when i went east meets the families to prove they belong. here. play an important role protecting you when. ringback you ask a nurse to hope for you and she says she can't do anything because she's dealing with another patient who's dying right in front of you hospitals are sometimes brazil with a number of covert patients rising sharply as its vaccination program gets off to a slow start. slowing down in jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing

like this happens again a new report says the number of deaths an elderly care homes may have been grossly underestimated in new york also. a 4th out of clashes in the lebanese city of tripoli as anger rises of a strict code lockdown measures plus. god bless you all thank you. she was an american entertainment icon cicely tyson has died at the age of $96.00. we begin with a coronavirus outbreak in the world's 3rd worst affected nation brazil has vaccinated more than a 1000000 people but that's less than half of one percent of the population and cities like my laos the gateway to the amazon rainforest still face a shortage of oxygen and hospitals corruption scandals are also hampering the vaccine rollout monaco you knock it has more. my new back to vaccines has arrived

in my mouth and inoculations have resumed after being suspended for a week the vaccination program came under scrutiny after local off already he's worked used to favoring themselves and friends by skipping the line and taking shots ahead of health workers and the elderly to field hospitals have been set up in my mouse where patients must wait for room in chicago are they to me or swapped field hospital should help us redistribute patients. but this is the largest city in the brazilian amazon still thinks is a shortage of oxygen and health workers have been working around the clock to keep patients from suffocating to death like many most anything he does and didn't make it. you ask a nurse the hope here and she says she can't do anything because she's dealing with another patient who's dying right in front of you there aren't enough health care

workers to deal with this we wouldn't be in this situation if the amazon a state had invested in health care where did all the money go the health minister . visited manaos this week for the 2nd time he's also being investigated for allegedly mishandling the crisis. so we did begin increasing the number of the actions in early january tripling the number of infected people this was a completely unknown situation to everyone. and then there is a new variant of the corona virus discovered in my mouth and much more contagious than the 1st it has already spread to some pomo brazil's richest city as a result countries like the united states portugal peru and colombia are restricting flights to and from brazil. bring tell us for a period of 30 days passenger flights from colombia to brazil and brazil to colombia will be suspended us brazil as the largest covert $900.00 death toll after

the united states but according to a study by australia's lowy institute comparing how $98.00 countries have dealt with the pandemic brazil is considered the worst it's at the bottom of the list right after mexico colombia iran and the us china it was not included due to a lack of data. brazil's president j. wilson rather has always downplayed the virus and even pasture in the value of vaccine he has also asked governors and mayors to avoid what damage. yes i. think twice about restrictive policies you must understand that isolation locked down and confinement leads to just to shoot i've always said that the economy walks hand in hand with life. some new and now some have just imposed new restriction measures but in rio de janeiro where the number of infections is also

growing beaches are crowded and social distancing seems to be a thing of the past. mind inactive or just here are the addition or. so here's a recap of how the rest of the world is handling the pandemic a new job developed by novak's has proved to be 89 percent effective in late stage trials in the u.k. and germany health officials have warned that the astra zeneca vaccine should only be used on people under 65 years old saying there isn't enough data on older people and the european commission's demanded belgian authorities inspect an astra zeneca plant in the country after it said the delivery of millions of doses would be delayed and the highly infectious south african variant of the corona virus has now reached the united states 2 infections were confirmed in the state of south carolina as well and coronavirus deaths in one of america's worst hit states may have been grossly underestimated that's according to a new report an investigation by new york's attorney general has found deaths in

care homes may be more than 50 percent higher than officially reported is kristen salumi. the elderly especially those in long term care homes have been among the most vulnerable to code 19 a new report finds the number of nursing home deaths and new york may be much higher than the 8700 state officials have recorded by as much as 50 percent we have to make sense of this we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again and we have to be honest about the numbers the state's attorney general faulted the department of health for not including in their tally nursing home residents who died after being moved to hospitals or in the case of 88 year old norman are being taken home to our liking officials one agency. made a mistake and people grieve put people 1st and suffered the

most. modest only 2nd here related to the impact of covert 19 on nursing homes the report has reignited a controversy that prompted hearings over an order from governor andrew cuomo requiring nursing homes to accept patients who'd been discharged from hospitals even if they might have the coronavirus nursing homes there are a top priority they have been from day one a move the governor defended as necessary to keep hospital beds free but later rescinded saying it wasn't needed the report acknowledges the policy may have contributed to more deaths but also cites a lack of infection controls in nursing homes as well as low staffing levels and under reporting which some say are the bigger issues the report is obviously devastating and heartbreaking but unfortunately it also speaks of the light on what we've known for throughout the pandemic and what we were. really trying to call

