as objects of creativity debate the 2nd secrets of the power a country on i'll just say you don't. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter when you call. in current affairs that matter to you. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the game this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. security forces crack down on mt cooper tester's in mandalay at least 2 people are killed by live fire. u.s. president joe biden declares a major disaster and storm hit texas where residents are struggling without water

or power. the taliban closes in on afghanistan 2nd largest city kandahar putting the peace process and tens of thousands of lives at risk. at a russian court rejects alexa to me is appeal in one case and finds him guilty in another he faces several years in prison. i'm generous red sports and many a soccer selected have grand slam tracy she beat jennifer brady to win the australian open for the 2nd time. we begin a serious escalation of violence against protesters security forces have killed 2 people in the 2nd largest city mandalay the european union has condemned the violence and has called a meeting to discuss a response after serious study chain as the latest. shots ring out as

protest as in mandalay flee from the police and. water 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 he written 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 now that 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 sooner the crowds just move down the road chanting for

the release of aung san suu kyi she remains under military detention does a campaign of civil disobedience starts to impact transport and banking systems across myanmar some feel they have nothing to lose 6 i was young people have their dreams $29000.00 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 the 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. u.s. president joe biden has declared a major disaster in texas after

a rare winter storm this week is slowly returning but millions of people still don't have access to clean drinking water by instinct aeration allows more federal money for a medias on long term recovery efforts a presidential visit to the states is planned for the coming days from the freezing temperatures played a part in a hotel going up in flames in texas it was a magic sprinkler system wasn't working because of frozen water pipes in the city of killeen the hotel was a full occupancy when the fire began with many people saying that they were there because they didn't have power or water in their own homes one guest was treated for minor burns it's not clear what started the blaze john henry has been following developments from chicago. phrygian texas is trading power problems for water woes this past week has been an enormous challenge maybe unlike any challenge that you've ever dealt with before has been far too burdensome for the lavs 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 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 intake and 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 a workout we call out. now everything 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 a disaster zone and 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 you coddle 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 expects 10 as mike hanna who is in washington d.c. might tell us more about this presidential declaration of a major disaster in texas what does it mean.

well there was an emergency declaration made earlier in the week but this is a major emergency declaration as it is describes what it does is releases a huge amount of federal funding for the restoration of businesses for the repair of homes all sorts of factors that would come into account following that weeks of freezing weather in texas it's basically each individual businesses need to make a claim from the federal government for amounts of money but what it does do is release a huge amount of federal funds to bring some kind of relief to those living in texas through this freeze. any of that money go to the companies who have been blamed for the part of water just of great old weatherproof the infrastructure of the future. well this is a very complicated issue because texas since the 1930 s. has declared itself energy independent it is not part of any federal grid

electrical grid for example texas has its own grid the only state to do so so the responsibility for what has happened there with the inability to cope with the weather conditions is a direct result of governmental or state governments incompetence so the questions being raised here in washington is 18 should those who are responsible actually be receiving federal funding after they refused federal funding for a long period of time that being said the president biden has been intent on creating a new national infrastructure not just within texas throughout the country and this is perhaps an opportunity for him to get a federal foothold in a state a republican controlled state that in the past refused most federal involvement mr biden clearly wants to make the whole issue of rebuilding the national infrastructure a bipartisan one he won. republican support in congress doesn't want to lean on the

democratic majority in both houses and this may well be a place to stop the federal government getting a foothold in a strongly republican state a strongly independent state at but at the same time helping result what has been a massive crisis but questions about governance within the texas still remain al-jazeera as mike hanna reporting live from washington by many things chasing down as vice president of industrial bolts and supply a company in arlington texas the provides critical parts for electricity poles he says that the severe weather cooled the state by surprise i think overall the state of texas just doesn't have the regulations in place for the. insulation needed for this type of temperature in this type of weather again this is unprecedented weather we don't typically have this in texas and we don't have

our plants and our wind turbines insulated to handle this obviously those things function well properly in in northern united states and in canada and in cold climates but it's just not something that's regulated in texas 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 let me 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. the afghan taliban is intensifying an offensive in the southern province of kandahar the group has now reached the outskirts of its main city putting tens of thousands of afghan lives at risk the u.s. is calling for an immediate end to the violence a resumption of talks between the taliban of the afghan government failure

