al-jazeera. entry. thompson is set to swear in its 1st female president after the death of covert 900 skeptic john legere fooling the government says he suffered heart failure. blunder in jordan this is out as iran life and also coming up the u.s. says everything's on the table to deal with north korea but pyongyang refuses talks until there's an end to what it sees as hostility. brazil reports another record coated 19 deaths of more than 2600 in one day with health services on the verge of

collapse. and paying tribute to a king mourners bid a final farewell to south africa's longest serving zuma. tanzania's opposition is calling for a new chapter to begin after the death of president john magaw foully officials say the 61 year old suffered a heart failure but opposition leaders suspect he was sick with covert 19 the vice president who has son is set to become tanzania's 1st female president under subpoena reports. thank you for the good feel of the last time john pomfret maggie fully was seen in public he was carrying out official duties and not wearing a mask not long into his 2nd term in office he suddenly vanished from public sight after 3 weeks of speculation came the announcement from vice president sami on state television. promise not to work. we lost alida president of the

republic of tanzania the owner john paul. who parted this life from heart complications in hospital in dar es salaam rumors have been swirling that magnificently had sought treatment for covert 19 largely fed by opposition leader to lease to and kenyan media the government denied the reports and arrested at least 4 people who speculated about his health on social media government but if you when you told his government no one wears a mask including me it proves that there is no corona virus and god loves this nation president maggie foully was more than a coronavirus skeptic his government stop sharing data with the world health organization last year and declared tanzania covert free divine intervention the official tally still stands at 500 in 9 cases and 21 deaths all these months later he displayed a disregard for health advice focusing on prayer and local remedies while also claiming the vaccines were dangerous this true condemnation from the w.h.o.

and the roman catholic church. dial had turned into policy for a nation of 60000000. that the ministry has no plans to receive vaccines for 19 which are already in use in other countries the w.h.o. has repeatedly asked the government to adopt preventative measures such as wearing face masks to start reporting cases and to share data foreign embassies began warning of a significant increase in the number of kobe 1000 cases that could overwhelm tanzania's limited hospital capacity in late february maggie farley finally began to change his tone warming to the idea of wearing locally made face masks that was just days before a shocking press conference from his finance minister for the congo which was called to address rumors that he had died of corona virus. tanzania has refused to join the codex program which has delivered millions of doses to $22.00 african countries it will be up to something a son who has a chance to decide whether it remains an outlier when it comes to protecting its

population and that of neighboring countries and or should help al jazeera what i mean punk ways are former tanzanian ambassador he says megaphone is leadership and direction will likely continue under his successor as a president in a leader of our country is remembered for his strong positions especially against corruption. also he also took a very strong position that as misuse of public good sources and natural resources of the country without proper benefits benefit to the country the people. and then i will also be remembered for for for reinforcing. accountability in public service delivery and it is always been. a unified team and guided by and in this case as well coming from the same party i think they have the party manifesto which outlines the police direction which then the men are going to see

being then continued so and and it's good that we're heading in the president. in this world an era of diversity and i think i think that perspective will also enhanced our unity and a movement. in terms of sustaining the policies that have been published over the law to. your sect of state antony blinken verge china to use its tremendous influence on north korea to abandon its nuclear program and the u.s. defense secretary have been meeting leaders in south korea robin wright has more. this mission to north east asia ended as it had begun with the u.s. directly accusing china of aggressive behavior in the region but the u.s. and south korea also confirmed beijing's importance in the denuclearization of north korea but china has a real interest in helping to deal with this house has an obligation under the you

want security council resolutions the u.s. and try to open a dialogue with north korea ahead of this trip but without success north korea has officially confirmed it had received those requests but didn't respond it's 1st vice foreign minister. saying there can be no dialogue until the u.s. stops what she called its hostile behavior making it clear pyongyang is waiting to see what the new policy of the biden and ministration to war date will look like this mission is intended to help formulate that strategy it's also aimed at restoring and repairing relations between the u.s. and its traditional allies in northeast asia i mean i'm going to be as the u.s. has repeatedly said the trilateral security cooperation between cell tokyo and washington is crucial considering the international situation and newly emerging security threats. relations often severely strained during the previous

