the stage is set and it's time for a different approach so let's leave simplicity into the headlines join me as i take on the dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradictions and marc lamont hill and it's time to get up front. this is al-jazeera. the roman you're watching al-jazeera news our lives my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.s. and china take a minute each other during high level talks in alaska with accusations of grandstanding and a cold war mentality turns an air swears in its 1st female leader. who her son takes power after the death of john mica fairly also warnings of

a covert 19 tornado in papua new guinea the island is seeing a dramatic increase in infections prompting a lockdown also i feel scared at all times and you know. live alone an asian american communities on alert after several shootings near atlanta stoke fears of hate crimes in sport is taking lympics bosses debate whether to allow overseas bans while that sebastian coe urges them not to rush the decision. and i welcome to the news are a meeting between the united states and china aimed at reducing tensions has got underway with confrontational remarks what was supposed to be a short introduction at the start of the talks lasted for more than an hour the americans said beijing is threatening the international order china then warned the

u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs are diplomatic editor james bays reports now from anchorage in 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 went on to list their specific concerns and since wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states' economic coercion toward our allies the chinese response was long and just as frank the foreign minister wang ye said you don't welcome guests with sanctions a reference 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 i mean 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. 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 panic 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 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 al-jazeera anchorage katrina you has long china's reaction from beijing. 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 quart 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 his 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 nods of approval and applauds for the chinese officials comment 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 indeed we are hours house correspondent compelled to joins me now from washington d.c. to talk about the progress could be the gloves for the for any talks really began to be what are we to make of how these actual discussions will progress i mean what reaction are you getting from where you are. well to katrin to use point about how this is playing in china this is also not being completely well received in terms of development so far in the united states particularly from joe

biden's political opponents namely conservatives on capitol hill and in washington the pundits are accusing the 2 jake sullivan the national security adviser as well as the secretary of state anthony blinken of being soft on china that essentially they were kind of played by the chinese in these developments that what has happened here is that there's been a string of events that conservatives are arguing whether it be the north korean leader kim jong un or russia with regard to blabber putin now the chinese leaders that in fact what has happened is that the united states is not getting the respect that they felt that donald trump was able to command so this is been seized on these sort of tense moments in the initial sort of discussions that have taken place as being something that the united states is essentially been laughed at and so the opponents on capitol hill really using this to weaponize in terms of the

divisions in the united states and against joe biden the u.s. president will sort of deployments the just plain to see them can believe is going on in the u.s. administration because this ruffling feathers of tuvix may not. yeah when you talk about the 2 main adversaries of course we're referring to russia which hasn't been a good week for the biden administration given the fact that diplomacy global diplomacy working with friends and allies and also adversaries is really what joe biden ante blinken came in saying they were going to do so that strategy hasn't really gone as calculated very quickly a lot of reaction here in the united states to the comments that joe biden thought that. was a killer to which the russian leader responded it takes one to know one that he and sort of invited him for an open discussion a live debate which the white house has said joe biden is too busy to participate

in 8 just hasn't played well for him because he's trying to project the strength and it looks or appears that his opponents are getting the upper hand and add to this we now have a member of nato defending not the u.s. president but in fact let him or putin of course that is the turkish leader so this is really complicated things in terms of global developments incur terms of sort of geo political maneuvering this is not the way the united states was hoping things would be played so they're going into the next sort of bit of discussion looking a little bit weaker than perhaps they'd like and again domestically that is really being seized on by joe biden's political opponents if you look about for a. complete joke about force a white house correspondent. has its 1st female president salue who has been sworn in during a sort of the in the city of donna summer it comes 2 days after she announced the

death of president john mica foully at the age of 61 catherine soy has more from the kenyan capital rupie. 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 taking to the 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 fullilove they say that she listens to counsel more she did not want 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 felipe 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 sanitize and implement other. coronavirus measures until very recently when he told people that they can start wearing locally manufactured masks so it's 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 distance and so one 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. the former president of the tanganyika law society she says the president has done is

