young girls go through secondary school with us of course to be able to stay employed but that's one pest and able to change have fun meet the women in guyana who are going places when it comes to education women make chains on al-jazeera. orlando. 0. 00000 i maryam namazie you're watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes it is the. syrian government shelling hits a hospital in western killing at least 7 people. soldiers shooting night and day in myanmar where the anti coup protesters show no sign of backing down. the republic of congo holds its presidential election with the

internet shut down roads blogs at the main opposition leader seriously ill with coded odds. and grief and anguish but no social distancing as thousands pay their final respects to tanzania's late president john mcafee early. in school to suit the have nots manchester united of the english f.a. cup leicester winning 3 want to reach the semifinals for the 1st time in almost 3 it's. a low welcome to the news out we begin in northwest syria where shelling by government forces has hit a hospital at least 7 civilians were killed one of them a child despite the facility being underground to avoid becoming a target it happened in the town of in the west in aleppo countryside or about

managing our ports. a place meant to care for people and keep them safe. becomes a scene of chaos the hospital was hit by mortars fired from a syrian army outpost the bloodstain survivors who carried out and treated elsewhere i mean it's not enough that a child and health care workers died in the bobo clint about that day father comes to go and all of the medical staff were shocked this is the result of targeting this hospital the civil defense came and cleared the patients who are staying at the hospital and we have vacua to the building and medical staff and the injured. al-jazeera correspondent has some reporting from the scene said the hospital is now empty an unfit for purpose this hospital provides medical services to more than 10000 patients every month the artillery shells fell here early this morning at the

main entrance to the hospital the hospital is called arabic the cave it was built underground so it better protection against attacks but it wasn't enough. it's not the 1st time it's been targeted in 2018 al jazeera visited days after a bombing. the talk to share the facilities location with the u.n. hoping to avoid being hit. it's that's just an incident that happened only to see it and we are only in the 1st quarter of the so somehow it's really really sad to see that these how they are so assess how been attacked. so many times despite all these cordon needs the u.n. saying that these hospitals should be protected under international humanitarian law. west aleppo. province the last major areas held by rebels

they a vast numbers of civilians accorded there by president bashar al assad's forces and their allies. the own paver been put under the protection of a cease fire signed to march 2020 between russia and turkey but it's continually violated. those killed a theme buried near a target city more grieving for a country that suffered so much devastation. in the early ninety's hero well now to our other top story this hour mass demonstrations against last month's military coup in manama are about to enter their 8th week with neither the protesters nor the military showing any sign of backing down. at least for more protest as were killed by security forces and live ammunition has been used to crackdown on demonstrations in mandalay and yet another day of violence in the streets but al-jazeera is tony chang now reports from bangkok at

least some of the nation's police appear to broken ranks. protesters a money war in central myanmar shelter as the security services advance but there's little they can do in the face of the onslaught soper of these protestors was shot in the head. in mandalay doctors came out the door to protest their express intention to avoid a confrontation with security forces as they marched in chanted for a return to democracy. but a crank down came later in the day the rider on this motorbike ordeal an early avoids being shot as the police moved in to our own pillow district in east mandalay this protest to shelter behind sandbags it's clear they've prepared. to sling shots fire works and petrol bombs they're trying to fight back to give themselves time to escape. but resistance is almost futile against

forces some cracks have appeared however several groups of police flowed across the border into india rather than open fire on their own people is not. enough to reach we feel safe but we heard from some sources that the indian army was searching for us and wanted to send us back to me and we are not 100 percent safe here now the must live in hiding scared they could be sent home and they offer a chilling insight into the orders of those enforcing the crackdown. that would be ordered to arrest the torture to protester so we have no choice but to leave our country outside nationals living overseas a keen to show their support more than a 1000 students and workers gathered in taiwan to commemorate those who have died but at this stage they can do little more than watch as their homeland is to implode tony ching al jazeera. long zine is

a human rights activists and co-founder of forces of renewal for southeast asia joins us now from london i guess that the systems of these protests have shown that the country is a very different place compared to 1908 when we saw our protest movement there or even in 2007 when we saw the last major demonstrations people are more in bold and much more determined to speak out is the military now starting to realize this. yet the military i believe knew that they miscalculated the you know the magnitude of public outrage an opposition however they have dug in uniform the simple reason that they feel that they are internationally protected they have this blanket international impunity because as long as china particularly and also russia veto any meaningful measures to be table

