sex. organ yeah. the. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes american and chinese diplomats wrap up high level talks with the u.s. secretary of state saying the superpowers are fundamentally at odds over a number of issues brazilian president will sort out or asks the supreme court to reverse local lock down downs the spread infection numbers are reaching record highs some who are son is sworn in as can zinnias 1st female president after the

death of john mark before. the asian american leaders in atlanta meet the u.s. president joe biden after a deadly shooting spree i'm german ash with the sports including an exciting match up in the champions league as title holders are by munich drawn against paris and the court is in a repeat of last season's final. talks between the world's 2 superpowers have now wrapped up and the negotiations have been anything but easy the summit between the u.s. and china has already got off to a fiery start with both sides accusing the other of human rights violations and bending countries to their will the chinese delegation says the talks in alaska work candid constructive and helpful although differences remain that's according

to state media but u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says the 2 sides were fundamentally at odds over a number of topics lincoln says he raised several foreign policy issues including taiwan hong kong and china's crackdown on weaker muslims. we certainly know and knew going in that there are a number of areas where we are fundamentally at odds including china's actions and john with regard to what hong kong to bet on increasingly taiwan as well as actions that it's taking in in cyberspace and. it's no surprise that when we raise those issues clearly and directly we got a defensive response. well our diplomatic editor james bases live from that summit in and courage i think both sides use the word candid you know when it comes

to to their talks but what did you make of both statements and what would be your assessment of how the summit went. well as you heard that was part of the statement by the u.s. secretary of state the chinese statement is under way as we speak there briefing reporters having left here in the room where the talks took place which is right behind me there they've left to another hotel that's about 5 minutes away and they've been briefing reporters young who is the senior politburo member in charge of china's foreign affairs said the talks have been candid constructive and helpful he said the 2 sides should follow the policy of no conflict to guide our path towards a healthy and stable trajectory but he added that they shouldn't underestimate china's commitment to defend its sovereignty somewhat more positive comments i think from the chinese side than we saw here on thursday remember that this is all

aimed at a suspect particularly the chinese a domestic audience that was not a press statement was made to all of us here at the end of the talks it was only made to chinese media but both sides are using as you say words like candid and constructive and they sort of agree on some things and disagree on others and that is exactly where the blood ministration wanted it the bargain of ministrations basic policy for asia is to come back to its allies who they think have been alienated during the days under president trump of 4 years when he was running the show and they also feel that you can't have a relationship with china that is one thing all the other aggressive all collaborative you have to actually decide on different issues where you stand and agree to disagree and the the u.s. administration saying that they're going to tell the chinese exactly what they think and they're going to say the same thing in public and in private but at the same time these 2 huge powers the largest powers in on earth the centerpiece both

of them of the global economy have got to work together and there are issues that i think they are saying. at the end of these talks that they are going to work together on yeah i guess they have to because obviously the 2 countries i suppose uphold the different principles you could say they overlap on many diplomatic issues but economically speaking they're very difficult i guess the separate. very different difficult to separate i mean we've heard. the u.n. secretary general say that he's worried about a great fracture and others have talked about a new cold war but the real difference this time around compared with the cold war that many of us lived through between the u.s. and the soviet union is that the u.s. had capitalism the soviet union had communism that's not how we were we are now with china and the u.s. they swim in the same sea and the rest of us are there as well and rely on these 2

economic superpowers they have to work together and that's why issues of trade tariffs and those economic issues are also very very important in the discussions that. have been had here they're not the only issues that he more under the trumpet ministration that's really all the president wanted to focus on they focused on the economics but they were also focused on the global issues where they can work together and the u.s. very keen still to raise the issues that china doesn't want raised about china and its neighborhood particularly human rights which is an issue where china does not want the u.s. to go james bays are diplomatic editor with the latest there from anchorage in alaska where that summit has just finished james thank you and now let's bring in former u.s. assistant secretary of state p.j. crowley who joins us from alexandria in the us via skype sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i guess there isn't that much to go on because the

