with every. he's been arbitrary detained and now we see that the court process itself is not transparent. protest against china's denial of consular access as a secret trial for espionage begins against one of its citizens. hello i'm adrian fit again this is our 0 live from doha also coming up we're not through the worst of it potentially and that's why we need to process what will be

a very difficult way mass evacuations at a natural disaster declared in several regions of a straight after one of the worst floods in decades. to pad lifts a coronavirus state of emergency ahead of the tokyo olympics but warns against complacency. that israel prepares for its 4th election in 2 years but the vote is unlikely to resolve the political crisis. china is holding a secret trial for a former canadian diplomat who's been detained in the country for more than 2 years diplomats from canada the u.s. and iran to a 2 dozen other countries gathered outside the court in beijing to show solidarity for michael covering who's accused of espionage he was detained in 2018 soon after canada arrested a cd a while way executive china's held separate proceedings for another canadian facing

similar charges michael spada was trial ended on friday without a verdict. despite. the international agreement to china has signed under the vienna convention that would allow. consular officers access to hearings for their citizens we are being denied that access we've made we've requested access to michael writes hearing repeated repeatedly but that access to the tonight. is you know. michael clover has been detained for more than 2 years now. he's been arbitrarily detained and now we see that the court process to itself is not transparent live out of beijing out as is katrina you is the force katrina is being held in secret so details of what

do we know at this stage about michael called brics trial. as far as we know it's still going on and we're not expecting a verdict today this is a very long drawn out legal process he was arrested in december 28th and wasn't charged formally with espionage until about 18 months later so both him and michael speight will have been detained now for more than 800 days of very little access to the outside world and because of covered 1000 even their monthly consular visits by kennedy d'un officials have been paul's now canada of course has been highly critical of the way their cases have been handled as we've just heard they call these cases political victory you say there has been nor transparency which the chinese government has justified by saying that these are national security cases canadian officials have also raised concerns about their access to chinese lawyers here and that's especially concerning because here in china the communist party

controls the courts and 99 percent of all people charged in criminal cases are found guilty now this case of course has gone and a lot of international attention business people who come to china regularly or who live here in china have been very shocked by these cases both michael spadeful and michael covel well known and many companies will be watching for the outcome of their trials and of course many other governments have also been paying close attention earlier today outside the court the lack of coverage is being trialled we had more than 20 diplomats from countries such as astray the u.k. the u.s. and many other european countries stand out there in solidarity with michael coverage and even president u.s. president john biden has weighed in saying that he stands with canada will do whatever they can to help these 2 be released and also that men should not be used as political bargaining chips as well in these cases because many do believe that

this is a case of hostage diplomacy. you say hostage diplomacy is linked then as far as many people are concerned to the continued detention of the chinese huawei executive. that's right mung one joe the daughter of the huawei founda was c.f.r. when she was detained in canada in december 28th just 9 days before michael crawford and spain will were detained here in china and that's why many have made the link between these 2 cases china of course has denied this but she was detained in canada at the request of the u.s. who say that she broke sanctions against iran and she's currently in canada fighting extradition treaty u.s. but being kept under very different circumstances under house arrest in her vanka the mansion and she's also able to stay with family members that are desirous katrina you reporting live from beijing to trina many thanks indeed it's truly as government has ordered emergency evacuations along its east coast after the worst

flooding in decades waters are continuing to rise across parts of new south wales a natural disaster has been declared in some regions floodwaters have also been spilling over the water and which provides much of the drinking water for sydney unfortunately we're not through the worst of it potentially and that's why we need to prices selves for what will be a very difficult wake and then very difficult weeks and months in the recovery zeros nicola gauges in one of the hardest hit communities in new south wales and has been speaking to people affected by the flooding. well this is windsor a town just west of sydney where it's been raining for days and floodwaters continue to rise at this behind me is the main bridge through the township and as you can see it's under water there are buildings inundated and people have been told to evacuate and extraordinary scenes like this present right along the new

south wales coast from port macquarie to new console where homes are being destroyed some being swept away down the river and many livestock being swept away as well it's of course causing distress to many people here in new south wales will speak to greg now who's in windsor what do you think about some of these scenes that we're witnessing in new south well it's just a rendition of between the fall as the floods and. it's just affecting everybody tens of thousands of people have been affected by this flood incredible have you been told to evacuate and many people in western sydney are leaving all day but we've got a potential. coming up if they've got to cut the power in the water up there's only one bridge at the moment. and one right in the future we will know all of. these things are quite terrifying in some areas they haven't same floods like this

since the 1960 s. in some areas but run full is setting records here and floodwaters are rising the weather bureau has said that the worst could be yet to come so far and the military has been called in to help with some rescues many people have been rescued after being caught in flood waters and thousands of people are out of. because they can't go back home. breaking news from the democratic republic of congo the leading opposition candidate in sunday's presidential election has died the breeze profit call a loss was being transferred to france for treatment for a corona virus infection after being diagnosed on friday he was the main challenger is a veteran leader denise sus who gave. us was 61 when while the still being counted. is widely expected to win extending his 36 years in power a nationwide internet blackout on sunday has added to concerns over transparency.

