on al jazeera world. al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes fearing another wave of covert 19 several european countries imposing new restrictions lockdowns. demonstrations to the king's palace tyla demands include a change to the constitution new elections and the release of protest leaders.

crowds and out of salaam gather to pay their final respects to president john not go full. he can have no say for. the u.s. president says attacks against asian americans must stop after a mass killing in the state of georgia. i'm gemini around madrid when again to keep the pressure on leaders athletic in the spanish title race and take a live in the open eyes as. fans from attending this year's games because if is if the spread of coronavirus. 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 are 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 at least one job but 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 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 have

a want to relax some rules so people are now allowed to be out and about in the fresh air force 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 about him zahawi told al-jazeera governments everywhere are working hard to ensure people know 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 will measles mumps and rubella now cope with as well so the important

thing work together i think you're right to say that when people hear mixed messages it can have an impact we saw it anecdotally some people sort of leave their g.p.'s and worrying about it but actually the numbers have come back up again in a really easy way where now over 50 percent today of the adult population. protected with that 1st dose thousands of protesters in central london are defying coronavirus lockdown measures by marching through the setting large groups are banned from gathering under the current restrictions police have made a number of arrests including demonstrators not wearing masks led by peers carbon the brother of former labor leader jeremy carbon dozens of politicians have been calling for rules banning protests gatherings to be lifted. to govern them is also tightening restrictions as it struggles with a record number of deaths so far it's only received 50000 vaccines and it's waiting for another batch through the global kovacs program reports. cemeteries offering up

fost morgues are crowded with bodies awaiting burial and hospitals are its maximum capacity for. those needs capital sarajevo's facing a new wave of current virus infections and it's fair to could be far worse than the 1st more interesting the highest number of daily deaths in the country since the pandemic started funeral parlors say they're working around the clock to cope. for the show you project that if 'd you're the 1st we're going to know about it if it goes on like this at the end of march we'll probably have more deaths in these 1st 3 months of the year than the entire last year bosnia has one of the highest rates of deaths in the world for its size of population the number of funerals of course was the horrors of the bosnian war in the ninety's ninety's so the kids who gave some good sometimes i tend to funerals on the same day so many people died my

friends and family this reminds me of the war period and the post war time when people were buried after being examined for mass graves in eastern bowls near where i worked the situation is pretty much the same. for the health ministry has recorded more than 6 and a half 1000 new cases of corona virus in less than 10 days and 44 this is our central i.c.u. unit we have 2 more wards which we call post intensive care but believe me conditions of these patients are such that they are all really intensive care patients. although with a shortage of vaccines bosnia has been unable to stop the mass inoculation program it's ordered more than 2000000 vaccines under the global kovacs increase population of 3500000 deliveries have been delayed the government says it's disappointed it is only received $50000.00 doses so far. in sarajevo there's been

a lack of social distancing and more squaring the rise in cases and deaths the government not stick to guidelines on friday cafes and restaurants now closed for 2 weeks. al-jazeera marking lance is a professor at the university of loven and the rigor 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 as a company and of course then by lockdowns and subsequent relaxations there is that that puts a lot of pressure on the population to keep the ma 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 but we were vaccinating in that in all the countries in 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 book is hopefully is going to be the final part of this is that. pakistan's prime minister has tested positive for cover 19 imran

khan's health minister confirmed the infection and says khan is self isolating at home and was vaccinated just 2 days ago pakistan is grappling with devising infections as the government rolls out inoculations starting with health workers. well corona virus is surging again across much of latin america and brazil very a visionary has closed its famous beaches as intensive care units here on 100 percent of their capacity fears arising in neighboring argentina over the government's imposed restrictions and discouraged any travel and most of chile is under a straits lock down as new infections come close to the record highs of last june before more let's go to live to daniel in want to say it is latin america once again going through more lock downs daniel. yes it is rob there's not many of these success stories you've just been hearing about in europe around latin america the vaccines have arrived they arrived at the

end of last year beginning of this yet the roll out program has been very slow in coming you mentioned the beach is in rio closing closing down they're waiting there to see whether people are likely to comply with those 'd restrictions or not last time they did that they didn't there were very few police on hand to ensure those measures were imposed and you would have a president in brazil who's actually urging people to go to the beach saying that they need to soak up victim in victim in d. to fight against the virus and they should be on the beaches you have the mayor of rio and water though buys telling people not to go so you have similar situations across latin america a polarized nation of ideas people frustrated angry that the vaccination program isn't rolling out i mean here in argentina they've just impose new travel restrictions less flights coming in especially from brazil they're looking over the border at the surging numbers over 290000 people dead more than 11000000 infected

