this makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream shift the focus covering the way that used this culture to listening posts on a. brazilian president asked the supreme court to reverse local coronavirus lock downs despite infection numbers reaching record levels. launching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also coming up. president biden visits georgia to support asian americans days after

a mass shooting raises concerns about anti asian violence. american and chinese diplomats wrap up a tense round of talks with the u.s. secretary of state saying the 2 sides are fundamentally at odds over a number of issues and a long dormant volcano springs to life near iceland's capital various 1st eruption in nearly 800 years. hello brazilian doctors are warning hospitals are near breaking point as coronavirus cases surged to record levels the country is reporting one coronavirus related death every 30 seconds but the president continues to downplay the escalating crisis even going to court to try to force states to overturn lockdown restrictions to your bowl so narrow has criticized rio de janeiro for closing its iconic beaches saying it deprive people of vitamin d.

is also at odds with sao paolo which has urged residents to stay at home as intensive care units reached near capacity. yes the city that never stops the city that always works as migrants coming here in search of a job this must stop so we don't have more cases of people who can't be measured in the hospital die while waiting for a bit. it can't just be all talk we have medication left to last for about 20 days the industry is producing more but demand is growing and if the supply chain collapses we won't have a way to integrate patients and then we will have a 2nd problem besides the lack of i.c.u. beds which have already been causing deaths more people could die over the lack of medicine monica and kavis and rand sonera and describes how hospitals are coping with the high level of admissions 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 intubation and intensive care units and so they're very worried about everything there are no beds there not enough doctors 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 pandemic is out of control parts of france on poland are going back into lockdown because of a surge in coronavirus infections germany is also warning it may have to reintroduce measures because of a 3rd wave the e.u. had hoped vaccines would bring relief but its program has been dogged by delays supply shortages and safety fears we've barker reports.

out of storage and into people's arms the french prime minister was amongst those receiving the oxford astra zeneca vaccine on friday in an effort to restore national confidence in its use although the french health. only recommending it for people aged 55 and over. from the beginning i always thought that the vaccine was safe so maybe the people are in a panic but there are always side effects and 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 we didn't end denmark said they needed a few more days to decide but germany's health minister warned that vaccines alone won't be enough to prevent a 3rd wave of the virus many e.u. countries are extending restrictions 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. . 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 are going into a month long lockdown 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 and now the joining the 2nd wave in november new covert variants of forced president to buy new mccrum to change his strategy the virulent strain 1st found in the u.k. now accounts for 75 percent of french cases 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 despite a $4000000.00 shortfall from a factory in india it is an enviable progress and the european union knows it with the oxford astra zeneca job now reapproved the e.u. must believe quickly to make up for lost time the fuck outta syria london the us president says asian americans have been attacked and scapegoated joe biden and vice president campbell harris urged everyone to speak up against hate crimes after meeting community leaders in the state of georgia their visit comes days after 8 people were killed in a mass shooting there 6 of the victims were women of asian descent adding to existing fears about a surge in racially motivated attacks during the pandemic they've been attacked. verbless all physically its own. documented incidents against of hate

against asian americans have seen skyrocketing spike over the last year hate and violence often hard in plain sight. it's often met with silence that's been through throughout our history but that has to change. because our silence is complicity we cannot be complicit racism is real in america and it has always been xena phobia is real in america and always has been ultimately this is about who we are as a nation this is about how we treat people with dignity and respect and also the right to be recognized as an american. not as the other not as them. but as us. kimberly

burrows dobro who's joining us from atlanta georgia says she is a senior assistant district attorney in the dekalb county district attorney's office thanks very much for talking with us on al-jazeera what do you take away from the president and vice president's message when they visited atlanta thank you for having me i definitely believe that it is reassuring as los comforting to see our nation's highest leaders in government stand with not only us as americans but us as a nation community what do you say to those who had said when this crime was committed this hate crime they said in fact it's not a hate crime when the police had said this is down to sexual addiction. well i will say that it's still early and so as a prosecutor i very well understand that there must be an investigation that takes