looking to try and unify the country. in tanzania what we refer to as an inherent presidency. which means that she is completely responsible for whatever policy that she wants to put in place some direct and subject only to the party manifesto what we saw during the fully era was a complete disregard of the party manifesto and the. system policies it was basically a one man show so it will be interesting to see what she does in future will she go back to the party manifesto will she then make this part of her policy or will she go out on a limb and come up with her own policies or will she continue with the model for the policies i hope to see

a more independent somebody has no hope i hope to see after me has who goes back to the foundations of a party and because that is predictability and what we need at the moment in tanzania is predictability. at least 8 protesters have been killed in ian mass during the latest rallies against the military coup. crowds faced off with security forces in several cities now the military and police have used increasingly violent tactics to suppress the protest movement and local rights group says more than 220 people have been killed since the coup in early february indonesian president jacob were due to house call for an urgent meeting of ass and nations to discuss the crisis he says democracy must be restored. to indonesia urges the immediate end to the use of violence and more so that no more victims will fall to safety and prosperity of the people must become the top priority indonesia also urges dialogue and that reconciliation must be done in order to

restore democracy peace and stability in myanmar also hardly joins me now from bangkok in neighboring thailand friday hasn't gone without protests and more deaths in parts of the country scott. hell yes definitely and most of those that's coming in on the central me and mar city that is where we saw a bit of a standoff with protesters and police and security forces what had happened is we've been seeing a lot more around the country particular where there are bigger cities the protesters are building these barricades and that's where they kind of usually have faced off with the security forces tear gas is fired and then it escalates usually to live rounds and that's what we saw in this central med mar city of. what happened is that it seems as though while the police were trying to take down the barricades the protesters approached and then that's when this the violence took place and at least 8 people there were killed there were some smaller protests

again around myanmar as well we know at least in one case in the northwest one person was killed when there's a confrontation with security forces as well and as you mentioned so help you know the indonesian president has called for a high level meeting of the r.c. on this is the block in southeast asia 10 nations to discuss what's been going on in myanmar and when you look at it it's very interesting they've kind of indonesia has taken a leadership role if you will in the region in trying to get reach some kind of political political solution to what's going on to me and more but it's a very tall order to pass because normally see on don't really interfere with each other's internal matters as they say but indonesia is trying to break that tradition one thing needs to be said the nations that neighbor and have a lot of relations close relationship closer than internees or they find it it's going to be a little bit more difficult to have these kind of discussions particularly nations like thailand because a lot of trade and a long border with me and more so that's an interesting to see how those

discussions if those high level discussions actually take place and what one of the other issues that seems to be developing the sculpture's we're hearing that educational establishment is being used by the military to the anger of children's charities what's going. yeah you know this is something that we saw a couple of weeks ago there were early reports right and we 1st started to see things really escalating particularly in yangon i would say 3 weeks ago word was getting out that they were the the security forces were staging and using educational facilities university campuses elementary schools as areas for them to state part of it to a particular when it came to yangon was because that's where a lot of the protest started on university campuses so today friday unicef unesco and save the children have put out a joint statement saying that these are education facilities it's the responsibility of the security forces of myanmar to protect children and what they're doing now is putting children at risk so they're calling for these

education facilities to be vacated immediately so it's interesting to see now finally the several groups have come together who are specifically focused on security for children they're calling for the myanmar security forces to vacate those schools and universities. thanks very much for the update well plenty more ahead here on the news. the challenges facing health workers in guinea as they tackle a recent break and we'll look at why diplomatic ties between north korea and the malaysia getting worse also installed james harden shines again fold the best of the n.b.a. action still to come. several european countries are resuming oxford astra zeneca vaccinations after suspending their jobs because of safety concerns that comes after europe's drug watchdog said

on thursday that the vaccine is safe and there's no evidence linking it to serious blood clots the agency said its benefits outweigh any risks but it could not rule out a link to a rare clotting disorder leave barker joins me now from london for the very latest i mean there is this resumption of the astra zeneca vaccine program within the e.u. so where is it starting. well the big 3 economies of regime things are france germany and italy although france has suggested that it only be given to people over the age of 55 for the time being we know that the french prime minister's own caustics will be putting himself at the front of the queue to receiving an oxford astra zeneca job later on in the day last week to allay fears about the vaccine not being safe or for general use we know the next week portugal spain and the netherlands will also regime using the

