i or. 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 alaska to reset strained relations. come fully back to watching al-jazeera life from doha also ahead tons of the s. weighs in its 1st female president to replace the late john magaw 40 challenging

times for the military is helping enforce a lockdown opto surgeon coronavirus cases. i feel scared at all times that you know. live alone. and asian american communities on high alert after several shootings me atlanta stoke fear of hate crimes. a meeting between the united states and china aimed at reducing tensions has gotten underway with a frank exchange of views what was supposed to be a short introduction at the start of the talks lasted for more than an hour the americans say beijing is threatening the international order while china warned the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs a diplomatic editor james space 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 so brief and polite but the u.s. side when told to list the specific concerns and sions wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states economic coercion toward our allies the chinese response was longer than justice for. nk 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 u.s.

is own human rights record and yet the challenges facing the u.s. 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. 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 they were reengaged 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 zira anchorage well a spokesman for china's foreign ministry says beijing hopes both sides can focus on corporation and managing their differences in our national home the members of the chinese delegation on arrival in alaska not only felt the cold weather but also the way the u.s. was treating its guests the opening remarks were just appetizers and there will be a big meal after that we hope the u.s. will work with china towards the same direction and follow the spirits of the phone

call between the 2 presidents and focus on cooperating to manage their differences and bring about balanced relations. has more from beijing on the chinese reaction. 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 u.s. open the meeting 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 is 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 nuance of approval and applauds for the chinese officials comments saying that they made their point known and they came across as strong but as jolly gen 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. meanwhile china's 1st trial of 2 canadians charged with espionage has ended with no verdict

businessman michael spot or appeared in court in the southeastern city of dung dong on friday and indian diplomats were denied access to the proceedings or in former diplomat michael kors was arrested 2 years ago it was a move widely seen as retaliation for canada's detention of huawei executive mung ones who upon the requests of the united states in other world news tanzania has its 1st female president some yes who her son has been sorting during a ceremony in dar es salaam it comes 2 days after she announced the death of president john michael fully at the age of 61 catherine sawyer has more from kenya's capital nairobi. well she just given how fast maiden speech and it was a very emotional tribute to her predecessor john paul mcgeough we are she also said that he's going to be buried on the 25th that's next thursday and i mean are these taken 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

her leadership style is very different from that of the late president michael fully they say that she listens to counsel more she's not one to make unilateral decisions she did not talk about coronavirus understandably so it 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 mcgough we've had come under 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 wear masks or you know family ties and implemented other. coronavirus measures until very recently when he told people that they could start wearing locally manufactured masks is going to be interesting to see how madame flu who is going to handle this perhaps people are telling me that she's going to start slow tell people to wear masks tell people to social

distances 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 that had been adopted by president mark foley. brazilian media say the mayor of rio de janeiro is ordering the closure of the city's beaches this weekend to care of the spread of coronavirus it follows a dramatic increase in infections and deaths across brazil pushing the health system into crisis on those say the country suffered its worst day of the pandemic with more than $2700.00 deaths rio's mayor is appealing to the federal government for the resumption of financial aid for struggling residents this will be because

it's going to be that 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 non 2 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 lockdown more than 6000 new cases where recorded in his latest daily report while deaths have reached the highest level since june a lot america tennesseean human report sums on tackle. this time they mean business that's the message chile's government instill send by deploying thousands of soldiers onto the streets to help police enforce new lock downs nationwide. here in the capital residents under lockdown can only leave home with special permits and

risks to find so or even arrest if they don't have them the son made us look done a very harsh measures for the population to analyze every 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 at home 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 very indigenous tribe in amazonas state received their 2nd dose of the scene of act vaccine with a sigh of relief that will be a political book 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 of. still ahead on al-jazeera where in northern nigeria way it's not just schools being targeted by armed groups and we'll look at why diplomatic ties between north korea and malaysia. we are creeping to the edge of the rainy season a supposed to was the end of it or the shows aren't quite so massive as they were they are still daily all the way down through sumatra vertically on the west coast through much of java and borneo in the southern philippines as well but nothing

