desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 north indian states health experts and bob mentioned this and been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in you should have that impact that would have on those because of that 19. demanding change after. thousands defy look down on the london's latest victim of violence against women. you know i merriam to my z. in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program week a game. for the expat. and cry for justice in the united states

a year after briana taylor was shot dead in her home supporters ask why no one has been charged. and anguish at a jordan hospital at least 7 coronavirus patients die when the oxygen supply runs out. and the sri lankan government is accused of targeting muslims by banning full face coverings and closing more than a 1000 islamic schools. welcome to the program a violent deaths of 2 women on separate sides of the atlantic of been remembered with tears and outrage in the us protests are marking the anniversary of the death of briana taylor shot in her home by police and then here in the u.k. thousands of people have defied lockdown restrictions to pay tribute to sara ever

odds whose remains were found on wednesday she'd been missing for a week a serving police officer has been charged with her kidnapping and vigil was on london's clapham common near to where she was last seen and from where it is now reports. they've been warned not to come but they were defiant this crowd of women and men rallied in south london near where marketing executive sarah ever odd went missing a serving police officer is now being charged with her abduction and murder i think . for everyone and oneself it's the same. ace it's nothing i mean one thing you want to pass and it's not about hating people and hating their companies not making changes sara was last seen walking from a friend's apartment in clapham to her home elsewhere in south london a week after she disappeared sarah's body was found in woodland in kent more than 80 kilometers away the cases spoke to social media avalanche of testimony many

women detailing how they've spent their whole lives being subjected to abuse and having to be on guard sincero everett's disappearance women from all walks of life have come forward with their own accounts of how they've been harassed followed assaulted great a many of them saying that it's men that need to change their attitudes because every single woman knows the feeling of being frightened whose responsibility is it it's everyone's responsibility the problem is that women shouted most of that up until now and now men need to step up every single man needs to be a role model to our place i need to be a conscience don't need to their friends to their colleagues to their brothers and most of all they need to go on i tunes a recent study commissioned by campaign group un women u.k. reflects the disturbing reality over 70 percent of women of all ages have experienced some form of sexual harassment in public places the figures were high

as for the youngest respondents with 97 percent of 18 to 24 year olds experiencing sexual harassment in public and despite all that many women didn't think it was worth reporting incidents noted 95 percent of the respondents said that across the spectrum an incident at a. experience they had not reported all of the incidents that they'd been through and that happened to them so very few people are reporting. and that includes a spectrum of behaviors from what you might describe as my older sexual harassment such as cackling in and will with lane but also more serious groping being followed or coerced into sexual activity without consent such as a series of nationwide vigils was counselled after london police said this event couldn't go ahead because of covered 19 guidelines in some places people marked the event on their doorsteps instead but they all sent the same message forcing those in power to take their abuse seriously and asking men to challenge each other

deemed by the al-jazeera london. well offices to keep a low profile for most of the evening before moving in to break up the crowds well after nightfall the police haven't announced any of respite of course at 5 a serving officer in london metropolitan police has been arrested and charged with sather sarah ever odds abduction and murder has led to more and more tension with many of the protest as well earlier i spoke to hussain founder of chain an organization run by survivors supporting people affected by gender based violence and she explained to me why sarah ever odds murder resonates so much with women across the country leaking all see ourselves in sarah shoes walking home she had a good time with her friends and it's such a normal day occurrence for all of us and she must apply but the same thing that we think about is that they predict about should i call it should i watch i call a friend and you think no it's ok i've lived here before it should be fine. i

mean what i really shows is that it could have been any one of us and these are to have calculations that are invisible to all men and it is this form of perpetual intrepid abuse that women and girls grew up with and face every single day so much so that we undiscounted we stop talking about it to our friends it just becomes part of our life but it kills people and it damages people for the rest of their lives and it's something that needs to stop so i think that is what makes sarah's murder it's not just stand it's murder so so painstaking because we see ourselves in her. and then family and friends are gathering to remember briana taylor on the 1st anniversary of her death demonstrations have been planned in the u.s. city of louisville demanding justice and accountability the 26 year old black woman

was shot and killed by police officers after they forced their way into her apartment in an early morning raid that was not precedented civil suit settlement to briana taylor's family but no criminal charges have been filed over her death or mike hanna joins us live from washington now and mike for brianna taylor's family it's been a year since she was killed but there's been no justice how have people been commemorating her in louisville kentucky. well it was a somber protest as it were in louisville kentucky and hundreds of people gathered to remember brianna taylor but also to mark the fact that nobody has been charged with her killing 2 of the detectives who were involved have been fired in january of this year and a 3rd detective was charged with wanton endangerment but as to her actual deaths no charges whatsoever laid against any of the police officers involved the attorney

