join us on april 11th for the child election. billboard putting in a choice return to resume striving to be juicer negative impact on the planet as president joe biden kept his campaign promises we'll have special coverage and in-depth analysis of his 1st $100.00 days in the oval office april on al-jazeera. president biden calls for a ban on assault weapons as police charge a 21 year old man with 10 counts of murder after a shooting spree in colorado. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up israel's force election in 2 years in what is largely seen as a referendum on prime minister benjamin netanyahu and more fallout for astra zeneca

a u.s. regulators says these are from a trial showing the effectiveness of the vaccine may be out to dated and incomplete at least 15 people are killed in a fire that rohingya refugee camp in bangladesh the u.n. says the damage is massive and devastating. hello welcome to the program the u.s. president joe biden has responded to a mass shooting in the state of colorado with a call to action for greater gun control 10 people were killed in the attack including a police officer inside a grocery store in the city of boulder pass equal hate has more. jenny strong 20 years old. nevins didn't ski 23 another police press conference ricky 25 another long list of innocent victims

officer eric tally 5110 dead including police officer eric talley it's heartbreaking to talk to victims their families. you know it's tragic this officer had 7 children. ages 518 officers and citizens pay tribute as his body was taken to the moore investigators say they still don't know what motivated the alleged shooter who was shot in the leg during the gun fight this suspect has been identified as a model alyssa 21 of our vada has been charged with 10 counts of murder in the 1st degree this happened in the middle of the afternoon and one of the few places people still frequent amid the covert pandemic we were. and caught her going on. the record for the 1st. record when i

knew for sure it would be fine and i. get 10 dead here just last week 8 gunned down in georgia likely moving the debate about gun control back into the headlines we can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again i got that done when i was a senator it passed it was law for the longest time and brought down these mass killings we should do it again but let me simply say this this cannot be our new normal. we should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores but once again it seems this is the new normal in america. al-jazeera. well let's go now to can billy how can he joins us from the white house of course the u.s. no stranger to these kinds of crimes and we saw president biden there impassible hanes report saying that actually had passed

a law restricting some kind of of gun ownership and use tell us about that and also tell us how likely it is that he would be successful in doing so again. yeah he's referring to the 1984 ban on assault weapons that passed in the senate he helped to get that passed into law but after 10 years it was allowed to expire and since then the case being made by joe biden is that gun violence has only been on the increase so he has vowed to make this and campaigned on this that he would try to put in place what he calls commonsense gun reforms now he says this is a priority and we should point out that in the house of representatives 2 measures have just recently passed as of last month now they are in the senate where they face a tough hurdle in terms of getting passed given the fact that there would need to be the approval of at least 10 republicans and that appears unlikely still the

u.s. president says that he is working hard to try and convince members of the senate in fact the leader of the senate saying that he will put these legislation measures to a vote now if you were thinking that this might be the instance that finally turns things in the president's favor in terms of trying to get this passed well you might have to think again because we should remind our viewers that we've seen this kind of groundswell of emotion that has occurred before following shooting such as the parklane shooting that killed 17 school children in florida that was back in 2618 and then a 2012 the sandy hook shooting that killed 20 school children there and again nothing happened in terms of reform so the u.s. president saying that he is going to try and work with the set it to see that this time is different but again not a lot of optimism that's why the white house press secretary saying not so long ago aboard air force one that the president is also considering taking executive action

in order to bring about things like a background checks universal background checks and even banning assault weapons will be interesting to see how it develops that can really help her with the latest from the white house can really thank you. it was. israeli voters are voting in their 4th election in 2 years prime minister benjamin netanyahu is the 1st sitting prime minister to be indicted and he's facing 3 corruption trials but he is hoping to stay in office and gain a clear majority in parliament that's a good name reports now from west jerusalem. israelis have been going through a 2 year cycle of election government formation collapse and to repeat in this sport cycle there is little suspense prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his

little cood party are expected to get the most votes even though more than half of israelis recently polled want him out you have a valuable ideology you have voting against someone so it's very hard to to get to a country like this you know you can avoid because you don't want someone you have to hold because you want something hup and i've got the problem. netanyahu needs to get 61 seats in the knesset to form a government no one ever has so the question is who would he form a coalition government with he's alienated former allies and is facing stiff competition from within the right i think he's been i wonder how politician for israel in the past he's been in power way too long and he has too many issues surrounding him at this point i'd really like to see a change and it surprises me that the whole country isn't behind that idea. janet melzer is a liberal voter who like many others believes israelis have

