children's names. canada's dark secret on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the above 2 so not only take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. fearing another wave of covert 19 several european countries impose new restrictions and lock downs. are obvious and this is all to 0 live from doha also coming up demonstrations near the king's palace in thailand demands include a change to the constitution new elections and the release of protest leaders.

protests in turkey about to the president pulls out of an international treaty protecting women from violence. and tokyo's olympic organizers say overseas fans won't be allowed to attend tend this year's games. growing concern about the rising number of coronas infections is pushing several european countries to reintroduce lockdowns france poland and ukraine are all imposing tougher restrictions open 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 national disease control center is warning coronavirus cases are rising at an exponential rate that means it could add new measures in the coming days but infections in the u.k. are dropping and the british government says it's on track to give every adult in

the country at least one job at the end of july. has more from paris on what the latest restrictions mean. every time people in these areas want to leave the 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 go 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 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 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 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 people are rallying in germany to call for corona virus restrictions to be lifted rival protests were held in the city of castle but chancellor angela merkel may impose new rules because of a rise in the number of infections. protesters in thailand have broken through

barriers around the king's ceremonial residence in bangkok police have to use water cannon to push them back demanding the resignation of the government and a reform of the monarchy these are the latest in a series of protests that began last july tony chang has more from bangkok. the police fired water cannon and then charged against them also firing tear gas and her appear 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 unhappiness 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 down at the moment in time and particularly against the protesters but i think also the government has really made no substantial of efforts to look at reforming. the constitution and the administration that they were so unhappy about still very much in place. turkey's decision to withdraw from an international treaty designed to protect a woman from violence has sparked protests in istanbul president of egypt one issued a decree pulling out from the 2011 istanbul convention more than 45 countries are part of the agreement by signing it they promise to take tougher action against crime against women critics of the treaty say it damages family unity. if it bosko it isn't is temple based lawyer the we will stop femicide platform she says

the presidential decree is a surprise and very frustrating. last summer there was a great campaign against double convention. an older woman. raised there were the. women n.g.o.s closest to the government as well they also said that it's not possible to discuss anything against assemble convention because it's basically laid down the legal ground world anathema muslims to combat against while and so against women. it seems like a. it's a decision that was not being inspired by do public or the public movements the women's movement basically for the last 3 years. the convention has been increasingly shown as a villain or daljeet we remove

a month and that is an old one they're raised in the he was places 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 an increase of them a citation 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 not double convention

. japan's confirm that overseas fans will not be allowed to attend this year's tokyo olympics the ban isn't unexpected but it is unprecedented and it's another significant blow to the games which have already been delayed because of the pandemic they would stalks 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 secretary rice respecting who these priority of the safety of. all of. 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 they 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 fans just in reid 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 merely picks may have lost me in past but i will still be watching and give it a level around $4500000.00 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 are notorious for being very quiet and very polite

is like small influxes of excitement then it goes very quiet again so oughtn't to have competed in japan before 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 07 where it's a sports journalist in japan and he says most japanese who were polled did not want overseas fans to attend the games. finally the decision's been made it's been

rumored for months that they're being overseas fans 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 in one poll or another have said we don't want the games to go on we want to cancellation another postponement i think one poll said 77 percent did not want to overseas fans here 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 tours some hotels are affected what really gets affected 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 before the pandemic a year ago thomas bach the head of the i was c said these are the best prepared

olympics ever bar none 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 the buyer 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. still ahead on al-jazeera a volcano in iceland springs to life in the capital the 1st eruption in the 800 years. and creating an alternate reality how technology is helping bring stars of the past back to life and changing the world as we know it.

it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways it has got cold again blowing out from the cold interior mongolia really across north korea the north of china and 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 the just cold rain i think and things will quieten down to warm up on tuesday and behind all this it's 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 to 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 from northern pakistan and eventually northern india and so is a good seeing but often only a temporary cleaning of the ep tickly in new delhi so forecast hole we have a couple of days of thunderstorms little wind to move them on the sun's back out on wednesday. qatar airways its one of the world's most powerful and dangerous criminal enterprises central to the life he heads of hundreds of thousands of people and behind the deaths of many more exceptional access to some of its key flay is reveals the in the workings of an organization telling the name to many as the blood alliance inside this in

a lower college town part one of a key part investigation people in power on al jazeera. they want to remind our top stories this hour several countries in europe back under lockdown as the continent struggles with rising coronavirus and factions france poland and ukraine are among those clamping down on germany's war and cases are wising exponentially. protesters in thailand have broken through barriers around the king ceremonial residence police used water cannon to push them back since last year a movement is growing calling for the government to resign and reforms to the monarchy. organizers of the tokyo olympics have confirmed that overseas fans will

not be allowed to attend the games it's part of an effort to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus more than 600000 tickets are expected to be funded. iran's president says u.s. sanctions and the drop in oil prices have pushed the country to its worst financial year in decades and haasan rouhani said the economy still managed to grow by more than 2 percent gave the speech tomorrow notes that traditional persian new year mileti iran that a holy been out of the ball iranians were fighting this virus but they were not only denied international aid to fight it the x.'s 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. also big has more on

that speech 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 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 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 dollars 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 in local manufacturers in the country have stepped in to fill that gap and in fact the uranian supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has called this next year the year of production support and the removal of obstacles in the country with the rebels have admitted responsibility for a far detention center in. this month at least $45.00 ethiopian margarets were killed and hundreds were injured the affiliated ministry of interior says 11 of its fighters threw smoke bombs to stop protests at the facility set of been arrested it comes after the u.s. and the e.u. called for an investigation into the incident. u.s. defense secretaries again warning allies they should steer clear of russia's s.