yes top court has confirmed former interior minister mohammad buzz to him as the winner of last month's presidential runoff whom won 55 percent of the vote the results were fiercely contested by the opposition with violence in the capital. claiming 2 lives presumes inauguration next month will mark the country's 1st transfer of power from one democratically democratically elected leader to another . japan has lifted a state of emergency in tokyo as pressure mounts on the government to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control ahead of the olympics under the measure imposed in january boston restaurants but closing at 8 pm while many other businesses have switched to remote working but with infections creeping up just 4 months ahead of the games experts are warning against complacency to the bar as it is from severe

university in tokyo she says that many in japan believe that it's too soon to ease restrictions i think that's the narrative that we're seeing among the japanese public as well i mean this time last year the government was very slow to introduce any kind of emergency measures because it was worried about the impact on the olympics and probably that's will the number of cases in tokyo surging last spring in a way that was unnecessary given the examples of countries in europe and elsewhere that very much seems to japanese public that this is political and that's reflected in the approval ratings for a current administration i think most people think it's not the right time to hold the games although as laura brown spectators how been from attending the games that's still a concern the thousands of our trainers that stuff are going to be coming to tokyo and that could increase infection rates as people sort of move around the city but also you know is it possible to make the ban use truly socially distance that people are very concerned about this of health implications of holding the games

and i think that really is putting quite a gump neurons mountains there in tokyo. all intensive care beds in paraguayan are occupied as the country sees a steep rise in covert 19 infections authorities are scrambling to find more beds in the military has offered to help from water sato study all schreiber reports. those on the medical front line in paraguayan have been warning for some time that the health system was buckling under the strain nearly 200000 people infected with the corporate 19 virus and 3700 dead. there my. health system is currently saturated on the verge of collapse we are fighting to safeguard the integrity and the life of our compatriots. he 655 i.c.u. beds serving a country of 7000000 and now 4 so too are many other beds and the country's military has offered its facilities also supplies are running low in neighborhoods

you want me to be in there we've got supplies but not enough to treat the number of patients we are receiving right now we've got more than 120 and more are coming it's very intense. demonstrators earlier this month protested across paraguayan accusing the north or it is of corruption and mismanagement in the handling of the pandemic. these vaccines arrived as part of the code back scheme to supply poorer countries but critics say it's not enough. there's a similar picture across latin america this 3rd batch of the sin of back maxine sent by china to colombia came with this message from the chinese president being told she labors she would feel he said the vast pacific ocean can stand in the way of the profound friendship between the peoples of china and colombia and that in the face of the copied 1000 outbreak the 2 countries have been working in solidarity and see pandemic cooperation. but most ordinary people are still

waiting peru has passed the grim miles. a 50000 beds. there are no respirators there's no i.c.u. bed says nothing so we have to wait for the patient to die and doctors tell us this from the inside of the hospital when we are out here. in brazil hospitals are also reaching capacity nearly 12000000 people infected 293000 dead residents are being urged to stay indoors to stay away from crowds with even the famous beaches of rio de janeiro closed to visitors. one osiris brazil's president has renewed his attacks on restrictions imposed by state and municipal governments. has repeatedly pushed against lockdown measures in favor of the economy despite a devastating 2nd wave of infections celebrating his birthday with supporters who

told them that he'd fight for their freedom. as well as president has announced 2 weeks of what he's calling radical quarantine including the cancellation of easter celebrations nicolas maduro had previously announced that there would be flexibility over the holiday period but festivities have now been called off after the detection of a corona virus strain blamed for soaring infection rates in brazil we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then. a child is among 7 people killed in a syrian hospital that's been hit by government shelling. and fighting for her political career what next for scotland's 1st minister nicola sturgeon if the review decides that she's broken the ministerial code.

