see there would be no closure tendre justice is served as the identities of those people highly sensitive bombings are revealed with detailed coverage there's something else that difficult about this plot it represents and then there's a whole dividing line between the wealthier and the poor from around the world the man who knelt on his neck he has spent the week in a minneapolis corporal with a quarter selecting jurors to decide if he should be convicted of murder. al-jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up european countries face a 3rd wave of corona virus infections and a shortage of vaccines the block considers export limits to safeguard supply. a

surge in crossings and administration under pressure joe biden appoints vice president come of the hearse to solve the migration crisis at the southern border. rebuilding from the ashes thousands of ridding the refugees are again homeless after a massive fire gutted their camp in cox's bazaar. israel's elections are too close to call by benjamin netanyahu as political future could rest in the hands of a small coniston israeli party. and in sport former head of world football sepp blatter has been given a 2nd banned by the organization he used to work for an investigation by cesar has found blatter guilty of multiple breaches of their ethics codes. the european union and the u.k. have agreed to work together to safeguard the supply of coronavirus fraxinus as the

continent faces a 3rd wave of infections the compromise follows a bitter dispute over the supply of the astra zeneca vaccine which the u.k. prime minister warned could lead to long term damage earlier the european union said it would consider limiting the export of vaccines to ensure there was enough to go around but before any more vaccines arrived several countries are 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. of corona virus. 19 countries are now reporting increasing case numbers 15 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 his 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. 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 i deeply regret this and i ask for forgiveness. for. 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 and says it's

not targeting any particular country but it wants the situation to be more reciprocal since the introduction of export optimisation system some $10000000.00 are being exported from your k. from e.u. to your k. 0 dollars especially in exporters from the ok. 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 you know confusion to an already fraught atmosphere. 03 quarters of chileans will be under some of the world's strictest knock down measures from thursday residents will need permission to buy food and medicine twice

a week and must stay at home at all of the time as it comes as the country's hospitals brace for collapse with critical care wards nearing capacity. i was going to understand human in nature and in capital santiago and you see a difficult situation but chile and perhaps surprising given that it's one of the countries in the region which has a very successful vaccine rollout. it's actually the most successful or one of the most successful vaccine left in the world however it's only just begun it's less than 2 months ago and so there is not heard immunity yet and so in the meantime infections have gone sky high a hospital has are just about overflowing and so is the mall behind me the largest in south america it will close in an hour but people continue to pour in because it's their last chance in many many cases to buy things that they're going to need starting in 4 hours so when our curfews kicks in as

a then 75 percent of the population will have to stay home and will only get a police department to go out flights a week from monday to friday only not on the weekends when the whole country will have to be down to buy essential so it's there very very tough measures indeed and if politics has something to do with it because the next sions are fragile to take place and to be very important ones at that in 16 days and with this type of contagion if need be very difficult to carry that out so officials are hoping that by locking everybody in their homes that may bring it down into the contagion enough to allow people to go out and vote me will be that bank in brazil appears to be spiraling out of control. yes brazil and so many other countries of south america are in just as bad if not a worse situation at this hour brazil clearly is about to announce. a very very grim. new market not is 300000 deaths since the pandemic started

and. the president surprisingly has had these come out and said. that he does now believe that the back scenes are necessary you'll remember that for a long long time he was rushing the need to take back scenes however he continues to express his belief in untried remedies that have been rejected by the scientific community such as remedies for work. a floor of when and with a certain antibiotics. also putting together a kind of a committee which will bring together mares governors and different actors in involved in this crisis to finally discuss a nationwide policy to take that hasn't happened yet and many people are pointing the finger at him and say this is coming much today took a call they described it as gathering all of the. all of the passengers of the

titanic on board to try to evacuate them as the sink the shipping while half of the passengers are already drowning down below in the ocean so it is a very critical situation in brazil indeed and we'll have to be following that very very closely thank you very much indeed. india says it has detected a double mutant 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 curse to characteristics of 2 all the previously identified types. it is india's worst affected state but officials say it's not clear if a new variant is causing the upset. still to come on the news hour the youngest victim of myanmar as military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters is buried in mandalay. a journalist from hong kong as a public broadcaster goes on trial are to investigate police misconduct at