job as well although spain has said that it that certain categories will not receive it presumably those who are most vulnerable or those most at risk over blood clotting we know that denmark and sweden have said that they need a few more days to work out whether or not they will will resume it whether or not they will sustain the 2 week poles in using the oxford astra zeneca job we really have to to wait and see the overall bassett's though very much says that despite how many vaccines may be available in europe there is still a dial warning that it may not be enough to avoid a peak in cases of weight a 3rd wave that was the message for a march from germany's health secretary and we we now also know that the german government are in talks with the russian authorities to potentially license the use of the sputnik v. vaccine it has been proven safe by the european medicines agency but it hasn't been

widely license for use across the continent that still down to individual states to decide whether they should be used provide loss the hungry is one country that has approved its use and we are starting to see restrictions that eighty's when the rest of europe the beginning to tighten. force the and lead to thanks very much. per point you get is that to close schools restrict movement and make masks mandatory is all part of what the government's calling aggressive interventions after affections that high record this week now there are fears the nation's fragile health system is on the brink of collapse 70 percent of staff at the capital's main hospitals are isolating or off work while a 2nd hospital is closed entirely that canon is the chief executive of the st john ambulance in power point you get he says cases in the capital port moresby have been skyrocketing. we were doing quite well for all of 2020 we had

a spike in it will be a slashed year and then we sort of gay cruising cases throughout the year and we were doing quite well in there i mean i've reported cases in me in court will be in general and we start to see a small increase 224 cases in pool halls be in february but we've seen skyrocketing number of cases in the last at this month in the last 7 days with same almost 30 percent of the total cases reported what we are concerned about is just how flowing the emergency department in the whole hospital will be is they've had to create another ward or private patients in addition to the law to have the intelligence department so we're told is just literally full of it patients and it is very difficult to isolate these patients from other people right now we're working with the support of the extra government. is helping to establish a military grade tent hospital system in the cock of the port moresby general

hospital much of that was set up last not at and we're also helping to establish a 12120 bed field hospital amal cases the capability to scale up to 300 beds which are around 20 will be intensive care but we're really at this point if the cases continue reliant on not on having a foreign medical assistance helps out the afghan government of the taliban have reportedly agreed to speed up peace talks russia has been hosting talks in moscow which have been taking place less than 2 months before the deadline for american troops to pull out of the country now the u.s. russia china and pakistan have urged the warring sides to reach an immediate cease fire that this meeting in russia follows months of an intra afghan peace style old in qatar we had it in moments of negotiation with americans. and the dignity that they will draw in 14 months and these

that time is now going to end if they do not call. that end that means they continue after that it will be tied up a while asian of the agreement that way lation would not be from our side but it would be from the outside so in that case if there is action of course the reaction alexi political theory is the middle east expert on the russian international affairs council joins me now via skype from moscow good talking with us on the program again mr klebnikov i mean a growing chorus of interested stakeholders calling for a cease fire russia the u.s. china pakistan could russia hosting this meeting have any impact on the taliban right here right now. well in the 1st place i wouldn't exaggerate the role

is trying to play and we shouldn't forget that it's not the 1st time moscow hosts this talks. it's been a while several years russia is hosting a gun it talks back 101-9800 these attempt is in no way. competitive track but it is more of us implemented and i think it's just goes in line with moscow's overall overarching marketing of itself or strategic marketing of itself as a broker or as a mediator which is able to provide a convenient platform to convene all in the open parties. into the conflict to try to ease the way towards the compromise that i'd agree because we have been talking about the fact that this is power allowed to the talks that russia has complementing what's already going on or has gone on. but it does want to try and

