being in the media is the. bungs violence killing the symbols amidst claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinational it's people in power investigates . the finest on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the good and this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. last security forces crack down on antique who protest as in mandalay with at least 2 people killed by live fire. the confidential u.n. report accuses former president trumps ally erik prince of breaking an arms embargo

and supporting libyan border collie for after. u.s. president joe biden declares a major disaster in storm hit texas as people struggle without water and electricity plus. i'm just to washington in jakarta with severe flooding has forced hundreds from their homes. and in sports is celebrating her 4th grand slam title 2nd beating jennifer brady to win the australian open for the 2nd time. so we begin this news out of dramatic escalation of violence against protesters security forces have killed 2 people in the 2nd largest city of mandalay bay the european union has condemned the violence and called for a meeting to discuss a response tony chang has the latest. shots ring out as protesters

in mandalay flee from the police and force a cannon tear gas and sling shots also used to disperse the crowd casualties taken from the scene by ambulance as the security services attempt to break strikes that have shut down shipyards on the air what the river in the capital naypyidaw marches commemorated the death of a 20 year old student shot in the head during a demonstration last week determination amongst those present that they would continue to march against the military coup despite the danger until a civilian government is restored i know there are possibilities of many more people dying and we ourselves can even know whether we will die or not but we need to fight until the end regardless of our lives in order to succeed and that is only after we get rid of this military dictatorship downtown young gone through the largest crowds despite a police cordon around the soon go to the crowds just move down the road chanting for the release of aung san suu kyi she remains under military detention and

there's a campaign of civil disobedience starts to impact transport and banking systems across myanmar some feel they have nothing to lose i was young people have their dreams 21000 was a year of development and 2020 there was coronavirus and we were all thinking about the future but everything is gone now everything we were hoping for is going to be destroyed that's why more people are joining the protests than in the past in kitchen stays in the far north a tense standoff between protesters and police this is one of the areas where the military has struggled for years to suppress ethnic unrest but now there's news men most diverse ethnic groups have signed a nationwide ceasefire to unite in opposition to military rule tony chang al jazeera. i was there has seen parts of a confidential u.n. report which finds donald trump's ally and private security contractor erik prince

violated an arms embargo in libya the report to the security council reveals how prince sent foreign mercenaries and weapons to the border. in 29 team when he was fighting against the internationally recognized government in tripoli to syria's kristen salumi reports now. erik prince is best known as the founder of blackwater security a private contractor whose employees were implicated in the killing of 17 iraqi civilians in 2007 he's also a prominent supporter of former president donald trump and brother to former education secretary betsy devadasi. but it's his role in a malicious assault on the internationally recognized government libya in 2019 that's now a question. al-jazeera has seen excerpts of a $121.00 page report submitted to the u.n. security council and 1st reported by the new york times alleging prince helped

supply a trove of weapons including attack helicopters to the military's commander khalifa haftar are in violation of a u.n. arms embargo on libya. it also alleges he deployed a force of foreign mercenaries to help attack was condemned by u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh this won't be resolved through force of arms it's just no way that's going to take place we there's a u.n. process we've been part of that and i have tars been part of that we urge them to have started stand down move back to the negotiating table so that we can get a political resolution libya the day after pompei are made that statement president trump made a phone call to have to are raising eyebrows in the ire of some members of congress an official readout of the call said that the president quote recognized field-marshal hafter significant role in fighting terrorism and securing libya's oil resources and the 2 discussed a shared vision for libya's transition to

a stable democratic political system what many saw as a contradiction of official u.s. policy the u.n. report raises a question not only of whether or not a close associate of the president violated an international arms embargo but also of whether or not the president himself was complicit in defying stated u.s. policy kristen salumi al-jazeera washington reaction now from the libyan city of misrata al-jazeera is not a trainer is that. it isn't really clear how much of this specific operation was completed by blackwater but there have been reports that date back to 2017 which suggests that blackwater was coordinating with have to when he was cementing his power base in eastern libya the reports suggest that blackwater supplied unpiloted air tractor attack planes which bombed neighborhoods in eastern libya

which helped have to solidify his power there before he began making his move towards the west in 2011 the u.s. played an integral part to support rebel forces to topple moammar gadhafi through nato through nato airstrikes later on the us helped us forces loyal to the government of national quite considerably here in misrata to fight against eisele when they took a foothold in the city of sirte so the u.s. has always been seen as a a beacon of hope and democracy and to help that help libyans in their fight to a democratic state and they were they felt a bit betrayed and disappointed when president trump made that phone call with khalifa haftar now that president joe biden has been elected president that hope is sort of been reignited sort of been sparked believing that the u.s.