in brazil so argentina is obviously concerns trying to stop its people there are still argentina's going on holiday to the beaches of brazil to try to discourage that kind of behavior here we've had over 54000 deaths yet the hospitals here are suffering to the same extent they have been certainly in brazil and other countries in the region so mixed messages most of them are negative it must be said the vaccinations are here but i say very very very slow in coming don't you know the how of people who have been trying to brave this for months now dealing with it how are they dealing with all of this because there at the moment doesn't appear to be too much of any light on the horizon for them. but there really no i mean one of the few countries where they have had a very what's perceived to be a successful vaccination campaign is chile where i think more than 30 percent of the population has been vaccinated that's going ahead as planned yet as you

mentioned earlier high numbers of infections and deaths and there's a very tight lockdown now in place in chile to try to curtail that at the same time while you have politicians urging people to stay indoors to wear their masks many politicians have been involved in corruption scandals involving vaccines we've just had in the last couple of days the health minister of ecuador or those will farfan resigning after does 19 days in office his predecessor also left in a cloud having ensured that his family and friends were vaccinated ahead of health workers and the elderly brazil is lost its health minister argentina peru is well it's 6 health minister since the coronavirus pandemic began telling people to behave themselves to stay indoors so abide by the rules when the very people people to do that are breaking obviously people are talking about the hypocrisy the difficulty of doing that at the same time vast numbers of people in latin america

survive in the informal economy even with their politicians staying stay at home they simply can't afford to do that they need to be on the streets on the beaches of rio or wherever are selling their wares to keep themselves and their family is alive there waiting for the vaccine to come but they can't be there they can't be waiting at home to do that daniel thanks very much to the sailors. but the bar heard on the news hour including. i. protests in turkey after the president pulls out of an international treaty aimed at protecting women from violence. at a off to the u.s. secretary of state's metis chinese counterparts the american defense secretary visits india and in sport action from the english f.a. cup a southampton cruise into the semifinals. about

1500 protesters in thailand have broken through barriers around the king's ceremonial residence in bangkok police use water power and push them back since the middle of last year has been growing demand the government resigns and wanted the monarchy to reform 20 chang has more from bangkok. 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 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 protests 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 the still very much in place. tanzanian supreme paying respects to the late president john legere fully for the catholic mass in dar es salaam late later to 61 and buried in his hometown next week samir salute to his son before his vice president was sworn in to succeed him on friday becoming tanzania's 1st female leader gotten so he has more from 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 or so it started with a requiem mass at the st peter's catholic church interestingly 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 he did come under a lot of pressure about how he handled the coronavirus pandemic with a lot of people thing 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. the u.s. president is offering support to asian americans and his denounce a surge of hate crimes joe biden and vice president's visit atlanta or 8 people were killed in a mass shooting as all to 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 were 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 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 that 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 speech of hate against asian americans 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 and atlanta 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. there have been protests against domestic violence in istanbul as turkey withdrew from a global women's rights convention president richard burton ordered the removal and a presidential decree the agreement was signed by more than 4500 istanbul in 2011 governments promised to take tougher 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 algae and some woman in turkey say they now feel more exposed to the threat of violence and other money. 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. or turkey is not alone conservative and populous governments across central and south east europe have been fighting against the treaty for years in 2018 the bulgarian government decided not to ratify the convention after the top court ruled it violated the constitution slovakia rejected the treaty in early 2020 nationalist and far right groups said it represented extreme liberalism and 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 a ideological and harmful or rebecca christie is a non resident fellow at the broke all think tank in brussels 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 istanbul 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 trans 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 prescribed 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. japan has confirmed that overseas fans will not be allowed to attend this year's tokyo a lympics that 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 stop 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 dry rooty of the safety of all impede your games this is largely been driven by the japanese public recent polls have shown a growing skepticism about holding the games and a 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 requests to messick lee 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 my house but i will still be watching it with it at any 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 with japanese are nuts or it's been very quiet and very polite is like small influxes of excitement then it goes. quiets again so oughtn't to compete 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. still ahead on al-jazeera as iran marks the persian new year its president says it's time to turn the page on a difficult chapter also. and john hendren in chicago reporting on fatal police shootings of people with mental illness and in sport an incredible catch by england cricketer chris jordan in the 1820 decider against india. but after one day of record breaking march temperatures things are settled down

