0. 3. 0. hello i'm barbara starr this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes yemen's who the rebels this miss a new saudi initiative to end the 6 year war saying there is nothing new in the offer the e.u. u.k. u.s. and canada impose sanctions on chinese officials over rights abuses against the

weaker as. a massive fire sweeps through a refugee camp in bangladesh killing several people and destroying thousands of homes and early results from republic of congo's election showed the president winning almost 100 percent in several districts hours after his main rival died of cove it. and in sports lots of neighbor haemorrhage says he's going to give himself every chance of playing in the next world cup one of football's highest profile players is back with the sweden scored the 1st time in 5 years. almost 6 years since it intervened in yemen and helped create the world's worst humanitarian crisis saudi arabia has offered up a plan for peace. the initiative includes

a nationwide ceasefire and the resumption of talks to try to end the war some airports would reopen and fuel and food imports would be allowed to sue the day the port but the who the rebels have dismissed the plan saying it doesn't go far enough to lift the blockade on the country the proposal comes a day after multiple layer strikes by the saudi led coalition on who the targets in northern yemen and there's also been a recent escalation in fighting across the country meanwhile the who these have been stepping up their drone and missile attacks on saudi arabia well the war has killed more than 100000 people many of them civilians and it's also left 80 percent of the population reliant on aid charlotte bellis says more. you know and i limit here from riyadh and saudi arabia's political and military elite came a proposal they want to in the war in yemen and they had some carrots for the who thinks we will do all we can to put the necessary pressure on the who these to

accept and to come to the negotiating table and to lay down arms because we believe that a stop to the fighting and a focus on a political solution is the only way forward. this is her day to port held by the who theses but under blockade by the saudi coalition meaning most fuel and food imports are not getting through. this is santa international airport held by the who thinks but has not seen regular commercial flights since 2015 the saudi government is proposing to ease the blockade on her data port and allow some flights to resume at sana airport add to that new political negotiations and a nationwide un supervised cease fire. the romberg who thinks quickly rejected the proposal stating the opening of ports and airports is a humanitarian right and not a bargaining chip idea about what they are imposing land sea and air blockade on us

we have been discussing such things for more than a year the real thing that we need is to deal with the humanitarian situation and we also need saudi arabia to stop its interference in yemen and to stop its aggression and blockade on yemen this initiative has brought nothing new. u.s. president joe biden has rescinded support for saadi arabia in yemen and reversed a decision to label the who thinks as terrorists he pointed to the leader king as a special envoy to yemen to renew talks with stakeholders the u.s. proposed a ceasefire last week which the who these rejected saying riyadh must 1st lifted see any a blockade of american will to in the conflict is high and yet it seems the prospect of peace may be fueling the war we have seen. seriousness elations. i don't so get abuse so it those us that it seems not both authors are aware that they are coming to be or might be coming to an end. and they are trying to.

have the upper on the ground in order to have negotiations but. no 6 years into the war neither side wants to lose and yet as they fight to win yemenis are dying every day succumbing to war to disease to famine shelob ellis al-jazeera all to talk about the some more detail we're joined via skype by thomas juneau from the graduate school of public and international affairs at the university of ottawa he's also known a resident fellow at the sun the center for strategic studies sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera now almost immediately almost before that even finished that making the announcement that the saudis finish making the announcement who these had rejected this potential plan for peace why do you see this going now to see any more scope for negotiation between the 2 do you think that really is a genuine sentiment to try to want to end the war now. it's difficult to answer

that question with a yes or no because it's actually quite complicated on both sides on the saudi side the plan that was offered today is not new i mean it is very similar to a variety of offers that saudi has made last year and then before that so on in that sense it's not really a new plan on the goofy side you know it was clear that they were going to reject it right away because that's that's posturing on their part what's what's important on the who the site is that they feel like they have the upper hand on the battlefield great now so they do not think that it's in their interest to accept a cease fire at least not right away because they think they can still make gains i mean you mentioned that there was nothing new in this plan there have been similar plans offered by the saudis last year obviously the one thing that has changed is that the person at the white house president biden making it very clear that he wants the war to end for a variety of reasons including the murder of jamal khashoggi saudi perhaps feeling that it's losing the u.s.

