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  Now India has reported its lowest covid case numbers in more than 40 days with around 165 000 new infections today during the country's devastating second wave of the virus police in Delhi have made more than 350 arrests for fraud relating to counterfeit medical supplies many families have fallen victim to the con men offering fake oxygen and drugs on social media the senior police these are crimes against humanity from Delhi our international correspondent oligarin has more details and her report contain some distressing images this was Delhi in its darkest hour the peak of the second wave in India’s capital patients gasping for breath a time of desperate prayers often unanswered among dwindling supplies enter the profiteers and the covered con men.   This was one scam among many fire extinguishers sold as oxygen cylinders on social media. she was everything to me she was friend to me she was a sister to me.  I’m just incomplete without her ayanna ratho...

  On the site of what was once a hatab home. where 10 members of one family were killed in an Israeli airstrike artists want to ensure they are not forgotten they are painting about life inside these walls before they were reduced to rubble.   we came today in an initiative called painting over the rubble to draw and paint over the homes. we want to deliver a message that no matter. What happens in Gaza and no matter what they do we shall remain patient and resistant and we shall have hope for tomorrow other artists from the Gaza strip have held an exhibition called. we were repainted this humanitarian scene sheds light on the fear mixed with feelings of longing for those who were killed in the Israeli bombardment artists are as vulnerable to Israeli attacks as the refugees in the camps and not all their work survives. we were preparing for a art exhibition in Ramadan and it was supposed to be after Eid but then the war happened and our art atelier was badly destroyed and all ...

  CONGRESS ON JANUARY 6th. CONGRESSMAN CROW, WELCOME TO "MEET THE PRESS" I GUESS THE QUESTION NOW IS WHERE DO WE GO NOW, WHERE DOES THIS GO NEXT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE SPEAKER PELOSI IF THIS IS NOW A HOUSE-DRIVEN INVESTIGATION, ESSENTIALLY FOLLOW THE PARAMETERS OF THE COMMISSION THAT THEY WANTED TO DEVELOP TO TRY TO GIVE AS MUCH CREDIBILITY AS YOU CAN TO THIS INVESTIGATION?   >> GOOD MORNING, CHUCK THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON.THE QUESTION NOW IS OF TIMING.IF MITCH McCONNELL SAID WELL TAKE ANOTHER VOTE ON THIS, I THINK THE QUESTION FOR SPEAKER PELOSI AND CHUCK SCHUMER IS, DO WE BELIEVE HIM THAT THIS WILL BE A VOTE IN GOOD FAITH WE HAD 54 VOTES ON FRIDAY. WE THINK THERE WERE A COUPLE MORE PEOPLE WHO WOULD HAVE VOTED HAD THEY BEEN PRESENT. THE QUESTION IS CAN WE GET THOSE THREE OR FOUR ADDITIONAL VOTES OR ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE UP A SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE HOUSE SIDE OR SOME KIND OF HOUSE AND SENATE COMBINED COMMITTEE AND DO THIS OURSELVES? I DONT KNOW. I CANT...

  My friend jacopo was in the Dominican republic for his honeymoon last week   briana got the second shot of her   vaccine in america  and my colleagues met up for a drink at a london pub but here i've been finding it hard to sleep every night. I wake up and doom scroll the same words jumpout oxygen ventilators a hospital bed a death a baby born too early it's mother dead too early yet another death. My mind goes through a million thoughts per second. what if something happens to my parents what if mom let the neighbor in what if my cousins fall i think back just three months. My colleagues in london stuck in lockdown going through the horrors of covert and Me celebrating birthdays dining in restaurants traveling home. I’m fine really locked in an apartment with two humans and two cats but this is what fine on the outside looks like they say yoga helps and meditation and music i try it all and every time I pick myself up a little more someone i know d...

  They came to the center of rio de janeiro by foot and even on piggyback to protest against president jair bolsonaro in his response to the covet 19 pandemic the protesters blamed the president for downplaying the virus with thousands still dying every day and for taking too long to start the inoculation campaign there were posters comparing bolsonaro to adolf hitler and accusing him of genocide carina munoz says the opposition has been avoiding the streets in a country with the world's second largest covid19 death toll that can do so no longer we should all be at home keeping ourselves safe but we've reached a point. where we can no longer remain silent. we have to show the world that we are against bolsonaro's denialism if we continue to keep quiet while he's holding rallies all over brazil it'll seem like brazilians are complicit with his attitudes and we are not last week bolsonaro led a motorbike rally in rio de janeiro gathering crowds and scorning the ...

  These are some of the 150 000 indigenous children who attended so-called residential schools in Canada between the 1840s and 1990s many were forcibly taken from their parents and there was widespread abuse some lived here at the Kamloops Indian residential school in British Columbia where the remains of 215 children have just been discovered some of the children who died were as young as three there's nothing more painful in life than losing a child my heart breaks today thinking of all the loving parents who never saw their children return home and who were never granted the dignity of knowing what happened it's a discovery that Canada’s prime minister has described as a painful reminder of a shameful chapter in his country's history the Canadian government formally apologized for the abuse at these schools in 2008 and years later an official inquiry by a truth and reconciliation commission into the residential school system concluded it amounted to cultural genocide aga...

  good morning good morning Acting secretary Thomas Harker general David Berger  admiral mike gilday looking out at these midshipmen i know we are all filled with pride vice admiral sean buck captain t.r Buchanan faculty and staff thank you for educating such a fine crew alumni thank you for the support you have shown over these years to this great institution and to my military aide lieutenant colonel frank macniak who graduated in 2004 i am very proud to have you with me here today family and friends of these graduates thank you for the sacrifices you have already made and will make and i also want to acknowledge Kim and john Johnson your son was taken far too soon and i promise you that he will not be  forgotten and finally to the class of 2021  congratulations and look how far you've come so you  endured zero 530 pt. and promo exams excelled on athletic fields and  in academic exercises you enjoyed the fair at dillo's  i know karaoke at harvest...

  Us president Biden’s long-standing relationship with the Chinese leader xi Jinping is no secret they go back to when they were both vice president I spent a lot of time with president xi travel over 17 000 miles with them spent their time over 24 hours in private discussions with them given this history you'd expect Biden to quickly reverse former president Donald trump's tough approach to china but that hasn't happened so why is Biden holding firm one of the stumbling blocks in this difficult relationship is human rights Jeffrey al is a Hong Kong activist in Washington dc his activism may put him in danger back Home i don't think it's realistic for me to Attempt to go back to Hong Kong in the foreseeable future Beijing imposed a security law on Hong Kong last year as a result many prominent Hong Kong Activists are now either in jail or excel under the new law even these photos of Jeffrey meeting with U.S congress members could  be seen as proof of him colluding w...

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  So, I’ve spent the last five and a half months collecting and testing all the top globally available smartphones I’ve rated every single ones performance camera battery and display based on what price it's selling for and giving them an overall value rating so with that in mind these are the top 22 smartphones in the world right now from good to better to the best some of these will surprise you. So, at the back end is Nokia specifically the x20 which is their affordable flagship 2021 phone and Nokia's doing a lot of great stuff right now their phones are all inexpensive they're bloatware free Nokia gives extended warranties and loads of software supports their entire angle is sustainability smartphones that you buy and you keep it really is an admirable message but i think they focused a little too much on this at the cost of how capable their phones actually are like for this x20 their marketing doesn't even mention a single specification that's like apply...