there is no channel that complements world news like we do we revisit places state there are really invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. 'd al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes or it looks like it's going to come up very very. we just saw you get there a natural disaster declared in parts of eastern australia as people are forced to escape severe floods. he's been are returning detained and now we see that the

process to yourself is not transparent about the protests against china's denial of consular access as an espionage or form of diplomat against in secret. the leading opposition figure in the congolese election has died a day after the presidential vote with early results expected in just a few days we take a look at what. japan lifts a coronavirus state of emergency is the government comes under more pressure ahead of the in the pics. and i'm we're hard in with all of your sports a manchester united football or is the latest player in the english premier league to be racially abused online brazilian star fred was targeted after he made a mistake on the field causing his team's spot in the f.a. cup semifinal.

and welcome we begin this news in australia where pots of the east coast have been declared a natural disaster with homes destroyed. rescues on the way the state of new south wales is battling the worst flooding in decades the full cost is by wednesday but for now people are bracing for more heavy rains like a gauge has this report from tell of windsor west of sydney. regions under water and many people breaking point days of torrential rain have turned parts of eastern australia into an inland sea ruining homes and destroying livelihoods several areas have been declared disaster zones and tens of thousands of papal ordered to leave others are on standby watching what happens next only one bridge. and one in the future. 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 toward paying for the best. way it's pretty bad others are already counting the cost sorry where is your business just. patrick muskets business is under water $100.00 acres of lawn that he commercially grows 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 right to say and siphon everything say from the farm it's been a year since unprecedented. to cross. this region before that to be a drought one emergency its aims up to the next some communities who were battered by the bush fives and now being battered by the floods and state drought prachi that and i don't know any time in assets history when 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 the gauge al-jazeera winds. china's holding a secret trial for a former canadian diplomat he's been detained in the country for more than 2 years diplomats from canada us from about 20 countries galad outside the courts in beijing to show solidarity among. he's been accused of espionage he was detained

back in 2018 soon off to canada arrested a senior how way executive china is held separate proceedings for another canadian facing similar charges michael as tall ended on friday without a verdict despite. the international agreement that 10 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 meet we've requested access to make legal rights right here in repeated repeatedly but that access is being denied. as you know. michael coverage has been detained for more than 2 years now. he's been arbitrarily detained and now we see that the court process itself is not transparent.

well china has defended its handling of the covered case and accuses counted a meddling and its internal affair as choosier least it was actually in canada has brought together some other countries diplomats in china and point fingers at china's handling of individual cases that is interference in china's judicial sovereignty we reject that and will by no means accept such interference michael covert and michael spade or are suspected of in danger in china's national security and china's judicial organs will handle the cases and guarantee their rights and interests. let's get more on this we can speak to katrina a year who's in beijing for us katrina good to see you what can you tell us about the covered trial given how tight lipped china's been about the whole process. well unfortunately don't have too much information on how that's going to day so far we have no verdict from this trial which has lasted for

a few hours now and this is really the climax of what has been a long drawn out legal process michael covered along with michael spade or they were both arrested in december 28th and it took 18 months for them to be charged with espionage formally and now it's been more than 800 days that they've both been detained with very little access to the outside world and as we heard earlier canada is extremely critical of the way these cases are being handled by china in addition to what they say is a lack of transparency they've also raised questions about the amount of access both have had to chinese lawyers before the trial both respectively on friday and on monday today for michael crawford now of course this case has all sorts tracked as a lot of international attention for one the business community is really watching closely these cases sense chills down the spines of many who are involved in business and lived here in china as foreigners working here both cover against they

were well known in the x. community and other governments of course have also been critical of these cases we had earlier today more than 20 diplomats from various countries including australia the u.k. the u.s. show up outside the court where coverage was being trialled and they stood there in solidarity with him there u.s. president joe biden has also weighed in saying that the u.s. will do whatever it can to support canada and trying to have these men freed and during biden said that these men should not be used as bartering chips as it's widely suspected that this really is a case of hostage diplomacy indeed katrina that's exactly what i was going to put to you that canada has described this as hostage diplomacy on the back of the there were arrest of a chinese executive in canada on the u.s. warrant a little while ago is this seen as a case of tit for tat. it is just because of the timing long joe was arrested on the 1st of december 28th just 9

