yes the old we go the air and we give them a chance to tell you. if you want to help save the world. tightening its grip china announces plans for a major election reforms in hong kong. i'm about as in this is all just here on live from doha also coming up a historic trip francis heads to iraq to support one of the world's oldest and most persecuted christian community.

street battles in senegal protesters are demanding the release of an opposition leader they say is falsely accused of rape. living and dying for the job new figures show the global pandemics told on frontline health care workers . china's unveiled plans for a major overhaul of hong kong's electoral system announcement was made during the national people's congress the country's biggest annual political gathering the proposed changes would allow a pro china election committee to nominate all candidates to hong kong's legislative council the move will effectively stamp out any opposition in hong kong's parliament. in his opening speech premier league pitching says china is against any external interference in hong kong's affairs beijing's under international scrutiny for intensifying its crackdown on political dissent in hong

kong actually we will stay true to the letter and the spirit of the principle of one country 2 systems under which the people of hong kong administer hong kong with a high degree of autonomy we will improve the relevant systems and mechanisms of the special administrative region ensure the enforcement of mechanisms to safeguard national security we will resolutely guard against and deter external forces interference in the affairs of hong kong eternal years monitoring developments in beijing. we're saying that this national people's congress is really about the communist party using this opportunity this annual event to showcase its strength and its control over its territory in these this move in hong kong is just a part of that now beijing is saying that it's safeguarding one country 2 systems and it's ensuring stability by making sure that anyone who holds office in hong kong is loyal to beijing now at last year's national people's congress we saw the

introduction of this controversial national security law which banned subversion and this caused a reckoning in hong kong as a result of that law we've seen dozens of pro-democracy figures in hong kong arrested and charged many of them have fled the territory and this law that we're seeing introduced at this year's congress is basically a continuation of that overall in overhaul in hong kong to ensure that beijing quashes any dissent and any opposition in the hong kong government now we're still waiting for details and we're going to hear more of that over the next few days as the congress meets and discusses this draft law but we do know that beijing is looking to dramatically shrink the number of seats electoral seats in hong kong available to those who are directly voted in by members of the public and instead it will boost and increase the number of seats given to those who are supporters of beijing from various industry academic and social groups and at the same time carry

law who is the beijing backed chief executive of hong kong her team is going to be given new powers to allow her to essentially vet legislators in hong kong. adrian brown's live for us in hong kong adrian as katrina was saying the premier league has shange saying that china would stay true to the principles of old one country 2 systems under which of course hong kong administers itself with a high degree of autonomy that's what he said but this does seem to be the point at which china is event of finally clamping down and taking control of hong kong. yeah rob i mean as katrina said the national security law was imposed in hong kong at the last national people's congress with gave us all that shock and awe now we've got more shock and awe on friday what is happening what beijing has decided to do in many ways represents a complete overhaul of the election system electoral system here in hong kong

a complete dismantling in fact what is beijing money well he wants to ensure that in future people who want to run for office have to declare and prove they are patriots that they support china they have to support the motherland the question is does supporting the motherland also mean supporting the communist party that has a main clearly defined get it of course so raises serious questions over the credibility of future and lections here in hong kong not just for the chief executive but also for the legislative assembly as well as the district councils and the district councils rob have really been in the crosshairs of beijing back in 2019 the opposition camp 117 out of the 18 district councils ease of bodies basically in charge of you know parking noise control rubbish collection that sort of thing but they have assumed oh mr exaggerated performance because they're now controlled by

a block which has connections to the protest movement and beijing's intention was to ensure that didn't happen again so now they've set up committees that will vet anyone who wants to be a politician make it much harder for critics of china to run for office but as i say many critics here in china of the many critics here in hong kong of this decision today including the chairman of what's left of the democratic party because what we have now just remains of the opposition that is still operating and he said to me you know our room for maneuver is now so narrow we have so little space to operate in that he doesn't know how long you know the party will actually remain in action adrian thanks very much indeed adrian brown talking to us from hong kong. well there are reports at least one person has died in may in march city of mandalay after protesters clashed with police many have been defying the crackdown and marching to demand an end to the military coup activists arrived in

