once again an establishment but i'll be in on that majority of these legal research talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to being more. up to 150 people feared dead in northern india as a himalayan glad to see it breaks apart leashing a torrent of water through a narrow valley. hello again i'm come all sons of maria here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera gunshots have been heard at a rally in me and moderates tens of thousands of people protest for a 2nd day against the military coup. a new hurdle disastrous zeneca says it's

maxine is showing the limited effects against the south african variants of coronavirus and african leaders begin the 2nd day of their virtual summit is the official thing was arts culture and heritage most of the attention goes on political issues and the panda. so this developing story out of india today were officials fear up to 150 people are dead after part of a himalayan glass yet collapsed it sent a torrent of water rushing down a river where a hydraulic power station and several villages are positioned several communities have been put on high alert for flooding and people further downstream are being evacuated have a look at it on the map here the incident happened in the far northern region of india in one state to see a very mountainous area and this particular part nearly 2 kilometers. above sea

level now one of the rivers affected is this one the river which supports a major hydroelectric dam project upstream here smaller dam and then much further down you've got this large atop of an additional good power plants just coming into view here and as we say multiple villages along the path of the river well india's prime minister narendra modi has tweeted saying he is closely monitoring the situation in iraq and. and that the nation stands with everyone in the state and are praying for everyone's safety notices he's been in close contact with disaster response forces who are coordinating relief operations. right elizabeth ron i'm on the phone now i believe it is you're actually heading up there are going to be on your way there shortly tell us what you've learned before you go . yes hello come on so we are hearing that this glacial burst in the face of what i can only district has triggered an avalanche and massive flooding along the i'm not

and the buildings on the rivers this happened on sunday morning it false emergency evacuation of thousands of people on the surrounding areas and the damage tons and the nearby she going up popped up we're also hearing from local officials that 9 bodies have been recovered so far police say 16 people who were trapped in the top of one dam that you mentioned the perform hydroelectric power plant they're being shifted to safer places around 20 work at the stranded in a tunnel near the dam and a rescue operation is underway there local officials have told in the media that 100 to 150 people may have been killed in the fast flash floods because some bodies they flooded and destroyed many homes on the riverbank to keep bridge mamelodi ahead of joshi market area has been washed away by floods and disaster response force has said that 150 laborers working at the she got a pop project which was missing they haven't been able to get hold of them and

that's all she's really concerned about the number of neighbors who are employed at ongoing brayden and road projects in the area. so you are going to be hitting up their lives tell us about how accessible the area is i'm guessing at such great height elevations and heading up into the mountains it's not easy to get through. it's not and it's also an area you know that has seen devastating floods which washed the last time in 2013 more than a 1000 people were killed in heavy when heavy rain triggered landslides and floods washed away thousands of holland roads and cut communication lines the state leader has said that the district administration police department is off the management 2nd order to deal with it we know that hundreds of in there to bethen border police personnel on the scene a. national disaster response force are being rushed from the state capital and an

air force helicopters will be reaching this evening as well as that. are being sent on to talk all the downstream districts from that area including the cities of the sheepish and hot is well as well and people are being warned against visiting the banks in the entire region elizabeth her on i'm on the line from new delhi and as the saying heading towards the area where this collapse has happened are looking forward to your reports from them isn't some shushing that had the who is the former vice chairman of india's national disaster management or thorazine he describes more about the difficulties for the recovery efforts. yes it's a long region i had my 1st hand experience during the the. rocket. the flood and they're in the east so

difficult and that if you think that there is going to work you need to go so we are going to get it's not going to be very easy but i'm broke i think the government the national disaster response force and the other local. elementary forces are looking to get their forces people the forces into the car to the nearest star location and and. i hope. to. get to but you know all along the route it may not be easy to. reach people out. you beat it let's move on to me and where internet access has been partially restored according to the online monitor net blocks has been growing defiance there nearly a week after the democratically elected government was asked by the military tens of thousands of people are protesting despite the risk of arrest crowds and young

calling for the deposed leader unsung see cheap to be freed after she was charged with violating import export job and has spread to multiple cities and to neighboring countries as well in the 6 days since the takeover you've got mandalay there in the north where the protests began on thursday before spreading to doorway on friday on saturday the largest protests happened in the city of yangon 2 more cities then joined in on sunday foreign slowey is in the malaysian capital kuala lumpur monitoring events for us. well it's the 2nd successive day off street demonstrations in yangon and we're seeing an even bigger crowd than on saturdays you know protests have sprung up in different parts of the city and downtown gang gone in the small and narrow streets and even people who want taking part in the protests off at their support to show their support by cheering by clapping hands people honk their cars now we're also hearing reports that gunshots were heard in

