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germany and france are among several european nations to resume using astra zeneca as cover $1000.00 vaccine after regulators conclude it's a. chilly expands its lockdowns a cover huff of its population as covert cases spike and hospital capacity is stretched to the limits. tanzania is set to swear in its 1st female president after the death of john mica felipe the government says he suffered heart failure. thanks for joining us china has warned the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs as the top diplomats of the world's 2 largest economies hold talks in alaska chinese foreign minister wang neal said it's time to repair the u.s. china relations which is at an all time low it's the 1st high level meeting between the 2 superpower. under president joe biden's administration and the u.s.

secretary of state and city blinken says they will discuss a wide range of human rights issues including taiwan hong kong and the crackdown on weaker muslims in general joining he accuses china of threatening the international order art ministration is committed to leading with diplomacy to advance the interests of the united states and to strengthen the rules based international order that system is not an abstraction it helps countries resolve differences peacefully coordinate multilateral efforts effectively and participate in global commerce with the assurance that everyone is following the same rules the alternative to a rules based order is a world in which might makes right and winner take all and that would be a far more violent and unstable world for all of us what you do. it.

over the past several years china is the gym it rights and interests have come under outright suppression plunging china and the us relations into a period of unprecedented difficulty china urges the us to fully abandon had demonic practices of willfully interfering with china's internal affairs this is been a longstanding issue and it should be changed it's time for it to change a following the story for us is our diplomatic at it sometimes bases joining us from anchorage in alaska so james what are both delegations hoping to achieve going into these meetings. well it was very very unusual what we got on this occasion what we expected and what we were told was going to happen is that the reporters are going to be invited into the room to hear a very short opening remarks from both sides 1st from the u.s. delegation and then from the chinese side instead we had an exchange with both sides talking that went on for over an hour now is this

a frank exchange of views or is this the beginning of an even worse spat between the u.s. and china that's not clear that'll depend what's going on now behind closed doors but there were very tough words you heard there from the secretary of state of the u.s. criticism of china and criticism of what china describes as its own internal affairs then the chinese side hit back saying there are different forms of democracy the u.s. has a form of democracy china has its own form of democracy they also made the case that the u.s. cannot lecture anyone on human rights they refer to the u.s. policy in recent decades of regime change they said that when china gets criticized for human rights what about human rights here in the united states where they say african-americans are being slaughtered the chinese also said you don't welcome guests because of course chinese the chinese delegation is a guest of the u.s. here in alaska by introducing sanctions and that's because the u.s.

sanctioned 24 u.s. and hong kong officials in recent days because of the crackdown on democracy in hong kong very hostile words from the 2 sides the chinese spoke for so long that the u.s. are asked to speak for a 2nd time not what we were expecting but maybe this is just clearing the air ahead of these discussions the idea of this meeting is to try and create parameters for a new relationship where china and the u.s. could agree to disagree on some things but can actually work closer. together and improve relations overall compared with the period of the trunk of the destruction yeah and on these issues in particular that the u.s. needs to china to work with iran it will be interesting to see how hard the u.s. will be able to push china. yes it is going to be going to be very very interesting clearly there are some

issues that i think the chinese also want to work with the u.s. on climate change is one global issue whether whether the chinese will go much further than they went to paris further climate change talks at the end of the year there are other joint issues i think which were of security in the region and globally where both sides both being permanent members of the u.n. security council feel they should work together but again how far they'll go on the these issues aren't clear the americans for example are trying to find a way out of afghanistan and push peace talks there but the but the u.s. certainly has some red lines where it doesn't want to go with regard to afghanistan myanmar is an issue that's right at the top of the international agenda since the coup on the 1st of february in china doesn't hold the key but it certainly has an ability to put a great deal of pressure on the generals how far are they prepared to go are they prepared to go to the u.n.

and support the idea of sanctions going forward there are so many issues that could be discussed by these 2 world powers of the 2 top world powers at these talks but it will depend on a new understanding of how they're going to work together that's what we're going to work out behind the scenes as to say really not clear to me at this very early stage of this new relationship between a new administration and the chinese whether we've just seen a further breakdown in relations or a clearing of the air that they can build on in these talks that are going to continue throughout the evening here in anchorage and go on for a further session on friday or intends or cross back sooner or later thank you so much our diplomatic license and space reporting from alaska. while the russian president vladimir putin has called for virtual talks with his american counterpart joe biden after a tit for tat comments and diplomatic ties to a new low a day after the u.s. president called putin a killer the russian leader said it takes one to know one the exchange began when

