on al jazeera. al-jazeera. a snapshot of brazil's battle to contain covert 19 says keep crumbing on board public transport backed by their president. i know that i'm starting a tan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a military. a call from the president to end a hate crimes against asian americans. they still have issues with each other

strained relations between chinese and u.s. diplomats after 2 days of talks. and how south korea is bringing distinctive voices back to life. brazil is confronting major barriers as it tries to come to grips with the current virus cases are surging to record levels in the wilds 2nd worst affected country and supporting a coven $1000.00 related deaths now 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 so ableson are has criticized rio for closing its famous beaches saying it deprives people of vision in d. this as doctors warn that hospitals are at breaking point. 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 debate patients and then we will have a 2nd problem besides the lack of i.c.u. beds which is already been causing deaths more people could die over the like medicine. in rio de janeiro and explains how hospitals are coping with this 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 so 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 in intensive care units and so they're very worried about everything there are no beds there are 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 well in brazil's biggest city sao paolo new restrictions to slow the advance of code than 1000 have come into effect but that hasn't stopped crowding on public transport the city's health care system is close to collapse after record numbers of infections and deaths in recent days the mess says hospitals are running out of medicine and intensive cabinets and many businesses in argentina's capital have not recovered since last year's lockdown and border closures government buildings and tourist attractions and one is areas are empty after employees started working from home and some businesses which survived repeated economic recessions on our closing for good and. the lack of work in the downtown area is what led us to close off to 39 years my father started the business and i continued

it but now no offices are working locally and the downtown is ruined. well the u.s. is sending more than 2 and a half 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to mexico next week the government says they'll be used to give 2nd shots to the elderly and coincided with the closure of mexico's northern and southern borders to non-essential travel leading to speculation that the announcements were related there's been an increase in the number of central american migrants reaching the u.s. border through mexico parts of france and poland are going back into lockdown because of a surge in corona virus infections germany is also warning it may have to reintroduce measures because of a 3rd wave the e.u. had hoped the vaccines would bring relief but its program has been dogged by delay is supply shortages and safety fears if barker reports. out of storage and into people's homes 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 health or it is a commonly only recommending it for people aged 55 and over should remote. 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 germany and italy have also restarted their rollout of the oxford vaccine the netherlands and portugal will follow next week so too will spain or those certain groups will be excluded so we did and 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 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. starting fights. 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 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 than joining 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 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 doses short for from a factory in india it is enviable progress and the european union knows it.

with the oxford astra zeneca job now reapproved the e.u. must move quickly to make up for lost time the fuck out jazeera london i'm moving on and the us president has condemned an increase in anti asian violence and called on americans to unite against hate joe biden and vice president come harris spoke after meeting asian american community leaders in atlanta their visit follows a mass shooting there that killed 8 people including 6 women of asian descent cameras on airports now from washington d.c. trying to console a nation president joe biden said on friday evening that hate crimes against asian americans needs to stop too many asian americans and war. up and down the streets and we're waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked blame

scapegoated harassed they've been virtually assaulted physically assaulted killed the comments came in a previously planned stop by president biden and vice president camila harris in atlanta where on tuesday 8 people were killed 7 of them women 6 being up asian descent the alleged gunman a 21 year old white man was arrested and charged with the murders investigators have so far resisted calling the murders a hate crime but on friday vice president harris herself of asian descent as her mother was born in india said racism is alive and well in america ultimately this is about who we are as a nation this is about how we treat people with dignity and respect everyone has the right to go to work to go to school to walk

down the street and be safe. and also the right to be recognized as an american in new york where there have been more than 10 documented hate crimes against asians in recent months a peace vigil was held calling for an end to the violence really holds i really hope this is the culmination of the hate and bigotry the asian americans have he said clearly that they will not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending speech of hate against asian americans well in atlanta biden stopped at the headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention or c.d.c. to thank the officials there it was meant to be a celebration of sorts as the u.s. has distributed over 100000000 vaccines with the president saying he expects to reach 200000000 in the next couple months president biden and vice president harris

planned a political rally on friday night and it led to but decided to cancel it and instead met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels on doe al-jazeera washington well kimberly barr is to browse a senior system district attorney in dekalb county and she calls on asian american victims of hate crimes to come forward. is it happens from. everyone's heart i am currently an assistant d.a. and a cab county which is a metro atlanta county and it's our leaders in that county my elected a 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 they're wanting justice all relations are still strained between 2 superpowers after hours of tense talks the u.s. and china is today meeting in alaska ended with both sides saying it was constructive while significant differences of opinion remain our diplomatic editor