is a strong ally how much of a push is that especially on the saudis. it's a partial push and it's important should be neglected but it also should be exaggerated you are absolute you are absolutely correct you know under president trump there was a bit of a green light a blank check on the part of the u.s. for saudi arabia in yemen and elsewhere in the region biden has said that that is over that being said the pressure that comes from the biden white house is real but it is not that strong we saw it for example on the shoji report that individuals in saudi arabia were sanctioned but not india since self for the war in yemen. the u.s. is stopping support for offensive saudi operations but not for defensive saudi operations so there is some pressure from the u.s. but only so much i think it's important not to put too much emphasis on the u.s. factor here it matters but even before president biden came into power gen you were we saw in your review had already been feeling that it was losing this war that it

was caught in a quagmire so the u.s. push adds to that but it doesn't create it and we often refer to this as one of the world's forgotten war is if you will it's been going on for 6 years the humanitarian toll has been enormous and actually rather than getting better when it comes to the fighting we've seen it actually get worse in the past few days and months to see that potentially instead of things you know hopefully going towards the ending of the war things could actually escalate and the fighting could actually intensify further. that is possible and i think that that the who sees as i have clearly shown in their reaction today that they are not interested in a ceasefire at least not in the short term you know if you look at how the war has evolved over the last one to 3 years the who these have the upper hand they are now the most dominant actor in yemen militarily and politically so for them to agree to a ceasefire would defacto mean stopping their gains which from their perspective

they don't perceive that as advantages so i think it is very likely that the with east will continue pushing ahead in ma and it especially but in possibly in other parts of the country and to some extent saudi arabia and its allies on the ground will have to respond so an escalation before things get better is definitely an option a proper plausible scenario promised you know from the graduate school of public and international affairs at the university of ottawa and also a nonresident fellow at the center for strategic studies sir thank you thank you the european union united states and other western governments are imposing sanctions on china for human rights abuses against the we go minority activists and un rights experts say that at least $1000000.00 mostly muslim weekers are detained in camps in seen shall province the e.u. is targeting for a senior officials that they say are responsible well china immediately hit back with its own broader sanctions on 10 european politicians rather than

changes policies another as a legitimate concern and china is against turns a blind eye and these measures that will the next unacceptable. there will be no change in due to fear in union determination to defend human rights and to respond to a year later than abuses as they said respective where they are going it. well the foreign ministers of australia can and the new zealand then the united kingdom and the u.s. secretary of state released the following joint statement today we have taken coordinated action on measures in peril to measures by the european union that send a clear message about the human rights violations and the busa is in seen shang we are united in calling for china to end its repressive practices against we go muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in sing chant and

release those arbitrarily detained. well for more on this let's cross to gabriel is on though in washington d.c. gabriel just a few days ago we saw the most high level meeting that we've seen between the new biden the ministration and chinese officials have been really resolve anything except perhaps highlight the differences between the 2 countries so why do you think we're seeing this coordinated action now. well from washington's perspective they would say any time is a good time to sanction officials that they say are involved in human rights abuses in any country however there's course more to the story than that as you mention this comes in interesting timing here on 2 levels number one as you mentioned just a few days after that very contentious 1st meeting between biden ministration officials and secretary of state here in the u.s. and chinese counterparts in alaska

a meeting that by all accounts did not go very well however the white house is saying that these sanctions are not necessarily a reaction to those talks in alaska with that said though the other part of this it's interesting is how this is very much. unilateral multilateral excuse me. action that was taken years 1st by the announced by the european union early on monday then followed up mid day on monday by the u.s. . canada britain as well with sanctions so what it really is i think a message a message to china that unlike the last 4 years under previous president donald trump where he mostly dealt with china on a very unilateral level now what you're seeing is multilateralism returning again pretty much a message to beijing that when it comes to human rights issues it's going to be probably dealing with multiple western powers in presenting

