this is when i saw the performance. and shake things out we went on stage of something regardless to just something witness this collective. millions of people go back under lockdown as your battles another surge in covert infections. you're watching all just 0 life from a headquarters in doha complicated also coming up rio is iconic beaches close to the public as brazil suffers its deadliest week yet. angry protests in turkey after president or to one pulls out of the istanbul

convention to protect women from violence church observers are blocked from monitoring sunday's vote in the republic of congo with longtime president dennis awesome wiseau the firm favorites. whenever we try and interview people on camera out on the streets as the thrill is specially anything to do with politics or the election. hello thanks for joining us countries across europe are returning to lock down as the continent grapples with a surge in corona virus infections it's all part of an effort to combat a so-called 3rd wave in france 16 regions including paris will have restrictions for at least 4 weeks that's almost a 3rd of the country's population then there is poland also entering a 3 week lockdown with students returning to online learn. and non-essential shops

closing or most of italy is population went into lockdown on monday with schools closing the country's also set for tighter restrictions nationwide over easter and with cases in germany raising at an exponential rates new measures are likely to be introduced there in the coming days that's a butler begins our coverage with this report from paris. it was clear from the number of people exercising and jogging by the river seine in paris the people who are making the most of being allowed outside the government's imposed the lockdown on the c.c. and 15 regions but this time people aren't required to stay indoors all day. we have to work all week so thankfully we can go outside it's a necessity it helps moral to be able to share some good moments. that we need to adopt again which will be painful in the days to come but we have to get on with it and hope it gets better in other parts of paris

a more familiar lockdown site quiet streets closed shops and businesses although schools and essential stores can statement is on top of the details on shopkeepers and small business owners are at the point of exhaustion after more than a year of yellow vests strikes no 3 lock downs in some regions it's too much. the cases of rising in france with almost 40000 new infections a day intensive care units in paris hospitals are full so some patients are being transferred elsewhere french government says the pods the france are battling a 3rd wave they hope that the regional restrictions will help avoid another national knock down by helping to stop the spread of the virus and winning time for more people to be vaccinated. on friday the french prime minister show cast sticks received an astra zeneca jab and attempt to convince the public if it safety off to

months of negative publicity and a temporary suspension like the skepticism is high in france but at this immunization center the queues would normally. i'm fine with the extra zeneca but it's normal that some people are worried because of the recent events and i think confidence will return in the coming week for some doctors the restrictions aren't tight enough but french president emmanuel michael says the economy in people's mental health must also be considered for now the new look down is set to last one month out of the many people suspect he could run much longer recession al-jazeera paris well thousands of protesters in central london have been defying lockdown measures by marching through the city large groups are banned from gathering under the current restrictions police have made a number of arrests including demonstrators not wearing masks led by piers corben he's the brother of the former labor leader jeremy korb and dozens of politicians

have been calling for rules banning protests gatherings to be lifted. pakistan's prime minister has tested positive for covert 19 imran khan's health minister confirmed the infection and says khan is self isolating at home he was vaccinated just 2 days ago how to stand is grappling with rising infections as the government rolls out inoculations starting with health workers. corona virus surging across much of latin america and brazil rio de janeiro closed its famous beaches on saturday that's as intensive care units near 100 percent capacity argentina has imposed restrictions and is experiencing vaccine shortages she lay is reporting a new infection rates close to record highs of last june that's despite most of the nation being under a strict lockdown for more on this let's bring in daniel he's joining us from. his 1st update us on the situation in brazil because it suffered yet another exactly

week. yes it really has i mean 79000 new infections in the last 24 hours that brings the number of infections up to nearly 12002400 deaths that brings that up 229-2000 deaths and as you mentioned i.c.u. beds in the resilient hospitals breaking point 95 percent occupancy in rio de janeiro a similar situation around the country hence these measures by the author it is in rio de janeiro to close the beach is there also stopping buses coming into the city bringing tourists to those beaches they've done that before the question now is whether they will police it whether they will stop people massing on the beaches they also have to put up with the president of the country job also noddle encouraging people to go to the beaches and take in the sand he's saying that's a good idea so they can soak in victim in d.

which will allow them to fight the cove in 1000 virus so that is a problem always in brazil you have the national forest is led by the president telling people to go back to work ignore the measures not wear masks and then you have city councils state governors trying to fight against the virus telling people to stay indoors and not work so a difficult situation there as the numbers continue to rise and also in chile daniel because it set a new daily record for new cases and that's despite its mass vaccination rollouts. yeah i mean chile stands out as the country with the most successful so far vaccination program something like approaching half of the population of 19000000 have been vaccinated so far more that things being being being deployed in the next couple of months so they're very happy with the vaccination program yet at the same time those as you mentioned those numbers continue to go up so new measures to try

