surviving a massacre on al-jazeera. be the hero of the world. washing . fearing another wave of covert 19 several european countries impose new restrictions and lock downs. the rommany want to alter their lives my headquarters here in doha also coming demonstrations near the king's palace in thailand the protesters demands include a change to the constitution new elections and the release of protest leaders also

take is a big organization to seize fans won't be allowed to attend this year's games. creating an alternate reality how technology is helping bring back stars of the past to life and changing the world as we know it. welcome to the program growing concern about the rising number of credit ari's infections as pushed several european countries to reintroduce the lockdowns fronts poland and ukraine all imposing tougher restrictions hoping to fend off a 3rd wave parisians are rushed to leave the french capital before the lockdown came into force packing trains and jamming roads germany's national disease control center is warning that quote a virus cases are rising at an exponential rate which means it could add new measures in the coming days but infections in the united kingdom 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 but i'm sure butler has more from paris on what the latest restrictions mean. 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 going to work shops are now shots except for essential ones so they join the restaurants bars cultural 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 for as long 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 are 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 let's say 10 days ago when there were about 20000 cases a day intensive care units in hospitals in paris are reaching saturation point 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. protesters in thailand broken through the barriers around the ceremonial residence in bangkok please to use water coming to push them back demanding the resignation of the government reform of the monarchy is the latest in a series of protests have become. the capital. the police

fired water cannon and then charged against them also firing tear gas and have appeared to have pushed them off none the less i think this is a sign once again that these protests have bubbled up now it's i think important to note here that the protesters were far outnumbered by the police about 1500 protesters we think of more than 3000 riot 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 has gone out of the protest but there is an awful lot of on happiness amongst the protesters and elsewhere the 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 that the government

has really made no substantial efforts to look at reforming. the constitution and the administration that they were so unhappy about still very much in place. overseas phones who hope to return the tokyo olympics will have to council their plans the games organizers say that they'll want to be allowed to travel to japan as part of an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus the decision isn't a total surprise since several reports in recent weeks the rest of 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 need to sacrifice respecting who these dry rooty of the safety of 0 or little bigger games this is largely been driven by

the japanese public recent polls have shown a growing skepticism about holding the games and in 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 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. last me in my house but i will still be watching it with it in

a more 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. like small influxes of excitement then it goes very quiet again so i'm very fortunate to have competed 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 out jazeera. at least 2 protesters have been

killed overnight in the amal city of magog protests continued across the country despite the military's violent crackdown a rights group says at least 237 people have been killed since a coup last month that rubenstein soon chief from power. to they at least 2400 people have been arrested by the security forces because of their suspected participation. in the demonstrations the vast majority of these people are held incommunicado still and we're hearing increasing reports of sexual based on sexual baseball islands. and i think it's really important and is that many of these people. are killed through gunshots to the head by snipers for peaceful demonstrations. iran's president says the drop in oil prices and increased u.s.

sanctions have pushed the country to its worst financial years and decades but has some hard he said the economy still grew by more than 2 percent hardly made the comments during his speech to mark reuss the traditional persian new year mileti iran that hardly been about of their bar iranians were fighting this virus but they were not only denied international aid to fight it their ex is to their own assets frozen and 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 well it's a bank has more from tehran. 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 now president has and ronnie 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 said that the united states hadn't been successful in achieving its goal now that maximum pressure campaign was bought 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 against iran's oil and banking sector as well as some other industries are also including organizations and individuals now the value of the ring in riyadh has dropped the economy has been suffering unemployment is high and this time last year applied to the international monetary fund for $5000000000.00 to help them fight that kroner 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 again 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 well still ahead here on al-jazeera turkey has decided to pull out for global treaty to fight violence against women we'll tell you why. we are operating with 2 days which is. every drop counts we look at ones above ways blood banks almost have to stay with us here. it has got cold again blowing out from the cold interior mongolia really across north korea the north of china on the north of japan is cold enough for some snow but it's rain to the south that is very obviously rain significant rain that i think was very strong winds it's blowing through honshu now the top edge is cold