a uniform front which is new because we certainly haven't seen that in the last 4 years or so yeah i mean president biden certainly strengthening the more traditional western alliances there so if they are trying to send a message to china could we see more sanctions to come. we could the white house press secretary was asked that very question she sort of dodged it she didn't say yes she didn't say no course it's not going to boxer self in not going to box anyone in on this but the bottom line is probably the answer is yes now there's 2 parts this number one or is these were pretty significant sanctions in some regards for the e.u. at least they're the most significant action against china by the e.u. since 1909 when the e.u. did an arms embargo against china briefly after the 1990 n.m. and square killings and this is also significant because it's the 1st actions taken

by the u.s. under the new biden in ministration however with that said though these sanctions are r r r r little bit symbolic there travel bans there asset freezes on some officials and it's probably in of itself not going to change beijing's behavior and we should point out the beijing beijing has said they don't have any behavior to change because they say ethnic minorities are actually thriving in the region of course that's a claim that's. contended contested by many bottom line though is this potentially could be the 1st step in more actions more sanctions potentially in the future. gabriel is on there with the latest there from washington d.c. gave thank you. well the european union has also announced sanctions on 11 military officials in myanmar including the leader of the military jim to it's in response to the coup exactly 7 weeks ago and the violent crackdown on the mass protests that

have been taking place there ever since that that there has more. hundreds of people protested in the coastal city of die away in myanmar as demonstrations continued in parts of the country against the fabric and the giant is increasingly brutal crackdown the demonstrations came as e.u. foreign ministers in proselyte announced sanctions on 11 military officials in myanmar linked to the coup and ongoing violence in the country among them gentle leader mendon crying all direct financial support from our development system through the government reform programs is great held some rights campaigners said the impact of the sanctions would be limited it cannot make a difference and therefore a simple reason is that the you know 11 or so generals and individuals that have been to single out for a targeted sanctions they keep their assets in places like china or singable banks and you know in southeast asia and you know so therefore if we

really want to have any impact on the military and its behavior the e.u. should seriously look at you know the recognize the military attash age across as european union countries. the sanctions against the military officials in myanmar clearly won't be enough to end the violence but after weeks of only condemning the coup and calling for democracy the e.'s decision to finally act since a powerful message. al-jazeera paris. a massive fire has swept through a rohingya refugee camp in bangladesh destroying thousands of huts and tents several people are still to have died officials say health centers distribution points and other facilities were also affected at the battle kali camp in that cox's bazar the camp was home to 5000 families officials believe it was started by

a cooking gas cylinder more than a 1000000 live in camps in southern bangladesh the vast majority fled me m r in 2017 from a military led crackdown the un investigator said was executed with quote genocidal intent me and mine denies the charges. i don't have any idea where my children and wife are where are my children and wife i'm alone now i was unable to salvage anything from my home. it's been an hour. maybe more than a 1000 still does it have been burnt down many people have died 2 elderly people were able to get half the silkiness elderly people suffered the most. under choudhry is following this for us from dhaka and says the fire is under control but thousands of refugees have nowhere to go. there is no government bill shelter par

say with this i just can't stay overnight the probably have to use the simple r.c. camp which is the camp office or they have to use probably some of the family places now lot of the danger comes from cooking cylinder they use that which is called l.p.g. gas cylinder because each family gets one cylinder for cooking this is why cutting odes in the nearby forest have wide and varmint of destruction this is all supposing danger because many of times this fire started from this gas cylinder that highly combustible and also this flimsy hearts are made out of pain and bambos and toppling which is a clear danger to save the children say that it is in a statement just brought out today that at least 80000 people could be adversely affected by this fire in the area where they live in by the cali a lot of the children's learning center are damaged many of the schools that are temporary schools rather jolly and the children are traumatized by this incident