attention to at the very beginning is that poor staffing the poor infection control protocols the governor has yet to respond to the findings but his health commissioner argues the state has been transparent while the total number of the taliban is on change the higher death count in nursing homes undermines claims by the governor that new york has been better than other states when it comes to protecting the elderly christian salumi al-jazeera new york the u.s. says it's still committed to a negotiated settlement with the taliban in afghanistan the biden the ministration has said it will review its predecessors landmark deal signed with the group the pentagon spokesman john kirby says there must be a rational end to the war in the country we are still involved in trying to get a negotiated settlement the taliban have not met their commitments. as you know

there is a looming deadline of early may that that is before everybody in terms of you know wanting to have. a solution here but without them meeting their commitments to renounce terrorism and to. stop the violent attacks on the afghan national security forces and you know by dint of that the afghan people it's very hard to see. a specific way forward for the negotiated settlement but we're still committed to. the ethnic community in afghanistan has been persecuted for years now as some young men have decided to take up weapons and form their own militias some of binge of aid has more of a regular walk to visit the grave site of her sons to watch her so that that is among the thousands of grieving has autumn other than of going to stan who followed this routine her sons were killed in an attack on the shia community in november.

my youngest son answered my call from the hospital he said his brother was injured and asked me to go to the hospital as soon as i can when i arrived at the doctors were around him and he was dying i left him and went to find my eldest son but he was dead. most of the people buried at this cemetery in the central city of by me on our radar as their leaders say since the 1990 s. they are the most persecuted ethnic group in afghanistan the un human rights commission estimates more than a 1000 hazaras have been killed or injured in incidents of targeted attacks beheadings and kidnapping youngsters are men many of whom have been wounded in the attacks say they are forming their own militia they say thousands of them are now united to fight for their own protection i saw has claimed responsibility for recent attacks but many here accuse the taliban of targeting has are as the taliban has told al jazeera its fighters do not target ethnic minorities. there are more of

those. we believe the only way for his or people to choose is to stand as long as they do not stand they are always oppressed when we stand at least our conscience is clear in front of our people in my down were the province members of the resistance for justice movement militia say their commander abdul ghani alipore the militia leader who's been accused of human rights abuse was released on bail in 2018 after his arrest caused violent demonstrations. because our fight is the they have to pick up weapons because the government has repeatedly failed them but. because unfortunately our expectation from the government to defend us was not fulfilled and we had to take the gun and stand in defense in order to survive otherwise we pay taxes there is a government and the budget is spent they must defend us but we have not been defended for many years. in the last decade thousands of us our men have also taken

part in the fighting in syria the fierce battles have provided trained fighters for the minority community some as our leaders told al-jazeera the shia fighters were driven more by economic opportunity and religious ideology. that's likely not going to change until there is security in jobs and are going to stand and the complicated war haunts our civilians who continue to pay the ultimate price some of the job i was there. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back. but another rabbit is considered a really good fortune for the chinese during the noon here but i'm fond of reporting about these cherries is turning out to be bringing very bad luck here in chile. i'm way today in new zealand one of the few countries in the world where people can gather in big numbers and enjoy live music we take a look at the global music industry and how the corona virus pandemic is changing it.

how low we've got some rather lively weather in the forecast for the middle east over the next couple they say the northern parts of the race a lot of the cloud showing up here a sleet and snow stump stumbling its way in across that the side of the mediterranean we're looking at some very heavy downpours coming through here that will cause some localized flooding no doubt said we're looking at temperatures struggling to get into double figures that rain sleet and snow moving across syria northern areas of iraq pushing across into that western side of iran in this light to be a fair bit of snow over the high ground of expect to see some disruption in the system as it continues to just make its way eastwards quieting weather coming in behind for a time by the end of the wake and that sets to see more wet windy at times when she weather tucking in further south is fine it's rice looking pretty good him in

concert temperatures getting up to a pleasant 26 celsius with plenty of hazy sunshine it stretches down across the gulf of aden into that northeastern corner of africa just around horn of africa generally try and pharmacy more showers there just pushing across southern parts of kenya some showers there into a good part of tanzania where weather continues to drape its way down across balls want to with rain for south africa. but. as a celebration of tradition life. and love of. al-jazeera was again where insights into the diverse culture of somalia as it follows 2 different couples in putting on their lives to get on to weddings some money style

announces their. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour brazil's president jacques holds a narrow as valid to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country as his popularity falls zillions are angry at the government's slow vaccine rollout the country has the 2nd highest death toll in the world. the us drug company novak says it's corona virus vaccine has shown to be more than 89 percent effective during the trial in the united kingdom the company is now expected to apply for a regulated review of any trials but also suggest the vaccine is effective against

a new variant of 19 1st found in the u.k. . coronavirus deaths in one of america's worst hit states may have been grossly underestimated that's according to a new report estimation by new york's attorney general has found debts in 10 maybe more than 50 percent higher than officially reported. now protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises of a lockdown measures on government corruption security forces have been firing tear gas and water cannon and hundreds of protesters gathered in the city of tripoli 2 people have been killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of unrest sent us this update from tripoli. another night of protests another night of violence in lebanon 2nd largest city dozens of protesters have been injured over recent days 2 protesters killed the situation on the ground is actually there's a lot of anger people initially took to the streets to protest the pro bono virus.

