the gap is helping the women in whom the command was escape poverty. we're trying to break these barriers of machismo by giving women access to resources meet the women leading the way. women make change on al-jazeera. it's in a critical state coronavirus crisis deepens despite being one of the world's quickest of the. hello i'm daryn jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up. trying to contain myself. to not to tease to nutritionally self. image from god but for a year after a traumatic escape from kidnappers in nigeria but many families are still waiting

for their missing children. like a war zone thousands of families from parts of men martin skate martial nor imposed by the janitor. and a desperate search against the clock for mexican families looking for their missing loved ones. is a success story when it comes to getting people vaccinated against corona virus about a 3rd of its population more than 5000000 people have had their 1st job but it's still in a code 1000 crisis that doesn't like ending any time soon a latin america at its embassy in yemen reports from santiago. a severe health crisis in the latin american country one my gleason had expected when chilean is dying from cold 19 every 15 minutes and critical care units are overflowing the

doctor said that they runs the i.c.u. at the clinic and takes us to see for ourselves that every bed is occupied even though the number of critical care units nearly doubled this week and the circuit is people over 70 most of whom have already been vaccinated have almost disappeared from our emergency rooms now we have younger patients but some gravely ill. chile's 2nd wave is turning out to be far more aggressive than the 1st even though more than $33.00. percent of the population has received one or both jabs these people are among the 10s of thousands of chileans was feeling at this hour for their corona virus vaccine and while chile is a world leader in terms of the percentage of the population that has already been inoculated health officials warn it will not make much difference at least not for some time. in order for herd immunity to be effective 80 percent of chileans must be fully vaccinated and that won't happen for another 3 months. now judy used

to make the vaccine available to everyone free of charge and to convince you all that it's a fictive and site. that the hospital doctors and nurses concede they're exhausted 30 percent of staff are medical leave from illness or stress and they're more difficult to replace than a bed or respirator. we caught our breath between the 1st and 2nd wave but the patient load never drops enough to really let us recover so here we are practically living here. with d.s. had none this hasn't been able to travel home for nearly a year so. it's very stressful the patients are in a critical condition there's no time to rest because the number of patients multiply faster than we do but we do all we can. to be in suffering from pandemic burnout have clearly let down their guard doctor we've got a d. is one of many who questions the government's overall pandemic strategy. the

strategy was not to suppress the pandemic but to contain it as a delicate balance in which flexibility and easing restrictions led to thousands of patients despite the inoculation a bitter lesson for a country that thought it was out of the woods and a wake up call for others who are counting on vaccines to be the magic cure you see in human. well it's also getting worse by the day in brazil it's reported another record number of fatal it is in a single day $2841.00 deaths in just 24 hours it comes as the government's 4th health minister since the start of the pandemic prepares to take office he says he'll support the approach of president john bolton r.-o. has been opposed to strict lock downs. gunman on motorcycles have attacked a group of civilians in killing at least 58 people they were attacked while returning from a livestock market in bunny bang who near the border with mali the armed group also

destroyed nearby granary is 3 days of national mourning have been declared for the victims. the government in nigeria's kaduna state says it won't be giving in to ransom demands after 3 teachers were kidnapped from a primary school is the latest in a string of abductions from schools in northern nigeria on friday 39 college students were taken by armed men in the same state. but address reports from casual . except for security personnel and if you start at the college for forestry research in mind though. it's largely empty and quiet. the usual bustle on campus is gone no classes no field work. the hostels where hundreds used to leave and i want to lock and key as 39 students remain in the hands of their captors. minus about me and i did e.g. alexander 2 friends who escaped the attack is still haunted by what they saw

changed to myself. now to tease too quick not to show myself. which for me he fights. them would be trying to escape. and the process of. i hit a window that got me enjoyed around here. big guys big one of the students i was the one trying to rescue who was like he was just telling me to those leaving i told him i can leave you here 5 days after the attack the personal effects of the missing students are still being recovered along the way what they were taken security was also say guns were used to open up this gaping hole is a breach in point from where the students were extracted now behind this wall is a force that stretches for us. the students thought to be still held by their

captors. neighbors and relatives still come to comfort the sandy family as they try to come to terms of the kidnap of their 2 daughters from the school. the mother still shaken by the incident is against the use of force to rescue them. giving. their lives. and my hope is gone. so we have. to risk to fight. the family says the absence of the 2 goes is a bearable for everyone dislike the. dark it is wanted for you to move discharged and no more laid down when you lose their life you can no see there. were 3 kidnappings in forty's the government here says it will not give in to kidnapper's demand for runs. and was based on principle very careful and logical evaluation of the consequences of their state negotiating with non-state actors or

