making a healthier world for you. that everyone. pope francis' offer support to the iraqi people in an iraqi time where christians were forced to flee for myself i serious. hello there i am however hidden and this is al jazeera my from doha also coming up . protests continue in myanmar after a night of raids that saw politicians and journalists rounded up by security forces . millions of americans look forward to financial relief after u.s. president joe biden's $1.00 trillion dollars pandemic package is approved by the

senate. and later with fewer people going game hunting in zimbabwe we'll see how that's impacting those who make a living from it. though it was a scene that was hard to imagine just 4 years ago the heads of the roman catholic church in iraq e city scarred by isis violence and bloodshed pope francis on the 3rd day of his trip has been sending a message of hope healing and unity to the victims of war and the last hour of the pontiff address the christian community in the town of course which was overrun by i saw him 2014 there he visited iraq's largest church which was partly destroyed by eisel fighters earlier in mosul the port offered prayers outside a centuries old church that no lies in ruins he spoke to muslims and christians who

lived under isos brutal rule that the message that hope is more powerful. the day the old city of mosul has all but destroyed 3 years after an international military campaign drove the armed group. well he started the day in erbil pittel of iraq's kurdish areas where he was welcomed by the presidents of the regional government in the coming hours but francis will return to address a mass for nearly 10000 people at a stadium let's cross live married to someone of 14 she joins us from erbil. repealing nights the pope has had a very busy day so far how would you say he was received in erbil and car of course . while the bus loads have been arriving with hundreds and thousands of people who will attend a mass here in the to be they can perhaps see them behind me so that will be the

biggest event of the day and we've seen people being very excited to see him and of course he also received a very ruptures welcome and in mosul and color of course earlier today those people there really elated to see him these are communities that had suffered greatly during the war when beisel but also after isel was territorial defeated in 2017 their areas still live in ruins there is still a lot of. things to do in terms of rebuilding those cities that have been so greatly affected by the wars and of course many christians have yet to return to those areas around $2500.00 families from those areas in the nineveh plains which includes power still reside in erbil there are still not comfortable to go back to don't feel saved for that there is no infrastructure no services but for people to see the pope visit these war ravaged areas to see him walk through the old city

through that rubble and give a prayer service in front of these churches that have been desecrated have been destroyed it real. raises and to stun morale of these people and also. when we when we heard him speak earlier today his speech very much repeats the same beginnings of forgiveness reconciliation he really wants to encourage people to stay to try to reconcile after all that these communities have been for let's listen in to what he said earlier. you know. it's a matter of conversion of the hearts reconciliation and putting aside our differences we must all work together for the future of her turn all of which recognizes a common humanity and together build a dialogue and forgive. for that forgiveness and reconciliation to actually materialize on the ground there has to be real policy change there has to be a real shift from the shia led government in baghdad but also the provincial governments in terms of how they deal with these communities they have to give them

they have to empower them they have to give them the ability to really have a say in how their government how they are secure and of course there also needs to be a lot of funding and support for these areas to really boost record structure and to give people a reason to return and the reason to stay. small to 14 their lives from erbil smaller thank you very much indeed we are waiting for the pope to arrive at that stadium where he will be giving a mass an enormous stadium of course we're expecting around 10000 bush hers to attend that a difficult face of course to manage during times of the coronavirus pandemic but i'd say we're hearing from our correspondents one of 14 in erbil many very very keen to hear from pope francis when he appears we'll be following that story

for you throughout the day to keep it here on our just syria. for now though let's turn to other news in myanmar a prominent muslim politician has reportedly died after being arrested overnight spight security forces can model that's cause of death isn't snow one but as tony chang reports the police and army have been carrying out increasingly brutal rate's throughout the country. they come in the night firing stun grenades and live rounds. soldiers and police roaming residential neighborhoods shooting into buildings smashing property as they pass for some these are detention squads seizing protest leaders politicians and civil servants dragged away to an uncertain fate elsewhere they're cleaning up peeling stickers of the coup leader general min

onli off the road but for those watching from behind twitching curtains it's clear they have one main goal to intimidate. the yangon resident who filmed this told al-jazeera that soldiers and police have been searching houses for members of the national league for democracy or in. the whole of our neighborhood in shock today is frightened we can't sleep at night in case they come back but the protesters have some mind games to play too in many areas clothes lines of women's skirts so long jesus then and underwear and now hanging overhead playing on the superstitions of the soldiers and police. and. the reason why we hang with lunges across the street is that we have the traditional belief that if we pass underneath a laundry we might lose our luck the younger generation nowadays doesn't believe it anymore but the soldiers still do and it's their weakness so we might gain more time to run if they come towards us. against the security services these obstacles