and it here how do you tackle this sort of situation in coming days the government has also shifted about 13000 refugees to an island remote island called passion charge they want to take about 800000 clearly to decongest the camp for security reasons as well as the condition region but safety concerning one of the lot of the largest camp in the wall and densely populated is a major issue. coming up on this news hour from london nothing left to lose the u.n. warns that mozambique once the splay spy on groups are at risk of being radicalized . leaks photos show the crowded conditions in a u.s. government shelter holding child migrants in texas and in sports the 6 time moto g.p. world champion is set to miss the start of the new season and he will be here with that story and more. and

it will. get the leading opposition candidate in the republic of congo's presidential election has died hours after the voting ended the breeze parfait color last was being transferred to france for treatment for cope at 19 but his supporters claim he was poisoned they are suspicious of president's assumed guest so who is expected to extend his 36 year rule in some districts or early results give him nearly 100 percent of the vote from president malcolm webb reports. supporters of the breeze half a colossal don't believe that he died of coded that many here outside his party headquarters think he was poisoned. they were expecting him to win the republic of congo's presidential elections so. we need change and nor topsy they must do an autopsy to know if you really died from covert 19. killers had traveled to paris for medical

treatment his death was announced early on monday for a lot of the people living in a neighborhood that is favored really seem like a distant reality they watch the news it seems like it's something that affects all the people in richer countries plus there's a mistrust of the government and that hasn't been helped by things that have happened to former opposition candidates and by things that people from the ruling party have said. during the election campaigns the prime minister campaign for president any sense who. was ruled for most of the last 40 years. he made what were widely understood to be threats to kill us what did go on with likening him to a child who plays with fire or tries to fight his father a mole suffer for it but of what the hope. this man john marie michele macaco ran in the last election 5 years ago and challenge the results along with

another opposition candidate they were both accused of threatening state security and sentenced to 20 years forced labor. and so many people here think there is no way. he will leave power whatever happens in elections he voted as colossus was being medically evacuated. he may be evacuated to paris today and the government has taken measures to that effect we wish him a good recovery. since a video from a hospital bed saying he was fighting with death says the announcement officials from his party trying to work out what to do next. exult along some of the political bureau asks on congolese people to be calm and meditative while listening for our directive and the direction of the party that. the constitution says in some circumstances if a candidate dies the election should be cancelled. because some color supporters

their hopes of change have already been shattered malcolm webb al jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. the government of new shares says 137 civilians were killed in coordinated attacks by armed bandits on sunday the attacks targeted it and other villages in the south west the government says they're the 4th such attacks in recent days the un's refugee agency says people displaced in mozambique by armed groups affiliated with i saw a risk of being radicalized the u.n.h.c.r. says poverty frustration and employment allow fighters to prey on their desperation it's calling on the government and the international community to intervene. reports. the numbers keep going up in northern mozambique according to the un's refugee agency nearly 700000 people have been forced to flee their homes and more

than 2000 have been killed we're lucky learner's village in came under attack one night he fled with his wife children and grandchildren. they left because of the war that affected us it wasn't mine so we fled into the bush we stayed for days in the bush looking for a way out and running away from the conflict mozambique's government says fighters affiliated to eisele operating in parts of kabul delgado the militant group stage is 1st attack in 2017 since then the attacks have been bigger in scale and frequency taking on the army and the times seizing entire towns humanitarian workers reports beheadings rape abductions and other human rights abuses i spoke to a grandmother. daughter was killed during the conflict and the father of the child

