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tsunami warnings issued across the pacific 3 powerful earthquakes force people to move to higher ground. also the u.n. and the u.s. say eritrean forces must leave ethiopia's to grey region accusing them of committing crimes against humanity. and china's communist party congress gets under way as it faces an increasingly tense global environment and strained relations with the u.s. . back into the program after days of record quote a virus deaths across brazil the country's 2nd largest city has announced its toughest measures yet to curb the spread of covert 19 from friday restaurants and bars in rio de janeiro will close at 5 o'clock in the evening and commercial activity on beaches will be suspended it follows a decision by the palos governor to close non-essential businesses. for 2 weeks

from saturday monica joins me now live from rio de janeiro and it seems that we're seeing a knock on effect from sao paolo looking down for 24 hours and that was concerning rio and it's become a reality where you are. yes right now i we are at copacabana beach i don't know if you can see because it's dark but wait like 100 meters behind me there's a very small samba group and they're dancing like a lot of men that they can because. they're street vendors won't be allowed anymore to be on the big age there's no party so this is an open air one but this will not be allowed anymore. and we'll took some time to take these measures mika but there are other parts of brazil that are very serious situation in the north and in the south hospitals are having to rent containers because to get the number of dead out

rio is very worried the people here are worried also about the economic impact because while the city lives off tourism there is a large informal economy and the emergency aid was suspended in january so we were out in the street earlier talking to people about this and they're extremely worried. there are new people standing in line in front of the banks and creasing lean more in line by the door on the sidewalk like 33 year old and her soon to be born baby boy. i lost my job as a cleaning lady when the pandemic began but at least i could rely on the government to make an see age now i have nothing on the child on the way. government handouts benefiting 60 percent of brazil's population stopped abruptly in january but the effects are beginning to show now is a buzzcut me so that in

a 1000000 brazilians will return to poverty by the end of the year brazil went from one extreme to the other from having the most generous emergency aid program in the region benefiting 60 percent of the population to having none the question is how will people survive until we are all texan ated street vendor paul and his wife used to live in a shack in the slum until last week when their savings dried up and their customers stopped buying. it it's a vicious cycle we can't pay the rent or clients quit buying or finding a job now things are going from bad to worse is almost impossible. brazil's economy minister says the solution for the disease and the economy is the vaccine by president jalal so narrow has always downplayed the pandemic and political infighting has delayed binocular lieschen campaign less than 5 percent of the 210000000 population has been vaccinated in previous year real's oldest slum

people are wary of promises. when they meet him we have less money food is more expensive and vaccines will take a long time to get him brazil's public debt is 6 truly high and the government says it could not maintain the emergency aid but economists say that dropping it altogether can be dangerous. the specter of recession already looms over pretty decent and with it the fear that the high unemployment and poverty rates will lead to an increase of violence which is already on the rise. and of course concern with the economy doesn't just affect the urban areas it impacts across the country into the rural areas as well. yes yes. as it were say 60 percent of bills

population which is an enormous and mouthed were benefited either directly or and directly by the emergence so what happens now in brazil continue paying well results public deficit is 90 percent of its g.d.p. which is strangely high but congress is pushing for a new emergency aid since the country is going in lockdown in many parts and there aren't many other options you just have to have people not working and not getting any one of the kevin rio de janeiro thanks very much. nostril has got caught up in the dispute over coronavirus vaccines for now they won't get a quarter of a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca jab the shipments been blocked from leaving the european union is the 1st use of an export system designed to hold big pharmaceutical companies to their contracts well there's been frustrated astra zeneca slow rollout of the vaccine the firm reduced its pledge doses to the e.u.'s

earlier this year citing supply problems let's get more on this from nicola gage our correspondent in australia's capital and the reaction from canberra on this nicola. but these struggling government has been quick to try to allay public concern about what it means for its back seign rollout we understand that a struggling diplomats will be speaking with their counterparts in europe to try to reverse this bloke but it really does highlight the wider problem with astra zeneca failing to reach some of its delivery targets we have heard from me a tele involvement giving a number of reasons as to why this decision has been made firstly it says it's because it isn't seen as a vulnerable nation true to the lower numbers of quality food 19 cases that we have had here and secondly because of that shortage of astra zeneca doses that we are

