to discover the current events. with diverse cultures. and conflict in politics. when i went east on al-jazeera. and italian diplomat among 3 killed in an attack on a u.n. convoy in the democratic republic of congo. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the vaccination rollout helps lead england out of lock down forests johnson reveals his road map to me and mars public display of the fi and hundreds of thousands

resist the military's warning to end their protests and another blow for boeing and engine emergency causes the manufacturer to seek the grounding of some aircraft. thank you for joining us global tributes are being paid bassett or to the democratic republic of congo who died during an ambush on a u.n. convoy italy's president labeled the assault that killed look at that as e.o. and 2 others a cowardly attack while the foreign minister has vowed to find those responsible at that as he had died along with his italian bodyguard and congolese driver when his convoy was attacked near view don't get national park nobody has claimed responsibility but dozens of armed groups have been battling for control of the mineral rich area or been the appraisal the for our closeness and our thoughts go

1st of all to the families i am returning to italy i am leaving the council of foreign affairs to meet with the prime minister and to get down to work we are activating all the relevant institutions to get to the truth as soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants on the stage of ours have suffered and lost their lives at the same time we have already taken steps to bring the bodies back to italy as soon as possible. well the attack ate a world food program convoy in a statement to the program expressed its deepest sympathy adding its condolences to the family colleagues and friends of 3 people killed today in an attack on a delegation traveling on a field visit in the east of them a critic republic of congo the attack occurred on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts well catherine soyuz following the story for us from nairobi she says the regional

governor told al-jazeera that security forces were not informed of the italian ambassador's visit. this is event happened at around $815.00 g.m.t. and the convoy was heading to a place called ritu. to visit a school feeding program eataly is one of the biggest funders of the w.s.p. and it's not uncommon to see individuals and country representatives of visit some of the areas where they support the mission there now we have spoken to the governor of loft he says that the attack happened not far away from goma which is the provisional capital of north kivu he says that the war caught up the convoy was caught up in the crossfire between the room wouldn't get. wardens and the gunmen during that bush but he also says that the team was not

accompanied by escort from the un peacekeeping mission. from the national army or police as well he says that the police were not even aware that the ambassador a was in town or that there was a mission. because it's a constance's like this involving such high profile dignitaries what the police do once informed is that they provide their own special protection units to accompany the dignitaries on their deployment this did not happen by the w.s.p. they're saying that they had been cleared to use that road without police without security catherine so reporting there were indigo ellis' an associate director at africa matters a strategic advisory consultancy she says this attack shows both the un and the congolese army lack the funding to combat armed groups in the area. and there are over 70 armed groups that operate in that particular kind of the north north and

south kivu the sophistication of this attack signifies that it's unlikely to be those kind of my in my smaller militias that katherine mentioned in the area and it's more likely to be one of the groups such as the f.t.l. are all of the f.o. ca but i think the most important thing to think about is that the location of this attack is almost exactly the same place where 2 british tourists were kidnapped in may 2018 so it's kind of real evidence of this longstanding security lapse in the region it was also very close to where 6 were in the guards were killed in the last month lee i think we're looking at a kind of longstanding funding issue for the for the congolese army in that area a lack of kind of security planning as well as strategy when it comes to trying to combat the armed groups who operate in that area. obviously the u.n. peacekeeping force and has been operational for a good number of years has a lot to answer for with regards to security in that area they operate under

chapter 7 peacekeeping mandate from the u.n. which actually kind of limits the response ability that they have in order to counter these types of attacks. they are entirely kind of at the mercy of working with the with the congolese armed forces and they are chronically underfunded and chronically kind of mismanaged with regards to the way that they deal with these armed groups hundreds of thousands of people have defied military warnings and protests that across we have are shutting down businesses a spark of a general strike against this month's coup it's been 3 weeks now since the army seized power and detained hundreds of people including the popular democratic leader and sons who cheat the e.u. has now become the latest international body to say that it's preparing sanctions against me and lawyers military rulers tony training reports from bangkok. from the air men must southern city of daraa way appears completely jammed thousands of

protesters blocking streets in the city center they march despite a warning from the military that lives will be lost if the protests continue. the thinly veiled threat came in a statement read out on state t.v. on sunday night he blamed the weekend's violence on an emotional teenager's am but on the ground there is no mistaking the demonstrators message they won't accept the military coup and calls for the release of the country's democratic leader aung san suu kyi who has been held by the military in isolation since the beginning of the month. cross the country tensions remain high after the 1st we were holding a sit in protests and the police cracked down on us using force there were many and they are arrest many protesters. a general strike is being widely observed shutting banks and businesses transport systems to a halt. and despite the short term impact many feel that's the most effective way

