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you know. the lone. asian american communities on a lot in the u.s. after the shootings in atlanta stoke fear and hate crime. and let the countdown begin more signs the took your olympics or will go ahead with a state of emergency about to be lifted. china has warned the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs as top diplomats from the world's 2 largest economies hold talks in alaska chinese foreign minister also says it's time to repair relations with the u.s. which are us an all time low it's the 1st high level meeting between the superpowers under president joe biden's administration u.s. secretary of state anthony being can say as they will discuss a wide range of human rights issues including taiwan hong kong and the crackdown on weekend muslims and. who cares as china of threatening the international order of

china retaliated by pointing out that the us cannot speak for the rest of the wild c. volume. with the judge by population scale or the trend of the world the wisdom world does not represent the global public opinion so we hope that when talking about universal values or international public opinion on the part of the united states we hope the u.s. side will think about whether it feels reassured saying those things because the us does not represent the world it only represents the government of the united states i have to tell you in my my short time as secretary of state i've spoken to i think nearly $100.00 counterparts from around the world and i just made my 1st trip as i noted to japan and south korea. i have to tell you what i'm hearing is very different from what you describe i'm hearing deep satisfaction that the united states is back there were reengaged with our allies and partners i'm also hearing

deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking well our diplomatic editor james says it's too early to tell if there's been any sort of breakthrough. there certainly was a rather unusual and frank exchange of views from these 2 sides normally when you get an event like this the 2 sides sit down and you get some very brief polite remarks from both sides that is not how it played out this time the u.s. secretary of state was the 1st to speak and he cited very specific concerns the u.s. has about china the chinese side responded with a senior politburo moment member yang jiechi and he said this wasn't diplomatic protocol what the u.s. had just said and he then cited his own concerns about the u.s. saying the u.s. chooses its own type of democracy china has its own democracy he cited us a regime change in the middle east and then he talked about human rights here in

the u.s. talking about the slaughter of black people was the quote that quote interestingly was not used by his translator when she translated it back to those in the room including the u.s. secretary of state and national security adviser after what they've heard they heard though they then spoke again and the chinese wanted to speak again yet again at which point the reporters weren't able to hear that they were ushered out of the room it's very hard how to how to judge this because it was very very frank it may have been a exchange of views that will clear the air it may have been the much deepening of the division between the 2 countries i don't think we're going to know for now because the talks continue behind closed doors and it will depend what happens in those talks cheney here is in beijing for us and she says anger has been building on china's part in the lead up to this meeting. this comes off the back of

a few days of the us being in both tokyo and seoul and spending those 2 days criticizing china outright for being a bad international actor also behind the scenes we've had a flurry of actions by the u.s. against china back home for example they've cut the license of a chinese telecom company in the us they've subpoenaed a number of chinese technology companies and this week they've also sanctioned or expanded sanctions on a number of chinese officials they say are responsible for curtailing freedoms in hong kong so it does seem that beijing has been sincerely caught off guard by these actions to the point that younger true china's top diplomat in that meeting in alaska actually asked anthony blinken if these actions were taken on purpose in the lead up to this meeting so there has been quite a lot of anger building on beijing's part in the lead up to this to this meeting and we have to keep in mind it's not only the u.s.

who has an audience here china has its own audience 1400000000 citizens who are increasingly nationalistic and china is very determined to appear strong they don't want to appear subordinate to the u.s. they want to be taken as an equal and so we've seen a young pitcher and the foreign minister one year really let rip induced the 1st few moments of this encounter when canada has been denied access to attend the trials of 2 of its citizens in china one of those trials is you should begin former diplomat michael coverage and businessman michael spot or were both arrested 2 years ago the pair are accused of spying in a move widely seen as retaliatory over canada's detention of main wango or an executive from chinese telecoms giant while way. brazilian media say the mayor of rio de janeiro is ordering the closure of the city's beaches this weekend to cap the spread of the current virus and to be the

1st time they've been close since the 1st weeks of this pandemic and follows a dramatic increase in infections and deaths across the country which is pushing the health system to the brink of collapse rio's mare is also appealing to the federal government for the resumption of financial aid for a struggling residence this will be because this is going to be the often people do not have the means to bring food so i want to appeal to president both sonora to congress that it is not possible to imagine a country like brazil we 90 percent is under lockdown a blockade with a frozen economy that there is no stimulus that they are no effective measures for the transfer of income that there is no type of aid for business people for merchants so that we can face this pandemic. a rapid increase in infections is forcing chile to put half its population into an indefinite lockdown more than 6000 new cases were recorded in its latest state the report deaths have now reached the