pro-democracy protests. and it's been a long time coming but asian of world cup qualifying is about to resume details coming up in sports. yes vice president carla harris has been tasked with stemming the flow of migrants trying to cross the country's southern border the white house is defending its handling of the crisis saying president joe biden has already reversed many of donald trump's hardline policies but those further outrage after images revealed overcrowded and makeshift conditions at emergency facilities set up to cope with a surge over 15000 migrant children are currently in u.s. custody biden says the way to stop people entering the u.s. is to remove the factors that force them to leave in the 1st place and so it's not like someone sits around. the troops from one of the one of them all and so we're

going to grow the rest slower than we did among the really her own kids who rose to the order of mercury food for cross reduce the girls that we don't speak the language before. one of the ways we learn is that. if you deal with the problems you country. then if it. gets worse people knows that. we're here for many a rapper in a mexican border city of tijuana the 1st let's go to she have a chance of using donna texas and she had how did joe biden and come to her spend to ease this crisis. well colleen harris laid out several steps which he said she would take but each and each announcement actually more questions were raised i mean them if joe biden seemed to be getting all nostalgic there about how he had undertaken the same role on the president obama to deal with unaccompanied children of the border when obama was president suggests that

actually a biden didn't actually fix anything didn't actually get very far and one column went through the different steps that she's going to take it sounded awfully familiar so she said that she would lead a diplomatic effort for immigration enforcement in mexico and central america what does that mean is not just mean pressuring mexico and central america to crack down on migration to increase its militarization give more money to the police and security forces to crack down on migrants at least often to human rights abuses is that really the solution is that what they mean by that she said that she was going to engage the private sector engage in the private sector hasn't been a problem $55000000000.00 has been spent since 2008 to 2020 on what's called the border industrial complex mainly high tech militarization at the border the contract is making it an enormous fortune defense contract is a lot of the given to the democratic party and also building shelters which often quite substandard because that is for the profit motive in fact right now as the by

demonstration looks from all shelters there are real questions about whether some of the people who are being given the contracts have very poor record on housing housing migrants and thirdly she said you look at the root causes one of the root causes inequality violence when president obama was in honduras for example elected democratically a government that said it would tackle inequality and violence model is alive 2009 he was probably overthrown in a military coup which president obama and vice president joe biden supported so are they serious this time that they really wanted to sort out the root causes or are they going to carry on with the usual u.s. foreign policy playbook which means whatever someone does try to stand to be. to look at inequality in violence they tend to get overthrown by business interests and all they go is in central america with the support of u.s. governments i mean the reason why we have facilities like this one and all the texas way over the limit about 1500 percent over the limit we understand it's pandemic capacity i mean there's so many different reasons. which stem from

a november a court order which force a child administration to begin to unaccompanied children in the meanwhile of course the blood into the station is not allowing other migrants adult migrants without children and that keeping these draconian measures in place from the trumpet ministration in violation of international and domestic law which says the u.s. should be giving asylum to people fleeing conflict fearing persecution there all sorts of all sorts of issues a was the biden assertion can take a look at which seem rather to the obvious for example beginning the asylum process for adults as well which means that when children come to the border with say a member of their extended family the member of the extended family isn't expelled immediately to mexico leading to so their children and camps like this one that's one place to start for example so well to see what they're up to they're all being given credit for speeding up processing time but if if we have a repeat of what biden did under obama well we don't terribly optimistic at least and jayson's. thank you very much indeed.

mexico and to spend the situation. tony. we'll set the scene for you a little bit we are at inch up out of this is a port of entry into the united states really we're just a stone's throw from the u.s. southern border and what you see behind me is a makeshift migrant camp that's been here for a little bit more than one month we're told by people here that there's anywhere between a $11500.00 migrants are staying at this particular camp many are from central america countries like hundreds of guatemala we also know that there's many people here from southern mexico say it's like well how come the truck gun chiapas there are haitian and cuban nationals that are at this camp as well and this is that we get from the people that we've spoken to throughout the course of the day is that everyone here is waiting for something even though even though many people don't really know what that something is many are hoping that there that the u.s.

