3 years earlier it was here that the Security Forces began their assault on thomas a university more than 43 years ago firing through the fence at students the message is still a sensitive subject in thailand today which is why the government may be particularly concerned about students from this university playing a leading role in the current protests protests which are again to an extent about an army general the current Prime Minister who led the 2014 coup. Earlier this week. Said he wouldnt answer the medias questions about politics or protests and instead chose to warn protest is about coronavirus. Any protest a Public Assembly if you can please bespoken it if you insist on holding a protest please make sure you take all the necessary precautions thats just a scare tactic say critics like this former student whos been supporting the protests through designing stick is to handouts he says other problems like thailand stuttering economy will see the protests grow way beyond the universities now sport. From this but we have to happen. To come to support them. At the protests some have also risked long jail terms by expressing even subtle disapproval of thailands powerful royal family the introduction of those sensitive messages adds another potentially provocative and dangerous element to a protest movement thats just getting underway wayne hay al jazeera bangkok still to come here all the. Time see how he grabs a share of the leader part as invitational joe here with all the action in sports. And the seas for the blind and a robotic arm for the disabled. 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Well again Southern Africa is suffering its worst drought in decades and bob weight is one of the worst countries in the west affected countries many families there are struggling with daily water shortages thats adding to the hardships theyre facing as the country deals with rampant inflation and a shrinking economy of zeros how about saucer reports from both aware. In zimbabwe 2nd city the supply of piped water from the city council is unreliable that means they sometimes have to use im treated water these women uses for washing and flushing toilets if they have to drink it they will boil it 1st in some suburbs supplies are often cut off for days at a time when the supply is turned on with lindsay make several trips to the communal tap to stock up she says a neighborhood can sometimes go a whole week without water and she doesnt want to use any thats not clean and safe getting water in the halls doesnt make us feel cold because that was enticement here at the lake this person to reach so many people is suffering from storm ike so i believe it was something i dont know some of the people they drink that water some they use it for. So it is a big challenge that were even in cold to. Like other parts of Southern Africa zimbabwe is experiencing its worst drought in years city Authorities Say rationing is necessary it. Is implemented. 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Some dams have stopped operating since the water fell below pumping levels the remaining still functional a critically no the rainy season started late this year and even then has been erratic a new dam is being built about 100 kilometers from away Authorities Say it will draw water directly from the river but is still a long way from being completed part of the problem is a source of foreign currency and zimbabwes worsening economic crisis zimbabwes already grappling with shortages of fuel medicines electricity and some basic commodities many here say corruption and mismanagement in government and opposition by minister pellet hes is also to blame the few who can afford it buy a water privately or drill boreholes but for millions of others that is not an option. Aljazeera. Time for sport has joe adrian thank you will the current virus is affecting football in france champions paris and man have had saturdays match with strasburg perspiring because of the outbreak is the 1st top flight game in the country to be called off the match had been jews be played in strasburg but thirties in the alsace region have canceled public gatherings there other sporting events like aprils paris marathon and the paris nice cycling race have also been to late italy is preparing for a weekend of top level football matches without spectators because the virus is fans will still be allowed into the stands at premier league games but there wont be any pregame handshakes between the players. We trust the things they tell us so thats what we do know and take so no entry no must go to moscow and if there are some of our club some additional things to do these people sit together the whole week and think about what they can do to decrease the probability to get infected. Well the n. B. A. Is asking teams to make plans for games without basketball fans because of coronavirus but theres a high profile opponent l. A. Lakers superstar Le Bron James saying he wont play without supporters james stamp his mark on you a showdown between the leading teams from the east and west conferences the lakers getting the better than of the boks 11321032 guarantee a place in the playoffs james with 37. 6. Now the nets are put on a show for one of their franchise legends hall of Famer Julius Erving attending a game for the 1st time since they moved to brooklyn in 2012 he witnessed a triple double treat from carousel averts picked up 27 points 11 rebounds and 10 assists in 81392120 pounding of the san antonio spurs. A utah jazz double acts has led them to a 4th straight victory Donovan Mitchell setting up brady go bear for this dunk and then go by displaying fancy footwork as the jazz outplayed the injury hit Boston Celtics 99 to 94. But we 6 nations championship is already felt the effects of coronavirus 2 matches have been postponed including saturdays fixture between ireland and italy england versus wales is going ahead the twickenham encounter will be englands last much of this campaign for now with their final fixture against italy set to be played later in the year england 6 2nd in the table behind france while whiles a 4th having lost 2 of 3 matches its going to be hugely contestable its going to be highly chaotic and its going to be physical and its something that we look forward to and and we and we cherish and put on top of that were playing at home and its important for us to to play well in front of a o l fans. And i think the whales are the high because around the fixture in a sometimes its hard to. Get away from the echoes of whats sad and what should be done and how you should do it but also dont forget we know a lot about each other each other as well you know scott if you guys play in england a back injury is ruled tiger woods out of golfs players championship next week the world number 11 is also missing from the Arnold Palmer invitational another player has been sidelined is jason day who pulled out 4 holes in his 2nd round with backs if miss sharing the lead at the halfway mark of the bay hill tournament in florida Terrell Hatton and sung kang both are at 7 under par this one of 4 birdies for kang in his last 7 holes and some action from Cricket Pakistan Super League top ranked will turn sultans were up against the crowd she came on friday in the home for her pakistan captain Shahid Afridi start with the bat hitting 35. 00 of just 17 boards including 3 sixes but just to see it warmed up the rain started coming down washing out the match and both teams who are wanted a point. Ill be golden eyes and says the idea of cancelling this years games over coronavirus hasnt been discussed and one veteran athlete is hoping tokyo can deliver on that promise 57. 00 nisha yen is set to become the oldest table tennis player to compete at an olympics over surely from shanghai any move to luxembourg 3 decades ago now represents the european country. Nobody know what can go on whats going to happen i hope not i hope everything goes smooth the wistful me may be postponed if i can do only pick i see with School Everybody and ill know where you are difficult time i hope everybody and the stent. Space gave possibility all right that is useful for now have will feel. Germany thanks dave that is it for the news out facts thanks for watching the stars here back to update your just a few other saucy again by fidel. She was black gay im from rio de janeiros her vallas. She was also an elected outspoken councilwoman until she was assassinated. People in power investigates the killing of a vocal critic of brazils Security Forces and the legacy of empowerment she left behind the matter of mario franco on aljazeera. Where theyre on line like father grabbing to one of the worst grabs the Mainstream Media about. Or if you join us on sat theres a difference in diversity and inclusion and they were sometimes isnt always sincere this is a dialogue sanctions and the ways in which theyre applied to iran are an act of war fair everyone has a voice we as a society that is so quick to get to they need to just sit down and listen join the global conversation on aljazeera. Its a tough time for the afghan Security Forces taliban attacks have increased their suffering heavy casualties and the prospect of a withdrawal of u. S. Forces hangs over them yet young men are still joining up some for reasons for others its the only way to get a job despite the risks midways carried me was an Army Bomb Disposal engineer in Helmand Province he knew the risks he was blinded in both eyes and lost a leg when a roadside device exploded as you try to defuse it always aware of the danger of seeing friends wounded while working on mines i wasnt scared to lose an arm or a leg is a sacrifice we have to mike to serve this country. To senior members of the saudi royal family including the kings brother arrested after reports of an alleged coup attempt. This is al jazeera live from doha also coming up billions of dollars in debt lebanon is expected to announce it comes begin to make repayments due within days. South korea restricts the sale of mosques to limit the spread of the corona virus and china announced as a major hit on its economy. And one of the worst droughts in decades is forcing many in zimbabwe to use untreated walked out