and surviving a massacre on al-jazeera. played important role protecting human. touch face. fearing another wave of covert 19 several european countries impose new restrictions and lockdown. some are about this 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. tokyo's olympic organizers say overseas fans won't be allowed to attend this year's

games. and protests in turkey after the president pulls out of an international treaty aimed at protecting women from violence. parts of europe are back under lockdown as the continent struggles with a rising number of corona virus infections france poland and ukraine are imposing new restrictions hoping to fend off a 3rd wave parisians rush to leave the french capital before the lockdown came into force they're packing trains and jamming roads gemini's national disease control centers warning coronavirus cases are rising at an exponential rate and 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 at

least one job by the end of july attash 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 current virus infections daily infection cases have been around 38000 over the last a few days that's much higher than nearly didn't say 10 days ago when there were about 20000 cases a day intensive care units in hospitals in paris are reaching saturation points in fact over the last week we have seen patients being flown from paris to hospitals in other regions so serious situation the government wants to try and stem the spread this virus they say it is circulating more rapidly because mainly because of the so-called u.k. variants earlier we spoke to the u.k. vaccines minister not him zahawi told all jazeera governments everywhere are working hard to ensure people know that vaccines are safe. vaccine confidence is incredibly important to all of us around the world it's why we through our

presidency of the g 7 are leading a program around communication of vaccine governance not just to european union or united kingdom but also to the rest of the world because there is a tsunami of misinformation disinformation you quite rightly talk about the anti vaccine. that. worrying people and you need to get that information translated into many languages and information out there that people can rely upon when they make vaccines are safe they are saving millions of lives every year whether the vaccine is a whole year war measles mumps and rubella now cope as well so the important thing to work together i think you're right to say that when people hear mixed messages it can have an impact we saw it anecdotally some people sort of leave their g.p.'s and worrying about it but actually the numbers have come back up again in a really easy way where now over 50 percent today of the adult population.

protected without 1st dose thousands of protesters in central london and defying coronavirus lockdown measures by marching through the city large groups are banned from gathering under the current restrictions they said made a number of arrests including demonstrators not wearing masks and led by piers carbon the brother of former labor leader jeremy korb and dozens of politicians have been calling for rules banning protests gatherings to be lifted while fun runs to is a professor at the university of loven and the riga institute for medical research he says most people are complying with the lockdown measures no matter how unpopular. i think europe and many other countries around the world are or at least the population perceives that they're in an endless cycle of epidemics going up and then it's going down and that cycle is accompanied of course then by long downs and subsequent relaxations there is that that puts a lot of pressure on the population to keep the mob it's it's not easy to do in

these in these circumstances and i think that the only solution to stop that and the cycle is is going to be the vaccination program the cavalry is at the horizon we can we can but we were vaccinating in that in all the countries in the in europe and we see small successes countries that were 1st they start new fractionation campaigns there you can see the epidemic curve going down and then other countries such as belgium where we're starting the vaccination campaign the attacks and then about 10 percent of the population but we vaccinated all the elderly homes we can celebrate that we have almost no more down at the end more in the elderly homes so i think we have to point to the successes of the vaccination campaign and that's why the problems with the with our star seneca and country stopping the vaccinations i think unnecessarily. is is not a good thing because confidence and positivity is going to be key or they're going

to be key to guide this in the works hopefully it's going to be the final part of this is a. way mark on a virus is surging again across much of latin america and brazil over here there's nato has closed its famous beaches as intensive care units here 100 percent of their capacity fares are rising in neighboring argentina where the government's imposed restrictions and discourage any travel and most of chile is under strict lockdown as new infections come close to the record highs of last june that has more from want to set us. the beach is closing in brazil they have closed before we're going to have to see what kind of measures are taken to police those measures they've also banned the income incoming traffic buses bringing in rio de janeiro to limit the numbers of people on the beaches there and that has caused a great deal of concern in neighboring countries the government here in argentina on friday reduce the number of flights coming into the country especially from