at the security council or they feel untouchable the only the only thing that they really worry me is the you know activating of chapter. 7 of the u.n. charter that authorizes them you know severe economic sanctions and even the use of military force to end this kind of situation and but that china has continued to treat this level of months of on still or on an armed and peaceful protest and i ask you now do i care so you mention the 6 you mentioned the u.n. security council that we haven't seen any action in that arena bought to the generals and me and mom perhaps fair china's quiet dysplasia it's one thing to carry out a coup and seize power but is china really are they really going to support than it should that be

a very violent suppression of these protests is that really something china wants to say. well you know we're talking about. veto wielding criminal state china has been incredibly accused of committing a genocide against that we have people we can debate to the finer points of the law but the fact is china itself is committing multiple crimes against humanity against its own populations and so you know china has a huge a stomach to you know to handle this kind of thing what happened in 1989 june a tenement uprising and and certain you know what's so interesting mari i'm is is china went along with this consensus statement by 15 member u.n. security council in the form of president statement in quote strongly condemning the violence and then you know a week before that china was holding secret talks on the 23rd of

february telling the burmese military to take in quote severe action against protesters if should they threaten china is the factory send a pipeline and other economic interests and so we are looking at a very very irresponsible global power you know being about free but at the here can i say something here about the shooting you know i know the shooting has been a headline making a vent and process sees what we're seeing is essentially you know a cross between book like considering i guess everything i ask you forgive me because you know we've been focusing on that the protest has many of them a young they have experience political and economic freedom that they will not allow the military to stamp out but it's a leaderless movement can it survive without focus and strategy. yes it can because

we have to look at it at 2 levels one is that we have something called they are taking public policy cue from the committee representing parliament it's you know that be done to look at all in burma mean parliament c.r.p. age that's made up of a small body of elected members of the parliament that are never allowed to you know take their seats in the parliament and then the other one if the protest movement isn't simply centrally coordinated because it is so again it because the society has grown so tired of you know living as a military service as they've the protestors and citizens called them so under the military for almost 60 years it's difficult to stand this kind of you know organic movement and the other one is the what we're looking at is not simply a protest against the coup it is actually

a complete end in reversible rejection of the national on forces as their own as you say as as you say there is a great deal of public and collective fury and the country is now among zani thank you very much thank you. well now counting is underway and they're public of congo's presidential election of expected to see dennis was so extend his 36 years in power he is the front runner against 6 contenders including the former finance minister some opposition politicians are in prison for criticizing the 26th election and the largest opposition party boycotted the vote the main opposition candidate running is a key prize parfait calera was he seriously ill though we've covered right now and he's been flown to france to have treatment there has been an internet blackout from midnight in the country the government also close roads in the capital and a curfew is also in place. i feel great satisfaction because

everywhere in the country i have seen the people mobilized and ready to take part in the electoral process. of what if the american easy vote was badly organized everywhere if you see the whole areas of congo where the not even polling stations how do these people vote if they don't have a place to vote well malcolm webb is following events for us in the capital brazzaville way he says there has been a lack of transparency with the count. the president's electoral commission said the provisional result wouldn't be announced for 3 or 4 days definitely some people will be wondering what's going to happen between now and then right now they're expected to be counting votes in the polling station and the internet shuts off some of the observers who seem to be the only ones that have a chance of being independent was a church group and so the local civil society groups they were blocked from observing the polls so they're not in the polling stations now watching that count

and then the question of course is what happens to that data when it leads to the polling stations when it's essentially put together before the result is released and if the internet indeed stays off then it's going to be very difficult for anyone to monitor this but democracy activists say the problems began long before even the preparation for this election those candidates you mentioned the disputed the last election results they refused to trying to overthrow the government ended up being sentenced to 20 years forced labor rights activists say that targeted for criticizing the electoral process and today we've seen many different kinds of problems that people were complaining about all the people dead people on the electoral register other people's names completely missing and even at one point an angry crowd said that they'd found a hole in one part of the polling station it was divided into 6 polling stations