highest level since june latin america at a center senior reports now from santiago. this time they mean business that's the message chile's government to change to send by deploying thousands of soldiers onto the streets to help police enforce new lockdowns nationwide here in the capital resident under lockdown can only leave home with special permits and risk steep fines or even arrest if they don't have them. do deceive us lug a very harsh measures for the population. and every affected county by county we haven't taken this this is in light. in the last 24 hours infections and deaths from coated 19 with the highest since last june leaving hospitals on the brink of collapse critics say that excessive relaxation of restrictions during the summer and insufficent of force and of the restrictions that remain is to blame for the

sanitary crisis now one out of every 3 chileans is under total lockdown and on the weekends 95 percent of the country will have to remain at home the government is also declaring full lock downs for an even larger portion of the country and. it's very sad what's happening many of those in hospital may never see their families again. usual with deaths climb to a new high every day members of the very indigenous tribe in amazonas state received their 2nd dose of the scene of act vaccine with a sigh of relief that all of the ability for the hearts for the village it was very important because it took away the thought the concern that people had that they were going to get sick and die. despite recent doubts about it. safety a brazilian laboratory has just finished producing half a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine for the domestic market they should help speed up what has been an extremely slow process of inoculation mexico's

government is also receiving 2 and a half 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine from the united states my left back in chile the only exception to the rules for those under lockdown is have people who are going out to get a vaccination a new clinical study by chile's catholic university indicates that with 2 doses the center of that vaccine provides immunity in 90 percent of cases but until vaccine herd immunity can be established. forcing people to remain home yet again is the only option you see in human al-jazeera sente out or. asian americans in the u.s. are on a lot as police try to work out just what motivated a man to shoot 8 people dead and massage parlors in atlanta this week 6 of the victims were women of asian descent stoking fears that those matters were racially motivated attacks targeting asian american communities have been on the rise but

this alleged shooters that robbers are and young says his actions were driven by sex addiction not race reports now and how these shootings have sent fear through the asian american community. the american flags at the white house were lowered in mourning for the 8 women killed in georgia on tuesday 6 of whom were of asian heritage around the country asian american communities are reacting with shock and anger to the rising number of hate incidents i feel scared at all times that you know. that alone. sometimes i have to walk on the street at night and. yet it's scaring me and i hate the fact that now my wife my daughter my mom my knees they all have to sort of watch their back just because of the way the asian american studies professor key park says race and gender stereotypes they

have d. human eyes the victims in the killer's mind they are seen as really passive ends up missive or hyper sexualized to be far or exactly sa used or you don chipp or even the a bale of britney some are fighting back in san francisco an elderly chinese speaking woman was punched in the face then beat her alleged assailant into submission with a piece of wood 'd sending him to the hospital. at a congressional hearing lawmakers of asian descent spoke out this hearing was do address the hurt and made of our community. tend to find solutions and we were not like you take our boys away from us barely 3800 technician a crime for instance in just a year old mom it was step by the works of former president donald trump the sop to shift the blame and anger over right programs all want response to the coronavirus

he used racial slurs on our georgia law enforcement officials say they are still investigating the suspects motives but indicated he was acting out of sexual guilt feelings rather than racism and yes there was a really bad day for him and this is what he did many asian americans reject that explanation that upsets us and our community is the fact that sheriff's department who basically sort of. was on the side of the perpetrator and the criminal that actually killed 8 people 6 of them being asian woman 2 dismissed that as a sort of like he was having a bad day president joe biden will travel to atlanta on friday to pay his respects and meet with community leaders and elected officials robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. well still ahead here on out of there.

it's the new normal in haiti's capital and now police joining the demonstration. revisiting the crimes of colombia's civil war 2 notorious warlords appeared together before a controversial truth commission. it's time for the perfect gentleman. who went sponsored point qatar airways how i once again he's been fired into warm and sunny across much of the middle east even biassed than this a.b.c. temperatures well above the seasonal average going to 33 here would go on friday but we've touched 38 for the last couple of days losing the influence of the warm southerly wind further north in toowoomba to we've had race sleet and snow across a good parts of turkey and that's a wintry mix that will continue to drive this way further east which as we go

through sas day around the caucasus you can see some snow there coming into georgia maybe into armenia possibilities rain sleet and snow to into afghanistan took many stand pushing up towards. as well down across southern parts of the finnish overstays fine and dry then 32 celsius in doha as we go on into the weekend not bad at all a nazi across central parts of africa we have got the usual showers now just around the equator but today's off the economics of course the point when the sun crosses the equator so you'd expect to see the showers across this area and they are there bang on time so you can get hit i shall stand up towards the gulf of guinea right the way across to northern parts of the mozambique channel not too bad into south africa at the moment though some showers just skirting with the southern cape mike in the way for the east. qatar airways jump into the. story there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i thought of all the