a number of cities 38 people were killed on wednesday and that's also sparked international condemnation in scotland has more from bangkok. we know so far that this fatality according to local media in mandalay that's the 2nd largest city in myanmar this media outlet is reporting that it was a 20 year old male who was shot and killed during a protest by security forces now this is you know mandalay is the 2nd largest city as i mentioned and it's also been a site of many protests throughout this month since the coup on february 1st we also know that there are protesters out on the streets across the country not just in mandalay we know in yangon they are out we've seen some footage of protesters a kind of in a front line again building barricades protesters on one side and then the advancement of security forces firing tear gas firing rubber bullets even into some homes firing tear gas into homes that's been happening in parts of yangon and we just got

a report before before we came on air that one section of yangon someone was walking inside at least 30 police in riot police on the street so there protesters are out as well as the security forces but again this is the 1st death since we saw that very bloody day on wednesday were $38.00 protesters were killed so now we're looking at more than 50 protesters have been killed since the coup on february 1st pope francis is on his way to iraq where he'll fulfill a longstanding promise to become the 1st point of to visit the country the 3 day visit is his 1st trip outside italy since the pandemic began to be welcomed by the prime minister in baghdad before meeting president bottom sala at the presidential palace ahead of the roman catholic church says he's going as a pilgrim of peace with a number of christians in iraq has dropped and recent years partly due to them being persecuted by al qaida and eisel and they hope their struggle to survive will get a boost from the pope's visit some of halting reports from baghdad. 10 years

ago louise francis a claim is survived one of the deadliest terror attacks on iraq's christian community it cost him his left ear drum $4.00 to $6.00 other christians their lives . about in the last thing i look at i thought it was the last seconds in this life there were very difficult moments you take the shot towards the room where we were in one hand grenade exploded that's when i was injured some of the project also stone my head and my chest. lewis and his son the were among more than $100.00 worshippers trapped inside the lady of salvation church in baghdad as gunmen laid siege to the building al qaida claimed responsibility for the attack one of many carried out against iraq's christian minority after the 2003 u.s. led invasion lewis is one of the few survivors of the church attack who stayed on in iraq and. i don't want to leave this is my home.

but preserving iraq's dwindling christian population can feel like a lost cause let me. there's no hope left for the christians and other minorities to reassure them all the political parties and politicians don't care about the citizens interests they just care about their own interests the denomination's interests and regional interests this is the our lady of salvation church where the 2010 attack took place the concrete blocks to shield it from suicide bombings are now adorned with paintings of pope francis' in anticipation of his visit but the very presence of these protective barriers 10 years on is a sign that iraq's christians still don't feel safe the church attacks were a prelude to even darker days ahead. in 2014 eisel swept through the name of our planes in iraq's north forcing another exodus many christians fled abroad or to iraq semi autonomous kurdish region others came to the capital dhaka that this camp

for displaced was set up in 2015 and still hosts around 200 christian families who can't decide whether to stay for the sake of preserving the past or leave for a better future. i mean i came here with her son from the village of how. she says there's nothing for her to return to. the now there are no job opportunities and most of the village residents were displaced there's nothing here for us in our street all the houses were destroyed pope francis visit may offer a rare moment of hope for the christian community here but few expect it will bring about political change and any guarantees for their safety see when a full team al jazeera but that still had an al-jazeera concerns over the pace of the rollout of south africa trials the johnson and johnson vaccine on health workers. tsunami warnings in