and the number 6 from that polling station they said all its contents been taken down the road into a property belonging to somebody from the ruling party they said was paying people to misuse those votes in place for the ruling party that ended up with dozens of armed police rushing to the scene and ultimately nothing. was done about it but it's with these kinds of incidents a great deal of mistrust particularly among opposition supporters and in addition a curfew to present the spread of turkey so now people can't even leave their houses it's also in those circumstances that count is going ahead. well as you heard earlier a leading opposition candidate gave bryce parfait clare's is seriously ill with covidien it's been confirmed he's been flown to france for emergency medical treatment where said he was fighting death in a video message to his supporters from his hospital bed on saturday evening he also called on them to rise up and vote for change he finished in 2nd place in the 2016

election he's been particularly critical of president queso in the run up to the election. well tens of thousands of tanzanians are paying tribute to the former president john mica foully who died last wednesday massive crowds travel to sports stadium in the nation's largest city dar es salaam where michael foodies body was lying in state it will be taken to several venues across tanzania before a funeral in his home village on friday agra food it was a prominent covert skeptic and his supporters followed his example showing few signs of social distancing as well as dismissing opposition claims that he died from the virus. or the boredom of animals i want to know he did not dolly from coronavirus we accept the statement made by our government officials that he's died of heart disease they have to make sure they take official information and get rid of re street rumors. about him divert covert cannot be true because the sickness was so sudden whatever the cause of death was always intelligence to

protect ourselves and be careful. well mourners also lined the streets of dar es salaam as microfilms coffin made its way to the airport to be flown to the capital to adama once there even more people turned out to pay their last respects another service is expected to be held there on monday. so joining us now via skype from nairobi is david makali who is a political analyst for tanzania watch so so many thousands of people coming out to pay their final respects to president john magaw foully how do you explain the the strength of feeling in response to his death. foley was a very popular leader he done a lot of things in tandem with us from the country to over and 10 to 15 there's evidence that the city has an impact on the ground for the crew do them he gets. a little credit it gets his. 1000000000 expectantly assuming office for the

2nd term has taken many aback especially because of the numbers that were master of . the 2nd term almost you know winning 2 percent of the electorate so in terms of a little bit. broad support across the country and of course in those crowds people were not wearing masks that was in any physical distance saying how how widespread is the virus in tanzania. i think it must be very very well the spread i'm in considering but it's not any different from the rest the least african countries and we know about other the time lost in the korean war he suspended any action or information sharing with statistical sharing on. the number of cases that are to suppose that you were 500 to

supply with other countries in the region the deaths also were over 20 just like in paina when he put a stop to the publication of information eliminate of it went away it's gone on it's continued. of course filtering in from the ground or more so that's especially the beginning of this year last month particularly were lots of bets which were being attributed to building problems but little more that could with of course looking problems related and there was an admission i think by middle of last month the government began to realize that the real apart from the early ninety's now there was an acceptance of communism what would the government rules or the reluctant to adopt were the preventive measures and something implemented across the world of. the tissue of the world and so is that then likely to change under president sami

a saloon has and of course the former president john mcafee really famously declared that his country was free of that really says shift of policy now. i think the last to be glad of a control freak with this is the end of last month i think when a few officials senior officials in government were dying including the vice president. should come out when he died and he didn't confess the contract to government i think that with a change of attitude within official circles however i think the fish will be corrosion that was big and under now has not been forthcoming his death alonso has of course the nativity of the official statement not to mention bobby said in the train that i was in from a problem i had problems that were to me as i think not in view of the public. a cause of the. quality not officially the new president is going to take some

measures i don't think is that she's going to continue with this importance and it's time to turn the little boots up the drawing board in terms of how to manage them thank you very much really appreciate it could go in as they have in the county joining us there from nairobi thank you. you're watching the news hour live from london still ahead on the program how early and decisive action against the coronavirus is paying off for taiwan also thousands evacuated dams are overflowing and homes have been washed away as australia suffers its worst flooding in decades and then they transport frustration for the top seed in the final of the mexican open and he will be here with that story. miami beach is imposing 8 pm curfew in its entertainment district in an effort to

control hordes of spring break vacation as. a party goes gathered in the streets without mosques while flouting social distancing rules under the new order police blocked off popular areas in south beach forcing all businesses that to close officials also shut down the highways leading in and out of the city overnight and then brazilian police have been patrolling sao paolo breaking up illegal gatherings that threaten to fuel a recent surge of covert infections armed officers raided bars and clubs operating under the radar a nighttime curfew has been in place in the city since the 6th of march but in the past week brazil has registered new peaks in the number of daily deaths attributed to the virus more than 294000 people have died there since the pandemic began. but the revelers don't believe in what is happening despite it being reported in the media so much the chaotic situation we are in on the lack of all bodes they are