place and i trust that one course not deserves and those who are partnering on the state and federal it levels are going to do a thorough job but this looks very much like it was motivated by hate and if so i'm glad to know that now georgia is one of. the state in the country that has an anti hate bill and that my hope is that prosecutors will stand on the side of justice and stand with agents and our asian community here in georgia and do what's right and make sure that justice is served what needs to be done for communities the asian communities to feel protected and to feel like they are being heard because many say that crimes do go ahead unnoticed and unreported in fact because some in the community fear the backlash if they were to report them so how do you give confidence to the community. well that's

a good question but it but it happened the the answer quite frankly is it happens from. everyone's heart i'm currently an assistant d.a. in dekalb county which is a metro atlanta county and it's our leaders in that county elected of district attorney herself making a public statement encouraging those who are experienced in these types of threats or acts of violence or incident to come forward and be reassuring to those communities that if they do come for they will be heard and and something will be done and those claims will be taken seriously it takes our asian american and our age an immigrant community is to also to rally together to comfort the community but also encourage and stand by one another as we big sure that these incidents are brought to light and whether our asian or not i believe that it is the community as

a whole that needs to come together around this issue we know that. that the most of the victims in this case were in fact asian women but if you're not asian more woman it doesn't mean that this does not affect you so as a community and i'm proud that my state i'm seeing now they're coming together and they're wanting answers and wanting justice. and what about. congress looking to pass a covert hate crimes act we understand that that bill in particular would strengthen the government's reporting and response to hate crimes and also provide resources to asian american communities does that go bill far and doesn't go far enough or is there more that you would like to see. i can't speak on the current bill as it's true as drafted but what i can say is that as there is more momentum

across the country with individual states passing their own entire hate bill and making it a crime with actual penalties that can be reinforced is certainly a step in the right direction i'm hoping that our federal leaders our state leaders will move in that direction together ok we thank you so much deborah for speaking to us from atlanta thank you thank you. now high level talks between china and the u.s. that began with an acrimonious public exchange have wrapped up in alaska without any significant breakthrough both sides describe their meeting as constructive but it met they remain at odds over many issues our diplomatic editor james bass reports from anchorage the chinese delegation arriving for a 2nd day of these talks was. face to face again with their u.s. counterparts this time the door was quickly closed and reporters were not invited

into the room where less than 24 hours earlier the 2 sides had spent over an hour denouncing each other in public. when the talks concluded this time the words were more moderate in tone although the u.s. still make clear the areas where there was the biggest disagreement we. we certainly know knew going in that there are a number of areas where we are fundamentally at odds. transactions in john regards on to bad recently i want as well as actions that it's taken in cyberspace. and. it's no surprise that when we raise those issues really indirectly we got a defensive response there were also though the u.s. said issues where the 2 countries interests intersected including iran north korea

afghanistan and the climate crisis the chinese delegation later gave a statement to chinese media in their hotel presenting a reasonably upbeat assessment these time steady dick dialogue dyadic frank and constructive the biden administration for now has been able to stick to its plan asia policy on a trip to the region the secretary of state and the defense secretary kept to their promises they would construct a strategy after consulting fully with their closest allies and in anchorage as they said they would they talk tough with china on some issues while endeavoring to work with it on others after the explosive starts of this meeting the 2 brief statements at the end show that both sides want to lower the temperature for now but the divisions a deep and they're real and it's far from clear whether there's been any actual improvement in relations between the 2 most powerful countries on earth james pays out 0 anchorage still ahead on al-jazeera when you look at some of the challenges

facing tanzania's 1st female leader sami are. now in power after the death of john lined up. only. in south korea pop stars are releasing new music with the help of our official intelligence. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways another blast of dusty wind has gone through beijing has gone through its becoming a lighter wind now but it is under active systems brought snow to the far north east of china briefly it's touched north korea and it will touch her carita and then to the south so that what looks like early spring rains on the way light in china rather more active through most of the bigger islands of japan is that head

