inside the thin a lower college town part one of a key part investigation people in power on al-jazeera. brazil's president goes to course to stop regional governments opposing lockdowns to spite a rise in infections. hello i'm adrian for the game this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up over the violence and as anti cool protest as continue to defy the military. the military act like a scapegoat. a call from president biden to end a hate crime against asian americans. at how south korea is bringing distinctive voices back to the big stage.

brazil's president has asked the supreme court to overturn curfews and lockdowns imposed by mezz and state governors jiah balsam our says that they're acting as dictators and starving people by forcing them to stay at home during the pandemic marchetta killer of reports now from rio. the beaches in rio de janeiro seem to be a world apart far from the couvade 19 pandemic spiralling out of control throughout brazil this couple from neighboring argentina team year despite news that latin america's largest country is facing the worst health care system collapse in all of its history. in argentina the media keeps hammering the. has become the epicenter

of the world pandemic that ever his dying that is all doom and gloom but we came anyway and look what we found a paradise. a paradise that will shut its doors on saturday we use mayor has just joined other cities and states imposing restrictions to try and stop infections from spreading killing 15000 in just a week intensive care units across the country we're already running out of beds now hospitals in 1000 states say they're running out of medical supplies to into bait their patients given the huge volume of patients we start to suffer from the scarcity of basic materials we're going to have serious problems in the coming days with cedar tips and neuromuscular blockers and this is happening in all hospitals not just this one. doctors have been calling out for a nationwide lockdown but president jalal sonando has asked the supreme court to overturn curfews imposed by governors and mayors he says they're violating the

constitution and acting as dictators. so they're imposing a state of siege which is unconstitutional they cannot do this without the approval of congress humiliating the population most saying they're saving lives how can they be saving lives if the starving people. back in rio balsa now those words were received with mixed feelings about brazil as one of the you know countries with you know worst number of cases of covert 19 and it's really like preoccupying almost the entire world except our president actually and it's really not. it's not ok i think that it is the law is that it was the month. if politicians are going to stop us from working they must 1st find the means to guarantee our survival i feed my family by selling hotdogs on the beach if i'm

forced to stay at home what will happen to us. the beaches in rio are like an open marketplace and many informal workers make their living here crawling everything. how will. they rent chairs they sell art and they have no way of making a living if the beaches are closed specially that they haven't been receiving emergency aid since january. the government has promised a new emergency aid package starting april coronavirus has hit brazilians hard and next week the country is expected to reach another grim milestone when it will have a total of 300000 deaths from covert 19 monica i'll just sirrah rio de janeiro a new month. monthlong lockdown has been imposed on the french capital as intensive care units there near capacity people rushed to leave the city before it became into force backing intercity trains and jamming roads the long term covers

a 3rd of france's population but the government says it won't be as harsh as 2 others imposed last year schools will stay open but outdoor exercise is allowed india has march as another 3 month record rise in infections as cases the surge back towards the peak of last year indian media reports that more than $40000.00 new cases were confirmed on saturday bringing the total to 11 and a half 1000060 percent of the infections are in the western state of maharashtra authorities say that the surge has been fuelled by crowding and people ignoring restrictions. a series of developments to bring you in myanmar where at least 2 protesters have been killed overnight in the city of moore gok protests continue across the country despite an increased use of violence by the jointer rights group says that at least 237 people have been killed since elected leader aung san suu

kyi was deposed on february 1st let's go live now to bangkok al-jazeera certainly chang is watching developments in myanmar from there tell us more about the latest protests i mean. it will they were out protesting again from the early morning in shan states in chin state up in the north insect going in the low back in yangon in town way and districts we understand in the last couple of hours there was firing and in the last few minutes it's social media is reporting there are casualties that have been taken there amongst the protesters so that they are clearly still going out in the streets despite this mounting fatalities more than 200 people have now been killed by the security services since the coup overnight as you mentioned in a city that's famous for being at the center of memoirs rubi trade 2 men were shot

and killed another very badly injured as the army moved against protesters there we understand many of the major urban centers as well once again the night was filled with explosives from percussive grenades stern stun grenades being shot into houses as these hit squads from the security services moved into residential neighborhoods in some cases with hits there with with a hit list of people journalists activists from the members that they've been trying to arrest in other cases i think just to spread more fear amongst people and in mandalay the smalling on the stand there were protesters who were. on motorbikes this is a tactic they've been employing in the last couple of weeks particularly as the army has tried to crack down on them makes them more mobile means they can escape faster but in this occasion on 16th and $86.00 street as the motorbikes tried to escape from the security services they were hit by

