the development of tests treatments and effects see keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the wood and in the land now more than ever the world needs w.-h. and making a healthier world for you. to everyone. for . fearing another wave of covered by a team several european countries imposed new restrictions and locked out will be speaking to the u.k.'s vaccine minister. however if again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up another day of violence in manaus anti cooper testers continue to defy the military. even attacked lanes are asked call from president biden to end hate crimes against

asian americans. and turkey has a limp it organizers say that overseas fans would be allowed to attend this year's games. so parts of europe are back on the lockdown as the continent struggles with a rising number of coronavirus infections france poland and ukraine all imposing new restrictions hoping to fend off a 3rd wave parisians rush to leave the french capital before the lockdown came into force packing trains and jamming roads germany's snatched all disease control center is warning coronavirus cases are rising at an exponential rate which means it could add new measures in the coming days but infections in the u.k. are dropping and the british government says that it's on track to give every adult in the country at least one job by the end of july al-jazeera and tasha but that

has more now from paris with the latest restrictions the main. every time people in these areas want to leave their house they have to fill out a permit they have to have a reason to go outside whether that's exercise going for a walk or to work shops are now shots except for essential ones so they join the restaurants bars punctual and sports facilities that have been closed since october and a nighttime curfew will stay in place even though it will now start a little bit later is 7 in the evening rather than 6 the government did though however want to relax some rules so people are now allowed to be out and about in the fresh air force all as they want before the curfew in the day but they have to stay within a 10 kilometer permits of from their homes that's why you can see behind me lots of people taking exercise going for a walk trying to make the most of some of the freedoms if you like that they have been granted now the french prime minister said that these new restrictions were

necessary because these parts of france are effectively battling a 3rd wave of corona virus infections daily infection cases have been around 38000 over the last a few days that's much higher than nearly than they say 10 days ago when there were about 20000 cases a day intensive care units in hospitals in paris are reaching saturation points in fact over the last week we have seen patients being flown from paris to hospitals in other regions so serious situation the government wants to try and stem the spread this virus they say it is circulating more rapidly because mainly because of the so-called u.k. variants earlier we spoke to the u.k.'s vaccine. for health he says they are working hard to keep up confidence in the jobs. vaccine confidence is incredibly important to all of us around the world it's why we through our presidency of the g 7 are leading a program around communication of vaccine governance not just to european union or

united kingdom but also to the rest of the world because there is a tsunami of misinformation disinformation you quite rightly talk about the anti vaccine. that. worrying people and you need to get that information translated into many languages and information out there that people can rely upon when they make vaccines are safe they are saving millions of lives every year whether the vaccine is a polio war measles mumps and rubella now cope as well so the important thing work together i think you're right to say that when people hear mixed messages it can have an impact we saw it anecdotally some people sort of leave their g.p.'s and worrying about it but actually the numbers have come back up again in a really pleasing way where now over 50 percent today of the adult population. protected without 1st dose bosnia herzegovina is tightening restrictions as it

struggles with a record number of deaths it's still waiting for vaccines to be delivered not 0 or higher as reports cemeteries are filling up fast morgues are crowded with bodies awaiting burial and hospitals are its maximum capacity. bosnia's capital sarajevo's facing a new wave of current virus infections and it's said it could be far worse than the 1st more interesting the highest number of drone deaths in the country since the pandemic started you know paula say there were around the clock to cope. for the show which at the 1st we're going to know about if it goes on like this at the end of march we'll probably have more deaths in these 1st 3 months of the year than the entire last year bosnia has one of the highest rates of deaths in the world for its size of population the number of funerals of course to some the horrors of the bosnian war in the ninety's ninety's kids who gave some good

