an organization telling the name to many as the polite alliance inside this in a lower car town part 2 of the tea party investigation people in power on al-jazeera. were not through the worst of it potentially and that's why we need to price ourselves for what will be a very difficult way mass evacuations at a natural disaster clad in several regions of a strain of to one of the worst floods in decades. more of a dream for the good this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. he's been arbitrary detained and now we see that the process itself is not transparent

kind of the protests against china's denial of consular access as a secret trial for espionage begins for one of its diplomats. japan lifts a coronavirus state of emergency ahead of the tokyo lympics but warns against complacency. israel prepares for its 4th election in 2 years the food is unlikely to resolve its political crisis. parts of australia as east coast have been declared a natural disaster as the state of new south wales battles the worst flooding in decades homes are destroyed rescues are on the way with people bracing for more heavy rain because a gauge reports now from the town of windsor west of sydney. regions under water and many people at breaking point days of torrential rain have turned parts of

eastern australia into an inland sea ruining harms and destroying livelihoods several areas have been declared disaster zones and tens of thousands of people ordered to leave others are on standby watching what happens next with only one bridge at the moment one road in and one in the pits coupler all know and emergency services have been inundated with calls for help dozens of people trapped by rising floodwaters have been rescued but many farm animals washed away as rivers burst their banks and dams spilled. communities are becoming increasingly caught off here in windsor west of sydney this is the main bridge completely under water along with buildings and more rain is on the why people get to evacuate are writing to protect times sandbagging properties and hoping for the best. you know why

it's pretty bad others are already counting the cost sorry where is your business just over the bridge patrick muskets business is under water 100 acres of lawn that he commercially growers flooded destroying all of this season stalk a loss of millions of dollars. it's very scary not knowing what's going to happen and not knowing. what's happening. yes we just got a light to say and if we haven't siphoned everything say from the farm it's been a year since precision to bushfires burnt across this region before that severe drought one emergency its aims after the next some communities who were battered by the bush tries and now being battered by the floods and drought prachi that and i don't know any time in assets he's. we've had basic strain where the conditions in such quick succession in the middle of a pandemic some are calling this

a one in 100 year disaster and weather experts are predicting the worst could be yet to come because a gauge al-jazeera. china is holding a secret trial for a former canadian diplomat he's been detained in the country for more than 2 years to plants from kind of the u.s. and around 20 other countries gathered outside the court in beijing to show solidarity for michael called brick who is accused of espionage he was detained in 2018 soon after canada arrested a cd a huawei executives china's held separate proceedings for another canadian facing similar charges michael spade was trial ended on friday without a verdict despite. the international agreement that 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 i hearing repeated repeatedly but that access being denied. as you know. michael clover has been detained for more than 2 years now. he's been arbitrarily detained and now we see that the process itself is not transparent more from observers katrina you in beijing. canada has been hugely critical about the way these cases have been handled saying there's no transparency in the case they've been given dubious access to chinese lawyers which is already a problem because the courts here in china are controlled by the communist party and 99 percent of all criminal cases are found guilty canada says they also have not been given access to the trials of both of these men today and also on friday now these cases have attracted a lot of international attention earlier today outside the court where michael

couric is being trialled about 20 or so actually more than 20 diplomats from various countries including the u.k. australia us gathered to show their solidarity with michael coverage and u.s. president joe biden has also weighed in saying that he supports canada in their push to have these men released saying that men should not be used as political posturing chips now canada has been very critical this is affecting the bilateral relationship between canada and china and china has hit back saying that well they can't give access because this is a national security case and it's also been very critical of what the canadians have been doing to try to have these 2 men released let's have a listen to what china's foreign ministry spokesperson said about this earlier today so that you shouldn't urge the canadian side to stop interfering in china's judicial soren you and start acting mean ways inconsistent with the just in conform to their vienna convention in the main case canada acted as an accomplice which is

very dishonorable. once again to release and allow her to go back to china safe and sound mungo was detained in the 1st of december 2800 just 9 days before these 2 men were arrested here in china she was detained in canada at the request of the u.s. u.s. is accusing her of breaking iranian sanctions as her while she was working as a c.f.o. of chinese technology company huawei but of course what's vastly different in these 2 cases. case this is the man is that high case has had a high level of legal transparency and she's been allowed to wait out the process at harm and have bank of a mansion with a family security forces in myanmar increasing the use of violence against nancy cooper says across the country. this was the moment when police shot a man on a motorcycle in middleton city at mandalay he was later schooled of the way by officers it's unclear how badly hurt he was or what's happened to him since the

