numbers could be much higher than advertised researchers say the huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. this is al-jazeera. when you're watching al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes fearing another wave of covert 19 several european countries impose new restrictions and lockdowns also anti-government protests in thailand hundreds of people break through police barriers to reach the royal palace and the long dormant volcano springs to live near iceland's capital the 1st

eruption in nearly 800 years. i'm going to get your asco with sports. organizes ban overseas bans from attending this year's games because it is over the spread of covert 19. welcome to the news hour parts of europe are back under lockdown as the continent struggles with the rising numbers of corona virus infections france poland and ukraine all imposing new restrictions hoping to fend off a 3rd wave that parisians rushed to leave the french capital before the lockdown came into force packing trains and jamming roads germany's national disease control center has warning coronavirus cases are rising at an expert central rate which means it could add new measures in the coming days but infections in the united kingdom also dropping and the british government says it's on track to give every adult in the country at least one job by the end of july in

a moment i'll be speaking or have been speaking to the vaccines minister and we'll show you that report in a little while but 1st let's join the tasha butler from paris natasha obviously many people across france both in the urban and rural areas wondering what the lockdown means for them especially in paris. yes people in 16 regions in france including here in the capital paris and its suburbs are going back into our back into a certain national a 3rd lockdown i should say the 3rd one in the past year now what that means is that all the shops are shut except for of course non-essential ones so those shops joint restaurants bars cultural and sports facilities which have been shut since october the curfew stays in place a nighttime curfew was also imposed in the last down at the end of last year

however it's being extended so people can stay out till 7 pm in the evening rather than 6 pm businesses are being told that they must try and make their staff work from home where at all possible but the government did want to add a little bit more flexibility to this lockdown so schools remain open they have done ever since may which is a much better track record say the government than some of france's european neighbors and some shops are also staying open that had been forced to close in previous lockdowns florists bookstores things like that and people are allowed out for much longer in the day they can stay out as long as they like before the curfew but within a 10 kilometer perimeter in previous lockdown that was just one kilometer or so little bit more flexibility now the government is saying that these restrictions they were absolutely necessary in these regions because covert infection rates have just been soaring in those areas about 38000 daily infections we've seen over the

last week or so much higher than the previous 20000 about 10 days ago the french government saying this is clearly a 3rd wave that is being battled in these regions i see units i see you units for in paris hospitals patients being flown out to other regions a very serious situation indeed they are hoping these restrictions. will slow the spread of the virus because sometimes for the last 12 months the government has wanted to avoid lock downs and restrictions it hasn't been able to fulfill the promise so the perception in the public is wat have to have the government failed or is it something that the public quite you know reza to resident to quite happy to accept what's happening well i mean i think you know the pajama pandemic has shown us that perspective really depends on what point of view you have and where you're standing the french government are certainly

trying to put a rather positive spin on these new restrictions they say look we've managed to avoid a national lockdown for several weeks since the beginning of the year when other countries in europe went international knocked out we've managed to keep our schools open they continue to be open now what they are saying is these are only regional restrictions and throughout all this time they've managed to keep ours the economy growing they've helped people with their mental health by keeping the country as open as possible so that is their perspective of course there are many medical health experts and doctors many health workers working of course on the so-called front line in hospitals and clinics are saying what they wanted these restrictions to be a lot tighter some had called for a national lockdown because they are saying that the virus is circulating very rapidly in france now mainly because of the so called a u.k. variant and they are saying that the health situation is simply going to

deteriorate unless there are stronger restrictions in place so really very mixed perspectives and if you talk to people in the street you know you really get both sides people understand why these restrictions are in place but like many places where there have been lockdowns multiple lockdowns there are many others who are fed up with these restrictions the touch of bottle our correspondent our force in paris thanks to be updated. well earlier i spoke to the u.k.'s vaccines minister deems well he i began by asking him for his reaction on e.u. chief 1st of all the layers threatening to halt exports of astra zeneca vaccines if the bloc didn't receive its deliveries 1st obviously in continuous dialogue with our european neighbors friends and partners and we said 10 engineers to the hail explained in the netherlands to make sure that the astra zeneca box of vaccine production the vaccine substance the drugs are others

it is to scale so that it can supply us and supply the european union i completely understand the pressures that. live on the line it is under as are all leaders around the world to try and vaccinate at scale and speed their populations i think the way to do this is to bring it to work together we continue to do that in that spirit which is why we set the engineers to explicit in the netherlands to make sure that production. at all you can ask as i'm confident we dialogue we can we can work together in terms of the last week or so a great deal of you might say pressure on national governments to work out what to do with astra zeneca vaccine when we had sort of the blood clot concern working alongside your european colleagues i mean how does that actually work when the u.k.