seeing else old europe to get this little bit of contests since january because of the shortage any european based back same manufacturer needs to get approval from national governments the full files can be exported out of europe we understand that italy did inform the european commission and while it has the power to veto or . block it didn't some nice aid misses the european union flexing its muscles really over these vaccines that experts in australia have said that it's very unlikely that italy would be specifically targeting a strategy and nonetheless we will be $250000.00 doses less of this vaccine so how does that affect some of the coverage roll out across australia and the treatment of many millions across the country. well the vaccine rollout of the failure is still underway but we have already seen delays in its roll out in different states

and territories they didn't meet targets in february but we have seen the 1st shipment of astra zeneca vaccines arrived in australia that's just being rolled out now and the government says it is on track to begin manufacturing locally the vaccine at the end of this month on top of that we are seeing the rollout of the prize or a vaccine but a strongly has been very strict in terms of international border closures and making sure most of the population here is vaccinated before we see them or you can search any kind of delight will be a concern to astrology ends but at the moment the government is saying that he doesn't believe this decision by each really will impact its rollout program nuclear age for saying campbell thanks very much for the update killings torture sexual violence and ethnic cleansing those are the crimes reportedly being carried out daily in ethiopia's to grey region the un human rights

chief wants monitors to be let in michelle bashfully says war crimes are reportedly taking place and they need to be investigated and it's groups journalism criminal investigators are all struggling for access as fighting continues with federal troops under trained forces on one side and soldiers of the region's former ruling party on the other who are. these are the people caught in the middle i think to gran's who say they're being wiped out by troops who act with impunity they say they're being forced from their homes and worse more than 136 cases of rape are reported to great hospitals in december and january with many more likely to report it on top of that no one knows how many thousands of civilians have been killed. you had leaders are also calling for a train troops to withdraw from the region the un security council met on thursday to discuss the humanitarian crisis but so far the council has been unable to agree

on a joint position on diplomatic editor james bays reports now from u.n. headquarters in new york. for months exactly since ethiopia sent troops into t. gray province and international condemnation is growing we urge the ethiopian government to support any immediate end to the fighting in tikrit and to that end the prompt what are all of eritrean forces and her regional forces from grave are essential steps the mention of eritrean forces is important ethiopian soldiers like these have been filmed repeatedly but they have been persistent reports too of eritrean troops carrying out some of the worst atrocities reports the u.n. has been unable to confirm until now. the u.s. has the presidency of the un security council and ambassador thomas greenfield chaired a virtual meeting on syria. clearly there was broadcast question at this meeting

before she then led a discussion on the situation in t. grey in closed session during the meeting al-jazeera has learnt the un humanitarian chief mark local spoke about eritrea and troops countless well corroborated reports suggest their culpability for atrocities eritrea and defense forces must leave ethiopia and they must not be enabled or permitted to continue their campaign of destruction before they do so meanwhile the un high commissioner for human rights michelle bombshell a says an independent inquiry into what's going on in t. great needs to be carried out now she says some of the atrocities appear to amount to war crimes james out 0 at the united nations well still ahead here on al-jazeera. will choose the name angel service the teenager who is among the latest victims of me

a massive military crackdown also. the latest big movers out of south korea the bestselling boy band that's beaten taylor swift the stories after the break. heavy recent rain and to be honest more last weekend the last few days has still produced flooding as far east as kentuckians says there are kentucky several other contributors to trim trees to the ohio fact the whole higher value is fairly down but this is more it who's reporting devastation from that still flood now it will slowly. decline the fighting because the next raney's is significant in his bid for the south and west which is itself a tall the pacific storms but i'm wondering restraint on friday will show some snow

inland in nor going to washington and maybe the california mountains more significantly i suspect during saturday rain in san francisco but not much on friday evening and saturday morning then it's gone through that even that snow doesn't last for long most states and most of canada are quite another cold northeast cory's obvious so the 3 new york rays minus one in toronto and significant thunderstorms also hang around i think in florida they've been doing that recently in the bahamas in cuba and the yucatan tickly can comb but also they're still there on fire they're tending to die out in the next day or so the heaviest rain in the constants the science south america is probably going to be somewhere in bolivia. but the.