are more effective than barricades. are just the sun sets another sad ritual in modern myanmar vigils for those who died on the streets in the cities of yangon mandalay dar way and elsewhere the candles burned to commemorate a growing list of names until the darkness and the security services claim the streets once more toni ching al-jazeera. china's exports of groans are their highest level in more than 2 decades signaling a continuing rebrand of the economy 1st hit by the coronavirus pandemic the january to february period saw a 16.6 percent increase compared to a year earlier imports also rules by 22 percent electronics and textile such as masks and other personal protective equipment sculpture beauty higher than expected

shipments the latest figures are a stark contrast to the same period last year that soar 17 percent fall in exports that was during locked owns after the 1st recorded coverts i break in one hand well done one is chief economist for hunks and bank china in shanghai she says the reason for china's export growth is that manufacturing elsewhere has not yet recovered. this is situation is very much a continuation or last year a since most countries manufacturing capacity are still not back to normal yet and i last year about 20 percent of china's exports were code related and this year at least in the 1st 2 months i think the number will be rather to the similar and for the rest of that support i think it's still mostly about electronics updating us as a tease and other industrial inputs the market consensus now for 2021 growth is 8.3 percent that's significantly higher but at the same time we also heard from n.p.c.

that the fiscal policy anemometer policies are both more conservative than last year so combine all those information my conclusion is that chinese government mint is not trying to spur growth and they want to contain financial risks and other economic risk for their personal growth and so this year i don't think we will see much of the money for expansion or targeted stimulus $1.00 key message from the n.p.c. is that china would absolutely stick to dissolve reliance strategy in its 45 year plan so a lot more a lot more of the resources will be shifted to research science and technology and that means when it comes to that u.s. china's dependence on u.s. technology support will be lower than before but at the same time the u.s. trade it depends on china regarding regarding to industrial impose and other materials will not necessarily go down so in

a way i think the global reminds on china has been increasing not decreasing and in china u.s. competition will continue. a surgeon coronavirus case is causing chaos across parts of latin america in peril the president has asked the cabinet to resign after protests turned into riots argentina's government has been condemned by human rights groups over police violence and in brazil tighter restrictions have been imposed in the 2 most populous states and the central reports the. clashes broke out on friday and for a border city in northern argentina following the imposition of a new coronavirus lockdown restrictions police officers used tear gas and rubber bullets against a crowd injuring dozens for the most as one of argentina's sports provinces and had already been hit hard by an economic recession before derives all of the virus

a year ago many protesters were informal vendors demanding to be allowed to work. human rights groups have denounced what they say was indiscriminate use of force by the police but otoh it is insisted the protesters were responsible for the violence . nothing justifies these violent actions we call for reflection and invite you all to make your claims in a peaceful manner i similar scenes on the same day across the border and put away his capital s n c on where thousands of angry demonstrators confronted police throughout the night protesters burned roadblocks around congress demanding president beneath this resigned. that powerful leg for the hard part of why poorly designed for godsake resigned earlier in the day the country's health minister was the latest official in the region to give up his post but that wasn't enough to quell people's

anger over the government's handling of the global health crisis but why is experiencing record numbers of cases with hospitals on the brink of collapse and few. vaccine doses available. despite moving fast and vaccine distribute cases or on the rise in chile as well for a 2nd day the country registered more than $5000.00 new cases the highest infection rate in 9 months 2 thirds of the capital of santiago is under strict lockdown as are a number of other regions. in brazil the worst hit country in south america local authorities. have adopted new restrictions and a curfew to try to control the brutal 2nd wave shops and stalls are shut as police patrol the streets this this by president. told citizens to stop whining and move on as he continues to downplay depend there make. going through an extremely grave

situation that could be catastrophic in some parts the result of a policy of denial and scientific platform and a contempt for human life. the latest restrictions are expected to last here until march 11th but many were out on the beach in rio on saturday the find the experts alison that i'm here. still to come on al-jazeera sri lanka's catholics were black in protest at the lack of justice for victims of the $2980.00 super plus i'm joined now in belfast northern ireland where post breaks the tensions of course loyalist paramilitary groups too with the rule of their support from the good friday peace agreement. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways and i