government that u.s. officials are are going to see this encampment here on the on the u.s. border that they're going to hear the voices of the migrants here who have been holding demonstrations and that u.s. officials are going to begin to process their asylum claims we spoke to one gentleman from guatemala who is here with his family who says that he's been here for over one month at this point and in that time nobody has approached him to sort of guide him or tell him or his family what the next steps are and that he himself is hoping that he's going to have an opportunity to plead his asylum case to u.s. officials but that desperation is growing that he's considered taking the legal route to to jump and be captured on the other side given the precarious situation that many migrants face themselves face while staying at at this camp basically at the mercy of the elements in the weather really hasn't been on their on their side now we should note that we've been up and down the border throughout the course of the day we were at a different port of entry where we saw a slow trickle of migrants being sent back including individuals that are under the

age of 18 we spoke to 300 boys earlier today who said that they were deported just a few days ago so to counter a bit of that narrative that we're he. bring about migrant minors who are able to cross into the united states illegally and are able to stay in the united states illegally we can tell you firsthand that that is not always the case and that there are many migrants that are under age that are being sent back to mexico. in europe or thank you very much indeed the british government has outlined plans to overhaul its asylum system which is says is not working refugee rights groups agree but they say the new policy is hugely worrying for many genuine asylum seekers and the mother 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 is illegal the most important thing for you is to find some way you you are safe you are protected and you find sanctuary and i was my kids and i was a kid so 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 permanents a step change in al reproaches we toughen alstom to deter illegal entry and the criminals that endangered life by finally putting these. many illegal arrivals have travelled through a safe country like france to get to the county where they could and should a kind of sign. we must absolutely support facts of our system and disincentives 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 cross 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 parents named people are left trapped in limbo in makeshift refugee camps well i'm a will to achieve haven't ate as i getting refugee protection u.k. but also they write be deported else because they know. has never cream and then you become tree when the bricks 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 are 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. and investigation into a deadly fire at the world's largest refugee camp is underway at the camp but cox's bizarre in bangladesh is home to move a 1000000 refugees from me and more efficient death toll currently stands at 15 but hundreds more remain missing child reports cox's bizarre. 26

year old mohammad job as father died while trying to salvage belongings from his fire ripped through the camp. i can't explain in words how i feel emotionally at this moment the loss of my father is devastating for me and my family my shop was also destroyed but it doesn't bother me. and her family lost everything including their home. after facing so much trouble and we fled to this place now it seems like we are refugees all over again some witnesses say the barbed wire fencing around the can stop people from scaping the fire the fire out of the spotlight back on the struggle the drama and the pressure that is placed on daily basis by everyone here it has been more than 3 and a half years since nearly a 1000000 man march into this distant corner of bangladesh trying to get into what

is now the world's largest refugee camp camp community leaders are seriously concerned about the fire hazards and it is about time that the rohingya volunteers are given training on fire safety by government and aid agencies it is very critical that the refugees learn and be aware of fire hazards and safety and the should be door to door public awareness on such hazards lives could be saved in the future. urinates 0 and other aid agencies along with government trying hard to provide shelter and assistance. the situation it's devastating this fire is such a huge scale it's like nothing we've ever seen before he more than 45000 people are nice 10000 shelters just completely gone and not only that but also health centers learning centers nutrition centers they're all gone so it's so important. with the other humanitarian part that we work together to try to provide basic assistance

but also psychological support for people who've been through trauma again and again. this tragedy is a reminder of the burner ability of the refugees who are caught between the increasingly precarious situation in bangladesh and a new political reality of their homeland now ruled by the military government responsible for the genocide that forced them to flee $200.00. cox's bazaar the family of a 7 year old girl shot by security forces in central mian mar buried her on wednesday. 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 really they asked is there anyone else in the house and fired the gun shot while saying don't lie to us old man they shot

her as she leaned towards my chest i ran carrying her and could not even take a look at them after she was shot press freedom is once again in the spotlight in hong kong a veteran journalist from the city's public broadcaster is on trial after investigating police misconduct choice has pleaded not guilty to charges she made false statements for documentary sarah clarke reports from hong kong. normally behind the camera on wednesday t.v. producer bad choice was the subject of media attention as she faced her 1st day on trial sorry i cannot speak much we thought her legal proceedings greeting the veteran journalist at court were group of supporters who say this trial is an attack on hong kong's media freedom we feel that we have to stand up for her as well as standing up for freedom of press in hong kong about choice has been charged for her role in a t.v. documentary that exposed what it said was police misconduct during the

