lead to unnecessary suffering. from mexico the fight against. on al-jazeera. a showcase of the best documentary films cross the net on al-jazeera. european countries face a 3rd wave of corona virus infections and a shortage of vaccines the block considers export limits to safeguard supply. on our intelligence is our jazeera live from london also coming up only allowed out for food and medicine chileans faced tough new knock down measures as coronavirus infections continue to rise israel's elections are too close to call while benjamin

netanyahu says political future could rest in the hands of a small palestinian israeli party. and a surgeon crossings and in ministration under pressure joe biden appoints vice president come a harris to solve the migration crisis for the southern border. and the european union and u.k. appear to be on a collision course still have a vaccine supplies as the block faces up to a 3rd wave of coronavirus it's such a tight rules on exporting vaccines with supplies of the astra zeneca job a central issue but before any more vaccines arrive several countries struggling to find the right measures to stop more citizens falling ill or each other's reports. spring is in the air in europe but so too is something less welcome something that is also having its rebirth much of the continent designed. coronavirus.

19 countries are now reporting increasing case numbers 16 member states are reporting increased hospital and i.c.u. missions while 8 member states are now reporting increase the number of deaths with more with 19 infections comes agony about lockdowns belgium who shuttering schools non-essential shops and hairdressers until late april germany can't decide what to do angela merkel has apologised and cancelled a hastily planned 5 day easter lockdown after a political backlash and feel it's been unfair in a mistake needs to be called a mistake and above all it must be corrected and if possible this needs to happen as soon as possible at the same time i am aware that this whole business has created even more uncertainty and that i deeply regret this and i ask for

forgiveness. europe's repeating misery comes as it tries to sort out its beleaguered vaccination program in the e.u. only 10 percent of the adult population has received the jab so far by contrast the u.k. has already injected more than half the european commission is planning tighter rules on vaccine exports to protect already reduced the you supply it says it's not targeting any particular country but it wants the situation to be more reciprocal since the introduction of export opposition system some $10000000.00 are being exported from york a from e.u. to u.k. 0 dollars are being exporters from. according to the french government's 29000000 astra zeneca vaccine doses were discovered at the weekend in a police inspection of a plant in italy the drug maker insists most were for e.u.

consumption not exports france says a shipment block should be considered if that's not true confusion to an already fraught atmosphere and larry joins us now from south london or in the past few hours the u.k. shown some willingness to work together to make sure that there's enough exim to go around. yeah i mean i think this is basically an attempt from both sides to try to cool the temperature a little bit i think they realize that things get have been getting quite bitter in recent days and something needs to be done to just calm things down a little bit so we have had a joint statement that's come from the u.k. and the e.u. i can read a few little bits of it now we we are all facing the same pandemic in the 3rd wave makes cooperation between the e.u. and the u.k. even more important we've been discussing what more we can do to ensure a reciprocally beneficial relationship between the u.k. and the e.u.

on covert 19 i mean essentially goes on to talk about the kind of things that they should be doing together but lacking any real specifics as it's setting up a kind of you know we are talking together we are going to try and find some way through this message because things as i said have been getting pretty pretty nasty you know from this side of the channel what is going on in in europe looks quite confusing certainly when you take it from the perspective that for much of the pandemic the u.k. looks like it was the country that was handling things particularly badly well now almost it's the reverse in the u.k. vaccination program has been going very well conversely the the european one has been going pretty badly for the year appear perspective they have been looking across the channel and thinking a whole why is the u.k.

getting all of these vaccines that are actually mostly made in the european union is there something that we can be doing to try and regress this balance that's why they are trying to tighten up these rules and regulations surrounding exports of vaccines to basically make sure that the drug companies are not sending too many vaccines outside of the. you when they could be going to e.u. citizens so we could have a situation perhaps and we're not there yet but where the e.u. is looking at say the u.k. although it's not saying that this is not country specific and notes the fact that the u.k. has gotten lots of vaccinations done already knows the fact that the u.k. seems to have lower infection rates at the moment and on those things so also notes the fact that the u.k. is not exporting vaccines to the european union and on the basis of all those things says ok the shipments not going to go through that of course will be something that london will get very angry about but that's the roads that the e.u.