days before birth michael coverage and michael stable were detained here in china now when she was arrested she was the c.e.o. of the chinese technology huawei she's also the daughter of rendon faye who is the founder of that giant technology company and at the time the u.s. requested her arrest in canada because she was accused of breaking sanctions on iran so she is currently in vancouver fighting extradition to the u.s. now china has denied that there is any link between the cases of these 2 canadians and $11.00 juror but they are obviously furious about one wonders case and they have heavily criticized canada and we've seen the relationship between the 2 countries deteriorate as a result of her arrest let's have a listen to what watching you had to say on the matter so that you wouldn't we urge the canadian side to stop interfering in china's judicial sovereignty and stop acting in ways inconsistent with its status and conform to their vienna convention

in the monkeys canada acted as an accomplice which is very dishonorable we urge once again to release miss monkey and allow her to get back to china safe and sound . but it is important to remember despite the similarities in the timing of these 2 arrests one window and michael cover again michael stay while the conditions are vastly different mung wonder is being allowed to stay under house arrest in her vancouver mansion she's also allowed to be with her family and apart from having to wear a g.p.s. tracker on her ankle too until she doesn't leave the country she's allowed to come and go as she pleases for most of the day many thanks for that katrina you live from beijing. plenty more ahead on the news hour including why israel's full election in 2 years is unlikely to resolve its political crisis plus. the child is the month 7 people killed in

a syrian hospital that's been hit by government shelling. in sports more problems for christiana rinaldo his team's hopes of winning the italian title something or another setback. astra zeneca has corona virus vaccine has received a boost off to data from a trial showed it's safe and effective the study involved more than 30000 people from the u.s. chile peru and show the job is 79 percent effective in preventing kovan 1960 symptoms and 100 percent effective against severe illness with several european countries have halted astra zeneca shots earlier this month after reports it was linked to blood clots but some have resumed inoculations. all intensive care beds in paraguay occupied as kevin 1000 infections rise steeply that authorities

are trying to find more beds on the military has offered to help from when is there is done elsewhere in the reports. those on the medical front line in paraguayan have been warning for some time that the health system was buckling under the strain in the 200000 people infected with the covert 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. 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 rude 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 then it cooperation. but most ordinary people are still waiting peru has passed the grim milestone of. 50000 beds i've been lucky 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. meanwhile in brazil hospitals are also reaching capacity nearly 12000000 people infected 293000 beds wizards have being urged to stay indoors to stay away from crowds with even the famous beaches of rio de janeiro close to visit is. that. one osiris brazil's president has renewed his attacks on restrictions imposed by state and municipal governments has repeatedly fought against lock down measures in favor of the economy despite a devastating 2nd wave of infections celebrating his birthday with supporters he told them he would fight for their freedom. and as well as president has announced 2 weeks of what he's calling radical quarantine including the council of east us

celebrations nicolas maduro had previously announced that there would be flexibility over the holiday period but festivities have been called off the detection of the coronavirus train blame for soaring infections in brazil japan has lifted a state of emergency in tokyo ass pressure mounts on the government to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control ahead of the olympics on to the measure imposed in january bars and restaurants have been closing at 8 pm while many other businesses have switched to remote working but with infections rising for months ahead of the games experts are warning against complacency. just days before the 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 with polls showing 80 percent of people in japan won the olympics canceled or postponed

again if you're going to this week in fukushima the torch relay with start old though it is a grand starts will greatly simplify it but no one including spectators to prevent infection in addition 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 will continue to have the highest priority on safety. let's get more on this you can speak to jeff kingston who's professor of asian studies at temple university he joins us via skype from tokyo thank you for joining us on al-jazeera what do you make of this move by the government to lift the state of emergency do you think that's premature well certainly a lot of public health officials are concerned that gov. is just. a minor she people not to let down their guard and she's imposing restrictions on

business operating hours so i think there is divided opinion but. ministration really wants to you know revive the economy and watch sikri here in the center of positive or go even slower with the olympics but as we mentioned that survey that's come out recently finding that most people wanting the games delayed even further i mean that's not the best back trop is it to hold these olympics why is the why is the government so determined to go ahead. yeah i mean it's very little public enthusiasm seems strange but the government is thinking once they're on people will rally and they'll get excited what's driving this is clearly money and politics there are a lot of important stakeholders invest a lot of money in these games the i.o.c. depends on the television revenues for that so that 90 percent of their revenues n.b.c. is paid a lot of money sponsors here have put up