to stop the spread about 95 percent of the population now living under lockdown measures the reasons behind that are unclear it could be because once people are vaccinated they think the problem is done and dusted it's over with and then they go out and try to live their lives as normal which may bring about a spread of the virus so they're employing the 2 major the vaccination program and this very tight lockdown to try to curtail the spread of bringing those numbers down here in argentina numbers are still going up but the biggest worry is what's happening over the border in brazil and measures here to try to restrict the number of flights coming in to try to urge arjun times not to go on holiday to brazilian beaches remarkably some still law. moves or monday the government will be meeting to discuss what further measures might need to be brought in to keep those numbers down ok daniel thank you so much i'm reporting from. police in thailand

have fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters that broke through barriers around the king ceremonial residence at least 5 people were arrested security forces in riot gear pushed back about $1500.00 anti government demonstrators officers charged the protesters who threw rocks and firecrackers in response tens of thousands of people mostly youths have been taking to the streets since mid last year they're demanding a new constitution and reforms to the monarchy. deducted from what. we repeatedly issued warnings before escalating our response the police have detained 5 protesters we found that the protesters refused firecrackers marbles and also of concrete intended to harm the police tony chang is in bangkok and he says the police far outnumbered protesters 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 the still very much in place. hundreds have been protesting in turkey after the government withdrew from a european women's rights treaty only this month president or vowed his government would work to eradicate violence against women world health organization data show 38 percent of women in turkey are subject to violence from a partner in their lifetime that's compared to about 25 percent in europe a group that monitors femicide says at least $300.00 women were killed because of their gender and 202171 others died under suspicious circumstances so far this year 78 women have been murdered or have died under suspicious circumstances another turkish women's rights group says only 7 out of $100.00 women subjected to violence reported to police and only 4 percent of cases lead to prosecutions

alexandra buyers' reports. the landmark treaty protecting women from violence bears the name of turkey's largest city now in istanbul there's anger that turkey is walking away from the accord it was 1st to sign a decade ago because the woman at that time uganda. i wasn't feeling safe as a woman even before this and after this i feel like i'm in an unsafe environment at least there was a little decision that i was leaning on but now i feel like i don't have any support i feel vulnerable in 2011 more than 45 governments promised to take tougher action on domestic violence marital rape and female genital mutilation. but conservative groups and officials from the governing act party have long argued it's inconsistent with turkey's values and undermines the traditional family unit tayyip erdogan ordered his country's withdrawal and

a presidential decree the government says turkey's laws are enough to protect women and their rights but not everyone agrees that on. every day women a killed in the streets in the bus in the car there are women who are beaten by their love as in an elevator when you get to that place they say it's ok has your husband forgiven for the sake of your children but when that woman returns home the same police offices there a day off to take a to have funeral how they're protecting us rights groups say violence against women and deaths are on the rise in turkey there is being nice and. last year only last 100. 170 cases were unidentified so women are saying well. investigate why we have we are being well why do you. turkey's not alone in turning its back on the istanbul convention conservative and

populist governments in hungary poland slovakia and bulgaria have all moved to prevent the accord from being ratified when you have a situation where people in charge think they can score political points by withdrawing even nominal protections for women and vulnerable populations you have a situation where people who would like to target them believe they can do so without any sort of penalty. protesters like these in istanbul say they'll fight on insisting their years long struggle won't be a race by the stroke of a pen. alexander byers al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera fans barry and we'll have more on how corona virus is expected to affect this year's tokyo's olympic games.

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more likely it will be rather wet in parts of costa rica and panama and increasingly receive showers in the greater antilles even in jamaica not so much so in the small islands in south america was recent heavy showers in peru producing flooding that potential still exists into sunday and probably monday. 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 economy for the bloated defense budget to be crying the bottom line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world while just iran. be the hero the world needs. washing.

time again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour countries across europe are re imposing restrictions to cope with another surge in corona virus infections 16 regions and france including paris are among those returning to lock down for at least 4 weeks rio de janeiro has closed its famous beaches on saturdays intensive care units in brazil near 100 percent capacity argentina has opposed restrictions and chile is reporting new infection rates close to record highs of last year. hundreds have been protesting in turkey after the government withdrew from a european women's rights treaty the agreement was signed by then 45 countries in

2011. healthy rebels have admitted responsibility for a fire at a detention center and yemen's capital sana'a earlier this month at least $45.00 ethiopian migrants were killed and hundreds injured the. ministry of interior says 11 of its fighters through smoke bombs to stop protests at the facility they are set to have been arrested this comes after the u.s. and the e.u. called for an investigation into the incident and thousands of protesters have gathered outside the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as residents calling for his resignation similar rallies have been held every weekend over the past 9 months it comes just 3 days ahead of israel's general election the country's 4th in 2 years that's on yahoo is hoping to benefit from the success of israel's vaccination campaign for israelis which has been the world's fastest.