is you might say out of the e.u. block you still need to work with them. very much regulates the mh. the medicine the. regulators are knocking actually works very closely with the european regulators. which have both reported looked at great detail on the reports of blood clots emanating from europe and reported in the last what. that actually in the us is going to. deploy in our case and of course pointed out in the case of those countries that. much has been talked about rich countries hoarding vaccines we know that the u.k. is part of the kovacs scheme you've contributed $734000000.00 to the scheme in recent weeks we're now seeing the united states sending its extra vaccine to mexico

and canada only yesterday i spoke to individuals personally in australia who are sending us to pop or new guinea poor countries or countries in difficulty that need help is the u.k. hoarding vaccines and if not who you helping. as part of a. great. landing in akron ghana in the philippines in also in. other countries will also get more of that the oxford asked liason. the syrians and others at no profit alas the pandemic is with us and there will be other 300000000 doses that are going up in low and middle income countries because of that. would work and that ability to do that plus at the g. 7 summit the prime minister also to do things one raise more money will go back to the mother of all $1000000000.00 from the g 7 but also commit our excess.

but what we do have excess they will go through the bulk of them go through cobra. well organizers of the tokyo olympics have confirmed that overseas fans will not be allowed to attend the games in a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus the announcement doesn't come as a total surprise or several reports in recent weeks that suggest the government had already made its mind up david stokes reports. with $125.00 days to go until the olympics in tokyo the organizers have made a major call for the 1st time in the game's history there will be no overseas friends in an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus we have to take a decision so which are may not need to sacrifice respecting who these priority of the safety of z. are or limpy games this is largely been driven by the japanese public recent polls have shown a growing skepticism about holding the games and of particular letting foreigners

in during a global health crisis is there an easier take we thought we should make a decision early because of accommodation and flight reservations there were also request domestically for making a decision as soon as possible. set to cost $25000000000.00 the tokyo games are already the most expensive ever and the absence of foreign fans will make a further dent in the budget tokyo's hotels restaurants and other businesses will miss out on valuable trade and around a 1000000 tickets already sold abroad now need refunding british brand justin reed had tickets and flights booked but he's looking on the bright side if you're sat on your sofa watching it you know you can you can record it in your own time watch what you want to watch you can flip between the 2 you can get as many events as you want so i will merely picks may have lost me in past but i will still be watching and even if it isn't them are around 4500000 tickets have been bought domestically but while japanese fans are expected to be allowed in the venues will almost certainly operate at

a reduced capacity in japanese that are notorious for being very quiet and very polite is like small influxes. excitement then it was very quiet again so oughtn't to compete in japan book or so we used to work but i think it's going to be a bit of a culture shock. athletes like to tell him how it continued to train all around the world and organizers still have the massive challenge of bringing in more than $15000.00 of them for the olympics and then the paralympics. the next big test will be the olympic torch relay which is coming up on thursday starting in fukushima 10000 runners will crisscross japan over the next 4 months to reach the opening ceremony on july 23rd local crowds just like their foreign counterparts are being asked to stay away. david stokes al-jazeera pakistan's prime minister has tested positive for covert 19 the health minister confirmed the infection and says the prime minister sharon car is self isolating at home this comes just 2 days after he

was vaccinated but pakistan is experiencing a sharp rise in new infections and is currently vaccinating health workers around 1500 protesters in thailand have broken through barriers around the king's residence in bangkok pleas of used water cannon to push them back another demanding the resignation of the government and reform of the monarchy it's the latest in a series of protests that began last july let's get more this from bangkok tony jones our correspondent is monitoring events for us dramatic scenes outside the royal palace tony what seems to have instigated the. well indeed but in the last 15 minutes or so the police are actually pushed back and very quickly pushed the protesters away so it looks for now as if things have settled the most the protesters have dispersed but it did get quite far about an hour ago in preparation of this protest that the police had built an enormous