may now once again come come and help libyans in their fight for democratic and civilian state so the feeling the feeling here among libyans is that one of hope that the the americans will come back and help libyans fight for their civilian state which they you know they they expressed that they won in 2011. private military contractors have become a regular fixture in conflicts around the world the u.s. has become increasingly reliant upon them analysts say that america employed more than $50000.00 private contractors in the middle east in 2019 that's compared to just 35000 soldiers from its own army some mercenary armies like the wagon a group of been accused of being proxies for russia in recent years wideness mercenaries have been active in libya ukraine and baylor roof's the russian government denies any link to the group private military security services have become a global industry some analysts estimate that it could be worth more than $200000000000.00

a year joining us now from washington d.c. douglas ollivant senior fellow at new america future of war project good to have you with us douglas i want to stop asking for your reaction to this u.n. report which finds that erik prince violated the arms embargo on libya. not terribly surprised when mr prince got to pop up all kinds of places new company into your services group has been that reste implicated in some amends and in the reader is a china. doesn't work or to be u.a.e. bihu are not terminally surprised this is what you guys all freelance fights is more prevalent today than in previous decades all thanks to the media we just more aware of their presence in the world's conflict zones now. i think just more aware there have been groups in africa for

a long time former her arms like us sandline executive outcomes played a significant role in africa in the last century certainly we're more aware since the beginning of the afghanistan and iraq wars and the prevalence of firms like that no longer exist in blackwater all of groups of that nature to what extent are they acting as proxies then in the interests of external act. and whole countries well if they absolutely can the ones that are really free to act you know as mercenaries for sale to the highest bidder are the western firms those in the united states and the u.k. who can go out and find work wherever they find it the russian firms wagner group moran group despite official the miles are clearly very closely wink to russian foreign policy and the policy of russian lady firms so for example we've only

really seen a wagner group back in ukraine as you said in bello groups in syria and now in libya all in support a very clear russian foreign policy objectives and to these groups operate within the law in the countries in which they operate in a or do they adhere to international level. i think they would say they may act with the internet within international law and it depends on the there are a number of these firms that operate very closely with the united states military and other militaries that actually have a professional association or her bound by a code of conduct can stay within those bounds other groups are not within. that boundary and operate more than what's in it for countries like the u.s. as me as we said in our introduction more than $50000.00 private contractors were operating on behalf of the u.s. in the middle east compared to just 35000 of its of its own soldiers

well again there's a wide range here there's like within that 50000 contractors you have people like an arm welder who are just fixing the howlers those that the u.s. soldiers live with and then you have those in kind of agree area what you consider a retired police officer who said by using an afghan police officer at a remote area but does carry a gun is he a mercenary and then there are those who very clearly fit the definition those operating in personal security detachments and forming duties like that so it's a wide range and the definitions can get more than just me said the industry could be with more than $200000000000.00 a year who's getting that money. well i'm in a lot of cases this is quite legitimate some of these firms for example run bases or for the united states or coalition efforts in iraq and afghanistan run bases

like air base or the the embassy compound in kabul quite respectable business but although it can be quite lucrative and then as your piece demonstrates there are much more shady aspects of this you can think for example of the war scandal with their conspiring to help overthrow the venezuelan government always could still to douglas many thanks indeed douglas ollivant. a court in moscow is up held kremlin critic alexian about his prison sentence spots it's shortened his time by 6 weeks of ali's been sentenced in the 3 years for violating his parole while he was in germany recovering after being poisoned thousands of his supporters have been arrested during protests. today's verdict was expected for us we consider it unlawful nothing is changed all the arguments made

in the court in the 1st instance they got rejected them and they got rejected now the only thing is that the court didn't take into account a month and a half of house arrest they did that now that. deal with the news from observer still to come on the program rising violence in afghanistan's capital is the taliban threatens a spring offensive while the u.s. reconsiders its role in that conflict the last german dies of covert 19 marking the end of a once thriving indigenous community in brazil's alice. and in sport one of japan's olympic venues kickstarts the country's new football season details coming up places in the for. the u.s. president joe biden has declared a major disaster in texas in slowly returning but millions of people still don't have access to clean drinking water after

