the associate justices when i saw the performance i was like wow and shake things up and go on stage or something just something it's witness causeless collective on al-jazeera. next stop court brazil's president launches legal action to keep the economy running as states and cities impose restrictions to stop the spread of private 19. there on the stars he obtained this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. more killings threats to schoolchildren and journalists detained military tightens

its hold on power. grabs a call from the president to end hate crimes against asian americans. and how south korea is bringing distinctive voices back to life. now brazil's president is in a legal fight to keep shops and businesses open despite the country reporting a covered 1000 related death every 30 seconds john abell scenario is going to the supreme court to try to force states and cities to overturn lockdown restrictions on friday he criticized rio for closing its famous beaches saying it deprives people of vision and de all this as doctors warn that hospitals are at breaking point but. 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 to wade into the 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. as in rio de janeiro for us and explains 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 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 sow the advance of craven 1000 of come into effect there but that hasn't stopped crowding on public transport the city's health care system is close to collapse of to wreck or numbers of infections and deaths and recent days the mayor says hospitals are running out of medicine and intensive care beds while many businesses and argentina's capital haven't recovered since last year's lockdown and border closures their government buildings and tourist attractions and one is areas empty after employees started working from home and some businesses which survived repeated economic recessions are now closing for good and i do or the lack of work in the downtown area is what led us to close 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 now 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 it coincided with the closure of mexico's northern and southern borders to non-essential travel leading to speculation that those announcements were related there has been an increase in the number of central american migrants reaching the u.s. border through mexico well germany's national disease control center has warned that coronavirus cases are rising at an exponential rate and says more contagious strains have wiped out progress made last month and containing the pandemic chance language michael says the country will have to reimpose some restrictions. and a new month long lockdown has now been imposed on the french capital as intensive care units there on the a capacity for asians and rush to leave the city in the hours before it came into force packing into city trains and cars and gridlock on the roads the government

says the lockdown won't be as harsh as the 2 others that were imposed last year schools will stay open and outdoor exercise is allowed i'm moving on a series of developments in myanmar where the military is a reinforcing its hold on power at least 9 protesters have been killed in the latest antics of rallies that. the rights group says more than 235 people have been killed since democratically elected leader aung sun suu kyi was deposed on february fast the u.n. is condemning the military's increasingly violent tactics saying a unified international response is needed to 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 were held incommunicado still. and we're hearing increasing reports of sexual based or circle

baseball islands. and i think it's really important to emphasize that many of these people. have been killed through gunshots to the head by snipers. or peaceful. well child protection advocates also called on security forces in myanmar to end their occupation of educational facilities they've seized more than 60 school and university campuses since last month screw in one reported incident 2 teachers were beaten while trying to enter the premises save the children and unicef say the occupations will only exacerbate and learning crisis for 12000000 children and youth whose education was already suffering because of pandemic restrictions and 2 more journalists have now been detained in myanmar a reporter from the b.b.c.'s burmese language service and another journalist were taken by a group of men in the capital on friday the pair were covering a court case regarding the detention of an official from the party which was

governing before the military takeover dozens of journalists have since been arrested since february well let's bring in phil robertson he's deputy director at human rights watch as asia division and he joins us now from bangkok full we've been watching the violence just continues to escalate the deaths mount than mr kirkwood that will so talking about sexual violence since the military imposed martial law on these big cities that we've seen has that changed things. well it is made it less accountable the situation is that anyone can now be hauled in front of a military court using martial law there are no appeals to any verdicts from those courts so what was an unjust system has become even more unjust and what we see very clearly with the new revelations about sexual violence is again the myanmar military is playing from their standard playbook which is that they can do anything they want to the civilians of myanmar it is a disaster that is happening here and the international community is basically