barricade across this open ground which is not actually the king's residence it's the ceremonial grand palace the king's residence is actually elsewhere nonetheless it is a huge significance for the monarchy here in thailand and the protesters had been told explicitly that they could not approach in addition to which this barrier of containers had been put right across the road which appeared to have stopped them in their tracks they have a rather into prizing they using ropes pulled 2 of these containers away which left them at a standoff with the police the police fired water cannon. and then charged against them also firing tear gas and her peer to push them off none the less i think this is a sign once again these protests are bubbled up now it's important to note here that the protesters were far outnumbered by the police about $1500.00 protesters we

think more than $3000.00 police were deployed we're not seeing the kinds of numbers in the protesters ranks that we were seeing towards the end of last year where we were seeing tens of thousands of people coming out very difficult at this stage to gauge whether the sting is going out of the protests but there is an awful lot of unhappiness amongst the protesters and elsewhere that protest leaders have been arrested currently awaiting charges of less majesty of insulting the monarchy which is being fairly freely handed out at the moment in time and particularly against the protesters but i think also. the government has really made no substantive efforts to look at reforming. the constitution and the administration that they were so unhappy about still very much in place what's the background to exactly what's happening in terms of where we are in terms of the ceremonial ground tony for those of us that have been to bangkok it is a vast area to police it would be difficult for any security force to police such

a large venue however it does beg the question how how a small number of protesters has managed not just to get so close to the ceremonial location but to break through barriers and really upset the status quo that's quite a worry. it is but i think we've seen this again and again the police have been putting up these enormous barricades and just sitting back and waiting in this instance it was also quite easy for them to push back because while the protesters had broken through through 2 of these shipping containers it did effectively bottleneck them they were they then sort of there was a standoff of about 20 minutes where they were throwing fireworks and some bottles at the police but the police were able to stay well back and when they chose they moved the water cannon forward and they themselves charged through there what we

are seeing at the moment is a much hardened attitude from the police it was here on this royal sort of park i guess you'd call it that we saw the police really going very heavily against the protesters and they have been much tougher in the past couple of months than we've seen though than we saw last year i think your thirty's have taken the decision that while the numbers of the protesters seem to be considerably diminished they're going to increase the sabera t. which they punish the protesters they were broadcasting messages saying anyone arrested could potentially face 2 years in prison than a fine of several $1000.00 they said they reminded the protesters they were not only not allowed to get close to the to the grand palace but they were also breaking covert regulations which ban gatherings in large gatherings of people so they are taking a more severe attitude and i think what they've done the sea evening is in the straight of their duty so they want to watch for the coming of the trying force

there of bangkok thank you also you the region a series of developments and be able to protesters have been killed overnight in the city of magog protests continue across the country despite increased use of violence by the rights group says at least 237 people have been killed since and suci was deposed on february the 1st. today at least 2400 people have been arrested by the security forces because of their suspected participation. intrusions the vast majority of these people are held incommunicado still and we're hearing increasing reports of sexual based sexual baseball islands. and i think it's really important and so is that many of these people. are killed through gunshots to the head by snipers for peaceful demonstrations or police more had held out several news hour including

brazil's president goes to court to stop regional governments from imposing long downs despite a rise of infections. an earthquake shakes a tennis semifinal acapulco story coming up with jo it's all. iran's president says the drop in oil prices that increased u.s. sanctions have pushed the country to its worst financial year in decades but hasan rouhani said despite that the economy still grew by more than 2 percent romney made the comments during his speech to mark not rules the traditional persian new year to you don that hardly been about of the iranians were fighting this virus but they were not only denied international aid to fight it the x is to their own assets frozen in foreign banks was blocked a dramatic drop in oil prices and oil sanctions we had the lowest oil revenues in 6

decades in the past 42 years since the islamic revolution i can't remember a year as difficult and tough as the one that's just finished as a bank has morphed into iran. it's quite an acknowledgment by president hasn't drawn especially if you take into account that iran for to war against iraq in the eighty's for 80 years the president hasn't rouhani is saying that the last year has been tougher than anything else he's seen he called the sanctions a brutal economic war he acknowledged that the united states had dealt a blow to iran and that people had actually felt it but that the united states hadn't been successful in achieving its cold now that maximum pressure campaign was brought in by former president u.s. president donald trump after he pulled the united states out of the 2015 nuclear deal now sanctions on the country are against iran's oil and banking sector as well as some other industries but also including organizations and individuals know the value of the ring in riyadh has dropped the economy has been suffering unemployment