a rare winter storm this week the declaration would open up broader federal money for immediate and long term recovery efforts a presidential visit to the state is planned for the coming days john hendren has been following developments from the other side of the country in chicago. frigid texas is trading power problems for water woes this past week has been an enormous challenge maybe unlike any that you've ever dealt with before has been far too burdensome for the lives of all those affected. we're working around the clock and we will continue to work around the clock to address to meet your needs and challenges and after days of rare freezing temperatures blanketed the 2nd largest state in the u.s. power stations are all back on line that after unusually high demand led to rolling blackouts transmission lines taken down by ice still have left nearly 200000

without power but now texans face a new crisis 7000000 people a quarter of the state or being asked to boil their water if they have it at all because the cold weather has left broken pipes and taken water treatment plants offline san antonio faces fire and ice as frozen fire hydrants forced firefighters to truckee and water flowing crews battling flames at an apartment complex haven't been able to get to work all week long. you know you think that we have in there it's got grocery store shelves are largely bare leaving residents lined up in their cars for food and water president joe biden says he's declaring the entire state the disaster zone i talked with the federal emergency management agency fema the administrator. of the saff community going to ask him to accelerate our response and request for quote it's a different decoration a major disaster declaration the president says he hopes to visit the lone star

state next week here in chicago where the northern end of the weather system that struck texas about 1500 kilometers north of dallas but your god is used to weather like this it's water and power transmission systems are hardened for the routine cold weather that strikes every winter texas hasn't seen a storm system like this in 35 years and it's clear its system simply weren't up to the task there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago and is there as mike hanna joins us now live from washington d.c. mike what does this declaration of a major disaster in texas by the president mean for the state. well it means that there's a significant amount of federal resources that will be apportioned to that particular disaster and the president had signed a disaster declaration earlier in the week however this is declared

a major disaster situation that means there is no financial count probably among top federal funding and resources that will be apportioned to the people in texas what it means essentially is that the federal government will provide things ranging from loans to rebuild businesses to help individual homeowners to restore their property so it's a wide ranging situation but it has to be looked at in the wider context as well because president biden made as part of his campaign the slogan pulled back that he's been talking about a 2 trillion dollar national infrastructure plan now this is something that he wants to put into effect this is something that he's already been talking to members of congress about on february the 11th he had a bipartisan meeting at the white house to discuss the infrastructure plan the disaster in texas is perhaps the beginning of what president biden's program is

going to be on a national basis in terms of restoring a failed infrastructure in many areas that has plagued many parts of the united states during moments of crisis particularly with the related events that we've seen in recent days texas mike is known as the lone star state from nothing at a board federal involvement in in its affairs. you say that in the least in the short term this this this money will go directly to people who've been affected but in the long term is going to let the the state government and the companies responsible for what's happened in texas off the hook. well this is a very interesting question because texas is a unique situation since the 1930 s. it has been energy independent it has done not required any federal government resources for its national grid for example the electricity grid in texas is

a state grid it is not like the rest of the country in some form or other a federally controlled grid so many may be arguing that what has happened in texas is a direct consequence of failed leadership within the state not necessary we thin of the federal government as a whole but that being said the individual family grants that are going in will largely go to things like businesses rebuilding certain infrastructure patterns it is going to be very difficult in texas case because of the nature of what texas is as i was explaining but the real issue here is the degree to which president biden can impose a bipartisan plan both in texas and in the other states of america now republicans have indicated that this may not be the case joe biden may have to lean on the democratic majority in congress to be able to push this plan through but he realizes that he really needs a bi bipartisan element to it now the issue of texas

a strong republican state maybe being that beginning of that federal assistance going into texas could be a signal to other republicans in congress that they need to come together to fight not just on a regional basis in texas but on a national basis throughout the country to rebuild an infrastructure that is failing in many places texas' governor has come under fire from his his own constituents in texas what's the view in washington of how texas has handled things of. well it's very much the sense as i said that there has been an acknowledgement that the failure of the electrical grid in texas is not a federal issue it is a texan issue and the governor of texas and those who govern texas after accept responsibility for this failure but as you heard in john hindrance report as well