was beheaded and the grandmother is now caring for that child another woman i met is caring for a stranger's child who is now orphaned so this is common in this community now where the women are caring for each other's children where the parents have been lost. the government has started moving people to resettlement sites where it's believed to be safer but conditions there are basic and more funding and planning is needed to cover food medicines and other necessities the covered 900 pandemic has made an already die economic and humanitarian crisis worse a lot of resources are needed we do not expect looking at this situation i would not expect the amount of people the number of people being displaced to the flood to stop unfortunately for the time being and therefore more assistance is needed

the u.n. is warning poverty frustration and unemployment in this gas rich region is making it easy for armed groups to recruit the united states says it station forces will help train soldiers in mozambique to fight the insurgents portugal the country's former colonial power has also committed to changing the military for now people waiting for help to arrive say they feel abandoned by the country and the international community. the biden of ministration is struggling to cope with the surge of unaccompanied children arriving at the southern u.s. border a democratic congressman has released photos from inside that attention facility in texas revealing the overcrowded conditions the children have fled the violence and poverty in central america to seek asylum in the u.s. castro reports. the u.s. government claims these are not detention centers but photos taken from inside u.s.

border patrol facilities have stirred and outcry thousands of teenagers and younger children crowded into pens and sleeping on floors held in these conditions for more than 5 days in violation of a court order requiring they be moved to more child friendly shelters within 72 hours but was at the national center so i guess they are. they are guarded by. officers the u.s. homeland security secretary and a contingent of senators toured a border patrol facility holding children friday media were barred from entering officials said due to covert concerns but we are safely processing the children who do come to our border we strongly urge in the message is clear not to do so now under the trump administration thousands of migrant children who arrived at the

u.s. border had been expelled to mexico without seeing an immigration judge president joe biden ended the practice calling it inhumane good night america but now immigration officials report more than 9000 unaccompanied children entering the u.s. in february and since then it's been an average of 500 more a day children presenting at our border who are fleeing violence or fleeing prosecution who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis. in an effort to expedite moving the miners to better conditions the biden administration has deployed fema the government agency that handles disasters to turn the dallas convention center into an emergency shelter for 2000 children 3 other temporary shelters are in operation or being planned they. their migrant children wait and nother 30 some days but with access to school and recreation

until the government places them with a u.s. sponsored process of waiting for sponsorship should be shortened in now with more resources they're going off along the way they should be put in place any. non-profits and faith based organizations but by no means what about all these about have come up before district or the white house says it's sending messages to central american countries for their youth not to come that include 17000 ads on the radio social media and television it's unclear how many children are listening in their home countries what's obvious is that their numbers at the u.s. border continue to grow hi joe castro al-jazeera washington. also more still to come in this news hour including australia's new south wales is the couriered at disaster zone after the worst flooding in decades displaces

thousands. i was miami beach extends its covert curfew and emergency powers for up to 3 weeks to control the massive spring break crowds and in sport football's fight to end on line at racial abuse is just the united star is the latest player to be targeted. now is to a 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 code is coming up against well effectively the black sea the adriatic and the 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 a southwesterly process up to 30 we will see a general rise in temperature not in severe stuck in not rather overcast and and snow user experience for a couple of days yet even 3 days this is the picture for wednesday still you got snowed on 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 song nothing else and this is the opposite just watch ankara this is the picture of turkey on tuesday the blue is rain the wind and the winds are fairly. it's pretty story picture running into the levant as well and once the snow really sets in anchor drops to only one degree.

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announces in. the world. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia has offered up a plan for peace in yemen which has been wracked by 6 years of fighting the initiative includes a nationwide ceasefire but who the rebels say the plan does not go far enough the european union the u.k. u.s. and canada are imposing sanctions on chinese officials for human rights. abuses against the weaker minority china immediately hit back at the e.u. with its own broader sanctions on taming european politicians. and

a massive fire swept through or. killing several people and destroying thousands of shelters it's thought to have been started by a cooking gas. around 10000000 people are now under a severe weather warning as powerful storms batter australia causing major flooding at least 800000 people have been evacuated from their homes and more have been ordered to get ready to leave homes have been destroyed and the natural disaster has been declared from the town of windsor west of sydney here as they call a gauge. region's underwater and many people at 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 people ordered to leave others are