general arguing that the police officers were justified in opening fire because they were fired upon it is alleged by brianna taylor's boyfriend who was staying with at the time so this story very much a degree of anger in terms of the fact that there has been no justice served in the eyes of family and in the eyes of those who gathered in protest there has been a massive civil settlement about bringing taylor's mother making clear that what she wants more is some form of justice for her daughter now there has been reaction from the president joe biden who has on this day tweeted out a message of condolence to brianna taylor's family saying that he is going to commit himself to getting a police reform bill passed through congress this is something that he believes would be a tangible way in which to remember the tragedy might we know that police reform was also attached to the terms of the civil suit settlement to briana taylor's

family but how we actually seen any change. well there has been limited changes in which the way police operate in the state of kentucky for example that not can drug war into as it is called which was the action by which the police officers carried out that my time raid has been removed as a device to be used by police there's also been talk about instituting reforms within the department in terms of training all these kind of aspects but there's not very public visual or public sighting in terms of very real change with how police operate at this stage at the least those family operate on the taylor and those who've been protesting her death would have liked to have seen formal charges being laid against the police officers responsible for her death but this has not been the case the degree to which the department in kentucky have been weeds will particular has been actually altered that is something that may be in the public

view and in the public school question whether there has been meaningful change within the department following this killing thank you very much mike hanna in washington. now about $200.00 people including several prominent opposition figures have been arrested in the russian capital moscow at a meeting of independent than a simple deputies police raided the meeting shortly after it began they detained the participants for taking part in an event run by so-called by so-called undesirable organization organize a foreign say the kremlin is trying to intimidate opposition politicians before parliamentary elections in september. so for more on this story now joined by natalia are know the president of the free russia foundation do you know much about

the whereabouts of these opposition activists were arrested the opposition figures have they been released or are they still in detention hello yes it may now are many of them have been released so obviously not all of them because for the 1st time we have more than 200 people were arrested so it's a lot of there are people are being released a budget will be try also next week and as you said they were charged with participating in a round of an undesirable organisations or it's absolutely not true because the ground was organized by united democrats and russia not going to zation that was us that was innocent because broken doesn't they didn't. and if you said they're going to be charged now can you tell us more about what they're going to be charged with and how long they could be in jail potentially. well i have right now this is an administrative charges and. it's up to $15000.00.

fines which is about models until the time to dollars but if a key sees escalated and if that is really this. sentence on a case on undesirable going is ations then some of them might face up to 5 years in jail just a few weeks ago rebuild relief to a decision on the basis of genco who was a bit of 1st one to be charged on this case some undesirable going to zation for as they said for belonging to open a national mikhail khodorkovsky issue was under house arrest for 2 years she was facing real jail time but she was sentenced to a conditional sentence which is a huge victory in fortunes russia nowadays and the while we are always easy attacks on civil society activists absolutely continuous and never stopping to do. really

marked a watershed moment in russia just identity because never before has the entire conference was detained you said it monta a watershed moment to you what is it likely to become increasingly difficult for opposition groups or even independent candidates to mobilize to organize themselves in the run up to the election. yes exactly our. september up elementary elections and elections that many other levels and. as many of them are elected municipal debit just from many regions actually over. participants from over 56 russian regions participated in that the round and this is one of the ways to hold russian activist could it dissipate. politike split axiom that and contribute to changes in their communities we understand that of course but is there so little has completely under graeme has gone through all of parliamentary

or regional manner and so on but municipal elections where at least. we know of opportunities for pro-democracy forces 200000 new sport seats all across russia we had a lot of. victories in 2017 for example was a very big moment when in moscow pro-democracy forces became up opposition became a political force number 2 all before means a communist party a liberal democratic state an office party. and after that so many people all over russia started to get elected to this level local level but i'll drag now anchor very much for giving us a an idea of what's been happening of course this follows the arrest of about 200 people there in the russian capital moscow. natalie ana joining us after the free russia foundation with al jazeera live from london more still ahead on the program as a political controversy in bolivia a former president arrested on terrorism and sedition charges.