this is a new unique sequence of events for the state of texas in terms of weather conditions being experienced that haven't been before the state is just not set up to deal with such extreme conditions that being said the governorship within texas has been criticized for a long period of time in terms of not putting in proper infrastructure development now this is something that has been discussed in washington and very clearly this is an opportunity as i mentioned for the federal government to get a foot into a state that has resisted federal intervention for so long so this is perhaps a change perhaps not in the nature of texas itself but in the nature of how it is government getting more federal authority into a state that has been completely independent for a long period of time 0 is my county in washington for us mike many thanks indeed

has been severe flooding in indonesia's capital triggered by heavy rainfall in some parts homes were submerged by up to 2 meters of water suburbs to the east of the worst affected city officials say that more than a 1000 people were forced to seek shelter of zeros jessica washington is in one of the worst affected areas in jakarta. you can hear is the world's fastest sinking city every monsoon season is a reminder of the worsening crisis at large parts of the city once again some. and you can't as east thousands of people were moved to safety as floodwaters reached up to 1.8 meters high in some areas. rescue is in police work together to help people escape. and she said that the water in my home is still chest high all my belongings got flooded i try to put them somewhere higher but then last night the water also went higher the indonesian capital is home to about $10000000.00 people

and thousands are now without power many here are so accustomed to this recurring disaster that used to wait it out on balconies and roofs flooding is an annual event here in jakarta heard something that this community and east is well accustomed to but this year many communities which have never experienced severe flooding before doing so for the 1st time and scientists age are caught as local governments must act faster to save this sinking city. in the relatively affluent area of command people told al-jazeera they've never experienced such severe flooding jakarta's governor an east bus weighed in says local authorities are working swiftly to assist everyone to send my family down a main and top priority is to make sure the people of site we don't want to see any casualties and we've prepared evacuation centers for people who were affected by the 2 rachel writing. but this crisis is about more than just rain experts have

criticised the governor for failing to act and for blaming the rain when there are other factors contributing to the floods were the normalisation projects have been delayed and scaled back despite experts saying they would help ease the annual flooding. and excessive ground water extraction and the destruction of adequate green spaces in the city is sinking at an even faster rate. jakarta has an obligation to fix its drainage and completely for normalisation projects this is to increase the function and capacity of the rivers to contain the rainfall without causing floods. forced from their homes without the toys it's not the 1st time these children have played in flood waters and it likely won't be the last of thousands of indonesians are forced to leave their homes and belongings once again many are asking what it would take for the authorities to act jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta 5 people have been killed in 3 explosions in

afghanistan's capital police say that improvised explosive devices were used in the attacks in kabul the ones you have claimed responsibility at least 70 people have lost their lives in similar incidents in the past month including journalists and activists meanwhile the u.s. says that there's no decision yet on its troop withdrawal from afghanistan defense secretary lloyd austin says that more progress is needed in the peace negotiations clearly the violence is too high right now and more progress needs to be let these to be made in the afghan led negotiations. and so i urge all parties to choose the path towards peace. no violence must decrease now. i told our allies that no matter what the outcome of our review the united states will not undertake a hasty or disorderly withdraw from afghanistan that puts their forces or the alliances reputation at risk. at this time no decisions about our future

force posture have been made. in the meantime current missions will continue and of course commanders have the right and responsibility to defend themselves and their afghan partners against attack. as we move forward in our review we will consult with our nato allies our resolute support partners and of course the government of afghanistan and there will be no surprises we will consult each other and consult together and and decide together and act together. the weather's next here on the news out then taking aim brazil's president is happy for more people to brandish guns a strong opposition. and images of monsters from modest masses perseverance robeson's the 1st on a color pictures on the red planet. and it's cool to find out if this full time

olympic champions stay in contention with this reduce america's cup. how i will after a recent spell of wintry weather drifting across northern parts of the middle east thing starting to quieten down still a fair amount of clashing up in the satellites and that cloud just drifting rain sleet and snow through iran into afghanistan some wintry weather coming into the high ground around 14 celsius for that line of sharri right which is getting pulled apart now so if you spots of rain still there into saudi arabia chance of a shower or 2 into qatar but nothing too much to speak of further north this is a few wintry flurries around more than parts of iran once again they live and

looking fine and dry over the next day or 2 by rachel around 17 celsius that's a little more like it see temperatures here cause out around 23 degrees as we go on through monday and south of that it should be fine and dry across the u.a.e. into armaan into yemen the low want to choose showers just around the southern end of the red sea it's also want to see showers in. the horn of africa doesn't last a fine and fries for the south where we have some coals to conserve we have a secularized handle tropical cycle making its way across southern parts of the mozambique channel finally pulling out into the open waters to things quieting down behind as we go through the next 1000 watch us with heavy rain and go la. since its inception in 1961 the kuwait fund has been supporting people's livelihoods in over 100 countries by funding projects in an array of sectors.

ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development. acid attacks in india. leave many scars most of which cannot be seen. they also create a bond. borne of a sarod ordeal and stronger than the many obstacles their survivors will now face 'd. black roses and red dresses parts of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera.

well again this is that he was off from al jazeera adrian figure here in doha the headlines security forces in myanmar have shot dead 2 protesters they were killed as antique protests continue across the country the e.u. is condemning the violence and is called a meeting to discuss its response. on syria's gained access to parts of a confidential u.n. report which finds that blackwater found erik prince violated the arms embargo on libya and says the prince sent weapons to the party for after. the u.s. president joe biden has declared a major disaster in texas power is slowly returning the millions of people still don't have access to clean drinking water after a winter storm this week. as we mentioned earlier texas has been hit the hardest by the storm many blame energy companies who opted against costly equipment upgrades

designed to cope with freezing winter temperatures policy observers say that the power failure is down to legislators and state agencies who say they ignored warnings about previous storms or account for more extreme weather events texas has an independent electricity grid that's launched the isolated from the rest of the country instead several different companies generate and transmit power which they sell on the wholesale market to different bias those power companies in turn are the ones who sells to homes and businesses but it's not clear yet if having a different structure would have helped texas avoid the power outages. joining us from arlington texas is jason donna he's vice president and industrial boat and supply a company that provides critical parts to electric poles among other things could tell you this jason in your opinion who is responsible for the way in which

texas is so badly responded to this this rare winter storm. that thank your injury and i think. overall i think there was an. unequivocal. new. number of days that the. power was the temperature was so low i think that's something that's unprecedented it has never happened before and i think that's probably what has caused it caught everyone off guard the governor one point said that it was. to do with the wind power turbines freezing and he said so much for the the green new deal i mean it wasn't anything to do with wind turbines or is it more complicated than that. no it's definitely more complicated in that it it's natural gas generation plants also had problems in this cold weather i think overall the state of texas just

doesn't have the regulations in place for the. insulation needed for this type of temperature and this type of weather again this is unprecedented weather we don't typically have this in texas and we don't have our our plants and our wind turbines insulated to handle this obviously those things function well properly in northern united states and in canada and in cold climates but it's just not something that's regulated in texas as you say unprecedented once in a generation storm it may not happen again for years however. if the climate science is to be believed more extreme weather events like this that become more common do you think people that in texas get that now yes i think they do you know in addition to the energy we have a lot of transportation issues as well there's no shipping there's no receiving

stores have run out of product to sell i mean there's no bread or meat or things in the grocery store it really feels like a 3rd world country and i think that the government will step in and increase their regulations and increase revenues in the future when he went to talk about regulations what sort of regulations are we looking at for instance i mean you know you see pick people freezing in their own homes because they've got no no heating. in some cases even having to burn their own furniture to stay warm. yes it's definitely going to unprecedented and no i think that the building codes will be brought up to date to maybe for all of the power generation units our power generation plants to be able to withstand this kind of temperature in the future that it really has been unprecedented but i think we have to learn our lesson from this and be prepared for the future and all of that chasen is going to cost who's going to pay for it well that the taxpayers will probably pay for it so are the

consumers in the end but we're also sharing the burden now and also dangerous cost from all the damages that we've had this is been the most costly whether event in the state of texas in history jason it's been really good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us chasing down of that vice president of industrial bolton supply in awning to texas thanks for having me adrian the italian coast guard has launched a rescue operation after a boat carrying at least 50 migrants capsized off the coast of lampedusa emergency crews rushed to bring people to safety shortly after it happened near the island's southern coast dozens of been rescued so far but the coast guard says that 5 to 10 people remain missing a helicopter has been deployed to help find survivors. a ferry loaded with passengers and vehicles is capsized in a port in indonesia's west come on tom. local