a lot of money and the government as invested you know close to $20000000000.00 in preparing for the olympics so there's a lot of economic reasons to go forward. people had hopes for a revival of the tourism sector but now they're banning foreign bans so the hope is that the olympics will be sort of a commie now are the end of the pandemic and this will you know reassure people that you can a say and revive tourism which has just plummeted and this is had a really bad impact on the economy the political angle is sent isn't boiled in various scandals surrounding his son and nepotism and so he's in trouble and so he needs serve a feel good story to try to revive his political fortunes that the lympics are cancelled he's in deeper trouble how much do you think this is about china and saving face because interestingly beijing is set to host the winter games next year

and they have said they're definite going to go ahead. how much of that is motivating japan to make sure this happens. well i think money in politics are more important but sure the p.r. aspect is or japan doesn't want china to steal a march the next asian country to host the olympics so yes it is back year but i don't think it's the main factor has the problem it eliminates our enormously great brandy knocker to it has been really blessed with least squandered as they lurch from scandal to scandal so this is really been changed olympics or japan ok jeff good to get your thoughts jeff kingston professor of asian studies at temple university speaking to us there from tokyo. security forces in myanmar are increasing their use of violence against protesters across the country.

you don't want to live in iraq. this was the moment when the man off his motorcycle in the northern city of mandalay he was later scores of away by offices it's unclear how badly he was hurt or what happened to him or process have continued across myanmar nearly 2 months after a civilian government was deposed in a military coup people have been turning out despite the rising death toll rights groups say nearly $250.00 people have been killed since those demonstrations began meanwhile the european union is set to impose sanctions on a number of people linked to me and miles military blogs foreign ministers meeting an expected to announce the most significant action yet against military officials governments want to move today we will discuss me and mom what we're witnessing there in terms of violent existence is absolutely unacceptable the amount of

murders has reached an unbearable stage and that's why we can't avoid imposing sanctions aimed at those in charge of what's happening on the street. let's get more now from natasha butler who joins us from paris so these sanctions announced in the last hour or so talk us through the details. yes the foreign minister talking about myanmar one of the main topics on the agenda for their meeting today they've announced sanctions against at least 11 military leaders and police officers and their business is that these are all individuals linked to the fed now what these sanctions will entail is a freeze of any linked assets of these travel ban businesses and investors banks the normally do business with any of the companies that belong to these military leaders and police officers well they will be banned

from being able to continue to do so now these are the most important and significant penalties that have been imposed on myanmar since the coup they are they do add of course to sanctions that were imposed on the country in 2084 hours leaderships roll in its persecution of muslim minority but they are as i said this is really the main response from the e.u. since the coup the priority for the european union they've made it very clear is that the ongoing violence must stop and that me and mom must return to a path to democracy natasha the foreign ministers have also been discussing turkey what exactly have they said regarding turkey. yes the foreign ministers will be talking about turkey because relations between the e.u. and ankara have deteriorated so badly over the past year the differences over

issues like syria libya turkey's actions in the eastern mediterranean and in the past few days turkey's decision to pull the country out of an international treaty on women's rights against domestic abuse so all of those issues have been of been a real thorn in the side for the e.u. they've often said that turkey seems to act against values so they will be talking about the relationship and what can be done in a way to improve it now the e.u. foreign policy chief birrell his office has actually commissioned a report in which it says that since december there has been some room so there has been some improvement on the part of ankara in terms of its relationship with the e.u. they say that that improvement that improve behavior they call it should also be encouraged and the e.u. should perhaps offer ankara some incentives things like expanding the customs union