a 5th election on the horizon really concerned with the direction the country is going nowhere a lack of respect for the other total lack of respect for the other oh no no understanding of civil rights and democracy voter participation in the previous election was 71 percent pollsters predict a lower turnout for now israelis vote and wait to see if their country can move past this unprecedented political limbo natasha going to aim to syria west jerusalem. let's go live now to harry for settings that the likud party and west jerusalem still have a where do you get some exit polls in just under an hour any indication so far of form turnout for example another factor is as to how these elections are playing out. we as we did get some quite interesting news just in the last half hour or so from those exit poll companies that to the

main channels channels 12 and 13 there pollsters quite controversially given the fact that people are still voting came out and said that they had dramatic and even one decisive results on their hands so a couple of caveats without obviously they are you know competitive news broadcasters trying to get people to watch their shows and number 2 these exit polls have been very wrong in the early stages in very recent memory so it doesn't necessarily mean that a decisive result is in the bag however if something decisive has happened it's more likely to have happened in benjamin netanyahu is favor than the very complex grouping of opposition parties with different ideologies in different positions that would need to come together to form a coalition that would see the end of the netanyahu prime ministership he has been campaigning very heavily on his vaccine record saying that is that country is now

smiling again because of the fact that he got in all these vaccines because the israeli health system has delivered them so quickly and bringing the infection rates down at the same time as the economy has been opening he's been crisscrossing the country today desperately trying to get people from his core likud supporting base to come out and come to the polls in fact all of the leaders have been looking at the turnout numbers which have been down about 5 percentage points so far on last time out saying that those for. turnout numbers had particularly affected their party their supporters needed to get out and stop the others winning so they can't all be right of course and this is a traditional last day campaigning method that netanyahu in particular is very good at but that is the the final message getting everyone out that they possibly can he needs with his likud and potential partners to get across the line of 61 seats in the 120 seat knesset he says he's 2 seats away from that and if he wins that he's

in a much stronger position to fight of corruption charges if he loses he isn't and the opponents say if he wins then he could fundamentally alter the political rules and the judicial rules in this country in a very damaging way but we should be getting exit polls in just under an hour and 20 g.m.t. will be on the air for that harry i'm sure you know will be discussing those those exit polls as they come in for the moment thank you. astra zeneca has promised to share its most up to date clinical data with the u.s. agency overseeing vaccine trials that's after the dayton safety board expressed concern that clinical trial results published on monday may be based on out of date information meanwhile in the u.k. a minute's silence has been held to to mark a year since the 1st lockdown was put in place to curb the pandemic that he reports from london. marking one year since the start of the u.k.'s 1st covered 19 lockdown

at workplaces and on the streets people stop to remember. calls for a public inquiry have been getting louder but prime minister boris johnson who found himself in intensive care with coverage last spring says that's not the priority list and there will be a moment to properly to review to learn lessons and to make sure that we you know we learn those lessons for the future pandemics of the current i'm sure that there will be in february last year this south london hospital received the capital's 1st covered in 1000 patient within weeks the place was overwhelmed a year on the number of people who've died within 4 weeks of a positive test stands at over 125000 people the chook of a death toll is higher still but amid the grief and the anger there is hope more than half the u.k.'s adult population has had a 1st dose of a covered vaccine already the u.k.'s program has involved the pfizer buy on tech

vaccine and the astra zeneca job now u.s. officials have voiced concerns about trial data for the latter a day after interim results in the us suggested it was 79 percent effective against symptomatic covered in the gate even safety monitoring board when they saw their press release they got concerned and wrote a rather harsh note to them in the copy to me saying that in fact they felt that the data that was in the press release were somewhat outdated and might in fact be misleading astra zeneca says it'll share the most up to date data with the monitoring board by thursday but if there's potential for reputational damage in the u.s. in europe it's already happened. in france they're scrambling to get back on track with the vaccine rollout last week the prime minister made sure he was seen getting asters anika job after his government like others briefly halted the use of the vaccine over blah. quote for years now paris is calling on astra zeneca to meet its

delivery promises. that what they do with the ticket authentic i.q. is what we're fighting to get doses in particular astra zeneca which is currently a little below its commitments to us so we continue to mobilize and the european union is very engaged on this subject later this week e.u. leaders are set to discuss a possible ban on vaccines being exported from the e.u. to britain for now brussels is playing down that prospect but keeping up the pressure on astra zeneca it is a shame it is a reputational damage of a huge extent but it is also a question that many people are dying because the boxes are not getting here in germany where infections are on the rise chancellor angela merkel has confirmed a 3 week extension to lock down measures with public life largely shut down over the easter period. a reminder of why speeding up vaccination programs and overcoming public skepticism is so important nadine barber al-jazeera london. still