statements issued by both the u.s. and chinese delegation were somewhat short but what did you make of the tone if nothing else. the tone was nothing short of remarkable i think if we're looking for a word contentious as one competitive is another you know we've been trying for a couple of decades to try to to put a label on this very important relationship you know not so long ago we were and we had an aspiration you know that china would be what we would call a responsible stakeholder you know part of the system part of making the rules and then following the rules you know now i think we have to very clearly see china as a strategic competitor there can be areas where there will be cooperation but obviously you know we're seeing very sharp edges when it comes to you know issues of of universal rights and what china sees says its right of sovereignty could this

become for the u.s. a sort of choice between principles and pragmatism because as we've been hearing this cannot be compared to the cold war with the u.s. assad as was because of the many economic links between the 2 countries so do you think the u.s. has any red lines i mean we've heard them speak about hong kong taiwan china has cracked down and we go muslims but they think there are any red lines so is that if the relationship just too tightly bound for that. well i don't think so sir necessarily mutually exclusive you know there there are red lines of the united states has you know one critical one is free to have navigation because the the american economy is so significant linked you know to the indo-pacific region and not just china but other other countries in the region as well and of course that is critically important when you think about. an issue such as taiwan so you

know yes you know within the it with recognizing that that the 2 countries do have very significant overlapping interests yes there are going to there's going to be an effort here to make sure that that relationship stays within acceptable boundaries i'm over the past few days when we look at a u.s. diplomacy to stories have dominated one this meeting with china obviously and then the comments that president biden made about putin effectively well not effectively killing him a killer oh we see a president biden trying to and of reset after 4 years of the trumpet ministration how difficult do you think it's going to be with people like the chinese and the russians. this really has been a big power week if you will i mean multiple u.s. administrations have come in you know to offer 6 pectin to focus on big powers particularly russia and china and then got sidetracked by other international crises you know but i think there is you know this difference you know is russia

you know doesn't really have that much to offer the world you know energy yes but but it will succeed when it it undermines the united states you know china and the united states are in much more of a significant competition yes they both believe in market capitalism but they have very very different approaches to that they have very different approaches to to how they govern and they have very very different approaches in terms of of their relationship you know with others either in the region you know or beyond and i think as was just emphasized you know the united states is is trying to make sure that as it confronts china it has the support of other allies and friends in there in that very backyard. p.j. crowley always good to get your thoughts former u.s. assistant secretary of state sir thank you you're welcome. and still to come here

on the al-jazeera news hour some european countries a resumed use of the astra zeneca vaccine the french and british prime ministers get their shots to try to restore public confidence plus. an unrelenting crackdown in myanmar where security forces of shot dead at least 9 more protesters and it's turning out to be a week to remember for a south african qualifier at the dubai tennis championships china will be here with all the action in sport. brazil's president is taking several of his country states to court in a bid to overturn lockdown restrictions he says state governors don't have the authority to impose new rules even as infection rates hit record highs more than 90000 new cases were registered on thursday the 1st time that that barrier has been

passed president jacob also matters says he wants people to have freedom but health leaders say the hospital system is collapsing in some areas where money and in rio de janeiro forest monica considering where the infection rates are in brazil right now why does president bush nat'l feel so strongly that these regional regions shouldn't have local law. well president i will son has always done played the virus but he's speaking to the people 'd the people have been under law well or have been dealing with the kind that make for a year the emergency aid to stop to january so people want to go to work they say that or else they'll starve and he's talking to those people he's saying governors want to starve you to death and so that's what he's saying that's what he says he's always against the law because he says it will impact the economy and that and

that that will lead to people and he always said that while people will die anyway from coal that 90. downplays it and he makes it sound. forgive me monica for interrupting you are actually outside the hospital as you're saying president. play it but tell us a little bit about the reality of how the kovac and they make his hitting brazil and what you've been seeing outside that hospital. well what we've been seeing is that the hospitals are getting overcrowded but not just in rio or just not just here rio is even better than in a better place than some of the thing is it's across the country so it's from the north to the south in the richest states in the poorest states everywhere and not only that in 18 states now they're afraid that they'll run out of sedation