protests are continuing across spam law and it's nearly 2 months since that civilian government was deposed in a military coup people have been turning out despite a rising death toll rights groups say that the only 250 people have been killed since the demonstrations began. the leading opposition candidate for the democratic republic of congo has died a day after the presidential elections gabe responds to call us was due to be transferred to france for treatment for covert 19 after being diagnosed on friday he was the main challenger veteran leader then a source who gave so clear last was 61 right now votes are still being counted so some guess who is x. is widely expected to win extending his 36 years in power a nationwide internet blackout on sunday has added to concerns over transparency and a serious mark a web joins us now live from the president malcolm what's been the reaction here to

the opposition leader's death. well it's hard to know exactly what's going on with the internet still but so far when firstly when koehler sent out that dramatic video message on saturday just ahead of the polls in which he explained he was battling with death that was before the internet went off some of his supporters started speculating that he had been poisoned there's no evidence that that happened but there is a deep mistrust of the government that certainly potential cause of. on rastan and discontent after that the internet after there's been no more visible discussion about it on social media now the early hours of this morning his spokesperson said that he had died you understand it was in paris when he was on his way to paris for medical treatment now officials from his party have called for

a meeting that's meant to take place in the back ongo suburb of the city which is his stronghold are going to take place to take place in about an hour from now and it's possible that supporters will gather their party officials will speak to them afterwards. of course the internet communications office very difficult to. what's happening in other parts of the country where he also has a strong support base being counted in the election where we get the result. the electoral commission has said it was. maybe on wednesday or thursday this week but rights groups and democracy activists say that votes are being counted and in the dark with the internet and also with. international observer mission were not able many of them not able to attend not able to meet what they said were impossible to meet with quiet the catholic church one of the few institutions here that does speak out about. electoral irregularities they were blocked from

monitoring the polls as were the local civil society groups so there's no one of the process that anyone would expect to be critical so that's why opposition rights groups say that whatever happens between now and when the result is announced is very opaque indeed. thanks mark a welcome web live in. is yes top court has confirmed former interior minister mohammad. as the winner of last month's presidential runoff who won 55 percent of the vote the results were fiercely contested by the opposition 2 people were killed in violence in the capital assumes inauguration next month will mark the country's 1st transfer of power from one democratically elected leader to another government in this year have killed at least $39.00 civilians in the southwest it happened in the tilbury region borders mali and the keno faso 58

villages were killed in the same region last week no one has claimed responsibility but a faction of ice all operates in that area. i weather update next year out of syria then a birthday promise from the brazilian leader jaya abbas an hour who vows to lift pandemic restrictions. on fighting for her political career what's next for scotland's 1st minister nicholas sturgeon and if the review decides that she broke the ministerial code. it's starting now i think the persistent nature showers on the coast of vietnam we've had some pretty big showers that went further west and i'd like to i think boost the rainfall captured in southern thailand but this onshore breeze up the

coast of vietnam i mean that's the stuff that could continue for quite a while that change in season but he was fresh as about the philippines and a good spread throughout malaysia and indonesia new south wales is still the story there to be honest the amount of rain that's falling so far is tremendous this is outside sydney yeah i know a major city in this is the problem with having anything between 20900 millimeters recorded in the eastern side of new south wales as the amount of rainfall so far i think tuesday will be a concentration of the end of it now the orange top suggests the heaviest for that stretch down almost over the border and a.c.t as well but fairly good news here despite the widespread heavy rain and widespread flooding to stacey's the end of it by wednesday the rains going offshore the flooding will still be there but sadly but overhead you have clearing skies you appear to see the sun you just see the water slowly drain away as the rain proper goes further south to tasmania.

from. a young guy. before most of this wendy popped up this thinking. going to have this opportunity to bump sky's the limit so the young gals go through secondary school with to be able to see him play that's one thing able to change his mind. meet the women in donna who are going places when it comes to education women make change on al-jazeera.

again this is of 0 the surprise of abuse the water is rising across parts of this story of states of new south wales a machel disaster has been declared in some regions off of the worst flooding in decades. china is holding a secret trial for a canadian man accused of espionage michael coverage has been in detention for more than 2 years canadian diplomats say that they're being denied access to. a leading opposition candidates in the republic of congo keep greece parfait kollel us has died he was being treated for corona virus infection meanwhile votes are still being counted the president then a saucer who is widely expected to win. opinion polls in israel suggest that its 4th election in 2 years on tuesday could end in another inconclusive result benjamin netanyahu is facing a fractured group of challenges after a dramatic decline in support for the former opposition leader benny gantz herefore