the town of me which is near the tire border reports say that that armed police in uniform charged at a group of protesters and gunshots were fired now it's not immediately clear if there are any injuries but so far the protests in yangon have been allowed to go on peacefully even though there has been very heavy police presence it has been quite difficult getting information out of me and not because there was a near total internet shutdown that started on saturday afternoon it's only been partially restored just a couple of hours ago coronavirus news and astra zeneca says it's working to adapt its coded 19 vaccine against a variant 1st identified in south africa after a trial showed it might be less effective the study shows the vaccine has significantly reduced if you can see against the mutation according to reports in the financial times the trial though is small and has not been peer reviewed 7 variant is among

a number of mutations causing concern because of their high rate of spread and the potential to resist vaccines is what dr sun jesson and i think he's an associate professor of infectious diseases at the strand in national university and points out other vaccines have also shown reduced impact on the variants. there is very sparse information at the moment for example they didn't actually give a figure of vaccine africa say we also know that it's in very young people so the impacts on severe disease unlikely to be known because that be a disease is very unlikely in young people we know from the other vaccines that are around maduna pfizer novak's johnson and johnson that they also have shown reduced impact against the south african strain although they are effective against the south african strain so this would be consistent with what we have seen with those other vaccines we always knew that viruses mutate that happens all the time

but when we talk about a new strain we're talking about the mutation that affects the way the virus behaves in humans and really we thought that a corona virus tends to mutate quite slowly maybe 5 times slower than influenza so in a sense that we were seeing strains at this point of the outbreak was kind of a surprise and i suspect it just reflects the fact that we've seen so many cases worldwide of cove it and it's allowed the virus to replicate it replicate hundreds of millions of times and we've seen the strains of much israel started lifting its strictest coronavirus lockdown restrictions sub instances are able to reopen including takeaway food services and addresses a month long lockdown was the 3rd time israel set up shop and kept people home for an extended period of time the ban on air travel though that is still in place. funeral homes and cemeteries are being overwhelmed in bolivia as cases of coping

$900.00 surge of global health crisis is pushing its already fragile health care system to the brink of collapse as. the reports bodies wrapped in blankets or plastic sheets are left on the floor of cemeteries and funeral homes of the capital and other hard hit cities as bolivia struggles to deal with the 2nd wave of corona virus infections deadlier than the 1st. government officials feared the backlog could spark another outbreak well accusing some funeral homes of taking in more bodies that they can safely handle. from a regional government should have provided planning to funeral homes on how to manage go over debts but haven't done so and secondly some funeral home for the increase in deaths and finally there is a structural problem regarding the capacity of board public and private symmetries to fulfill the high demand for commissions and body else. in bolivia one of the poorest countries in latin america many cemeteries are stopped accepting the bodies

of covered 1000 victims some funeral home employee took to the streets saying they are left with few options. since the 1st waif we do not have a crime atory often the central cemetery an alto did have one and was receiving covert bodies but they're not anymore we simply don't have anywhere to take these bodies. there is a similar story in mexico city with the government trying to treat patients at home to free up space in hospitals overburdened by a surge of infections but finding life saving oxygen is often a struggle and that's the moment. at this time in the pandemic it is very difficult to get an oxygen tank or concentrator and then there's a cost because of the demand for them all while back summation rates in mexico have slowed to a true. call pfizer hasn't been able to send in additional doses of its specs seen

in 3 weeks leaving mexican sugata for a shot to wonder if they will be able to receive a 2nd one in time. and while some countries in the region have started to relax restrictions after a reduction in cases others are announcing new ones these are the deserted streets of lower neck cuba where a new night curfew was imposed after surge following the reopening of airport it's a back and forth battle against a virus that continues to batter despair of the world particularly hard to listen to. african leaders amazing for the 2nd and final day of their virtual african union summit the pandemics dominating the agenda of course while mass vaccinations have begun in parts of the other parts of the world the role in africa has been slow leaders are also discussing political and humanitarian issues including border disputes and displaced people malcolm webb with more from nairobi. well this summit

comes at a time where the african continent the continent finds itself at the bottom of the ladder of grossly on equal vaccine distribution across the world with the richest countries nothing up multiple doses for each member of their population. in many african countries or most of the no vaccinations at all so far the african union is tried to to assist this by setting up a task force is meant to buy vaccines think they've got about 680000000 doses and 16 of their 55 member countries have signed up to participate in this scene which in this scheme which some health care activists acquired described as barely a drop in the ocean now the world's richest countries are expect to have most of their populations vaccinated by some point later this year experts estimate that by the middle of this year maybe 3 percent of people in africa will have been vaccinated that basically just front line health care workers and a few other people and they estimate that it could take up to 3 years or in many cases never at all for vaccines to actually reach the world's poorest countries in