is high and this time last year ron had applied to the international monetary fund for $5000000000.00 to help them fight that krone virus pandemic now that was blocked by the united states and president hassan rouhani praised people he praised what they call here the resistance economy and said according to the central bank the economy had grown by 2.2 percent that's because there's not a lot of imports coming in local manufacturers in the country have stepped in to fill that gap and in fact the uranium supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has called this next year the year of production support and the removal of obstacles in the country. relations between the u.s. and china have been strained after hours of tense talks today meeting in alaska did with both sides saying it was constructive but differences remain diplomatic editor james bays 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 moving china's actions in john regards who was on hand to better recently 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 direct frank and constructive the biden administration for now it's 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 to 0 i encourage the u.s. secretary of defense has urged its allies to move away from acquiring russian military equipment to avoid triggering u.s. sanctions lloyd austin made the comments in india where the government is considering purchasing a russian missile defense system the topic was discussed during a meeting with india's defense minister and other national security officials austin's trip in the in the pacific region is seen as an effort to counter china's growing influence despite today's challenging security environment the partnership between the united states and india the world's 2 largest democracies remains resolve and strong and we will seek every opportunity to build upon this major partnership. our discussions today focused on about a wide ranging defense cooperation and expanding validity to ability engagement

across the says information sharing cooperation in emerging threat of self defense and mutual stick support we need you don't wide gamut of by. an agreed to punish you cooperation if you don't you just go come on come on and africa come on. defense and security says no he says the threat posed by china will have been a significant focus of the talks. the elephant in the room whenever india and the united states talk is clearly china and that is likely to have been good right at the top of be agenda especially given that the indian army has been in a face off on the him on the on board for the 11 months now in kashmir. the indians also cooperate with the united states navy in the south china sea in the pacific

area that would also have come up for discussion but also the major defense falkner ship 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. overall from the united states for interview this was a signal to all its allies in the region that we are here china continues to boom large or not as a major security threat and that allies will be consulted and taken into account whereas and when the united states takes any decisions in the area if the u.s. ever gets together of 1000 ships me it has spoken of doing including the ships of all its allies the indian navy which is $100.00 ship navy is going to be right up there that don't have that grew big so there is there has been a lot of cooperation many joint exercises many creating exercises and sort

of a building up of interoperability between the indian forces and u.s. forces in the into pacific so to that extent there is a sort of a role for india time for the weather now has rope. the weather is to really nasty in australia well some parts of australia particularly new south wales this cloud may not look much but think of the scale of things there has been flooding in the north the new south wales pretty widespread on low ground as well there are warnings out for yet more rain to come probably another 2 or $300.00 millimeters we've had of that already that's a protein 3 or 4 times the march average for this part of a straight now that's the picture for sunday on shore breeze beans big waves which the surface love but nobody else does because there's a warning of damage as they hit the coast the wind itself has been strong enough to cause some damage you may see in the videos just then some roofs ripped off there's

a possibility of more of that but more likely you could have widespread flooding because out of the interior comes yet another system the 2 joined together and you have the orange tops show persistent rain for yet more days particularly in northern new south wales. right let's leave australia and go to a quite a part of the world weather wise east a shell though at the moment is fairly active from the point of view of an ice storm system bring rain to honshu with snow on the northern part which means hawkeye to it all clears through within the monday and the sun becomes dominant again. well still ahead here all the news. creating an alternate reality how technology is helping bring back the stars of the past to life and changing the world as we know it plus i'm john hendren in chicago reporting on fatal police shooting as a people with mental illness. and the u.f.c. fight is called all 5 to one of the fighters faints in the way it.

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on al-jazeera. i looked out documentaries that in the mind's. eye on algae 0. 0000. book about your challenges there was news hour with me said the rama reminder of our top stories 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 restrictions won't be as harsh as those imposed last year. at least to protest as have also been killed overnight in the b.m.r. city of. demonstrations continue despite an increased use of violence by the

military joint rights group says that at least 237 people have been killed. and india's defense minister and the u.s. secretary of defense have agreed to enhance security cooperation between their countries the move is seen as an effort to improve ties and counter china's growing influence in the indo-pacific region. brazil's president has asked the supreme court to overturn curfews lockdowns imposed by baz and state governors also laura says that acting as dictators and starving people by forcing them to stay at home during the pandemic of the chaotic here reports now from rio de janeiro. the beaches in rio de janeiro seem to be a world apart far from the cove with 900 pandemic spiralling out of control throughout brazil this couple from neighboring argentina came here 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 that brazil has become the epicenter of the world pandemic that everett 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 rios 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 state say they're running out of medical supplies to 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 not his words were received with mixed feelings. brazil is 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 it is the law is that it was the month is.