now it must feel like a disappointing start to spring after we've had the vernal equinox that was with the twenty's but the close to coming down from the north that's a cold direction is already single figures temperature wise another cold front even though briefly ahead of it saying the warm up 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 die down and where the cold has come down before sitting over the southern balkans of a bug area and rumania is could be persistent snow his affairs got it for the next 3 days around about 0 degrees and it's other snowing or is about to stir unfortunately but that is not true everywhere and that cold weather would have to cross into turkey and then the sun gets to work its spring sunshine now it is stronger than it has been it gets stronger every day so if you take away the wind eventually things will warm up not true in bertie and we get it to about 13 by thursday 15 by friday and it hangs around the low teens so that feels quite spring

like not so necessarily in north africa the cloud over morocco is bringing more rain or even snow to the office mountains and the wind is picking up of a northern tunisia and where it's dry wood is bringing a sandstorm into northern egypt. frank assessments the well there's a. drought that model fadia is that a fair assessment you see a catastrophic hialeah to white valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines the inside story.

well again this is out a serious rise of the main news this hour china is holding a secret trial for a canadian man who's accused of espionage michael coverage has been in detention for more than 2 years canadian diplomats say that he's being that they're being denied access to him. water continues to rise across parts of the australian state of new south wales a natural disaster has been declared in some regions after the worst flooding in decades. and the leading opposition candidate in the republic of congo. the priests parfait calais last has died he was being treated for a coronavirus infection meanwhile votes are still being counted president that he

saw so again is widely expected to wind. down but have killed at least 39 civilians in south west and it happened in the military region which borders mali and the keno faso 58 villages were killed in the same region last week no one's yet claimed responsibility but an eyesore faction operates in the area opinion polls in israel suggest tuesday's 4th election in 2 years could well end in another inconclusive result but even netanyahu is facing a fractured group of challenges after a dramatic decline in support for opposition leader but he counts let's go live now to what west jerusalem al-jazeera scary force it can tell us more so when all is said and done harry is anything going to change after this election. well that certainly were benjamin netanyahu wants and has campaigned very hard for he's based the majority of his campaign around his record for bringing in coded 900

vaccines and overseeing the rollout of those to give israel a huge edge in comparative terms to the rest of the world in terms of its vaccination numbers and there's more good news for israel on that front this morning the our numbers come down to point 62 this is 40 days after the end of the last lock down and so widely opening economy doesn't seem to be affecting the infection rates the death rates a hugely down as well so there is something of a feel good factor in israel as a result of that the question is whether the voters reward benjamin netanyahu to the extent that he wants them to on those terms now he's turning is attention somewhat to his economic record there was a rally last night when he said that that he was the one who could steward the economic recovery after the pandemic and he's saying that he needs of course 61

votes in a coalition government 61 seats rather in parliament to get a coalition government he says that it's tied at $6060.00 and he needs his likud party to get out the vote against a much more fractured field than last time when benny gantz was his main challenger this time it's very different. in 3 consecutive elections benny gantz presented the strongest challenge benjamin netanyahu had faced in years. the former army chief head of the blue and white alliance helping deny netanyahu a viable coalition but failing to form one of his own his decision last year to split his alliance and break his central campaign promise by joining that in yangon government has seen his standing crumble i'm not only fast moving we into the government despite me and who not for nixon yahud we into the government because there was a health economic and social crisis one of the biggest israel has ever seen and we are not sideways all of us the soldiers for this country now he's campaigning for

perhaps half a dozen seats on the basis that they can block legislation allowing us to escape his corruption trial dancer's collapse has left a fragmented field of possible alternatives to netanyahu leading the pack is yeah peed dances form a partner in blue and white a former finance minister in an earlier netanyahu government and now the number one target of netanyahu his campaign that by now he didn't start this way but now is complete cynic and he says this is the tool of they've hurting us from the things he doesn't want us to talk about. lapidus try to downplay his own prime ministerial ambitions wary of netanyahu as attempts to cast the election as a 2 horse race in which the pete becomes the scary left wing or gideon rock hard of the israel democracy institute says a split field makes it more difficult for the prime minister that danielle would like us to choose between 2 good chocolates but you have to face many good

chocolates let's say and if you think about the voter as a consumer this is much more problematic for him and then yell in the unlikely chocolate box of israeli politics natalee bennett would be found well to the right of the prime minister he rules out working with lockheed but leaves the door to joining netanyahu at least partially open not so good on sar share your own different the painful truth is that netanyahu prefers his own personal interests over the interests of the country his decision to leave the couldn't challenge him from the right at the head of his new hope party was the big news is the campaign began but as promised late surge in the polls has failed to happen. for all that's changed in terms of the lineup of challenges one thing has remained constant throughout this 2 year political crisis it really is all about benjamin netanyahu. and one of the issues that is not really being talked about at all in this election