even giving them money. that we could win instead got married decided to avoid completely what some parents of missing students want to hear at the moment but the government negotiating with the hostage takers will only create a bigger problem. al-jazeera khuda protestors of storm the presidential palace in yemen southern city of aden angry about poor living conditions and unpaid salaries witnesses told al-jazeera that officials from the un backed government fled as hundreds of demonstrators forced their way in security guards loyal to the u.s. southern transitional council were stationed there but didn't try to stop the protestors have since left the palace. elsewhere 3 bombs exploded next to a convoy carrying food to one of yemen's largest camps for displaced families in marin locals $100.00 more province which is an eastern yet and say the homemade

device is damaged one of the 26 trucks loaded with no injuries were reported it's not clear who was behind the attack. now as the crisis in myanmar gets worse it's becoming difficult to be sure how many people have been killed during the crackdown the u.n. puts it at 149 in just over 6 weeks but a political prisoner group insists the toll is higher $183.00 martial law has been imposed in many areas but protesters are defying restrictions on gathering on the streets arrests and detentions have continued throughout the country with more than 2084 people remaining arbitrarily detained at least 37 journalists have been arrested of whom 19 remain in arbitrary detention at least 5 deaths in custody have occurred in recent weeks and at least 2 victims bodies have shown signs of severe physical abuse indicating that they were tortured we are

deeply disturbed that the crackdown continues to intensify and we again call on the military to stop killing and detaining protesters and the un envoy for me and lars civilian government is remaining defiant after the military charged him with treason dr as he's known fled me and maher on the day of the coup last month he's accused of encouraging the civil disobedience campaign and calling for international sanctions earlier he spoke to my colleague jim than l. about the charges today brought will be chopped up with a high treason by the military junta. if these trees in smith i was 3rd in with the people of myanmar given my love for their freedom for fender democracy for justice this illegal illicit the may reach him have been committing crimes against humanity and trust in this genocides at the classes for the last 700 years against dick and

cheney karim they are more. united 97 to him kill hundreds of his was stupid and. then they have mother. and you know the truth or the 7th summer evolution. will be to slaughter in 2017 there was ethnic cleansing is against. people to know he story of independence this has been lost and suffered across home plate by those is a means to protect our people these are the same general us who should be charged of high treason who charged me today on high treason what does this mean for you though i mean can you ever go back now are you worried perhaps for your friends or for your family who are still in the country well besides who is in charge carry that sentence that means. that if i go back there of course i do

everything i can sue. for been killed and my family my brothers my sisters of cause they read every day they live on across the nations under streets these are the militants and there are those who should be put in jail who are now charging high treason we have heard some horrific stories stories of torture obviously of many people disappearing since inflated martial law has been imposed the military and the police opening fire on. 'd how much longer can this continue how much longer where oswald had should protest his be willing to risk their lives there. the people of myanmar will be forced to defend them the international community do not do any action that. is

say military generals who have been committed a crime against humanity what. every day now and also it has to be as though so we are calling it is not community too quickly before it's too late because the blast it what you knew. not to come here not just here including one in the many in the syrian refugee making inroads into german politics. it's easy isn't just sort of just trying. for every woman everywhere in the secret weapon making this year's united nations conference on women a historic one more than saying that. it's time for the perfect jan and the winter sponsored plan qatar airways however we got a little bit of a mixed bag in our weather across the middle east over the next couple days it's

warm sunshine lovely weather across southern parts of the rate of 30 celsius in doha getting $36.00 in riyadh so that warm starting to set same with southerly winds look further north a small winter here because some snow coming in across the turkish mountains some rain raffling in suicide for us pushing towards the levant and that's all making its way little further eastwards as we go on through thursday i think for much of syria the good parts of iraq it should be followed by but just from the northern fringes you might catch a shero to want to showers wintry in nature there just around the caucasus chance of some wintry showers over towards africa. stan as well meanwhile the warm sunshine continues across the arabian peninsula that we could touch 34 celsius here in doha on thursday so even a warm side for us one sunshine sue in syria good parts of somalia but chad was not too far away much as catch a shower to just around the coastal fringes and you see want to see showers to the southern parts of ethiopia elsewhere across central areas of africa the seasonal

rains doing quite nicely will see the rain is extending all the way down towards zambia zimbabwe catching some rains with a chance of want to shower as the eastern cape. spoke to qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this show and julian on global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we've been disconnected from who we are good enough to keep the new and the to be part of today's discussion this dream on out is there.