ahead on al-jazeera military accuses the pose the civilian leader and. of accepting bribes while in office including cash and gold bars the rain might be but the water is still rising entire communities merged in australia's flood crisis. hell i've had some rather nasty weather in the southeastern corner of year recently this massive cloud here that is an area of rain sleet and snow which has been pushing across turkey really has hold the temperatures down here which have see some significant snowfall in many parts all coming out of area of high pressure so winds generally coming in from a northerly direction that's why i've been somewhat cool across central and eastern

parts of you are not too bad for the west winds coming in from the southwest direction here so getting up to 12 celsius in london despite the cloud and the rain which will continue to drive in as we go on through wednesday if you. cross oland across a good parts of scotland northern parts of england come down into much of france will northern parts of see a few showers around the breast potentially much of france fine and dry as is a case to it's a spade and portugal $21.00 celsius in madrid over the next couple of days more blustery showers on thursday for the british isles while wintry showers down towards the southeast in ankara will struggle to get to a high of one degree celsius yes it's that bad single figures too for athens a not so great here a ball or a wind blasting away across southeast assad of the mediterranean so a little cold to cross the north coast of africa 15 cells just that in benghazi a 21 in karachi but fine and dry for the west.

from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax to join the breaking news. and when you leave with a smile we know. cats are welcome to. the in the the and. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s.

president joe biden has responded to a mass shooting in the state of colorado was a call to action for greater gun control police have charged a 21 year old man with 10 counts of murder israelis are voting in their force election in 2 years it's widely seen as a referendum on prime minister benjamin netanyahu and astra zeneca has promised to share its most up to date clinical data with the u.s. agency overseeing vaccine trials after concerns that trial results published on monday were based on out of date information but the white house's top health official anthony found she says the vaccine is probably still fine. at least 15 people have been killed after a major fire swept through a. camp in bangladesh around 400 people are still missing aid groups say more than 700000 shelters have been destroyed in the camp in cox's bazaar country

a child reports now from back. flames and panic in the largest refugee camp in the world more than a 1000000 drawing are refugees from myanmar live in cox's bazaar their shelters are flimsy and closely packed the fire started on monday afternoon and spread fast. when your own brother i don't have any idea where my wife and children are or la where my wife and children i'm alone no i was unable to salvage anything from my home thousands of shelters were reportedly destroyed in the blaze at least 20000 people fled their lives as black smoke billowed over had people scramble to save their belongings and gather their families. i can't find my children are even my husband the name of one child these men mourn and i'm not there and my husband's name is on the mind. it's not known what started the blaze one witnesses told

a news agency agents france press that the fire spread faster after gas can sisters used for cooking exploded. you know that the more the 1000 shelters of burnt down many people have died elderly people were unable to get out of the shelters. firefighters worked into the night most of the. since we reached here have been to trying to put the fire out we are trying to extinguish the many burning gas cylinders most of their own hang i arrived in the camp in 2017 during a crackdown by the me and mark government that the un's call textbook ethnic cleansing they're going to have suffered persecution and been denied citizenship by governments in myanmar for decades they're often called the world's largest group of stateless people in what is fire in the place they're fled to for safety is a reminder often how difficult their lives are and how tenuous their survival can

often be done to children dhaka. man myers military has accused denson suchi of accepting bribes while in office and army spokesman made the allegations against the country's ousted leader in a televised media briefing so that she was detained after being deposed in a military coup last month's silence louis is following developments from kuala lumpur a spokesman one of the 1st and few talked about was that the military expressed regret and they were sorry for the loss of lives and he said about 164 protesters had been killed during the protests and it's worth pointing out that this number is much smaller than the number given by an advocacy group that's been tracking deaths and attentions since the coup the assistance association for political prisoners says 260 more than 200 at least 261 people have been killed and more than 2300 people have been detained since the coup on the 1st of february now and then

the myanmar military also went on to. in a way trying to shore up support for their case against their democratically elected leader aung sun suu kyi if you remember she was charged with breaching import export laws by possessing an illegal walkie talkies and then after that she was subsequently charged with breaking covert 19 laws on gatherings and then about 10 days ago the military said she was guilty of corruption and now at this press conference they've shown video testimony by a former yangon chief minister saying that he had visited her and given her cash whenever needed and also accusing her of aseptic gifts of gold bars and silk. the un human rights council has passed a resolution expressing serious concern over the tear rating human rights in sri lanka that takes proposed by britain germany and canada highlights increasing discrimination against tommo and muslim minorities it also calls for further