they said that the government is not providing the poor and the undervote with fighting for the order to cope with the loss but now that lockdown exacerbated the economic crisis and the search for the economy. it was already collapsing before that lockdown so most of these people are unemployed those who. work in the sector which means they live day by day if they don't work today they can't feed their kids and this city has long been impoverished before the pandemic was 1st detected last year so a lot of anger in the streets they're saying that they're not they they want a new leadership in fact. in fact there has been a popular uprising in lebanon for more than a year now people have been holding protests in other cities as well on and off

they've largely fizzled out because 1st of all the response of the state of militarized state arrest the tensions heavy handed tactics to clamp down on protest movements so and of course you also have. the corona virus is spreading among the community it's not clear whether or not the situation can be contained in the days ahead but this is a country for over a year now there has been a social unrest political turmoil and as the our economy collapse more and more people are are drowning in poverty the u.n. says 55 percent of the population are now poor and this is a small nation of 5000000 people one 3rd of the workforce employed so difficult days tense situation in this city for exports of cherries from chile to china have taken a hit and that appears to be all because of a rumor unsubstantiated reports began circulating on chinese social media that

traces of covert 19 was found in some boxes latin america and it's on the sea and human reports from santiago. all year long producers wait for this moment when they cherry the final stage of seduction sanitation and packing before being shipped off to china. for the chinese this color red ribbons good fortune so they import cherries mainly from chile to celebrate the chinese new year which starts next month but when an unsubstantiated story went viral on chinese social networks last week it brought misfortune to chile's multi-billion dollar cherry industry if the money for my so not the same this was the result of non-official information in china a rumor that's provoked a steep drop in demand that our government is working round the clock with the private sector to see what we can do. when claims began circulating that some imported cherries had been found to be tainted with coded 19 overnight exports

plummeted from $500.00 to 0 containers a day australian cherry producers have also been impacted it would not nearly as much as in chile which exports much larger quantities noice all know what we've never been formally accused of anything by chinese symmetry or customs with already stressed the story in the media that was never attracted by the ones who suffer most of the small and medium size produces it invested everything they have and we needed to be singing basing on a good idea. the president of the exporters association says exports are picking up but at the cherries are being sold at a loss and time is running out it's summertime in the southern hemisphere goods companies carries it quickly believe valuable because they are crap and shipped have a specific time for the chinese market but others like these great these cherries

will spoil it in just a matter of weeks. chile has launched an intense counter offensive in china using influencers and scientists on social networks to try to convince consumers that their cherries are safe to eat all this is more than just bad luck it underscores just how vulnerable food exporters are to a negative tweet or story substantiated or not to see in human al-jazeera santiago. there's been another dramatic twist in the david and goliath financial battle between multi-billion dollar wall street hedge funds and small time traders until thursday the day traders were looking like winners but the platform that allows them to do business has now bought them from buying more shares in the gaming store game stop hurting explains. robin hood online brokerage has been one of the hottest been use for investors in retail trading 2. now it's

a target of disgruntled customers celebrities and politicians here's the latest on that robin hood shares in the u.s. store game stop were down until a chat group on reddit recently banded together to buy stocks that sent the company skyrocketing undercutting major hedge funds who were shorting the stock but on thursday those shares tanks after robinhood restricted purchases of new stocks of game stop on top of that robinhood also blocked a new trades in several other companies including amc blackberry and nokia which were also soaring because of the chat group users on the app can still close out positions but can't buy more adaptive da blogger dave portnoy says robin hood can't just try to block online trends simply because they don't favor traditional trading there's no way to foresee that i didn't know that's why these people have to go get where you can just pick up and change the rules at a whim whenever you feel like it why why can't a bank if i make

a deposit just say that's our money now. one of. 6 her many investors who made it big on game stop and other blocks companies are furious as fuck they have a big stake in robin hood and they get to tell him what you know that's not right they're going to throw over the word but the c.e.o. of robin hood says he is doing his customers a favor we absolutely did not do this the direction of the market maker or hedge fund or anyone we rally to your other market participants so we're really unprecedented. in order to protect the firm and protect our customers we had a few limited buy in these in the starts this user on twitter said this is my portfolio when robin hood decides to protect me. other investors who buy stocks based on internet trends feel the same way. start step by the way i invested in