$400.00 air defense system and made the comments in new delhi where he's been meeting india's defense minister india's paid $800000000.00 towards purchasing the s $400.00 but no parts have been delivered yet the u.s. placed sanctions on turkey last year for buying the russian system alston's trip is seen as an effort to counter china's regional influence. closer defense and security affairs analyst and he says china 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 the agenda especially given that the indian army has been at the in the 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 partnership india is a major defense partner of the united states they would have discussed ways of thinking that partnership forward joint exercises joint military exercises i should say. overall you know from the united states point of view this was the signal to all its allies in the region that we are here china continues to do large or not as a major security threat and the 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 group big so there is there has been a lot of cooperation many joint exercises many creating it. 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 real sort of a role for india the u.s. president's offering support to asian americans and has done a surge in hate crimes joe biden and vice president's visit at adelanto for 8 people were killed in a mass shooting on the reports 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 worried waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety in the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked blame scapegoated harassed they've been virtually assaulted physically assaulted 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 they will not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending state of hate against even the. well in atlanta biden stopped at the headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention or c.d.c. to thank the officials there it was meant to be a celebration of sorts as the u.s. has distributed over 100000000 vaccines with the president saying he expects to reach 200000000 in the next couple months president biden and vice president harris planned a political rally on friday night in atlanta but decided to cancel it and instead

met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels on doe al-jazeera washington times and ins have been paying their respects to their late president has been held for john michael fully who died at the age of 61 crowds came out today to bid farewell to be buried in his hometown next week vice president sam yes and the who haasan was sworn in as his successor on friday she's the country's 1st female leader cotton so it has more from neighboring kenya. today was a very emotional day in tanzania i had of the burial of the late president john paul the mughal fully on the 26th when he's a rural home of chattel so it started with a requiem mass at the st peter's catholic church in the wrestling where those who spoke about him said that he was a just man and he was hardworking and got the job done then that was whole lot by

viewing all of his body at the who who stadium it was a very emotional a very so my event and then sunday there's going to be a public viewing and there's going to be events all along the week and till 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 is shattered some say that they applaud the development agenda they say that they praise he's is iraq tolerance to corruption and that he just changed the way government did business but others call him an autocratic leader who presided over government that was. it was intolerant to dissent and most recently he he did come under a lot of pressure about how he handled the koran or virus pandemic with a lot of people saying that he failed to properly institute health protocols to

protect tanzania and so people are watching to see if the new president some years salute is going to do things differently. their option of a volcano in iceland doctorate lay dormant for close to 800 years appears to be easing its between the capital executive and the international airport no one's been told to leave the area but a no fly zone is in place increased seismic activity started 15 months ago but that was a rise in chalmers last month said above sorties the chief scientist at the icelandic mature logical office she told us that although volcanic eruptions are unpredictable event wasn't unexpected eruptions in b.c. they are being updated picturing but a big volumes so recently is that most of the time. they have been just releasing not a very large amount and we also know a little let's all friend the eruptions you know these well can they have been characterized by i.c.e.'s or eruption what we call 5 years so we might be possibly

seeing the beginning of something that may be going to be creeping into the eruptions the ongoing started beast night. and again if you still have the it is very hard to say you were anything for him to be over we have more than 30 of the retainers in the country and they are and they are ben just. some of them can be sure very large eruptions i'm going to be on dangerous because they don't have a very many warnings that give us and our i don't want people to be in the dark coastal impressed the pictures and what we're seeing now is the only area that is the right you know has been used and you can be the area really when we have you pressed after something on the medication over these small eruption you think in the east exactly a long day and whether it's a the middle part of the thing he's done a lot of those they are leaving not. going back from the from the

south so i'll say they are not getting. any mean and. south korea is using artificial intelligence to breathe new life into music so that popular entertainers aren't forgotten and that includes freddie mercury etc of the band queen who died 30 years ago bob 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 consult 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 this is a future of the artificial intelligence the company developing the cutting edge software is not only recreating voices but changing existing ones mary have little to make you younger every 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 gulf champion takes on a robotic opponent in another county. a renowned day 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 he never changes whether we like them or not but with bright outis there are some south korea. this is all just over those of the top stories parts of europe are back under lockdown as the continent struggles with rising.