new zealand as powerful earthquakes forced people to move to higher ground. the persistent breeze of the philippines seems to be suppressing any shower building here but there are plenty of shows just the south route malaysia and particularly in the an easy job or back in sumatra late day shows become pretty big the orange tops suggesting significant thunderstorms all the way to new guinea and that's the next couple of days just the science still very active and that's the one to watch neera moving quite quickly and still strengthening on its way to new caledonia where it's going to get during saturday in quite a battering storm it is but mainland australia far from a few showers the new south wales and queensland is quite quiet is warming up in melbourne 21 you see on sunday that you know at about 8 to that for sunday and the

big showers that produce that welcome rain the wheat belt in western australia well there are a few still left percy self about 27 degrees so packed in the iran these are stats for saturday probably landfall certainly is going to graze new caledonia winds of 220 kilometers where that steady wind it'll gust more than the way 40 even current is about 11 meters you imagine that battering the shore significant winds significant waves and of course a huge amount of rain. a diplomatic feud between a struggle here and china is threatening one of the asia pacific most successful tripod stops. when i won a space close was in the middle. on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. and. i sometimes. move the. we want to go to 0 remind of our top stories this hour china's unveiled plans for a major overhaul of hong kong's electoral system to ensure only what it calls patriots are in charge a probation election committee will now nominate all candidates to the self-governing territories legislative council. there are reports at least one person has died in miramar city of mandalay after protesters clashed with police

many have been defying a crackdown and marching to demand an end to the military coup $38.00 people killed on whether mr. pope francis is on his way to iraq where he'll fulfill a longstanding promise to become the 1st pontiff to visit the country the 3 day trip comes amid fears about the coronavirus pandemic and security. international aid groups are warning the humanitarian crisis in syria has reached its worst levels leaders of the red cross and red crescent said the corona virus outbreak has exacerbated the situation they say syrians do not have the luxury of worrying about getting infected by the virus more than 60 percent of the population now relies on aid to meet its basic needs francisco orca is the president of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies and he says that have been very limited resources to provide people with adequate health. one of the basic their example that they think that you need to your is that if you go too far forward for

i'm going to say he is not if you're that i'm glad he's going to not reach the host be doubts that bentley that we're scanning all towards think about the medicines and drugs that they need to regenerate on maybe $180.00 or so the magazines that so this situation about the head that is who really really they get why not the. system is not able to call but we do need of the people and then i would like dogs of the wound if you could give for food they said that many i will let it roll forward because i have no other opportunities. to do to buy but they're not a. big big feast that my ideas while we are already in. for the support that also that i like they do lead by example richard a jacket is that needs to go to all the money that insulation in our camp and i did

i did the show began in the northwest about a lot of shia so i did research on not which people i'm leaving and are close to leave but you know a baby was to die as a so we cannot talk about. it all up all maybe in the senate i you be. older all over the county. at least 20 migrants have died in the gulf of aden off to smugglers threw them overboard the international organization for migration says dozens were forced off an overcrowded vessel or traveling from djibouti in east africa to yemen 5 bodies have been recovered survivors are being treated in djibouti. a campaign to free senegal's leading opposition figure has turned violent and these 2 protesters have been killed in battles with police but deaths are the 1st since their arrest of 2 days ago there was more from dakar.

supporters of opposition leader months on co shelter inside the cars a shake up university they chant free song and call president mikey selling a dictator. police respond by firing tear gas but the crowd is defiant. outside the police station where sankoh is held for questioning security forces struggle to control the situation in the cynical east people are tired and not dupes we are being manipulated by the government they say songkhla is creating public disorder this is all an excuse to arrest the political opponents of the president's real stand by song called in early february sancho was accused of rape he denies any wrongdoing saying the case is politically motivated followed by his supporters song co was arrested on his way to meet the judge sparking nationwide protests. mr sankoh has not committed any act with a view to disturbing public order he was on throwing the summons of the court and you will all witnesses to that. song co