around the gulf states that are house down 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 wallace dawn to dusk sunshine there is more cloud building in the levant and in syria and iraq is active weather in turkey but generally speaking 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 sunday and dusty air coming across syria and iraq and work into northern passes. now we have got a lot of shouting philippian south after this on shore breeze coming it's 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 out through south africa crossing the border into southern mozambique these may well produce flash floods in this part of southern africa. for afghans with ties to international organizations. this rate has never been greater. left exposed by the withdrawal of foreign troops. exile may be the only path to safety. but alienation makes home feel ever further away. bill part of the viewfinder is a series on al-jazeera. banks love to make loans to sufferance because behind sovereign a millions of taxpayers because us taxpayers never go away there's a new one born every single day and it is an urgent national necessity that it be

officially request it is rationing of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i am a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. george you know it is it a reminder of our top stories this hour parts of europe are back on the lockdown as the continent struggles with wising coronavirus infections france poland and ukraine are among those clamping down germany's warning that cases of rising exponentially. about 1500 protesters in thailand of broken through bad is

a rather common set of mourning old residents basic use water counting to push them back since the middle of last year a movement been growing demanding the resignation of the government and for the monarchy to the former. organizers of the tokyo olympics have confirmed that overseas fans will not be allowed to attend the games because of coronavirus more than $600000.00 tickets are expected to be refunded. the us to find secretaries again the warning allies they should steer clear of russia's s 400 air defense system wide austin made the comments in new delhi where he's been meeting india's defense minister and is paid 8 $100000000.00 towards purchasing the s $400.00 but no parts have been delivered yet the us play sanctions in turkey last year for buying the russian system austin's trip 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 upon this major partnership. our discussions duty focused on our wide ranging defense cooperation and expanding. prosperity says information sharing cooperation in emerging from the start of the fans and mutual sticks of home we reviewed don't wide gamut of by and by to look at it for you and agreed to punish you you know hans cooperation if you don't you've been booked for if you come on come on and africa come on so how have the 2 countries strengthen ties over the last few years well after decades of rocky relations they signed a landmark defense agreement in 2016 last year fighting between india and china

over the disputed and elaine border left several soldiers killed on both sides of the crisis would seem to bring the u.s. and india closer and october the trump administration signed a $3000000000.00 deal do increase share the military satellite intelligence but as we mentioned earlier a thorny issue is new delhi's planned purchase of russia's s $400.00 air defense system well charles corruption's a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and a professor at georgetown university he's joining us live by skype from chevy chase in maryland thank you very much indeed for being with us let's talk about this visit in the context of course of the the u.s. meetings with china in a lasco what message do you think the u.s. is trying to send to both china and india. well i think we're seeing that the heating up of what i would call the great game major countries around the world are

starting to jockey they're starting to rub shoulders in a in a not so friendly way with the united states under the biden administrator coming out and said we're going to put together a strong united front of democracies russia and china pushing back and i think the meetings in yesterday and today between now general austin and his colleagues in india is about trying to forge a stronger united front in the end up pacific to stand up to china do you think that the increase links that we're seeing between the u.s. and india is in any way going to what is the u.s. would have stabilized the situation in the region or is it actually tilting the balance more towards the u.s. and india in a way say from china and pakistan. you know i think the challenge for president biden is to find the right balance between trying to stand up to china to say to the chinese on geopolitics on questions of human rights

questions of technology we're going to give you some space but don't try to take too much and i think what we're seeing now is the beginnings of the united states effort to push back against china and it wants to get india australia japan south korea together i think that can't the question is is this going to go too far is it going to lead to an escalation in which we see something that looks like a new cold war it's it's way too soon to tell but i think that's the issue that is really before us sent at this time about on a local level go to some degree a local level in the past china has kind of turned a blind eye as it were to some of the actions by on groups which have base themselves inside pakistan other times it has unofficial if you like encourage pakistan to clamp down on those groups if the balance which is too much towards

india and the u.s. in the region do you think china might actually. not put so much pressure on pakistan to control those groups. well you know i think it's important to bring pakistan into the conversation here because india is moving closer to the united states in strategic terms partly because of the rise of china and there have been some casualties on the border between india and china over skirmishes along the border and also there is the if there is the issue of pakistan pakistan and india have very poor relations china supports pakistan gives them both financial and military assistance and what we're seeing now is is in the of begin to not not form a military alliance with the united states i think that that is not in the offing at present but it clearly beginning to put itself in a geo political game alongside the united states again we're early on here these are early days but especially in the backdrop of the very testy meetings that took

