a push for equal access to covert 1000 vaccines south africa and india appeal for the suspension of patients at the w t o. hello there i missed on detail this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a u.s. court begins selecting jurors for the trial of a former police officer accused of killing george feeling. i would die of that

solution because it was extreme to receive a senior official from myanmar tells al-jazeera about his dramatic escape after last month's military coup. these cherry orchard may look innocent or not but they're part of a mountain debate here in chile over chinese investment and possible control over this country's most important and strategic industries. now south africa and india are leading a push at the world trade organization to drop the pay to interest in $1000.00 vaccines more than $100.00 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations according to a campaign group called one richer countries according access story says preventing poor nations from getting them it's estimated that the supplements of doses would

be sufficient to vaccinate the entire adult population of africa johns hopkins university found nearly half of those who've been fully vaccinated so far are in the united states and i need 10 countries have yet been able to vaccinate more than 75 percent of their populations and the u.n. secretary general antonio terra's says the inequality of vaccine distribution is wildly uneven and unfair for me to miller reports now from johannesburg. it's been a year since the 1st 1000 infection was identified in south africa since then more than 50000 people have died here and 1500000 have been infected while richard nations rolled out vaccines the program in south africa's been much slower. another important step is to enable the transfer medical to.

swallow. production. i did medical south africa and india are leading a movement to suspend the world trade organizations agreement on intellectual property rights fork over 1000 vaccines but many high income countries including the united states and those in the european union have rejected the idea they say waving the peyton's would put off private investors and slow down scientific innovation and existing regulations allow drug manufacturers to make their own deals with generic manufacturers while some developing nations like ana ivory coast and the su to have begun receiving their 1st doses to the un back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa being left behind. there is a capacity committee can continue to produce things and i stayed in medical. it is the same children the wealthy states are blocking legal barriers and delaying

essential kozel. of the world trade organization according to the united nations 3 quarters of all covert 1000 vaccines have been secured by just 10 countries all of them wealthy 130 countries that's about 2500000000 people have not received a single dose this is not the 1st public health emergency that south africa is facing it has one of the highest hiv aids rates in the world in the 1990 s. millions of people in this country and other developing nations died without access to the drugs they needed simply because they were too expensive so africa is once again calling for access to cheaper drugs to save lives with some arguing that despite covert 1000 vaccines being tested in africa many nations on the continent still remain at the back of the queue for me to miller al-jazeera johanna's book. meanwhile brazil has recorded its highest number of deaths from the coronavirus in

a single day nearly 2000 who are registered on tuesday the country's had more than 11000000 cases and is currently facing the west phase of the pandemic yet pushing its health care system to the brink of collapse or israel has partially reopened its airport to foreign arrivals but only those granted special exemptions tourism still remains off limits and that includes the religious pilgrimage is so important to the life in the old system in the old city of jerusalem how a force that has been to the church of the holy sepulture to see the impact of this pandemic on one of christianity's holiest places. jerusalem's catholic patriarch leads a lent a procession down the ancient steps to the church of the holy sepulcher normally the priests would process through throngs of tourists and pilgrims but now the square like the church behind stands all but empty. first dedicated as a church by constantine in the 4th century on the site where jesus is believed to

have been crucified and buried it's shared by 4 christian denominations and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. to a set situation that they're not here at all i hope the corona will be. minimises if they get to the population and they will start coming this is the holy places as usual as they did before between 20162800 more than half of all foreign tourists to occupied east jerusalem came here the old city's most visited site now in the run up to easter its giant doors are officially open again but israel's main airport is still partially closed only handfuls of specially permitted foreign nationals are allowed in a far cry from the more than a 1000000 christian tourists who would enter in a normal year living interest from this is a place i've been to pretty frequently and when it's full of devoted pilgrims from around the world it has a real emotional power but on

a day like this when it's all but empty in some ways the ancient nature and beauty of this place a more fully revealed those who are here now we found a mix of foreign workers academics and locals have the place almost to themselves no competing for snatched moments in revered spaces details that might have been lost amid camera clicks and excited shouts now gleam quietly undisturbed but this period of quiet comes at a cost in the form of missing religious donations and struggling shops in the alleyways outside merchants say 95 percent of their business has simply disappeared . adeeb judy's family is hold the keys to the church for nearly a 1000 years even in that context he says these last 12 months have been extraordinary. thing or serene it's been a year that was suffering and the old city is the most affected and within the old city it's the tourist lines businesses and places of worship. there is shared hope