contraflow as more from kabul here in rural kandahar the war has barely stopped since it started nearly 20 years ago. but now it's coming closer to the main city afghanistan 2nd largest after the capital kabul heavy fighting between government forces and the taliban is now only 8 kilometers away from kandahar city . was mines in fast the roads while the taliban destroys others some politicians warn if security continues to deteriorate it could be a matter of time before the government loses control or as i see in the last movements of taliban where the are focusing a lot on kandahar in as i know the are inviting their fighters from a different part of afghanistan to kandahar and it will be difficult after months

for afghan government to continue war the main hospital is full of those who've been wounded with one coming after the other every day thousands are displaced from their homes because of the heavy fighting and look for refuge in flimsy tent cities jungle wonder that such we lived our homes in a situation with some men just escaped from the fighting in the families the women and children lived behind after the fighting stopped for a little while the men came back in risk you take kids and families all their belongings will live behind. according to government officials at least 20000 families have been displaced in kandahar province since november most of them are farmers they left their fields and cannot go back the situation is no better inside kandahar city people say there is no business because of the increasing violence and targeted killings because if they let that be the central government supports the security forces i don't think that the tally burgled go forward in. kandahar is

the birthplace of the taliban and it's politically significant for the group it's also a strategic province and a geo political gateway to kabul and the broader region as spokesman of the ministry of defense told al-jazeera that a few months back the afghan security forces stopped a major taliban plot to attack kandahar he says that if the armed group is planning another similar offensive the afghan army is fully prepared to fight back a piece that for now seems to remain out over everyone's reach for your country for al-jazeera kabul. michael semple a professor at queen's university belfast he was also a deputy e.u. special representative to afghanistan and he thinks that if the taliban continues to fight it will lose all the political games in the past year. i think the u.s. has put the ball in the taliban's court they've said that if if the violence were

to stop or go do it all go down we would be on our way out on the basis of a recent performance by the taliban i don't think anybody expects them to reduce the violence enough for troops to the in the next 2 months the taliban are rattling their own sabers and saying that if the tallow if the u.s. does not withdraw in 2 months they intend to intensify a military campaign which they have sustained they say they will fight i don't think it would be the end of the agreement of course on force fighting people will die but there is a huge amount to all of pressure on all parties to this conflict to bring it to an end and i think that if they if it comes up be clear that only by resisting a cease fire insisting on sustaining their violence against the afghan government they the taleban have obliged the the u.s. to stay i think they'll find themselves isolated and i think they'll find

themselves under pressure to farms to find some kind of a solution in other words the agreement of the agreement does not die but i can imagine that there might be a period in which there is no that there are no no negotiations on the taliban finds itself more and more isolated and they lose some of the political gains and respectability that they've enjoyed over the past year. there with the news are from al-jazeera still to come on the program soldiers of fortune a u.n. report reveals how donald trump's ally erik prince broke an arms embargo in libya to support warlord khalifa haftar. last june a warrior dies in the amazon marking the end of a people here how the pandemic is accelerating the history of indigenous disappearance and its course the skier who fell down with just the right time in the world championships in italy.

the russian opposition politician alexina valley has suffered 2 legal setback says 3 year prison sentence has been upheld but shortened by 3 weeks he was found guilty last month of violating his parole while he was in germany recovering after being poisoned at a separate case he's been found guilty of slander and find joining us now from london is and i'm not gave up russia specialist i'm visiting senior research fellow at king's college london good to have you with us again anna before we wipe this out and talk geopolitics here as well to get your thoughts on what's happened to the valley today in court. the outcome of that has been predictable i think not only team knew it all the way and only looked very well prepared to laugh at his last what i reflected that he also thought about he was not only to see iraq creep but also want to see russia happy about this

basket. in east timor is my legal challenge muslim mother so this law is null and that to me what do you make of president biden yesterday and his his 1st major foreign policy speech as president when he. while talking about the russian president refused to call him president putin it was just simply putin. is very well known have all come here and most times the while this can be coming up pointed to people who are also now well there and to russia to see their position in his administration so this is something which has been all the books all the way the kremlin is all well prepared. they did not expect anything else like what about

the e.u. it has a very different attitude to russia compared to the united sates doesnt it. european union and individual european countries how much when it's mate with rush because when it's almost no relationship between russia and the united states down that slope of that if egypt weapons going through europe russia sharing the wealth can they how will the become only be that an egypt which shifts in the now older people to change or those who are unknown exactly how much are you going to not only from now will not your own relationship must also still laughing with them will do in are all of that will of both just kremlin care what the u.s. and the e.u. think of the way in which it behaves i don't think that they can