a former bureaucrat turned politician was the youngest candidate in the 200-1000 presidential election where he finished 3rd he describes himself as an anti establishment politician accusing the political elite including president mikey sell of corruption he has denounced french corporations saying they make profits off the back of poor cynically following his arrest demonstrators looted french supermarkets and gas stations with several officers injured swat teams were dispatched to stop the riots now protesters are throwing stones in this area of the university and right behind me for the last few days the security. forces have failed to enter the premise is that the university and demonstrators say don't continue this protest movement. is freedom. the military has called in reinforcements to protect strategic sites the government says these demonstrations are on authorized to television stations were taken off

air for broadcasting the riots public gatherings have been banned to prevent the spread of the current virus but these protesters see the government measures a ploy to silence them and in the court case against some code an attempt by president mikey cell to eliminate a popular political opponent defying the political system nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car killings torture sexual violence and ethnic cleansing are reportedly being carried out every day in ethiopia region the un human rights chief wants monitors to be allowed in saying allegations of wall crimes need to be investigated aid groups journalists and investigators are all struggling for access that says federal troops and at a trained forces are fighting soldiers of the region's former ruling party washington and boston to the united nations has echoed the un's call to end fighting in t. very she says the humanitarian crisis must be urgently addressed be honest to

prevent further atrocities and human suffering oh squarely on the ethiopian government shoulder we urge the ethiopian government to support any immediate end to the fighting in tikrit and to that end the prompt withdrawal of eritrean forces and her regional forces from gray are essential steps and we urge the broader region to work fast. in the u.s. police have asked the national guard to stay on for another 2 months to secure the capitol building security forces in washington d.c. are on high alert after intelligence agencies said that uncovered a potential plot by a militia group to storm the building that prompted the cancellation of thursday's session of the u.s. house of representatives. well after days of record coronavirus death across brazil its 2nd largest city has

announced the toughest measures yet to curb the spread of covert 19 from friday restaurants and bars in the rio de janeiro will close at 5 pm and an overnight curfew will be imposed and follows a decision by south palos governor to shut non-essential businesses for 2 weeks from saturday brazil is facing its worst phase of the epidemic yes pushing its hospital system to the brink of collapse italy's government has blocked the export of an asteroid seneca corona virus vaccine shipment to a strictly it's the 1st time an e.u. country has made use of new regulations designed to hold big pharmaceutical companies to their contracts there's been widespread frustration over astra zeneca slow delivery of vaccines the firm reduced its pledge doses to the e.u. earlier this year supply problems at least $17000.00 frontline health workers have no died of worldwide juju coronavirus honesty international report of the figures

but it's calling on governments to speed up vaccinations for health care professionals it says cleaners and social care workers are often ignored in an occupation drives and should also be given priority and it farnsworth is vice president at the council of the americas he says health workers need more support. this is a real tragedy and it's particularly amplified because the people who are trying to address it who are literally on the frontlines of addressing it are the ones who are being the families affected the most i mean and that makes sense because they're the ones who are exposed to it they are there working in the worst conditions in developing countries around the world it's really a bad situation and yet they don't seem to have priority in the context of having access to vaccines so it's a really desperate situation for many people it's a really difficult conundrum because literally there's 'd only so much money that can go around and particularly again if you're dealing with developing markets who may not have a lot of access financial space in the 1st place they really don't have

a whole lot of excess liquidity to be able to devote to 'd either vaccines or p.t.e. and then if you put on top of that the fact that several of these countries 'd around the world are already have significant debt loads that will be difficult to service many are reluctant to add on top of that so there really is going to have to be international assistance both financial and also access to vaccines and access to p.p.a. we're seeing some of that through the kovacs facility and through some direct contributions of things like that but the real answer to this is 'd getting enough supply produced so that it can be distributed not just to developed countries but to developing markets like i think that's the ultimate answer but it does take time and there are no simple solution here. so i thought fricker has received its 2nd batch of $80000.00 vaccines donated by johnson and johnson as part of a clinical trial in which tens of thousands of healthcare workers will be