says assesses the field. 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 and. we entered the government despite me and who not for nixon yahud we into the government because there was a health economic and social crisis when of the biggest israel has ever seen and we are not sideways all of us are 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 the of hurting us from the things he doesn't want us to talk about. he has tried to downplay his own prime ministerial ambitions wary of netanyahu as attempts to cost the election is a $2.00 horse race in which pete becomes the scary left winger gideon rod of the israel democracy institute says a split field makes it more difficult for the prime minister that would like us to choose between 2 good chocolates but you have to face many chocolates 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 shoujo. 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 ari force at al-jazeera west jerusalem. the child is among 7 civilians killed in northwestern syria after an underground hospital was shelled by government forces it happened in the rebel held city of at eb west of aleppo about $600.00 attacks on health facilities have taken place in 10 years of conflict in syria warburton badly

reports. a place meant to care for people and keep them safe the becomes a scene of chaos the hospital was hit by moses fired from a syrian army outpost. bloodstained survivors who carried out and treated elsewhere only. a child and health care workers died in the present a bad day for the country 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 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 1st incident that happened only we are only in the 1st quarter of a year so somehow it's really really sad to see that these. mean. so many times despite all these coordinates 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 on paper 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. lure about a man the al-jazeera. 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 olympic games under the measure imposed in january bars and restaurants opin closing at 8 pm while many other businesses have switched to remote working with infections rising for months ahead of the games experts are warning against complacency just days before the beginning

of the olympic torch relay tokyo's organizing committee say they're taking all precautions to minimize the spread of the virus it's an effort to turn around public opinion polls showing 80 percent of people in japan want the olympics canceled or postponed again jojo is that this week in fukushima the torch relay will start old though it is a grand starts we will greatly simplify it but no including spectators to prevent infection in addition we will take all possible measures in a safe and secure manner such as road side measures to prevent congestion at the torch relay as the opening approaches we will continue to have the highest priority on safety tina burris's from saffir university in tokyo she says but many in japan believe that it's too soon to ease restrictions i think that's the narrative that we're seeing along 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 really not all the number of

cases in tokyo surging last spring in a way that was on necessary given examples of countries in europe and elsewhere so very much seems to japanese public that this is political and that's reflected in the approval rate in the current administration. i think most people think it's not the right time to hold the games although as laurent brown spectators have been from attending the games there's still a concern that thousands of our trainers that start 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 venue's truly socially distant so people are very concerned about this of health implications of holding the games and i think that really is about putting quite a damp neurons atmosphere in turkey. all intensive care beds empowered y. are occupied as covert 19 infections continue to rise authorities are trying to find more beds the military has offered to help. danielle schreiber reports from

one of sorrows. those on the medical front line in paraguayan the morning for some time that the health system was buckling under the strain only 200000 people infected with the covert 19 virus and 3700 dead because of their muscle. the health system is currently saturated on the verge of collapse we are fighting to safeguard the integrity and the life of our compatriots. 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 then maybe 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 comeback 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 black rock seen sent by china to colombia came with this message from the chinese president being told she feels 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 19 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 milestone of 50000 dead i mean there are no respirators there is 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. meanwhile 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 close to visit is. that. what osiris. first wave 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 of the holiday period bods the studies have been called off after the detection of a corona virus strain that's blamed for soaring infections in brazil president joe biden says that he'll head to the u.s. border with mexico soon as it struggles to manage increasing numbers of undocumented migrants trying to cross biden has already reversed much of former

president donald trump's hardline policies that led to children being held in cages nearly 20000 adults i'm over 9000 unaccompanied children are estimated to cross the border last month that's a big wise since january and in mexico measures to limit bomb essential travel on its southern border with guatemala of come into effect large numbers of immigration agents have been deployed to turn back undocumented people the last heavy border deployment was in january last year when the national guard was sent to turn away so the so-called migrant caravan that was heading for the united states. 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 that's threatening to undermine her leadership and possibly her ambition to take scotland out of the united kingdom join a whole report style from edinburgh

a difficult week ahead for nicolas 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 the overall i meet the best judgments i cute 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 nicholas 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 brecht's it has caused a rise in support for independence among remain minded scots and anticipated victory for nicolas 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 to a whole al-jazeera edinburgh. the biggest asteroid to come close to earth this year is flying past right now named 2001 f. $32.00 it's estimated to be 500 meters wide is traveling very fast at 124000 kilometers an hour scientists say though it's too far away suppose any threat. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines and al-jazeera water continues to rise across parts of the australia state of new south wales a natural disaster has been declared in some regions off of the worst flooding in decades they can gauge reports now from winds northwest of sydney it's been raining for days and flood.