among priests and shopkeepers but the talk of a vaccine driven return to international travel will indeed soon materialize this place will once again welcome the world back through its doors are a force it occupied east jerusalem moving on to some other news now and on many as prime minister has dismissed of the head of the army nicole passion yanick yours the military of attempting a crew last month after demanded he step down the army accused him of mishandling a war with azerbaijan that ended with armenia giving up control of some territory now russia has restricted twitter access accusing the social media platform of failing to remove banned content the country's communications watchdog says it slowed down the website speed and they warned it could be blocked entirely unless action is taken on tuesday russian authorities announced lawsuits against 5 social media platforms for posts related to opposition protests according to the interfax news agency. well 3 jury members have so far been selected for the trial of

a white policeman accused of killing. he was on top. he does say. they were interviewed in a courtroom and their identities have not been revealed freud's death in police custody in may last year triggered wild wide protests for the minneapolis office that derek shulman is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter john hendren has more now from minneapolis. on day one of jury selection in the case of the former police officer accused of murdering george floyd the court picked 3 jurors one a white chemist a man from minneapolis another is a white man who works as an auditor and says he's got a friend who's a police officer and he's got a relatively negative view of black lives matter the 3rd is a woman of color who says her uncle is a police officer and all 3 said that they felt they could judge the case fairly

race is particularly important in this case of a white police officer accused of killing a black man in a racially charged incident that was videotaped by bystanders and went viral that video sent protesters into the streets across the united states and set off riots here in minneapolis and elsewhere it's rare that a police officer is charged with murder and river still that one is convicted in the concern here in minneapolis is that if derek show of and is found not guilty of these charges that those riots that began on may 25th when george floyd was killed could begin a new that's why security is heavy around the courthouse with high barricades arrested around it national guard and police inside and very few people allowed inside that courtroom now ultimately the judge needs to pick 12 jurors and at least 2 alternates in order to start the trial. but with 3 jurors being picked on the 1st

day of jury selection the are on pace to begin as scheduled on march 29th. and the f.b.i. has released new security footage of a suspect that they believe prompted explosives outside the democratic and republican party headquarters near capitol hill the f.b.i. says 2 pipe bombs were placed the night before the capitol hill riots on january 6th they were discovered and defused the following day a reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect stands at $100000.00 alan fisher has more from washington d.c. . first time i've seen this video it comes from buildings near the democratic national headquarters and also the republican national headquarters so obviously the f.b.i. have had this for a while one of the 1st things they would have done was check the video you can't tell if it's a man or a woman you can't see a face but they do have distinctive brand name food where the f.b.i. are hoping that someone might be able to identify that or perhaps even the gate

that the suspects use no they're also saying look think about january this year was anyone near you buying a couple of backpacks did they express any interest in how would you build a bomb that even go to a hardware store and pick up piping with that be considered unusual all of this as far as the f.b.i. is concerned it could be important now you remember that these 2 devices were found around 1 pm on january the 6th that was just before a big crowd moved towards capitol hill to try and contest the results of the presidential election many people thought at the time that this was a decoys plant that those devices which were attached to timers would go off and detract resources away from capitol hill therefore making it much easier for the crowd to sweep into the building which was of course endorsing the electoral college results but also this video tells us what the f.b.i.

doesn't know and that is that they would have gotten forensic of the backpacks they would have been able to perhaps get d.n.a. maybe even fingerprints but 2 months on that has led them nowhere. still ahead here on out of there an unaccompanied and under-aged challenges a vast numbers of migrant children face trying to enter the u.s. through its southern border. because the election results are end and with them come promises of healing and reconciliation. however got some very heavy rain into central and southern parts of the philippines with my little area of low pressure rolling through him say some very heavy rain across indonesia so the way 675 millimeters of rain in the past 24 hours and further north up into the philippines will 85 millimeters of rain coming through he

say that chain of storms just rattling through the yellow broad say that in the case where we could see some localized flooding over the next couple of days essential parts certainly in the mix here through thursday added the going on into friday the winds continue to feed those heavy showers in across a good part of the country follows on it should be last you drive across into china should be largely dry some heavy showers there to southern parts of the night plenty more big downpours coming in across indonesia and across a good part of borneo heavy downpours too into northern areas of australia so it's also the east coast we're going to say some unusually wet weather east in areas of new south wales southern parts of queensland rather area of high pressure drawing the wind seen from the states a lot of moisture fading in into the patrol that we have here and that will produce some very heavy showers longer spells of frank with the potential for some flooding that wet weather just pushing up as you can see into southern parts of new south wales will crash you see right moving away from you see and.