push the talks forward or push them to a position where the stakeholders can all agree and i'm wondering what needs to move what what's your analysis of where the talks are what needs to be said. well i don't think mosque who has any. expectation about that the parties can strike an agreement within you know weeks or lake several months but of course it major goal is to activate the diplomatic activity and to you it was all available diplomatic tools before they. you know. there is nothing left i mean and here it's very. just jump in there because i want to how important that is is the u.s. representation all their involvement and working alongside russia on these complementary talks. but it's the thing is that the united states is also involved

the u.s. representatives were in moscow for those talks it's a it's a very positive. signal because if we loop back at russia us gov ation exactly the operational in afghanistan was one protocol and productive which started back and thousands with the early years of what you want within an hour after 911 russia was the 1st country which actually it started to help americans to wage to convey the military campaign and. allowing it to use its air space to you know deliver troops to afghanistan so here i would say that moscow is also trying to preserve this channel of communication with with washington especially against the backdrop of the deteriorating. u.s. russian relations over the past 5 years and it's important channel and moscow wants

to showcase that they're still able to maintain dialogue with not a space that they still have issues which they can try to settle together which is they will have to set in the next few days alexey klebnikov thanks for joining us from moscow thank you. demonstrators in syria's last rebel held city are holding a rally to mark 10 years since the civil war began they chanted anti-government slogans of through the syrian opposition is flag it lip city was captured from government forces and 2015 hundreds of thousands of people have fled fighting during government offensives in the province over the past 2 years. yemen's who the rebels say they've hit a saudi oil facility in the capital riyadh a military spokesman says they fired a series of rockets at the saudi aramco run site now but that what went on was a lot our armed forces have conducted the operation with 6 drones that targeted in

a room co facility in the saudi capital riyadh and the target has been hit with precision well it's time for the weather now here's rob. but to an idea threat now has gone but it was quite dramatic in this is how it happens this is a put this on loop for you can see have these streams of plans go inland from this coastal area that's rather more humid air coming yes cold air is coming further west you get these thunderstorms the toughest understands that is lightning and that's what caused the barrel of tornadoes was some damage there that's the biggest go the last tail on its way through florida a few hours ago now it's all linked to a system which is its head is quite cold in fact it's going to be some morning still there would have been some mornings that parts of new england possibly even new york then all things improved during saturday and they're sure on this east coast of florida or maybe georgia when you go along shore brazen or poor weather

than the pacific side takes over the action this is slowly opening frontal system which means rain at low levels and snow up in the rockies in the cascades it doesn't improve the time we get to sunday as you can see the sun returning and then things are temporarily quiet just watch the showers from the midwest you have a midwest there is unfortunately an increasing likelihood of significant rain in quite amala and maybe down in panama as well. well still ahead here on al-jazeera we're in northern nigeria where it's not just schools being targeted by armed groups. in the astra zeneca vaccine as many in europe suspended rollouts also if you are upset about this problem in your part of the complaints about inequality between female and male basketball players the biggest college tournament in the u.s. that's coming up with cho in sports so don't go away.

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0. welcome back you're watching over there is news are with me so rob the reminder of our top stories the 1st u.s. china talks under the biden ministration got off to a confrontational start america has accused china of threatening the international order of beijing has warned washington to stay out of its internal affairs tanzania's sworn in its 1st female president subdue her son succeeds john mica foully who died at the age of 61 tanzania isn't looking to see it hasa will take strong action to stop the spread of corona virus and several european countries are

resuming oxford astra zeneca vaccinations after suspending the jobs because of safety concerns that comes after europe's drug watchdog said on thursday that the vaccine is safe. well greece is one e.u. member that didn't stop at ministering the astra zeneca vaccine even as others did johns for office is in athens and explains why. greece has administered 1400000 covert shots and one in 7 has been astra zeneca has trust in the job never waned even when major even members suspended it greeks are load 80 percent of their appointments to receive it does was because nice is one of them and you see it as the that i was a bit worried in the beginning when some countries reacted against astra zeneca but since the european medicines agency said it was fine i see no reason to worry i'll do the job i have faith in vaccines in general i believe in the science the national vaccination committee did examine the international data set closely.