medication for into bay should in intensive care units and so they're very worried about everything there are no beds there are not enough doctors and nurses now there's maybe not enough medicine so that is why also a recent poll showed that 8 out of 10 brazilians believe that the phantom make is out of control. and i think you know with the latest from rio de janeiro monica thank you. it's going to india now which has recorded almost 40000 new coronavirus cases its largest daily increase in more than 3 months the western state of mind that are where hospitals are at risk of being overwhelmed was largely behind the spike accounting for 65 percent of new infections after a record jump fresh restrictions have been imposed there and in other parts of india to try to limit the spread of covert 19 doctors say the rise is because people are not following the rules well just

a day after european regulators said it was safe to use finland has stopped the use of the astra zeneca vaccine this comes after 2 cases of blood clots but elsewhere prime ministers have been making their way to vaccination clinics in a bid to show how safe the job is need barker reports from london. out of storage and into people's arms the french prime minister sticks was amongst those receiving the oxford astra zeneca vaccine on friday in an effort to restore national confidence in its use although the french helpful thought is a cowardly only recommending it for people aged 55 and over remote. from the beginning i always thought that the vaccine was so maybe the people are in a panic but there are always side effects. germany and italy have also restarted their rollout of the oxford vaccine the netherlands and portugal will follow next

week so too will spain although certain groups will be excluded so eat in and denmark said they needed a few more days to decide but germany's health minister will not back seems alone won't be enough to prevent a 3rd wave of the virus many e.u. countries are extending restrictions or introducing new ones germany says it's currently in talks with russia to secure supplies of its sputnik vaccine pending its approval by the e.u. is dying in faith so. the rise in case numbers may mean that we cannot take care of our opening steps in the weeks to come on the country we may even have to take steps backwards in from 16 regions along with paris to going into a month long lockdown from this evening schools will remain open but non-essential shops will close and travel will be restricted in the french capital more people are in intensive care now enjoying the 2nd wave in november new covert variants of

force president to manual mccrum to change his strategy the virulent strain 1st found in the u.k. now accounts for 75 percent of french cases also getting his vaccine on friday the british prime minister boris johnson the oxford astra zeneca jab naturally more than $25000000.00 britons have had at least one dose of a vaccine so far in hospitals doctors surgeries and special vaccine hubs like this one the government says it's on target to give every adult in the country at least one dose by the end of july last despite a 4000000 doses short for from a factory in india it is an enviable progress and the european union knows it. with the oxford astra zeneca jab now reapproved the e.u. must move quickly to make up for lost time the far couches era london. the scientists behind the 1st widely used corona virus vaccine have received the

germany's highest honor limb to richie who founded by on take with her husband the chief executive. were presented with the order of merit by angela merkel the couple told dignitaries that europe must join forces again during a 3rd wave of covert 19 also vowed the company would make sure that everyone who wants a vaccine on the continent can get it by the end of summer dominic kane sat down with bae on take chief executive in berlin to the scotts the owner and began with how the vaccine was developed. it was a great risk from the belly beginning so we knew that we have the technology and we have to competence to develop a vaccine but we knew only little about the stylus and even that no. vaccine will work at all we did not know that be in time developing

vaccine but be felt that that if if someone is able to make a vaccine then then it could be us and it was very clear that we don't have time time to spend because the shorter specs seem development before in the history of medicine was about 5 years development time and when you would that 5 years were not earth beneath the vaccine in one year it is an honor for our team it is an honor for for science for the scientific community we should not forget that our work is based on the work of other scientists so if i if i put everything together what was important to achieve that then then i would say at least 5000 different scientists amount of earth had contributed that by doing science in the past by solving problems by developing technologies and we benefited that and

deford this is a victory of science and it shows that in such a dramatic situation where men can't really need solutions that science can bring the solutions. up in new guinea is closing schools banning mass gatherings and making masks manda trade it's part of what the government is calling aggressive interventions after corona virus infections reached record highs this week neighboring new zealand and australia have pledged to help alexi o'brien reports. a new temporary hospital ward for papa new guinea's capital port. the city seen a spike in corona virus cases in recent weeks leaving some health workers warning of what they call a covert tornado heading towards the country's fragile medical facilities there are only 2 public hospitals in the capital one is shut down the other is said to have