irresponsible they don't believe in it or don't know what else we can do so they believe that this is a serious situation let's go to daniel shaima now his life are simple and his arias it appears that the surging infection rates and the number of deaths in brazil are not having much of an effect on people's behavior. certainly the case of r.e.m. i mean you would think that the worse these figures got the more people might abide by the measures to try to lower the numbers are urging people to stay indoors not to go to crowded places it certainly works for some people in some areas but there are vast numbers of brazilians who are still partying still trying to get to the beach blatantly ignoring the rules not worried we had thousands of people out today sunday sunday celebrating helping president job also noddle celebrate his birthday and again really very symbolically very few of them wearing masks here of course is

somebody who really wears a mask in public and is always on the mind efforts to try to fight the virus doesn't believe it's as serious as some people make out and thinks the economy should take precedence over everything else we've also had police in sao paolo patrolling to try to break up parties we had one last week last weekend where there were 600 people in a room with no windows nobody wearing masks another one was 200 people in a underground casino and that continues every weekend the police are out there breaking out parties apparently less this weekend but still serious numbers the beaches in rio de janiero the famous copper go on the apron ema have been closed for the weekend to try to limit the number of people out there buses coming in from the interior have been stopped to ensure there are less people out there but again the president was saying it was urging people to go to the beach to soak up as much victim india as possible to try to fight the virus again these conflicting messages

the numbers keep going up they were a little lower this weekend as they tend to be 47000 people infected that compares with 90002 days ago 74000 the following day alone the number of deaths but those figures are likely to rise again. as we head into the week. again as well with 2 very virulent strains p one p 2 seem to be spreading across brazil a great deal of fear and also a great number of people really just not taking any notice of them right what about elsewhere in the region paraguay for example now saying that it's intensive care units are 100 percent capacity one how are hospitals coping with doctors and medical staff in the paragraph in mourning for some days that they were reaching that critical point they have 655 beds for

a country of 7000000 people so the infrastructure was already underfunded they were short of supplies previously those warnings have now come to pass their doctors are saying that their hospitals are now at 100 percent capacity they managed to find another $4042.00 beds over the weekend they were immediately filled started complaining that they're running short of supplies the military imperiled why have stepped in to offer their facilities to try to take some of the overload but what tends to happen is sick patients are turning up at hospital and there's simply not enough i.c.u. beds for them so doctors increasingly this is empowered why this is in many places in brazil are increasingly being asked to make a decision on who should get treatment who will get to use the limited number of beds available so a grim situation with often people or sometimes people dying outside the hospitals because there is simply not the facilities to treat them the staff are also very

very tired emotionally emotionally and physically so that also makes life very difficult and then these many medical staff will see people continuing to party politicians telling them there's no the virus is no big deal so it is a problem. as people try to cope with this and the numbers keep going up thank you daniel. well as covert continues to wreak havoc on the global economy many countries have plunged into their worst recessions in decades but as rob mcbride now reports not only has taiwan managed to trend it's expecting further growth this year. restaurants and stores are full shopping districts busy with people and spending it all points to an economy enjoying its own mini boom while much of the world is still mired in a pandemic gloom just a year ago as countries were quickly closing borders because of the spreading coronavirus prospects for this small island so close to the pandemic source in

neighboring mainland china looked grim. i may have been here taiwan where we experienced certain downturn where our counter staff were like a minus 4 percent g.d.p. of course instead taiwan grew its economy by more than 3 percent last year growing faster than mainland china for the 1st time in decades with 5 percent growth predicted for this year successes due in part to the economies reliance on semiconductor chip production which has boomed during the pandemic but it's underpinned by early and decisive public health measures that have created a safe haven that's encourage companies to relocate from the mainland in line with government policy there clearly a lot of job opportunities especially high tech industries because government policy is trying to encourage it also high tech. back to taiwan then there were the

taiwanese living overseas returning to avoid the effects of the pandemic elsewhere but i have a lot of friends that came back from new york from california a lot of part of the world so our decision to come back was for safety or for the freedom because we can you know still have a normal life here while we're young chief how is a real estate agent from chicago now doing business remotely online from taiwan it means dealing with a 12 hour time difference but it keeps him earning money that he. spends in taiwan you can't you know be with your family you can take the public transportation and life is normal and what he like so many people here largely enjoying the kind of normal that for much of the rest of the world is still a memory problem bride al-jazeera and with the london news hour still ahead on the program it's going to be israel's 4th election in 2 years benjamin netanyahu tries