get more money i don't think they they think that the u.s. is a pool is pretty hypocritical and they will simply not exist in 1st lot my comment by carefully people sentiment for a small rivalry rather than actual russia after all the grass be out of will so why are our clocks by one is pretty good now from the red i think whoa what amount of that night no wind will inflict the white house not. a businessman not known election really gets to get out of any thanks david and i met gave of that in london thank. same parts of a confidential u.n. report which finds donald trump's ally a private security contractor erik prince violates of an arms embargo in libya a report to the security council reveals how prince sent foreign mercenaries and weapons toward khalifa huffed off in 2019 when he was fighting against the

internationally recognized government in tripoli of zeros kristen salumi reports now from washington. 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 divide us. but it's his role in a malicious assault on the internationally recognized government of libya in 2019 that's now a question al-jazeera has seen excerpts of a 121 page report submitted to the u.n. security council and 1st reported by the new york times alleging prince help 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 a no way that's going to take place we there's a u.n. process we've been part of that and a half 2 hours 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 in 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 huffed are 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 un 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 a stated u.s. policy kristen salumi al-jazeera washington al-jazeera as manic trainer is in the libyan city of misrata and says that ordinary libyans are hopeful that the new american administration will be on their side. 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 helps solidify his power there before he began making his

move towards the west in 2011 the u.s. played an integral part that support rebel forces to topple moammar gadhafi through nato through nato airstrikes later on the u.s. helped forces loyal to the government of national corps civically here in misrata to fight against i saw 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. 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 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. activists in mexico are accusing the government there of trying to centralize power by controlling information itself the president under as manuel lopez obrador said that he'd scrap the publicly funded but autonomous freedom of information institute of zeros john holeman reports now 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. or to go on what to one of the. if this institution didn't exist you know these investigations which have proved

wide ranging corruption would have been possible. to deal with yes but now the president wants to scrap the institution through which citizens can request government documents he's reasons one it's expensive to it's ineffective and 3 it's politically motivated. all of these organs were created just for simulation they cost a lot of money public money the people's money. and his companion companion has comes from mouse 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 hasn'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. that idea from the president's office would hand most of the power and 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 the list of if 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 a civil society effort and decent efforts are trying to enforce

or to strengthen the democratization process in mexico when he says x units 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. we're going to weather update next here on the news out than an increasing number of countries lifting quarantine restrictions for vaccinated people will take a look at the future for travel after the pandemic plus. i'm just a washington into cars or with severe flooding has forced hundreds from their homes . and in support one of japan's olympic venues kickstarts the country's new football season resales coming up a little later. how

i will after a recent spell of wintry weather drifting in across northern parts of the middle east things starting to quieten down still a fair amount of clashing up on 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 rayman she's getting pulled apart now so if you spots of rain still there into saudi arabia chance of a shower or 2 into casa 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 amman into yemen the low want to choose showers just around the southern end of the red sea a chance i wanted to show us. the whole of africa doesn't last

a fine and tries for the south where we have some cause for concern we have a secularized handle tropical cycle making its way across southern parts of the maze and bait channel finally pulling out into the open waters to things quieting down behind as we go through the next watch us with heavy rain i gota. acid attacks in india. leave many scars most of which cannot be seen. they also create a bond. born of a sarod ordeal and stronger than the many obstacles their survivors will now face. black roses and red dresses part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their families last

year and the most terrible thing in syria is to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship for mothers sometimes are told to complete either to die and to continue to be surely to be tortured. the disappeared of syria on al-jazeera. all. that is good sorry with us hello a very unforgiving here in doha with the news out from al-jazeera the headlines security forces in myanmar shot dead 2 protesters they were killed as antique coupe

protests continue across the country the e.u. is condemning the violence and is called a meeting to discuss its response. u.s. president joe biden has declared a major disaster in texas after a rare winter storm this week power is only slowly returning but millions of people still don't have access to clean drinking water so. the afghan taliban is intensifying an offensive in the southern province of kandahar purpose down reached the outskirts of its main city putting tens of thousands of civilian lives at risk . russian scientists have confirmed the world's 1st case of a highly contagious strain of bird flu in humans 7 workers were infected during an outbreak of the h 5 n 8 but flu strain on a poultry farm in southern russia in december but scientists believe the virus is not transmissible between people the government has alerted the world health organization. to the crowd a virus pandemic now where more and more countries are beginning the vaccination