enough for some snow in sapporo but it only be occasional snow showers most of it just cold rain i think and things will quieten down to warm up on tuesday and behind all this is sunshine and the remaining rain in southern china is going through hong kong the sun comes out for you on monday it's current possible it will see it in house or in the showers in the far southwest to china vietnam and then run across eventually into northern thailand of me and i was some big thunderstorms quite possible they might even hit bangkok otherwise pretty widespread showers in malaysia and into these as you might expect and may be helpful for the air quality this west the disturbance means thunderstorms for northern pakistan and eventually northern india and so is a good seeing but often only a temporary cleaning of the f. tickly in new delhi so forecast far as a whole we have a couple of days of thunderstorms little wind to move them on the sun's back out on wednesday.

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book about what you all deserve me so romney a 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 credible risk cases the french government says restrictions won't be as harsh as those imposed last year place in thailand have used water cannon against protesters after they broke through barriers around the king the ceremonial residence in bangkok they want the government to resign are calling for reform of the monarchy. and organizers of the tokyo olympics have confirmed that overseas fans will not be allowed to attend the games and it's part of an effort to reduce the risk of spreading quite a virus more than $600000.00 tickets are expected to be refunded. india's defense minister the us secretary of defense have agreed to enhance security cooperation between their countries lloyd austin's trip to new delhi follows similar visits to south korea and japan they're seen as an effort to improve ties and account to china's growing influence in the indo-pacific region

despite today's challenging security environment the partnership between the united states and india the world's 2 largest democracies remains rizal young and strong and we will seek every opportunity to build upon this major partnership. our discussions today focused on why didn't you can defense cooperation and expanding validity to ability engagement across the says information sharing cooperation in emerging threat of self defense and mutual sticks a whole media would the white guy might of by and by. an agreed to but issue cooperation don't you just go come on come on and africa come on. as a defense as a carrot even as other list he says charlie will feature high in 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 your gender especially given that the indian army has been in a face off on the him on the border for 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 also the major defense patna 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 you know from the united states point of view this was a signal to all its allies in the region that we are here china continues. as

a major security threat and that allies will be consulted and taken into account whereas when the united states takes any decisions in the area if the us 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 the top of that group 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. the u.s. president has called for a change of hostile denouncing an increase in violence against asians joe biden and vice president coming out horace met asian american community leaders in atlanta for their visit follows a mass shooting in which 8 people were killed 6 of the victims were women of asian

descent gabriel is on the house move from washington d.c. 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 feeling their safety and the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked blame scapegoated harassed they've been virtually assaulted physically its own killed the comments came in a previously planned stop by president biden and vice president camila harris in atlanta where on tuesday 8 people were killed 7 of them women 6 being up asian descent the alleged gunman a 21 year old white man was arrested and charged with the murders investigators

have so far resisted calling the murders a hate crime but on friday vice president harris herself of asian descent as her mother was born in india said racism is alive and well in america ultimately this is about who we are as a nation this is about how we treat people with dignity and respect. everyone has the right to go to work to go to school to walk down the street and be safe and also the right to be recognized as an american in new york where there have been more than 10 documented hate crimes against asians in recent months a peace vigil was held calling for an end to the violence really holds i really hope this is the culmination of the hate and bigotry the asian americans have he said clearly that there will not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never

ending speech of hate against asian americans while 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 and it led to 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. turkey's president has pulled the country out of a global treaty aimed at preventing and combat in violence against women present berber the one issue the presidential decree ordering would draw from the 2011 stumble convention $45.00 countries have signed the agreement it's

a promise by governments to take tougher action on domestic violence marital rape and female genital mutilation critics of the treaty and damages family unity encourages divorce and supports the l g b t movement to pick those courteous and istanbul based lawyer at that we will stop femicide platform she says the presidential decree is a surprise and very frustrating. last summer there was a great campaign against the book and mentioning an older woman i was. raised there was the. woman closest to the government as well they also said that it's not possible to discuss anything against assemble convention because it basically lays down the legal ground world anathema muslims to combat against why was against women. it seems like a. it's

