to palliate story. be the hero the world needs right now. washington. a child is among 7 people killed in a syrian hospital that's been hit by government shelling. you're watching al-jazeera life from our headquarters in doha in derry navigates also coming up. our message has been straightforward and simple and it's true the border is closed the white house scrambles to contain a surge in the number of unaccompanied migrant children trying to enter the u.s.

homes up rooted in thousands of evacuating it as floodwaters keep rising near sydney. intensive care beds are full of paraguayan as it faces a steep rise in corona virus cases. hello thanks for joining us a child is among 7 civilians killed in northwestern syria after an underground hospital was reportedly shelled by government forces it happened in and that's west of aleppo about 600 attacks on health facilities have taken place in 10 years of conflict in syria mostly by the government and its allies the latest one is the 5th such attack that's according to the international rescue committee or aboard manley reports. a place meant to catch the people and keep them safe.

becomes a scene of chaos the hospital was hit by 5 from the syrian. who carried out and treated elsewhere. a child and health care worker. died in the print a bad day for the cops of a go eyeball 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 vacuity to the building and medical staff and the injured. al-jazeera correspondent. some reporting from the scene said the hospital is now empty and 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 for 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 the 5th and incident that happened only this year and we are only in the 1st quarter of the so somehow it's really really sad that to see that these how you are so assess how been attacked. so many times despite all these cordie 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 paper being put under the protection of

a cease fire signed to march 2020 between russia and turkey but it's continually violated. those killed 15 buried near a type city more creating for a country that suffered so much devastation. lura personally i'm just here at. the u.s. president joe biden says he'll be heading to the southern border soon as the country struggles to manage a surge of undocumented migrants trying to cross from mexico biden has already reversed much of former president donald trump's hardline border policies that led to children being held in cages nearly $20000.00 adults and more than $9000.00 unaccompanied children are estimated to have crossed the border in february that's a huge spike from the previous month the new homeland security boss says he won't let migrants take advantage of the u.s. . our message is been straightforward and simple and it's true the border is closed we are expelling families we are expelling single adults and we've made

a decision that we will not expel young vulnerable children meanwhile mexico's measures to limit non-essential travel on its southern border with have come into effect high numbers of immigration agents have been deployed to turn back undocumented people especially families the last heavy border deployment was in january last year that's when the national guard was stationed to send away a so-called my great caravan trying to travel to the united states and we'll go back to the united states and tell you about the crisis on the southern border and speak to leon fresco he's an immigration attorney and he was deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration at the u.s. department of justice during barack obama's administration he's joining us from washington thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera so you heard the homeland security secretary speaking to the sunday news channels and essentially saying that the border is closed is he trying to send a stronger message now to those once it's a cross over it is

a too little too late. well i think the message he is trying to send the is for the people who want to attempt to come to the united states that this is not the time to come to the united states but the problem is when you send that message in exactly that manner people still hear a receptivity to your entrance of the united states that they don't necessarily hear when they heard former president drum saying never come the border lolis be closed will never lead to it and so people do get hope from the words that both president biden and secretary new york as say and say that so they don't tend to listen to that now aspect of things and in addition people must be realistic if someone is truly a refugee then nothing you're going to tell them is going to convince them not to seek safety and so it's more a matter of what the policies are that what the rhetoric is all right so what do you make of the policy and how would you say the biden administration has handled it so far because those who will criticize biden and and specifically some

republicans are saying well look so many migrants are coming to the border and that's because of the overly lenient policies that have been implemented by president biden. i think there is a clash of 2 different philosophies and we're going to see over the months ahead how it will play out there was one philosophy that the drug administration had that they were not going to let anybody coming into the united states to seek refuge which had been at the park jerk from the past of the united states where the theory was if there was someone who was a genuine refugee you would give them a chance to see that status of the united states versus them i didn't ministrations choice where they say look it's not a humanitarian thing that turned back an unaccompanied minor outside of the united states and then the criticism of that would be well but if you don't turn people back it won't just be a one off or you're not turning people back people will know they won't get turned back and so they'll keep coming and so this is

a clash and we're going to have to see if whether the by the administration can over the next few months build alternative sites both in mexico and central america for people that have to move that they must make their claims there so that they don't make them at the border or whether they will continue to allow people during the months ahead to make the claims of the border because if that happened they may not be able to build the capacity that they think they can build to process quickly the demand seeking tender the united states how do you explain the surge and numbers because just in february there were 20000 adults who tried to cross over and 9000 unaccompanied children and also the homeland security secretary is saying that's the numbers could reach out to death code pink. well part of this you have to understand in that there was a sort of state says of numbers of monthly demand that had accumulated over the