a new strategy courting palestinian israeli budgets. how illegal fishing on an industrial scale is threatening south america's fishing industry and the ocean ecosystem and then later in sport more problems for christiane our analysis team's hopes of winning italian title suck but i'm not that sad. but. now it must feel like it is putting start to spring after we've had the vernal equinox that was where the twenty's but the close to coming down from the north that's a cold direction it's already single figures temperature wise another cold front even though briefly ahead of it things warm up your mind thing doesn't look good well 1st of all you've got still snow for you in ukraine across the baltic states but then the wind tends to dari down and where the cold air has come down before

sitting over the southern balkans of a bowl garia and rumania this could be persistent snow his affair has got it for the next 3 days around about 0 degrees and is rather snowing or is about to stir unfortunately but that is not true everywhere and that colder weather would have to cross into turkey and then the sun goes to work its spring sunshine now it is stronger than it has been get stronger every day so if you take away the wind even she things will warm up not true in bertie and we get up to about 13 by thursday 15 by friday and it hangs around the low teens so. feels quite spring like not so nice early in north africa the crowd over morocco is bringing more rain and snow to the margins and the wind is picking up over northern tunisia and where is dry wood is bringing a sand storm into northern egypt. but

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julie. come back the main stories now syrian government forces of shelled a hospital in west in aleppo killing 7 civilians including a child the world health organization says have been more than 300 tacked on syrian health care sites in the past 5 years. at least 4 more protesters have been killed in and demonstrations in myanmar on sunday security forces of again use live ammunition to crackdown on demonstrations in the city of mandalay. and counting is underway in the republic of congo's presidential election which is expected to see dennis us to extend his 36 years in power is main rival bryce profit is seriously

ill with coded and has now been flown to france. all in all the stories of following palestine a started its vaccine rollout to the general public in authorities president mahmoud abbas was the 1st to get a chance now to bram has the latest on this now. this is the moment many palestinians have been waiting for the launch of a public vaccination campaign in the occupied west bank the 1st ones to get the jobs or medical staff people over the age of 75 and those with chronic illnesses the palestinian authority received a vaster vaccines from the callbacks initiative that helps poorer states get the jobs. they contain 60000 doses of pfizer and astra zeneca next. year it was very hard for me being in the field in testing people. for and many of them positive no matter the precautions i got very scared i would catching give it to my family i hope to get the vaccine soon they'll ministry says it's looking to

vaccinate 3200000 palestinians in the next few months it's a relief for some but most will have to wait another month. the government should have had better measures to provide paper with vaccines in adequate health care after they impose closures they open up again suddenly causing gathering at the skid a liver health officials say the jobs couldn't have come sooner the intensive care units are needing full capacity in most hospitals in the west bank and doctors warn that the infection rate keeps increasing the health system will collapse in february the palestinian authority received $12000.00 vaccines from modern and sputnik the while it said they would only be administered to frontline health workers yelps ministry later revealed that senior officials had been inoculated that angered many palestinians who say the palestinian authority didn't distribute

the vaccine here is that i'm not. a few days ago we received the 1st package of vaccinations from kovacs and the instructions to the ministry of health and all its staff stated that the vaccination process should be dealt with in full transparency and clarity and that any person who might bypass the priorities announced by the ministry of health will be held accountable and all the frustration comes from israel's unwillingness to vaccinate palestinians under its occupation. 3000000 palestinians live in the west bank and israel's government only inoculated about 100000 who commute to israel for work. the palestinian authority has ordered those of the slowdown. but if one of the press are not compensating those who are affected by them are a year into the pandemic we've all been economy has been a big hit that could last for years. if you progress.

