new message vote for the man who brought the vaccine to be enough to secure israel's longest serving prime minister a decisive win. join us for special coverage of the israeli election on al-jazeera . next stop course brazil's president launches a legal action to keep the economy running as states and cities impose restrictions to stop the spread of covert 19. hello there i'm astounded han this is al jazeera live from doha also coming. even attacked. harassed a call from president biden to end 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 the big states. well brazil's president is in a legal fight to keep shops and businesses open despite the country now reporting a covert 1000 related death every 30 seconds diable 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 d. all this as doctors warn that hospitals are 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 to wade

into big patients 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 well in brazil's biggest city sao paolo new restrictions to slow the advance of cover $1000.00 of come into effect but that hasn't stopped crowding on public transport the city's health care system is close to collapse after reporting record numbers of infections and deaths the mayor says hospitals are running out of medicine and intensive care beds monahan a camp is in rio de janeiro and explains just 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 of the run out of sedation medication for

intubation and 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 while many businesses and argentina as capital have not recovered since last year's lockdown and border closures government buildings and tourist attractions and one of the areas that empty after employees started working from home and some businesses that survived economic recessions are now closing for good and i saw 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 it coincided with the closure of mexico's northern and southern borders to non-essential travel leading to speculation that the announcements were related the number of migrants from central america reaching the u.s. border through mexico has increased. parts of france and poland are now going back into lockdown to try to counter a surge in coronavirus infections and germany has also warning it may have to reintroduce measures because of a 3rd wave he would hope that vaccines would bring relief that its program has been dogged by delays supply shortages and safety fears moved back reports. out of storage and into people's homes the french prime minister john cassaday x. 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 authorities are currently only recommending it for people aged $55.00 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 or those 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 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 ban your mccrum to change his strategy the virulent strain 1st phone. 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 last 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. the sleeve quickly to make up for lost time the fuck out jazeera london now

moving on and the us president has condemned an increase in violence against asians calling on americans to unite against hate joe biden and vice president coming to her spoke after meeting asian american community leaders and atlanta they visit that follows a mass shooting in which 8 people were killed including 6 women of asian descent cambridge 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 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 in the asian image itself he said clearly that there will not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending state 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 in atlanta but decided to cancel it and instead

met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels andro al-jazeera washington well mundra chicago conny is the co-founder of stop i hate a group that was formed to address racism against asians cheering this coronavirus pandemic and she says women enjoy most of the violence. we launched up a p i hate exactly a year ago on march 19th of 2020 because we saw this emerging trend of a hate incidence against our community members sadly within a few weeks we got several 100 incident reports that number continue to group grow through the spring summer and fall months and now today we're at the point of 3800 incidents from all 50 states and the district of columbia so we're using that data to help inform the public and policymakers so we understand what's happening to our communities and we do believe that it can help to drive policy so that

we have the solutions we need to prevent this from happening in the future it's clear that there has been sexualized violence against asian american women and that was on display on tuesday in this hateful act where the perpetrator sought out asian american women at the 3 salons that he visited and so it is concerning for us that women are being particularly targeted at stopping a.p.i. hate 68 percent of the incident reports have been made by asian american women so we know that sadly they're bearing the brunt of this hate and violence. now a 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 many

the city of minneapolis agreed to pay 27000000 dollars to foist family and lawyers for derek 7 a dog but the highly publicized settlement jeopardized his chance of a fair trial video of chauvin kneeling on george floyd's neck sparked protests around the wealth last year. still ahead here on al-jazeera the man they call the empress seeks reelection and republic of congo after 36 years in power. plus they're happy and they know it will tell you which country has come top of the global happiness index for now the 4th here running. well that temporary heat wave has gone from the gulf states now and we're back to normal. max about 30 and muskets about 36 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 5 votes of iran is looking far we're up to about 24 degrees in beirut she's pretty good for cyrus as the rain largely retreats from southern africa there are of course still some residual bans of showers and they will reproduce themselves as we get a change in the season versus 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 to see the orange chop that's heavy rains a miserable day quite possibly in durban that it moves up through because it natal towards southern parts of mozambique leaving behind the sunshine and ahead of it is largely sunshine as well as seasonal rains have gone but maputo its focus is

interesting from not much when you get breezy but in all 3 days other sundry oh showery. mixing the traditional with the mountain nobody knew what to expect ignoring cause divides the only thing which united their voice the music greek music blaring through the speakers wielding the power of music to turn up the volume on india's social injustices when i saw the performance i was like wow and shake things out we went on stage or something the board of stewards or something else witness causeless collective on al-jazeera. world.