including it in the erasmus programme now the e.u. is also saying that what needs to be done is to look at the key issue of migration which is often the sticking point between turkey and the e.u. the e.u. wants to take you to resume resume the return of migrants from greece in return the e.u. says that it would try and speed up the process which it takes migrants from turkey and places them in the e.u. so turkey so only one of the main topics on the agenda for this you foreign ministers meeting natasha butler there for us in paris many thanks. the child is among 7 civilians killed in northwestern syria often underground hospital was shelled by government forces it happened in the rebel held city. west of aleppo about 600 attacks on health facilities have taken place in 10 years of conflict in syria laura bird unmanly has this report. 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. bloodstained survivors who carried out and treated elsewhere i mean it's not enough that a child and health care workers died in the bucket and about that day father comes to mco of 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 vacuity 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 that's just an incident that happened only this we are only in the 1st water off day yet so somehow it's really really sad to see that these how this is how we in fact. so many times despite sharing all these coordinates the u.n. saying that these these hospitals should be protected under international humanitarian law. neighbors to provence the last major areas held by rebels they and vast numbers of civilians accorded there by president bashar al assad's forces and their allies. the only paper being put under the protection of

a cease fire is signed to march 2020 between russia and turkey but it's continually violated. those killed have been buried near a type city more grieving for a country that suffered so much devastation. and does iraq. the leading opposition candidate in the republic of congo has died a day after the presidential elections. was being transferred to france for treatment for covert 19 after being diagnosed on friday he was the main challenger to the veteran leader dennis. right now votes are still being counted dentist assumed gesso is widely expected to win extending his 36 years in power a nationwide internet blackout on sunday has added to concerns over transparency.

go to our correspondent mark webb who joins us live from brownsville malcolm good to see tell us a bit more about this opposition leader and the circumstances of his death. people we spoke to who saw him last week said he was visibly on well they had a cough and a fever then on friday was meant to hold his final rally in the center city center of brazil but he didn't turn up he was on well by that stage and on saturday evening he published this dramatic video from a hospital bed holding an oxygen mask he was fighting against and he was on well and this morning we heard the news that he died while being medivac to france or possibly while in for on now we're in the back congo area of brazil the capital at the moment where a very many forces and for them this is something that's very hard to accept and really you have to imagine if you live in this area almost everybody you know is

for almost everybody you know wants change almost everybody knows side of the safety very little as everybody knows voted for color in sunday's elections and now their souls he's tired of coverage something that can really quite on real people hear something that apparently only affects older people in richer countries and this comes in the context of a big mistrust of the government following the past election 2 opposition leaders who disputed with the results were accused of trying to overthrow the government they were sentenced to 20 years of forced labor rights activists complain that the government killed people arbitrarily detained people and fought his people and just 10 days ago the 1st prime minister in a speech because in lingala language in speaking in parables in directly said in a message that everyone understood to be a threat to anyone that tries too hard to challenge the power. anyone who gets too

close will be made to suffer for the rest of their life so it's very difficult indeed for the supporters to believe that their leader has died of natural causes and just a block away from here is the party h.q. and outside there would actually little geo the very angry crowd inside there's a meeting going on of the party officials now the party officials many of them belong to congo's tiny middle class many of them educated abroad or they travel and live between here in paris they've worked for international companies and organizations for them cope it is something that's real in their world they now have a very difficult situation of deciding what their message should speech to the crowds of angry supporters waiting outside malcolm x. he said colorless the opposition leader released this dramatic video just a day or so before he died from a sick bed urging his supporters to go out and vote do you think that made much

difference. too. to people debate the big come out and vote more what impact is his death likely to have on that final election results. i mean they're all the evidence to do the internet is off it's been turned off since the early in the morning of election day hard to gather information from around the country but all the evidence was a fairly low now in many areas a lot of skepticism a lot of people believe that the election won't bring any change but in this part of the city and some other avenue areas close supporters are definitely motivated we saw more voters in polling stations in those areas than we did in in other areas but with regards to affecting the results i mean a lot of people especially the opposition who are boycotting the rights activists say that there's no way that they would be any outcome other than to ingress so the president of nearly 40 years being announced the winner whether that was an

authentic result or not so that's in that sense not expected to change but what we can expect to be much more sensitive now is the reaction of killer supporters to that result if they deeply believe that he unfortunately seems to have lost malcolm webb there speaking to us there from brazzaville we got the gist of what he was saying reaction to the death of the leading opposition candidate in the republic of congo has died just a day after the presidential elections we're still waiting for the results of that election. still ahead on al-jazeera a global shipping crisis how the pandemic is led to contain is being delayed around the out. and fighting for her political career what next for scotland's 1st minister nicholas duggan if the review just sides should broach the minister will cut and. run chelsea take a step closer to delivering that page