well in other developments israel has confiscated the palestinian foreign minister's v.i.p. border pass which enables him to move freely through crossings into the palestinian territories israeli officials revoked the past when riad and maliki return to the west bank from a meeting at the international criminal court earlier this month the courtly prosecutor announced plans for a formal investigation into war crimes in palestinian territories well now opinion polls suggest that yet again they'll be no clear winner in israel's parliamentary elections on tuesday it is the 4th in just 2 years that's why the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has surprised many people with a new strategy publicly courting palestinian israeli voters a groupie previously sore as a threat to his electoral success our forces reports from haifa. it's not the 1st time benjamin netanyahu is focused on israel's palestinian citizens during an election campaign in 2015 he tried to boost right wing turnout by warning of quote

arabs coming to the polls in droves in 2019 facebook suspended a chat bot on his account which had our politicians wanted to quote annihilators all this time the message is very different you know with. a campaign video presents palestinian israelis supporting a prime minister who among other things is pledging to address the number one issue . a surge in violent crime sparking protests against the israeli police the failing to tackle it and it was really me i'm committed to bringing in into the violence and the crime in your communities this is a national assignment that touches each and every one of you and your children were in the northern city of haifa friday night jar is reopening his restaurant after months of coded $1000.00 in forced closure for him netanyahu is pitch is missing the mark he's a hypocrite if we say this 20 times it's not enough they don't want any alliance

with arabs they never have they'll never give us our rights the same goes for the customers we spoke to even those who become frustrated by the palestinian israeli parliamentary block so see on and i'm not entirely happy with the air parties because they haven't been working properly socially speaking things have been deteriorating especially the violence. if you expect benjamin netanyahu to experience a sudden warm embrace from a group of voters that he spent previous elections casting is a threat to the prospects of a right wing government what he's looking for is just the tiniest slice enough voters to help him gain that extra one or 2 seats that could prove crucial to his chances of forming a coalition for activists an analyst just for fun or that means improving on the 10000 palestinian israeli votes netanyahu is likud got last time of 660000 votes cast more and more voters actually. support the parties and less and less the 4 spot is so i don't expect

a really big. supporter of that you know on the likud but still he can get in potentially one thoughtful seats and out of the. can he may also benefit from a split in the joint list palestinian israeli grouping the breakaway united arab list says it may work with netanyahu after the election however that plays out one broader change is emerging in recent polling a growing acceptance of the political legitimacy of a sector of society for so long kept at arm's length harry forsett al-jazeera haifa israel. now in all the stories we're following iran's supreme leader has described u.s. sanctions as a criminal act saying washington's promise to lift them can't be trusted addressing the nation for the persian new year. about the unraveling nuclear attack the tactics of former u.s. president donald trump i said there were points now from tat ron. i mean it's

a defiant and powerful message from iran spiritual and political leader ayatollah ali how many the country has been under u.s. sanctions since 2018 how many called them a major act of criminality and he took aim at former u.s. president donald trump. because you got school the maximum pressure of the united states has failed previous years hope to corner iran so that it was forced to go to the negotiating table and he could impose his will on week in iran his departure was with disgrace he describes not only himself but also the united states who was you know george bush. the new administration of joe biden has not lifted trump sanctions and a comment he says iranians now have to work on the basis they will not be removed any time soon. of course we are patient and we are doing our job i don't accept this policy that we put forward well everything will be alright if not this

existing situation will continue i'm sure there was no problems with. the message from iran has been consistent the u.s. must lift all sanctions before it returns to its commitments under the nuclear deal but its breaches are of growing concern to western powers and the u.s. is looking at iran's presidential elections in 3 months to see what kind of administration it will be dealing with ayatollah ali how many wants a high turnout at the polls in iran to send a strong message to the outside world in every election iran wants to show a picture of people queuing and in front. of polling stations because this is part of the establishment legitimacy this is part of the picture of lucian that it's still alive and that's why in the last elections in 2020 there was a picture of the establishment didn't want. to see people. turning out to the elections maybe less than 50 percent for the 1st time iran has struggled

over the last few years its economy currency and people have been hurt by sanctions but in the lead up to the election there's a call for optimism this was a wide ranging speech that covered the economy the upcoming presidential election and the nuclear deal what's a parent is how many has a deep mistrust of the united states and the actions before iran reciprocates the situation is in a stalemate but a leader who's been in power for more than 3 decades as seen through several u.s. presidents says iran is in no hurry to compromise. the u.s. defense secretary has met the president of afghanistan during an unannounced visit to kabul lloyd austin ashraf ghani discussed the peace process and rising violence in the country often said the main reason for his visit was to have president danny's concerns a deadline the trumpet ministration agreed that the taliban troop draw american troops by the 1st of may. now