place in alaska between the u.s. and china over the last few days i do think this is this is the beginning of what could be a new intensification of great power rivalry and of course china has its own interests as you were talking about there of course but particularly with the fact that it shares borders with both pakistan and india both of which are nuclear powers and it will have its own concerns about the tensions rising on an imbalance of perceived imbalance between those too. yes said you know and i think one of the key issues that will be addressed here in the united states is does it make sense to go ahead with this what we call alliance of democracies in which the united states throws its lot in with india with what's called the quad india australia japan the united states trying to create a united front front with its european allies or does it try to reach across the

ideological dividing line and work more closely not just with china but also with russia we've seen relations between washington and moscow get very testy over the last week and i think this is a this is a fundamental question that biden faces right now i'm not sure which way he's going to lead charles comes from we really appreciate your joining us in al-jazeera and giving us the benefit of your expertise thank you very much indeed. my pleasure if the rebels have admitted responsibility for a fire at a detention center in sanaa earlier this month at least $45.00 ethiopian migrants were killed and hundreds were injured the affiliated ministry of interior says 11 of its fighters threw smoke bombs to stop protests in the facility and this is what started the fire there said to have been arrested the u.s. and the e.u. are calling for a full investigation 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 honey made the comments during his speech to mock the traditional persian new year aside because more of that speech from to 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 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 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 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 uranium supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has called this next year the year of production support and the removal of obstacles in the country. but libya's former interim leaders and years has been transferred from jail to a hospital for medical attention. get her health is poor and struggling to eat and

yes was arrested last week and charged with terrorism sedition and conspiracy the conservative politicians accused of fermenting a coup in 2019 culminated with a long time left wing leader even what alice fleeing the country. each year in the united states police encounter an individual undergoing a mental health episode far too often those interactions begin with a call for help and in death john hendren spoke to the family of one man killed by police and they say the only person he was considering hurting his own 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 you look for yourself what do you see.

it looks like it's in ricci that people. there 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 why would you shoot 1st and ask questions later we know to 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. or have unfortunately what these these kinds of horrific homes in many cities have done not blaming officers but who are in 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. south korea is using artificial intelligence to breathe new life into music so that popular entertainers aren't forgotten that includes freddie mercury lead to singer of the band queen who died 30 years ago robin 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 reaction from these people then we can form that 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 we had a little and a woman. 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 a renowned day trader as 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 change is where the we like them or not but with brighter out says there are some south korea. still ahead on al-jazeera a couple kaito what iceland springs into life near the capital the 1st eruption in

the early 800 years and unsupported u.f.c. fights called off after one of the fighters fades away in. a football or a jump and a pioneer for a sport he lost the chance to play for his country but one a legal battle that paved the way for a generation of brazilian players footballing legend eric cantona introduces off one scene of people who lived by his club for his political beliefs he took power into his own hands and blazed the trail for players rights football rebels on algis eve what should americans be thinking and doing right now it should be about ideas they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the colony for the deluded defense budget to be trying

the bottom line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound is another matter when you go home home will be the news and current affairs that matter to you. type of sport. thank you rob as you've been hearing fans from outside japan will not be allowed to travel to tokyo to watch the olympics or paralympics because of the current virus pandemic a joint decision was made earlier by the international olympic committee the japanese government and local organizers who are concerned about overseas visitors

that bring in more cases games organizers that will now begin the process of refunding around 600000 overseas take holders for the olympics they won't cover the cost of lost hotel bookings or flights earlier we spoke with a peace corps journalist stephen wade in tokyo. the i.o.c. the japanese are going to just basically bowed to japanese public opinion 80 percent of the people here in one form or another in one poll another have said we don't want the games to go on 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 would see were just bowing to reality you know the reality of the of holding this thing in a pandemic is difficult and they need really as few people involved as possible you know the economic impact short term is very small this is a commie with 5 or 6 trillion dollars the olympics are small potatoes it's

a couple weeks 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 dollars they're going to lose a big chunk of that in these refunds and the shortfall in this privately financed budget has to be made out by as usual japanese taxpayers the japanese organizing committee is not in charge of refunding this money for these overseas buyers the overseas buyers buy tickets through something called an authorized ticket reseller every country has $1.00 every national implementor points 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 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 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 to. scratch doing this again are 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. british taekwondo if i had made a told us it's a blow not having foreign fans but he's just happy that the games are still going ahead for me wonder biggest things about lympics is having back support. from home oxley 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 dog we've been up a loud to train due to our lead 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's really mentioning is the qualification situation half of the athletes have still not been able to qualify due to the cold the pandemic so that's massive in excel i believe the box in qualification. but one man got halfway through hockey at least 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. ravager it have moved it to in 3 points of spanish they gave as athletic a widget after a $31.00 win away at celta vigo cameron benzema scored twice and marco asensio got