that turned into the wintry weather which you'll see in hawk. forecast wise that means sapporo we see a drop down to temperature lives snow showers all muddy then return to not quite no better weather choose to his coming up to spring thames go up and down quite a lot and we're also covers the end of the rainy season for indonesia the still widespread showers are not quite as heavy as they have been recently but still there and there's another west wave producing snow naphtha sound on the far north of pakistan that will keep warm drink eastwards and will disturb the air in the north of india as well new delhi is going to forecast a pretty windy weather on saturday with a small chance of a sun storm there maybe rain comes in by monday none of which i think will increase or improve the air quality that much for most of india is quiet few showers down in the far southwest. sportspeople qatar airways the latest news judge me to see there would be no closure tendre justice is served

as the identities of those people high in the list of bombings are revealed with detailed coverage there's something else to mitigate about this plot it represents an invisible dividing line between the wealthier and the poor from around the world the man who knelt on his neck to his friend the week in a minneapolis corporal with a quarter selecting jurors to decide if he should be convicted of murder. again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour brazil's president joe you're both scenarios taking several of his country's states to court to try and force them to

overturn pandemic restrictions on friday the country recorded more than 2800 fatalities the 2nd highest number in a single day. u.s. president says asian americans have been attacked and scapegoated joe biden and his vice president have been visiting the state of georgia talking to community leaders 8 people were killed in a mass shooting on tuesday 6 of the victims were women of asian descent it's high level talks between china and the u.s. and now ended in alaska without any significant breakthrough moved sides head out of the others policies in front of the cameras revealing tensions over human rights on the economic. a long dormant volcano erupting in iceland southwest's it's situated in the middle of a pen and celeb between the capital reykjavik and the international airport no evacuations have been ordered but a no fly zone has been set up with all flights in and out of the airport halted the eruption had been expected there have been tens of thousands of small earthquakes

in the past weeks it's the 1st eruption in this part of the country and almost 800 years let's bring in alison grotzinger she's a volcanic just an assistant professor at the university of missouri kansas city she's joining us from there thanks for your time with us what can you tell us about this particular eruption and what you're hearing off. yeah so the eruption is occurring in x. very isolated area in this. so there aren't a lot of homes nearby the nearest settlement is about 10 kilometers wide and at the moment it's a very small action it's what's called the fish so you kind of get a line and. then the mother comes out of the surface and there's 2 mothers loans moving away from it but at the moment sir i send it skills and it's very similar action and as you mentioned before it wasn't easy. and here's the thing we understand that there were about 17000 earthquakes in the past week or was that

a warning. yet so there's really been about 50000 cracks and certainly so very much so they've been keeping an eye on that's the whole time and as magma moves turn to the surface it does have to push it away and that pushing it rock cousins earthquakes and shaking and they were able to get an idea of the location of them outlined in and subsurface as it rose and the exact position wasn't known but the general region is pretty much and experience and iceland is familiar with this kind of direction and has been able to monitor them before sunday when they started signals day started to get ready and the actual plans of mice and we do remember the eruption back in 2010 which are as you know stopped hundreds of thousands of flights and also forced many many people from their homes is this eruption expected to spew as much as for a smoke into the atmosphere as the one in 20 tended. right so they actually

actually have that erupted in 28 and it was very moment of disruption is much more like the events that happened in 20 quarantine. in that were mainly expecting to be done. and so it's easier to remedy explosive once the disruption will probably remain as you said which means there is a gasket risk and irritant associated with these types of eruptions for people downwind and so they are actively monitoring that and i was just checking on that for the interview and day has. a website for folks in the area to keep track of where the gases are is the money and just tell us why iceland in particular is so vulnerable to volcanic eruptions now iceland is built as the product of interruptions pretty peculiarly lots of lot of closer to the russians much annoyed at kuwait is the product of a lot of other folks and many of the other places we associate with. there's

a lot of flows and iceland is over what's called the mid atlantic ridge so it's a place where tectonic plates are pulling apart and it also happens to have a hot spot so in areas particularly hot portions of the mantle and so magma is. becoming product and it tends to erupt. over time again and again and it's geologic time so 800 years for us things like a very long time and syria but it's a. regional history and it's not a slam it's turned into history of the planet ok thank you so much for speaking to us from kansas city. tanzania has its 1st female president. has been sworn in and out of that other president john mica for me on wednesday when we in the country are anxiously watching to see if hostile or take a stronger action to stop the spread of coronavirus catherine soy has more or me me

