15. illini she makes home feel ever for there we. build part of the viewfinder is a series on al-jazeera. the all the. millions across europe face new restrictions as france poland and ukraine reintroduced locked out cup a spike in corona virus infections. hello everyone forgive this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up another day of violence and beyond boss antics 2 protesters continue to defy the military. they will attack. a call from president biden to end hate

crime against asian american. south korea is bringing distinctive voices back to the big stage. parts of france poland and ukraine a backup on lockdown on saturday as they struggle with rising numbers of coronavirus cases parisians rushed to leave the french capital before the lockdown came into force packing intercity trains and jamming roads the government says the restrictions would be as harsh as those imposed last year schools will stay open about or exercise will be allowed let's go live at a parasol just. so people in several parts of the country the capital back in lockdown today tell us more. yes people

in paris and 15 regions in the country back in lockdown a 3rd lockdown in just 12 months and what that means is that people in these regions will now have to fill out the permits again every time they want to leave the house they are being encouraged to stay at home they're being encouraged to work from home shops are now shots and they joined of course the restaurants bars cultural center sports facilities that have been here since the nighttime curfew will also remain in place even though it's going to be a bit late so starting at 7 o'clock in the evening rather than 6 but the government has said that they do want to give people a little bit more freedom this time around so they are allowing people to be out and about and that's why you can see people behind me running exercising people have to stay within a 10 kilometer perimeter but they are allowed to spend as much time outdoors as they like. for the curfew in the really hard lockdown they could only leave their

home for an hour and stay within a one kilometer perimeter and some shops are able to open not just essential services like food and pharmacies but bookshops and also florists are allowed to be open while the government says that these restrictions are necessary because france is effectively in some parts entering a 3rd wave daily infection rates have been well around $38000.00 a day over the past few days so much higher than even a week ago and we are seeing numbers of around 20000 intensive care units in paris nearly saturated we've seen over the past week patients being flown and taken by train to the hospitals in other regions so the government are really hoping that these restrictions will a stem the spread of the virus in these regions they're saying that the virus is spreading particularly fast in these 16 regions because of the so-called u.k. variant of the beginning of the year president mccraw made it pretty clear that he

wanted to avoid going back into any sort of lockdown so who is the implementation of these new restrictions being seen as something of a failure on his part. well the french government is certainly trying to put a bit of a more positive spin on this if you like because they are aware the president my crawl in january said that he really wanted to avoid a national lockdown the government is saying look this is what we've managed we have avoided a national lockdown so far these are just regional restrictions that is their take they're also saying that look we've managed to keep the schools open since last may when many schools in other european countries have had to start with there have been full national knock downs in other european countries so that the government is certainly trying to play this one in a more positive way but there are many doctors and health experts who are saying these regional restrictions simply won't work that the virus will spread because

ultimately you know you can't control everyone and they are saying that the problem is the longer the government delays and national lockdown then the situation could deteriorate so really 2 sides of the story but that's pretty much what we've been seeing throughout this pandemic of seriousness ashleigh butler reporting live there from paris natasha many thanks indeed germany as national disease control center is warning the coronavirus cases are rising at an exponential rate it says that more contagious strains have wiped out progress made in containing the pandemic last month chance language merkel says the country will have to reimpose some restrictions the u.s. will send 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 has put an increase in the number

of central american migrants reaching the u.s. border through mexico. india has marked yet another 3 month record rise in the number of infections and cases that back toward the peak of last here indian media reports more than 40000 new cases confirmed on saturday bringing the total to 11 and a half 1000060 percent of the infections are in the western states of maharashtra authorities there say the surge has been fueled by crowding and people ignoring restrictions. to a series of developments of myanmar where at least 2 protesters upon killed in the city of mubarak protests continue across the country despite i think the increased use of violence by the joy into a rights group says that at least 237 people have been killed since elected leader aung san suu kyi was deposed on february for us today at least 2400 people have been arrested by the security forces because if there is