misinformation i think we all want to feed than we are and where 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 have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in the to be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there a. hello again understand a reminder about top stories this hour china has warned the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs as top diplomats from the world's 2 largest economies hold talks of alaska as the 1st high level meeting between the 2 global

powers under the u.s. president joe biden said ministration. canada has been denied access to attend the trials of 2 of its citizens and china from a different michael coverage and businessman michael spot more where rest true years ago in a move why d.c. has retaliation for canada's detention of an executive from a chinese telecoms while waiting. in a rapid surgeon coronavirus infections is forcing chile to put half its population into lockdown more than $6000.00 new cases were reported and that's latest daily reports while deaths have now reached the highest level since june. now coronavirus state of emergency is about to be lifted in japan another big step towards the tokyo olympics actually going ahead and it's now just over 4 months until the games are shuttle to begin they imagine so it was announced back in january and then extended twice japan's prime minister says it will now end on sunday because more hospital beds are available in tokyo but he's still large and people to take

precautions with perfect 19 because you no matter how low the number of new infections remains at the same level slightly increased and in some areas there's also an increase of people going out the food there are concerns about a rebound of new in fiction them and we also need to sleep vigilance about the spread of new variants and another big meeting is scheduled for saturday to decide if overseas fans can cheer on their champions enter care but a 4 time olympic gold medalist says that ruling should not be rushed. i hope it's not made too early because i see no reason why decisions need to be force fed when the world is changing the vaccines are being rolled out. and i think the best of decision that doesn't necessarily need to be maze 'd at this moment wanted to bring him down or what's he's a sports writer for the japan times and joins us now from ty care than just listening there obviously a huge amount of anxiety about these games and looking at the latest polling

something like 80 percent of japanese people want the olympics either canceled or postponed again is tokyo reading a thank you an aside it is a bit more complicated especially among the japanese public in a recent poll by the mighty newspaper 32 percent said that the game should be cancelled 9 percent said that they should go on as scheduled and most of the rest said that they should be. either postponed or should be held without overseas fans or without fans altogether so only about 9 percent think that the games should be held with foreign law excuse me overseas fans and that's a challenge that organizers have to face in terms of the risk i mean japan's had some pretty bad publicity around comments that organizers have been making in a clearly and under huge pressure to try to get this right is lifting the state of imagine see that as a reflection of that potentially risky move. i think that organizers

not just among the olympics but for all of the japanese sports are eager to see the athletes coming with back to japan again i think that it is not enough to believe but people are adapting 'd to this new normal vaccination program is starting to roll out within japan and just later this month we're set to see several football internationals they're looking at test events for the olympics in the coming months so there is a sense that the olympics will be held it's just a question of how and now it's up to japan's organizers to figure out how and to figure out how to implement these games safely and terms of timing now i think the torch relay starts next week something like 10000 runners crossing the country for 4 months in the middle of a pandemic and we have from sebastian coe there saying that that scene there are

going out so this is perhaps a little premature is the torch relay a good idea. i think that the organizers are taking steps to ensure the safety of everyone involved in the torch relay they have announced that they want to reduce crowding they want people to go and watch the torch relay when it's near their homes but they don't want spectators to travel they have taken precautions along the route clearly it's something that it's a very important. visual for the games and to show that they are going forward and so organizers will 'd be very keen to make sure that it goes off even if the majority of it is in televised form and they don't have the huge crowds that we've been used to from past games with speaking of this idea of perception it does feel like there is really a new scandal most every week how is the time care committee weathering public opinion at the moment. they are certainly weathering in

a lot of these scandals that have come up in recent weeks with morty and now with the former head of the opening ceremony you know she says happy days are own goals as we say these are issues that should not be happening in obviously. the organizers have had to deal with and they have to respond i think the fact that there was such a big backlash locally in response to this latest scandal involving comedian now may want to not pay does show that japanese society is getting more becoming more sensitive to those issues and that could be seen as a positive to the legacy in terms of the legacy of these games and what they're bringing to japan so that is a positive spin on it but obviously the public perception is very muted at best there isn't the. excited run up to the games that we've seen in the past in london

in rio so that's something that especially without thousands of fans coming from overseas that they'll have to overcome in order to make this event to success or continue on. than on what's that sports writer from the pan times speaking to us from take care really great take your thoughts thanks for joining us on out there don no problem. north korea is agitated by the u.s. again for its part in what it calls a hostile act the same broadcast as website says it will cut diplomatic ties with malaysia for a quarter reeling in found a north korean citizen to be extradited to the u.s. on money laundering charges north korea says the charges are politically motivated and ones that the u.s. will pay a price for the bride has this update now from seoul. to north korea of course is suspected of using all sorts of illegal activities overseas in overseas countries to get access to funds or to goods that it's not meant to have as a way of getting around international sanctions it has reacted very angrily to this