on standby watching what happens next. and. emergency services have been inundated with calls for help dozens of people trapped by rising floodwaters have been rescued but many farm animals why as rivers burst their banks and dams. communities are becoming increasingly cut 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 homes sandbagging properties and hoping for the best. it's also going to show you why it's pretty bad others are already counting the cost so where is your business yes our business is just over the bridge patrick muskets business is under water $100.00 acres of lawn that he commercially grows flooded destroying all of this

season's 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 and say and if we have on siphon everything safe from the farm it's been a year since precision to bush buys burned across this region before that severe drought one emergency its aims up to the next some communities who were battered by the bush was and now being battered by the floods and date 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 winsor.

astra zeneca as corona virus vaccine has received a boost after data from a large us trial showed its safe and effective more than 30000 people from the u.s. chile and peru participated it showed the jab is 79 percent effective in preventing kovan 1900 times rising to 100 percent efficacy against the severe illness and hospitalization scientists also said that there were no concerns associated with blood clots well the data said to is also the 1st controlled trial of astra zeneca as efficacy in people aged over $65.00 which was 80 percent some european countries including germany initially only cleared the product for under 60 five's but trust in the jab has plunged after certain european countries briefly suspended its use over blood clot fears 55 percent of germans say they consider the vaccine unsafe

that number rises to 61 percent in france what cope of cases meanwhile are rising again in india the country reported almost 47000 new infections on monday the highest daily number since november and more than 200 deaths in many states social distancing advice and mask where rules are just being ignored the health ministry is warning huge crowds gathering for the hindu festival of maha coom could lead to a spike in cases. venezuela's president has announced 2 weeks of what he's calling a 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 been called off after the election of a coronavirus strained strain blamed for soaring infections in brazil.

well speaking of brazil hundreds of brazilian business leaders have called on president jalal so matter to change his approach to the corona virus pandemic in an open letter they've reprimanded the government for ignoring science and encouraging crowds last week was brazil's deadliest yet with more than 15000 deaths recorded also that all told a crowd of supporters outside his residence on sunday that he'll keep fighting the restrictions imposed by brazil's mayors and governors. if anyone thinks that one day he will give up our freedoms the new mistaken some torrents of taken away many of your freedoms you can count on our armed forces for democracy for freedom i would do anything for my people there see levy a celie is a doctor in a hospital in port au lait going to brazil she joins us live now via skype thank you so much for joining us here to. tell us

a little bit about the situation is as you're seeing it where you work. wow thanks for the opportunity to speak here. only the entire health system has collapsed all over brazil what we're saying is that hospital beds are completely occupied even those that were set dedicated to cope with 19. right now if you need hospital care our hospital beds even if it if not do to cope with 19 you might not get the health care you deserve. ok so obviously the worst case scenario that many countries have been warning about throughout this pandemic what's interesting as well though in brazil is that you're seeing a rise in the younger patients with severe symptoms of covert 19 again tell us what you're seeing and what you think might be behind that. well this is definitely something to talk about last year was very unusual to see

a patient who was young and healthy require a intensive care and mechanical ventilation and i do believe that over the past weeks this has become the majority of patients for example as month i was in the intensive care unit with 10 beds all patients were in mechanical ventilation and out of those 10 patients 6 were younger than 35 this was very unusual less year and this has become common this year i can identify 2 effectors for this i think the 1st is the new variant p one strain or a good one allas a variant which is more transmissible and possibly. deadlier than other strains also that young people are more exposed to the virus either because they don't respect social distancing are because they have to work and commute in crowds as public transportation services and also because and that's definitely divorced part of it that the elderly are not even making it to the hospital so the system has