anti-government protests central to the investigation into allegations police colluded with a group of gang members violently attacked pro-democracy supporters in a train station in 2019. a government database to identify the owners of vehicles near the location that night police say that information was obtained illegally media groups a choice was just doing her job it does raise questions about government transparency when it comes to data and potential legal terrorism when they are all it is go after reporters you know in quite weird wonderful and never entertained waves i don't think anyone would have expected that this. would have been arrested over something like this this trial has intensified concerns over media censorship in hong kong this territory was once a bastion of press freedom in asia it's now fallen to 88 in the world press freedom index and the introduction of beijing's national security law in july last year has

increased the risks for journalists reporting on potentially sensitive subjects media tycoon jimmy lie has been arrested in recent months and remains in jail the city's public broadcaster r t h k also suspended its oldest satirical show after accusations it insulted the hong kong police some international media organizations including the new york times have moved the asia digital hub and a 3rd of the. stuff to south korea there has been an ongoing restriction or restricting of the base for free reporting in hong kong each of these incidents is different in its own way but together they paint a pretty clear picture that you know independent reporting is on there some threat in hong kong this is the 1st time a journalist has been put on trial the coverage of the anti-government protests about choi has pleaded not guilty but her supporters fear her wrist might not be the last series al-jazeera hong kong pharmacists are hoping to strengthen the

alliance against russia and china following 2 days of nato talks in brussels and his 1st trip to europe as u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is trying to rebuild washington's ties with nato after the trumpet ministration took a more hostile approach but it can reaffirm the importance of america's partnership with the e.u. especially when it comes to countering beijing. again what's so important both with regard to to nato and the issues we're dealing with but also the e.u. and our partnership with with the e.u. is that. when we are working together when we are speaking with one voice when we are acting together we are much stronger and much more effective than if any single one of us is doing it alone a white house correspondent kimberly halkett says the u.s. approach to china has changed over the past week. it's very clear that this is an

administration that feels that when it is in the u.s. national security interests that there are areas where they can work with their adversaries but at the same time the united states looking for global cooperation with partners and allies to deal with both russia and china particularly when it comes to china what we've taken away from these comments is a slightly softer tone given the fact that there was a very tough meeting that took place about 5 days ago in alaska where the secretary of state met with his chinese counterpart did not go well in fact the chinese pointing out that perhaps the united states should be pointing fingers when it comes to concerns about democracy and human rights given some of the social unrest that exists here in the united states so it appears that that told that strong tone that the secretary of state took 5 days ago has been softened in his post meaning comments that we've heard in the last couple of hours now pointing out that when it comes to china there are areas of cooperation and mutual concern particularly when

it comes to working collaboratively when it comes to health security and also on climate change this is the news out from london still ahead argentina's dirty war remembered the endless search for the disappeared and to technology. one of the world's biggest conker ships runs aground in the cirrus canal causing a traffic jam with far reaching consequences and its 4 top among so own stocks believe it took 3 days finally set to begin its 1st leg higher same time story. 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 as drawing some cool air down across that east side of year got some snow flurries over the high ground there certainly see turkey i was also northwest this is where it's a little more spring light because the weather's coming in from the atlantic that south westerly wind dragging in a pharaoh rash of showers it's the truth be told i'm 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 the planet with athens 9 degrees in athens glasgow is woman and grace which you play in the freezing there in ankara so we've got so when she weather continues across the southeast and colder but not too bad into central areas basin 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 know just 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 seep out across northern parts of africa as well but that cooler across the eastern med

brushing the final taste of egypt. but. this was rome to take children away from their peers and herd them into a school home against their will there was no mother no father figures they put is a big player and we salute looked after so i don't remember the children's names for you can't it is dark secret analogise iraq. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and. charges of this edition and the state line becomes the default media in england about new games and images that lead to that given that these guys are just how they create and use it just makes it hard for people