really stands out as a clump of really heavy rain that just standard are prigs at the moment is rather to increase in in the china here with the breeze still coming from the north east for enough moisture to give showers now this is something you don't want to see next year is massive amounts of cloud in new south wales on shore breeze our warnings out of flooding potential wind damage and of course wave damage some of those waves are written by the surface but anybody who doesn't live on the surface is going to be disappointing time sydney is no exception the temperature here remains in the low twenty's it's either going to be wet or windy or bugs and even if you watch the surf it's going to feel pretty awful that continues right through sunday i think at the same time going to the banda showers running through northern territory just catching south australia heading down towards the outback or both queens and and you south wales rain creeping towards melbourne in new zealand the

weather is set fair and beautiful but the wind makes it a little cool. but . 2 years off to new zealand's deadly mosques you chains one there one east returns to christ church to find out how those most deeply affected are coping. and surviving a massacre on al-jazeera. be the hero world needs right around. washington. the end. to.

a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera this hour the 1st u.s. china talks under the biden administration have gotten off to a confrontational staats 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 who has some has been soaring and after the death of president john michael fully tanzanians are looking to see if her son will take stronger action to stop the spread of cologne a virus and brazilian media say the mayor of rio de janeiro is ordering the closure of the city's speeches this weekend it follows a dramatic increase in calls with 19 infections that deaths across for sale. myanmar now and at least 8 protesters have been killed during the latest rallies against the military cool. crowds faceoff with security

forces in several cities the military and police have used increasingly violent tactics to suppress the protest movement a local rice group says more than 220 people have been killed since the coup on february 1st. north korea has cut ties with malaysia for what it calls a hostile act and so very. fresh that's in response to a court ruling extraditing in north korean citizens to the u.s. on money laundering charges if young young says it's politically motivated and warns the united states will pay a price ties between north korea and malaysia have been strained since 2017 when kim jong un's half brother was killed at kuala lumpur airport rob mcbride has decided dates from seoul. 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 going 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 formulate 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 at kuala lumpur airport when he was smeared 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. to nigeria now where hundreds of schools have been forced to shut in the north because of more attacks by armed groups organized crime is also threatening farmers in what started as a conflict with headers for land and water resources. has our report. this is what schools in nigeria's north are looking more like every day now isolated dangerous and lacking image occasion. in the past month attacks by bandits and the kidnapping of hundreds of students has had a devastating impact on classroom teaching but it's not only schools that are being targeted for generations the north has been at the center of nigeria's agricultural production today that's in decline because of insecurity attacks on farmers on

their land have risen sharply in the last 3 years with an increase in death and displacement and there are warnings that will continue a less urgent action is taken what should be our focus as leaders and the stakeholders nigerian project and the people of nigeria is to establish peace of the country that should be the number one priority of every leader of this country will most have a country 1st before you can have an ambition poverty inequality corruption and institutional failures are blamed by some experts on nigeria's problems we are electing people who are highly in it isn't he who happened has not been to a party and this is also cricket and also. different in division or crises in our country. you cannot do what you don't have isn't it if you

don't have any vision you don't have any blueprint opera for people you see the only language you understand is how to make and commit money. their trucks and farmers and schools are largely blamed on some nomadic katzman who themselves have been victims of bad governance depreciation and exploitation. just this week are just beautiful statistics unemployment levels are sold to more than 33 percent in the last quarter afraid to trade agricultural production isn't continuous decline at all shortages are common desperate nigeria's young population is increasingly drawn to kidnapping alright. and criminals find it easy to smuggle arms through the country's borders. call source a prick police force 4 states have been ignored but the demands are getting louder i believe that nigeria is the only federation with the one centralized police force which is in adequate in numbers as well as equipment and training we think it is

time for nigeria to have state police to improve the security footprint across the country and also for very clear demarcations between investigation and prosecution of federal crimes against its crimes as a central government struck a strict more offices criminal gangs take advantage of the pass know in the services of the security forces of nigeria. in adequate to manage skids tradition of this country better trained manpower more equipment that should be a more sophisticated than the ones in the hands of the enemy is not just about finding out following the money. we actually do and what to do with the fund. desperate about the worsening security some states have to continue go shooting with the kidnappers but critics say that simply encourages them to