their 3rd they've gone about fossella into a 2nd. player all sorted out on sunday and may no messi is set to break the club's appearance record it will be his a 768 match for the club which will see him ever take the japanese number of games if mess is still a boss at the on the summer could he be playing alongside holland the strikers having a brilliant season of the breast said don't let it has been linked with a move to the spanish site. i don't think it is the time to talk about a player that isn't it i think it's out of respect for his club and for others above all in these times whether from today or a while ago with a new president there is talk about what is to come next season and the signings and i don't like it i think i need my concentration on the game tomorrow and the players that we have. cuban's form a club at southampton or into the semifinals of the english f.a. cup after a 3 no women over bournemouth after setting up their 1st go at nathan redmond

a brilliant solo run and finish made it to nil he also scored at southampton as they put their premier league struggles aside to make it into the last for. last month's australian open is semifinalist as longer out serve has won his 1st title on the men's tennis 2 at the dubai championships he was up against a south african qualifier lloyd harris who knocked out the tournament's top seed earlier in the week but it wasn't to be his day as he lost in straight sets 6362 this time last year correct 7 was ranked 263rd in the world but this win will move inside the top 30 india have won their t 20 cricket series against england after a $36.00 run victory in the 5th and final game india batted 1st after winning the toss batsman q my yadav probably thought to be dumb enough to hit a 6 here that christophe and while he had other ideas the englishman pulling off

a blinder of a catch on the boundary india at such an impressive $224.00 for 2 england were restricted to 1888 in their 20 overs england's rugby team while they didn't have a better day they were beaten 32180 by island in the 6 nations in dublin scotland had a dominant $5210.00 win over italy they ran in a try using creating 2 each for dave cherry and do have vandeman. they'll finish their campaign in a rearranged fixture against france in paris next week now to the f.c. and if you are a news unionist insists she's fine despite fainting twice during the weigh in for her fight this was the bantamweight on the scales in las vegas for staggering back and collapsing. wow many combat sports athletes are severely dehydrated themselves to make weight in the build up to fights sterling says the problem was

that she made wait a few hours too early which left her with no energy for the weigh in she says she feels great now and is ready to fight with the athletic commission won't allow it well that's all we'll sport for me for now i'll be back with more later. a long dormant volcano is erupting in southwest iceland close to the capital reykjavik that's the 1st time this has happened in this part of iceland in almost 800 years and no fly zone is in place and as well the challenge reports it's bringing back memories of a major incident 10 years ago. icelanders had been expecting this after 40000 small earthquakes in recent weeks seen as a seismic statement of intent from the earth beneath the wreckage in his peninsula but how big would the big one be here's the answer for now dramatic though not yet devastating considering it's less than 20 kilometers from the capital reykjavik the eruption is being closely monitored we any hour that he's going to. be the entering

when we have made. the gloves off you know that are. making sure they are leaving notes. from the from to be sure so we'll see they are not getting. any mean and. current hour. by night it's even more spectacular iceland is a juvenile country and geological terms a mere 20000000 years old it's frequent growth spurts and adolescent temper tantrums are expressed in. the regulus peninsula is usually calm though it's the 1st eruption recorded here since the 12th century and for the moment it's a minor one certainly nothing is disruptive as the eruption of york in 2010 then a huge plume of ash shut down much of europe's aspace and cause travel chaos for

almost a month for each island's al-jazeera. lionize is going to be here with more on all the stories in a couple of years by. the latest news judge need to see there will be no closure on the justice and so as the identities of those behind the list of all means are revealed with detailed coverage there's something else that mitigate about this plot it represents an invisible dividing line between the wealthier and the poor from around the world the man who knelt on his neck he has spent the week in

a minneapolis corporate with a quarter selecting jurors to decide if he should be convicted of murder when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges of suggestion and the state line becomes the default so media then wait about looking for images that lead to the letter to these guys that just how did he create a nuisance makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream to shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. mixing the traditional with the mountain know what do you knew what to expect ignoring cause divides the only thing which united there was the music great music played through the speakers wielding the power of music to turn up the volume on india's social injustices when i saw the performance i was like wow and shake things out we went on stage or something we brought up stairs or something this

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