programs millions of doses are now being administered every day so what does that mean for international travel and quarantine measures will a handful of countries have already lifted their core unseen restrictions for vaccinated travelers cyprus georgia iceland poland cats on the seychelles among them a more discussing it but for every country the rules a difference what vaccine you've received where you've received it and how it was recorded are all important factors and that's largely due to the fact that there is no global organization verifying and policing the inoculations various so-called vaccine passports of been discussed but the challenge is in creating one that successful that accepted around the world joining me now from new york is. a professor of epidemiology and medicine at columbia university good to have you with us once again the professor what do you think of this idea of waving quarantine for

anyone that's been vaccinated and vaccine passports are they a good idea. i think what scenes are her us are as a light at the end of that time of the end but nonetheless for the time being as we are still going through the dark tunnel towards the light at the end is that we have to be cautious in adopting some of these ideas regarding vaccination passports and so on i think there's room for incrementally examining easing of some restrictions and for example allowing people who can demonstrate having been vaccinated as fully allowed them to waive some of those church and their lives to travel but i think very importantly as we do so we have to continue to live on a tour of the effects of such easing of assertions so that if we identify that those in each group is increasing the risk then we have to rapidly move back and put back some of the destructions again so there is room for and moving cautiously

forward but i think it's really critically important to examine this issue have a universal uniform way of assessing whether people have been vaccinated fully or not and how well that's documented and so on and before we can move to a wide scale extension of our such our policies but. you can still contract tame even though you've been vaccinated and you can still possible. i think it's really critically important to remind everyone that what we do on the day after we get vaccinated is no different from what we needed to do the day before we were vaccinated we know that vaccines do not confer and they don't lead to production immediately we know that there's no betsy that works a 100 percent of that time we also know that we don't know how long the production is how long it will last after getting backs and it is and most importantly the

vaccines we have now have been shown to have been scary even germs that prevention of disease with 1000 diseases they have not been shown to do and yet protect individuals from getting infected so that means is that someone could potentially be protected from getting sick with call that after they beg zenaida's but they may be still able to get infected n.p. and then unknowingly transmit this infection to others if they don't wear a mask and they don't appropriately distance in some of the you talked about the light at the end of the tunnel does this does what you're saying mean that the measures the protective measures we have in the place of at the moment with social distancing and mosque wearing doesn't matter how many people have actually for those had to stay. one was that he had to stay for the time being i think our goal is to reach collectively as. a scenario where we have massive increase in scale up of vaccination around the globe and we have suppression of

transmission of this virus to very low levels and it's only once we had message extension of vaccination and the news when we suppress the transmission of this virus to mary low levels that we can say then that we can let go of some of these or destructions like the masking and that this is the missing and so on so going back to the time of an allergy that put a time being in order for us to men oversee fully through this tunnel we need to continue to observe these very important protective measures and professor sorry to spring this on you but what we've got your expertise here you've probably heard me talking a few minutes ago about the russian scientists confirming the world's 1st case of bird flu the h 5 n 8 virus in humans in russia we said that scientists believe that at the most to combat the transmitted between people is just another gone from birds to humans but not between people is that something we should be worried about. i think for

someone like myself with an infectious disease specialists an epidemiologist every one of these reports causes us to be concerned and i think we have to be very vigilant to make sure that that remains the case that there is no more transmission from birds to humans and most importantly that we monitor very can hear fully to make sure that we don't have a person to person transmission i think the lessons we've learned over 1000 pandemic is that it started out with one transmission and that we're really are today to every single piece of animal to human transmission of a novel new virus is a cause of concern and then he and requires us to be very vigilant and to follow this very very carefully it's always good to talk to professor many thanks indeed for being with us once again professor. in new york thank you very much my pleasure

new zealander started its covert 19 vaccination campaign with front line workers at the front of the queue a small group of health workers were documented on friday in auckland ahead of the why the rollout around $12000.00 border and quarantine staff will be vaccinated in the coming weeks the government expects it station wide rollout to take a full year on health minister has resigned after reports that his friend was able to skip the line for a covert 19 vaccine the government has only just started to inoculate people over the age of 70 prioritizing health care workers before that the last male member of the once thriving indigenous community in brazil's amazon has died of covert 19 it spells the end of the junior people as a distinct ethnic group and as danielle swam a report some from point to sa as it's not just it is 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 carpet 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. 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 or. bar but 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. 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 don't look for that no more here many indigenous people are dying in prison many many because we have what we call a government genocide ethno side and we hold them responsible for these deaths. report out this week says the covert $1000.00 pandemic has only made the situation worse that many governments including brazil's a using the crisis is not that unity to disregard social environmental safeguards to further erode the rights of indigenous people the exchange of alarming rate of increase rapidly is the root of the sort of urgency to enter into these round. her trainers as run very very large is going to turn into productive agricultural rounds. the report says many governments have criminalized indigenous human rights defenders and facilitated the threatened use of violence against the i'm now