to make the military back down. today is the day for countrywide protest we do not want to stay under the control of a military dictatorship so we came here to join the protest regardless of the salaries we make nothing will happen my salary is cut but if we stay under the control of a military dictatorship we will become the slave. even in the capital naypyidaw a city whose pants were designed for the military to maintain control civil servants took to the streets. but the protesters have no illusions about the dangers they face this candlelit vigil held to commemorate those who have already died in the protests with the military and protesters both standing their ground real concern as more violence to come tony ching al-jazeera. the united nations is calling for the immediate rescue of almost 104 hinge of refugees

stranded at sea with no food at least 8 are believed to have died their last known location was just off the andaman islands off the bail in the bay of the of been goal they have reportedly set sail from the cox's bazar refugee camp in bangladesh about 10 days ago about a 1000000 range refugees have been living in the camp after fleeing persecution in . well tanveer choudhry is in the bangladeshi capital dhaka and says there is assistance but no answer about where people will go. well the latest we know this is coming from the rowing a human rights group in new delhi which is confirmed by our al-jazeera bureau in delhi now they have been in touch with some of the rowing in the boat they say the indian navy has come across and they are giving them a relief or an emergency material they have not been rescued per se but they are providing them with all the provisional help we also spoke to one of the refugee

whose brother is in the boat he has send out an appeal to raise by other enduring a camp is the name is mr shiloh and was stranded in the middle of the thing on the man he said please tell the international community that we need to be rescued and given shelter somewhere we've been a drip a little over 10 days now and things are really bad the heavy active area for traffickers from me and mary as well as bangladesh who takes lots of money from these people to take them in those countries but never usually succeed now bangladesh navy and cause got a way out of this the keep an eye but the government has a very very strong attitude of many taking back anymore running us. england could see an end to most coronavirus restrictions by the end of june as part of rolling change to measures starting next month prime minister boris johnson

laid out a cautious and every 1st simple plan to lift pandemic restrictions but it could all come to a halt to anything section rates rise or vaccinations i delayed these reports from london the road. will be gradual and cautious a decision the government said was based upon data rather than pressure to set dates. we cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy our physical and mental well being of the life chances of our children and that is why it is so crucial that this roadmap should be cautious but also irreversible we're setting out what i hope and believe is a one way road to freedom. the government now confirmed all schools will reopen for all children on march the 8th many have already adapted to continue teaching the children of essential workers throughout the pandemic students and staff at this

school have regular lateral flow tests on the school premises this looks set to continue when the rest of the children return. after the reopening of schools allowing people to have more social contacts will be a priority. from march the 29th up to 6 people or 2 households can meet outside including in private gardens this is when the stay at home order is expected to be lifted the move follows encouraging new data indicating the pfizer and oxford vaccines used in the u.k. can reduce hospital admissions much as 94 percent u.k. is hoping its lead in the vaccination campaign will allow it to recover faster than other countries. further stages for england several weeks of passing clue the reopening of non-essential shops and the face return of people to pubs and restaurants hit hard by months of closures the reopening of hotels and hairdressers will follow for the prospect of foreign travel or summer holidays seems some way

off the easing of restrictions can only move to the next phase providing for criteria have been met that previous measures do not in any way affect the vaccine rollout that there isn't suddenly an increase in infection rates or the national health service isn't adversely affected by any of these previous changes and last week if there is any concern a tour about the possible impact of any new variance. more than 17000000 people have received at least one dose of a covert 19 vaccine infection rates are falling quickly across the country with an 80 percent drop in cases in the capital cases of the south african variant are also shrinking but after months of disruptive office trick sions the last thing anyone wants is for a taste of normality to be suddenly taken away. well neve barker is with us in the studio with more on that story it's been interesting to watch because the prime minister has outlined his road map with some very specific dates and what's meant

to happen on those dates but he's also been very careful to say that if infection rates rise then all bets are off the fact that he began credibly cautious and very very deliberate with his words because over the past 12 months the british government has had a bit of a savaging in terms of its approach to dealing with coronavirus let's not forget the government was slow to introduce restrictions that was that debacle over the chief advisor to the prime minister dominic cummings not sticking to the rules it was slow to introduce the track and trace system and then over the past few months or so we've had this all in office strictures sort of been hugely disruptive to businesses and to school kids remember back in january was children were sent back to school just one day for one day and then they were told that they have to stay at home over fears about the spread of the south african variant but the government are now saying all of the control that that variant is likely to become dominant in the country but it comes to the vaccine rollout has been hugely successful well then 17000000 people have had

a dose and the government says that by the end of july every adult in the country will have received at least one dose as well the government say that all of this is driven by data not by dates but they have said that by june the 21st most of these restrictions will be out of the way including the opening of night clubs so forget that it's the weekend normally when the glass and the music festival takes place we can imagine they'll be huge parties in the streets and i'm sure you and i will be there in a journalistic capacity absolutely. thank you very much for that thank you. now still ahead here on al-jazeera the u.s. and iran make their pitches on the nuclear deal but the divisions remain. a hidden message that helps explain.