sometimes i tend to funerals on the same day so many people died my friends and family this reminds me of the war period and the post war time when people were buried after being examined for mass graves in eastern bowls near where i worked the situation is pretty much the same. for the health ministry has recorded more than 6 and a half 1000 new cases of corona virus in less than 10 days and 44 this is our central i.c.u. unit we have 2 more wards which we call post intensive care but believe me conditions of these patients are such that they are all really intensive care patients. oh with a shortage of vaccines bosnia has been unable to stop the mass in occupation programme it's ordered more than 2000000 vaccines under the global kovacs increased population of 3500000 baht to move rees have been delayed the government says it's

disappointed it has only received $50000.00 doses so far. in sarajevo there's been a lack of social distancing and mask wearing the rise in cases and deaths the government not stricter guidelines on friday cafes and restaurants now closed for 2 weeks. al-jazeera. pakistan's prime minister has tested positive for curve at 19 the health minister confirmed the infection and says that imran khan is self isolating at home it comes just 2 days after he was vaccinated pakistan is experiencing a sharp rise in the number of new infections and is currently vaccinating health workers and the elderly with the side of vaccine. the army and police in myanmar continue the harsh tactics against protesters on saturday at least 2 were killed overnight in the city of mobile the chaos is starting to have a severe impact on some of the new industries that have flourished under civilian rule such as clothing manufacturers al-jazeera study chain reports. once

again protesters head out onto the streets here in town way ward in the center of yangon and once again they're forced back carrying their injured after being met by bra bullets and light rounds. and a new tactic from the military bulldozers smashing through rows of cars the intent to simply to terrorize and demoralize. as the violence has spread so does the destruction these clothing thanks is in yangon was set on fire last week it's not known by whom. in the last 5 years the garment industry has grown significantly under civilian rule but now many garment workers have joined the protests to full the new economic freedom could be lost he'd make and. it is very threats full i am boring and straight for my own security recently i am fighting a fight to get what we want when we are fighting we have to face being arrested and

finally beaten by a pretty tough. the manufacturer is it's a disaster sanctions are likely to cut off the factories and their workers source of income. and we've been urging our government to apply pressure. to end the coup but to do so in a manner that doesn't harm the workers is as we talked about before it's really important to make sure the workers have their livelihoods protected the rights you know i would. and forced labor on the streets of yangon this mobile phone footage shows civilians being forced to carry sandbags for the police when one pulte as he's made to crawl on his hands and knees more indignities at the hands of those who are supposed to protect and serve tony chang al jazeera and the organizers of the tokyo olympics have confirmed that overseas fans would be allowed to attend it

often doesn't exactly come as a total surprise to several reports in recent weeks and suggested the japanese government have already made up its mind the main reason for blocking foreign supporters is to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus the games have already been delayed by a year due to the pandemic british olympian to tell about how it will be competing in taekwondo at the games he says the athletes will have to adjust to a very different type of crowd. yes i mean the japanese are notorious for being very quiet and very perlite is like small influxes of excitement then it goes very quiet again so i'm very fortunate to have competed in japan before so i'll be used to it but i think it's going to be a bit of a culture shock for many libyans who have been at previous sports events and it's going to be a bit different i have confidence in the japanese organizing committee the i.o.c.

and team g.b. to make this let's say this clean list environment that is ever been or an olympics in history with book global pandemic situation i think we can all expect that we are very fortunate that g.b. take one dog where we've been a loud to train cheats while elite athlete exemption it's been very organized i'm very grateful for that but across the world i know that is not the case for everybody plenty of quarantine and lack of access to facilities another thing that nobody's really mentioning is the qualification situation half of the athletes have still not been able to qualify due to the cold the pandemic so that's massive in excel i believe the box in qualification. but one man got halfway through hockey athletes qualified then they had to cancel tournament last year so it's hard to boxers still waiting to know what's going on and that's not just boxing that's

across all the sports so there's a lot of things to clear up in this for months before we get to tokyo a tsunami warning has been issued in northeastern japan for a strong earthquake the 7.2 magnitude quake struck off the coast of p.r. game prefecture has resulted in power outages across the region the quake was felt in the capital tokyo briefly interrupted a meeting of olympic officials who were deciding whether to allow overseas fans at this year's games. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then american and chinese diplomats wrap up a tense round of high level talks with the u.s. saying that they remain fundamentally at odds on average we're operating with the one. which is. at every drop counts we look at why zimbabwe's blood banks almost empty.