70 percent of its staff either off work or isolating that hospital's chief executive told local media he thought they were prepared until the most recent surge what we are concerned about is just how. the emergency department in the hospital. had to create another ward private patients in addition. to that apartment so we're told is just literally for private patients and it is very difficult so that is our actions. the island nation managed to miss the worst of the pandemic last year but hundreds of new cases have been reported in recent weeks it's forced the government to take action announcing that for next week schools will close mask wearing will be enforced and mess gatherings will be banned . gatherings like this one just last friday a state funeral for former prime minister michael somare

a man often called the father of papa new guinea. somehow thick spirits say they watched these scenes in horror describing it as a super spreader event with potential for disaster the escalating outbreak seemed kompany guinea's neighbors chippin new zealand says it will send more protective equipment to the frontline health workers while a strain is pledging 8000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine and calling for the european union to step up as well. it's not right. for the various countries in europe to deny the supply of vaccines to developing countries who need it desperately want public we do our bit by the frightened as we are and and for the problem so i won't be a pocket but i will be helping a country that is a desperate need of receiving goes back. with only 55000 tests conducted out of a population of almost 9000000 it's the what the true rates of infection

a much higher those on the ground say a rapid response is needed before the outbreak gets out of control elixir brian al-jazeera. tanzania has its 1st female president sami a sunni who has son has appealed for the country to unite and move forward after the death of her predecessor john but she's taken over from one of africa's most notorious covert 906 who for a long time denied that coronavirus was even a problem in the country many are waiting to see if her son will now push for the government to finally obtain vaccines catherine soy has more or me who know. me a salute who hasn't tanzania's fast female president and a native of the semi autonomous region of zanzibar was solemn as she made her 1st speech as leader she said this a constant says iran has swearing in leave little to celebrate. it is time to

console each other show each other love our unity maintain our peace our humanity and patriotism and tanzania and values president salue who is not new to tanzania's politics but the late president john mccain fully surprised many when he chose her as his running mate in 2015 she remains loyal to him but some in the country say her leadership style is different where he could appear impulsive and combative she is believed to be more thoughtful and likely to listen to advice many are hopeful she'll. new with model foolish development and social projects and his 0 tolerance for corruption but also change where he fell behind i hope to see a more independent. more whole i hope to see if that me has who will go back to the foundations of how party. because that is predict what we need at the moment is a predictability. inherits a country that has been on the mend economically analysts say she faces

a difficult task of restoring democracy in peoples' rights which the late president was accused of eroding she also needs to gain the confidence of tanzanians many are watching to see if she'll change the strategy of how the government has been handling the coronavirus pandemic last year controversially declared the disease had been eliminated his government refused to put in place proper protective measures and has rejected a global vaccination rollout for now will the focus is the burial of john mark foley a man who lives behind a checkered and divisive legacy he'll be buried next thursday in chattel his room home in northwestern tanzania katherine sawyer. is the news hour from london still ahead a judge refuses to delay the trial over the killing of george foid a black man whose death sparked a summer of racial justice protests and guinea's battle to convince people that the ebola vaccine is safe as the country finds to stop its outbreak from spreading plus

coming up in sports action from the cheltenham gold cup where the horse racing's most prestigious of its. now this is disappointing still all the clouds coming down from the north the north as always cold temperatures are below where they should be for this time the if the most of europe to be honest we're in single figures really from central france all the way to the east and long way south as well where it was nice and warm in spain we've got a best 11 in madrid nearly 30 in gibraltar and 11 in london was accompanied by a cold wind now there is more sunshine around admittedly there are outbreaks of rain sleet or snow on the way through eastern parts of europe but the obvious active weather is blue stuff the rain throughout the mediterranean particularly