a fast trophy in english football details coming out in just a minute was. now is to little colder many would like for what is now spring in europe and that's largely because the still air coming in from the north a northerly breezes or ways cold is coming up against well effectively the black sea the adriatic in the g 8 and where that stops you tend to get a lot of snow falling out of the air that's exactly what's happening there's a little bit of snow still a bit further north in austria or ukraine basically to some followers but still talking about single figure high temperatures on tuesday but know what's happening in london 13 degrees in southwest the process up to 30 we will see

a general rise in temperature not in severe stuck in not rather overcast and and snow easier to be ours for a couple of days yet even 3 days this is the picture for wednesday still you've got snow down the southeast of of europe crossing into turkey but the temperatures on the rise across european play will get into the teens quite happily in vienna for example although not as early into friday is all the work of the spring sun nothing else and this is the opposite just watch ankara this is the picture of turkey on tuesday the blue is rain the wind is snow on the winds of fairly obvious it's pretty stormy picture running into the levant as well and once a snow. he sets in drops to any one degree. but. for afghans with ties to international organizations. this rate has never been greater. left exposed by the withdrawal of foreign troops

. exile may be the only path to 15. but alienation makes home feel ever further away. bill part of the viewfinder is a series on al-jazeera. this was wrong to teach children away from their parents and heard them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put is a big player and we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget that cars counted as doc secret on al-jazeera.

you watch out as a reminder our top stories this hour water is rising across parts of the australian state of new south wales and natural disaster has been declared in some regions off of the worst flooding in decades. china is holding a closed door trial for a canadian man accused of espionage michael kroger and has been in detention for more than 2 years made him diplomats say they're being denied access to. the leading opposition candidate in the republic of congo he briefs puff a kanellis has died he was being treated for covert 90 votes in the presidential election of being counted president dennis assume is widely expected to win.

opinion polls in israel suggest cheese days for election in 2 years could end in another inconclusive results and german netanyahu is facing a fractured group of challenges after a dramatic decline in support form a opposition leader but he garments are a force that's how small. 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 us in yangon government has seen his standing crumble i'm not really fast moving into the government despite you know who not for nixon we are 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 outsiders 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 i love he'd 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 is campaign that by now he didn't start this way but now is complete cynic and he says this is the 2 of the hurting the us. from the things he doesn't want us to talk about peter's 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 winger gideon rod of the israel democracy institute says a split field makes it more difficult for the prime minister that don't you know 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 you know 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 sour share your. defeat 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 it'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 we'll go live to harry in a moment with us throughout the election campaign and before they have been

persistent questions about benjamin netanyahu is fitness to be in power all facing corruption charges he's been accused of bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases the allegations include that he accepted improper gifts and sought to do regulatory favors and media moguls in exchange for positive coverage that's in yahoo's the 1st israeli prime minister to be indicted in office for corruption has denied committing any crimes. let's get more we can speak to harry for sets he is live for us in west jerusalem what is the feeling harry ahead of the election has nesa young man is to garner enough support to get a more decisive election result this time well that's certainly what he's been trying his upmost to do and what he has banked quite a lot of his campaign on doing through the vaccination rollout that has been the key public health message from the government this back to life message of getting

vaccinated and netanyahu has adopted it almost entirely for his campaign as well despite the attorney general telling him that he can't use a government public health message for a political campaign need he did some linguistic gymnastics to to get that through and certainly the numbers are in his favor the the our number has come down to a point 6 to 40 days after the end of the last lock down when the economy is really opening up and people are mixing much more so there is a feel good sense among the israeli electorate on their own prospects for a mall more free year ahead the question is whether they will come back in droves to netanyahu in gratitude and get him across the line the majority of israelis according to polls still want him out just over half the country there was a big protest against him outside his residence in jerusalem on saturday night

largely about the the corruption issue but he retains a very very solid core of diehard supporters and he is saying that in terms of the post-election makeup of the parliament he needs 61 of the 120 seats for his own party and the group of other parties who might come with him he says he's very close to that and that he just needs a real turn out the vote operation on tuesday to get him over the line and i have there been much focus on palestine in this election. no almost none at all and that is a bit of a contrast to the last election when it was spoken of at least in terms of netanyahu as we'll and project talking about an exciting the occupied west bank that of course has gone away the deal done with other arab countries in the in the region the peace deals and no calls them that were done towards the end of last year that dissipated any momentum towards an accession and so there hasn't really