. me. 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 the circumstances around has swearing in leave little to celebrate. it is time to console each other show each other love unity mentor now peace humanity and patriotism and plans are now in values president salue who is not new to tanzania's politics but the late president john markoff will be surprised many when he chose her as his running mate in 2015 she remains loyal to him but some in the country see her leadership style is different where you could appear impulsive and combative she is believed to be more thoughtful and likely to listen to advice many are hopeful she'll continue with model foolish development and social projects and his 0 tolerance for corruption but also change where he

fell behind i hope to see more independent. i hope to see if that we will go back to the foundations of party. because that is. what we need at the moment it's predicted that. bush inherited a country that has been on the mend economically analysts say she faces a difficult task of restoring democracy in people's rights which the late president was accused of eroding she also needs to gain the confidence of tanzania and 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 a few. to put in place proper protective measures and has rejected a global vaccination rollout for now though the focus is the burial of john mark foley a man who leaves behind a checkered and divisive legacy he'll be buried next to chattel his royal home in

northwestern tanzania catherine sorry al-jazeera. a look to the future now and south korean pop stars are releasing new music after a death with the help of artificial intelligence it's part of a push to harness the so-called 4th and thus trail revolution using tech to transform the way we live and work bride reports. it's a t.v. show that brings together 2 great passions in south korea popular music and technology a computer is told to sing like pop star kim consult who died 25 years ago it then recreates his voice to deliver a song written long after his death. to the amazement of his fans. the same technology produces the distinctive vocal range of the late freddie mercury from queen to sing in korean. stars of the past

brought back to life thanks to a i when i watch the reactions of these people then we can form that yes this is the we have to go and this is the future of the artificial intelligence the company developing the cutting edge software is not only recreating voices but changing existing ones mary have little to make you younger they really had a little and a woman was wired to it's one of the growing number of start up companies located in south korea's equivalent of silicon valley on the outskirts of seoul that sassenach the government wants south korea to be a pioneer in ai. as part of its push towards transforming the economy with high tech innovation to korean government is implementing the digital new deal project to transform the country into an advanced economy and humans battling ai is helping

fuel the debate on popular t.v. in this show a former golf champion takes on a robotic opponent in another contest a renowned daytrader has to beat a computer program trading on the stock market and on another network a well known news reader meets for the 1st time her computer generated double to show nano versus indispensable or beyond manipulation for south korea all this technology has very serious applications as our lives are transformed by the marvels of artificial intelligence then you know changes whether we like them or not but with bright houses there are some south korea. a u.s. judge has rejected an attempt to spawn the murder trial of a police officer charged over the death of george floyd last week the city of minneapolis agreed to pay $27000000.00 to floyd's family lawyers for. the highly

publicized settlements jeopardize his chance of a fair trial video of a nearly on george floyd's next spark global protests last year 100 has more from chicago. 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 kovac 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 need for the act for a crime allegedly of trying to pass a $20.00 counterfeit bill. it's been a difficult year for most but i report on the happiest countries suggests the pandemic hasn't crossed people 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 nations

and asks people about social support freedoms corruption and generosity it's suggested finland's relative success and curbing coronavirus may have how it's i think everywhere in the world and in finland us well of course people have been suffering and the pen 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 buffer and these kinds of shocks most people don't have to completely worry about losing their livelihood or not having access to health care. well again the headlines on al-jazeera rizzo's president taking several of his country's states to court to try and force them to overturn pandemic restrictions on friday the country recorded more than 2800 for a tally.