seems to be going down at the moment thank you very much indeed. i mean protests across brazil after the president said there will soon be a return to normal life in the same day the country saw another record number of coronavirus deaths residents banged pots through the night but enjoyable brief televised address 3000 people died from the virus on tuesday with hospitals at breaking point the president defended his response and is now in the mounting pressure to control the outbreak. staying enough in america and 3 quarters of chileans will be under some of the world's strictest lockdown measures from thursday residents will need permission to buy food and medicine twice a week and must stay it through much of the times it's going to see in human nature in capital santiago a difficult situation for chile considering it's one of the countries in the region which has had a very successful rollout of vaccines. yes that's right but

not enough vaccines yet for there to be a herd immunity and so the infection rate has absolutely soared which is why thousands of people are pouring into the shopping center you see behind me for their last chance to buy whatever they need before at the curfew kicks in and exactly 6 hours and when that after that happens as you said 75 percent of the population of the entire country will have to stay at home except they will be allowed to go to our. permits that the previous issues twice a week only and that is only from monday to friday on weekends the entire country must stay indoors without exception and these are absolutely the most stringent lockdown measures yet in this country that has seen so many of them already the reason being that they're going to be elections here on the 10th and 11th of april and infections are just. they are trying desperately to bring down that infection rate in order to not have to call off those elections and many countries in the

region seeing a rise in corona virus infections. absolutely south america or latin american general but especially south america we have a rule despite having. infections continue rising the same thing in neighboring ecuador. overflowing even or a guy which was a model for a while. surgeon infections and. restrictions including the closure of schools but nowhere words brazil brazil it there are expected to announce in just a couple of hours. that there are. 300000 deaths since the pandemic began and even though president. now trying to appease critics which have. dropped. in

vaccines that announcement was followed by the cops and fans interestingly enough to get down to also that they're going to put together a commission to work closely with their. other party other key players around the nation but many of course are saying that this is just too little too late. to gathering all the passengers of the tonic and. to try to evacuate them but already half of the passengers are drowning in the water so there you have it was ill very difficult situation. thank you very much indeed. india says it has detected a double variant of the corona virus it was found in 206 samples in the state of maharashtra and a further 9 in new delhi a double mutant is an entirely new variant but with the characteristics of 2 other previous you identified types. india's worst affected stage officials say it's not

clear if the new variant is causing the upsurge. but most of the votes counted a day off to israel's 4th an action in just 2 years there's still no clear idea of who will end up in power but unexpectedly it's a small palestinian party which may hold the cane and not to our biggest cross the threshold needed to enter parliament and with a majority out of reach for both benjamin netanyahu and the coalition of opposition parties opposing him he may have to rely on the palestinian group to support international name has the latest from western. according to israel's central elections committee prime minister benjamin netanyahu has a path to forming the 5th government in 2 years but it'll be a difficult one it appears the netanyahu bloc is poised to secure $59.00 seats of

a required 61 in the knesset there's no reason why we should go to 5th election and they must come to nothing you know and say we want to be part of the government we accept the results of this round and form a right of center a government that could aggressively pursue the opportunities we have ahead of us in. the religious die in this party and alliance of the far right fared better than anticipated and is expected to bring its projected 6 seats to a netanyahu government members of the party have been banned in the past for anti palestinian sentiment the palestinian israeli parties are projected to lose seats this round voter turnout was low the party's previously voted as one bloc under the arab joint list but the group splintered at a 2nd conservative party called the united arab list formed now its leader months. could potentially do something unheard of previously support netanyahu government

likud party members remain divided on what would be a historic alliance. critics such as opposition leader year look peak at the yes the tea party say netanyahu is drive to remain in power is centered on finding a way to evade prosecution on corruption charges and they argue forging ties with the religious zionist party would create a racist ultra conservative government but in this election netanyahu must attempt to forge a coalition with diverse smaller parties given the narrow divide between the pro and anti netanyahu camps that means these smaller parties and their leaders find themselves with a huge influence in determining israel's political path forward natasha going to 0 west jerusalem still to come on al-jazeera the youngest victim of man was military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters is buried in monday. the u.k.