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 hot dogs on the beach if i'm forced to stay at home what will happen to us. the beaches in rio are like an open market place many informal workers make their living here crawling everything food how will. they rent chairs they sell art and they have no way of making a living if the beaches are closed specially now 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. the u.s.

will send more than 2 and a half 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to mexico next week now 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 there's been 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 inventions as cases surge back towards its peak of last year india media reporting more than $40000.00 new cases of converged on saturday bringing the total to 11 and a half 1000060 percent of new infections are in the western state of maharastra or 40 say the surge has been fueled by crowding and people ignoring restrictions turkey's president has pulled the country out of a global treaty on preventing and combat in violence against women reza dire burdwan issued a presidential decree ordering the country to withdraw from the 2011 istanbul

convention the agreement was signed by more than 45 countries it's a promise by governments to take tough action on domestic violence marital rape and female genital mutilation critics of the treaty in turkey say it damages family unity encourages divorce and supports the l g b t movement pick both kurt is a stumble based lawyer the we will stop femicide platform she says the presidential decree came as a surprise and is very frustrating. last summer there was a great campaign against the book and mentioning an older woman and i was. raised there was the. woman and those closest to the government as well they also said that it's not possible to discuss anything against a symbol convention because it basically lays down the legal ground world anathema muslims to combat against while and so against woman. it seems like

a. it's a decision that was not being inspired by do public or the public movements women's movement basically for the last 3 years. the convention has been increasingly shown as a villain for the algae the move a month and that is the raid then that he was naked as was and. imagine having for his men i've been discussing our money that's being paying so all these discussions say that some of convention is destroying the turkish family life and. public culture and so forth so that is that that is the main. discussion that is the main opposition against assemble convention but this is a consciously with more than 18000000 population house and with the national

population a woman there have been there is being it increases the messiah taking last year only last year 300 women were killed $170.00 cases were on identify the woman i think well. investigate why be a we are being kill why do you use an increase in milan * and were not double convention. a long dormant volcano has erupted in southwest i flew. and it's situated between the capital reykjavik and the international airport now no one has been ordered to leave but a no fly zone is in place is the 1st eruption in this part of the country in almost 800 years said about salty is the chief scientist at the icelandic nature logical office they're responsible for monitoring volcanic activity and in all all natural hazards in iceland and joins me now from the capital reykjavik kevin spacey thanks

for joining us on al-jazeera how surprised should we be that this volcano has erupted considering the region hasn't seen this level of activity the nearly 800 years well hi everybody i'm not that much either somehow well again or are many people we know that are occupied can exist in the going eastern hour and. these. always seems more than one year effect and you're not going to somehow we're going to get you know maybe or an eruption or green here how long can you actually estimate that this sort of activity in this particular location could last for. well it is there is hard to say who are in new orleans that eruptions in these the they are they are being updated featuring that a big volumes so he's means that most of the time. they've been just releasing not a very large amount of law. we also know let's all friend

the eruptions you know these play games and they have been characterized by i.c.e.'s or corruption what we call 5 years so we might be possibly seeing the beginning of something that will be there. to be continued eruptions people going extracted beast night. and again it is he's very hard to say you were anything's going to be over ok well we know that iceland has had many active o'kane is the past but how dangerous all the active ones that you know of right now when it comes to their location to the urban areas in iceland. yeah this is correct we have more than 30 at the brookings in the country and they are and they are dangerous for different reasons some of them can't be sure a very large eruptions on going to be on dangerous because they don't have a very many at warnings that give us and are going one day as if they did not close