officials say they're still checking to make sure that all passengers have been rescued but been no reports of casualties high waves have been blamed for the accident that's not believed to have been related to the floods it's the country of late. thailand's prime minister pry off channel 9 members of his cabin as have survived a no confidence vote they were accused of mismanaging the economy poor handling of the pandemic human rights abuses and corruption it's the 2nd no confidence votes the bios government has faced since it took office in 2019 and thai pro-democracy groups are rallying outside parliament demanding his resignation and for the motorcade to be reformed thousands of police officers were on standby ahead of the protest authorities of recently increased their crackdown against anyone who criticizes the wall family. the last male member of the once thriving

indigenous community of brazil's allison has died of covert 19 that spells the end of the junior people as a distinct ethnic group and a study of the reports now from one of those it's just the latest in a long history of loss for indigenous peoples. the last shelter the last few the warriors. 86 year old are more him out has died from the covered 19 virus at a hospital in northwestern brazil his passing marks the end of a people the humor indigenous community which once numbered around $15000.00. is survived by his 3 daughters but they've had to marry into another community because there were no male partners left in their own what are or why why are there for all of us for the indigenous people for those who fought to defend the rights of

indigenous communities the loss of a whole people cannot be measured it's a huge loss for all the indigenous people of brazil. was several 1000000 indigenous inhabitants of what is now the brazilian amazon when the 1st european settlers arrived here more than 500 years ago the disappearance of the uma is just the latest tragedy in a catalogue of disease deforestation land theft the massacres the law for that no more here many indigenous people are dying in brazil many many because we have what we call a government genocide of ethno side and we hold them responsible for these deaths a report out this week says the covered $1000.00 pandemic has only made the situation worse that many governments including brazil's a using the crisis is not unity to disregard social environmental safeguards to further erode the rights of indigenous people the danger. of years rid of the.

herd. it means to enter into. a rant very very trippy it's going to turn each productive agricultural round. the report says many governments have criminalized indigenous human rights defenders and facilitated the threatened use of violence against them i'm now on the program 19 even more so up to the point where did you through your urging if this is a case of crimes against humanity and should you or not. some of the regional authorities in brazil have made efforts to reach and vaccinate people in remote difficult to access communities but critics say they've been hampered by a government that has never taken the pandemic seriously and this is started that shows little regard for its original inhabitants. the less action is taken as yuma will not be the last indigenous community to disappear or. the route to 01

osiris. staying in brazil president jaya balsa narrow is easing gun ownership rules opponents say that the controversial decision will lead to an increase in violent crime but supporters argue that they're in need of greater self protection want to get a killer of reports from rio. inspired in broad daylight and in the middle of the night bullets flying over slums every day violence in rio de janeiro that's filmed by people on the spot and shared by thousands on a where is the shootout the app was created by physics teacher myself and 3 friends i must help people avoid being on the wrong place at the wrong time by informing them what parts of the city dangerous. the president should be able somehow to says the best way of reducing crime in brazil is to arm more people.

he's just taken measures to make weapons and ammunition more widely available in a country that has one of the world's largest number of homicides. it's a promise he made to his voters but one that has sparked outrage among gun control campaigners they say brazil has weak gun control policies and dismantling them will make violence worse but it's not only that is that also president bush will not allow it in a sense. a lot of the rhetoric of former president truck when it comes to incite is more loyal supporters but in the caves in brazil are also this categories that these degrees benefit their gun owners collectors sure's hunters to actually be own inside in case for example there is an election fraud in brazil in 2022 also not

a has been and still is loyal to trump who has not condemned the attack by the former u.s. president supporters on capitol hill january and many here fear the same could happen in brazil in 2 years if both is not reelected. east. they recall also not his words at a cabinet meeting last april the. presidential myself and also said brazilian should be armed in order not to be enslaved he used a political narrative to tell people they should rebel if a man or governor decides it should be a lockdown to control the spreading of the coronavirus. our own nalley owns a shooting club and imports weapons is winnable so now the supporters who say human rights groups are exaggerating the form of a biased large margin a series of abattoirs is brazil the country with the highest number of homicides