to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream to shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening post on a 0. 8 . and one of top stories here on out is there the e.u. could block exports of vaccines as several countries struggled to get a handle on the 3rd wave of the coronavirus it comes after the e.u. accused the drug firm astra zeneca 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 in their capacity. as vice president comer harris has been tasked with stemming the flow of migrants heading towards the country's southern border comes after an outcry over the state of emergency facilities set up to cope with the surge. but most of votes counted a day after israel's 4th election in just 2 years there's still no clear idea of who will end up in power unexpectedly its a small palestinian party which may hold the key in knighted arab list crossed the threshold needed to enter parliament and with a majority out of reach for both benjamin netanyahu is likud and the coalition of opposition parties opposing him he may have to rely on the palestinian group for support are a force that has the latest from west jerusalem. for months or abbas decided to split from the rest of the mainly palestinian israeli joint list alliance and campaign separately it was a big gamble that there did plenty of blowback now with 5 seats news really

parliament is united arab list in theory has the power to bestow either side a majority. vote so we can be kingmakers in the elections we need to succeed so we can establish our status and influence in politics for the future the next generation. of us is politics the religious and conservative right wing israeli politicians call him auntie's i honest left wing is criticize his stance on el. q. issues and yet his openness to engage with and potentially support either the bloc led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu or the one trying to remove netanyahu from power has shaken up israeli politics. during the campaign netanyahu ruled out the idea of allowing abbas into his coalition or even accepting his support from the outside but that was before his bloc once again fell short of the 61 seats it needed in senior members of his party started openly discussing working with us for

some even having such a conversation represents a political watershed the very engagement between the 2 particularly to the extent that it would be public is going to be a story and a transformative for israeli politics and from that point of view it could have results an outcome where it's actually reaches a new coalition agreement. abbas isn't the only one celebrating the prospects of influence in the new parliament the far right religious sign is a movement also outperformed expectations and would be welcomed in an s. and yahoo coalition decision. a buses party says it won't sit with racists the opposition leader also says a government relying on religious zionism would be dark and dangerous but marshalling his own coalition with support from our politicians would also be a difficult sell to the right wing is in the anti netanyahu look not every path to a government runs through months or a bust for instance that he could try to poach off

a right wing politician or 2 from another party less likely could try to break off part of the nesson yahoo block and there's still a possibility of total failure and a 5th election to come but after 4 elections this is a very different type of political conversation with the palestinian israeli polity at its center are a force that al-jazeera westerners. a senior military figure in a libyan warlord honey for have to us forces has been assassinated in benghazi. special forces commander for the libyan national army founder and director of the sec institute and us are going to he says hit this could be a turning point for libya's conflict what about the boy simply he was a relentless and merciless killer i mean you know that the testimony of not only those that have been documented by the i.c.c. but the hundreds of families as documented by human rights watch and understand emotional and the many thousands more that have lived in but i was in fear of mahmoud of

a fairly i mean you know kidnapping civilians we've just seen over the last several days the number of civilians that have been found the but i was 11 or 14 depending on whose numbers you take but at least a least 11 that were found behind a cement factory another 6 that were found on the shore about ozzy member has he is fast becoming the murder capital of north africa it's a number it's a and i rate just number over the last several months and many point to think that i'm i'm with a fellow who is not only wanted by the i.c.c. but following has his indictment by the i.c.c. and his request to be delivered to the hague he was promoted by head of after and this could be a major turning point for us and if after is facing over the last several weeks a number of challenges social and political and military dissidents from senior commanders from senior tribal figures in libya so they may decide his fate internally and eastern libya but for this new government of national unity in western libya that side says fight for him. a total of 10 tug boats have tried but failed to dislodge an enormous cargo ship that spent the day wedged across the suez

canal or 40 say work to release the ever given will probably continue through the night as the queue of waiting vessels grows longer the canal is the fastest shipping route between europe and asia accounting for 30 percent of normal daily container ship movements but moving the ever given won't be easy the so-called mega ship is 400 meters long just to give you an idea that's 100 meters longer than the iconic eiffel tower it weighs 224000 tons and has the capacity to carry more than 20006 meters squared containers the lane blocked was usually traversed by 50 ships a day ships are now able to pass the ever given but an oil analytics firm says 10 tankers carrying 13000000 barrels of crude could be affected and around 30 percent of global container ship traffic passes through the suez canal in $29000.00 the suez canal raked in $5800000000.00 for egypt a day's backlog could cost the government at least $15000000.00. that's me now to