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hello again i'm the stars here tender let's remind you of our top stories this hour south africa and india are leading a push of the world trade organization to temporarily drop pays interest rates those on covert 19 vaccines they said would allow more countries and more manufacturers to mass produce the jobs. 3 jurors have so far been selected in the trial of a white police officer accused of killing george floyd former minneapolis officer derrick chauvinists facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter and. now the governor of texas has ordered a hundreds of national guard troops to the southern border with mexico and response to a surge in migrants trying to cross there among those seeking to enter the united states are thousands of central american children traveling without their parents not surprising a huge challenge for the by an administration how does your caster. u.s. border patrol agents encountered more than $19000.00 unaccompanied migrant children

at the border this fiscal year a number on pace to vastly surpass previous surges the miners made the arduous journey from central america without a parent arriving after president joe biden reopened the border to them we felt it was the most humane approach to addressing whatever very difficult circumstances in the region and that means there are more children kids under the age of 18 of course coming across the border the border patrol encountered $78000.00 migrants in january a leap from former president donald trump's final months in office and the highest january total in a decade on tuesday the republican governor of texas announced a surge of state police and national guard troops in response to the worsening situation there is a crisis on the texas border right now with the overwhelming number of people who are coming across the border this crisis as a result of president biden's open border policies the biden administration says

the border is still closed to the majority of migrants the few who are allowed in officials say are the unaccompanied children and the asylum seekers who had already been waiting in line in mexico for 2 years these families will live freely in the us until an immigration judge decides whether they can stay but the children who arrived alone are detained inside border patrol holding cells for days or weeks in violation of a court order as they wait for shelter space that's nearing 100 percent capacity the government has cancelled pandemic restrictions of the shelters to fit more children who live here for more weeks until they are placed with u.s. sponsors we're definitely seeing an uptick in numbers but we're also seeing that the administration is very conscious of it and is working very quickly to put resources into place to handle future flows. progressive's urged the white house to improve the conditions of detained children while conservatives accuse biden of

inviting a run on the border meanwhile pandemic related poverty in central america is driving more people to leave putting more pressure on biden and on the u.s. border. castro al-jazeera washington who is speaking of migrants at least 1st the 9 refugees and migrants have drowned off the coast of china zia and coast guard recovered the bodies after their boat sank close to the car can't islands and also rescued $165.00 people are those on board are said to have been from several countries including china. who ivory coast's governing party has retained its majority in parliament winning 157 of the 254 seats reactions to the results have so far been peaceful and a country with a history of post-election violence i'm going to just reports now from. former ivorian president laurent gbagbo savers a whim of a city targeted minister supporters i take about the victory

away of the tensions in the land michel one of the new faces in parliament says it's time the country heals. well you know old page was going to we're going to work on reconciliation in the return of ivorians in exile including my father that way democracy in our country will be strengthened. reassuring words for citizens who fear the worse. the opposition had hoped for better results but given the lost his position the election some of the over say the coalition performed better than expected. anyone not satisfied with the provisional results can go to the court in the next 72 hours the result of the election gives president alassane ouattara and the ruling r h d p party total dominance over ivory coast politics. the opposition as a monolithic party that. at lex national spirit as it's clear we have won the parliamentary

majority we set out to achieve. election observers called a process to respond despite incidents recorded in some parts of the country but this is really. bad to. take the. election. claims and counterclaims a victory by the leading political parties nearly price the country into another round of violence businesses here in become a couple to lobby join remain open during and after the announcement many here say the country is pulled back from the brink of another round of post-election violence but he also warned what political leaders say or do in the next few days will determine what happens next. the results will now go to the constitutional court to decide in 3 days either to reject or validate the outcome comedy trees.

now the u.s. state department says it's repulsed by the military is use of lethal force against protesters. and surging the army is exercise maximum restraint the un security council is also calling for restraint but failed to agree on a statement condemning the crew dozens of protesters have been killed since the military took power last month while a senior official from uncensored cheese national league for democracy has spoken to al jazeera about his dramatic escape from myanmar after the coup dr sasser has now been chosen as the special envoy of the committee representing the elected government and for his safety dr sasser spoke to our diplomatic editor james space from an undisclosed location. where myanmar's election was held in november the campaign manager for unsung cheese national league for democracy party was dr saw