welcome back a quick recap of our top stories here this hour there's growing alarm over the increasing number of coronavirus cases in chile despite one of the world's leading vaccine rolled outs 5000000 people have had their 1st job but cases are rising by an average of 5000 a day. the government in nigeria is could do in a state says it won't be giving in to run some demands after 3 teachers were kidnapped from a primary school is the latest in a string of abductions from schools in northern nigeria. and the u.n. says $149.00 people have now been killed since last month one a political prisoner group puts the total at $183.00 martial law has been imposed in many areas but protesters are defying restrictions on gathering on the streets. now the u.s. secretary of state and defense are visiting south korea on the 2nd stop of their asia tour lloyd austin and anthony blinken are both strong alliances in the region

on their 1st foreign trip since taking office they started with japan where they joined forces with their japanese counterparts to criticize what they called china's coercion and aggression in asia north korea's nuclear ambitions expected to be a key issue in seoul ahead of the trip pyongyang warned the u.s. not to cause trouble in the region where rob mcbride joins us live now from the south korean capital presumably north korea's nuclear ambitions will be high on the agenda there what south korea be hoping for from this visit that. north korea definitely will dominate discussions in this leg of the mission blinken and austin having one on one talks with their counterparts in seoul on wednesday going through to a joint session on thursday and then a communique in which we can expect north korea to dominate of course one of the main reasons for this mission to this part of the world is for the new bike the ministration to formulate its strategy towards north korea which we can expect to

be some kind of policy of containment what's known as strategic patience the same kind of policy adopted by previous administrations before donald trump came came along but from the south koreans they would expect and they would want to see something far more proactive they want to try to breathe life back into the whole policy of high level dialogue between north south korea possibly leading to a resumption of talks maybe between north korea and the united states once more president mungy in of south korea he has just over a year left in office and he will be remembered of course instigating this whole 'd policy of summit diplomacy 3 years ago facilitating these talks getting us away from talk of fire and fury and he would dearly like to see it his legacy seeing that resume but of course in order to do that the north koreans would expect

some sort of relief from those sanctions so the south koreans behind closed doors at least will be pushing for some kind of leeway freedom to maybe have some sort of movement on sanctions but the u.s. administration has given no indication so far that is it is willing to back away from sanctions and maximum pressure the other thing that the u.s. would want to talk to south korea about is joining this broad front coalition against china and china's expansion we saw that in japan with some very strong words calling out china on its human rights record and cian jang in. hong kong all expansionism in the east and south china seas they would want south korea to put their name to that to join them in this loose coalition but south korea of course is in a difficult position it has far closer relations more delicate relations with china it relies on china far more for trade it also relies on china as

a restraining influence on north korea so we would not want to jeopardize that so we are at some sort of cross purposes do us wants to talk southbridge talk more about china south korea wants to keep this just about north korea right to life for us there in seoul rob thank you now in the 10 years since syria was plans into chaos the country has been devastated the region destabilized and millions forced to flee many found their way to germany thanks to its so-called open door policy now one of them is hoping to become the 1st syrian to be elected to the german parliament dominic kane reports from berlin. more than a 1000000 syrians have made their way to germany in the last 10 years and while each has a story to tell of how they ended up here some operative cuba it has other cloth my name is tarik a louse i am 31 years old and i was born in syria and grew up in damascus i have lived in germany for 5 years i studied law and i am a human rights activist in the syria tarik left was

a war where hundreds of thousands already been killed many millions more were homeless rival armed groups vied for control of cities and for many people the only option was to flee. first 3 turkey then on to greece and up the balkan peninsula into central europe. the germany they arrived in was at 1st welcoming but facilities were often basic. there i was just very happy because for the 1st time in years i felt safe at the same time i was shocked about the living conditions for refugees i arrived in dortmund and was sent to a shelter which is in the middle of the forest with no public transportation around undaunted tarik concentrated on learning the language as far as possible and in time to help the many people like him as grateful as tarak is he believes germany needs to do more to improve integration. in the refugees face systemic discrimination in this society they're affected by racism and by laws and asylum

and residence those are experiences that refugees share and i want to work on bringing about changes in these areas. tarik solution is political he's applied to become a german citizen and persuaded the green party to select him as a candidate in this year's general election never mind that the greens haven't traditionally prospered in the place tarik wants to represent just by getting into the political contest he's traveled further than any other the syrian refugee in germany and if his citizenship does come through in time he's determined to fight for a seat here in september. al-jazeera at the german parliament. people have again set fire to tires in parts of beirut after the lebanese pound crashed to a new low against the $1.01 u.s. dollar now costs about $15000.00 pounds which has pushed up food prices the lebanese currency has lost 90 percent of its value on the informal market in the

last year the country is dealing with the rampant unemployment on the currency crisis means wages are worth a lot less libya has moved a step closer towards putting the violence and division of the past decade behind it with a united government taking office in tripoli the head of the outgoing un backed government. transferred power to the new prime minister abdul hamid. it was a smooth transition from the 2 rival governments in the east and west of the country following painstaking negotiations the new government will now prepare for december elections. now a u.s. intelligence report says both russia and iran directed efforts to manipulate 2020 presidential election it's been released by the office of the director of national intelligence it shows intelligence agencies believe moscow was trying to help donald trump win a 2nd term to ron pushed for a biden victory the report also found cuba venezuela and lebanon's hezbollah were engaged in smaller scale campaigns to influence the vote. the 1st female