biden accused of ordering the poisoning of opposition leader alexei navalny he also said moscow will pay a price for trying to swing november's election in favor of former president donald trump. we can in 2 should maintain our relations i thought that the last time if you dition of the phone call came from president biden i want to invite president biden to continue our discussions but on the condition of doing this practically life online without any delays through an open direct discussion several european countries including germany and france are resuming astra zeneca vaccinations after the confidence talk medical regulators said the doses are safe and effective the european medicines agency believes the benefits of receiving the jab far outweigh the potential risks of blood clots from berlin dominic kane reports. for much of this week this vaccine has been the focus of attention feted

by many as a main weapon against coated but feared by others for what they thought might be a dangerous side effect now the e. hughes medical regulator has given its verdict the committee has come to a clear scientific conclusion this is a safe and effective vaccine its benefits in protecting people from covert 19 with the associated risks of death and hospitalized patients outweigh the possible risks around 7000000 doses of the vaccine have already been administered across the e.u. with many more lying unused on shelves in vaccination centers the clear effect of the temporary suspension in its use in germany some in the medical profession believe the greater risk lies in not using the astra zeneca product says i'm. not ready yet so this is necessary time is running out we have to get the vials and we have all the infrastructure for it behind us we have

a huge vaccination center we could vaccinate not just 1300 people in a day but many more if we had to we are ready. one problem is the public lack of confidence some in germany feel about astra zeneca as product some surveys suggest barely more than half the population here would be happy to receive it a stark contrast to the way the vaccine has been received in the u.k. where its uptake has been much greater one medical analyst told me when it comes to health matters germans don't like to take risks. like we germans sometimes are we want no risk and there is not such thing like a no risk maybe you a population things different in this respect and that might be the reason for this. reason. here in the german capital ministers of announced a rapid resumption of astra zeneca vaccination on friday perhaps hoping to counter the growing public belief they've just been acting too slowly during the pandemic

confidence in the government is also down with just 6 months to a general election dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. the u.s. says it's finalizing plans to loan millions of doses of its stockpiled astra zeneca vaccines to other countries 2 and a half 1000000 jobs will go to mexico and another one and a half 1000000 will be sent to canada tens of millions of doses of the vaccine are sitting unused in american warehouses as the jobs have not been authorized for emergency use there the stockpiling has sparked an international outcry the u.s. president joe biden says vaccinations of the adult population are running ahead of schedule and that nearly 2 thirds of seniors have already received at least one shot and i'm proud to announce tomorrow 58 days in your administration we will have met my goal of ministry 100000000 sharks to our fellow americans.

8 weeks ago only 8 percent of seniors those most vulnerable to coma 19 had received a vaccination today 65 percent of people aged 65 or older have received at least one shot and 36 percent are fully vaccinated. whole rap and serves in corona virus and saxons is forcing chile to put haas of its population into lockdown more than 6000 new cases were recorded in its latest daily report deaths have reached their highest number since june and it's all happening despite a quarter of the population having received at least one dose of the vaccine online america editor of the c n n when is joining us from santiago with more on the lot. what this means for people . it means that by saturday

98 percent of the population will be under lockdown at least for the weekend although that number half of the country will be under a permanent lockdown that is not just for the weekend but for nobody knows how long weeks months the government could say right now as much as one out of every 3 chileans is already under lockdown that went into effect today but the government realized it wasn't enough and so announced additional confinement measures which as i say will go into effect over the weekend you know people are obviously in this country suffering from pandemic fatigue this isn't the 1st time that lock downs have been declared the government is trying to appeal to them to be responsible to to be patient and just in case they're not to there are thousands of soldiers out on the streets in different counties where these lockdowns have been ordered that are making sure that people go home and are only allowing people with permits to be

out on the streets or in their cars and that means that basically you are allowed to leave your house twice in a week to buy groceries or to go to the pharmacy or to a medical appointment in fact the only exception is to go and get your vaccinations and what are officials saying is behind the rise in new infections. the government is saying that there were there was too much relaxation in all soul is conceding that it was not able to do enough tracing of infections that already existed tracing being that once you find one person has been infected you need to add leads to find the 56 or up to 10 people that that one person has been in contact with and here that has not been working and that's considered one of the most effective preventive measures at the hospital where i am right now this is the emergency room we which i was speaking to an ambulance driver short while ago and he told me he'd been waiting 8 hours for the paramedic who had brought in the

patient to leave he was basically the paramedics still stabilizing the person because they couldn't get them a doctor or a bed this is happening all over the country hospitals are collapsing because of the number of infections and the number of people that are in i.c.u. use in critical care units at so it's a very very serious situation indeed and it will take perhaps tool to 3 months before the vaccination herd immunity kicks in to reduce the number of infection it's ok lucy i thank you so much for that update from santiago chile still ahead on al-jazeera the deadly shootings than atlanta have exposed are in there is an american community as police struggle to establish the alleged killers motes of a statement morial is held for south africans who coon after his death lost him.

