exceptional access to some of its key flayers reveals the inner workings of an organization telling the name to many as the blood alliance inside this in a low a cartel part one of a key part investigation people in power on al jazeera. covered restrictions spark resistance across europe as countries brace for another surge in infections. are watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha in denmark the gates are also coming up harsh terrain and remote villages how america's largest state of alaska has managed to become a leader and vaccination rates. and just to pay a sponsor depopulated state with many countries for example alaska that's right so

they should meet people the nigeria a country with a population of over 200000000 people. the long time president is the firm favorite to secure another term in the republic of congo as an opposition contender urges a vote for change from his hospital bed. demonstrations near the king's palace in thailand demands include a change to the constitution new elections on the release of protest leaders. hello countries across europe are returning to lockdown as the continent grapples with a surging coronavirus infections but that's being met with resistance with protests calling for covert 1000 restrictions to be lifted victoria gate b. has more. a 3rd wave of code that 19 is forcing new lockdown. to spread across

europe but with the restrictions comes resentment and resistance to the new rooms. in germany police used water cannon and pepper spray to disperse and he looked down protestors in the city of castle chancellor angela merkel has wound new restrictions will likely be imposed with cases of the virus rising exponentially but protesters say the measures such as the closing of non-essential shops hotels restaurants and gyms are a threat to their freedom. and i consider corona virus to be a serious disease just like the flu but to make a pandemic out of it as we are experiencing now with many restrictions on our basic rights i don't think that's justified. in neighboring switzerland more than $5000.00 protesters gathered in the town of elite still to demand an end to cave it restrictions which have shut restaurants and other public places for months i mean because we want our lives back we want to live we want to live in

a democratic and we want our children to be free and safe elsewhere in europe and he looked down protest on saturday from bulgaria to remain in serbia to croatia. but i'm here because i'm fed up with the lies coming from ignorant people is not only in croatia it's across the world they want to force us to stay in our houses and not to go out not to breed not to work not to eat what they want from us to crawl on the floor enough is enough. in the u.k. dozens of antelope down protesters were arrested on saturday as campaign has defied police warnings a march through central london under current restrictions it's unlawful for groups to gather to protest these demonstrators want those rules changed as to more than 60 m.p.'s who signed a letter to the home secretary urging her to ease their wounds and allow peaceful.

protests. but some global health experts say that would be a mistake right now what we need is continued restrictions on as it didn't just say that because i know that it's not a popular position but we need to continue a few more months with these restrictions and we need to scale up x nation much much more rapidly which means we need to increase manufacturing vaccines there's frustration with the slow rollout of vaccines in the european union and a dire warning from the german health minister that there aren't enough vaccines in europe to prevent a 3rd wave and despite these demonstrations it appears tighter measures are on the way victoria gate to be al-jazeera and from 16 regions including paris will have restrictions for at least 4 weeks that's almost a 3rd of the country's population that's about the reports. it was clear from the number of people exercising and joking by the brief a saying in paris the people are making the most being allowed outside the

government supposed to look down on the c.c. and 15 regions but this time people aren't required to stay indoors all day. placement. we have to work with 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 adapt 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 close shops and businesses all those schools and essential stores can stay open is on top of the liberty to stop 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 parts of 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 shore cast received an astra zeneca jab and attempt to convince the public of its 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 weeks for some doctors the restrictions tight enough but french president emanuel might call 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 could run much longer recession al-jazeera paris coronavirus is surging across much of latin america in brazil rio de janeiro close that's famous beaches on saturdays intensive care units near 100 percent capacity argentina has imposed restrictions and is experiencing vaccine shortages and chile is reporting new infection rates close to record highs of last june despite most of the nation being under a strict law. an emergency curfew has been imposed in the u.s. city of miami after large crowds gathered over the spring break without following social distancing rules the mayor describe the situation as out of control while the struggle to break up parties in restaurants and on the streets from saturday everyone must stay indoors between 8 pm and 6 am and businesses in restricted areas will be closed it's america's largest state but alaska a sparsely populated known for its harsh terrain with several villages only

accessible by boat or plane yet it's being hailed as a vaccine success story nearly 40 percent of its people have received at least one dose and alaska is the 1st u.s. state to offer the jobs to everyone from the age of 16 james bays reports from anchorage. with an outside temperature of minus 15 degrees celsius this is a drive through vaccination center in anchorage the biggest city in alaska the u.s. because of its wealth and power has vaccinated a higher percentage of people than most countries and this state which is more than 1700000 square kilometers is the largest state in the union has done better than nearly anywhere else in the nation we are very fortunate alaska that we have actually been able to open eligibility up to everyone 16 and above at this point how did you get to that point it has been an incredible effort throughout the state