sell medically on earth former merchant mariner and associate professor of history at campbell university joins me from north carolina thank you very much for being with us so what went wrong 1st of all. we have a debating issues of what went wrong are courting to the pilot in the agency the vessel lost power the ship owners and ship operators are talking about obstructed when visibility as the cause of the say it's definitely either human error or mechanical error that put the vessel into the bank and so far 10 tons of failed to dislodge it what other methods can they use and how risky is it if it continues to take a long time to move it. well the big difficulty you have is that vessel is so large at 400 meters she's she's longer than the canal is wide high tide just passed in the suez and it looks like they're not going to be able to move her until the next high tide tomorrow morning they will have to do 2 things one probably start taking

fuel and water off the vessel to try to lighten her it will be very difficult to get containers off of her because she is so large she's an ultra large container vessel so be hard to get a floating cranes in to get containers off of her the other thing they'll have to try to do is bring in more powerful tugs they'll need salvage tugs of high horse power to be able to try to pull her stern off the western bank how unusual is it for something this size to to go through the suez canal and is that and doesn't need to be limited to the sizes that they that they sent through that well actually the suez canal was expanded 2015 specifically for vessels of this size these vessels are used almost exclusively on the europe to asia route 20000 containers or more on board the irony of this is that the suez canal is closed in 1968 during the 6 days war for 8 years and that for shipping companies to vessels around africa and so they started building their vessels larger and larger now with with container

ships and tankers these suez canal has has widened the canal to to get those vessels back in the canal and so she's a very large canal she pushes the extremes of the limits for the canal but many vessels her size traversed a canal with no problems and you mentioned the other the alternative route i mean is that do you think going to start to be an option for the the ships at austin do you think they'll wait it out a bit longer. well as you said every day they wait 50 more ships pile up at the anchorage is a port saeed in suez and once you get to the point where it's more than a week delay shippers going to start thinking about vessels that are heading for the canal you know getting ready to round into the mediterranean or coming across the indian ocean whether or not they want to wait a week for their vessel to get through the canal or be more athena more fordable and practical to send in the 6000 miles around africa and add $12.00 to $14.00 days to their voyage it damages ago that we started off with what region we went wrong and you mention that this has some debate about what you know what he says about

the shipping companies saying different things but there was some question about the high winds all the limits that the just supposed to be observing and you know if i should go through if the wind is above a certain force. there is a there's a suez canal pilot assigned to every vessel and it's within their parameters to decide whether or not to enter the canal and she just entered a canal a few hours earlier she was only about 5 miles into the canal when this happened and so there's supposed to be the final arbitrator and call whether or not a vessel is cleared to enter the canal and i think one of the reasons you're hearing this debate about what the cause is it will have to do with insurance if if it's an act of nature then the company can make the argument it's not their fault if however it's a mechanical or human error they may be may become liable for not just their own damages and damages to the canal but to other companies who are suffering delays because of them which could become extremely costly and potentially bankrupt

evergreen so that could and i thank you very much indeed to feel analysis of the situation in this case can i thank you thank you. a woman dies in childbirth in yemen every 2 hours the u.n. population fund says it needs to save what's left of maternal health services in the country last year nearly half of the facilities supported by the u.n. were forced to close due to a lack of funding and a tonic on them is the executive director of united nations population fund and fund and she described the situation there. no woman should die while giving birth and the heroes of the story are these valiant nurses and doctors and cleaners but in particular the midwives the situation is terrible if you're in a remote area and now you're trying to access care i'm also very concerned about the mental health effects of over 6 years of perpetual living in fear and our gender based violence services are oversubscribed those hotlines are ringing off

the hook every moment of every day and may i say that now with cove it and some of the restrictions related the situation is just perilous women and girls deserve better these are people with human rights and i am very very adamant that we as an international community have to step up and help before it's too late the disappointment that we feel that the international peels for yemen have fallen short is precisely because these women have been the backbone of their communities and they are exhausted they are living in fear and now the prospect of famine on top of war is just too much that women and girls of yemen should never be forgotten these are people who have held up during crisis they want peace so they can return to their lives i've met so many young women who have told me they didn't