been any talk about the conflict at all and that is not an unusual thing in israeli politics it's something that we've seen netanyahu successfully move the country away from the opposition leader pete was asked about it and indorsed the idea of a 2 state solution saying the conflict had to be between 2 nations with one demilitarized palestinian state and the israeli state rather than leaving it as an inheritance for everyone's children but even that kind of comment is pretty much anathema to the israeli right and so we've seen enough tally bennett one of the people that we mentioned in that package about the contenders to netanyahu he took a note to a t.v. studio on sunday night and affirmed in writing that he would not join a lockheed led government partially that's because of the perceptions about lockheed position on the on the israel palestine issue and that's been seen by his

opponents on the right as capitulating to netanyahu so there are various things lining up in netanyahu as favorite moment i wouldn't be so bold as to predict that 4th time around he's definitely going to get the coalition he wants but certainly that's the message of these projecting in these last hours and thanks that harry force it to us there from west jefferson. and mentions the curfew has been extended for a week in may on the beach in the u.s. state of florida following concerns over people partying during the pandemic go us have converged on the holiday destination for spring break many not wearing masks the mayor dan gelber says students have been flocking to me on the beach florida's governor called the state and away says the freedom from cova 19 restrictions the city's police chief says it's becoming too difficult for officers to handle a pandemic combined with a shortage of shipping containers has led to

a global transport crisis china has a ramping up production of containers to meet demand but as sarah clarke reports from hong kong more delays expected for some time yet. it's one of the busiest and most efficient international good time to ports in the world connecting to more than 600 destinations. last year hong kong handled around $18000000.00 times but i have a response point activity has slowed the shipping industry facing a shortage of can tiny that's triggered assume costs it's gone up considerably i mean it's almost gone up by 4 times so maybe i can tell you know from asia to europe or to the states so people are just going to have to get used to paying their. the shortage of containers has not only triggered a rise in prices but also caused a heavy backlog in asia with some exporters struggling to get products to customers

china is ramping up container production to meet the demand but it can see a shift from services to goods during the pandemic continues to drive up production and exports from asia so the shortage is in asia because the problem is we are expat exporting more so it is in asia the pandemic has also impacted stopping numbers at ports and it's compounding the problem limited availability of truck drivers and dock workers means it's taking longer to unload and pack the ships that's creating floating traffic jams at ports around the world this means the containers are being staying outside for longer periods of time. we're finding that there's empty containers in l. stranded all over north america and europe australia in the middle of nowhere just waiting to be returned but there's not a truck or a chance to take it back to contain a shortage and dependent make has caused major disruption to world trade analysts say the crisis shows no sign of easing just yes to global supply check prices sure

we think is going to last through to the 4th quarter possibly through to the end of this year in some degree or another think it's going to improve for sure but i think it is going to be a fact of life for most a 2021 if that's the case the shipping industry will continue to pay premium rates with consumers bearing the brunt of the higher costs sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. scotland's 1st minister nicolas sturgeon is beginning the most turbulent week of her career she is accused of mishandling sexual assault allegations against her predecessor was threatening to undermine her leadership and possibly her ambition to take scotland out of the united kingdom channel reports from. 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 awakes 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 he 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. so ahead. for spread becomes the latest

manchester united star to be racially abused on law and details coming up in just a minute.

with. it's time for sports thinking well manchester united midfielder fred is the latest in list premier league player to get racially abused on line the brazilian was targeted after his mistake led to united conceding the opening goal in their f.a.