in a lot of incredible collaboration with our local and state partners those receiving the vaccine seem appreciative of the state's cephus they've taken it very seriously from the onset because of the native population and the potential for that outlying communities in the native villages to be decimated for all. the bad virus and we've seen things like this happen before so they're taking it very seriously which is great 1000 percent of people here have been fully vaccinated and already life is returning to a kind of normality with restaurants retailers and sports facilities all back open for business the figures for alaska are amazing this state has vaccinated a far larger percentage than most us states and just compare this possibly populated state with many countries for example alaska has vaccinated more people than nigeria a country with a population of over 200000000 people

a real achievement for the health care workers in a state with 800000 residents but at the same time clearly an indictment of the way vaccines have been distributed globally james pays al-jazeera anchorage. while israel continues with the fastest vaccine campaign in the world vaccinating only its citizens palestine has only just managed to begin its rollouts the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas was the 1st to receive a job next on the list are medical staff people aged over 75 and those suffering serious illnesses. received more than 60000 vaccine doses through the kovacs scheme on wednesday. and thousands of protesters have gathered outside the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is residents calling for his resignation similar rallies have been held every weekend over the past line months it comes just 3 days

ahead of israel's general election it's the country's 4th in 2 years that's anyone who's hoping to benefit from the success of the vaccination campaign which has been the world's fastest. horse the rebels have admitted responsibility for a fire at a detention center in yemen's capital sanaa earlier this month at least $45.00 migrants were killed and hundreds injured the hoofy affiliated ministry of interior says 11 of its fighters threw smoke bombs to stop protests at the facility there are said to have been arrested it comes after the u.s. and the e.u. called for an investigation into the incident. church observers have been blocked from monitoring sunday's vote in the republic of congo president then he says soon so who's ruled for most of the last 40 years is seeking another term with many opposition politicians either refusing to stand or in jail from brazzaville. reports. not many people

openly criticize the electoral process in the republic of congo the catholic church is one of the few institutions that has. father felicity in the valley 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 by putin democrats 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 really the. president then he. ruled for most of the last 40 years and he's campaigned to stay on there are many campaign posters with us. big whatever there another one here another one there are far fewer the opposition candidates 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 also 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 elections in brazzaville before they were banned from observing. the human being with ignored. the choice of 2 days for. everything on the president's 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. and just a day before elections in the republic of congo a leading opposition candidate has been taken to hospital after he tested positive for corona virus parfait called their last tweeted a message for his supporters from his hospital. sure compartment. my dick i'm partly it's i'm in a difficult situation i'm fighting death i demand that you rise up and go vote for

change fight don't give up the fight rise up please do this from a still ahead on al jazeera families of activists killed by state forces in the philippines call for justice. and unpick 1st why international fans will be banned from watching the games in tokyo this summer. it's time for the perfect journal the weather sponsored point qatar airways a miserable into the weekend i think you'd agree and hala she was widespread rainfall so from a weather as point of view you'd rather see something better i think the northern edge and just cold there for a bit as those sapporo shows that about 5 degrees snow then rain then snow showers

and then into proves on tuesday the whole lot is moving out of the way there's a cold. legacy i think you probably call it the temps above freezing up to 4 in fact of all store but the sun will make you feel so much better and sun extends that south coast of china the rain has gone from hong kong by the end monday that rain has actually caught in the wind and moves further west so the southwest to china more especially vietnam and eventually even thailand and we'll see some early spring rain as fraser in the forth on storms the same is true in afghanistan or pakistan or westerly disturbance is presented stalls all right and snow is right now that might have a beneficial effect in places like new delhi when the wind is up so it tends to bring in rather cleaner air you know they're called his poor in new delhi most of the time and then rain helps is the same with sun's tones by the time we get to tuesday with the temperature never really suffering elsewhere in india is generally speaking quite dry but warming up. sponsored poll qatar

airways a footballer a doctor and a pioneer of british 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 lies by his club for his political beliefs he took power into his own hands and blazed the trail for players rights football rivals on algis eve . eleanor with al jazeera right here at the top stories this hour protests have been held across you're calling for 1000 restrictions to be lifted out of the continent