carry out more abductions the government has called in its military forces to put an end to the school attacks but there's no sign yet that's having any effect on the degrees al jazeera northwest nigeria. putting more pressure on the israeli government for detainee young palestinian boys they say the israeli authorities are showing absolute disregard for their wellbeing alexia ryan reports of dull obeyed mother says this is the toughest moment of her life it's the 3rd time his 16 year old son has been detained in the past 6 months and this time he's going to prison accused of throwing stones at israeli forces. whenever stones are thrown at the occupying forces they come and arrest me the last time i was put under house arrest i wasn't allowed to step outside the house. he says he had to choose between an open ended saint unsound a house arrest or 2 months in prison and this mother you know we have always been

through hard times but this is the hardest it's the toughest ever to hand over your own child to the occupying forces may god protect him adela lives in the isa we a neighborhood of occupied east jerusalem israeli security forces have been accused of provoking palestinian communities carrying out a daily raids setting up roadblocks and going back at night to make arrests many of those detained are under 18 and many don't know what rights groups say more than 200 miners are being held in israel last week this video went viral that shows 5 boys aged between 8 and 13 being detained by israeli forces while out picking vegetables they were held for 5 hours the 2 eldest were told to return for questioning. unlike israeli children palestinians living in the occupied territory have few if any rights and they tried in military courts you're talking about

interrogations off and where they are denied access to a lawyer you know answer not present in interrogation is there help for very long periods of time before going to trial now with the coronavirus and they do not yet this is from their family members there are very few phone calls even to maintain contact and so it's just a very long line of fire ration these children's rights israeli police have defended their actions saying there am is to preserve public order and that all authorities act within the law of dollars says he chose the prison sentence because at least he knows when he'll be released but well palestinians live under israeli occupation many say teenagers like adela will never be truly free. brian al-jazeera. gunmen in may. sicko have killed at least 13 police men in what's being described as the worst attack on offices since 2019 it happened in central mexico

on thursday the region security minister says the convoy was ambushed by a gang while out patrolling manya rapinoe has the details from mexico city. federal police say an investigation is currently underway to locate and capture armed gunmen responsible for the deaths of at least 13 law enforcement officers in the state of mexico the state that directly neighbors mexico city now authorities say that on thursday afternoon police in a convoy were ambushed by armed gunmen while police were trying to carry out an operation against armed groups in the municipality of what their big ideas now mexico's national guard has been deployed to participate in a multi agency investigation though at the moment details are still limited as to exactly how many suspects authorities are searching for now this latest attack against law enforcement officials highlights the many dangers and risks that law enforcement officers and security force in mexico take to try to curb violence in the country which has worsened under the code $900.00 and now nationwide at least

$524.00 police officers were killed in 2020 that number unfortunately stands at 86 police officers that have been killed so far this year with the state of mexico continuing to be considered one of the most violent in the country. u.s. president joe biden is expected to meet asian american communities leader community leaders in georgia on friday after a shooting spree killed 8 people 6 of the victims were women of asian descent stoking fears tuesday's murders were racially motivated some are accusing former president trump of playing a role in stoking on thai asian hate rob reynolds reports from los angeles. the american flags of 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 him . communities are reacting with shock and anger to the rising number of hate incidents i feel scared at all times and you know. that alone.

and sometimes i have to log 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 reality past events that missive or hyper sexualized the objectified or exactly sa used or you don chipp or 'd even the abbate nobody some are fighting back in san francisco an elderly chinese speaking woman was punched in the things then beat her alleged assailant into submission with a piece of wood 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 technician he crimes and in just a year old mom and her step by the works of former president donald trump the sop to shift the blame and anger all right robins all want response to the coronavirus used racial slurs on our georgia law enforcement officials say they're 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. so again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the 1st u.s. china talks under the biden administration have gotten off to a confrontational stocks americans have accused china of threatening international order while beijing has warned washington to stay out of its internal or fans diplomatic as james face has more from anchorage alaska the u.s. secretary of state was the 1st to speak and he cited very specific cause.