particular case branding this as an unpardonable crime by malaysia saying that all of these charges are completely trumped up that it is a pure fabrication it's gone further though by saying that behind this is the united states that this is a part of some sort of u.s. inspired conspiracy saying that the u.s. itself will pay a price now of course u.s. north korean relations are very much in the news at the moment coming straight after a very high level u.s. mission to northeast asia as the new bided administration formulates its policy on how to deal with north korea as far as malaysia itself is concerned traditionally it has actually enjoyed relatively good relations with north korea one of few countries that has been fairly easy for north koreans to go to malaysia or do business that of course changed in relations with downgraded in 2017 with the notorious poisoning and killing of the north korean leaders half brother kim jong

nam but kuala lumpur airport when he was made with a nerve agent apparently a plot inspired and carried out by north korean operatives relations improved somewhat since then but now with this latest round there is according to north korea a complete breakdown in diplomatic relations demonstrators have stormed several. police stations in haiti's capital they freed 4 officers arrested over the large coup attempt last month somehow it reports. a common sight in haiti's capital port au prince. protesters angry at the political economic and health crisis gripping the nation. while roadblocks and other disruptions have been an almost daily occurrence this year the sights of uniformed police joining the demonstrations is more recent 5 months to hide their identities they stormed several police stations on wednesday setting one of them on fire and releasing full

colleagues from police cells they'd been accused of an alleged coup attempt against presidential been and always last month a claim they do know. that the come on we've been suffering for a long time we took our destiny and we're telling the haitian people that they are free today or never yet that's why we support the release of the police detained we're also here to tell the president he has to admit that he can no longer run this country according to the article $134.00 to his mandate is finished. the police officers belong to a group they formed called fountain 5 a noise that calls on the resignation of the national police general they're also demanding the release of the bodies of 5 officers killed in a botched raid on until his gang a week ago. were blocking the roads we're dropping our weapons and we're not going to work at the police stations so we send a clear message to the director of police and the prime minister to go and get the bodies of the killed offices. haiti is the poorest country in the americas gang

kidnappings rapes and murders all rule on the rise and unrest has been growing. in the 1st place we cannot live in a society works violence is wreaking havoc and they are using this violence as a method against us. critics say the government does not provide the police with enough for. sources to tackle gang crime the opposition coalition democratic and populist sector is accuse president noise of colluding with. a powerful gang alliance from last year by a former police officer to keep certain areas of the capital under control and accusation the president. on wednesday a state of emergency was declared for one month in some areas of port au prince. and. now to notorious colombian warlords have appeared before a so-called truth commission and the latest development and shedding light on crimes committed during decades of civil war. reports now from bogota.

for the 1st time 2 of the most feared warlords in colombia civil conflict faced each other in the country's truth commission albeit virtually. one side or the. better known bass steamer who led the revolutionary armed forces of colombia or fark in a war against the colombian state left 260000 people dead until the signing of a peace deal in 2016 and the other salvatore monk who led the right wing death squads the murder of thousands of union members farmers and farm sympathizers he is currently being held in a united states prison and drug trafficking charges. broadly go on don't you and i are mortal enemies in the past. dog without a need to kill each other in a civilized manner to respond to the country that prostitutes and barbarity said we commit to. the 2 are promising to confess their crimes in

a symbolic and potentially revel the tory series of meetings and when you go out we arrived here with the sincere desire to contribute to the truth in a spirit of reconciliation we're not looking for justification or to celebrate the horrors of war. colombia's 2016 peace deal put the victims of the conflict at the center of a process that promised truth reparations and a guarantee of no repetition but a space many her criticism in particular from political military and intrapreneur sectors that are trying to avoid facing responsibilities yet the process is moving forward in january a special tribunal set up following the peace deal charged and 7 fellow former far cleavers with human rights abuses including kidnapping it also revealed that more than $6000.00 people were murdered by the army and falsely presented as combat

kills to be expecting the rebels numbered 3 times higher than previously the revelations have emboldened victims groups. who ordered the killing the jesuit priests who runs the commission says their role is to reveal the truth and protect the victims. but we cannot let this be a platform for the culprits to glorify themselves as actors of war but to shed light on the all the actors with the victims. their testimony coming as the country continues to take tentative steps to discover and hopefully overcome the painful reality of its past i listened to. the headlines china has warned the us to stay out of its entire left.