yes. it's. only one in every 100000 astra zeneca vaccine recipients has suffered from thrombosis and very covert itself causes several times that rate of thrombosis if it's left untreated and greases death rate from coburn is $67.00 per 100000 so the risks associated with vaccination are much lower than the risks of going unvaccinated then there's the economy to consider last year the greek

economy contract had by 8.2 percent one of the worst rates in the e.u. it has spent $43000000000.00 on tax breaks and handouts so far almost a quarter of its g.d.p. and despite 3 lock downs its rates of infection and now at record highs so it's little wonder that greece is among the better vaccination performers in the e.u. it's used up 80 percent of its stock compared with 60 percent in germany and 50 percent in france even so by the time tourism officially reopens in mid may it will only have vaccinated people over 60 leaving it a long way to go to reach herd immunity the calculus for greece then is a simple one to follow the science back to growth as quickly as possible. affluence health officials are getting say they're facing a challenge as they tackle a recent break many people in remote communities are refusing to get vaccinated they just don't trust the health care system traditional healers nicholas hack

reports. for traditional healer to move this cocktail of natural remedies using plants soil and a mysterious liquid is more efficient than a vaccine made in the lab he says it can fight off even the most contagious and fatal of viruses a bola. truth is real vaccines people have dogs saying it might even hurt them and attract more sickness honestly i'm already blaxxun aided by traditional medicine after a nurse died of a bull in february the un delivered 36000 a bowl of vaccines to contain an outbreak in guinea's forest region but only $3000.00 doses have been administered so far among those refusing to be vaccinated is shop owner. who says she's more afraid of the vaccine then a bola. i am not going to take the vaccine and while i don't know what's in it why should i trust health workers in 2015 more than 11000 people died and 20000 were

infected after the virus spread from guinea's forest region to neighboring sierra leone at the time health workers wearing protective suits were attacked kidnapped or even killed out of fear hospitals were seen as a place where people came to die not to heal getting ministry of health says it's now better prepared but overwhelmed we have a covert 19 epidemic no ebola on top of an outbreak of measles and yellow fever and we need help from our partners to contain the outbreak it's in this. institute in neighboring senegal that scientists detected the virus from blood samples of relatives of the nurse that died from a bullet then put it inside this machine the machine and multiplied it and thanks to this genetic sequencing scientists made an extraordinary discovery 5 years after the last outbreak the same a bull

a strain has reappeared the virus has. not jump from animals to humans as previously thought by scientists but survivors of the virus are carrying a ball and are are knowingly spreading it into the rest of the wills. we need to keep a close watch on the ball a survivor with thoughts that because they carry the virus in their body fluids they are to keep population to contain the outbreak the good news here is that we have a vaccine that works. the challenge is not the lack of medicine but the lack of trust in health services and communities where medical providers are too often absent this has now become the main hurdle in bringing and then to the ball outbreak in guinea nicholas hawke al-jazeera now in the republic of congo candidates are holding their final rallies ahead of sunday's presidential election president dennis. who's been in power for more than 40 years is seeking

a 4th term goal so will face 6 challengers including a former finance minister and former aide the main opposition group has said it will not participate citing downs over safety and credibility as cross over now to malcolm webb our correspondent in brazzaville going to following events for so how's campaign going considering we what less than 24 hours from the start of mass voting for. well good thing will take place on the sunday where the final campaign rally of a president the president is not soon grasso. rule is over most of the last 40 years it's only really him that's been able to run an effective campaign across the whole of the country take a little look around some of the people in the. normal in congo for people to be paid to attend but it's already be given to us. in a country where the billions of dollars of oil wealth just haven't really trickled

down to the millions of people who live in poverty than receiving handouts while the show is actually a good reason to come to a political rally but it's only really the ruling party that has the resources to be able to do this on a substantial level and some of the people here have been mistaken staking me for one of the people working for the french public relations company is running the president's campaign in the cape asking me for the walls over the wall cows and t. shirts so it's in this climate and the final run is about to go up but there are 2 other opposition candidates holding their rallies. today released far fake. and the kiosks on. widely understood many voters that the opposition heavyweights are the boycotting this election or already. the opposition groups are not participating in the vote who's expected to win.