hello there we have severe storms clearing away from the southeastern corner of the united states now you see this massive cloud little bit of a adult bordello rolling through large trial on this system and severe storms and we have seen possibility wanted to tornadoes as this system continues to make its way further east was into the eastern seaboard so some west of whether that will push through as we go on through friday clearer skies come back in behind it's got to be fresh temper just now higher than around 4 celsius in new york on a similar value that for toronto much of north america and canada a lot across the u.s. looking fine and dry but i would say was the northwestern corner we have got some rain sleet and snow tumbling in to the west assata kind of through the pacific northwest across the rockies and that's going to continue making his wife eastward so some blustery and cold conditions coming in here bushing across the mountains as

we go on through saturday central parts lotty fog and dry temperatures set to recover in new york to around 9 celsius still a few showers down towards the southeast corner at this not too many showers across the caribbean but we got a little area cloud some storms ever to the western side of the region so it's going to the southern half essential america will see the majority of showers over the next couple of days elsewhere is fine and dry. but. mixing the traditional with the mountain nobody knew what to expect ignoring cause divides the only thing with united there was the music the 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 i reside wow and shake things out we went on stage or some to board up stage or something else witness consciousness collective on al-jazeera. what

the unheard or heard. we're going to top stories on al-jazeera this hour china has won the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs and top diplomats from the world's 2 largest economies hold talks in alaska it's the 1st high level meeting between the 2 global powers under u.s. president joe biden's administration. european regulators say astra zeneca has vaccine is safe and effective european medicines agency found no evidence of a higher risk of blood clots in people received the jab several countries had suspended its use over concerns about side effects. and the rapid surging

coronavirus infections force in chile to put profits population into lockdown more than 6000 new cases were reported in its latest day we report deaths have reached their highest number since june and it's all happening despite a quarter the population having received at least one dose of the vaccine. protesters have held a mass rally in the syrian city of death they chanted antigovernment slogans and feed the syrian opposition 20 years since antigovernment uprising began the city was controlled by rebels until 2018 when it was recaptured by russian backed syrian troops. senior members of the taliban and afghanistan's government have been meeting in moscow in an effort to restart stalled peace negotiations russia the us china and pakistan are calling on the warring sides to observe an immediate cease fire the talks in moscow have been happening after earlier negotiations in doha stalled american troops are scheduled to withdraw from adonis don on may the 1st.

police are trying to work out what motivated a man to shoot 8 women in the u.s. state of georgia on tuesday 6 of them were of asian descent stoking fears the murders were racially motivated the alleged shooter 21 year old robert aaron young says his actions were driven by sex addiction not race and gallagher reports outside the gold spire in atlanta flowers candles and signs of support following a deadly series of shootings that left 8 dead among them 6 women of asian descent a trauma from the attacks on 3 separate mass on palos especially frightening given the race of the majority of the victims it's saddening i mean this this whole past year and a half just with everything that's happened in this country from white lies to all this stuff happening to asian people it's just very sad and it needs to stop. ok you have a description of him that you say to him. like in newly released phone calls

to police it's clear how terrifying the attacks on choose day were 21 year old robert hourlong has been charged with 8 counts of murder as well as i grieve 8 assault long lives in a quiet community of woodstock georgia about 50 kilometers from atlanta friends say he was devoutly religious but long reportedly told investigators his attack was motivated by a sex addiction not race i can't say that he specifically targeted those individuals. but you know what i will say is that he did frequent as a question keeps coming up that he did frequent those 2 locations and within the letter president joe biden has ordered flags across the nation to be lowered to honor the victims on friday he'll be in atlanta on a pre-planned trip will meet asian american community leaders investigators say it's too soon to say what the shooter's motivation was but long could be charged

with a hate crime until last year georgia is one of the few states without hate crime legislation now anyone found to have committed the crime based on gender race or religion faces additional punishments the new laws were passed following the killing of a mod allbery a black man shot and killed by 2 white men it took this is on whether bias played a role in any crime in the state of the defining moment and this is a great day in the history of our stage of state of georgia we will never. tolerate hate in our state. for now investigators say they're not ruling out the role race or gender played in the tragedy that's left many in the asian american community. and gallica al-jazeera. californias bay area has seen an increase in attacks on elderly asian americans and the latest incident this 76 year old woman fought off an unprovoked assault on a street in downtown san francisco her alleged assailants seen here on