a natural disaster has been declared in parts the australian state of new south wales after the worst flooding seen in decades thousands of people been forced to leave their homes and more heavy rain is expected in the days to come reports. from the air an assessment is made of the damage caused by french rain in new south wales as capital sydney the largest has overflowed flooding neighborhoods in the city's western suburbs further north from what was meant to be their wedding day a couple lost their home as it floated down manning river off to bursting its banks emergency services have responded to thousands of calls from people who've been left stranded many more have been forced from their homes. and there are warnings of more flash floods in the coming days with water levels not expected to subside until thursday 1st and foremost priority is to save lives save as many properties as possible but also to give people enough warning of what's occurring and i appreciate in parts of the mid and north coast regions which are experiencing one

in 100 year event there's been sustained damage to infrastructure there's been sustained damage to how people communicate and move around and i just want to say to everybody in new south wales who's experiencing that fear and that anxiety that afterwards you will get assistance to you as soon as we can. about curation orders on now in place long stretches of australia's east coast and hundreds of people especially in low lying areas have been heading to emergency evacuation centers a severe weather warning is also in place just west of camber. just over a year ago these areas of australia and many others were ablaze in devastating bushfires scientists say natural disasters of becoming more frequent and more severe due to climate change and people here are being urged not to drive through flooded areas because of strong currents so high it. now the eruption of a long dormant volcano in iceland is beginning to ease after more than 2 days and in

worries it would affect air travel this is the shot from a webcam high above the valley around 30 kilometers southwest of the capital reykjavik it shows the current extent of the slow moving lava field that is around 4 kilometers from the nearest town but thankfully not expected to pose a threat now there have been violent scenes in the british city of bristol during demonstrations against plans to give the police more powers to deal with nonviolent protest a police vehicle was set alight while some demonstrators climbed on top of vans offices were injured after protesters threw projectiles including a firework and tried to smash the windows of a police station. illegal fishing is a constant problem in latin american waters and it's happening on an industrial scale a massive all regulated fleet made up mostly of chinese vessels is operating in the south atlantic it's threatening south america's fishing sector and the ocean

ecosystem and when is are is to to raise a boy reports now on what argentina is doing to stop it. this lights may look like a city from the sky but they're fishing vessels just outside argentina's exclusive economic zone there are hundreds of them. argentina's coast guard say their main task is to control their movements so they do not cross into arjan time territory. convener you have vessels with argentine floods and vessels with foreign flags all of these are ships that have been detected by our system when there is irregular activity they tend to shut down their radios but we can still track them with such a large. illegal fishing can generate millions of dollars in losses and cost irreparable damage to eco systems that's why it's $1.00 of the biggest challenges nations face today from this from argentina or forty's can money for what's

happening in its economic exclusive zones but what authorities here are saying is that what's important is to regulate what's happening in international waters and. where most of this vessels that you can see here i located. the ships come mostly from china but also spain portugal and japan this year the united states launched operation southern cross to combat illegal and unregulated fishing in the southern atlantic they participated in joint operations with brazil why angle yana. was not our focus on china qualification issues related to the carter incurred some of the loss of progress on our 9 with the lander. countries that have a like minded approach to carbon going to go unreported an unrelated question habits greenpeace argentina has been highlighting the damage caused by unregulated fishing in the area in 2018 the ship expands our reach to what is known as the blue

hole where argentina's exclusive economic zone is located and captured images from the seabed biologists say it has been devastated by overfishing and inadequate policy of international waters. there's no regulation there's no law in international waters we need a new treaty that's being debated at the un it will allow countries to create sanctuaries international waters are 45 percent of the water worldwide only one percent is protected the treaty will be debated at the u.n. he nor ghost those who supported hope it will give nations more tools to protect their territories and the thousands of species currently under threat there is how will. this. still ahead for you on the news out of bron james this season has taken a painful turn. and you have that story in sports and getting away from it all a weekend in the woods for flood even hussein and one of his senior ministers.

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central african republic an attempted coup was taking place to bring you more award winning documentaries and lighting us on air and online. or. plan. to sport now of andy and. thank you so much my mil chelsea unless the city of made it through to the last 4 of the english f.a. cup so most cycles chelsea same setting up a wembley semifinal with manchester city as far as small reports i having just reached the last 8 of the champions league chelsea are now closing in on the final of the english at