that nobody's really in any doubt about the fact that south soon grasso will be announced the winner but if you speak to those office issued who are boycotting on the right side to be a say that this was. something that was right predictable from quite a long time ago following the last election which was i think a lot more tense than more and more meaningful you can test it. that one was rigged 2 candidates opposition got this disputed the results were accused of trying to launch an insurrection they were sentenced still 20 years in jail. so. they're not able to run there in that sense a clear message to anyone else that might give it a try the same time rights activists are in jail they complain of. it's the lack of political space some of them describe the dictatorship the

campaign theme. thursday popular is experience that are why they say people want him to stay in. of course we'll continue to watch how that voting goes on sunday with the. force in brussels thank you. the hundreds of schools in northern nigeria have been forced to shut because of more attacks by armed groups organized crime is also threatening farmers and what started as a conflict with herders for land and water resources interest reports this is what schools in nigeria's north are looking more like every day now isolated dangerous and like 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 and

their land have risen sharply in the last 3 years with an increase in deaths and displacement and there are warnings that will continue unless urgent action is taken. what should be our focus as leaders and the stakeholders in nigerian project and the people of nigeria is to establish piece of the country that should be the number one priority of every leader of everest of this country will most of the country 1st before you can have any ambition poverty inequality corruption and institutional failures are blamed by some experts when nigeria's problems we are electing people who are highly in it isn't you who happened. and this is also cricket and also. dipping in division or crisis 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 for people you see the only language you understand is how to make and commit money their tax and farmers and schools are largely blamed on some nomadic katzman who themselves have been victims of bad governance deprivation and exploitation. just this week right here is beautiful statistics that unemployment levels are sold to more than 33 percent in the last quarter of 22800 cultural production isn't continuous decline that's what 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 centralised 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 a central government struck a strict more vicious criminal gang stickier parentage the past no in the service of the security forces of nigeria by fire in adequate to my knowledge skill destruction of this country better trained manpower more equipment should be more sophisticated than the ones in the hands of the enemy is not just about funding. following the money. are we actually doing what we're supposed to do with different. distraught about the worsening security some states have to continue go shooting with the kidnappers but critics say that simply courage is 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 i'm going to greece al-jazeera northwest nigeria north korea has cut ties with malaysia for what it calls a hostile act and subservience to u.s. pressure that's in response to a court ruling extraditing a north korean citizen to the u.s. on money laundering charges young says it's politically motivated and walls the u.s. will pay a price ties between north korea and the malaysia have been strained since 2017 when conjunctions half brother was killed at kuala lumpur's airport rob a bride has a subject from seoul in south korea career 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 is 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 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. ins to go to malaysia do business that of course changed and relations were downgraded in 2017 with the notorious poisoning and killing of the north korean leader's 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. well u.s. president james bond is expected to meet asian american community leaders in the state of georgia on friday after a shooting spree killed 8 people 6 of them were of asian descent sticking since the racially motivated. 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 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 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 really passive bend submissive or hyper sexualized that will accept the far right or exactly saif or you don chipp or even the a bale of british 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 'd sending him to the hospital. at a congressional hearing lawmakers of asian descent spoke out this hearing was the one dressed over and made of our community center find solutions and we were not

like you take our boys away from us barely 3800 expectation a crime in just a year old mom and her step by the works of former president donald trump the sop to shift the blame and. all. around. you know racial slurs were on 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 rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles while still at his home that he. goes to extreme lengths to stay dry out to tony but to florida and story coming up with cho.