want to get married they wanted to finish their education and this is exactly what deserves to to happen there but peace is the purpose that. the un will set up a team of investigators to investigate the alleged use of force and torture by author cheese and bella ruse 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 better says ambassador to the u.n. rejected the move as a destructive signal president alexander lukashenko claimed victory last august in a lection demonstrators say was read to you in high commissioner for human rights we showed bash lead has called on north to release people are now fully invested in the protests. cannot be a saw the highest number of attacks on health workers in nearly a quarter of a century last year with violence on the rise the international committee of the

red cross says the humanitarian situation deteriorated because of a rise in battles over territory between the state and on groups there were nearly 400 victims of explosive devices the highest number in 4 years violence fell following a peace deal with fogge rebels but former members remain armed along with several crime gangs and other m.p.'s he has moved from bogota. the reports from the red cross shows an important increase in violent incidents disappearances mass displacement in a number of regions in the country all compounded by the restrictions put in place by both the state and armed groups do to defend them and the violence seems to be expanding to new areas they documented for example over $250.00 victims of explosive devices in $69.00 municipalities across the country of which $41.00 had not reported any incident in 2100 the red cross also found

a major increase in attacks against health care workers. exactly it's a paradox at the exact a time when people need more medical attention and much health personnel are being attacked more than at any other time since we started collecting data in colombia. so this is a hugely complex humanitarian situation with many communities that have become even more isolated and have received less protection during the pandemic and that's why the red cross is calling on both the state the military and these armed groups to ensure the respect of human rights and also ensure the access to cover the 19 vaccines in these areas and to facilitate the work of humanitarian organizations in the country. argentina is commemorating the anniversary of the 976 coup that led to a military government and some of the worst human rights abuses recorded last

century fewer people are attending demonstrations this year because of the corona virus pandemic but it hasn't stopped the investigation into what happened to those who died or went missing tears of all reports from what is ours. it was argentina's largest detention camp during the years of military dictatorship and now for the 1st time from one of its airstrips this specially equipped plane is about to take off on a mission to search for mass graves in the area the military base in what a site is called cumple imaginal it covers an area of over $5000.00 hectares nonsense only at its most and so the laser the capacity to search for coordinates x. winds that it has the virtue of period rating the vegetation today will be scanning the area of cold war the mail. the plane has been equipped with lidar technology that marks thousands of points that can be later analyzed those points could be

burial sites of the real lesson activist disappeared during the dirty war in the 1970 s. and eighty's thousands of people were disappeared during the military dictatorship in this country vests are some of what makes the task more difficult in the search to find them is that the abuse or never revealed what they did to them it is known that one of the favorite methods used where what is known as the death flights where people were thrown into the river or the ocean they were never seen again. human rights trials are ongoing in argentina and members of the security forces are being confronted with what they allegedly did over 40 years ago this year vs whom because of the pandemic. the search flights seek to unearth the secrets of what happened in company and the dead. flights took off from there now for the 1st time conscripts have started to speak about what they saw at the base when people were

being disappeared. i saw our own 9 people and i'm not sure because they were passing very fast i saw people with long hair and beard. that is the leader of a team of experts who specialize in searching for people killed in conflict he says the new technology will help shed light on one of the darkest periods in argentina's history. once the data is analyzed we were used to physics like geo radars to detect if there's something in the areas mucked by the loiter so later on we can go and investigate there what is important is this is a military location in almost no country the world has been allowed to search for bodies in military locations and it's one of the 1st times we're very careful with expectations especially among the relatives and relatives of those who were disappeared continue to search for their loved ones. they still have the hope human rights abuses will reveal what they did to them they say that only the truth will

bring them to. still to come on al-jazeera and sports another battle for the former head of world football but here with that story.

