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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News at Six 20210604 17:14:00

Their lives at risk so many times, so it is the responsibility of the uk also to support nepal. the virus is now climbing in rural areas now the peak has passed in cities. but the pain hasn t gone away. in the capital, a prayer service for a gurkha veteran who died alone. a nation in mourning. and a nation in need. nepal is appealing to the uk for a helping hand. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, kathmandu, nepal. two police forces have agreed to pay damages to more than 600 people over serious errors which followed the hillsborough disaster. lawyers say the south yorkshire and west midlands forces agreed the undisclosed settlement following a civil claim. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News at Six 20210604 17:13:00

A final prayer for her beloved. not since the devastating earthquake in 2015 has this nation felt so broken. the country s army s been drafted in to collect and transport the bodies of those who died. it s only been a few minutes since we came in with the first ambulance, and here is another army ambulance bringing in more covid victims. itjust gives you a sense of the pressure and toll that covid is taking on this city. healthcare is basic. nepal is one of the world s poorest nations. in an interview with the bbc, the country s prime minister appealed to the uk, its oldest friend, for vaccines. we have a very old friendly and diplomatic ties, when the gurkhas served the uk for so many years, putting ....

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WB polls: NRC will have no impact on Gorkhas, says Amit Shah at Kalimpong

Shah, during an address after a roadshow in Kalimpong, said as long as the Narendra Modi-led BJP government is there at the Centre, no Gorkha will be harmed. ....

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Hong Kong's fourth wave of coronavirus brings tide of racism


Hong Kong s fourth wave of coronavirus brings tide of racism
Theodora Yu and Shibani Mahtani, The Washington Post
Feb. 11, 2021
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HONG KONG - A man of Nepali descent said he was denied a job after an employer saw his complexion. A woman said people recoiled from her in an elevator, apparently disgusted. A child was turned away from a school that cited a preference for locals.
Racism, especially against South Asians, is not a new phenomenon in Hong Kong, whose population is 92% ethnic Chinese. But a wave of incidents during the pandemic - including comments from an official who suggested minorities were spreading the coronavirus - is bringing prejudice into sharp relief in this city of astronomical housing prices and extreme inequality. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20190111:14:04:00

For him, saying he has the absolute right to declare a national emergency. many of the people that aren t getting their checks, they get it, they are going to get it soon. many of the people, they are with us 100%. these people want us to win. everybody wants us to win. it s common sense. sandra: : gurkhas at the white house this morning. good friday morning to you, kevin. good friday morning to you, my friend. just about every friday morning, i get a text from an official that effectively, it says no wall, no deal in one way or another, but i do get the sense that there is a bit of a pivot happening in the message, certainly in the way that the white house is talking about this broader issue of border security. less about the wall and more about the consequences of illegal immigration. as seen through the eyes of the women and the men who face real danger and for that matter, live ....

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