probably but how many of these crimes were committed with legally registered firearms do we have a record number of police killings maybe but we also have a record number of dead policeman if many are killed and many are dead well that means it's a war. nearly says both so narrow is only defending people's right to bear arms and protect their property and families since both are not as election 2 years ago the number of registered weapons has increased by 91 percent. but sheesh there is a teacher in the poor neighborhoods of rio de janeiro he's been a victim of violence and has seen children abandon school to take up arms and follow the local drug lord. the only solution is to invest in education and equal opportunities while there is in the quality there is no way out except dodging stray bullets brazil appears increasingly divided with no common

ground between those who believe guns will reduce violence and those who fear it will put democracy at risk meineke an i.q. of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. activists in mexico are accusing the government of trying to centralize power by controlling information that's off the president under as manuel lopez obrador said that he'd scrap the publicly funded but autonomous freedom of information institute john holdren reports from mexico city. the former president's secret white mansion and a government scam to defraud the poor and vulnerable just 2 seismic investigations in mexico city that were helped by the country's publicly funded the autonomous transparency institution and. a to go on what to one of the. if this institution didn't exist none of these investigations which have proved wide ranging corruption would have been possible. it was yes but now the president

wants to scrap the institution through which citizens can request government documents his reasons one it's expensive too it's ineffective and 3 it's politically motivated the citizen in all of these organs were created just for simulation they cost a lot of money public money the people's money. and is complying it s. accompanied his commission house actually the transparency in situ costs 0.01 percent of the national budget by them that's $100.00 times less than the government spends on the armed forces and it doesn't as the president said look the release of government files it doesn't have that power you can only ask authorities for documents they can refuse. lopez obrador spokesman says he often hasn't asked hard enough why not give it more teeth then i put to him but he sees another solution will get him what we want is

a law that forces the government to make contracts public and be transparent that has teeth so that the judicial power can force the government to open up certain information so it would be the same us now without the need for this committee of 10 people who make decisions without transparency or efficiency. but idea from the president's office would hand most of the power in regulating information directly to the federal government all the judiciary which is closely linked to it and free speech activists say there's an all vs pro. and that it's basically like picking the referee for a football match from the home to take the risk to give it they say scrapping an autonomous counterweight to the government big mistake we believe that these will be a. great regression in terms of human rights the institution was there we saw that of civil society your forte and decent efforts are trying to

enforce or to strengthen the democratization process in mexico when is the sexiness so the question remains why doesn't the government want to improve the transparency institute rather than putting more power into its own hands john home and how does it own mexico city. it's only been on the red planet for just over a day but masses perseverance rover is already sending back detailed color photos it's on a mission to collect samples from the surface of mars which nasa hopes will one day be analyzed here on earth rob reynolds reports. this is the 1st ever color picture from a world more than 54000000 kilometers beyond ours it's one of several sent from perseverance is a ray of cameras this one shows the rover being lowered down by cables to its martian landing spot from the delivery space vehicle. nasa scientists say the rover came

through its action packed landing thursday in fine form and happy to say that the rover is doing great and healthy on the surface of mars and continues to be highly highly functional and then just an exhilarating this shot shows one of the rovers heavy duty wheels that it will use to explore the red dust of just 0 crater for signs of extinct ancient life but perseverance won't be making tracks right away 1st engineers will perform system checks update its software and test some of its instruments like a robotic arm and a microphone in a month or so ingenuity the drone attached to the rover will take its 1st flight this rover is epic for it it represents. 8 years of hundreds of engineers at the laboratory thousands around the world

a total of over 4 founds and human years of investment. and already a detail in this picture has caught scientists attention that rock on the left the one that looks like a hunk of swiss cheese and there are number of different geological processes that can make holes in iraq like that and so the science team is now thinking about what this might mean and one of the questions we'll ask 1st is whether these rocks represent a volcanic or sedimentary origin and both of those would be equally exciting to the team ultimately perseverance may dig up evidence that life existed on mars at some point in the ancient past that could be a sign that life is widespread in our solar system our galaxy and the far flung reaches of the universe and that we are not alone. robert oulds al jazeera los angeles just ahead here all that is in sports writing probably have a champions little poll aim to end their race and one of paul for andy's here with