collapsed in such a way that elderly patients can't even make it to a hospital but that really does paint a tragic picture of what the situation is like in brazil so in light of all of the things that you've said what is your reaction to president bowl scenario effectively trying to fight against the many mayors and governors who are trying to impose restrictions to try to control the spread is the spread of covert 19. well it is very frustrating for us health care workers not only because of lock down measurements but because we haven't bought vaccines so what this causes is that the population is completely lost so even if a state governor. does impose lockdown the population doesn't believe in lockdown anymore because when you have a president saying that lockdown as bad it only causes. unemployment's why are you going to respect it so i think we're definitely in the worst possible scenario

right now and i think only about 5 percent of the population of brazil has actually been vaccinated at this point which of course makes it a war stop at the scene of a cell and medical resident in a hospital in porto alegre dr recently thank you for sharing your experience with us as you. book curfew and emergency powers have been extended for up to say 3 weeks in miami beach after chaotic scenes over the weekend thousands the sended on the iconic tourist destination for spring break posing what officials call a serious coronavirus risk over the weekend that swat teams in riot gear used pepper spray and sound cannons to disperse crowds and the gallagher reports from miami. miami beach has long been a destination for those looking to soak up the sun relax and enjoy the beaches that . every year students on their spring break typically gather along the city's

iconic ocean drive in what's rarely a low key affair over the weekend however celebrations tend to chaos in a city officials deemed the overwhelming crowds a coded risk police and swat teams in riot gear used pepper balls and sound cannons to disperse largely masculist revelers as an 8 pm curfew was enforced we've done everything we can to try to to mitigate the behavior that we're seeing that but quite frankly i'm concerned that the behavior is getting out it's getting a little more from us to be able to handle the tactics used by police have been heavily criticized by local black leaders says the crowds were largely african-american but the city's mayor says the risk from coburg incidents of violence and gun crime left him with little choice too many people are coming here right now. and too many people are coming here with bad intentions and we have seen images and videos. i've been out there a lot of my colleagues have been as well and although at times it is perfectly fine

during the day especially at night there is no question that it becomes a place that feels a little bit out of control or a lot out of control because fuse forced businesses to close restricted access to the beach and may be extended into next month over the last 3 weeks over a 1000 people have been arrested more than half in from out of state the problem with all this is that florida's aggressively encouraged visitors to come here the state's governor rod to scientists openly brags that south florida is booming fueled in part by cheap flights and hotel rooms in a state that's lost over 30000 people to cope with 19 what's happening here now is seen as a serious public health risk florida thrives on tourism and. for those looking to break free from a year of restrictions there's disappointment it's a little ridiculous considering how we are going to say on the hotels on the strip and we can't even have dinner cyrus back there and i understand. that that's not

what i expected at that it was going to be more fun he's on the kind of scenes miami beach once seen across the world but in the midst of a deadly pandemic officials say they'd rather not deal with another spike in cases of the gallacher all jazeera miami beach florida israelis are set to vote in their 4th parliamentary elections in just 2 years on tuesday prime minister benjamin netanyahu is hoping to prevail again and they extend his 12 year rule but the political landscape has changed and is now made up of a fragmented field of alternatives and as harry force it explains it means that and now you know cast the election as a 2 horse race says he would have preferred. 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 entered the government despite netanyahu 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 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 dancers 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. peter's trying to downplay his own prime ministerial ambitions wary of netanyahu as attempts to cost the election is a 2 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 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. 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. still ahead in this news our mission to clean up space the revolutionary litter picker it could be bringing home billions of dollars worth of high tech junk and then sport a kick to remember for this goalkeeper in portugal and they will be here with that story and.

a british mission to show how space junk can be removed from the earth's orbit has blasted into space on board of russian rocket the soyuz. rockets cargo includes the newly developed else of the satellite which captures the bre and another satellite that will act as a dummy piece of space junk now if the experiment this successful it's hope that it will become a commercial salvage venture more than 2 and a half 1000 this used satellites are still in orbit representing billions of dollars worth of scrap that is also a hazard to other space missions. it was time for sport now here's andy thank you so much barbara's that's a neighborhood of it says he's going to give himself every chance of playing in the