focusing and we're talking about saturday in italy the southern balkans northern greece and turkey but prague and czech republic shows how cold it is a lot he's breeze because snow on saturday it only gets up to about 5 by monday and the average is about 10 for this time of the year so that is the record light snow its way through it's rather more persistent in the baltic states middle east it's followed by the northerly wind no warming here and here's a disappointment over the balkans for example so the forecast for progress. on today crow is an overcast one getting colder again the average is 60 and you have 8 . on counting the cost murray draggy save the euro but can he turn around italy's struggling economy plus can the oil rich libya's unified government unite the war

told east and west including the country to central banks in chile rethinks china's investment counting the cost on al-jazeera it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researchers say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country under spread of coronavirus appears far wider than anyone thought.

up and back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera high level talks between the u.s. and china have ended after round and usually stupid public confrontation secretary of state antony blinken says the 2 sides were fundamentally at odds over a number of issues the french prime minister has received the astra zeneca vaccine after european regulators the clear did say that paris and 16 other regions are going back into a months long lockdown just hours from now. and brazil's president has taken several of his country states to court in a bit to overturn lockdown restrictions that's despite a new case numbers hitting a record high of more than 90000 doctors they more than 2800 people have died or have been recorded there in the past 24 hours. at least 9 protesters

have been killed in the latest rallies against the military coup in me and maher. crowds faced off with security forces in several cities the military and police have used increasingly violent tactics to suppress the protest movement a local rights group says more than 220 people have been killed since the coup began in early february scott heiler has more now from bun call in neighboring thailand. 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 face 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 command 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 the 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 north west one person was killed when there's a confrontation with security forces as well 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 in myanmar but it's a very tall order to tall task 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 was a lot of trade and a long border with me and more so that's for me interesting to see how those discussions if those high level discussions actually take place. and a journalist with the b.b.c.'s me and more language service is feared missing an online statement says reporter and threw it out was taken by unidentified men in myanmar as capital the u.k. based broadcaster says it's deeply concerned for his safety more than 30 journalists have been arrested since the military coup began in early february. demonstrators in syria's last rebel held area have kept up their calls for revolution at the end of the week marking a decade since the uprising they chanted anti-government slogans and flew the opposition flag rebels drove syrian soldiers out of it live 5 years ago but reprisal attacks from the government side have forced hundreds of thousands of

people to flee the province president bashar al assad's government has now retaken control of much of the country despite the decade long revolt that became a civil war. yemen's who the rebels have claimed a strike on a saudi oil facility in riyadh a saudi official told state media the refinery was attacked by drones causing a controlled fire but no injuries they added that the supply of petroleum was not affected by the attack. now for the. our armed forces have conducted the operation with 6 drones the targeted in the ram co facility in the saudi capital riyadh and the target has been hit with precision. a u.s. judge has rejected of request to move the trial of the former police officer charged with the murder of george floyd judge peter cahill said there would be no benefit from moving the trial elsewhere because it's already received extreme

amounts of publicity. lead lawyer had complained that a payout of $27000000.00 to george floyd's family from the city of minneapolis had jeopardized the impartiality of the jury john hendren has more now from chicago and says the judge wants to keep the case running on time. judge peter cahill is a no nonsense guy who wants the trial to run on time and in the same place it started in minneapolis so he is denied the defense's request that he delay the trial and move it elsewhere the idea behind that would be that you would have a jury pool that would know less about the case and therefore theoretically be less prejudiced but as the judge said everyone around the globe knows about this case and therefore they're not likely to get a different jury pool by doing that so the case will go on as scheduled he says with opening arguments on march 29th the judge also made one other key decision saying that the arrest of george floyd in 2019