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closer to 5 o'clock in the evening for the next week it follows days of record coronavirus deaths across the country also the european union has blocked a quarter of a 1000000 corona virus vaccine from being exported to australia the astra zeneca shipments been stopped by a e u export system designed to hold big pharmaceutical companies to their contracts and the un wants access to ethiopia's to grey region to investigate what it says are war crimes being carried out it says killings torture and sexual violence as well as benedict cleansing are happening on a daily basis. new zealand's been dealing with the threat of a tsunami in the past few hours and the latest warning is that it could hit the biggest city or clint already tens of thousands of people along the east coast of the north island have been moved to higher ground there's no army warnings only 3 large and shallow earthquakes out at sea the biggest or was the latest at $8.00 magnitude the combat deck islands now it followed

a $7.00 magnitude jolt in the same area the 1st quake in the early hours of friday measured $7.00 it's epicenter was around 100 kilometers from taro are we asking those that have no high ground or and learned to remain with you until the official all clear is given. the official all clear will be given when we have the advice that it is right to do so asking plays do not go and leave those areas and still you have the all clear. well correspondent when he joins me from the east coast of the north island and weighing the authorities were quick to respond to this quake so what's been happening so far. you're right they have moved very quickly and all indications are that people in those danger areas in new

zealand heeding those warnings to get away from those coastal areas where there is a tsunami alert in place i should point out as you can see i'm standing by the coast this is not one of those areas than the merriest area where the evacuation notice is in place is about 60 kilometers from me further south along the east coast in all the areas around the north island of new zealand and parts of the south island as well including in the north island new zealand largest city as you mentioned or cleanse the advisory is that they could also be some sort of tsunami activity not in the form of a large wave or surge but unusually strong currents and the tuttles activities of the people in those other areas to stay out of the water for the most part as i mentioned people are heeding that advice in those danger areas and getting away from those coastal areas where they could be a tsunami occurring sometime in the next few hours and that seems to be mainly in

the north of the north island and there are reports coming in from some of those areas in that northern part of the north island of discoloration in the ocean that noticing some of the water levels dropping unusually on those coastal areas and also in some of the rivers and streams connecting with the ocean in the north of the north island so certainly as you mentioned it's been a very active stops to friday that began with that. very large earthquake at around 2 30 in the morning new zealand time that was strongly felt around many parts of the country and then resulted also in that of course 8 point one magnitude earthquake near the candidate collins much further away not fell to new zealand but the threat the danger to new zealand now is that tsunami which that warning is still in place for that and so much weight has force in new zealand. but the u.s. has tightened export controls on me and in the latest response to the killing of protesters by the military the u.n.

says 38 people died during demonstrations on wednesday and is urging governments to demand more sanctions as well as a global weapons of against the military. will. like thousands of others just in nickname angel went out to protest on the streets of mandalay on wednesday less than 24 hours later people gathered for her funeral she had been shot in the head. according to the un angel was one of 38 protesters who died at the hands of myanmar security forces the most killed in a single day since the coup on february 1st aid agency save the children says 4 of the dead were children. in yangon bodies were identified and collected by family members this neighborhood of the country's largest city saw the heaviest death toll on wednesday there are reports that security forces opened up with live ammunition on the unarmed protesters without warning. but the protesters continued to put pressure on the jointer on thursday again building barricades to block the security

forces as they prepare for another day of protests young the former u.n. special repertory for myanmar she and 2 other experts have started a council to track the situation after the coup the behaviors the actions of this so called. are. and terrorists like behaviors they have snow. and high high rise buildings around town buildings they are amy and shooting at. civilian populations is a question and she said that the international community needs to acknowledge the military's actions as being comparable to terrorism un. they should really be ashamed of what they've done we not done you know they haven't been hearing to the un charter to protect and to restore order to maintain

to secure peace in order. and the security council has have really not done its job . she went on to say that china and russia has veto power in the un security council is obstructing action that needs to be taken in myanmar so far the council has voiced concern but has not condemned what's happened since the coup but there will be a further test of that on friday as another security council meeting has been called to discuss the crackdown on protesters this week it's got harder now to 0. $47.00 whole goal pro-democracy activists charged with conspiracy to commit subversion will remain in prison the decision came after 4 days about the hearings which led to some defendants falling ill now the call granted bail to a 3rd of the defendants but it said the entire group back to prison after the government appealed the decision on complaints of arrest of $100.00 people of the controversial national security law which beijing imposed on the city 8 months ago . china's largest political meeting is due to begin shortly 3000 officials are

