now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthy a world. for everyone. and sions wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states a public display of differences as top officials from the u.s. and china meet in the alaska to reset strained relations. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also coming up tanzania sways in its 1st female president to succeed the late john michael fully.

challenging times for the military is helping in force a knock down after searching coronavirus cases i feel scared at all times that you know. live alone and asian american community is on a lower tough test several shootings me atlanta stoke fear of hate crimes. a meeting between the united states and china aimed at reducing tensions has got underway with a frank exchange of views or is supposed to be a short introduction at the start of the talks lasted for more than an hour china has won the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs while the americans told the chinese beijing is threatening international order a diplomatic editor james bays reports from anchorage alaska. this is a meeting that will shape future relations between the world's 2 biggest powers

relations that are currently at a low point good afternoon. and welcome normally opening remarks at events like these a brief and polite but the u.s. side were told to list the specific concerns and sions wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states economic coercion toward our us the chinese response was long. and just as frank the foreign minister wang ye said you don't welcome guests with sanctions a reference to the blacklisting of 24 chinese and hong kong officials in the hours before the meeting his senior colleague politburo member yang jiechi was clearly unhappy. well i think we thought too well of the united states we thought the u.s. side would follow the necessary diplomatic protocols he went on to complain about regime change in the middle east and the us is only human rights record and yet the

challenges facing the us and human rights are deep seated they did not emerge over the past 4 years the slaughter of black people the problem existed for a long time who saw the word slaughter was not translated into english for those in the room by the chinese delegations interpreter on one second please journalists were about to be ushered out when the secretary of state made it clear his delegation wanted to speak again i just made my 1st trip as i noted to panick 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 reengage with our allies and partners i'm also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking a confident country is able to look hard at its own shortcomings and constantly

seek to improve and that is the secret sauce of america alaska is a midway point just over 6000 kilometers to beijing just under 6000 kilometers to washington d.c. this was a meeting that was supposed to build bridges what we've seen here could be a welcome clearing of the air or perhaps the beginning of a deepening of the division it all depends on the crucial talks which now continue behind closed doors james bows out zira anchorage well let's get the view now from beijing and speak to our correspondent katrina you katrina some angry words exchanged in alaska what is the reaction 1st in china and what does it say about what beijing hopes to get out of these talks. that's right angry words and china's foreign ministry spoke this afternoon laying the blame for this tense atmosphere solely at the foot of washington china's

foreign ministry spokesperson john lee jen said china was invited and then promptly the us open the me saying by starting with what he described as unfounded attacks on the chinese side he said it was impolite and the chinese officials had no choice but to fire back he also acknowledged the atmosphere in the room and said that it was dramatic and that there was a court smell of gunpowder in the air is what he said now i think the key thing to remember is one of the whole months of chinese president xi jinping has leadership here is really trying to come from a position of strength he has made this promise to the chinese people since he's been in power that china will no longer be looked down on by the west and i think this was a very much the point of strength that chinese officials wanted to convey during the opening statement that they made during this alaska encounter just as us were playing to their own audience china was playing to their as the 1400000000 population who are becoming increasingly nationalistic and it seems to have worked

over the last few hours you've been monitoring chinese social media and they have been a lot of nods of approval and applause for the chinese officials comments saying that they made the point known and they came across as strong now that all being said the truth is china wants this meeting to be productive they've said now for weeks that they want to find common ground to the u.s. they want to reset ties and they've acknowledged that this will really probably be about setting and listening to each other's bottom line there's no specific expectations that chinese officials have on the outcome but they are hoping that this will be the beginning of continued talks and continued dialogue down the track an open communication channel that they did not have during those last days of the trump administration so we are waiting to see. how the rest of us talks go foreign minister one you made a very brief comment to chinese press leaving that 2nd session and he seemed to

imply that things went better but as john legend chinese foreign minister. china's foreign ministry spokesperson said this afternoon that opening meeting was the appetizer and we're still waiting on the main course so we're going to be watching closely to see if any progress can be made katrina thank you very much for that katrina you're in beijing meanwhile china's 1st trial of 2 canadians challenge with espionage has ended with no verdict businessman michael spada war appeared in court in the southeastern city of dandong on friday canadian diplomats were denied access to the proceedings spot war and former diplomat michael convery queer arrested 2 years ago it was a move widely seen as retaliation for canada's detention of huawei executive mon ones or upon the request of the united states in other world news tanzania has its 1st female president some yes a new hot sun has been sorn injuring a ceremony in dar es salaam this comes 2 days after she announced the death of

president john michael fully at the age of $61.00 let's bring in katherine sawyer who's monitoring developments from kenya's capital nairobi catherine so tanzania finally has its 1st female president tell us more about who she is and what direction she is likely to take the country. given how fast maiden speech and it was a very emotional tribute to her predecessor. she also said that he's going to be buried on the 25th that's next thursday and i mean i've been speaking to people in tanzania just trying to get a sense of what she is about and what they're telling me many of them is that she leadership style is very different from that of the late president who fully they say that she listens to counsel more she's not one to make unilateral decisions that also say that she is a strictly to proceed and in fact in that fast speech this is that she's going to