u.s. vice president comedy harris has made history by giving her 1st speech at the united nations but as christians and in the reports the setbacks caused by the pandemic cast a shadow over the events. the 65th conference on the status of women may have lacked the pomp and circumstance of years past not to mention the number of female participants but it had something previous conference's did not the 1st ever female vice president of the united states it is an honor to address this is steamed commission so having a 1st v.b. lady in the u.s. you know it's just amazing the most demography country or word it's amazing is just such a strong missing age for every woman everywhere promoting women's leadership was the theme of the gears event but women like kamel harris germany's angela merkel

and new zealand's just send arden remain the exceptions on the world stage around the globe and women serve as the head of state or head of government in just some 22 countries and even here at the united nations where women now make up more than 40 percent of the professional staff a female secretary general has yet to be elected and covered 19 has been a setback for women lockdowns have led to increases in domestic violence women leaving the workforce and disruptions to family planning services particularly in developing countries the united nations estimates 12000000 women lost access to contraception resulting in 1400000 unplanned pregnancies the status of democracy also depends fundamentally on the empowerment of women not only because the exclusion of women in decision making is a marker of a flawed democracy but because the participation of women strengthens democracy

and that's true everywhere the new u.s. administration has promised to carry the flag for women at the un restoring funding for women sexual and reproductive health which was cut by the trumpet ministration sexual and. the british health are so important in the in the part of the word where more and more maternal mortality is so high giving this gathering despite recent setbacks for women something to celebrate kristen salumi al-jazeera the united nations. tens of thousands of people have disappeared during a 15 year struggle between rival gangs in mexico and the government but there's been no large scale search for the missing in the state where it all began until now john heilemann reports from the state. there's bullet holes in the door but this house might hold more secrets within we've come to the 1st big hunt for the disappeared in the state of michoacan southwest mexico suspects in

a police investigation revealed a number of places where they've hit of bodies. and this is the 1st stop to try and find that someone might be under the floor. the cement in there is newer than inside and it sounds hollow that's what people do when it bury some one underneath and put down concrete to hide it. there's a brotherhood among the family searching for the nearly 80000 disappeared across mexico erik's traveled more than 2000 kilometers to help the locals they're going to somebody i've got a son who disappeared in tijuana and i feel the same pain as these families so i've come to join their cause. because many of the teams of gangs or even authorities the tools their relatives used to find the basic this is the way that you search for the disappeared right across mexico push this through out into the ground and then pull out how she's doing there and then sniff it and if there's

a smell of decay that means that a body has been found. from you know what you're going to walk why do you sort of so great and then treat search for the you know the name of the needle but we haven't got the money for technology there's a lot of poor families here that have used up everything we have trying to find our relatives i and a lot of people come here to search without earning a thing the government just the funds to support us. it's a common complaint from the families little government help for years they've had to do all of this on their own. to lena is learning how for the 1st time she's a local go searching for a brother who was kidnapped a year ago the pandemic and fear stopped looking till now. but you know you miss brown you are finally someone is helping us and i'm hopeful that we'll find him in all of the others in a way i'm excited and in another set because we're not going to find him a life. she's resigned to the she just wants his body and this is probably the only

shot that she'll get to find. this aries red hot the hellish cool new generation cotto the viagra going the fighting over the the wants of victims found for 2 weeks only the governments providing security to help families look just at the end of the day no you can see the number of trucks here of the national guard come to accompany the families now they're all pulling out basically the families would never be able to look in this without the security because it is so full of criminals. this is just a slim window of time for them to try and end years of torture and finally lay their loved ones to rest john holmes now does it or this in to get it all in mexico . dozens of fragments of 2000 year old biblical scrolls have been found by archaeologists south of jerusalem they belong to a collection of jewish texts known as the dead sea scrolls teams abseiled down an

18 to a cliff to retrieve the fragments from a site inside the so-called cave of heart. is changing the status of his drivers across the united kingdom recognizing them as employees rather than an independent contractor as the company says they'll be provided with benefits including the u.k. minimum wage paid holidays and a pension last month the u.k. supreme court ruled that drivers are entitled to benefits. a quick check of the headlines here an al-jazeera there is growing alarm over the increasing number of corona virus cases in chile despite one of the world's leading vaccine roll outs 5000000 people have had their 1st job but cases are rising by an average of 5000 a day it's also getting worse by the day in brazil that's reported another record.