a separate arrest would be admissible in this case but only in so far as it effects his medical condition the crux of the case is around how george floyd died the prosecution is saying he died because for 8 minutes and 46 seconds officer derrick show of and knelt on his neck causing him to die and the defense says in fact it was a combination of factors that according to an autopsy he was on fentanyl and methamphetamine he had a heart condition. and he had covert 19 in all of those things the defense says contributed to george floyd's death the prosecution is likely to put it in perspective by saying this man died under a police officer's name for the act for a crime allegedly of trying to pass a $20.00 counterfeit bill. health officials in guinea say they are facing a major challenge in their bid to tackle an ebola outbreak many people in remote

communities are refusing to get vaccinated because they don't trust the health care system instead nicholas hack reports on how they often rely on traditional healers . or traditional healer to really move this cocktail of natural remedies using plants soil and a mysterious liquid is a more efficient than a vaccine made in the lab he says it can fight off even the most contagious and fatal of viruses a paula. truth is real vaccines people have dogs saying it might even hurt them and attract more sickness honestly i'm already vaccinated by traditional medicine after a nurse died of a poll in february the un delivered 36000 a bowl of vaccines to contain an outbreak and get he's forced region but only $3000.00 doses have been administered so far among those refusing to be vaccinated is shop owner did a good event the who says she's more afraid of the vaccine then

a bola think of in your country i'm not going to take the vaccine my i don't know what's in it why should i trust health workers in 2015 more than 11000 people died and $20000.00 were infected after the virus spread from guinea's forest region to neighboring liberia and 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 he'll get his ministry of health says. it's now better prepared but overwhelmed we have a covert 19 epidemic now you pull on top of an outbreak of results and yellow fever we need help from our partners to contain the outbreak it's at the best 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 p.c.r. machine and multiplied it and turned to this genetic sequencing scientists made an

extraordinary discovery 5 years after the last outbreak the same bull a strain has reappeared the virus has not jumped 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 networks with. love. we need to keep a close watch on the ball a survivors with thoughts of the good times because they carry the virus in the body fluids they are to keep population to contain the outbreak but 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 the brig and then to the break in giving because hawke al-jazeera. and the republic of congo candidates

have been holding final rallies before sunday's presidential election president's assume guess who's been in power for most of the past 4 decades is seeking his 4th term the 77 year old faces 6 challengers including a former finance minister and aide the main opposition party boycotted the election due to doubts about safety and credibility. hundreds of schools have been forced to shut across northern nigeria because of attacks in kidnappings by armed groups now farmers are also being targeted and asaph way they dress reports now from catalina it all comes down to money 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 unless urgent action is taken what should be our focus as leaders and the stick all of the 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 of the country 1st before you can have any ambition poverty inequality corruption and institutional failures are blamed by some experts or marjorie's problems we are electing people who are highly in it isn't you who happened there has not. also cricket and also. been in division or crises in our country. leader

you cannot do what you don't have isn't it if you don't have anybody you don't have any blueprint for people you see the only language you understand is how to make and commit money. they're taxing farmers and schools are largely blamed on some nomadic cattlemen who themselves have been victims of bad governance deprivation and exploitation. just this week we are just beautiful statistics that unemployment levels to more than 33 percent in the last quarter of 2300 cultural production isn't continuous decline that's what shortages are common desperate nigeria's young population is increasingly drawn to kidnapping. 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 one centralised police force

which is inadequate 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 very clear demarcation between investigation and prosecution of federal crimes against its crimes as a central government struck a strict more vicious criminal gangs take advantage of the personnel in the services of the security forces of nigeria. in adequate to manage skids tradition 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 finding. the money. we actually do what we're supposed to do at the front. disproved about the worsening security some states

have to continue with the kidnappers but critics say that simply encourages them to carry out more abductions the government has called it needs military forces to put an end to the school attacks but there's no sign yet that's having any effect comedy al-jazeera northwest nigeria thousands of people have protested in algeria scampers will demand press freedom and judicial independence the demonstrators in algiers the fi the balogna gatherings due to the corona virus pandemic the protest movement known as iraq started in february 2019 over former president of the lizzie's beautifully it was good for a 5th term in office and he was forced to step down just weeks later but protesters have refused to back down the landing a sweeping overhaul of all jewelry is moving system. u.s. president joe biden and vice president camel harris are visiting the state of