brazil remarkably many argentine still taking their vacations on brazilian beaches and the government asking them not to do that here the situation in the hospital is more or less under control but what we're not seeing is a great roll out of the vaccination program which was promised towards the end of last year beginning of this year and it's great fanfare we were seeing president vaccinating themselves the 1st elderly people the failed health workers being vaccinated the vaccines in many places seem to have dried up we're not getting them here in argentina the one country that has been successful with the vaccination program is chile but despite a very successful vaccination program something like 30 percent of the population receiving the vaccines the numbers of people being infected still going up there were also seeing a number of scandals around the region was just lost its 3rd health minister since the pandemic started again another scandal with ministers ensuring that their

friends and colleagues are vaccinated ahead of those who have been promised the elderly health professionals essential workers. japan has confirmed that overseas fans will not be allowed to attend this year's tokyo and then picks 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 david 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 not need secret respecting who these priority of the safety of the 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 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 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 merely picks may have lost me in past but i will still be watching and a bit of 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 are notorious for being very quiet and very polite is like small influxes of excite. then it goes very quiet again so often that 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 0. about $1500.00 protesters in thailand have broken through barriers around the king's ceremonial residence in

bangkok but he says water cannon to push them back since the middle of last year a movement has grown demanding the government resigns and that the monarchy is reformed for the changs in bangkok and says many in the movement are determined to keep the protests going. the police fired water cannon and then charged against them also firing tear gas and her peer 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 out 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. still ahead on al-jazeera a day after the u.s. secretary of state smash his chinese counterparts the american defense secretary visits india. and john hendren in chicago reporting on fatal police shootings of people with mental illness.

well after one day of record breaking march temperatures things are settled down around the gulf states that are house darwin to a maximum of 32 degrees daryn is pretty similar and riyadh with that show mild blood not a particularly dusty one and the weather is now typical for most of the year which is more or less dawn to dusk sunshine there is more cloud building in the levant and in syria and iraq as active weather in turkey but germany speeds the winter coming across into egypt and they bring with them dust which will show the next change i think 1st of all a dusty breeze another run through i think the passing states north of saudi arabia and then eventually further east as well i don't think will generate much in the way of thunderstorms but it might generate one or 2 but it will be a pall of rather dirty air on the sandy and dusty air coming across syria and iraq and work into northern parts of saudi. now we have got a lot of shouting philippian south africa is on shore breeze coming gave

a brief need to always builds thunderstorms it looks like most of the active weather stays offshore temporarily but the time we get to sunday something very obvious moving up through south africa trust in the border into southern mozambique these may well produce flash floods in this part of southern africa. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a catastrophic model failure is that a fair assessment you can be catastrophic. to twice as valuable backseat informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on 00. 20. 00.

we want to go to 01 of our top stories this hour several countries in europe are back under lockdown as the continent struggles with rising corona virus infections france poland and ukraine are among those clamping down germany's war and cases are rising exponentially. organizers of the tokyo lympics have confirmed that overseas fans will not be allowed to attend the games as part of an effort to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus more than 600000 tickets are expected to be funded. protesters in thailand have broken through barriers around the king's ceremonial residence police used water cannon to push them back since last year a movement has grown calling for the government to resign and reforms to the

monarchy. there are protests against domestic violence in istanbul as turkey withdrawals from a global women's rights convention president obama issued a presidential decree pulling the country out from the 2011 istanbul convention agreement was signed by more than 45 countries it's a promise by governments to take tougher action on domestic violence not all 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 some women in turkey say they feel further exposed to violence and of another. we used to have trust in the government and the police but we can't trust them now we don't have an assurance who will we trust there is no state no police behind us to protect us where are they tell me my mother how is the state protecting her it isn't but i think the law should stay at least it's

a deterrent well turkey's not alone conservative populist governments across central and southeastern europe have been fighting against the treaty for years in turkey 18 the bulgarian government decided not to ratify the convention after the top court there ruled it violated the constitution slovakia rejected the treaty in early 2020 nationalist and far right groups said it represented extreme liberalism in may hungary's parliament formally called on the government to hold ratification and poland said it would start officially withdrawing from the treaty in july saying it's ideological and harmful rebecca kristi's a nonresident fellow at the brogans think tank in brussels and she says the move is a big setback for the values the treaty was meant to champion. it's so discouraging to see turkey where the treaty began the treaty of it's done ball is given its conventional name because turkey was so early to sign on and so to see this change