announces a plan to tackle illegal immigration rights groups say it will leave refugees in limbo. the weather's looking to be settled across central parts of europe at the moment we've got a big area of high pressure in place here but i would say was the southeast we've got a lot of pressure in charge asked drawing some cool air down across southeast side of year got some snow flurries over the high ground there certainly there into turkey i was also northwest this is where it's a little more spring like because the weather's coming in from the atlantic that south westerly wind dragging in a fair old rash of showers it's the truth be told in one of 2 of those showers will be wintry in nature generally over the high ground level sales just in glasgow 13

self's in london for planet with athens 9 degrees in athens glasgow is woman's in greece which you played in the freezing there in ankara so we've got so so when she weather continues across the southeast and colder but not too bad into central areas but some places a plot of ground sliding out of the netherlands pushing across germany as we go on through thursday into friday making room for the next rash of showers which will come by just notice how those winds start to swing around from a northwesterly direction how did something a little cool at least for a time the waltz continues down towards the southwest 19 celsius in madrid not see particle's northern parts of africa as well but that cooler across the eastern med brushing the final taste of egypt. but. the system turned human rights activist the day help out that is locked in a notorious supposed pakistan's it prison. for fight for his freedom exiled

sylvania and betrayed by those closest to him. that have dissolved his unshaken. who needed to have a nice without. witness an al-jazeera. amount of the top stories here now jazeera the e.u. could block exports of vaccines as several countries struggled to get a handle on the 3rd wave of the coronavirus comes after it accused the drug firm masters acca of failing to meet supply promises. 3 quarters of chileans will be under some of the world's strictest lockdown measures for midnight local time

people will need permission to buy food twice a week as critical care wards near capacity. but most of the votes counted after israel's for selection in just 2 years there's no clear idea of who will end up in power when mr benjamin netanyahu is positioning looks unstable with no clear path to office. u.s. vice president carla harris has been tasked with stemming the flow of migrants heading towards the country's southern border it follows an outcry after images revealed overcrowded and makeshift conditions at emergency facilities set up to cope with the surge more than 15000 migrant children are in u.s. custody the white house is defending its handling of the crisis saying president biden has already reversed many of donald trump's hardline policies. and so it's not like someone sits around him in truth someone one a monster we're going to great idea whatsoever we've given money to carly her own

kids roast of water mercury food for crossed reduce the girls that we don't speak the wind we walk before. one of the ways we learn is that. if you deal with the problems you country it benefits. the last people to know is that there. it's going to she ever turns a who's in donna texas she up how did joe biden and governor harris plan to ease this crisis. you know it's really interesting listening to that press conference in some ways over red flags and what biden was saying you know he seemed to have a bit of a nostalgic glow about the fact that he had the same role on the president obama when there was a big influx from central america but clearly whatever the job. took in that time didn't actually make much of a difference because we have the same problem every year and we have added every year with the exception of of last year because it's because of the pandemic. that

she will lead the diplomatic effort to try and enforce immigration laws i mean is there going to the same thing that we saw the last time around which is i think once again millions of dollars to militarize other people's borders in central america and in mexico lead to a crackdown in central america and mexico leading to more human rights abuses for those children who have decided to come to the border because they are desperate in those countries and fear persecution and we go to what what is he going to do different this time when the money is going into economic development is it really for economic development or is it for sweatshops for u.s. multinationals or the ads do all the data the quality how they really rethinking what joe biden did last time around when. gauging in the with the private sector if a solution is well you can see what's called the border industrial complex already rubbing with the figures are from 2008 to 202055000000000 dollars have been spent on this border industrial complex high tech militarized