once again welcome to another look at the international forecasters say more unsettled weather making its way across such a path and things quiet down as we go on into the next day or 2 but still some cloud and write ups a little bit of sleet snow over the higher ground for central parts of japan into honshu just 11 celsius there for tokyo as we go into work the middle part of the week it will gradually start to warm up say 15 degrees in tokyo on shoes day little drier but skies coming back in across the korean peninsula and not too bad in beijing temperatures getting up to a very agreeable 60 degrees celsius $61.00 in found one of the showers down towards southern parts of china some western weather just coming in across the southwest of china through northern parts of vietnam going to be some places of west of where the 2 went to sri lanka or the next day or so the most least the monsoon still driving those showers into that southwestern corner of the by have been go some parts of india again could see some showers but for much of india it is fine and dry a low

a westerly disturbance will produce some outbreaks of rain sleet and snow into the far north of pakistan northern parts of india grassy sliding a little further east which through nepal and into bhutan the phone with east of india also seeing some showers as we go through tuesday. support qatar airways some people marry for love others it can be a commercial transaction. see us on that sort of fred phelps and $700.00 euro payment just for the march counter and out of their world meets men and women using marriage as an illegal paul sport to europe you know his that's all they can get you arrested for attempting to organize a sham marriage and a financial and emotional cost but then he left me for a woman 33 years older than him marriage for sale on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour pope francis is in northern iraq for the 3rd day off his visit he's been addressing people in the town of car a caution major center for christians in iraq francis says he is the trip to appeal for tolerance and unity among religious groups a prominent muslim politician has reportedly died in myanmar after being arrested overnight by security forces his cause of death isn't known police would be using tear gas and live fire to spare us antique cooper testers in several cities. and china says exports have grown to their highest level in more than 2 decades compared to this time a year ago it has been an over 60 percent increase in exports electronics and

textile such as mass contributed to the higher than expected shipments. here as president joe biden has achieved his 1st major legislative victory the senate's just passed a $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill by the narrowest of margins the fulfillments of biden's campaign promise will provide one of payments were $1400.00 to most americans the bill goes back to the democratic controlled house for approval mike hanna reports the goal is just. the ball was finally passed in the process tad a vote a rama that was the longest senate vote in recent memory approval coming more than 24 hours after the role of members was called this bill will deliver more help to more people than anything the federal government has done in decades we could have

worked together as a broker. but our democratic colleagues writers. are top priority one pandemic relief it was their washer and wish wish. the whole process began as it would largely continue with the deciding vote by the vice president kaamelott harris to acceptable for debate breaking a $5050.00 deadlock along party lines the 1st major delay was among democrats with senator joe manchin holding out for more than 10 hours before reaching a compromise to president biden on unemployment payments i am at republican insistence the whole bull was read out in the chamber a highly unusual measure that in itself took some 11 hours and then came dozens of amendments introduced by republicans the vice president's vote not needed many as a republican senator from alaska had to return home for

a family funeral or not agree to the amendments were rejected by 30 votes to 49 unfortunately my friends on the other side have used the link tactics after the length arctics obstruction of structured obstruction some senators raising the issues as part of the abstraction should taxpayer money be set $1400.00 to every illegal alien in america provoking a heated response the statement of the senator from texas is just playing force force let me be clear the ball will go back to the house for approval and president biden is likely to get his big 3 now isn't likely i said really get the government out of the business of battle you know on twitter back in the business of delivery for the american people. making a difference in their lives giving everyone achieves

a fighting chance but made very clear is that any legislative process depends on a raise that the majority one that could be threatened should any single democratic senator go against the party line by kanner al-jazeera washington we're awaiting the results of saturday's ivory coast parliamentary elections some violent incidents were reported in the west about didn't stop people from cast in their ballots it's a marked contrast to the violence seen in october's presidential election military says more. election officials count the ballots cast while the party representatives watch closely it's a process that's going on across the country or they've already ins and cheerfully waiting for the results. as they voted there were concerns about the outcome. their purposes are going to say this does not become like the past elections that

were followed by violence this time he wanted to be a peaceful election say they're in a victim among the population after casting his ballot president alassane ouattara reassure as a warrior page. here. i see that there is no tension in the year i've just spoken to the minister of the interior he tells me that things are going well everywhere and i hope that the day as well as well as the count good luck to all the candidates. the election commission says it hopes to announce when is in print for hours election officials say voting one across much of the country. voting started made in some areas because of voting machines malfunctioning and also some skirmishes in a few places but officials say not enough to model. opposition leaders who boycotted last december's presidential polls are warning against irregularities profit loss they are not but i would like to take this opportunity to appeal to the independent electoral commission to ensure that this whole process takes place