months that there was a complete ban of entering the united states due to implementation of the drum policies and due to the cold and bands that had been placed on the border and so all of those months of people that had been accumulating had down presented themselves in the last couple of months on the southern border so this isn't a new surge necessarily of fresh people but these these are people who have been accumulated over the last 18 months on the southern border waiting for either that which policies the change the administration to change for policies to become more open and so now that is the numbers that you're seeing on the southern border the question is whether the processing that we'll see in the next couple of months will lead to new waves of individuals trying to leave from where they are right now ok thank you so much for speaking to us from washington thank you. now parts of the australian state of new south wales are experiencing some of their worst flooding

in decades a house was seen floating down a river near the northern coast many in the region have been told to evacuate their homes a natural disaster has been declared in some regions a quick gauge is joining us from windsor that's northwest of send sydney what's the situation where you are nicola. oh there's some extraordinary scenes coming out of this trial is aced coast in new south wales entire communities have been inundated by floodwaters as this weather system continues to pelt down across many different regions where in which is just west of sydney the main bridge across the 2 sides of town is completely covered many more roads are becoming blocked and we're seeing this in many different highly populated areas along the coast from port mccoury to newcastle regional areas like tower and thousands of people have had to evacuate as these river systems are rising to

put it into context sydney is surrounded by 3 different river systems the whole spree in the north and in the west and georges in the south now the nepean and folks have burst their banks dams spilling over and these communities really can't take in any more water it is a dangerous situation for many people who have been evacuating and the damage can already be seen houses under water being inundated and there was some heartbreaking scenes up around tare where our young couple their house was just swept away through the flood waters they lost everything inside that point including that dog they didn't have enough time to save it as the situation has been changing so rapidly here by the hour but in terms of where people are evacuating to their ascent. it's being set up and the government is helping people financially but this is definitely a situation that is it quickly changing another aspect is its livestock many

communities being impacted by this extreme weather system rely on filming and agriculture for their livelihoods and we've seen some devastating scenes of livestock and and cattle being pulled through rivers as fields just turn into lights essentially some cattle have ended up on beaches so there's been a lot of rescue operations underway especially for people who have been trapped in floodwaters trying to leave their properties and emergency services saying that for many who have not evacuated yet from those areas that they were meant to on sunday night it could be to life because now roads are cut off and they've said that how it could be going on in some of these areas as well and that it could be too light for merchant services to rescue anyone from those areas so they really want people

to heed the warnings and leave when they're told to do so and people are bracing for more rain will you go for now thank you so much for that update from new south wales still ahead on al-jazeera voting for a president of the republic of congo the man who's been in the job for 36 years wants another term plus enjoying the taste of freedom in taiwan where a thriving economy is bucking the global trends. robert officially in spring now as we should watch out for tornadoes and you might think well it's still cold over the mountains the high plains and wish to bring your moisture from the gulf so we get a frontal zone there it is our drawn it in so that's where the action should be

down the immediate future doesn't look so bad as being all snow in colorado there will be showers forming up in the in the southern states maybe in texas as well and they do look like they could grow but at this stage not too dangerous the temperature contrast isn't that great that's not to rule it out completely as this thing expands in the showers go further east and for the south that does look potentially dangerous that's one to watch as we get closer to tuesday otherwise it's just simply re throughout the midwest and the still more snow to come out the rockies the california coast by this time it's looking fine and sunny with a bit of a breeze and so bit of a breeze the trade winds blowing through the caribbean but it's generally fine with the most part few showers in his plan euro as you can see and there's been some rather wet weather recently in honduras and down towards solved over that's becoming less and less of time goes on but there are bigger showers in south america they've caused landslides and flooding in peru and they could do the same again here and amazonia but rio is drawn warm.

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come again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour a child is among 7 civilians killed in northwestern syria after an underground hospital was shelled by government forces it happened in an auto out of town that's west of aleppo president joe biden says he'll be heading to the u.s. border with mexico soon as the country struggles to manage a surge of undocumented migrants since his inauguration in january it's estimated around $20000.00 adults and more than 1000 unaccompanied children have entered into the united states waters continue to rise across parts of the australian state of new south wales a natural disaster has been declared in some regions off to the worst flooding in decades. the u.s. defense secretary has met the afghan president during an unannounced visit to kabul what austin said his main reason for visiting was to hear president us from donny's concerns that's ahead of a deadline agreed with the taliban to withdraw u.s. troops by may the 1st term and end date specific

date for withdrawal. that's made up by bush. but. you know the decision that the president will it get some point in terms of how he wants to approach is going forward and i want to try to get my boss job for him you need for me to do that i will put continue to dissipate in a very meaningful way in our view that's going to. corona virus infections are surging across much of latin america and part of why every single i.c.u. bed is full the health system is now on the verge of collapse a nighttime curfew is in place across the country. is joining us from. tell us more about the situation and. well

during this was a situation that many medical staff warning would happen a few days ago they were saying they were reaching that critical period which all their i.c.u. beds were for all that has now happened has to be said that the health infrastructure in paraguayan was not especially strong anyway it was a very poor country there were 655 beds serving a population of 7000000 but they medical staff complaining that supplies are running low and things are certainly getting very difficult the military have offered to give over some of their facilities to help out where they can new beds have been facilitated but this soon as they're put into practice they're thawed out because paraguayan now has a situation in which over 190000 people are infected 3700 deaths. it was fairly late to the pandemic in many ways they were they didn't suffer greatly in the early days but that has now caught up with them and we're seeing