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lympics organizing committee says a decision on whether they will allow overseas fans needs to be made soon we're expecting that decision to be made at a big meeting on saturday involving the organizes the japanese government and international committee there have been several reports that it's already been a great foreign supporters will not be allowed in when the game starts in july take a 20 twentieth's president has previously said she wants the issue resolved by the start of the torch relay on thursday that's not the kind i don't we need to come to a conclusion quickly there are people who want to know so they can plan accordingly the i.o.c. makes the final decisions but on the matter of foreigners entering japan that up to the japanese government the head of well batiks sebastian coe really wants foreign fans to attend the take care games and he's urging organizers not to rush the decision. 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 vaccines are being rolled

out. and i think that that's a decision that doesn't necessarily need to be made at this moment. look. yes the answer's a simple one is it better to have people in a stadium when you have lives or yeah it is one of the stars heading to take care is meghan rypien oh the usa women's football team co-captain will look to reclaim the gold medal a team lost in rio rypien or has become a social justice campaign on everything from the pandemic to politics when asked about next year's winter olympics in beijing peano's against a boycott of the games and says athletes should instead protest to challenge china on human rights. you know it's always a balance of you know boycotting uses versus using the event as an opportunity to continue to speak truth to power protests and some sort of way obviously we have human rights abuses happening all over the world i don't think

it's just a fact to china it's always that that sort of. balance of using the platform and can use a platform can't continue to push you know not only countries but organizing bodies and governing bodies to continue to be you know much more progressive when rypien are all said campaigns for gender equality so i should probably have an opinion about this next story u.s. college basketball teams are competing in texas right now but organizes the and see happen forced to improve facilities for the women's teams after several complaints i got some to show so for the n.c. double a march madness the biggest tournaments in college basketball for women this is our weight room let me show you all the men's weight room. now with pictures of our weight room got released versus the men's came out with

a statement saying that it wasn't money it was space that was a problem let me show you something else here's our practice score right and then here's that weight room and then here's all this extra space if you are upset about this problem and you're part of it. holders by munich have been drawn against percentage of man in the champions league quarter finals it's a repeat of last year's final which by and won won no p.s.g. have a new coach now in minutes here put to tino but he couldn't have a much tougher task than facing byron who won 6 trophies last season the winner of that tie will go on to face either munch city or put us here dormant in the semi finals the other standout in the last 813 time when his realm a try to take on 6 time champions liverpool for p.s.g. courage to muster who is now at chelsea and they face porto. we also know the draw for the europa league quarters this was poor pumper sending manchester united through on wednesday evening with a 21 aggregate win over ac milan in italy and now they will be up against spanish

side granada in the last 8 the winner of that will meet the winner of i.x. against roma in the semi's arsenal take on slavia prague and it's villa out against dinamo zagreb. former team sky and british cycling don't to richard freeman has been permanently struck off the medical register freeman was found guilty of ordering testosterone knowing it was for an athlete to improve performance a medical tribunal concluded that his behavior is fundamentally incompatible with continued registration. to the n.b.a. now in james harden has racked up yet another triple double he led the brooklyn nets to victory over the indiana pacers ending the night with 40 points 15 assists and 10 rebounds at his hardness and 11th triple double of the season one short of the franchise record despite playing only $27.00 games for them since joining in mid january. le bron james and the los angeles lakers are going strong he scored

37 points to lead them to a 4th straight victory this time over the charlotte hornets it puts the defending champions back up to 2nd place in the western conference behind the utah. australian gopher matt jones leads golf's honda classic in florida after tying the course record on thursday jones shot a bogey free 9 under par $61.00 of p.g.a. national in the opening round of the tournament gives him a 3 shot lead over russell henley an hour unwise with a call so also has plenty of water resulting in some wet encounters for players sebastian kept ellen decided his ball could be played 1st here if one shoe and his shirts to make sure it stayed clean and dry the bare chested dane chipped out but he went on to miss that part and this is probably the last will see of him to see sits in a tie for 117. all right that is all useful for now have wolf way later thanks very

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in this film we go back over the last 500 years of all manny's history of tribes wars rebellion and colonization and explore how and why a man still plays an important regional role today. the u.s. and china take a look at each other during high level talks that alaska with accusations of grandstanding a cold war mentality. philips the whole robin what you call it is there a lot of my headquarters here in doha also coming up tanzania swears that its 1st female leader so her son takes power after the death of john mica fairly also gives.