the infrastructures and want to be are seeing now is the only area that has the arguments been used and you can be the area where he will retire the main you just after so become the rethink of the airport and the main country an area last hard to look ational where these small in iraq and he's thinking. east exactly the long game well it's a gimme the part of that in his part of the law fellows that are. making hard to be sure they are leaving notes. chilling effect along from the from the fishery saddle so i'll say they are not pumping. any mean in fact they increase their turbulent our fuel supply always will keep a very close eye on us and hope to talk to you about this again in the coming days sarah besotted thanks for joining us from reykjavik thanks so much us churches reject another 10 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 joe trayvon had all the highly publicized settlement jeopardized his chance of a trial video of 7 kneeling on george floyd's next sparked protests around the world last year. each year in the united states police encounter an individual undergoing a mental health episode all too often those interactions begin with a call for help and and in death john hendren spoke to the family of one man killed by police when they say the only person he was considering hurting was himself. christian hall stood on a pennsylvania bridge suicidal gun in hand in the midst of a mental health crisis video shows him with his hands up high the gun apparently no longer in them then officers fire.

or. they don't shoot them if they did the police report says he was aiming a gun it officers in advancing toward them look for yourself what do you see it looks like it's in retreat that people. that they may be fabricated a story like that pennsylvania state troopers knew they were responding to a call about a suicidal young asian man traumatized by a recent break up all he made it was a happy man and they gave him but it why would you shoot 1st and ask questions later we know the police can deescalate when they want to critics say that far too often when police are called to help in a mental health crisis in the united states the crisis ends in death maybe they could have done other things other than a bullet they needed to be sure that many times they needed. to kill him but police forces say they are usually trained to respond to threats not mental health

crises in the past 6 years more than 1300 people suffering such crises have been killed by police according to a database compiled by the washington post that's about one in 4 fatal police shootings in america. many involve minorities such as daniel pruett of rochester new york who suffocated naked in handcuffs in the winter cold after police put a bag over his head and then there's christian hall would have been different had he been someone else had he been white yet. i strongly believe it would have been different major cities such as chicago have crisis intervention teams that include mental health experts some cities are hiring mental health workers to respond to some emergency calls but over the past 2 decades many have cut those jobs cutbacks. have unfortunately lots of these these kinds of horrific outcomes in many cities and then not blaming

officers but putting officers into situations in which they are not fully prepared to respond and we need to bring those teams back until that happens he says mental health crises will likely often continue to end in tragedy and bloodshed john hendren al jazeera chicago. still ahead here on al-jazeera we'll hear from the olympic taekwondo fighter and what he thinks about overseas fans being shut out of the games that story after the break. for afghans with ties to international organizations. distrait has never been greater. left exposed by the withdrawal of foreign troops. may be the only path to safety. in the nation makes home feel ever farther away.

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book about tough sport history say oh thank you been haring fans from outside japan will not be allowed to travel to take you to watch the olympics or paralympics because the current virus pandemic a joint decision was made earlier by the international committee the japanese government and local organizers who are concerned about overseas businesses. bring in cases games organizers will now begin the process of refunding around 600000 overseas ticket holders for the olympics but they won't cover the costs of lost hotel bookings all flights were a.p. sports journalist stephen white joins me now from tokyo stephen how will this decision be by the japanese public. with some relief i think finally the decision's been made it's been rumored for months that there be no overseas friends but finally they've made it the i.o.c.

the japanese organizers basically bowed to japanese public opinion 80 percent of the people here in one form or another and one poor another of said we don't want the games to go we want a cancellation another postponement i think one poll said 77 percent did not want overseas fans here so the organizers and the i.o.c. were just bowing to reality you know the reality of the of hauling this thing in a pandemic is difficult and they need really a few people involved as possible so how will this decision impact the japanese economy if it is going to be hit hardest by this. you know the economic impact short term is very small this is a commie with 5 or 6 trillion dollars. g.d.p. g.n.p. the olympics are small potatoes it's a couple weeks it doesn't have much effect certainly there will be some restaurant to some hotels who are affected what will of its effect that is the organizing

committee this privately funded budget the budget of about $6700000000.00 ticket sales are the 3rd largest income source almost $800000000.00 they're going to lose a big chunk of that in these refunds and the shortfall in this privately financed budget has through made out by as usual japanese taxpayers and the japanese some japanese government entities so that's who are hits the most now not so much the restaurants in the airlines of course there's a little 'd impact there but mostly in the budget the talk here 2020 c. you spoke about the refunds to take it but there are still some details that are on play what he tell us about that. well you know basically the japanese are good guys and committee is not in charge of refunding this money for these overseas buyers the overseas buyers buy tickets through something called an authorized to can resell or every country has one every national epic committee appoints one they will be doing the refunding and many of