peacefully and that there's no cheating observers say the turnout was low and that could work against some candidate the governing party aims to win 148 seats in parliament enough for a working majority of the opposition want to stop that from happening having stayed away from the presidential election in december analysts here say the opposition may struggle to reassert itself but for ivorians the primary concern is an election that doesn't get married in pilar's. already trees. are shot. roman catholic worshippers in sri lanka are demanding justice for the victims of the 21000 is just some of the bombings there were in black to church on a day religious leaders have declared black sunday the catholic church is criticizing a government reports for not revealing who was behind the attacks when 260 people dies in the coordinated attacks. several 100 protesters of rallies in barcelona

against the jailing of spanish rapper pablo hersel. these were deployed and though the process was mostly peaceful rocks were reportedly thrown at officers hersel was convicted for criticizing spain's monarchy and glorifying a separatist group polls are open in switzerland for a controversial votes on whether to ban face coverings in public the proposed law doesn't mention muslims specifically but is known locally as the burka ban it's backed by the swiss people's party it says veils are a symbol of court extreme islam opponents say the ban that includes exceptions for health and cold weather is islamophobia and an attack on personal freedoms. anger over the u.k.'s breaks it deal with the e.u.

could spill over into protests and possible violence according to one leading opponents people in northern ireland who want to remain part of the u.k. say the deal has driven a wedge between them and the rest of the country join a whole explains from belfast. in communities still divided protestant unionists from catholic nationalist the past is hard to shake off even though we have a peace process here it's probably more of a negative piece of those days or a take and. it's not a part of the case because they still have grills in their windows if they're still there still are security zation around here community activists on both sides witnessed regular confrontations between young people who weren't even born when the good friday agreement brought peace to northern ireland in the 1998 has kind of frog back all that sort of old memories of traumatic times where that was a constant here as well and it is unfortunate that this is passed to another

generation of young people who are basically going out and going out of their way to attack other communities the other community some fear that a fragile peace could falter with tensions raised further by post breaks it customs checks between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. under the so-called northern ireland protocol for unionists it's a stake through the heart of what they stand for causing loyalist paramilitary groups to withdraw their support for the good friday agreement any major decision affecting the north in our community hard to have the consent of both communities in the case of this protocol a fact is being given just to the national nationalist side of the agreement in other words there has been broader perspective it should not be hard for them on the island of ireland but equally there cannot be a hard border oregan entry border between northern ireland and the rest of our own

country some plea is anathema to unionism so how much of a threat is there to peace in northern ireland well observers including the police force don't believe there are many among the former paramilitaries who want a return to violence but there's no denying that unionists and therefore harder line lower. lists have been badly let down by the briggs it negotiations and there's very real anger about the feelings that loyalist activists warn shouldn't be overlooked if the concerns of young loyalists and the concerns of the way to unions community are persistently ignored then what's going to happen is the data anger is going to have nowhere to go and when you have all this pent up anger and you've no order to act and then you end of a the interest territory and once once that genie gets out of the bottle it's extraordinarily difficult to put to put it back in again and that's a concern the good friday agreement is underpinned by public support and it will likely stand regardless of the loyalists move but as long as there remains no

alternative to a sea border between northern ireland and great britain that anger will grow threatening to spill over into something worse during a whole al-jazeera belfast. big game trophy hunting is a controversial but lucrative business in parts of africa it brings in more than $300000000.00 a year however hunters haven't been able to travel for the past year and that's had a massive impact on the industry her matters are reports from the wyo in zimbabwe where taxidermist santana rates are now struggling to stay in business and everybody from the skeleton of a giraffe all soon be shipped to paraguay in south america is just one of many outstanding orders for the preserved remains of animals killed by hunters the taxidermists here in zimbabwe are working on but the coronavirus pandemic means their business could soon be did too just thought i knew induces global lock downs

and travel restrictions are keeping customers away that affects the family to. whom we would list money who can afford to pay the rest fall. into holes and stuff so we're waiting to be tough these are challenging times for the country taxidermy industry as a competes with others in southern africa for clients without tourism there's no business prevalently as a thing to lock the world down or doing whatever it is destroyed tourism around the world. of a citizen bribery to africa. those are there is there are there is a tiger market or a very niche market really target hunters obviously without hunters you don't have business so it is imperative for us 100 percent. before the pandemic many tourists will come to zimbabwe to hunt big game and take back stuffed animals and trophies as souvenirs. you can mount just about any kind of animal and these

can take a year to make this is a good that's a buffalo in power and here is a water everything is recorded with legal documentation this includes government approved legal paperwork for export the hunts are regulated and only a certain number of animals can be killed each year taxidermy and trophy hunting is criticized by some animal rights groups. but advocates say money from the hunts supports conservation efforts the industry also creates jobs in a country with very high unemployment. means but in order to keep operating work is hearsay the world needs to open up again and soon. al-jazeera.