vaccinated but there are concerns the rollout is going slower than expected some of the reports. south africa's government began vaccinating its health workers admit with 80000 receiving the job so far for some like dr faisal saleman the rollouts been slower than expected he runs a private practice in promise you outside durban he says has registered to be vaccinated but his appointments been cancelled it has been tough working it's not easy working in a closed environment being having people you know all day we do our own swap being here we've been treating patients directly and telephonically so it has been produced stressful particularly when you go home and pass this thing on to your family which i've done there more than 67000 health care workers in personal natal province alone of which fewer than 2000 have been vaccinated during the problem here have been up won't maybe be our location because we were given something like

10000 but i nor that they are here practitioners especially doctors who are in there we're looking into it it's not but since been at least get the idea there's been a learning process but many health care workers are still waiting as they continue to work in high risk environments scientists say it's important to vaccinate people as quickly as possible but johnson and johnson's donation of its vaccines in batches of 80000 doses every 2 weeks has worried critics will also questioning if this is indeed a rollout or nothing wrong than a clinical trial by the us pharmaceutical giant the government says it's part of an early access and monitoring program and it has to investigate how effective the johnson. johnson vaccine is against the new more contagious strain identified here in south africa latest by end of may we must have vaccinated 1200000 health care

workers now if that is the case then it means then that lorillard but we're doing now it's really small we should be vaccinating 80002100000 people a day instead of popcorn 5000 whatever 10000000000 small doses from other companies like pfizer are expected to arrive possibly from april to expand the rollout while south africa is now at the end of a 2nd wave of infections there are concerns of another wave as soon as april. and a slow rollout and the winter months ahead have experts worried for me tamala al-jazeera johannesburg south africa germany's national airline has reported an $8000000000.00 loss for 2020 like most airlines around the world love chances seen thousands of flight cancellations and restrictions giunta the pandemic several european governments of prop the company up with more than $10000000000.00 in support people in iceland are bracing themselves for

a potential volcanic eruption scientists say term of strong signs of activity at mount killer 30 kilometers southeast of the capital of i.q. vague police have shut roads around the mountain although the area is an uninhabited the main airport and a fishing port are just a few kilometers away the volcano has been dormant for about 800 years. tens of thousands of new zealanders fled their homes of friday after a series of undersea earthquakes triggered a tsunami alert the strongest was a magnitude 8 point one centered near the canada garlands 1000 kilometers northeast of the country most people have now returned home but as we're in here reports from toronto in the north island many are still anxious. around many parts of new zealand a peaceful friday morning was interrupted by tsunami sirens the calm waters provided an eerie backdrop to the warning about the danger that could have been on

its way people in coastal communities in the north will most at risk and we're told to head to higher ground where some captured a tsunami arriving from an 8 point one magnitude earthquake hundreds of kilometers away near the kermadec islands what we are asking people is to try and stay calm touch face of people make you love actually calm the people that you know might be most at risk and really just listen to the advice that is coming through for some this was the 2nd tsunami evacuation in hours early on friday morning another large quake struck much closer to new zealand and was felt strongly around much of the country by our jumped out of being stuck in the doorway and my staff was up as well as question wrong it took forever to start the quake send tsunami alert came less than 2 weeks after new zealand is marked teen years since only the quake in christchurch that killed 185 people new zealand's location in the pacific ring of

fire means that to an extent people here are used to earthquakes and because it's an island nation many people live on or near the coast and live with the constant threat of a tsunami in the end the tsunami was minor and the alert was lifted after a few hours allowing people to return home as aftershocks continues meaning many will be nervous about what the next few days might bring wayne hay al-jazeera totaling a new. zealand. this is our deceiver these are the top stories china has unveiled plans for a major overhaul of hong kong's electoral system to ensure only what it calls patriots are in charge a probation election committee will now nominate all candidates to the territories legislative council agent brown has more from hong kong on the significance of this move by china the opposition is effect leaping.