these overseas sellers put on about a 20 percent commission on the tickets so nobody is saying whether the these fees will be refunded certainly the tickets will be refunded but that 20 percent carrying charge i doubt is going to be refunded and i'm sure some some people bought tickets are going to be upset about that for sure the next big decision on fans will be taken an april what are we to expect then. we're going into it with a promise to tell us how many people can go in these venues if any they will be different depending on indoor outdoor venues are going to set some limit on how many fans they'll accept that comes in april. that's sort of an easy one i guess we're going to have maybe 50 percent capacity here perhaps i don't know i'm just guessing but there's going to be some fans for sure although maybe in maybe in some venues or won't be but i think there will be fans and outdoor venues of course many more than indoor ones. coronavirus aside it seems to have been

a pretty troublesome build up to these olympic games hasn't it. yes and no before or before the pandemic a year ago 'd thomas bach the head of the i.o.c. said these are the best prepared olympics ever born and so japan was doing great they might have spent too much money they might have been over budget but they were they had it all in control and then the pandemic set them back it cost them another almost $3000000000.00 to rejigger this thing so they've had problems of bar bribery scandal was connected to these olympics but if you step back a little bit you have to think that japan is one of the few countries on earth that could start from scratch and do this again there's very few places that could try this again and japan probably will pull it off because japan is a place where people work hard and very precisely and that's a that's a big plus for these games i think all right stephen wait a peaceful gentlest thank you very much for joining us and taking

well you know we spoke to british taekwondo fi and if i tell you taylor mohamed he told us that it's a blow to not having foreign fans that he's just happy that the games a still going ahead. for me wonder biggest things about lympics is having back support. you know plenty from home mostly family and friends so and olympics without that is going to be with but let's face it it's been a very we year we are very fortunate that g.b. take one doe we've been a loud to train gz why elite athlete exemption it's been very organized i'm very grateful for that but across the world no that is not the case for everybody plenty of quarantine and lack of access to facilities another thing that nobody is 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 when men got halfway through pop the 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 now to the u.f.c. and a fight has been cancelled after one of the contenders fainted twice during the weigh in this was bantamweight here yesterday at enco on the scales in las vegas before staggering back and collapsing. after a few minutes the lithuanians said she was fine and stepped up again but the same thing happened she was taken to hospital and a fight was called off many combat sport athletes often subject themselves to severe dehydration in the build up to fights in order to make weight which leaves them vulnerable to situations like this. tennis as well number one of a joke of it has pulled out of next week's miami open because of coronavirus

restrictions he says he wants to spend time at home with his family instead rough on the dow also withdrew from the event this week and roger federer decided earlier this month that he was going to play either. meanwhile world number 8 andre rieu blurred out his 23 match a.t.p. 500 winning streak ended by compactor it as corrupt said in dubai so from the all russian semifinal 2 sets to one yesterday an open semifinalist also becomes the 1st wild card to reach the dubai final since 1907 he'll play south africa's lloyd harris. but not even an earthquake could start world number 7 alexander sparrow from reaching the final in mexico the 5.7 magnitude quake struck during the 2nd set of his semifinal match against dominic cup for both the players and the umpire were left surprised but vera was unshaken as he went on to win in straight sets.

all right that is so useful for now i have more for you later sale thanks very much joe. it's been a difficult year for most sports a report on the happiest countries suggest the pandemic hasn't crushed people spirits finland has topped the list for the 4th year in a row followed by 8 other european countries and you sealants the report runs 149 nations in the us people about social support freedoms corruption and generosity. south korea is using artificial intelligence to breathe new life into music so that popular entertainers aren't forgotten and that includes freddie mercury lead singer with the group queen who died almost 30 years ago robert bright explains. it's a t.v. show that brings together 2 great passions in south korea popular music and technology a computer is told to sing like pop star kim kwan salt who died 25 years ago it then recreates his voice to deliver a song written long after his death. to the amazement of his fans.

the same technology produces the distinctive vocal range of the late freddie mercury from queen to sing in korean. stars of the past brought back to life thanks to a i when i watch the 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 where we have 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 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 gulf champion takes on a robotic opponent in another contest or. noun 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 nano versus indispensable or beyond manipulation for south korea or all this technology has very serious applications as our lives are transformed by the marvels of artificial intelligence then you never changes whether we like them or not but with bright as they are so numb south korea.

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