struggles to cope with another rise in infections many countries are going back into lockdown rio de janeiro has closed its famous speeches on saturday is intensive care units in brazil near 100 percent capacity argentina has imposed restrictions i'm sure there is reporting new infection rates close to record highs of last year. while israel continues with the fastest vaccine campaign in the world all this time has only just begun its rollout palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas was the 1st to receive a job next on the list are medical staff people aged over 75 and those suffering serious illnesses. american police officers often come across people struggling from a mental health episode but most lacked the training to respond appropriately many interactions began with a call for help and they end in death john hendren spoke to the family of one man killed by police when they say the only person he was thinking about hurting was

himself 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. the police report says he was aiming a gun and officers and advancing toward them unique fear so what do you see it like. 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 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. have unfortunately what these these kinds of horrific outcomes in many cities have done not blaming officers but who are doing 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. police in thailand have fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters that broke through barriers around the king's ceremonial residence at least 5 people

were arrested security forces and regular perspective about $1500.00 anti-government demonstrators officers charger protesters who threw rocks and firecrackers in response tens of thousands of people mostly youths have been taken to the streets since mid last year demanding a new constitution and reforms to the monarchy 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 appear to have pushed them off none the less i think this is a sign once again that these protests are bubbled up now it's important to note here that the protesters were far outnumbered by the police about 1500 protesters we think of more than 3000 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 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 majesté 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 efforts to look at reforming. the constitution and the administration that they were so unhappy about is still very much in place. the families of 9 people killed by state forces in the philippines in a single day are calling for justice they say their loved ones were peaceful activists targeted for criticizing the government police say those killed in coordinated operations earlier this month or communist rebels who resisted arrest zimmerman dogon has

a story it was the worst day for activists in the philippines in recent years on march 7th a series of operations conducted by state forces resulted in the deaths of 9 activists in several parts of this so their lives on reaching rosalee in the saloon that says she was asleep with her husband melvin the sick go and their children when police force their way into their home melvin sands she says was behind his head it was an act of surrender she says but melvin was still shot several times. they say we have weapons we don't even have money for food we are dependent aide after our house was there were stated by 8 a fool unless the same or they stripped us of our humanity in our dignity have you no heart no conscience you kill us like animals because we join release markley because there was a friend and colleague of melvin was also killed he lived across the street people

here tell us it was around 4 30 in the morning when they heard a group of armed men forced their way inside mark lee's house they say they heard his family pushed out of the house before markley was shot several times right here . their home is abandoned now and in the other parts of result province poor boy and pull on below crews were cousins who advocated for the rights of indigenous peoples they were killed the same way among those killed 2 were the couple shyly meet the evangelista and there you are live on the least from back down this province both were killed by police just meters away from their son and on sunday and in targum unity grieved the death of money as in sean was a known labor rights organizer for many years. the police say all of the victims were killed because they resisted arrest and that led to what they call an armed

encounter but rights groups here say this narrative has long been used by police since its so-called drug war began in 2016 the government has ordered an investigation into the killings burial of the president. the order of the president will kill kill kill if your enemy has a gun to be shot and killed it is not the way relation under international humanitarian law if a soldier fires at them i am going minister but this is there a distinction between the beast and their belts of course there is a human rights activist see those who died had one thing in common they were freedom fighters were outspoken critics of the government. dog and al-jazeera manila. accord and pakistan has sentenced to men to death for gang grey that triggered public outrage and new anti rape laws the man attacked a mother in front of her children last year when her car ran out of fuel on a motorway near laura there was more anger when

a policeman blame the victim for driving at night without a male companion the 2 men say they were appeal the decision. protests have been taking place in spain marking a month since the jailing of catalan rapper problem. they're demonstrating against his 9 month jail sentence on charges of insulting the monarchy and gore frying terrorism in his merits and tweets his supporters say it's an attack on free speech . kind of those opposition conservatives have rejected a resolution promoted by its leader to recognize the dangers of climate change the resolution had also sought a place more responsibility on polluting companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions parted leader aaron through urged members to take seriously the impacts of climate change if they hope to win in the next elections but the resolution was rejected by 54 percent of delegates. for the 1st time in

a lot 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 favorite so 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 need to say criticise respecting who these dry richey are of the safety of the olympic you caves this is largely been driven by the japanese public recent polls have shown a growing skepticism about holding the games and in particular letting foreigners in during a global health crisis is there an easier take we thought we should make a decision early because of accommodation and flight reservations 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 crown 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 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 with japanese are notorious for being very quiet and very perlite. like small influx is all excitement then it goes very quiet 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. bad lines on al-jazeera protests have been held across europe calling for cover 1000 restrictions to be lifted as the continent struggles to cope with another rise and in fact since many countries are going.