georgia after 8 people were shot dead in a planter on tuesday they're offering their condolences the asian american community leaders 6 of the victims were women of asian descent adding to existing fears from a surgeon racially motivated attacks during the pandemic the white house says the president wants to offer support and hear people's concerns. well many asian americans say they've been living in fear for months because of a massive spike in hate crimes and it's coincided with the coronavirus pandemic since march 2020 nearly 3800 incidents have been registered with stopping a a hate to reporting center for asian americans and pacific islanders in fact hate crimes against the community of rose by a staggering 149 percent in 16 major cities last year that's according to the center for the study of hate and extremism there's also been

a surge in white supremacist propaganda the anti-defamation league says there were more than 5000 cases of hateful messages being spread through posters and banners last year nearly double the amount in 2019 and 10 percent of that had negative references to immigration and multiculturalism which could have stirred up more hate against asian americans well several protests have taken place since the shooting in atlanta and many asian americans are saying they've had enough and also know here. to back your own country to back your own country you got your own country my kids 6 and here i start turning up and we are turning up the radio and knowing what are you doing old man i'm fine i'm scared i don't want anything to happen and in our movement it's just like let's just i just want to make it our year without my kids and 2 guys are screaming every go back to my own thank you for

having me. yeah so i follow like a fall lot of support with everyone it was incredible the view of the sea asian people come out in all different peoples from. organizations and followers coming here to support us a lot of the times it's been us parting them and so it was really beautiful to be able to have an event that advocated for us and you see all different people of color and all different you know again our decisions coming in. so to come here on al-jazeera after a year of being locked down during a deadly pandemic we'll tell you which country has been ranked the happiest in the world and in sports we'll hear from real madrid paul says he didn't see than the over his team draws after his team rather draws liverpool in the champions league quarter finals.

the on. a number of world towns in the australian state of new south wales have been hit by the worst mouse plague they've seen in. cade's farmers across the area of being concerned about the huge uptick according to local reports just one pair of mies could produce up to $500.00 offspring per season at least 3 patients were bitten at a nearby hospital and supermarkets have begun storing food in sealed containers. another animal story italian authorities are in a flap after an army tank mistakenly blew up a chicken coop the accident occurred during

a military exercise in the northern town of vattel on wednesday the farm owners only discovered the damage the next morning when they found their chicken shed had partially collapsed killing a large number of birds local media say authorities are investigating and have impounded the tax porch akins with the sport here gemma thank you barbara holder's a buy in munich have been joined against paris in the champions league quarter finals it's a repeat of last year's final wish by 111 male p.s.g. have a new coach now in ritzy a part to tino and he could have a much tougher task than facing guy and he won it 6 cherry feast last season. it's true that we're now facing the strongest saïd buy into the most recent european champions but we have to approach it with others from ism and hope that we can compete we beat barcelona so why would it not be a realistic come bishan to beat munich. the winner of that so i will go on to face

either manchester city or dortmund in the semifinals former p.s.t. coach thomas j. goes not chelsea and they face porto and 13 time when is round trip to take on 6 time champions livable. we know it's a time which will have store building between 2 teams who have won many champions weeks so it'll be a great time i can assure you of that. we also know that europe for the rightfully courses as well manchester united will be up against a spanish side granada in the last 8 with either i axe already much waiting in the semi's arsenal take on a sloppy or prop it via rail against enemies are grab the draw means manchester united and arsenal could play each other in the final in poland on may 26th speaking of manchester united they've announced a new shirt sponsor starting next season the german technology company team view is replacing a car giant's chevrolet it will on the club around $16000000.00