administration of donald trump that advantage for the united states has been greatly ruined during the 4 years of trump pardon me astray so it is important for the biden are the ministrations restore. their united states has and china does not one of the last acts on this visit a cost sharing agreement for the basing of u.s. troops in south korea disputed for years by the trumpet ministration its final signing seen here as evidence of an alliance restored rob mcbride al jazeera so. that brazil is facing the worst health care crisis in its history with covered by 900 forcing the system to the brink of collapse on wednesday it reported more than 90000 new infections for the 1st time recently and media say on average more than 2000 people are dying every day but ok ok reports from rio de janeiro day after

day brazil keeps beating its own tragic record health experts say that today in brazil there's a kuvasz death about every 2 minutes like this family of 3 or this 43 year old health care worker the hamas their lives who are waiting in line for a vacancy in an intensive care unit brazil's couvade 19 observatory says the country's facing the worst health care system collapse in all of its history coronavirus units in almost all of brazil's $27.00 states are at or above 80 percent capacity and the situation could get much worse as winter approaches in the southern hemisphere and we may have it in this month of march alone $60000.00 that is would be equivalent to the largest loss of human

life prior to the pandemic in the only major award 'd to brazil got involved in 1000 century of his paraguayan which brazil was 'd 60000 people during 6 years we would be they can chance right now of losing the equivalent number in a single month 30 days 'd scientists and doctors have been calling for a national markdown as the only way to stop the virus and its new variants from spreading out of control brazil's richest state some power is under curfew a presidential aide will so narrow has repeatedly criticised safety measures that have any negative impact on the economy and has accused governors of acting like dictators. facing pressure from allies in congress mostly not a fired his 3rd health minister general it was too close william and his need cardiologist. to take his place. on wednesday both men were brazil's

leading health institution few clues showing a united front in announcing the 1st batch of 500000 locally made astra zeneca vaccines the promise to deliver 6000000 doses every week but with will so narrow still in overall charge scientists are skeptical thing change you know you got an incompetent general coming out and you've got 'd a cardiologist a has no experience in handling a pandemic. who has already said that he's just going to have being to obey orders from the president who has no clue what to do he's completely lost rather he's playing on the side of 'd the virus in brazil by making suggestions of drugs that don't work by being against them use a mask against and lockdowns so the new minister is just those spokesman for the president nothing changes substantially the growing number of covert 19 related

death is having an impact on president playable from out of popularity a recent poll shows that 56 percent of brazilians fame has mishandled the pandemic meineke and i have a call to sarah readmission era britain is warning of a significant reduction in vaccine supplies by the end of this month the health secretary says the vaccine rollout is still on track but deliveries have been slowed because of supply chain problems the government has previously expressed disappointment after the european union threatened to limit exports of carbon 1000 vaccines to the u.k. the bucket is in london with the latest. healthcare providers on wednesday received a letter warning of a significant shortfall in the availability of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine going forward but the government has been very quick to downplay it is simply being allowed some bumps in the rollout and they hope within a matter of months to be back up to speed in the hopes of giving every adult in the country at least one dose of a vaccine by the summer the reason though seems to be

a shortfall in supply is coming from india the serum institute in india was licensed to provide to produce the oxford astra zeneca job largely for low income a middle income countries but the u.k. was also partially dependent upon supplies from the serum institute as well they were hoping for 10000000 doses but they're only now expected to receive 5000000 doses people over the age of 50 are likely to be affected by this shortfall so people expecting their 2nd doses aren't likely to be expensive but it's people under the age of 50 that may well see delays of several weeks there were some concerns on wednesday about a heated exchange of words between the european commission she 1st live on delay and dominic rob the foreign secretary after the commission suggested that they may well stop exports of e.u. made vaccines to the u.k. while the e.u. sorts out speeding up its vaccine rollout of course the souring relationship