because i believe in the internet i believe the wall street i believe read it and i believe that they would go up because i believe in the power of that in you can't cry foul if you're too john to realize the power of the internet the fall out even cause to u.s. political adversaries to band together democrat alexandria ocasio cortez says she supported a hearing to investigate robin hood's actions republican ted cruz tweeted saying he fully agrees the irony of robin hood's name is not lost on game stop investors this woman said imagine naming your app robin hood and then blocking purchases when the poor are literally swindling the rich leo harding al-jazeera. apple's chief executive tim cook is criticizing social media companies for spreading misinformation and polarizing society and a message to

a privacy and data protection conference cooke said many social media collect too much information and prioritize conspiracies he said disintegration is rampant and supported by algorithms now an icon of american television theater and movies cicely tyson has died at the age of 96 i just shy of living the life i like oh she's well known for her role as a former slave in the autobiography of miss jane pittman and more recently in 2011 in the help that the foreman says often spoke to america's difficult racial past and in 2016 barack obama a woman had the presidential medal of freedom and her 70 year career tyson won several emmys a tony award and was given an honorary oscar but john murray is an independent media and popular culture critic he says cicely tyson broke down barriers so black women in hollywood. well you know cicely tyson was a force of nature she's what i call a performance activists actually use the arts to expand the perception and the

humanity of black people and she was a former model turned actress and her mom didn't want to become an actress but she became one anyway and she took on a complex historic it personal character is critically acclaimed roles like sound of the autobiography of miss jane men were roots and one of my favorites the women of the plains you know cicely had been acting since 1956 and she had a career resurgence in the mid 2000 well for a series of roles that tyler perry put her in her body of work when her 3 emmys a tony award a peabody and she even received an honorary academy award for rock obama gave her the presidential medal of freedom and that's not too bad for a woman who didn't start acting until she was 31 she broke down barriers for not just black people in hollywood but for black women ever typically women of darkness did we know what the goal were violet davis octavia spencer lupita nyong'o go with out cicely tyson she wanted to uplift the culture she wanted to change this

perceptions and not buy into the stereotypes that we know that hollywood and the entertainment industry has historically had for black people she was groundbreaking and pioneering and she used her art to make change and the fact that she was still working up into the very end she had just done an m a juror interviewed her memoir with gayle king that just aired 2 days before she passed living until you're 96 with a body of work in a legacy like cicely tyson that's what we call good living and that's the legacy we should all aim to have. now the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the live music industry in most countries in the u.k. organizers are scrambling to work out what to do with events planned for the summer but new zealand has a message to as one of the few places in the world where bands can still play to large crowds his way. it's been a career defining 12 months for this rising new zealand band while much of the

world has been in various forms of coronavirus lockdown l.a. b. has been traveling the country playing to packed stadiums we've been able to still perform. get out there and play gigs and and tour material which has made our fan base just explode. so it was fun as been also here but in other countries the pandemic has destroyed the live music industry one of the world's largest festivals glastonbury in the united kingdom has been cancelled for a 2nd consecutive year industry leaders worry that without support from the government and insurance companies some concerts and festivals may be lost to the goods it's very hard to. underestimate the state's under exact on the music industry and what we need now government to support that too is very critical time so that we can get to operate again. with the main

form of income playing live music largely gone artists have taken gigs online swedish band the hives are playing what they call the world's 1st world wide web world to substituting stadium shows like this for online concerts tailor made to different markets you graphics this it seems important to us that we're actually playing to people i mean. germans are going through you know we can play to the germans in new zealand there are no restrictions on public gatherings so the summer festival season carries on compared to those in most countries new zealand musicians and bands are clearly in a fortunate position but strict border controls mean no big international acts and that seen at least one company which employed hundreds of concert support staff close its doors vigor the people that usually keep the live music industry afloat far away from the bright lights and big star. as are the ones that are suffering the most during the pandemic new zealand stars and their fans are enjoying their

freedom while it lasts but feel for their counterparts in other countries try and not talk to my mates too much overseas because if you don't rub it in their faces then years like it's pretty unfair what's happening. very unfit you know to fellow muses around the world so we just feel blessed and lucky to be able to get up and play and right now new zealand bands can claim to be playing some of the largest concerts in the world wayne hey al jazeera reglan new zealand's. top a quick check of the headlines here an al-jazeera brazil's president jabil tomorrow has vowed to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country as his popularity falls brazilians are angry at the government's slow vaccine rollout the country has the 2nd highest death toll in the world and ira says he won't take the vaccine himself . as more now from rio de janeiro on the.