it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways as a cold blast again come across northern china that's the shape in the cloud you might make out the head of a proper system developing that snow on its northern edge so from north korea up so goes the north east to china top of that of lost or snow will fall it'll fall for a time i think in a kind as well including maybe sapporo but south of that the system is all rain it's miserable in most of the major japanese arms the next couple of days and the cold wind you think might drop temperatures significantly but there's not much of a bloody so beijing's dropped about 3 degrees shy on stays about 11 and the sun is out of the top there's a bit of early rain in southern china but not much is enough to make it a bit disappointing and it's going south anyway with the sun to return in hong kong probably by the end of monday and the same is true to be honest of japan though

still cold enough for some wet snow on those western slopes of the high ground in honshu a bit of a disturbance in the weather in afghanistan northern pakistan to another west the disturbances they're known they produce some movement in the air which is a good thing for improving its quality and usually sunder storms as well and yes new delhi will be involved a windy day on sunday they doubt the rain or thunderstorms should improve things. sponsored paul qatar airways thanks love to make loans to some friends because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those taxpayers never go away is a new one born every single day a 19 it is an urgent national necessity that we'll visually request a division of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. debts machine on al-jazeera.

hello again this is our 0 the main news this hour parts of france poland the ukraine a back up a 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 year at least 2 protesters have been killed overnight in the may have lost city of boko protests are continuing to spice and increased use of violence by the military joined a rights group says that at least 237 people have been killed. overnight as the tokyo olympics have confirmed that overseas fans would be allowed to attend the games it's part of an effort to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus more

than $600000.00 tickets are expected to be refunded. relations between the u.s. and china remain strained after hours of tense talks that 2 day meeting at alaska ended with both sides saying that it was constructive but the differences remain diplomatic and it's a james bay is reports from anchorage. the chinese delegation arriving for a 2nd day of these talks the atmosphere of your cooperating face to face again with their u.s. counterparts this time the door was quickly closed and reporters were not invited into the room where less than 24 hours earlier the 2 sides had spent over an hour denouncing each other in public when the talks concluded this time the words were more moderate in tone although the u.s. still make clear the areas where there was the biggest disagreement we we certainly

know knew going in that there are a number of areas where we are fundamentally at odds. transactions in john regard to 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 go in 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 times study did dialogue direct frank and constructive the biden administration for now has been able to stick to its plan and asia policy on a trip to the region the secretary of state and the defense secretary kept to their

promises they would construct a strategy after consulting fully with their closest allies and in anchorage as they said they would they talk tough with china on some issues while endeavoring to work with it on others after the explosive starts of this meeting the 2 brief statements at the end show that both sides want to lower the temperature for now but the divisions a deep and they're real and it's far from clear whether there's been any actual improvement in relations between the 2 most powerful countries on the james pays out 0 i encourage india's defense minister the us secretary of defense have agreed to and hans security cooperation between the countries lloyd austin stripped to new delhi follows similar visits to south korea and japan see it as an effort to improve ties and to counter china's growing influence in the in the 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 upon this major partnership our discussions duty focused on about why you didn't get in defense cooperation and expanding engagement processes information sharing cooperation in emerging threat gets off the fence and sticks. we need you don't wide gamut of by and by to look at it for failure and agreed to punish you you know hans cooperation if you don't you left you don't come on come on and africa come on . catholic mass has been held in dollar salaam tanzania is largest city for the former president john mica foully who died on wednesday at the age of $61.00 these are live pictures now they don't live the latest pictures from the other salon but