between brussels and britain isn't great there has been a real escalation in tensions in the past few weeks with vaccines or the lack of them at the heart of it. time for a short break here now to 0 when we come back despite his downfall the forces entire cabinet to resign the dutch prime minister is set to remain in power after this week's elections and no relief in sight lebanon's economic crisis gets worse pushing more people into poverty among the states. it's time for the perfect jenny. went sponsored point qatar airways how i once again got good news for beijing we have got some rain sleet and snow moving in over the next couple days i say get used because we've had that dust problem recently the sandstorm blowing out of the gobi desert drifting in across

that northeastern corner of china as we go on through the next couple of days a little area cloud him moving in across the northeast see some whites weather continuing across central areas of china to the east that is fine and dry for japan hasn't sunshine this well so weather will make its way in across the korean peninsula through q.c. and notice how the sleet and snow just runs into sleezy air across beijing then into the northeast of china behind that dry weather that's coming behind legacy of a wetter weather coming into southern parts of china as we go on through the weekend but brightening up nicely in shanghai temps here around 14 celsius try and price across a good part of south asia we got a few showers just lingering around strong lanka but for much of india it is set there over the next day or so be some showers in a westerly disturbance starting to make its way out of afghanistan to northern parts of pakistan system sleet and snow on this one as we make our way through the next day or 2 in the showers just drifting along the foothills of the himalayas towards the pole and beyond but for much of india it's warm and sunny.

at ways. mixing the traditional with the modern knew what to expect ignoring cast divides the only thing with united their voice the music greek music blaring through the speakers wielding the power of music to turn up the volume on india's social injustices when i saw the performance or result and shake things out we went on stage or some to board a stage or something that witness causeless collective on al-jazeera.

welcome back at home out of our top stories here this hour tanzania is set to swear in its 1st female leader after the death of president john mather food officials say the 61 year old suffered a heart failure but opposition leaders have said he was sick with covered 19. britain is warning of a significant reduction in vaccine supplies by the end of the month the housing minister says the vaccine rolled out a still on track but deliveries have been slowed due to supply issues and the us sect of state says all options are on the table to get north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons speaking in seoul and tony blinken added china has a critical role to play. for north korea it will be just one of the subjects on the agenda when blinken meets senior chinese officials in alaska later on thursday will be the 1st such discussions since the biden administration took office in january and it comes just after the u.s. sanctioned an additional $24.00 chinese and hong kong officials what it says is beijing's continuing crackdown on political freedoms in the territories katrina is

in beijing with more on the upcoming meeting in alaska. looking ahead to the alaskan meeting beijing had noted that the u.s. had been particularly negative about china in the lead up the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said that beijing would use the meeting to make clear all its positions hong kong engine junkie says are on the table for discussion but there will be nor compromise from china when it comes to any issues of sovereignty or security that being said beijing definitely wants to use this meeting to reset ties with washington which have deteriorated in the last few years beijing is reportedly looking to request the rollback of some policies implemented during the trumpet ministration including visa and technology restrictions and possibly the reopening of the houston consulate but at the same time time as officials have made clear in recent days that they don't expect any unrealistic expectations and that not all problems will be solved in one dialogue certainly this promises to be a frosty encounter and beijing had one warning for the u.s.