watching it happen without action and before we get to the insaf response what i want to ask you is what about the school occupations i'm just talking about what's the thinking behind that is it to try to prevent people from gathering in one pays . well it's partly stop people from gathering it's also to deny the people things that are there schools and the hospitals have been occupied by the military it's no coincidence that in fact the doctors in the teachers were among the 1st that went out on strike and so this is in the minds of the military the way they retaliate is they they take back from the people where their children are learning and where they go for health care it is again once again a military that is out of control that it can do whatever it wants and treat the people of myanmar as people that can be shot in the head if they dare go out and protest well they're obviously still restricting access and they've crossed all

that information with so many people still detained including these dozens of john asked do you have a sense of how they are how these people are being treated. we don't have much information because they're being kept incommunicado. the difficulty is that because people are taken away there's no clear information about where they're being held their relatives are looking for them the lawyers are looking for them of course media organizations like the b.b.c. and the a.p. and others are trying to find out where their people are this is part of a strategy by the military to shut down all reporting about the protests and what they're doing to protesters there are going after the messengers the media out on the front lines and then they're trying to shut down the internet you know shutting down mobile data on people's mobile phones because the people of myanmar has been documenting what has happened every time a policeman beat somebody or somebody get shot there's someone there with a mobile phone taking video and getting it out to the world and that's what the

myanmar military is trying to shut down well phone you would human rights watch have been calling fat targeted sanctions i see the e.u. is set to potentially move on that on monday but we've also seen sanctions imposed already by the u.s. for instance and they've had very little effect you say the situation is obviously getting why are you confident that these fresh sanctions will actually do something . well what we've seen so far have been really have steps you know there have been some targeted sanctions against some senior military people in a few companies but nothing comprehensive at all the european union has taken far too long they made a decision back in february 22nd to do something and we're still waiting for the outcome. you know what we want to see is a u.n. security council resolution that imposes a global arms embargo on myanmar military and police and also a target economic sanctions that the international community really needs to push

the limits here and right now they're just getting out of the starting gates. phil robertson there from human rights watch as a division speaking to us from bangkok great to get your thoughts here on out is there thanks for being with us phil thank you now the u.s. president has condemned an increase in violence against asians and called on americans to unite against hayes joe biden and vice president spoke after meeting asian american community leaders in atlanta their visit that follows a mass shooting in which 8 people were killed including 6 women of asian descent carol is under reports now from washington d.c. trying to console the nation president joe biden said on friday evening that hate crimes against asian americans needs to stop too many asian americans have been walking up and down the streets and were waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked lame scapegoated harassed they've been virtually assaulted physically its

own 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 in 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 teaching the asian americans have been simply that they will not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending speech of hate against asian americans while 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 atlanta 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 still ahead here on out as they are still at strained relations between chinese and u.s. diplomats after 2 days of talks. and taking center stage in tanzania how the new president could shape the country's future. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored plan qatar airways without temporary heat wave has gone from the gulf states now we're back to normal blurring doha's marks about 30 mascots about $36.00 as you can say much the same as

medina and sunshine is the dominant form of weather as you might expect turkey's not doing quite so well in fact the time we get to sunday that's rather a role rather a roll wind in istanbul you're a cane anchor i think and the sun's out to the south of the fancy looking fine most of iran is looking for we're up to about 24 degrees in beirut she's pretty good for the cyrus the rain largely retreats from southern africa there are of course still some residual bands of showers and they will reproduce themselves as we get a change in the season 1st of all as one gone through port elizabeth and that line of blue is developing showers in south africa or its way slowly eastwards and it might turn into something quite interesting see the orange chop that's heavy rain so a miserable day quite possibly in durban that it moves up through across a little towards southern parts of mozambique now leaving behind the sunshine and ahead of it is largely sunshine as well as seasonal rains have gone but the plutos forecast is interesting from not much when you get breezy but in all 3 days other