equipment at the border which doesn't stem the flow because people are desperate they want to come are they going to change their ideas about how they're using the private sector and all of this fraction of that money to go into the bureaucracy of dealing humanely with migrants who come to the border because that desperate dealing with building humane facilities for children unaccompanied children and families to the bureaucracy to actually help children. in america remember the vast majority of these of these kids have. yes you can take care of them well then maybe we'll have a very different situation and then finally call our social deal with the root causes of migration well again we look to the obama administration 2009 we have a president democratically elected manuel is a liar in honduras he says he's going to redistribute wealth the business community in honduras are up at arms they overthrow him in a coup which president obama supports so you know when you get a democratic government in one of the central american countries you said well

let's look at the root causes and that means redistribution of wealth they tend to get overthrown with the help of democratic and republican governments so i think we go bill questions as to really whether they see any whether we're going to see some some real policy changes under this by do ministration and you meet on the. way children are being held in the facilities where. right so this is this is that facility that was built in february in donna texas it was meant to be one of the answers to what has now turned into a definite said we won't miss it or sure if we were seeing anything other than the usual seasonal thought to asians we see in spring time for unaccompanied children but clearly there is there are extra kids now come across the border we're on track to 17000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border in march for comparison and 29000 during the spike that it was around 11000 i mean still this is a very small percentage of the u.s. population i mean from the way the republicans are suggesting you know that the

whole country is about to be brought to its knees by a few 1000 kids i mean that's clearly you know untrue but clearly it's putting an enormous strain on facilities this is about 400 percent i believe over its pandemic capacity pandemic capacity meaning if they were not to have social distancing and so on we've seen the pictures we see in the video there's no social distancing on the way that little paul does where a couple of 100 children a space to be in there and at least in one there is like $400.00 children it's crowded but the reason for that isn't just because of the by has rolled back any any trump policies it's because we've seen this since november frankly when a judge ordered the administration's to stop taking on the company children and then we have the pandemic which is leading to blockages further down the line because there was limited capacity in the shelters who would take them but again it's about the bureaucracy simply isn't that even there year after year after year over the last 20 years we see this almost regularly chimpanzee thank you very much . in bangladesh an investigation is continuing into the cause of

a massive fire at the ring the refugee campaign cox's bizarre around $45000.00 people have been forced from their bamboo and plastic homes the death toll stands at 15 but more than free 100 people are still missing some 1000000 rang the refugees live in cox's bazaar with little hope of returning to their homes in buddhist majority mian maher where most of been refused citizenship and face persecution under there is tanveer choudhry has more. what you see behind me is the last. now many of these huts were actually burned they were built overnight some of them are 10 some of them are bumble toppling so they were built overnight to provide shelter there is a coordinated effort by all the aid agency is and the government to clear this area and to start building new shelters a lot of the people i know taking shelter in their family and friends houses some of them has been eco mandated in temporary tents there's in community centers and

schools now this camp was one of the largest area that got burned they had clinics that learning centers in formal school that are gone it took years to build them and a lot of question will be raised why this fire incident happening what is the reason i mean one of the culprit is the gas cylinder used for cooking but the refugees are not trained to deal with these issues why frequently this thing happen in future this has to be dealt with i mean a lot of like being last about hundreds of people are still missing many of them are children you've got to realize half the population in this camp are children they are highly traumatized the gunman is also taking many of them to a remote coastline and the plan is to move 100000 people there 14000 have been moved aside it's because of security and decongestion reason so this people are really frustrated and shows they don't know what their future holds with the political situation in myanmar and their fate is up to others they don't have much