james bays reports now from anchorage the chinese delegation arriving for a 2nd day of these talks the atmosphere cooperating 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 moving. transactions in john regards who was on hand to better 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 times study dick dialogue direct frank and constructive the biden administration for now has been able to stick to its plan and 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 out 0 anchorage. still ahead here on al-jazeera the man they call the empress 6 reelection and republic of congo after 36 years. and a sleeping giant awakes as a long dormant volcano erupts just 40 kilometers from iceland's capital. the tornado threat now has gone but it was quite dramatic and this is how it happens this is a put this on loop for you can see have these streams of plows go inland from this coastal area that's rather more humid air coming yes cold air is coming from the

west you get these thunderstorms to topple sunder storms that is lightning and that's what caused by of tornadoes was some damage there that's a big a scale the last 10 on its way through florida a few hours ago now it's all linked to a system which is its head is quite caught in fact it's going to be some morning still there would have been some morning stone passing new england possibly even new york then all. things improved during saturday and the sure on this east coast of florida or maybe georgia when you got on shore brazen or poor weather than the pacific side takes over the action this isn't a 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 sings are temporarily quiet just watch these showers from the midwest for midwest there is unfortunately an increasing likelihood of

significant rain in question moller and maybe down in panama as well. but. 2 years after new zealand's deadly masks you chains one there one east returns to christ church to find out how those most deeply affected are capering. and surviving a massacre on al-jazeera talk to al-jazeera. can you tell me what the government you represent is now illegitimate and we listen we do not sell fence material any country the iraq conflict in yemen we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera.

let's remind you of our top stories here this hour brazil's president jalal sanaa is taking several of his country's states to court to try to force them to overturn pandemic restrictions on friday the country recorded more than 2800 deaths the 2nd highest number in a single day. the us president has condemned an increase in anti asian violence and called on americans to unite against joe biden and vice president obama harris have been using asian american community leaders in atlanta it follows a mass shooting there that killed 8 people including 6 women of asian descent. high level talks between china and the u.s. have now ended in alaska without a significant breakthrough both sides hit out at the other's policies in front of the cameras revealing tensions over human rights and economic power. now the afghan government and the taliban have agreed to step up stalled peace talks it comes

after a meeting in moscow less than 2 months before the deadline for u.s. troops to pull out of afghanistan charles traffic reports the moscow meeting between members of the afghan government taliban representatives and observers from various countries including the united states and china is one of 3 international conferences on afghanistan to be held before the 1st of may that's the deadline by which all remaining u.s. and nato forces must leave the country the agreement was made last year between donald trump's administration to try to bomb. it is reported the new u.s. president joe biden has other ideas and may propose an interim power sharing government in kabul which would buy time for more comprehensive peace talks this would possibly allow the u.s. to keep an estimated $3500.00 troops in afghanistan beyond the may the 1st deadline but it's not about a spokesman at the moscow conference warned what would happen if u.s.

troops are not out of afghanistan by then they should go because if they do not go. that means they are. continue after that it will be a. while ation of the agreement that way lation would not be from oversight but it would be from the outside around $1000.00 u.s. troops have withdrawn from afghanistan over the past year pentagon leaders reportedly oppose a full withdrawal saying thousands need to remain in order to support afghan forces and conduct counterterrorism operations washington in kabul wants an immediate cease fire but the taliban says it will negotiate that only as part of peace talks with the afghan government rushes efforts to mediate comes after year long negotiations in concert between the afghan government and the taliban stalled with

its well distorted we call on the united states and the taliban to continue to abide by the provisions of the peace agreement supported by the un security council . attacks by the taliban have increased in recent weeks rights groups say there has been a marked rise in the number of targeted killings of government officials civil society leaders and journalists especially women the taliban launched a wave of attacks in december in the north and south of the country nato says there were more than $2500.00 civilian casualties in this 3 months from total to december last year more than $800.00 people were killed. joint statement after the moscow meeting said all parties involved pledged to accelerate peace talks get the name is that the right thing against common troops ok now let's talk let's achieve peace work to get there if to get in peace maintaining our own different views but at the same time make a commitment that we don't resort to violence we didn't break other terrorist