protesters are fighting back against me and my security forces despite an ever growing body count. time for big temperature changes again in australia this is an active frontal systems already gone through south australia and victoria is in new south wales ahead of it there's been some pretty big storms are back to superstar was filmed over sydney that means big thunderstorms massive amounts of rain potentially there for a time in new south wales running through into southern queens and then a frontal system itself stretches right back up to the north or west australia kimberley and beyond so anywhere here could get sundry rain it's quite cool going to springs as

a result of that cos the thing keeps moving in that direction we leave sydney behind at 24 rather quarter degrees it's warming up slowly in melbourne adelaide and it's still pretty woman perth up to about $32.00 degrees. temperatures drop the big variation over to the station that storm system running through honshu will least snow on the northern slopes it's backwash but it's still $18.00 to $20.00 in tokyo in the least side and it's relatively warm throughout northern china we have dropped and we've got more cold air coming in through along but our little move eastwards and it might even disturb their little bit in northern china particularly in beijing but not enough to improve the air quality much but more snow is on its way to north korea with rain for central china. and you know without knowing much very much a culture has been very harmful to the economy and the lives of many people

challenging traditional attitudes how narrowing the gender gap is helping women in rural nicaragua escape poverty for example and they're trying to break these barriers of machismo by giving women access to resources need the women leading the way. women make change on al-jazeera. the over the the order. hello welcome back a recap of the headlines now a vigil to honor murdered british woman sarah of rod might have been cancelled because of restrictions around the crowd of ours but it didn't stop thousands of people across the country paying tribute to her anyway the 33 year old disappeared

as she walked home from a friend's house in london 10 days ago. police officers broke up the crowds well after nightfall with several women handcuffed and detained the mayor of london city car has called the scenes on acceptable and the hum secretary pretty patel has asked the police service for a full report on what has happened serving police officer has been charged with average kidnapping and murder. and in the united states it's the anniversary of briana taylor's killing people in louisville kentucky are demanding justice the 26 year old black woman who was shot in her apartment by police during a botched narcotics raid no one was ever charged over the killing. or now we go to jordan where the health minister is resigning after at least 7 patients died because of an oxygen outage a hospital treating coronavirus patients a terabyte that said that he was marty responsible for the incident a nationwide medical emergency has now been declared to make sure that all the

hospitals are not affected or birdman the reports. and show outside assault hospital in a one hour cut to vital oxygen supplies has been blamed on the deaths of patients. it affected intensive care the tennessee and coronavirus wards a backup supply a ride tonight to some. but my father and mother are at the coronavirus isolation zone inside the hospital by coincidence i was inside the hospital when suddenly the oxygen was cut we are starved who said they had run out of oxygen and that they are waiting for a truck for more supplies we received assistance from the civil defense some of them were inside the hospital and they provided oxygen cylinders and then started to resuscitate patients among them my parents. security forces have been called in preventing anyone unauthorized from entering the hospital. these people have no

choice but to wait for nice. and has a. there was an oxygen outage and there were no measures to prevent this it is known that in all jordanian hospitals there are motors available just in case electricity goes down even before the crown a virus outbreak when there are surgeries at hospitals there is always spare equipment but here there was an oxygen outage. i gave my father c.p.r. 3 times and twice to my mother i called the director of the hospital at 1030 the isolation ward has only one doctor and 2 nurses to serve 50 to 60 patients this is unfair. the fallout was swift health minister in the theatre resigned. and king abdullah arrived turn mixed reception from crowds at the hospital he immediately ordered the hospital director to also resign

parliament to set up a special committee to investigate and prime minister bush. says there is no justification for what happened in. the government and only the government takes full responsibility for this very painful incident we will not result excuses or justifications about what happened what happened was horrific so it is impossible to deny or to escape responsibility for the death of one jordanian due to these failings isn't acceptable. but there are people here who say the hospital was understaffed and ill prepared and many are asking why a failure like this went unnoticed until it was too late nor about a manly al-jazeera. now to believe here the former interim president janine annette has been arrested after allegations of a coup against her predecessor morale is and has took over as interim leader after morale is fled delivering $29000.00 amid violent protests against his re-election

are is returned after his movie. the socialism party won the election last october after party members came in as and her former cabinet supported the ousting of morales which she denies she's now facing charges of terrorism sedition and conspiracy. even though it is an irregular detention because i was never summoned in addition to all that you know that as a former president i have a very particular situation but even with the abuse and the outreach i am. but the bolivian government maintains that the arrest is not politically motivated. we are clear that we are not pursuing any kind of political persecution we are not inventing anything nor intimidating those who think differently these processes are already initiated in our country justice is following its course as it should within the deadlines established by law and we believe that it should continue this way. demonstrations in may in mar gets military of again turned deadly at least 12

people have reportedly been killed the acting leader of the deposed civilian government promised a revolution as he addressed the public for the 1st time more than 70 people have been killed since the military seized power more than a month ago tony chang has our point. the wounded protesters rushed through the back streets of mandalay as police opened fire on protesters men most 2nd city on saturday despite the threat of injury or death there seems to be no sign the protest is a being to target. at his home in yangon on the body of c 2 a 37 year old trying to shore pedler lies under green cover he was short of a noise on friday as the security services trying to disperse protesters who gathered outside the police station and district. the protesters are calling for the release of 3 men arrested in raids earlier in the night. i told my son that