people are paying their respects not of food he will be buried in his hometown of change to his successor some in a saloon who was sworn in as the country's 1st female president on friday. presidential candidates in the republic of congo of held their final campaign rallies ahead of an election on sunday many opposition politicians are boycotting the polls and rights groups say that there's no space for a democratic process welcomed web reports now from the capitol hill. they call him the emperor. and after nearly 40 years in power 77 year old then he says he. wants 5. his rule of the republic of congo is lighted by crises and corruption scandals which he says he'll and. will put an end to even more realities which i call corruption theft 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 attention to the president speak it's normal for people to be made to return political rallies here in congo and given. very rarely the ruling party 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 covert. didn't have anything to say about it. some opposition parties and politicians are boycotting the election others are in jail after disputing the result of the last poll. the ts zone is one of the 6

opposition candidates running this time he's a former finance minister of sas who inquests is government going after. 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 nobody believes that the market 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. she people expect an outcome other than saucy requests are 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 russellville republic of congo health officials in zimbabwe are appealing for help to replenish the country's blood banks that 19 lockdowns restrictions on movement of lead to fewer people donating blood that's left national supplies at critically low levels of service how to toss the reports from harare. it's elaine about lose 1st time giving blood she says a 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 didn't survive but i mean that weekend he was in the part of trauma center we had to rush up and down there is a place near cork road one of the hospitals that we had to keep rushing to get

blood and platelets you know in order for the heart the doctors to do whatever they could and he he lost almost all of his lead in his body before the 1st operation so that's why i said 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 covered 19 lockdowns and restrictions on movement have led to fewer people donating blood supplies are dropped to critically low levels across the. normand parts for a living from hand to mouth most will have one or 2 days cover because when you talk about strokes we're looking into how much deeper we would sing and for how long we would cover as a nation so on average we are operating with one want to do which is really very little we want to do operating at 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 a now that lock down it will put even more pressure on the backs of other countries around the world are also worried about winning blood stocks in zimbabwe health workers are approaching eligible donors and using social media to get more people to support a blood donation programs right now every drop counts. al-jazeera had addie. flood warnings have been issued in a strain of following record rainfall in parts of new south wales the rain isn't expect expected to end until late next week and there's concern that city's main reservoir is at risk of its worst overflow in 30 years hundreds of people are

already evacuation centers. a long dormant volcano erupting in southwestern iceland it's situated between the capital reykjavik and the international airport no one's been ordered to leave but a fly is a no fly zone is in place it's the 1st eruption in this part of the country in almost 800 years allison grat injure is a vulcanologist she says that the risk to people is very low. there aren't a lot of homes nearby that the nearest settlement is about 10 kilometers away and at the moment it's a very small action it's called the fisherman so you kind of get a line and. then teen when a mother comes out of service and there's 2 mothers loans moving away from it there's really been about 50000 or quick since early february so they've been keeping an eye on us the whole time and as magnum 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 and in that subsurface as it rose and the exact position wasn't known the general region is pretty well and it is a reaction will probably remain as he said which means. there is a gasket risk and irritant associated with these types the actions for people downwind and so they are actively monitoring what iceland is over what's called the mid atlantic ridge so it's a place where tectonic plates are pulling apart and it also happens to have a hotspot so an area that's pretty popular really hot portions of the mantle and so magma is. coming products and it tends to erupt as small arms over time again and again and it's to logic time so 800 years for us things like a very long time in syria but it's a wild heart to regional history and it's not islamic history of the planet. south

korea is using artificial intelligence to praise new life into music so the popular entertainers aren't forgotten they include people like freddie mercury of queen who died 30 years ago robin wright 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. yes

this is the we have to go and into the future of the artificial intelligence the company developing the cutting edge software is not only recreating voices but changing existing ones mary have a little to make you younger we 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 so 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 contest

a renowned data. trader asked to beat a computer program trading on the stock market and on another network a well known news reader meets for the 1st time her computer generated double to show none of us is indispensable or beyond manipulation for south korea all this technology has very serious applications as our lives are transformed by the marvels of artificial 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 adrian finighan here in doha the headlines allows us here a parts of france poland and ukraine are back under lockdown from saturday as they struggle with rising numbers of coronavirus cases the french government says that restrictions won't be.