say on the decision making process. the family of a 7 year old girl shot by security forces in central me and ma buried her on wednesday he near cheat is the youngest victim so far in a crackdown against opposition to last month's military coup she was shot by security personnel during a raid at her home in mandalay on tuesday a family says she was running into her father's arms at the time at least 275 people have been killed by security forces and really they are asked is there anyone else in the house and fought the gunshot while saying don't launch to us older man they shot her as she leaned towards my chest iran was carrying her and could not even take a look at them of the she was shot state television in myanmar says the military has released more than 600 protesters arrested since last month's coup they were freed from a prison in yangon on a local human rights group says at least 2000 people have been arrested in the

military crackdown that began last month. the un will set up a team of investigators to probe the alleged use of force and torture by a forty's embarrassed during the post-election crackdown the resolution was brought by the e.u. 20 states voted in favor russia was amongst the 7 that voted against it and it is ambassador to the u.n. rejecting the move as quote a destructive signal president alexander lukashenko claimed victory last august in the election demonstrators say was read the u.n. high commissioner for human rights michelle bachelet has called on authorities to release people unlawfully arrested in protests. but its government has outlined plans to overhaul its asylum system which it says is not working refugee rights groups agree but they say the new policy is hugely worrying for many genuine asylum seekers but in baba reports from london. 16 years ago arrived in britain after fleeing torture in his home country in central africa he later helped

create a support network for refugees like himself receiving an award from queen elizabeth his route here was precarious and in the words of a government illegal when you fleeing when you were running and tried to save your life nothing's illegal. the most important thing for you is to find some way you yourself you're protected and you find sanctuary and i was my kids and i was a kid of many many many people it's people like him being targeted by the u.k. government's new plan for immigration announcing major changes home secretary pretty patel said the main resettling refugees at urgent risk more quickly or making it tougher for those who arrive by unofficial routes this parnassus to change in our approach as we toughen asked to deter illegal entry and the criminals that endangered life by night by neighborliness many illegal arrivals have travelled through a safe country like france to get to the quay where they could and should

a crime to sign. we must absolutely support facts as a foster system and disincentive as legal entry patel says new legal routes will be created while the government will seek to send refugees abroad if they come from a so-called safe country and across the english channel if that's not possible successful asylum claimants would only get a temporary right to stay and would have the situation assessed regularly but refugee rights groups say the approach is impractical and cruel we fully expect that these pedophiles who named people are left trapped in limbo in makeshift refugee camps on the case well i'm a little to achieve hamelin state has by getting refugee protection u.k. but also they right be deported else because they know. has never cream and many of the country when the brics a transition period finished at the end of 2020 the u.k. lost its automatic right to transfer refugees and migrants to the 1st european union country they arrived in under what's called the dublin regulation the

government is now insisting other countries have a moral duty to cooperate whatever the case asylum claims in the u.k. are at historic low levels and refugee advocates say even before the u.k. ended its resettlement programs from places like syria the overall numbers it granted asylum to was small the numbers of people who reach the united kingdom to seek asylum on absolutely tiny we take less than one percent of the world's refugees the number of people crossing over the channel for example you know in the small numbers of thousands so there is a sort of an east urea that has been created around these numbers that you know has a deeply political intent the u.k. government says its plans are firm but fair its critics say they risk stigmatizing thousands of genuine asylum seekers nadine barber al jazeera london. a total of 10 tug boats have tried but failed to dislodge an enormous cargo ship that spend the

day wedged across the suez canal or thirty's say work to release the ever given will probably continue through the night as the queue of waiting vessels grows longer the 224000 ton container ship lost control in high winds and run aground is the fastest shipping route between europe and asia accounting for 30 percent of normal daily container ship movements. top stories on our jazeera the e.u. could block exports of vaccines as several countries struggled to get a handle on the 3rd wave of the coronavirus european commission set to increase its power to withhold shipments after accusing the drug firm astra zeneca of failing.