campaign is the israel palestine conflict and the palestinians themselves of course in the last campaign benjamin netanyahu was talking a lot about the prospects of an extension of the occupied west bank something which as diminished and gone away especially since the defeat of donald trump in the last u.s. election but it is an issue in the background and that is one reason why natalee bennett is so adamant about his not joining yeah i like paid someone who's seen as as softer in the right wing israeli terms on the israel palestine issue he even went to a t.v. studio on sunday night with a piece of paper that he himself brought in pledging that he would not join a government led by lockheed and that is being seen in some quarters as a real crumbling of his position in terms of netanyahu that he may well come back into the netanyahu fold which could take netanyahu across the line towards a proper majority in the parliament the knesset so things are by no means definite

but they are lining up more in favor potentially netanyahu than they have in the previous 3 elections al-jazeera sorry for supporting live from west to roost area many thanks security forces in responding with increasing violence to anti coup protests across the country. this was the moment when police shot a man off his motorcycle in the moment city of mandalay he was laser scores of the way by officers it's unclear how badly the man was hurt or or has happened to him since the protests have continued across they are not they 2 months now after its civilian government was deposed in a bit of 3 crew people have been turning out despite the rising death toll rights groups say that they need 250 people have been killed since the demonstrations began. a child is among 7 civilians killed in northwestern syria on the ground

hospital was shelled by government forces it happened in the rebel held city of. west of aleppo about $600.00 attacks on health facilities are taking place in 10 years of conflict in syria of zeros lore about monthly reports. a place meant to care for people and keep them safe the becomes a scene of chaos the hospital was hit by mortars fired from a syrian army outpost. bloodstained survivors who carried out and treated elsewhere only. a child and health care workers died in the bob barker and about that day father comes to 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 vacua to the building and medical staff and the injured. al-jazeera correspondent. 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 $2800.00 al-jazeera visit 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 did we are only in the 1st quarter of a year so somehow it's really really sad to see that these are so mean. so many times despite being all these cordon needs the u.n. saying that these hospitals should be protected under international humanitarian

law. neighbors 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 pay for being put under the protection of a cease fire signed in march 2020 between russia and turkey but it's continually violated. those killed have been buried near a type city more craving for a country that suffered so much devastation. neurosurgeon many artists here at. scotland's 1st minister nicolas sturgeon is beginning the most turbulent week of her career she's accused of mishandling sexual assault allegations against her predecessor and it's threatening to undermine her leadership and possibly take scotland out of the united kingdom join the whole reports from edinburgh. a

difficult week ahead for nicholas sturgeon that could see the 1st minister fighting for her own and scotland's political future it may very well be that i didn't get everything right that's for others to judge but in one of the most invidious political and personal situations i have ever faced i believe i acted properly and appropriately and that overall i meet the best judgments i could. she awaits the outcome of 2 inquiries into her government's handling of sexual assault allegations against alex salmond sturgeon's former boss mentor and friend last week the leaked conclusions of a cross party parliamentary inquiry suggested she had given and even accurate account of her meetings with sam and in 2018 to discuss the allegations. but the question upon which sturgeon's job may depend is whether she broke the ministerial code either by misleading parliament deliberately or by promising to intervene on

alex salmond's behalf as he alleges she did which she denies parliament will produce its report already partially leaked on tuesday but it's the independent review by sturgeon's own advisor on the ministerial code james hamilton q.c. that will pronounce on that central question of whether she broke the code if so scotland's 1st minister will find herself under intense pressure to resign scotland's future should be in scotland and that is what this debate is a baby the future of our country little or sturgeon is determined that scotland should hold another referendum on independence something prime minister boris johnson has refused the question was voted down in 2015 but breaks it has caused a rise in support for independence among remain minded scots. an anticipated victory for nicholas sturgeon's scottish national party in parliamentary elections this may would strengthen her hand but

a crisis of trust at the heart of the nationalist cause could tear it all down so now al jazeera edinburgh the biggest asteroid to come close to earth this year is flying past right now named rather snappily 2001 f o $32.00 it's estimated to be 500 meters wide and it's traveling unusually fast 124000 kilometers an hour scientists say that it's too far away to pose a threat space agencies of activated a network of telescopes to study the rock. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera china is holding a secret trial for a former canadian diplomat who's been the tape did the country for more than 2 years diplomats from canada the us.