that and the rest of the day's action in just a few levels. hidden away in the room a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. one in 3 brazilian women is a victim of domestic abuse it seems every day a woman dies and it just becomes a statistic but some have broken away from the cycle of violence it's not easy to leave you have to ask for help and inspired others to turn their lives around i call the straw hat program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. every. i don't get time for sport here's andy thank you so much and i am here soccer is celebrating her 4th grand slam title a 2nd beating jennifer brady to win the australian open for the 2nd time so mark reports i d's done it again japanese tennis stanley o'neal soccer has won the australian open for a 2nd time. she was up against jennifer brady in the final having convincingly

swept aside serena williams in the last round and just like in that match of sarkozy's power shots were hard to contend with. brady didn't do herself any favors an unforced error ultimately handing off soccer the 1st set i. took from that point the 3rd seed took over. i think she absolutely dominated the 2nd set and raced to a 4 love lead a far cry from the pairs last meeting of the 2020 u.s. open last fall where brady managed to win a set. the american had no such luck this time round i. and after 77 minutes on court or soccer wrapped up her 4th grand slam title i special victory given all the

challenges just to make the event possible due to the fandom thank you for coming and watching it feels really incredible for me i didn't play my last grandson with fans or just to have this energy it really means a lot thank you so much for coming. osaka fans will be hoping there are plenty more titles to come from their favorite player so he'll malik al-jazeera. english premier league champions liverpool looking to end their recent run of poor form your gun club side about to take on local rivals ever sent their 16 points off the top spot having lost 3 straight league games they did win in the champions league during the week though they were poles manager saying that same is missing its fans . the darbies darby but without borders but with supporters it's just much more enjoyable for us as well so we all often bend and football becomes the most important thing for a few moments and in darby's that's always the case so this intensity i really like

. and the game is. still intense or emotional we want to describe that. that's normal it's football we've been talking to for all right so chris williams he says the club's problems weren't people then injuries to key pious. liverpool not having their 3rd 1st choice center backs in verge of vandyke your gomers and joe matic being ours as been a massive miss for them but they were playing with those defenders of the start the season it wasn't particularly the best we've seen from liverpool especially if you not look back those last 2 seasons where they've been absolutely phenomenal i just think they've got a mixture of injuries and maybe a little better mental burnout you have to remember that this side. pushed manchester city all away the of the season just missed out on the title by couple of points then went to madrid and beat tottenham in the champions league and then

went and completely blew the premier league away last season and will mefford title in 30 years i don't know if there's maybe a little better mental bernauer in that and it affected the team and they were playing ok football start the season and yeah then they lost a couple of games especially on field and it's all gone wrong from there i think their main problem is they haven't picked up points against what you'd call the lower level sides they've dropped points west brom they dropped points to brighton the a lot of lower down teams for them as well in their teams are liverpool really should have been expected to beat. now one of the venues for the delayed so carolyn picks is kick start of the new japanese football season site somma stadium hosting the japanese super cup which are limited crowd g.t. card with 19 restrictions. empress cup holders gambro soccer in this 13 suit not present 10 districts in japan are under states of emergency to try and limit the spread of the big organizers insist however that the olympics will go ahead as

planned they're scheduled to start on july the 23rd. now lympics sailing legend ben ainslie has finally got off the mark in his boots win this year's america's cup the 4 time gold medalist skip it see many us u.k. to their 1st win in the product cup final in new zealand but they still trail their italian rivals luna rossa 51 and the winners of this best of 13 series will get to take on defending champions team new zealand for the 36th america's cup. and the olympic champion kelly schiffer has missed out on another world sites all the american and so taking bronze in the women's stall and it's a way she's been targeting a 5th straight gold medal in this discipline but still leaves this championships with 4 medals top spots in this event going to katherine at least a chance to finish on sunday with the men's. ok but that is how we're looking for now age anybody thanks dave that is it for the news hour of

course but he's never stops i'll be back in just a moment to update you on the day's top stories i'll see if. it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised

researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. it was challenged because of all. the corruption is that. this is the way to. a cost of a minister of keenest. a year. judge tasked with imposing a no or a no order and a trial testing the nose of a nation. whitney. highway on out. in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of partitions and cuts and loads of the cost the country and as a dark side is we do see the grid from his office the majesty of the him into

something more like the team i didn't see of the british but i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. security forces crackdown on anti cooper testers in mandalay at least 2 people killed by live fire. again i may very unforgiving this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a confidential u.n. report accuses former u.s. president donald trump's ally erik prince of breaking an all.