cup quarter final against leicester city the red devils went on to lose the game $31.00 fred is not the 1st united player though to be racially abused this year marcus rash for axel to be an anthony marcial have been harassed along with a number of players across the league the e.p.l. has recognised the problem and last month launched the no room for racism action plan one of its aims to combat this problem of racism from fans it follows moves by clubs who have been campaigning hard against racism since last june following anti racism protests across the world and instagram the platform where much of the abuse has been happening say they are working with authorities to combat the problem all right well let's cross over to london joining us now is darren lewis the assistant editor of british newspaper the daily mirror there and i just want to touch you about the fact that players mess up and they receive this type of harassment and abuse online but then it also happens to players who say score goal and do

particularly well so can you just paint us a picture of how widespread this actually is. well there think you've just done it right it's the life of a black man in football when you go to work on a day to day basis racism is a hazard of your job and has been for quite some time what i want to do however is just draw a distinction between 2 things the job of the racism crisis and dealing with it within football is that of the football of dorothy's the job of dealing with the social media problem is that of the social media companies and the trouble with that is that there is no will among those companies to deal with the problem now if i were to post premier league footage on social media it would be taken down within half an hour maybe 25 minutes if i were to post a racist slur or even a sexist slur on social media it would remain up for days and that's part of the

problem the social media companies say that they have a robust reporting system for people to be able to utilize and to get in touch with them but all too often ordinary black people let alone for paulus find that when they use that mechanism they are found that they are told that the person who was sent the offensive message has not breached their guidelines so there is a lot of frustration there's a lot of upset a lot of concern football has come together in recent months as a collective to complain to the social media companies but the brutal truth is that there is no money in it if there were then perhaps the social media companies would have done more as far as racism is concerned they don't have that will also as far as so what should be done or what you think might happen next you 1st see maybe players taking this into their own hands and saying you know what i'm done with

social media all together or it leaving a tour that i'm not there if you're going to play. well again the refusing to play aspect would relate to the problems that the football authorities have and their inability to deal with that there isn't enough of a deterrent within football to deter other players from insulting black brown players and fans not to abuse those players but as far as social media companies can send if all of the people connected with football came off social media sadly it wouldn't really make an impact on the social media companies and the really brutal truth clear is that we are all of us you me the people watching at home groomed to use social media because it's become such an integral part of our lives in an interconnected world so the frustration will continue as far as social media companies are concerned and football's racism crisis itself will continue for quite

some time well there and it has been a pleasure speaking to you thank you for your time thank you maria. well before united's game chelsea booked their spot in the f.a. cup semifinals thomas shell's side beating sheffield united 2 nil in the last 8 last season's beaten finalists went ahead thanks to an old goal been chill wells shot deflected into his own net by all over norwood united did have some chances to equalise david mccall rick missing the best of their opportunities though. scored chelsea's 2nd in injury time they'll face manchester city in the semis. the brit hume a bitch got ready for his return to international football in the best way possible zlatan opening the scoring for ac milan in their sorry game against fiorentina he is now on his way to play for sweden for the 1st time in 5 years this turned into quite a match with fear and tina recovering to go to one up frank robbery with their 2nd

goal but milan then responded with 2 goals of their own to win it $32.00 and move within 6 points of leaders and in milan. even if his hopes of retaining the italian title are all but over they suffered a shock defeat against been a vento it was a bit of into his 1st win since early january even christiane over naldo couldn't inspire a comeback 10 points adrift of leaders and. will tokyo 2020 president psycho has she moto says everything is being done to ensure a safe torch relay in light of the ongoing pandemic the relay begins on thursday the torch itself arrived in japan about a year ago as part of the covert 19 precautions the organizers have also announced in the last week that overseas fans will not be allowed at the games which will start expectedly in july. already that's it for me with your sports teams back over

to lee. and he thanks for that that's it for me money inside for this news out adrian for the good will be back in a moment when news today is. decades ago manila was called the pearl of the orient the manila metropolitan theater was once a testament to the city's grandeur but decades later the theater has become a symbol of moneyless dickie now the philippine government is changing their government buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many

structures that were destroyed in manila during world war 2. but rebuilding a lives and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts seem manila has never truly recovered. al-jazeera as investigative unit takes you want 4 months on the cover. because. you had actual victims who had survived torture and detention and feigning this was the cause of my arrest revealing the illegal dealings of the surveillance industry. interest if. you're. these all the nuclear weapons of the 21st century al-jazeera investigations. from the al-jazeera london. 2 people in thoughtful conversation. about race the races. with no host and no limitation.

racism built into it. and. people tend to be migrant labor disproportionately women. unscripted. a natural disaster to credit parts of eastern australia as people are forced to flee severe flooding. live from doha also coming up the leading opposition figure in the congolese election has died the day after the presidential verse.