for the 1st time in a limp make history overseas fans will not be allowed to attend the games japan's ban isn't unexpected but it's yet another significant blow to the tokyo olympics david stokes has the details. 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 your decision so which may not need a secret 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 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 you can record it in your own time and 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 booked domestically but while japanese fans are expected to be allowed in the venues will almost certainly operate at a reduced capacity in japanese that are notorious for being very quiet and very polite is like small influxes of excitement then it goes very. 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. a day before elections in the republic of congo a leading opposition candidate has been hospitalized in the capital brazzaville game price parfait called the positive for cover $19.00 president danny sas and west so whose role for most of the last 40 years is seeking another term with many

opposition politicians either refusing to stand or in jail from. reports. was. not many people openly criticize the electoral process in the republic of congo the catholic church is one of the few institutions that. father felicity and move only has been arrested twice because of his activism he was meant to be part of a team observing sunday's presidential election but he told us all church observers have been blocked from monitoring the polls about peace and democracy on paper it is a democracy since 1901 but in reality with such behaviors we need to question ourselves if we really are in a democracy and that's without the. president then he saw syrian queso has ruled for most of the last 40 years and he's campaigned to stay on there are many campaign posters the south through and western brazzaville the big

one over there another one here another one there are far fewer the opposition candidate like this one and when we try and interview people on camera out on the streets. the thought is specially if it's anything to do with politics or the election. across the congo river from brazzaville is kinshasa the capital of the neighboring democratic republic of congo. where the catholic church played a role in campaigning for elections to be held 3 years ago many of the protests with violently put down. reverend he was involved in that campaign he met in training church leaders on election. in brazzaville before they were banned from observing what do those voices if you might be. ignored. the choice of today's voice everything on the browser will side of the river is much more tightly controlled soldiers already voted ahead of sunday's election activists say their

polls were not transparent the president of the electoral commission who's also the chief justice insisted the republic of congo is a democracy. absolutely if not you would not be here interviewing president of the electoral commission if not there would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. thousands more tanzanians are expected to pay their respects to the late president john mica fully in the capital dadar on sunday on saturday large crowds attended a catholic mass in the city of data set by the foley who is 61 will be buried in

his hometown next week as vice president of the who has son was sworn in on friday becoming tanzania's 1st female leader catherine sawyer 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 a whole lot by viewing all of his body at the who who stadium it was a very emotional a very song by event and then sunday there's going to be a public viewing and there's going to be events all along the week and til 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

these 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. that was intolerant to dissent and most recently he did come under a lot of pressure about how he handled the koran or virus and they're made 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. well libya's former interim leader is being treated in hospital after being transferred from prison her lawyers say she's in poor health and struggling to eat was arrested last week and charged with

terrorism sedition and conspiracy the conservative politician is accused of taking part in an alleged coup in 2019 it ended with a long time left wing president. forced to flee the country. a top aide to the former maltese prime minister joseph muscat has been charged with money laundering and fraud keefe schembri was one of many officials accused of corruption by journalist. who was killed by a car bomb 3 years ago. supporters say schembri his prosecution is long overdue there are journalists death sparked protests across malta and force must step down the u.s. defense secretary is again warning allies to steer clear of russia's s. 400 air defense system lloyd also made the comments in new delhi where he talks with the indian defense minister of india has paid $800000000.00 towards buying the

s $400.00 but no parts have been delivered yet the u.s. imposed sanctions on turkey last year for purchasing the missile system trip is seen as an effort to counter china's regional influence. hundreds of people have protested in the u.s. city of atlanta over violence against asian americans the rally was prompted by the shooting of 8 people including 6 women of asian descent by a white gunman parlors on tuesday 21 year old robert aaron long is facing charges research shows hate crimes against americans have more than doubled in 60 major u.s. cities over the last year. the eruption often long dormant volcano in iceland that sent streams of lava across a valley near the capital is easing its the 1st eruption in the southwest region and almost 800 years and as rory chalons reports it's bringing back memories of a major incident 10 years ago. icelanders had been

expecting this to 40000 small earthquakes in recent weeks seen as a seismic statement of intent from the earth beneath the wreck 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 regular week the eruption is being closely monitored the area aren't easy regulus been used and you can be at the eno ready when we have many years of become the the last off and all those that are. already taking from to be sure they are leaving notes. going back from the from to be sure south so will say they are not getting. any mean and. they increase their current our supply. i know it's even more spectacular iceland is a juvenile country in geological terms

a mere 20000000 years old its frequent growth spurts and adolescent temper tantrums are expressed in. the regulars 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 a few at york in 2010 then the huge plume of ash shot down much of europe's aspace and cause travel chaos for almost a month for each island's al-jazeera. television the headlines on al-jazeera this hour countries across europe are imposing restrictions to cope with another surge in corona virus infections 16 regions in france including paris are among those returning to lockdown for at least 4 weeks rio de janeiro has closed its famous speeches as intense.