so in an interview with al-jazeera he tells me that when the will of the people was subverted by the military in a coup on the 1st of february he like other leading figures in the party feared for his life got up early morning or force fed. we realize that all our fault was that we cannot made me cold. we realized the orderly visions and everything signal was that of course it was scary in the way because we don't know what's going to happen we don't know we'll be on time so it was a very tough i call my mom called me in the evening and say are you dead or alive and start crying tell us how you got out of the country i know who she would text driver to have that kind of things and i was against taxi driver and you know it was tough it was tough and after that i end up a motorbike and it was 2 times i lifted my motorbike and we got tape as and the

middle of freezer night in a few in my face i can a few in my hand i thought i would die of that situation because it was extreme situation after do we did 3 days and 3 nights and another lady free in a safe place. he tells me the military have underestimated the bravery and stamina of the young people of the country and he's now detecting signs the military may be splitted by so many police forces have run away today as always report as some military officers have defected and. that shows 2 hours if you provide is what we are calling to international community to help our strategy to deliver for the people of myanmar he praised be on mars u.n. ambassador john moore too and you know he spoke out bravely against the coup last month and he's now going to be working closely with him because dr saw saw has been

named as the global envoy of the committee representing the democratically elected politicians of b.m.r. james pays out his era at the united nations how the chinese government is being accused of breaching every single act of the un genocide convention and its treatment of reagan and shin chung all reports by more than 50 global human rights experts says there is clear evidence that china is responsible for committing genocide against the muslim way because that's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps and recently is mostly in the shin john region the us administration has already described the persecution of the week as as a genocide and says it maintains that judgment china denies allegations of human rights abuses well as a member him is from the new lines institute the organization that published the report he says it's significant in terms of international accountability. these affect the independent experience and international law in general say in china's

economic policy all the evidence you know thousands and thousands tens of those testimonials from the terms of change us policies and you know corroborated numbers change those laws in china step tat and come to the conclusion that very clearly that chain is in breach of the $948.00 genocide convention on multiple accounts so this is extremely significant in terms of international accountability or what to do is change that means a chain is in breach of the general convention so the onus is no on other countries that are party to the gym so you convention on this will 131 of them i remember change as also a party to this convention so the onus is on them to treat this as a seriously as it deserves they must they say she you know put into place. policies that are true that change has held accountable for this convention was set up not necessarily to have an academic exercise after

a general happens to discuss whether it was a general so you're not essentially it preventative make an ism but it's just got general to it's happening in the 1st place or the onus is no on countries to behave in a manner that actually a whole chain of can to ball and not be passive otherwise they are also criminally liable for or be complicit in the general state with change. and chinese state owned companies are also gaining a bigger foothold in chile corporations are extracting billions of dollars of resources and some politicians are suggesting ways to stop them out as american as any sane human reports now from. from the $1000000000.00 acquisition of one of the world's largest salmon companies to the purchase of copper and lithium mines to wineries and fruit fields. china has set its sights on chile it may be a small country but it has a very long and strategic pacific coastline and lots of resources that the agent

giant needs but that's not the only attraction the most important thing for china is. window shop in. their region. to say. you know you here we are in. america but while chile is economic growth a great deal to china members of congress are warning of an aggressive investment offensive not from private capital but from the chinese state yes you might want if you don't regulate the participation of reforms light in your economy that economy could be nationalized not by our own country but rather by a foreign state that's what we've presented a bipartisan bill to level the playing field for everyone because we're facing an offensive by the chinese state the wants to take over strategic sectors of the economy the congressman has called drafted a proposal that seeks to regulate farm state ownership in strategic and

geopolitical sectors of the economy on the top of his list is the chinese state's majority control of electricity distribution in chile cherry orchards like the one you see here may not seem to fit that description but chinese companies are increasingly buying more and more agricultural land like this. harm to produce one of chile's prime exports fruit especially cherries and that's raising concerns that china may be moving towards producing packing and exporting its own fruit eventual eliminating the chilean entrepreneur altogether. 6 weeks ago at the height of peak season $1000000000.00 cherry exports to china ground to an abrupt halt. it's very suspicious exactly when we started to buy these people in congress who social networks in china who are controlled by the slight became denouncing that

out sure he's had traces of courage of 19. chillies foreign ministry refuses to entertain the notion of foul play at least publicly but nevada role is not alone in suspecting that china was sending a veiled message that there's a high price to pay if chile decides to limit china's economic influence in human al-jazeera. that this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines south africa and india are leading a push at the world trade organization to temporarily drop page infrastructure on private 19 vaccines they say it would allow more countries and will manufacturers to mass produce the jobs meanwhile brazil has recorded its highest number of deaths from the corona virus in a single day nearly 2002 registered on cheese day the country has had more than and less.