2022 world cup one of football's highest profile players is back with the sweden squad for the 1st time in 5 years the ac milan struck acquits international football after the 26th european championships but the 39 year old has reversed that decision and sweden's all time record score is set supply in thursday's world cup qualifier against georgia it premature is played in sea world cup so there's never scored a goal in the finals when i came back from america to play in milan the euro as you know i started to feel alive again and i was feeling i could perform on a high level and i was doing good i was doing morning good and. and there will was going more and more and. and i have been following the national team all the time. and i mean to play in the national team is the biggest thing you can you can do as

a football player how we use. the terms of course of which other players that are playing around him only for peaking for the team to start with so you see but of course. it's a very good player. in the team. now manchester united midfielder fred is the latest in the premier league play to be racially abused online brazilian was targeted on his instagram account after this mistake led to united conceding the opening goal in their f.a. cup quarter final against leicester united going on to lose that game $31.00 fred not the 1st united player to be racially abused this season. marcus rushford axle turns a b. and c. massey of also been subjected to abuse us of a number of players at other clubs the premier league has recognised the problem last month they launched the no room for racism action plan one of its aims is to combat racism from fans taking in a before games well that's been one wife

a place to unite against racism although someone came to move on from that somewhat more meaningful action to be taken instagram the platform where much of this abuse has been happening say it's working with authorities to address the problem or we've been talking to darren lewis the assistant editor of the u.k. newspaper the daily mirror he says social media companies aren't doing enough to protect players the job of the racism crisis and dealing with it within football is that of the football authorities 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 utilise and to get in touch with them but all too often ordinary black people let alone footballers find that when they use that mechanism they. are found out they are told but 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 they work then perhaps the social media companies would have done more as far as racism is concerned they don't have that will now quote a goal coming up here from portugal's 2nd see a vase in goalkeeper ricardo nooners with a kick to remember one his opposite number will probably want to forget said help secure his team to know when of

a matter of births his team are still bottom of the table. now india getting ready to take on world champions in england in a 3 match one day series virat kohli some have just beaten england in it see 20 series in the world cup in that format is coming up later this year kohli confirming shikhar dhawan and wrote sharma will open the batting in these matches which start on choose day kohli had moved himself of the order to open in the last t 20 get now 6 time moto g.p. world champion mark marquez will miss the 1st 2 races of this season as he recovers from injury still the 28 year old is undergone 3 operations now since breaking his arm in a crash at the start of last season and doctors say he may just about be able to resume racing in mid april for the grand prix in portugal the season starts in cats are on sunday. and los angeles lakers all star elgin baylor has died at the age of 86 starting out in 1958 he spent 14 seasons with

the lake is reached 8 m.b. a fan of the never war much championship is chris scoring average of just over $27.00 points per game is the 3rd highest in n.b.a. history in a statement like his army jeanie buss described him as the superstar of is. ok as i suppose looking for now let's get back to barbara in london andy thank you . now if you want to know how hot lava is you could google it all you could toss a couple of sausages onto it and enjoy nature's barbecue yes when the magma stopped flowing from iceland's recently erupting volcano scientists dropped some hot dogs on to the rock took their lunch while a volcano in russia is attracting thrill seeking to tourists eager to perform their own experiments one man seeing how long it took the paper to ignite when put into the vault alone for

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a 1000000 visitors every day there's really no way that they've been hurt in this regard with that for. all has the governments are not the drug strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against 19 on al jazeera. a war. looming. yemen's who are the rebels this miss a new saudi initiative the end of the 6 year war saying there is nothing new in the offer. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera life from la that also coming up the e.u. u.k. u.s. and canada impose sanctions on chinese officials over rights abuses against the wiggers a massive fire sweeps.