in the name of family is really a setback when people talk about families what they're really saying is we want to tell you how to have a family and we want to make sure you know that you're not safe unless you have the kind of family that we see that is completely at odds with the kind of values that people were trying to promote with this effort the treaty is more of a symptom of public opinion and public transit rather than a specific cause when you have a situation where people in charge think they can score political points by withdrawing even nominal protections for women in vulnerable populations you have a situation where people who would like to target them believe they can do so without any sort of penalty this goes not only for women but also for members of the lesbian gay bi and transsexual community and other people who are in any way perceived to be outside very carefully prescribe definitions of quote traditional

and that's the danger of talking about the family when people say the family what they're really saying is if we don't like your family you deserve to be punished and that's very chilling relations between the u.s. and china remain strained dr hours of tense talks there today meeting in alaska ended 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. part of proving talk 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. transactions and john. gardner was on hand to bet recently i want as well as actions that it takes in cyberspace. and. it's no surprise that when we raise those issues in directly we got a defensive response there were also though the u.s. said issues where the 2 countries interests intersected including iran north korea afghanistan and the climate crisis the chinese delegation later gave a statement to chinese media in their hotel presenting a reasonably upbeat assessment these time steady dick dialogue dyadic frank and constructive the biden administration for now has been able to stick to its plan and asia policy on a trip to the region the secretary of state and the defense secretary kept to their

promises they would construct a strategy after consulting fully with their closest allies and in anchorage as they said they would they talk tough with china on some issues while endeavoring to work with it on others after the explosive starts of this meeting the 2 brief statements at the end show that both sides want to lower the temperature for now but the divisions a deep and they're real and it's far from clear whether there's been any actual improvement in relations between the 2 most powerful countries on earth james pays out 0 anchorage. the u.s. defense secretary is again warning allies they should stand clear of russia's s. 400 air defense system and austin made the comments in new delhi where he's been meeting india. defense minister india's paid $800000000.00 towards purchasing the s $400.00 but no parts of been delivered yet the u.s. place sanctions on turkey last year for buying the russian system also strip is

seen as an effort to counter china's regional 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 to form this major partnership our discussions duty focused on our wide ranging defense cooperation and expanding military to ability engagement across the recent information sharing cooperation in embodied in fact that self-defense and the mutual stick support we had even would don't wide gamut of by and by to look at it for 3 years and agreed to put a shoe in hans cooperation don't you if you don't i think come on come on and africa come on who the rebels have admitted responsibility for

a fire i did detention center in sanaa and in this month at least $45.00 ethiopian migrants were killed and hundreds were injured who theophany ated ministry of interior says 11 of its fighters threw smoke bombs to stop protests at the facility their sets of been arrested it comes after the u.s. and the e.u. called for an investigation into the incident. iran's president says the drop in oil prices and increased u.s. sanctions have pushed the country to its worst financial year in decades but haasan rouhani said that despite that the economy still grew by more than 2 percent romney made the comments during his speech to mark notes the traditional persian new year i said because more of 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 said 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 $5000000000.00 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 in local manufacturers in the country have stepped in to

fill that gap and in fact the uranian supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has called this next year the year of production support and the removal of obstacles in the country. has been a series of developments in me and more where at least 2 protesters have been killed overnight in the city of moore gork protests continue across the country even though there's been an increased use of violence. by the military zone to our rights group says at least 237 people have been killed since also some cheap was deposed on february the 1st. today 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 base violence against and i think it's really important to emphasize that many of

these people. have been killed through gunshots to the head by snipers for peaceful demonstrations as in countries everywhere around the world u.s. police regularly encounter individuals in the grip of a mental health episode and often those interactions begin with a call for help and in death john hendren spoke to the family of one man killed by police when they say the only person he was considering cutting was them self 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. they didn'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 enraged 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 breakup 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'd need. 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. extremely believe it 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 what these these kinds of horrific outcomes in many cities have done not blaming officers but we're doing officers into

situations in which they are not fully prepared to respond aaron. we need to bring note that until that happens he says mental health crises will likely often continue to end in tragedy and bloodshed john hendren al jazeera chicago you can find a lot more detail on our website al-jazeera dot com. this is all to see if these are the top stories parts of europe are back under lockdown as the continent struggles with rising corona virus infections france poland and ukraine are among those clamping down that a protest against domestic violence in istanbul is turkey withdrawals from a global women's rights convention president dress up to about one issued a presidential decree pulling the country out from 20.