evidence gathering on war crimes carried out by sri lanka's military at the end of the civil war in 2009 sri lanka's government strongly opposes the resolution calling it politically motivated. the us secretary of state says america is ready to rebuild the transatlantic nato military alliance after years of friction under the presidency of donald trump and tony blinken made the pledge in his 1st visit to nato headquarters in brussels he warned the alliance is at a pivotal moment with threats around the world and also from climate change i can promise to share any plans for withdrawing u.s. troops from afghanistan will work with russia wanted advances our interests and one of those a strategic stability we've always demonstrated that with the stench of the the new start agreement on the other hand we will stand resolutely against russian aggression and other actions the try to undermine our alliance and i think that our

approach is exactly where we're nato is as well and similarly we have to and we will i believe make sure that nato is also focused on some of the challenges the china poses to the rules based international law international order that is part of the 2030 vision as well. the u.s. says it stands by the philippines in america dispute with china the philippines is urging beijing to recall more than 200 boats that it said were spotted near the spratly islands in the south china sea their presence is also raising concern about possible conflicts over fishing rights jamila in the reports now from manila. the philippine defense chief calls their deployment a provocative action and a violation of the country's maritime rights the military released photos of chinese ships mord at whitson reef it says the vessels are well within the exclusive economic zone of the philippines the country has launched

a diplomatic protest against china the chinese embassy says these vessels were not part of any maritime militia but fishing boats taking shelter jurong rough seas the philippine military has rejected that explanation whitson reef is claimed by the philippines china and vietnam it is that eastern most part of the spratleys group of islands there are very large. and the number of. these militia vessels especially bizarre and for. that employed and that's basically. what i said in the b.b. to make it appear nonmilitary but actually it's completely under the control of the military. in china they look like mission best but. our theory. and their design or

ramming into any 16 the philippines filed a landmark case against china at the hague the ruling declared china's 9 deaths claim as invalid a decision china rejects the spite international condemnation china continues its reclamation and expansion of many areas in the south china sea setting up maritime patrols and airships on disputed islands and reefs tension has been rising in the area for years. and philippine president through the go to ted has refused to assert the landmark ruling and taken a softer approach to dealing with beijing but this critics say he's ilda too often and too much in exchange for promises of grants and projects that remain largely unfulfilled the presence of a chinese armada also means that the philippines stand to lose another critical fishing ground this is similar to what happened in 2012 when china took control of

scarborough seoul and in the region where one 3rd of the global trade passes through each year there is little doubt that the south china sea will be the next security flashpoints. dogon al-jazeera in manila. australian authorities are warning they may need to order more evacuations as heavy rains continue across the east coast hundreds of people have been rescued and thousands more evacuated in the state of new south wales they're saying the worst flooding in decades was several places the cleared natural disaster areas they call a gauge reports now from town which is west of sydney. and relenting rain hits already flooded regions in australia's east some towns in the state of new south wales now resemble islands caught off by rising flood waters and surrounded by debris those who didn't leave the stranded with no way out including

in peat town western sydney pulls them out who left in time but has been watching as floodwaters rise around his harm fencing tools and cars already lost real disaster i'm not kidding. next door is a building company under water its owner already counting the costs. of the stock and yet. still pretty upset for everybody else i suppose. the scale of this unfolding crisis is enormous thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes many rescued by boat to helicopter and areas declared natural disaster zones. need largest dam will likely spillover for days threatening highly populated areas people using boats and cars i aks to rescue

animals and salvage anything they can from the floodwaters the clean up will be immense and the damage bill is expected to tip into the billions of dollars. right now the focus is on ensuring people and animals a safe ryan is forecast to ease in the coming days but the flood threat is expected to remain in the strong warning when he paid for his place continued to be patient because we envisage that even when the rain stops in some of these coastal communities the rivers will keep rising people living in lawyer lying areas of new south wales the no strangers to floods but this one many say is unlike anything they've seen gauge al-jazeera town thousands of people have traveled to witness an erupting volcano in iceland the volcano is just 30 kilometers from the capital reykjavik it started erupting on friday a 1st in this volcanic system in about 900 years roadblocks initially

prevented people from visiting the site but visitors are now allowed under strict guidelines as look amazing where you can find out more about that story and everything else that we have been covering here on al-jazeera on our website there it is the address al jazeera dot com. now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden has responded to a mass shooting in the state of colorado with a call to action for greater gun control police have charged a 21 year old man with 10 counts of murder following the shooting spree at a supermarket in boulder the victims include a police officer who was a 1st responder to the scene.