a cup they needed some fortune to take the lead in their quarter final against sheffield united bandshell well shot deflected into his own net by all over norway . you know they did have some good chances to equalise david mcgoldrick missing the best of their opportunities. scored chelsea's 2nd in injury time to set up a semifinal with manchester city i promise to go is yet to lose in 14 matches as chelsea's head coach but the german admitted his team were below their best really lost control 'd of. a moment and many many minutes. more be allowed to big chances and that we were lucky to to escape with him i leicester city are back in the semifinals of the f.a. cup for the 1st time in almost 4 decades i there quarterfinal opponents manchester

united gifted them the opening goal of this tie united did head back through masing greenwood and the game was level at half time was that after the break leicester took control i was hearing tillman's put his team ahead and on the way to was asked for again i guess southampton. nigerian striker collegiality nacho 2nd goal of the game wrapping up at the green line when i far as smile al-jazeera. little messi is happy yet son of a career landmark a boss ally. in a mess is making his 768 appearance for the club breaking the record set by sharon and as he scored in this game against real sociedad his team a 61 up with full time approaching a win will move them 4 points behind leaders athletico madrid slaton abraham of rich get ready for his returns international football in the best way possible

opening the scoring for ac milan in the cereal game against fear and cena he's now on his way to play for sweden for the 1st time in 5 years it's turned into quite some match with billie jean recovering to go to an up and rebury 2nd gold. run then responded with 2 goals of their own so when it's 32 and i know within 6 points of leaders in similar. events says hopes of retaining the league title all but over you would suspect they suffered a shock to feet against benevento and then saw his 1st win since early january in christian are now i couldn't inspire a come by 10 points adrift of leaders and said. so and so now level on points with events is after losing out to ram madrid in the last 16 of the champions league on shoes day they would soon know when is against hell us verona. and on james this season has taken a nasty turn the l.a. lakers say he'll be out indefinitely with an ankle injury the 36 year old suffered

a sprain in this game against the atlanta hawks the 4 time n.b.a. champion led the lakers to the championship last season did make a vain attempt to return to the action shortly afterwards but without the brawn the lakers when sun saloons against the hawks the browns we've seen this after the game or nothing angers and saddens me more than not being available to and for might say mates i'm hurt inside and out right now the road back from recovery begins now but soon like i never left. well anytime any goes out you would just then play with guys that are in theirs straits you know and you know this would be no different. you know we talked about you know more than the earth the afghans have organization abroad for you to it was you know the difference of command with his voice you know i think that's something that we could potentially missile are on the defense side of the war so everybody's go pick up the slack and on the you know we guard every

bit as much as they're picking up job and. england will be without joy for our ship for their upcoming one day international series against india the fast bowler has been ruled out with a long standing elbow injury this in a year that includes the t 20 world cup and then ashes series in australia it's 25 year old also set to miss the start of the indian premier league and i'm sure i'm curious start on the day one of the 1st set in the west indies the white seem bowled out for just 169 until you get when the scouts in craig breath way hey leading by example with that run outs the home team the 13 without loss at the clouds tennis world number 7 alexander's vera one his 1st title of the year he beats up seeds the finest sits a pass in the final of the mexican i've been a great price travelling to contain his frustration at times there of going on to win this acapulco final in straight sets it is the germans 14th $88.00 so it's it's . one of college basketball's most famous founds is making her presence felt again

sister jeanne dolores schmidt now aged the 100 in one was courtside to witness well the chicago be number one seed illinois in the u.s. college basketball's elite sort of minutes. that's a winner in seville are 62 chefs and sister jean became something of an internet sensation when well it made it all the way through to the final full back in 20 states. are kind of a study schools looking for let's get part samarium in london during sandy i think sister jeanne maybe brought them some luck now after a stressful week in which u.s. president joe biden called him a killer the russian leader vladimir putin has been trying to get away from it all he spent the weekend on a male bonding trip with his defense minister sergei show you in the remote mountains of siberia in the wild inaccessible region the 2 men used a military off road vehicle to get around with the putin naturally taking the wheel and sure he was able to show the president his would work shop in the heart of the world's largest far east. that's in the news hour but i'll be back with more the

day's news in a couple of minutes. for afghans with ties to international organizations. this rate has never been greater . left exposed by the withdrawal of foreign troops. may be the only path to safety. but alienation makes home feel ever further away.

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a desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of and pollution across 5 north indian states health experts and bod mentioned it's been warning for months that the easing of the law would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those because of 19. syrian government shelling hits a hospital in west in aleppo killing at least 7 civilians. although i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program republic of congo holds its presidential election with the internet shut down roads have blogs on the main opposition leader seriously ill with khaled it.