we have nothing and will die if we go against them i'd go and shoot back at them if i had a gun now we can't do anything tell me do we always have to keep silent and die why are we dying for doing the right thing. filmed furtively from an overhead window these pictures show one of those arrests dragged from their homes several men hit and kicked by the police. beatings like this have become commonplace conducted in public for maximum impact. so that kind of you know there's a valid soldiers shot at our sit in strike last night and arrested 3 people and we're beating them so all of us residents asked them to release the rest of people at the police station then they fired live rounds at us one died over there and another one died here. but the bullets and beatings haven't deterred the protesters using fireworks and petrol bombs behind makeshift barricades they're trying to slow

the advance of the army and police and a rapid retreat under the returning volley of tear gas and smoke using speed and still they scatter and regroup to take another stand even if it means risking their lives and making the ultimate sacrifice tony chaney al-jazeera well now to afghanistan at least 8 people have been killed by a cow a powerful car bomb outside a police station in the city of herat dozens of homes and shops were also damaged in the blast you know contra free reports now from the capital kabul. the devastation is everywhere some houses completely demolished others badly damaged as the car bomb ripped through the center of the western city of herat and beneath the rubble dozens of people were trapped in that part of what of taking 6 people by myself there was no one who could help me take the mickey out of the rubble i was asking others to call the emergency services but when the excavations came and we

didn't need them all of them lost their lives and it could be our going to. residents say after the explosion streets were blocked by security forces and searching for survivors was difficult dozens of the wounded were taken during the night to hospital women children and members of the afghan security many remain hospitalized and it's feared the death toll could rise there's been an increase in the number of civilian casualties in afghanistan since the start of the latest peace talks between the government and the taliban in september according to the un more than 3000 civilians died in 2020 urban centers like it out have been spared big attacks despite the increasing violence across afghanistan the taliban's leaders agreed to stop bombing main cities under the deal they signed last year with the united states. afghan president

a shotgun he condemned friday's attack and openly blamed the taliban but many afghans say the government has failed to provide adequate security more generally higher margin i don't expect anything from this government if this government has issues with the taliban and if the taliban has issues with the government they should fight each other but not us not the people or the poor people who are trying to feed their children are the ones getting killed now the united states and the united nations are pushing for the acceleration of the peace talks that have stalled in. the afghan government has agreed to take part in upcoming summit in russia and turkey has called continue for a ceasefire from both sides controversially al-jazeera. her is banning the burka and causing more than a 1000 islamic schools and a controversial move the government says the full face covering is a symbol of extremism when alpha and as reports. the sri lankan government says

it's banning the burqa to ensure national security muslims see that and the closing of islamic schools as another way of marginalizing that community in the majority view this country but the minister of public security is unapologetic. it affects our national security directly in our early days muslim women and girls never wore the burka it is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently we are definitely going to ban it also there are more than 2000 madrassas schools in the country nobody can open a school and teach whatever you want to the children from ages 5 to 6 all children must study in accordance with the national education policy the wearing of the burqa was temporarily banned in 2019 after the bombing of churches at easter by allegedly islamic militants killed more than 250 people activists and the decision

to make the ban permanent is actually not a surprise. justice minister who is muslim hinted at it shortly after the government reversed its policy on force cremation of kuwait 1000 victims following international criticism but there is no doubt this latest move will increase tensions further with the muslim minority in sri lanka the time the muslim community has been constantly targeted it's. awful because of the action in sri lanka they just lift. the ban on the combatant mission policy that's the advice and now we hear so many other mission this tool some form of punishing the muslim community prison go to a bit rajapaksa has also signed new laws under the prevention of terrorism act which will allow anyone suspected of what the government terms extremism to be detained for what it calls rehabilitation for up to 2 years the government has

denied its target in muslims but many believe that's exactly what's behind these new moves in of an end as colombo. and nasa astronauts rearranging international space station plumbing during a bonus spacewalk for them for victor glover and mike hopkins they were on the job the team had planned to complete the work during a walk last week but the power upgrades took longer than expected to complete the pass or is eager to get the station improvements done before the astronauts finally had home the spring. just a look at main stories now a vigil to on a murdered british woman sarah ever od was counseled earlier on because of restrictions around the coronavirus but it hasn't stopped thousands of people across the country paying tribute anyway the 33 year old disappeared as she walked

home from a friend's house in london 10 days ago a body was found on wednesday but lisa offices broke up the crowds well after nightfall with several women being hanged.