groups and others to have in pursuit of our political agenda if the recent surge in violence is anything to go by and with no concrete agreement to the negotiating table or how to stop it we are still a long way away from that. al-jazeera. 9 protesters have been killed in man rogering the latest rallies against the military. a rights group says more than $235.00 people have now been killed since the military seized power last month the u.n. is condemning the military's increasingly violent tactics saying a unified international response is needed. today at least 2400 people have been arrested by the security forces because of their suspected participation. in the demonstrations the vast majority of these people are held

incommunicado still and we're hearing increasing reports of sexual based or at 2nd base violence against us and i think it's really important to emphasize that many of these people. have been killed through gunshots to the head by snipers for peaceful demonstrations yemen's has the rebels have targeted a station and oil facility in the saudi capital of riyadh saudi arabia's government says a drone attack caused a fire which was brought under control with no injuries it says it will not be affected yemen's or the rebels early acclaimed responsibility. how presidential candidates in republic of congo have held their final campaign rallies had an election there on sunday many opposition politicians are boycotting these polls and rights groups say there's no space for a democratic process now from web reports now from the capitol hill. they call him the emperor. and after nearly 40 years in power 77 year olds

any sense you. once 5. his rule of the republic of congo is lighted by crises and corruption scandals which he says he will and. will put an end to in more realities which are called corruption there 1st laziness and indiscipline and absenteeism do you understand. a lot of the people here don't really look like they're paying a lot of that do any good president speak it's normal for people to be made to return political rallies here in congo and given. very rarely the ruling party has enough resources to do that on any wide scale. no expense was spared here at the final rally of his campaign a french public relations company helped to run it but not everything followed the script. when people started chanting and the curfew

is in place to prevent the spread of coded. didn't have anything to say about this . some opposition parties and politicians are boycotting the election others are in jail after disputing the result of the last poll. with yes on this one of the 6 opposition candidates running this time he's a former finance minister of sasuke aggressor's government says that. all of our money is outside the country is it normal living here in our country but our money is outside you know in which accounts and private accounts. some in the political opposition and rights groups say there's no space for a democratic process most fear to speak out about it. he's one of few who does mo but he believes the most recent is the dictatorship of their folly

a country where. human rights are violated so you cannot conceive of this country as being a democracy i mean people are in jail you will be running for election in jail for this is not a democracy at all. the people expect an outcome other than sausage being announced the winner. the last handout of the day was soft drinks and water thrown over the fence of the nearby ministry of foreign affairs. billions of dollars of oil revenues haven't helped most of its people hope it has made things even harder people say the only time politicians give anything is jaring elections malcolm webb al jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. a long dormant volcano is erupting in iceland southwest and situation in the middle of the peninsula between the capital reykjavik and the international air force 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 been tens of thousands of small at quakes over the past few weeks it's the 1st eruption in this part of the country though in almost 800 years allison gresham a is a volcanologist and assistant professor at the university of missouri kansas city she says the risks of the population is very low. there aren't a lot of homes nearby the nearest settlement is about 10 kilometers away and at the moment it's a threat it's not eruption it's what's called the fissure so you kind of get a lie and. then ting renel other comes out of the surface and there's 2 mothers bones moving away from it there's really been about 50000 or quite since early february so they've been keeping an eye on us the whole time and as magma moves towards the surface it does have to push right out of the way and that pushing of rock cousins earthquakes and shaking and they were able to get an idea of the location of the macro in an subsurface as it rose and the exact position wasn't

known but the general region is pretty well and acute in this direction will probably remain as he said which means. there is a gasket risk and irritant associated with these types of their actions for people downwind and so they are actively monitoring what 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. coming products and it tends to erupt as small arms over time again and again and it's geologic time so 800 years for us things like a very long time in syria but it's a wild heart to regional history and it's not islamic history of the planet. south korea is breathing new life into music by using artificial intelligence so you don't forget popular and the tennis like freddie mercury of queen fame for

instance who died 30 years ago writing things. 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 kwan salt 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 confirm that yes this is the we have to go and this is a future of the artificial intelligence the company developing the cutting edge

software is not only recreating voices but changing existing ones 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. 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 gulf champion takes on a robotic opponent in another contest a renowned day trade. asked 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 none of us is indispensable or beyond manipulation for south korea all this technology has very serious applications as our lives are transformed by the marvels of artificial with televisions bring you know changes where the we like them or not but with brighter out says there are some saw through. here that this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines brazil's president i am also now is taking several of his country's states to court to try to force them to overturn pandemic restrictions on friday the country recorded more than 2800 deaths the 2nd highest number in a single day meanwhile germany's national disease control center has warned the coronavirus cases there are rising at an exponential.