a speck of participation. in the demonstrations the vast majority of these people are held incommunicado still and we're hearing increasing reports of sexual based on sexual base violence against and i think it's really important to emphasize that many of these people. killed through gunshots to the head by snipers for peaceful demonstrations one hour from tony chang is following developments from bangkok. they were out protesting again from the early morning in shan states in chin state up in the north insead going in and low back in yangon on in town way and tutted districts we understand in the last couple of hours there was firing in the last few minutes it's social media is reporting there are casualties be taken there amongst the protesters so 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 in a city that's famous for being at the center of myanmar's rubi trade 2 men were shot and killed another very badly injured as the army moved against protesters there we understand in many of the major urban centers as well once again the night was filled with explosives from percussive grenades stun stun grenades being shot into houses as these hit squads from the security services moved into residential neighborhoods in some cases with hit with a hit list of people journalists activists form n l d 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 understand there were protesters who went out 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 16963 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 all over the country 2 more journalists have been detained 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 public covering a court case on the detention of an official from a policy that was governing before the military takeover dozens of job lists about how rested since february. the us president has condemned an increase in violence against asians and called on americans to unite against hate joe biden the vice president carla harris 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. to report style from washington 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 have been walking up and down the streets and we're waking up each morning the past year fairly their safety in 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 they will not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending speech 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 will get a weather update next to 0 then. the one which is.

every drop counts will look at why zimbabwe's blood banks almost empty. at a long dormant volcano springs to life iceland's capital the area's 1st eruption in nearly 800 years. but. has still raining on a daily basis and surprisingly in malaysia and indonesia this is what has happened this is satellite picture it's reflected in the forecast but there's a change up. here in laos in vietnam probably across in thailand was the taste of early spring rain the orange talked showers of the deep sunder storms may well produce a flash flooding has been fairly dry here recently saw unusual is just a slow change in the season this however is rather unusual what's happening in new south wales in the last few days and the next few days just not much on here but so

long shore wind which is quite strong is cause some wind damage there are warnings out for further wind damage the surf is up great for service not so great if you go to say a beach side property this warning of damage from the waves as well but more importantly it's the amount of rain already we've had a lot of rainfall in new south wales have been evacuations from lowell and northern new south wales and the rain will just continue to get to monday we're joined by assistance come across from the tropics across the red interior and that suggests persistent rain in the next 3 days that amount of rain in news as well is quite tremendous at least amounts was probably twice the month's was in 3 days. on counting the cost murray draggy save the euro but can he turn around italy's struggling economy class can all rich libya's unified government unite the war told

he's done west including the country to central banks and chile rethinks china's investment counting the cost on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to come back threats to our planet on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera the main news this hour parts of france poland and ukraine are back on the lockdown on saturday as they struggle with rising numbers of coronavirus cases the french government says the restrictions won't be as harsh as those imposed last here. at least 2 protesters have been killed overnight in city

of mosul protests are continuing despite an increased use of violence by the military jumped a 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 vice president. met with community leaders of 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 hours of tense talks a 2 day meeting at alaska and it with both sides saying that it was constructive while significant differences in opinion remain diplomatic editor james bass reports 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 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 with. china's actions 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 time steady dick dialogue and addict frank and constructive the biden administration for now has been able to stick to its plan asia policy on a trip to the region the secretary of state and the defense secretary kept to their promises they would construct a strategy after consulting fully with their closest allies and in anchorage as they said they would they talk tough with china on some issues while endeavoring to work with it on others after the explosive starts of this meeting the 2 brief statements at the end show that both sides want to lower the temperature for now but the divisions a deep and they're real and it's far from clear whether there's been any actual improvement in relations between the 2 most powerful countries on earth james pays

out his era and courage in those talks one of the issues raised by the u.s. was about 2 canadians detained in china of espionage charges on friday the trial of businessman michael spot for. out of the addict being announced he had former diplomat michael covering were arrested 2 years ago the case is widely seen as retaliation for canada's the tension of huawei executive may want to at the request of the united states canada was denied access to ring spotless trial a decision condemned by prime minister justin trudeau india's defense by the steps of the u.s. secretary of defense have agreed to enhance security cooperation between the countries lloyd austin's trip to new delhi follows similar visits to south korea japan the save as an effort to shore up ties and counts of china's growing influence said the endo pacific region despite today's challenging security environment the partnership between the united states and india the world's 2