it said that it should avoid mega foreign diplomacy and stop creating what it described as anti china clicks minimize military has charged the deposed government's u.n. envoy with high treason your moten was fired the day after speaking at the un general assembly last month where he called for help to remove the army from power the u.n. says 149 people have been killed since the coup well the assistance association for political prisoners says the toll is much higher scott high is following developments from bangkok. this is something that really became an early symbol of the protest movement the civil disobedience movement in myanmar when they had their united nations ambassador speak out against the jones and their actions in front of a general assembly at the united nations a special general simply to deal with the situation to discuss the situation in myanmar he came out there and denounced the junk and actually said that the international community needed to put pressure on the german to because of what it

was doing so it is because of that speech that the announcement came in a state run newspaper in myanmar that he has been charged with high treason it cited that he did not follow orders or directives tying it directly to that speech at the united nations obviously this is part of the movement of those who are outside of the country now he is still outside of the country so you know we were talking about dr sasaki who is a representative of the democratically elected leaders who have been ousted he is a representative for them overseas he was also charged with high treason just a couple of days ago so you have these 2 profiled treason charges but both of these gentlemen are outside of myanmar so clearly it's a symbol a symbolic move by the judge that to charge them with high treason maybe as a threat to others out there who might do something similar dr sasaki dismissed them immediately and actually called it a badge of honor so it'll be interesting to see what the response is from the

former u.n. ambassador weeks to come former because after that speech on the 26th of february the day after he was fired by the justice so it'll be interesting to see how he comes out. a state the morial service is being held for south africa's new king good rules when a tini was buried in a private ceremony earlier on thursday which was attended by close family members he died last week at the age of 72 after being in the hospital for weeks to treat diabetes for me the miller is at the memorial in. goodwill's when it's in his memorial service has begun within the palace grounds like sides zebari is to have gathered they say they're here to praise the king they fiercely loyal and they're upset that they're not part of proceedings within the palace grounds resumed aryans have made their way to the front of the candidates but have prevented them from going. and it was in the morning part of the ritual that they want to put an end to it all known to neighbors to praise him and to preserve the and. make

$0.07 point to. put out a pretty good candidate that they're gathering on the side of the gates will continue to rituals but many of them once a get through to the ballot. to the netherlands now a prime minister has claimed an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections they were the 1st major event in europe since the start of the pandemic but the reports from. years to actually pull have a lot of the 1st results confirmed what most people in the netherlands expected mark return has done it again the dutch prime minister's lead a center right party to victory for a 4th time in a general election that. were to promise photo stability in a campaign that was dominated by the coronavirus pandemic with the country under a nighttime curfew there were no victory party votes on them and have given me my

party and the federal party an overwhelming young voter confidence and it is humbling. it's also forcing us to do everything we can to make a success out of it voting was spread over 3 days and special polling stations was set up to allow for social distancing more than $16000.00 people have died of covert in the netherlands since the start of the pandemic far right leader good field is conceded that the health crisis is it overshadowed all other issues including immigration but shared it concerns about health care that it was a lot of promise about health care in the netherlands as well the also concerned about the normal routine life you know not only the economy but also indeed islam immigration filled his party lost seats and slipped a 3rd place behind the centrist d $66.00 party led by foreign trade minister a secret colleague this analyst says it was one of the election nights unexpected turns which is a huge surprise and also

a day it's way more than they had in older polls during the past months and it's probably because their leadership it has been doing very well in all the debates has been a big surprise this campaign so i think this has drawn a lot of photos today $6060.00 special days. has proved that. he is a sicko survivor he's been elected despite some criticism of his handling of the corona virus pandemic and 2 months ago he and his whole government resigned over a child benefit scandal but in the end. continuity i gave him another chance. i'll just say i'm still. president has survived an attempt by the opposition to impeach him over his handling of the pandemic. hundreds protested outside congress demanding mario after the need to step down police later responded and rubber bullets. hit record levels in the past week the number of new cases and

deaths and has been mounting ever shortages of vaccines and medicines and overwhelmed hospitals italy is holding its 1st commemoration for corona virus victims. minister mario druggies attending the ceremony in the northern city of bergen italy was the 1st country in europe to identify a major outbreak and impose restrictions the countries had more than 3000000 cases and 800000 deaths from the virus. japan is easing its code with 19 restrictions in the capital the prime minister has confirmed that tokyo state of emergency will be lifted on sunday it was 1st announced in january than extended twice but it's now ending because the availability of hospital beds in tokyo has improved and this is welcome news for the organizers of deliberate games which start in just 4 months time. the u.s. government is preparing a plan to reset relations with palestine which suffered under donald trump's