the news ahead the u.s. announces a new immigration policy another dramatic break from the trumpet ministration and anti-government protests like this they have become a regular occurrence in a sheet we'll be looking at why they may be about to escalate. it's time for the perfect journey. sponsored play qatar airways. there is more snow coming into japan this is not a big surprise and this is normal time weather for this time of the year and that's what it looks like temps about 10 in tokyo about minus 4 in sapporo the cold emanating from the last to carry for example minus 11 you've seen time and time again 1st of over here what you haven't seen in shouldn't see this time is rain

developing really have a northern thailand and moving into where the north viet nam the southwest of china should be adroit time of the year so this is unusual rain but is there all the same otherwise weather looks pretty much as it should be for this time of the year hong kong does pick up some of that rain you got showers and thunderstorms for tuesday and wednesday before things return to normal seasonally by thursday and there has been a lot of snow recently in the far north of him a shover edition particularly because for 30 years there's nothing much in the sky now and we're not really disturbing that was the any more so apart from the showers occasionally in sri lanka and of course the unusual renna mentioned it's quite no longer a cold wave is that maybe in addition new delhi's weather a little bit warmer now but it's still foggy and the air quality i'm afraid is still not good. sponsored by qatar airways

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a torrent of water rushing down to rivers in the pecan state fact your actions are on the way in the army has been deployed to help. internet access has been partially restored in me in the thousands of people risking arrest to attend protests against the military coup and the subsequent crackdown for a 2nd day. and astra zeneca says it's working to adapt its covert 19 vaccine against a variant 1st identified in south africa a new study shows its efficacy could be significantly reduced by them a mutation that is based on a small child. united states has ended a controversial asylum agreement with several latin american countries a deal made by the trumpet ministration to curb the number of migrants able to apply for asylum it meant people arriving in the u.s. were often sent back to central america to apply for refuge there joe biden's new newly appointed secretary of state anthony blinken. if you me says we have notified

the governments of el salvador guatemala and honduras that the united states is taking this action as efforts to establish a cooperated mutually respectful approach to managing migration lincoln goes on to say to be clear these actions do not mean that the us border is open i do share caster in washington now with more details. this is more of a photo op or a political win that the trump ministration had used to tout its forceful policies against the asylum seekers but really when this was implemented it made not much sense to begin with because in essence it's taking asylum seekers from one of these central american countries and is shuffling them back and forth with to the other countries involved after they've been rejected after seeking asylum at the u.s. border but what made little sense in that matter was that none of these countries are really safer than the other which is why these policies were criticized by

humanitarians as deliberately putting vulnerable people back in danger biden ending these agreements now really changes nothing on the ground because there's still no decision in his ministries and part of what to do with the sounds of asylum seekers who are waiting at the southern border who are in mexico as you'll recall biden has pledged to undo all of trump's conservative border policies but there still has been no decision about how to resolve them and what is the other option but what is assured is that there are thousands of migrants who are now journeying north and are now at the u.s. border and they're growing by the day and this is putting an immense strain on the border and pressing for quick solution from the biden ministration as even in the 1st few days of his time in office already a new border crisis is there confronting him. where the constitution says the new

president's term begins on february 7th if one agrees with that but i don't agree on which year president says he still has another year in office but as far as the opposition is concerned today sunday his time is up to reports on how his political impasse. clashes between the opposition and security forces right next to the presidential palace. it's become a regular occurrence on the streets of port au prince. protesters continue to demand president join in moyes steps down. it's a strike against kidnapping against hunger in the country and we are sending a clear message to the president to respect the constitution so you're this week transport unions and other workers went on a 2 day strike denouncing institutional violence and an alarming grice in kidnappings human rights groups say at least

a 1000 people were kidnapped in 2020 when someone is kidnapped. the person must go to the street and ask for a given so you really doesn't this and why we organize 2 days of look up to show. that we can't accept this situation you know but as soon as the look of finish the kidnapping restored quickly. haiti's opposition says it's time for moyes to go they say he's mandate ends this sunday but moyes does a greece he says his 5 year term began when he was sworn in in 2017 and that he still has one year in power but members of the opposition say maurice term began in 2016 in the wake of chaotic elections. and while the political crisis deepens haiti's economy continues to deteriorate. economies like. says urgent action is needed so. the amount of people going hungry in the country has