program 19 even more so up to the point where indigenous roots are this is a case of crimes against humanity. or another. 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 the society that shows little regard for its original inhabitants. the less action is taken as you will not be the last indigenous community to disappear or. to 0 what osiris. us presidents jaya balsam are as easing gun ownership rules opponents say that that controversial decision will lead to an increase in violent crime but supporters argue that there a need of greater self protection want to get a kid have reports from rio. inspired in

broad daylight i mean the middle of the night bullets flying over slums every day violence in rio de janeiro that's by people on the spot and shared by thousands on if we're is the shoot out the app was created by physics teacher myself and 3 friends. i missed how 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 so now 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 done control policies and dismantling them

will make violence worse but it's not only that is that also president bush for now though is in a sense co-opting a lot of the rhetoric of former president trying when it comes to incite he's more loyal supporters that in the caves in brazil are also this category is that these degrees benefits their gun owners collectors sure's hunters to actually be here only inside in case for example there is an election fraud in brazil in 2022 also now 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. that is the recall also matters words at

a cabinet meeting last april. as a potential mess up in a. 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 government decides they should be a lockdown to control the spreading of the coronavirus. owns a shooting. and imports weapons is winnable so now to supporters who say human rights groups are exaggerating the form of bias much more drama series of about 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 and banned in 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. of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. a ferry loaded with passengers and vehicles partially capsized in a port in india indonesia's west. was. local

officials say they're still checking to make sure all passengers have been rescued the no reports of casualties high waves have been blamed for the accident. 2. elsewhere in indonesia that's been severe flooding in the capital jakarta and some parts homes were under around 2 beats metres of water suburbs to the east of the worst affected city officials say that more than a 1000 people were forced to seek shelter. washington as in one of the worst affected areas of jakarta. to counter is the world's fastest sinking city every monsoon season is a reminder of the worsening crisis of large parts of the city once again submerged 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 works 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 they choose to wait it out on balconies and roofs flooding is an annual event here in jakarta heard something that this community east of carter is well accustomed to but this year many communities which have never experienced severe flooding before are doing so for the 1st time and scientists age a card is local governments must act faster to save this sinking city. in the relatively affluent area of command people told al-jazeera they have never experienced such severe flooding jakarta's governor on the spot weighed in and says local authorities are working swiftly to assist everyone but she sent home without

a main top priority is to make sure the people are safe we don't want to see any casualties and we've prepared evacuation centers for people who are affected by the torrential rain. 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 we have a 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. carter has an obligation to fix its drainage and completely filled all malaysian projects this is to increase the function and capacity of the rivers to contain the rainfall without causing floods forced from their homes without their 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 thailand's prime minister prior to 9 members of his cabinet have survived a no confidence votes they were accused of mismanaging the economy poor handling of pandemic human rights abuses and corruption it's the 2nd no confidence vote riots government has faced since taking office in 2090 meanwhile pro-democracy groups of rallied outside the type parliament that are mounting the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy thousands of police officers are on high alert the demonstrations are part of the youth that movement that emerged last year authorities have recently been increasing the number of arrests of 4 critics of the world family in spades thousands of people hours on the streets of madrid and barcelona calling for the release of

a rapper these are live pictures for 5 days demonstrators have been dividing hustles freedom. he was sentenced to 9 months in prison for insulting the monarchy and glorifying so-called terrorism also once the war that was used to convict him scrapped. still to come here on the new side sport will find out at this 4 time olympic champion can stay in contention to win this year's america's cup. in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of partitions and cuts and loads of millions of people across the country and there's a dockside can do is you do see the grid from his off the majesty of the hindu fish into something more like the team i didn't see of the british today 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 i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world i cover foreign policy national security is very much a political impasse here's the pop like how do we illustrate it are we telling a good story will people get what we're trying to teach here in their living outside in makeshift tents this is not the way any family wants to raise their children we're willing a kid in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to absolutely feel that you were there.

all again from doha times for his gemma. thanks a.j. and let's start in melbourne where nary a saga has beaten jennifer brady in straight sets to any australian open for the 2nd time she's now on her 1st of 4 grand slam finals the 1st woman to do so in 30 years so how much it reports. she's done it again japanese tennis danio 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 it that much of sarkozy's power shots were hard to contend with. brady didn't do herself any favors an unforced error ultimately handing or soccer the 1st set i. took from that point the 3rd seed took over.