meeting in beijing to set out the government's plan for the next 5 years between a year reports from beijing. 2 thousands of china's most powerful political and i gather in beijing on friday to top the country's roadmap for the next 5 to 15 you. is the annual national people's congress or n.p.c. was perspiring last year following the corona virus outbreak this year covered $9000.00 cases are under control and analysts say president xi jinping will be touting an image of triumph as well as consolidating his power. he has been establishing his power through political and military achievements in the future he will focus on competing with. china's political future like i. was. strengthening loyalty to the chinese communist party is

a priority beijing is preparing for the parties in 10 or in july during the congress china's leaders will release their annual outlining economic targets thinking is expected to encourage domestic consumption and continue to push for a more prosperous society to do this they will need to address the challenges of a widening wealth gap and aging population goal is also usually sets the last year because of uncertainties around the pandemic and some expect china's defense spending to be accelerated the specially given recent tensions with taiwan and in the south china sea china's strained relationship with the united states is another focal point beijing had hoped to reset ties with washington but u.s. president joe biden is continuing the tough stance taken by his predecessor from their perspective it's been disappointing they see a lot of the same rhetoric a lot of the same goals and methods. that were employed by the trumpet ministration

internationally beijing is facing increasing criticism over its treatment of muslim weekers as well as political reforms in hong kong it's expected to tighten its grip with the territory and passed laws to ensure only those loyal to beijing are able to hold office the national security badly subversion was unveiled at last. stays in place. doesn't apply arrested under the law to speak by holding a primary vote ahead of elections. by a metal policy makers will be watching for their action on climate change the government is expected to set targets for reducing carbon emissions moving towards she's goal of making china carbon neutral by 2060 katrina 0 beating. expound on this by bringing in richard mcgregor he's senior fellow at the lowy institute and joins me now via skype from sydney good to have you with us mr mcgregor on the program i mean lots to talk about and so let's do one subject at

a time this gathering office sort of the world a chance to see china's economic plan for the next 5 years and sort of with coded now in its 2nd year affecting trade what can we expect to hear from the communist party well there's 2 things i guess in some respects the medium is the message the very holding its annual session on time which didn't happen last year which is quite a step but set back the ruling party is important the 2nd thing is the this is the start of the new 5 plan or i know that sounds very. sort like but it's very important as they set their. priorities for the next. colony but the priorities but the economy tell you or a lot about politics or policy as well it is all interlinked does not mean he would write and says that's the next area in the law or in general with reference to hong kong's autonomy or little it seems to have will be eagerly watched by human rights activists and national governments around the world. the hong kong i think is

particularly important procession it's seen in recent days i think your news report just said that 47 former members of the let's kill in hong kong a band attained and now refused bail what we're going to see likely at this session of the national people's congress in china is a rewriting of the hong kong election law which basically is not a step in the sort of 2nd at securing hong kong against democratic expectation and what that likely to do is to continue to have elections in hong kong but a panel controlled by beijing to approve all the candidates so you want him anybody who is critical of beijing running for office in hong kong anymore of course going on what's happening in hong kong will be closely watched by taiwan because it continues to bother beijing and sort of the recent move by the u.s. to send a warship through the straits of taiwan again brings into focus how much of

a flashpoint this could be. it's a slow burn flashpoint in my view. you have a lot of people worried about whether some sort of military action is imminent i certainly don't think that's the case but in some respects the longer it goes on the more dangerous it is because he jinping doubts that lately been his time in office and of course we don't know how long that will be he wants some sort of resolution political resolution of the like to the time one issue and that's an extremely difficult issue because people in taiwan overwhelmingly and beijing or anti the chinese communist party in china itself it's absolutely baked in the cake that in the political system that taiwan be unified with china so i don't think we're going to say much in the short term dramatically but it's an issue that's going to blow up $11.00 day one way or another just briefly mr mcgregor the birthrate in china is falling and the chance the policy of sort of the one child

policy going to change told to think well they keep raising it but it doesn't have much effect and this of course the chinese communist party troll many things they can't control that hillary right there population that like her easily presuppose relation to the population so it's a big 'd long term problem for them we'll see what happens in the coming hours and as we followed the event itself rich mcgregor thanks for joining us from sydney thank you thank you. our career the boy bands beat one of the world's biggest names in popular music. like old p.t.'s and the 1st in the west to be named the polls best selling artists the boys moving ahead of last year's winner planets move to 2nd b.t.s. is the 1st to win those songs that i don't dominate the summer. camps to begin the band after the release of 2 thank you. now

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shipments been stopped by an e.u. exports this.