a stretcher has been arrested. in pakistan is facing a 3rd wave of cover 19 and the country has seen a dangerous spike in cases in the past few weeks it's forced the government to once again close schools and impose what it's calling smart lock downs in major cities to remove reports from islamabad the national command operate. monitoring the corona why reflect iraq by august on 147.8 but. it crushed a country and a number of corona wired it give it. the enfield he had also warned that people. regard to the standard operating procedure like wearing a mock. director of the country most people on nord water falling go and go free and therefore there are warning signs that there could be

a more deadly 3rd wave with your dog radio. head in pocket on it by the fact that recommendations are now being admin that people have received their jobs dry and i had and in and out of 500000 vaccines but that country really need 1000000 go back and really have group trade break cautiously given the fact that the 3rd wave all the progress budgets gone had to achieved against their deadly wiring. tanzania's observing a period of national mourning after the death of president john legere fully official say the 61 year old died of heart problems but political opponents suspect he was sick will cope with. the vice president who will take his place on friday making her the country's 1st seem a leader catherine sawyer reports. floods in the streets of times and flat half mast to mark the death from heart failure of president john palmer mughal fully

a man who is as divisive in death as in life the news though did not come as a great surprise there's been speculation over his health including rumors of covered 1000 infection since he disappeared from the public spotlight 3 weeks ago. but for a man of his state model full his death has shaken the country and also shown the split in his support some paid tribute to him as a politician who cared about the poor fought corruption change the way the government did business cut down on expenditure and initiated numerous infrastructure and social projects. i am not happy because he was a brave leader now that he has left i have no words we have lost hope i am in pain the poor had started making progress in life business was far reaching if you had a problem you would approach a government official and you would get help but mamma who was also accused by his

critics of being an authoritarian who presided over our government that stifled political and media freedoms was intolerant to dissent and carried out human rights abuses his handling of the coronavirus pandemic was also faulted with many saying his denial of the disease caused serious harm. who nearly. or. so when. this. is a. regional heads of state have sent their condolences with kenya's president. calling mughal fully a statesman despite the 2 countries having a frosty trade and diplomatic relationship in the passing lane as president. i watched a friend. a colleague. another. tanzania

will be in mourning for $21.00 days. were vice presidents m e s saloon who has and takes over as interim president until 2025 when a new election will be held she the country's fast female in the top job and now has to navigate through what john mcafee left behind including his policies on coronavirus katherine saw you are. well the goodwill zoli thin a husband laid to rest in south africa the late monarch led the nation for more than 50 years he was buried in a private ceremony in the early hours of thursday morning or has more from. zulu arias bid farewell to the only king most of them have ever known these men are called the. have come to the royal palace in northern causal natal to pay tribute

to king goodwills ability from across south africa tribal chiefs objects and well wishes gathered after the king's private burial ceremony but only close male family members attended. the looting in berlin and it's important for me to be here as our father the king has left us so we're here to mourn him by about and get a bonus and make some of my fellow worriers with it they couldn't be here because of the current coronavirus not all of them could be covered 1000 restrictions mean many have stayed away and unusual time for mourners and the royal family revered throughout the course alina tell province goodwills well a team is a memorial service has begun within the palace grounds like sides the areas i'm lucky to have gathered they say they're here to praise the king they've fiercely loyal but at the gate the palace police keep them back instead they perform rituals outside inside the palace stickney trees and family pay tribute as with

a teeny the passing of his majesty means that we have lost that of year. who had the distinction of leading this people for half a century. the significance of his long reign and his legacy is not lost on us while his role was largely ceremonial with at least 11000000 subjects' really tini had significant political influence which couldn't be ignored by both the apartheid and democratic governments after 1904. while some say the king was a peacemaker others argue his influence led to further bloodshed during volatile times it's really t.v. was known as a traditionalist often promoting the data culture but he was criticised too for

comments he made in 2015 saying that foreigners should return to their homes he also publicly condemned homo sexual relationships the king was also one of the largest landlords in the world through a special trustee controlled nearly a 3rd of the land in province people who live here don't own the land controlled by the trust last year activist groups took the trust to court they want more rights for tenants but many here remain loyal tradition and the monarchy and despite the criticism people here say they've lost a king from al-jazeera not gone mark was in a towel. on the headlines aisle does iraq china has won the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs as top diplomats of the world's 2 largest economies hold talks on alaska as the 1st high level meeting between the 2

superpowers on the u.s. president joe biden's administration our diplomatic editor james bays has a latest from anchorage. is this a friend.