a year which is 20 percent less than the previous 2 but it reflects the challenge of generating revenue during a pandemic team view is a blue and white like it will be modified to just white on the shirts because of united's rivalry with their blue neighbors manchester city. fifa president gianni infantino says he's saddened that european kovac 19 and quarantine restrictions are preventing players from travelling to play upcoming international games poland's star striker robert levin dusky is one of those players affected by such rules his club side by the minute don't want him to join up with his national side for their upcoming world cup qualifier with england as it would mean he would have to quarantine upon returning to germany in fantasia has confirmed that he's spoken to national governments and expects a decision to be made soon on whether exceptions will be made for players. were leaked to the government in france the other governments in europe in the rest of

the world but mainly because most of the billions from around the world don't clean up. ease to foresee exceptions as it was the gays in october and november again provided of course. the broader goals are in place in the protocols are in please. the usa women's football team co-captain meghan mccain i want to reclaim a gold medal had team lost in may this year is taking lympics rypien it has become a social justice campaign on everything from the pandemic to politics but when asked about next year's winter olympics in beijing or pain it is 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 our 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 and 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 u.s. college basketball teams are competing in texas right now but organizes the n.c. double i have been forced to him pray facilities for the women's teams office several complaints one player from the university of oregon summed up the issue in this social media post i got some to show you so for the in c.w. 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 incidentally 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. these photos were also posted by the stanford team's schools before once coach the quality of food and goody bags has also been criticised the ends he says is actively working to end hans existing resources form a team sky and british cycling dr richard freeman has been permanently struck off the medical register freeman was found guilty of ordering a testosterone knowing it was for an athlete to improve performance a medical or tribunal concluded that his behavior is fundamentally incompatible with continued registration tennis world number one and they've got a joke of it has pulled out of next week's miami open due to coronavirus restrictions he says he wants to spend his time at home with his family instead rafael nadal also withdrew from the event this week and roger federer decided

earlier this month that he wasn't going to play either. one joke of it knocked out of the australian open last month as long as into the final of the dubai championship he beat fellow russian andre really left to end his $23.00 match winning streak home till this one went to a deciding sets which grant 716 full to become the 1st wildcard for 24 years to reach the final of this event and he will play a south african qualifier lloyd harris earlier in the week eliminated a u.s. open champion and top seed dominic team and in the semifinals he took out the 3rd seed denis shook paul of the 24 year old beating the canadian in 3 set. arland rugby player c.j. stand a has been pairing for his final international appearance he was training with his teammates for the last time before saturday's 6 nations match against england the south african born back row is retiring from rugby at the end of the season. and

finally to horse racing's at chapman festival in day one the sherry piece of and the gold cup and the jockey of jack kennedy one by one and a quarter length from after you start to make it a 12 for irish trayner henry de bron heads the favorite albion photo finish in 3rd place missing out on a successive victory in the race but what an incredible week for the from header you also had winners in the 2 other main races the champion hurdle and champion chase as the 1st time this has happened at the same challenge festival that is all your sport for me barbara thank you. it's been a difficult year for most of the world filled with fears over disease loneliness and lock downs but an annual report on the globe's happiest countries suggests the pandemic hasn't yet crushed people's spirits finland has topped the list for the 4th year in a row followed by 8 other european countries and new zealand the report ranks 149 countries and asks people about social support freedoms corruption and generosity

villain's government acted quickly to stop the spread of covert 19 leading to one of europe's lowest mortality rates. i think everywhere in the world and in finland as well of course people have been suffering and the pain damage has really costing society and concrete problems but again i think in finland and in the nordic countries people are really lucky and have been lucky because the society still supports this sort of the system of but for these kinds of sharks most people don't have to completely worry about losing their livelihood or not having access to health care or so on. lucky them you can find much more on our web site the address is al-jazeera dot com. and that is it for me barbara sarah for this news hour do stay with us though going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news thanks for watching the at the

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in. the air. the air. american and chinese diplomats have wrapped up high level talks with the u.s. secretary of state saying the superpowers are fundamentally at odds over a number of issues. alone barbara sorry this is al jazeera live from london also coming up some european countries resume use of the astra zeneca vaccine the french prime minister gets a shot to restore public confidence.