a decision that was not being inspired by day public or the public movements women's movement basically for the last 3 years. the convention and it has been increasingly shown as a villain for the algae the move a month and that is an old one they raised in the he was naked as was. a man having for his man 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 an increase of senate citation last year only a mastery of the 100. 170 cases were on identify the woman i saying well. investigate why be a we are being kill why do you use an increase in milan and not double convention. johnson is a paying their respects to the late president a mans has been held for john mica phillida out of the age of 61 people came out in droves in dar es salaam will be very his hometown next week vice president samir salute who hasn't was sworn in as a successor on friday she's the country's 1st female leader. has more from nairobi in neighboring kenya today was a very emotional day in tanzania ahead of the burial of the late president john paul the mughal fully on the 26th in his room off the charts also it started with

a requiem mass at the st peter's catholic church in the wrestler where those who spoke about him say that he was a just man and he was hardworking and got the job done then that was followed by the viewing of his body at the who stadium it was a very emotional a very sewn by event and then sunday there's going to be a public viewing and there's going to be events all along the week until friday when he is going to be buried. so tanzania's now are grieving but they're also talking about his legacy which many say checkered some say that they applaud the development agenda they say that they praise he's as erode tolerance to corruption and that he just changed the way government did business but others call him an autocratic leader who presided of a government that was. that was intolerant to dissent and most recently he

did come under a lot of pressure about how he handled the coronavirus pandemic with a lot of people think that he failed to properly institute health protocols to protect tanzania and so people are watching to see if the new president salmiya saloon who is going to do things differently. health officials as a boy her appealing for help to replenish the country's blood banks. the restrictions on people's movement of lead to fewer donating blood and the national supplies a critically low level are in the toss of reports. it's elaine about lose 1st time giving blood she says the father's sudden death made her realize how important this is my dad was a police officer here part of the zimbabwean police force here and he got shot 6 months ago and unfortunately didn't survive but i mean that weekend he was in the

battle 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 give blood and platelets you know in order for the heart the doctors to do whatever they could and he he lost almost all of the blood in his body before the 1st operation so that's why i say it every time i see like somebody to donate that's going to be my intention like it could potentially save anyone's life. government enforced covered 19 lockdowns and restrictions on movement have led to fewer people donating blood supplies have dropped to critically low levels across the. moment for its very living from hand to mouth most will have one or 2 days cover because when you talk about strokes we're looking at how much we want thing and for how long we need to cover as a nation so on average we are operating with the one we want to do which is very very good we want to do all rooting out for minimum 5 days if we have to be idealists talked up in 3 to 4 in the emergency room earlier this month the

government eased its growth or bias lock down 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 nother. it will put even more pressure on the banks. other countries around the world are also worried about when doing 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. a long dormant volcano is erupting in southwest iceland and it's situated between the capital reykjavik and the international airport no one has been ordered to leave but a no fly zone is in place it's the 1st eruption in this part of the country in

almost 800 years. now south korea is using artificial intelligence to breathe new life into music so popular entertainers of forgotten and that includes people like freddie mercury of queen fame who died 30 years ago bride explains. it's a t.v. show that brings together 2 great passions in south korea popular music and technology a computer is told to sing like pop star kim kwan salt who died 25 years ago it then recreates his voice to deliver a song written long after his death. to the amazement of his fans. the same technology produces the distinctive vocal range of the late freddie mercury from queen to sing in korean. stars of the past brought back to life thanks to a i when i watch the 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 very 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. 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 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 nano versus 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 to say or some south korea. watching all deserve me so whole robert in doha a reminder of our top news stories parts of france poland and ukraine are back under lockdown on saturday as they struggle with rising numbers of coronavirus.