follow the constitution to the letter i think she's also going to be acceptable to our international partners because if you remember the president who fully hardly ever went on international trips to represent the country so he would send her to do that so she is known in international calls and they will be more comfortable i think working with her but that said she will is also very was also very loyal to the president and it's also very much still guided by the policies and agenda of the ruling c.c.m. party which is very strong and structured and has a lot of influence it's going to be interesting to see if or how she will davey it from the policies or how 5. from the poor from the policies of the late president and by extension the ruling party yeah and on that point especially when it comes to covered 1000 catherine john michael fully denied that the pandemic existed in

tanzania of course and he put tanzania in the global spotlight with his handling of coronavirus are we likely to see a change in strategy from the new president. white house speech you did not talk about coronavirus and the find of these boys was all about the late president and burial arrangements for him but a lot of people are looking to see if she's going to change strategy on president before he could come and a lot of korea has faced a lot of criticism for how he handled the disease he never put the country on lockdown he never encouraged people to imac sold or you know sanitize and implement other. coronavirus measures until very recently when he told people that they can start wearing locally manufactured masks so people are concerned about that we've been hearing more and more stories from tanzania that more people are getting hospitalized including government officials the hearing of deaths in vancouver the

opposition leader a died of coronavirus religious leaders saying that the are dying as well so it's going to be interesting to see how madame flew who is going to handle vase perhaps people are telling me that she's going to start slow tell people to wear masks tell people to social distance and so on but then the more controversial things is whether she's going to allow a rollout of this vaccination program so people are waiting to see how she's going to deal with this disease and how she's going to if she's going to change strategy and change the policy sort of had been adopted by president mark foley thank you kathleen for that kathleen sawyer live for us there in nairobi. brazilian media say the mayor of re-edition arrow is ordering the closure of the city's beaches this weekend to care of the struggling residents 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 where 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 corona virus infections is forcing chile to put half of its population into an indefinite law down more than 6000 new cases were recorded in its mages daily report while deaths have reached the highest level since june a lot in america had a tendency in human reports some santiago. this time they mean business that's the message chile's government aims to send by deploying thousands of soldiers on to the streets to help police enforce new lockdowns nationwide. here in the capital

residents under lockdown can only leave home with special permits and risks to find even a rest if they don't have them. do deceive us not done 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 and even 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 in the hall the government is also declaring full lock downs for an even larger portion of the country. it's very sad what's happening many of those in hospital may never see their families

again. in brazil where deaths climbed to a new high every day members of the by ray indigenous tribe in amazonas state received their 2nd dose of the scene of act vaccine with a sigh of relief but all of the a political will 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 its 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 for people who are going out to get a vaccination a new clinical study by. catholic university indicates that with 2 doses the sooner

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. still ahead on al-jazeera promising to shed light on civil war crimes former colombian fighters from the left and the right appear before a truth commission and we'll have details of the worst attack against mexican police offices in yes. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways now this is a big disappointment look at where the cloud is coming from streaming down from the

north of the most of europe has a spring we're coming upon now you don't want to normally when it's always cold and it has turned substantially cold with little banks of cloud introducing rain sleet or snow yeah on it though these are the temperatures and for friday we're talking about 4 degrees in prague one in stockholm it's crept up to 11 in london the wind is light of the still cold that should be and even where it was warm in spain and portugal we've now got rather more in the way of rain or even snow here and that of course is not going to stay where it is the winds die down the mistral wind out of france that's one advantage i suppose zurich represents still dropping temperatures so the cold wind although it eases allows the temperatures to stay at one or 2 degrees right into the weekend well below where it should be then creeping out of space into the central med through its lead towards the balkans greece and turkey is the next tranche of snow for the hills all right even for lower ground that is

going to be disappointing and by and you look at the temperatures that should be probably right about $1112.00 moscow 5 degrees or lower and then for northern turkey well sunny's a big disappointment. sponsored by qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in and join. global community when i thought of all 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 is 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 and be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is the era.