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 save. the american had no such luck this time around. and after 77 minutes on court osaka 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 so just to have this energy it really means a lot think 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. home fans

didn't get the result they wanted in the mixed doubles final check barbara critical over an american rajiv ram combining it to win against the australian pairing some stories in matthew of didn't is the 2nd time they've won this title in the last 3 is playing with fans is what this is all about for us at this point you know it's at this at this level you want you want a grand slam final in front of people that want to be there to watch you so it was really cool even though no i guess we had more support than maybe i thought but obviously most were cheering for a bonus but it was deliberate athletico madrid have dropped points in their push to win the spanish league tie so for the 1st time since 2014 they were beaten to know about events a 2nd in the table round madrid can close the gap to 3 points with a win against the lid later on chelsea remain unbeaten and head coach thomas to go after coming from behind to draw with southampton in the premier league southampton took the lead in the 1st half 3 online at liverpool striker to kimi minimum you know chelsea then given a penalty just after the break when danny ings brought down mason mounts and mount

himself stepped up to score from the spot to make it 10 chelsea stay 4th in the table position making the terminations. the timing was simply not good enough today to to create more chances to be more decisive and tells the story we needed in a game like this we need a penalty to score. we're into the 2nd half of them as he sighed obvious and feel reigning champions liverpool are losing one nil against everton thanks to rich allisons the minute goal liverpool went into the game on the back of 3 straight league defeat looking like a 4th at the moment let's see i have moved up to 4th in its least syria a single goal from luis alberto enough for them to be some doria that are currently under investigation for allegedly tampering with coronavirus tests they could be relegated to siri b. if found guilty one of the football venues of the delay did tell you it in pics is

kick started the new japanese football season so i thomas' stadium hosted the japanese super cup which had a limited crowded due to coronavirus restrictions. for his cup holders a gamba soccer 3 to the present 10 districts in japan are under a state of emergency trying to limit the spread of coated limb people and eyes as they still insist the games will go ahead as planned on july 23rd. one of new zealand's greatest rugby players dan carter has announced his retirement from the sport the flyhalf won 2 world cups with the all blacks including in 2015 when he was a man of the match in the final against australia he's world rugby wreck or 2 point scorer and is a 3 time world player of the year you will see one of 3 super rugby titles with the crusaders as well as league titles in japan and france as well and then pick sailing legend ben ainslie has finally got off the mark in his bid to win this year's america's cup the 4 time gold medalist skipper to see many also u.k.

to their 1st win in the prada cup final in new zealand but they still a trial of their italian rivals 51 the winners of the best of 13 series will get to take on defending champions team new zealand in the main america's cup in march. when they're. already starting last night so i just did a great job just you know we're going to give up the store it's going to get started on words. double elim picked champion michela shifrin has missed out on another wild title the american it took bronze in the women's slalom and it's like she'd been targeting a 5th consecutive gold medal in this discipline that still leaves these conferences with 4 medals top spots in this event catarina millions but the championships finished on sunday with the men's slalom. that is a sport from may for now i'll be back with more later. gemma many thanks indeed for

playing a lot of doha ping pong here because it's goodbye from us and. mary i'm here with the news in london next i'll see you right. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges of sedation and the state line becomes the default media namely to both of you kids are images that he did not give to these guys that just how did he create a nuisance makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside

the mainstream to shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. how does a team from a smaller league draw the biggest crowds. why does the either flag fly hawley's at the sponsors club. what is it about celtic that has the world over here in the mall politics and football coach on the planet will stop with the oppressed and why would anyone. the. decades ago manila was called the pearl of the orient the manila metropolitan theater was once a testament to the city's grandeur but tickets later the theater has become a symbol of mandela's dickie now the philippine government is changing the government buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many

structures that were destroyed in manila drawing world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts see manila has never truly recovered. 2 people shot dead in mandalay esmé and mas security forces fire live rounds to break up protests was. this as rapid as poets transport workers and ethnic minorities across the country unite in a show of anger against the military. oh i'm.