hello there well what a difference a week makes we've got lots of warm weather model there into central parts of europe and over towards the west and in central belgium temperatures on sunday afternoon touched 18 degrees celsius just across the border we've seen some very warm weather pushing up into the netherlands as well cladogram pushing in from the west but this was last week in the netherlands you can see a good old covering of snow here and then on sunday it's about we have a temperatures touching 17 celsius and that mild air that's in across the good parts of western and central europe some pleasant sunshine into germany but the light winds are really will fill proper spring like should we say well so wet and windy weather pushing in across all into wales into were northern england across a good part of scotland still some snow in the forecast there we got some snow there pushing into that western side of russia and still pretty cold in moscow it

just minus 16 celsius is a tad warmer for moscow as we go throughout wednesday but for a whole lot still some blustery showers pushing into western parts of europe loss of lovely sunshine into central and southern parts of europe the sunshine stretches down across a good part of north africa a few showers there for all the parts of algeria northern areas of june this year but elsewhere is dry. from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy the break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know our day's work is done. welcome to our home.

the. reminder now of the headlines on al-jazeera tributes are pouring in for italy's ambassador to the democratic republic of congo after he died during an ambush on one convoy look at 10 as was killed along with his italian bodyguard and congolese driver near of your own gun national park. hundreds of thousands of people have protested across meum are shutting down businesses as part of a general strike against this month's crew the demonstrations were largely peaceful despite threats that the army would use lethal force against protesters. most

coronavirus restrictions could be lifted in england by the end of june under new plans revealed by the u.k. prime minister barak's strong scent in the 1st phase of schools will reopen and to people from separate households will be allowed to meet outside that's from march 8th. the u.s. says it not only wants to return to the iran nuclear deal but it wants to strengthen and extended however iran has made a new threat on sunday the un's nuclear watchdog struck an interim deal to allow inspectors restricted access to iranian nuclear facilities u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken the said that the was a great a risk of regional instability if the deal was not fully restored but iran's supreme leader has appeared on television saying his country may enrich uranium up to 60 percent purity the 2015 the caps it to just under 4 percent.

the united states remains committed to ensuring that iran never acquires a nuclear weapon diplomacy is the best path to achieve that goal president biden has said if iran comes back into strict appliance with a j c p o a the united states is prepared to do the same working with allies and partners we will also seek to lengthen in strength of the j.c. v.o.a. and address other areas of concern including iran's destabilizing regional behavior and ballistic missile development and politicization. with a return to a full deal looking unlikely negotiations have turned into a bidding war the key issue is financial iran wants an end to the u.s. sanctions which have paralyzed its economy before it will comply with the nuclear commitments but the u.s. insists it must comply 1st before the sanctions can be lifted when the secretary of state saying even once the pact strengthened well as that standoff continues the

u.n. nuclear agency does what it can to keep some inspections accepting no short notice physicists to keep the same number of inspectors on the ground but by conceding that iran's government is clashing with the hard line parliament and the law that it passed last year to reject visits from tuesday if the sanctions remain meanwhile the european bid is clear if demanding germany's foreign minister called for nothing less than full complot compliance to vindicate the 2015 deal. well it's speaker white house correspondent kimberly how kit will kimberly if any of us thought that things were going to get easier when the donald trump was out of the white house with iran that this doesn't seem to point in that direction the white house press secretary has actually been discussing this what's she been saying. yeah well the white house press secretary has really been reiterating the positions of the secretary of state and their european allies and and that is that

they believe iran is not in compliance with the terms of the agreement so in that way they're not much different in terms of the perspective from an administration as the trumpet administration where they differ in terms of how they move forward is approach and it's very clear that this is an administration that wants to move forward with diplomacy the foundation of their wrong policy so what we've heard from the white house press secretary is that is the view that they believe that they can move forward and that they are awaiting a response now from iran that iran needs to reply to the european allies about whether or not it's willing to at least sit down and have a discussion the white house says this should no way be sort of perceived as nuclear talks but instead just a discussion on the pathway forward as you heard the secretary of state there he said he was to lengthen and strengthen the agreement from 2015 and what he means by