largest democracies remains resilient and strong and we will seek every opportunity to build to form this major partnership our discussions duty focused on about why you didn't get in defense cooperation and expanding military to ability engagement across such recent information sharing cooperation in embodied in fact that self-defense and mutual sticks the whole meeting would dump white guy might not buy your card and it might be looked at it from an agreed to by sure you know hans cooperation if you don't use it you don't i think come on gentle come on and africa come on. a u.s. judge has rejected of attempts to postpone the trial of a police officer charged with murdering george floyd last week the city of minneapolis agreed to pay $27000000.00 to floyd's family lawyers for director of in

it argued that the highly publicized settlement jeopardized his chance of a fair trial video of show in dealing on george floyd's next sparked protests around the world last year hedrick reports now from chicago. judge peter cahill is a no nonsense guy who wants the trial to run on time and in the same place it started in minneapolis so he is denied the defense's request that he delay the trial and move it elsewhere the idea behind that would be that you would have a jury pool that would know less about the case and therefore theoretically be less prejudiced but as the judge said everyone around the globe knows about this case and therefore they're not likely to get a different jury pool by doing that so the case will go on as scheduled he says with opening arguments on march 29th the judge also made one other key decision saying that the arrest of george floyd in 2019 a separate arrest would be admissible in this case but only in so far as it effects

his medical condition the crux of the case is around how george floyd died the prosecution is saying he died because for 8 minutes and 46 seconds officer derrick show of and knelt on his neck causing him to die and the defense says in fact it was a combination of factors that according to an autopsy he was on fentanyl and methamphetamine he had a heart condition and he had kovac 19 in all of those things the defense says contributed to george floyd's death the prosecution is likely to put it in perspective by saying this man died under a police officer's need for the act for a crime allegedly of trying to pass a $20.00 counterfeit bill. turkey has withdrawn from a global treaty on preventing and combat violence against women side in istanbul by more than 45 countries a decade ago it's a pledge by governments to take action on domestic violence marital rape and female

genital mutilation critics in turkey say that it damages family unity encourages divorces and supports the l.g.b. team that. health officials in zimbabwe are appealing for help to replenish the country's blood banks covert 90 blocked some restrictions on people's movement of lead to fewer donating blood and that's left national supplies at critically low levels reports. it's the 1st time giving blood she says the father sudden death made her realize how important this is for my dad was a police officer here part of the zimbabwean police force here and he got shot 6 months ago and unfortunately even survived 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 you see 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 kovac 19 lockdowns and restrictions on movement have led to fewer people donating blood supplies are dropped to critically low levels across the map where every moment we transfer living from hand to mouth most will have one word to discover because when you talk about stocks we're looking at how much we want thing and for how long we need to cover as a nation so on average we're operating with one or 2 days which is really we want to do all routing a minimum 5 days talk if we have to be idealists locked up in 3 d. for any emergencies. earlier this month the government it's down and an overnight curfew 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 here in southern africa and health workers are warning of a 3rd wave of coronavirus and the government enforces. it will put even more pressure on the banks. 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. al-jazeera. catholic mass is being held in dar es salaam tanzania is former president john mark foley he died on the age of 61 fully will be buried in his hometown of. his successor samir solu who are son was sworn in as the country's 1st female president on friday a long dormant volcano is erupting in southwestern iceland it situated in the

middle of a peninsula between the capital reykjavik and the international airport no one's been ordered to leave the area pass a no fly zone is in place it's the 1st eruption in this part of the country in almost 800 years. brought in jeff is a vulcanologist 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 very small 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 mothers homes 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 macro 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 things like a very long time in syria but it's a wild heart regional history and it's not a slam it's turned into the history of the planet. south korea is using artificial intelligence to bring new life into music so that popular entertainers are

forgotten including artists like freddie mercury the lead singer with queen who died almost 30 years ago bryant 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 they really had a little 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 seoul that sassenach the government wants south korea to be a pioneer in ai as part of its push towards transforming the economy with high tech innovation to korean government is implementing the digital new deal project to transform the country into an advanced economy and humans battling ai is helping fuel the debate on popular t.v. in this show a former golf champion takes on a robotic opponent in another county. 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 these 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. it is good to have you with us hello everyone fitting in here in doha our headlines in al-jazeera parts of france problem of the ukraine a back of the lot on saturday as they struggle with rising numbers of coronavirus cases the french government says the restrictions won't be as harsh as those imposed last here a touch of butter reports now from paris.