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hello again i'm a study attainder that's remind you of our top stories here this hour brazil's president joy ableson r.-o. is taking several states to court to force them to overturn pandemic restrictions on friday the country reported more than 2800 deaths that's the 2nd highest number in a single day. at least 9 protesters have been killed in myanmar during the latest rallies against the military crew there are rights group says more than $235.00 people have been killed since the military seize power last month. the u.s. president has condemned an increase in violence against asian americans joe biden and vice president obama harris have been meeting community leaders in atlanta following a mass shooting and which 8 people were killed including 6 women of asian descent. all relations between the u.s. and china remain strained after hours of tense talks there today meeting in alaska ended with both sides saying it was constructive while significant differences in

opinion remain diplomatic editor james bays has more now from anchorage. the chinese delegation arriving for a 2nd day of these talks was your. 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. transactions in which in turn. regards onto 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 clearly and directly 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 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 the james pays out to 0 i encourage all in those talks among the issues raised by the us was the 2 canadians detained in china of espionage charges on friday the trial of businessman michael sponsor ended with no. verdict canada was denied access a decision that was condemned by prime minister justin trudeau spot boy and former diplomat michael coverage were arrested 2 years ago now the case is widely seen as retaliation for canada's detention of huawei executive mango at the request of the united states do you serve your cover from the beginning we worked with families with our partners and directly with the chinese government to underscore that this arbitrary detention of the 2 michaels is unacceptable i want to thank all the

different countries around the world who supported our initiative against this arbitrary detention and i also want to thank all our allies who took a stand even with their bilateral conversations with the chinese government in order to raise their concern with the situation. the u.s. judge has rejected an attempt to postpone 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 for its family lawyers for derek 7 had argued the highly publicized settlement jeopardized his chance of a fair trial video of show been kneeling on george for its next sparked protests around the wild last year 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 need for the act for a crime allegedly of trying to pass a $20.00 counterfeit bill. of tanzania has its fast female president some minister who has son has been sworn in after the death of president john mcafee on wednesday many in the country are now anxiously watching to see if a son will take stronger action to stop the spread of 19 catherine so i have. one we need now who can reason why you would because he's a semi a saloon who hasn't tanzania's fast female president and a native of the semi autonomous region of. 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 our unity mentor now kiss our humanity

and patriotism and fans are now in 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 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 us that we have who will go back to the foundations of party. because that is. what we need. is a predict that. bush 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 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 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 leaves behind a checkered and divisive legacy he'll be buried next thursday in chattel his rural home in northwestern tanzania katherine sawyer. a long dormant volcano is erupting in southwest iceland and situation in the middle of the peninsula between the capital reykjavik and the international airport know that commissions have been ordered but a no fly zone is in place this is the 1st eruption in this part of the country in almost $800.00 yes well alison volcanologist an assistant professor at the

university of missouri kansas city she says the risk to the population is very low there are a lot of homes nearby the nearest soma is about 10 kilometers wide and at the moment it's a very small irruption it's called the fisher so you kind of get a line and. then to rent a larger comes out of service and there's 2 mothers homes moving away from it there's really been about $50000.00 at quick since early february so they've been keeping an eye on this the whole time and as magma moves towards the surface it does have to push right at the way and that pushing of rock causes earthquakes and shaking and they were able to get an idea of the location of the macro in the subsurface as it rose and the exact position wasn't known but the general region is pretty well and if you did this eruption will probably remain as you said which means. there is a gasket risk and irritant associated with these types of the reactions 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 product and it tends to erupt as over time again and again and it's geologic time so 800 years for us to is a very long time in syria but it's a large heart regional history and it's not as long it's stupid. well it's been a difficult year for motorists but a report on the happiest country suggests that this coronavirus pandemic hasn't completely crushed 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 asks people about social support freedoms corruption and generosity. south korea is

breathing new life into music by using artificial intelligence so you don't forget popular entertainers like for instance freddie mercury of queen fame who died 30 years ago robert bright explains. 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 reaction from these people then we confirm 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 the 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 startup companies located in south korea's equivalent of silicon valley on the outskirts of seoul such as ana the government wants south korea to be a pioneer in ai as part of its push towards transforming the economy. that 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 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 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 intelligence then you know changes whether we like them or not but with bright houses there are some south korea. ever since i was there and these are the headlines brazil's president shy of also now is taking several states to court to try to force them to overturn pandemic restrictions on friday the country recorded more than 2800 jeff.