a car 4 women badly injured so it looks like it's going to be another day of unrest so seem to be packing for the military response as a crackdown on protesters. with a certain extent i think they're just trying to impose fear and we see that in the tactics during the day and the night they're going to wherever the protesters are popping up and really you know they're using live ammunition they using tear gas stun grenades. but we're also seeing some patterns emerging that the very familiar with the burmese the army. like forced labor for example in the last couple of days we've seen protesters or just ordinary civilians who have been forced into labor by the army to move sandbags around that they've been using to to fortify their emplacements in other cases they've been forcing people to take down

obstructions that the protesters have put up on the streets in the last couple of hours we've also seen footage coming out on social media of diggers in trucks being used by the military smashing into civilian cars in some ways they just appear to be involved in vandalism to create as much fear amongst the pop general populace as possible tony chang reporting live from bangkok tony many thanks indeed. the u.s. president has condemned an increase in violence against asians and called on americans to nice against hates joe biden the vice president spoke after meeting asian american community leaders in atlanta the visit followed a mass shooting in which 8 people were killed including 6 women of asian descent al-jazeera as gabriel elizondo reports now from washington 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 and the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked blame 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 impeaching 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 even the. 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 the weather next to 0 then on average. which is. every drop counts we look at why zimbabwe's blood banks almost didn't take. a long dormant volcano springs into life the iceland's capital the area's 1st eruption in nearly 800 years.

now this is disappointing still all the clouds coming down from the north the north is always cold temperatures are below where they should be for this time the if the most of europe to be honest we're in single figures really from central france all the way to the east and long way south as well where it was nice and warm inspiring we've got a best 11 in madrid nearly 30 in gibraltar and 11 in london was accompanied by a cold wind now there is more sunshine around admittedly there are outbreaks of rain sleet or snow on the way through eastern parts of europe but the obvious active weather is blue stuff the rain throughout the mediterranean particularly focusing and we're talking about saturday in italy the southern balkans northern greece and turkey but prague and czech republic shows how cold it is a lot he's breeze because snow on saturday it only gets up to about 5 by monday and

the average is about 10 for this time of the year so that is the record light snow its way through it's rather more persistent in the baltic states middle east it's followed by the northerly wind no warming here and here's a disappointment over the balkans for example so the forecast for progress. on today crow is an overcast one getting colder again the average is 60 and you have 8 . what should americans be thinking and doing right now it should be a bad idea they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the calling for the below defense budget to be high the bottom line on us politics and policies and they're affecting the world around. us one day one east returns to christ

to find out how those most affected are capering. surviving a massacre on al-jazeera. al-jazeera so much of the main news the brazil's president try a boston auto is going to the supreme court to try to overturn several states restrictions he wants shops and businesses to reopen despite a surgeon with 19 related deaths. at least 2 protesters have been killed overnight in the city of more protesters come to protest rather are continuing despite an increased use of violence by the military joint rights group says that at least 237 people have been killed. and u.s.

president joe biden has condemned an increase in violence against asian americans by the bus president kaamelott harris met with community leaders in the state of georgia following tuesday's mass shooting 6 of the 8 victims were women of asian descent. relations between the u.s. and china remain strained after tense talks the 2 day meeting in alaska and it with both sides saying that it was constructive all significant differences of opinion remain diplomatic editor james bays reports 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 john regards on 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 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 earth james pays out his era anchorage india's defense minister the u.s. secretary of defense of agreed to and hans security cooperation what austin's trip to new delhi following some of the visits to south korea and japan. seen as an effort to shore up ties and counter china's growing influence in the pacific region

so how have the 2 countries strengthen ties over the last few years well after decades of tension in 2016 the u.s. and india signed a landmark defense agreement to increase military cooperation last year fighting between india and china over the disputed himalayan border left several soldiers dead on both sides in october the trumpet ministrations signed a 3000000000 dollar deal with india to increase military satellite intelligence authority issue though is new delhi is planned purchase of russia's s 400 at defense system sanctionable on the us law let's talk through. a defense and security affairs analyst he joins us now from cool nor in the south of india good to have you with us one of the main areas of discussion then likely to been when the u.s. secretary of defense didius defense minister sat down together. well. elephant