hello there you're watching out of there that's remind you of our top stories this hour brazil's president joy ableson are with taking several states to court to force them to overturn pandemic restrictions on friday the country recorded more than 2800 deaths that's the 2nd highest number in the single day. a new month long lockdown has been imposed on the french capital as intensive care units there near capacity people rushed to leave the city in the hours before it came into force packing intercity trains and jamming roads 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 there in which 8 people were killed including 6 women of asian descent. the 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 our diplomatic editor james bays reports now from anchorage the chinese delegation arriving for a 2nd day of these talks. face to face again with their u.s. counterparts this time the door was quickly closed but 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 on moving. transactions in john. gardner who was long gone to bed increasingly taiwan 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 steady dick dialogue is 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 explosives thoughts of this meeting the 2 brief statements at the 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. are encourage china's influence will certainly be on the agenda as u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin begins a visit to india have a look at these pictures there just in from new delhi where he is attending a guard of honor her national war memorial austin is the 1st top official from the biden administration to visit his meeting as indian counterpart to shore up defense tides. a series of developments in myanmar where the military is intensifying its grip on power there at least 9 protesters have been killed in the latest rallies against the coup and. a rights group says more than 235 people have now been killed since elected leader aung sun suu kyi was deposed

on february 1st the u.n. is condemning the military's increasingly violent tactics saying a unified international response is needed. 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. killed through gunshots to the head voice numbers for peaceful demonstrations all child protection advocates are also calling on security forces and man law to end their occupation of education facilities security personnel have seized more than 60 school and university campuses since last month's coup and one

reported incident 2 teachers were beaten as they entered the premises save the children and unicef say those occupations will just wesson alone in crisis for 12000000 children and youths the education was already suffering because of pandemic restrictions and now 2 more journalists have been detained in myanmar a reporter from the b.b.c.'s baronies language service and another journalist were taken by a group of men in the capital on friday the pair were covering a court case on the detention of an official from the party that was governing before the military takeover dozens of journalists have been arrested since february i spoke to 4 robertson he's the deputy director of human rights watch as asia division and he spoke to us from bangkok he says the military is detaining journalists and occupying public spaces to tighten its grip on power. it's partly stopped people from gathering it's also to deny the people things that are there's 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 on protest 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 the 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 and 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. the rebels have targeted a state owned oil facility and the saudi capital riyadh saudi arabia is government says the drone attack coolest a fire that was brought under control it says fuel supplies will not be affected. our presidential candidates in republic of congo have held their final campaign rallies ahead of an election there on sunday and many opposition politicians are boycotting the polls and rights groups say there is no space for a democratic process malcolm webb reports now from the capital. they call him the emperor. and after nearly 40 years in power 77 year olds any sense he. wants 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 immortalities which i call 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 in the president's speech is normal for people to be made to return political rallies here in congo and given they're not out there is only really the ruling party has enough resources to do that on any kind of 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 results of the last poll. but here is one of the 6 opposition candidates running this time he's a former finance minister of south sudan queso his government and. 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 in 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 there would be no he's one of few who does mo but i believe 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 sasuke 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 congo's 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 currently erupting in southwest iceland it's in the center of a peninsula between the capital reykjavik and the international airport no one has been ordered to leave but a no fly zone is in place and the faster option in that part of the country in nearly 800 years some grass injure is a volcanologist and assistant professor at the university of missouri in kansas city she says the risk to the population is very low. 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 irruption it's what's called the fissure so you kind of get a line and. then ting where the larger comes out of the surface and there's 2 mother flows moving away from it there's really been about 50000 or it's quick 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 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 disruption 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 close 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 wild heart the regional history and it's not as long as her new cd at least to the planet that has been a difficult year for most but a report on countries seen as the happiest suggests that the current of us pandemic hasn't completely crushed people spirits finland has topped the list for the 4th year now in a row followed by the european countries and new zealand the report asks people about social support freedoms corruption and generosity if suggested that finland's relative success in curbing the coronavirus may have helped. now south korea is breathing new life into music by using artificial intelligence so people don't

forget popular and to tennis that includes for instance freddie mercury of queen fame who died 30 years ago robert pride thing. 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 can form 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 such as ana 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. a day trader 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 or all these technology has very serious applications as our lives are transformed by the marvels of art of social with teligent then you never changes where the we like them or not but we brought out a 0 or so numb south through. there this is ours here and these are the headlines brazil's president diable scenario is taking several states to court to force them to overturn pandemic restrictions on friday the country recorded more than 2800 deaths that's the 2nd highest number in a single day and a new month long lockdown has been imposed on the french capital.