that is again what the white house under donald trump believes is that there were other actions that iran was involved with destabilizing the broader region there is the concern about american hostages still being detained all of these issues need to be worked out and so that's what the white house is hoping to do hoping to sit down through their channels as they call it and have these initial discussions again demanding full compliance ultimately as the end state or goal for on the part of iran can be how can we delay to strum washington d.c. thank you. any bola vaccination campaign in guinea has been delayed because of bad weather on thursday the world health organization announced that it was sending more than 11000 doses but the flight couldn't land in the guinea and capital cannot carry because of heavy fog and had to be diverted to senegal inoculations could begin on tuesday a day behind show joy at least 5 people have died in guinea's ebola outbreak which

was this month the cleared an epidemic boeing 7 has asked airlines worldwide to ground the model of its 777 airliner fitted with a type of engine that partially disintegrated in midair on saturday there is an investigation into what caused the incident on the united airlines flight which rained down they breach in the u.s. state of colorado the united kingdom is now banned the boeing 777 model from entering its airspace but speak to john hendren in chicago where boeing's headquarters are actually based so john what appears to be the problem with this plane and what is likely to happen now. well barbara if you're hearing signs of exasperated it's from over my shoulder that's the boeing building in black this is the latest problem for a company that's had more than its fair share of the past couple of years and in

this instance the company is saying that there was a problem with these hollow blades inside of the engine that somehow broke apart came into the engine and that engine exploded into flames which must have been terrifying for the people who filmed it from inside of the plane that plane ultimately landed safely with one engine as pilots are trained to do but now boeing has asked the 3 countries from which this plane departs that's the united states japan and south korea to ground it and aviation authorities have gone along with that recommendation they are now investigating the plane and what they want to know in this particular case is whether those hollow blades were damaged in that damaged went undetected in inspections or whether there was a flaw in the manufacturing of that blade that would be a more widespread problem and that would mean they would have to take these planes out of service possibly for a longer period of time now this affects

a limited number of boeing's about $100.00 so the company is hoping that this problem will be limited if not to this plane just to this particular type of pratt and whitney engine which is not on all $770.00 seven's yes on the i guess that takes care of the practical side but when it comes to bones reputation it really has suffered one blow after another how serious do you think this latest one is. that's right and just to remind everybody it was just about 2 years ago when 2 planes crashed within months of each other those were $737.00 max planes and they killed $346.00 people in total after that those planes were taken out of the skies that was very painful for boeing because boeing was expecting that to be their most lucrative aircraft they were hoping that using that sales would surpass those of airbus but that is not what happened they had to ground the plane for 2 years it

went back up in the air in december but they're still warning passengers that they're on that plane and some people are opting out then you had this incident over the weekend a cargo plane a 747 from boeing dropped huge pieces of that aircraft in the netherlands injuring 2 people unlike the incident in colorado where miraculously no one either inside or outside the plane was injured but it's another black eye for a company with few eyes left to blacken. john hendren with the latest from chicago john thank you. the united states supreme court has ruled donald trump's tax records can be released to 2 new york prosecutors as part of a criminal investigation it's a major setback for the former president who has fought to keep the documents private investigation is partly focused on payments made to 2 women who say they had extramarital affairs with trump it's also looking into potential fraud as well

as the false if you cation of business records. people in algeria have protested in the capital to mark the 2nd anniversary of the start of the anti-government movement those protests a force force that former leader of the lizzie's beautifully kept from power almost after almost 20 years the so-called here rock activists are still demanding a complete overhaul of the ruling class last week president i've been a g. did to bring n. ounce the cabinet reshuffle in a bid to dampen continuing. odd specialists in norway say they figured out the story behind the mysterious message found on a world famous painting edvard munch's the scream has a hidden inscription that reads can only have been painted by a madman some of questioned whether it could have been an act of vandalism but tests by norway's national museum using infrared technology confirm the artist

wrote the words himself my brit cooling always one of the curators at the national museum of norway where the painting is kept i think he must go but he wrote it because he never mentioned the letter or in talks with other people as we know but it allows us to get a glimpse into his his emotions his reactions to being called a madman because he was accused of being mentally ill and we think that he wrote this. sent directly after this these exit accusations was laid at his door in public he wasn't that unstable as some. books or something stories might say because he was very he was immensely.

active the work more or less all the time and in managed to administrate his own artistic life he arranged exhibitions all over the world so i think it's more a question he was delving into the questions of what it meant to be human being what it means to be alone in the world what you have to chase with anxiety existential and dietary and also facing death loneliness. was. here the top stories on al-jazeera tributes are pouring in for italy's ambassador to the democratic republic of congo who died during an ambush on a u.n. convoy look at them as he'll was killed along with his a talent bodyguard and called his driver near the reagan national park nobody is.