in the room whenever india and the united states talk clearly china and that is likely to have a bigger right at the top of the agenda especially given that the indian army has been at it in a fee assault on their muslim border as you mention for 11 months now in kashmir but the indians also cooperate with the united states navy in the south china sea in the pacific area but that who are also have come up for discussion but also the major defense partnership india is a major defense partner of the united states they would have discussed ways of thinking that partnership forward joint exercises joint military exercises i should say. so it all for all of you know from the united states point of view this was a signal to all its allies in the region that we are here china continues to move large or not as

a major security threat and the allies will be consulted and decon into account where as and when the united states takes any decisions in the area so that's likely to have been on the agenda in the talks today but our fathers and their trust the u.s. is it likely to agree full cooperation with within the and indeed the court of course which met with last week. there and all the racing. but where there was a long period of time when there was a trust deficit between india and the united states new delhi or was worried that or you know it did at true in of slot would be united states washington might just lead to try and dry one day and go off into an alliance or some down to be treaty with china being the indian side on its own but i would say that has that has faded now especially the confrontation of the last 11 months between india and china has

left india sort of convinced that it has to throw in its lot with the united states with the quad with the aussie on based security magic's in the end of the civics so to that extent i think the u.s. partnership is that received a bull's result of china's aggression over the last year you talked about naval support and that the indian ocean of the in the south china sea how well resourced is india to offer a kind of support and cooperation that the u.s. is looking for. well even to us ever gets together $1000.00 shipped me has 4 can of doing including the ships of all its allies the indian navy which is $150.00 ship navy is going to be right up there the daughter of that big so there is dead has been a lot of cooperation many joint exercises many creating exercises and

a sort of building up of interoperability between the indian forces and u.s. forces in the into the pacific so to that extent there is a sort of a role for india the indian even see themselves as the gatekeeper of the indian ocean between the straits of hormuz and straits of malacca the area sort of the gatekeeper the guts to deal with nets security adviser i should say has been the indian navy and to that extent there is a growing cooperation and a growing mutual dependency between india and the us always gets to say 70 thanks dave as a shock for the. can off the. health officials in zimbabwe are appealing for help to replenish the country's blood banks. restrictions on people's movements have lead to fewer donating blood and birds left national supplies of critically low levels. it's the

1st time giving blood she says the father's sudden death made her realize how important this is my dad was a police officer here part of the zimbabwean police force here and he got shot 6 months ago and unfortunately he didn't survive but i mean that weekend he was in the battle trauma center we had to rush up and down these a place near one of the hospitals that we had to keep rushing to give blood and platelets you know in order for the heart the doctors to do whatever they could and he he lost almost all of the blood in his body before the 1st operation so that's why i say it every time i see like somebody to donate that's going to be my intention like it could potentially save anyone's life. government enforced covert 19 lockdowns and restrictions on movement have led to fewer people donating blood supplies have dropped to critically low levels across the. moment for its very living from hand to mouth most will have one or 2 days cover because when you talk about strokes we're looking at how much we would sing and for how long we would

cover. so on average we are operating with one or 2 days which is really very good we want to do all routing a minimum 5 days if we have to be ideal destruct up in 3 d. for any emergency room earlier this month the government eased its grown a biased lockdown and an overnight curfew it's imposed in january more people are now coming in to give blood but the numbers are still small the public is being encouraged to support the blood drives across the country in a few months it will be winter here in southern africa and health workers are warning of a 3rd wave of coronavirus infections and if the government enforces adenauer that lock down it will put even more pressure on the backs. other countries around the world are also worried about dwindling blood stocks in zimbabwe health workers approaching eligible donors and using social media to get more people to support the blood donation programs right now every drop counts how to al-jazeera had.

a long dormant volcano erupting in southwestern iceland it's situated between the capital reykjavik and the international airport no one's here but ordered to leave but a no fly zone is a place that's the 1st eruption in this part of the country in nearly 800 years. is a volcanologist she says that the risk to people 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 our action it's what's called the fisher so you kind of get a line and. then ting when a lot of comes out of service and there's 2 mother plumes moving away from it there's really been about 50000 at 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 matter in an subsurface as it rose and the exact position wasn't known but the general region is pretty well and if you did this erection will probably remain as he 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 small items 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 to regional history and it's not a slight it's turned into the history of the planet. south korea is using

artificial intelligence to breathe new life into music so popular entertainers are forgotten they include freddie mercury of queen fame who died 30 years ago bride 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 reactions of these people to conform their

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 mary have little to make you younger. and a woman. it's one of the growing number of start up companies located in south korea's equivalent of silicon valley on the outskirts of so fat 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 gulf champion takes on a robotic opponent in another contest

a renowned 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 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 how to say or some south korea. it's good to have you with you have for the have you with us rather the relay.