presidency as according to a draft document obtained by the reuters news agency it says the white house is in the early stages of a plan aimed at undoing some of the damage caused by trump's pro israel starts joe biden's promise to restart hundreds of millions of dollars in economic and humanitarian assistance as well as reopen palestine's diplomatic mission in washington when the stuff about duty is the 2nd general of the palestinian national initiative he says the u.s. isn't doing enough to make amends it's too little and too late 1st of all i think when they are talking about. a small support to the palestinian authority in the amount of $15000000.00 in comparison to what they give to israel you loot around $3500000000.00 but that's not the issue they surely it is merely political and the question here is will by the administration depart from what.

expresses the books not specifically on the issue of jerusalem there is no if they can have normal relations with prince unions as long as they don't because one through the room also as a capital of palestine and as long as they're considered to the limousine it's like capital of israel only and the other one very important problem is the issue of settlements i mean the administration keeps talking about 2 state solution on the basis of 67 borders without identifying and without taking any specific measures against israeli settlements that are to destroy you the very last look at a choke to the. lebanon's worst economic crisis in decades is pushing people deeper into poverty the minimum wage has now reached less than $50.00 a month. reports from beirut there's no solution in sight as politicians failed to form a new government. levanon is crumbling much of the middle class is now poor forced

to rely on food handouts from charities the economy's collapse began in late 2019 the local currency lost 90 per cent of its value since then 20 percent in recent weeks conditions worse than this politicians refused to work together to form a new government that will implement reforms to stop the financial meltdown our. i can't support my family any longer i mean the minimum wage $50.00 but due to the economic crisis they slash my salary and half look what they did to us going to help us survive what is to come prices of essential goods like bread and fuel have been rising in a country that imports almost everything officials warn of further scaling back on subsidies on some food items as the central bank runs low on foreign currency reserves. even before they live subsidies everything was a ready too expensive the worst is yet to come the situation is getting worse by

the day i am an informal work and earn $3.00 a day how can i afford to live. people have returned to the streets as salaries lose purchasing power the minimum wage is now less than $50.00 a month. at home or not as i please we have begging you look at a situation where starving we are dying even those who have money can't access their savings because of banking controls more than half of the population of 6000000 people are poor. the crisis has affected stability commanders say there is low morale among soldiers and security personnel the salaries are now nearly worthless crime is on the rise electricity cuts last 12 hours a day and if money is not found to enforce feel levanon could be plunged into total darkness by the end of the month for more than a year people have been demanding the removal of what they call

a corrupt leadership that has governed for decades but politicians won't relinquish power and their ties to iran and saudi arabia entangles lebannon in a geopolitical struggle. saudi arabia want to assist lebanon financially if hezbollah is represented in the government all while the iranian us struggle continues as well as discussion over syria's fate and has influence in lebanon it appears hezbollah has an interest in the total collapse of the state since it wants to impose a new power sharing agreement. it's a battle for power that could take tired to resolve tired lebanon and its people don't have. the route an egyptian court has sentenced a prominent female activist to 18 months in prison accusing her of spreading false news some are safe was detained in june last year she was campaigning for the release of some inmates because of fears over the coronavirus her brother has spent much of the past 7 years in prison accused of inciting protests last week more than

30 western nations called in egypt to stop its crackdown on dissent. protesters in haiti have stormed several police stations in the capital port au prince. they helped break out offices who were arrested for a suspected coup attempt last month they say they were unjustly detained and later the group set one of the buildings on fire along with several businesses. part of a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera tanzania is set to swear in its 1st female president after the death of coded 900 skeptic john magaw foully the government says he suffered a heart failure but the opposition has said he was sick and covered 19 catherine sawyer has more from the kenyan capital nairobi. this is devastating news to me time there is shock it's all getting around people in masses.