these situations there were demonstrations violent demonstrations earlier this month where people were clashing with the police they were complaining about the way the government has handled the issue alleging corruption and mismanagement the president mario our baldwin heat is a cabinet reshuffle the health minister was replaced but people really want him to go they blame him very much for this situation which is not likely to get better anytime soon daniel and over in brazil of course another badly affected country the president they are using the occasion of his birthday to renew his attacks on restrictions. yeah that's no great surprise either many of his supporters out there helping him to celebrate he's often criticized the measures put in place by some of his rival political rivals or state governors for instance the mayor of rio de janeiro city bias has put

a ban on people going to some of those famous beaches the copacabana the need to try to keep the figures down rio de janiero reach 95 percent occupancy of its i.c.u. beds but the president job also not simply criticized him saying it was a hypocritical at a hypocritical act people should be going to the beaches to take in some of the victim india which will help them to fight the virus according to him so that's really a continuation of the policies that he's had before plenty of people supporting him of course he will continue with their parties continuing to mix there are elections the presidential elections next year and he is really banking on the way he has handled this pandemic putting the emphasis on the continuation of the economy say now must take precedence over everything else plenty of others obviously opposing that and trying to put measures in place to lower those numbers nearly 12000000 people infected 292000 people dead from the virus and those numbers still going out

. just so much for that update from one osiris palestine has started its vaccine rollout to the general public the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas was the 1st to get a job the health authority received more than 60000 vaccine doses last month through the international kovacs scheme which helps poor countries without him as the latest 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 kovacs initiative that helps poorer states get the jobs they contain 60000 doses of pfizer and astra zeneca vaccine when the new year it was very hard for me being in the field in testing people for foreign many of them

positive no matter the precautions are very scared i would catch in give it to my family i hope to get the vaccine soon they'll ministry says it's looking to vaccinate $3200000.00 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 and adequate health care after they impose closures they opened up again suddenly causing gathering at the scooter libby 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 ministry later revealed that senior officials had been inoculated that

angered many palestinians who say the palestinian authority didn't distribute the vaccine clearly 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 their frustration comes from israel's unwillingness to vaccinate palestinians under its occupation. 3000000 palestinians live in the west bank and israel's government on the inoculated about 100. it 1000 who come you were. appalled at the court order loser. but it's part of the oppressor part not compensating. them up a year into the pandemic of all things of economy has taken a big hit. here that.

israel has confiscated the palestinian foreign minister as border pass after he traveled for a meeting at the international criminal courts israeli officials told local media his past was revoked because of the visits but he did maliki travel to hold talks with a top prosecutor in the hague who plans to investigate war crimes in the palestinian territories. 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 protests a police vehicle was set on fire. climbed on top of. officers were injured after protesters threw projectiles including a firework and tried to smash the windows of a police station votes are being counted in the republic of congo following sunday's presidential election a veteran leader. is widely expected to win extending his 36 years in

power a nationwide internet blackout on sunday has added to concerns over transparency the president is facing 6 other contenders and some opposition politicians are either in jail or boycotting the poll. is following developments in the capital brazzaville. 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 i have a chance of being independent that was like the church groups and also the local civil society groups they were blocked from observing the cold so they're not in the polling stations now watching that counts 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 a 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 in the disputed the last election results they were accused of 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 and place them 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 supposedly to present the spread of turkey so now people can't even leave their houses it's also in those circumstances that the count is going ahead. of the leading opposition candidate bryce parfait colorless a seriously ill with cold with 19 he's been flown to france for emergency treatments collarless said he was fading death in a very on message to his supporters from his hospital bed on saturday he finished 2nd in the 26th election and has been highly critical of the president now as covered 1000 recs much of the global economy many countries are plunged into their worst recessions in decades but as rob mcbride reports taiwan not only managed to

buck the trend it's expecting further growth this year. restaurants and stores are for 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 flu 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 they bring mainland china looked grim. i met taiwan where i experienced certain downtime where you are kind of software 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 success is due in part to the economy's 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 that clearly a lot of job opportunities especially the high tech industries because that the government policies are trying to encourage it also how tech. back to taiwan then there with the taiwanese living overseas returning to avoid the effects of the pandemic elsewhere 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 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 u.k. you know be with your family you can take the public transportation and live your normal what he like so many people here largely enjoying the kind of normal but for much of the rest of the world is still a memory problem bride al-jazeera. television the headlines on al-jazeera a child is among 7 so. millions killed in northwestern syria after an underground hospital was shelled by government forces it happened in the town west of aleppo about 600 attacks on health facilities have taken place in 10 years of conflict in syria mostly by the government and its allies u.s. president joe biden says he'll be heading to the.