doubled it's gone from $2000000.00 to $4000000.00 people the currency is devalued and there's an inflation rate close to 25 percent. to complicate matters legislative elections were postpones when parliamentary terms expired this past year. has been ruling haiti by decree the us and the organization of american states have urged new legislative elections to restore the balance of power maurice is proposing a referendum in april to reform the constitution. last week we held a major meeting with all interviews including the un the provisional electoral council the advisory committee the government the police chief the prime minister we had a big talk about security issues elections and the referendum we were clear with all these people on april 25th because it will be a victory for us. but the opposition says it's another excuse to hold onto

power and that's why they vow to continue pressuring the government on the streets . and. the international criminal court has ruled that it does have jurisdiction in the occupied palestinian territory that poll says the i.c.c. is effort to investigate suspected war crimes by israel and potentially by palestinian armed groups israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that condemned the judgment says israel will fight back from the baka it was founded to bring the perpetrators of the world's worst atrocities to justice more than 120 countries and states accept the international criminal court's authority including palestine where the i.c.c. now says it has the power to investigate suspected war crimes by the israeli military and palestinian groups such as hamas the decision was quickly and fiercely

rejected by israel which isn't a member of the court doesn't recognize its jurisdiction when the i.c.c. investigates israel for fake war crimes this is pure anti-semitism. the court established to prevent atrocities like the nazi holocaust against the jewish people is not targeting the one state of the jewish people 1st it out religiously things that when jews live in a room and this is a war crime 2nd it claims that when democratic israel defends itself against terrorists who murder our children rocket our cities we're committing another war crime the palestinian authority and hamas say the decision off is vital protection for the palestinian people with a mass insisting its military activity is lawful how to get there how massive a cool guard to hold how mass no resistance groups in a legal and legitimate battle against his zionist occupation in accordance with all international norms and treaties that give us

a right to defend ourselves before these daily war kills indiscriminately the palestinians want the i.c.c. to look into israeli military operations in the gaza strip in 2014 in which more than 2000 palestinians and 70 israelis were killed also in the spotlight military tactics used by israel against palestinian protesters on the israeli gaza border and the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem i.c.c. top prosecutor bensouda had previously called for investigations saying there was a reasonable basis to believe war crimes had happened but progress could be slow the courts only convicted a handful of people in its 23 year history. right. right

. very much. a very. i.c.c. involvement in the struggle between israelis and palestinians could shine a light on other state injustices but was less certain is whether it will help or hinder the troubled search for peace in the middle east neve barca al-jazeera. hundreds of people have defied curfews in the georgian capital tbilisi demanding the easing of coronavirus restrictions protesters say the 2nd lockdown is having a major economic impact restaurant owners believe their businesses will collapse of the government does not allow them to fully open georgia's had more than a quarter of a 1000000 cases and 3000 tents sudan has warned its national security will be threatened if ethiopia goes ahead with the 2nd phase of filling its blue nile dam sudan's water minister says it will also put the lives of half the country's

population at risk sudan and egypt fear the mega dam project will divert too much of the water they rely on while the ethiopian says the project vital to its economic future talks held last month to resolve the dispute failed to make any headway finally good news as al jazeera journalist mom hussein has been released after more than 4 years in prison in egypt was arrested in 2016 while visiting relatives in cairo and was never formally charged with a crime or put on trial the support is from barbara and. home at last and the joyful welcome for mahmoud hussein after years in prison. multiple organizations campaigned for his release and say could open the door for other journalists wrongly held in egypt but news release can be a step toward. a loosening of the repression in egypt there are dozens more journalists in egypt in jail there has been a mass crackdown closing

a web site shattering decisions i think it is still really didn't hello but we hope it will be a stepping stone towards mahmoud was detained in december 26th seen after traveling him to cairo from his base and to her he was accused of incitement broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions allegations he and al jazeera have repeatedly rejected al-jazeera media networks acting director general welcome to miami is truly after a vigorous campaign for his freedom throughout his detention a statement set while he was incarcerated mahmud had become a symbol of press freedom across the globe on the day of his release al-jazeera course for freedom of all journalists who were unjustly imprisoned all around the world while being held at the tour a maximum security jail in cairo my meat was kept in solitary confinement for long

periods and did not receive proper treatment when he broke his arm. was reunited with his family and friends there are other words that won't be easy to heal. mahmoud's father died just every year ago before witnessing his son's release. out of sarah. past the hour on al-jazeera these are the headlines india fears up to 150 people are dead after part of a himalayan collapsed and sent a torrent of water rushing down to rivers in otakon state evacuations are under way and the army has been deployed to help from elizabeth piron i'm on the line from new delhi. 22 ended in a tunnel near the rescue operation is underway.