the end. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera the 1st u.s. china talks under the biden administration off to a confrontational start americans have accused china of threatening the international order while beijing has warned washington to stay out of its internal affairs tanzania has its 1st female president sam yes a new haasan has been sore named after the death of president john mchugh 40 tons indians are looking to see if haasan will take stronger action to stop the spread of corona virus and brazilian media say the mayor of rio de janeiro is ordering the closure of the city's beaches this weekend it follows a dramatic increase in calls with 1000 infections and deaths across brazil. more now on our top story the u.s. china talks in alaska and also china's detention of 2 canadian said speak to drew

thompson who's joining us from singapore he's a visiting senior research fellow at the school of public policy and also a former u.s. defense department official thank you very much for speaking to us let's start with the trial of michael spad war and this diplomatic standoff between china and canada over the huawei case which hasn't been resolved in 2 years now what do you make 1st of the timing of the trial and what message is china wanting to send here. well it's difficult to know what the timing intentions are because again trying to system is so opaque and this isn't being driven by a regular legal process but more of a political directives from a so it's tempting to think that this decision to hold the trial around the same times as the u.s. china talks in alaska taking place that somehow there's there's causation i'm not entirely convinced of that but it is possible that will make it much more squarely

on the agenda so the fact that they've been under under arrest for over 2 years without any evidence being produced or any progress so far does indicate highly political position of the 2 cases now and the fact that a canadian officials were denied access to the trial of michael. moore doesn't bode well does it for for the canadians. well i mean i think if you look at it your chinese conviction rates are close to under and percent so it was never going to look good for them when the trial came to pass what's not particularly good of course is that china just violated their bilateral consular treaty with canada which grants the ambassador or the consular officials access to their citizens including in a case like this of a trial so those are both some of the more disturbing aspects of this but there could be a sort of lying and there is the potential that china recognizes that the detention

of these 2 these 2 people is really been quite a disaster for china's public image hostage diplomacy has completely failed in getting candidate to release. joe it's turned off the entire least raise concerns amongst the international business community about the risks. of detention a completely arbitrary detention so they may be looking to cut their losses find that you can aliens guilty and then deport them immediately afterward sending them back to their families which hopefully brings an end to this very very sordid tale as you mentioned this is coming at a time when we're seeing the 1st u.s. china talks under the biden administration which we're off to a rather confrontational saat in alaska what do you make of the van standing with so on both sides and all we're likely to see every set of relations after a clearing of the air perhaps or things in fact is going to get much worse. so i

think there was very little possibility that there would be a reset in the relationship and that was foreseeable long before the opening of the session today and while it certainly appears sporting i think most u.s. officials experience u.s. diplomats are well aware and very. confident that when they do meet with the chinese officials there in bilateral meetings there is going to be a certain amount of filibustering chinese officials are very good at this also helps explain why the u.s. side wanted to hold this meeting on u.s. soil because in the events of this type of filibustering it gave secretary clinton the chance to rebut some of. points and get retort before the press was ushered out of that room and that meeting meeting taking place in china they would not have control over the venue or the media and the only thing broadcast lou the chinese haranguing about u.s.

'd democracy and foreign policy thank you so much for talking to us about this drew thompson from the lee kuan yew school of public policy in singapore thank you for your time and insight thank you john allen at least 2 protesters have been killed during the latest rallies against the military cool. crowds faced off with several security with security forces in several cities the military and police have used increasingly violent tactics to suppress the protest movement and local rice says more than 220 people have been killed since the call on february 1st. to mexico now a gunman have killed at least 13 policeman in what's being described as the worst attack on offices since 1900 it happened in central mexico on thursday the region security minister says a convoy was ambushed by a gang while out patrolling. 2 former colombian paramilitary leaders have appeared

before a truth commission a spot of an effort to bring evidence and accountability to crimes committed during decades of civil war. 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 road to go along better known bass ilya 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 fark sympathizers he is currently being held in a united states prison and drug trafficking charges. roderigo laundering you and i are mortal enemies in the past we are not going to talk with our good need to kill

each other in a civilized manner to respond to the conclave that prostitutes and barbarity said recommit to. the 2 are promising to confess their crimes in a symbolic and potentially revel the tory series of meetings in asia when you thought we arrived here with the sincere desire to contribute to the truth in a spirit of reconciliation we're not looking for a 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 foreign leaders 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 have 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 allison them. asian americans are on high alert as police investigate what motivated a man to kill 8 people at

a moustache near atlanta this week 6 of the victims were women of asian descent. as were racially motivated attacks targeting asian american communities have been on the rise reynolds has more from los angeles. the american flags at the white house were lowered in mourning for the 8 women killed in georgia on tuesday 6 of whom asian heritage around the country asian american communities are reacting. the shock and anger to the rising number of hate incidents i feel scared at all times and you know. that alone and sometimes i had to walk on the street at night and then yeah 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 ki

a young park says race and gender stereotypes they have d. human eyes the victims in the killer's mind they are seen as really passive and suppleness save or hyper sexualized the objectified or exactly style 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 center find solutions and we were not like you take our boys away from us barely 3800 asian 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 want response to the coronavirus used

racial slurs on bar of 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 there are. a man who basically sort of. was on the side of the perpetrator and a 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.

again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the 1st u.s. china talks under the biden administration got off to a confrontational stop talia americans have a key is china threatening the international order while beijing has warned washington to stay out of its internal affairs if the magic at a james phrase has more from anchorage alaska the u.s. secretary of state was the 1st to speak and he cited very specific concerns the u.s. house about showing the chinese side responded with a senior.