for. all. let's go to sport now with tara. warren thanks so much former head of world football site blatter has been given a 2nd ban by the organization he used to work for an investigation by fifa found blatter and former secretary general jones out guilty of multiple breaches of their

ethics code this latest suspension is for an additional 6 years and 8 months the 85 year old has been banned from football since 2015 for making what was described as a disloyal payment to former uate the boss shelf the team that banned it was due to end an october earlier i spoke to football writer andrew worship at this latest twist in bladders controversial career it's the end of the road. for set last and probably for jones well it was also banned by the ethics committee both of course the all powerful talk to officials for so many years but it has to be said don't forget said glass is 85 now he's has not been in good health he had heart surgery in december he's convalescing now is current band ends in 7 months and really what he raised was trying to do is clear his name the time we have the latest

punishments is interesting to say the least for our because it was a kid who is employed in a criminal prosecution by the swiss judicial authorities and. these relate to undocumented conversations he had with former swiss attorney general has since been replaced. the emily denies always has done. that he was which was guilty of any wrongdoing whatsoever and i think this is at the very least this will be seen as as another effort by facebook to distance the current regime of him since you know with the past administration led by stepladder in general about. turkey pulled off a big win against the netherlands as european teams began their efforts to qualify for next year's world cup in qatar but she failed to qualify for the 2018 finals were beaten 42 in istanbul. scored a hat trick for the home team turkey last reached the world cup back in 2002 when

they finished 3rd most teams are playing 3 games in 8 days in a compressed schedule caused by the global pandemic european champions sports gobi desert and one nil but world title holders france were held to a $11.00 draw by ukraine football's top ranked team belgium were $31.00 winners against wales or russia have started out with a 31 win against malta 20 team world cup runners up croatia lost one nil to slovenia there are 13 more games coming up on thursday world cup host cats are also playing in europe on wednesday cats are beating luxembourg one nil in hungary striker mohammad min tare taking advantage of a defensive error by their opponents catcher been included as a guest team in qualifying group a which also includes european champions portugal. asian world cup qualifying is resuming on thursday after a 16 month gap the whole game against mongolia will get things back under way with

2 more matches happening this month the rest of the games will take place in june we've been speaking to asian football writer john durban is optimistic about asia can get through its qualification process. covered has affected as well quotation badly i mean really by now it should be almost have a good idea of which 4 teams will be going to qatar 2022 but still haven't even finished the 2nd round yet is still 40 teams in the running the last action was november 2009 team and at a time we have no idea would have to wait 60 minutes to start again the asian football confederation decided to have instead of having home away games for the remaining games in the 2nd round this east he was 45 games left to play incentivize up their news so we won city in one country horse in order many games. so she win that works then there's just enough time to squeeze in the games remaining before

june 15th deadline but really because just normal leeway left in any spiking cases any problems will have a huge effect. but i think the i.o.c. in foot was going to get better at this room we saw in qatar last year with the end of the asian champions league how about a secure bubble cam haas game safely so that's the whole you know i mean it's it of course unprecedented situation they have seized at our house and sympathy for how they have handled this and try and find a way to play these games but i think somehow in the games will be played and it will be as you will have the full amount of teams in qatar but some teams may have problems along the way but will be enough u.s. women's soccer star megastar pino has taken her fight for equal pay to capitol hill you know and her world cup winning team mates filed a lawsuit against the u.s. soccer federation 2 years ago their demand to be paid the same as the men's team is still being argued over. we've filled stadiums we've broken viewing records we've

sold out our jerseys all the popular metrics by which we are judged and yet despite all of this we're still paid less than our male counterparts for each trophy of which there are many for each when for each tide for each time we play less and after a delay of more than a year the olympic torch relay is finally under starters orders in japan the 1st runners will get hold of the flame in a few hours time with the torch starting its journey in salute to shima spectators are barred from the start of the event to take over at 19 the 4 month relay will involve around 10000 runners for the games due to start in tokyo on july the 23rd ok and that is all your sport for now it's now back to lauren in london farah thank you very much indeed didn't there monday can catch up with all the sport and of

course all the news we're covering but check out our website the address for that is dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon a ship for me to tell if this news up we had a moment with more news by foot. joggers in new delhi take advantage of the relatively clean air after weeks of toxic small to stop people from venturing outside institutions including hobgood say air pollution is leading to more severe cases of the coronavirus and more deaths from

it and no way in india is the situation worse than daddy the number of. desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 known for the state's health experts and bod mentalists had been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in evolution and the impact that would have on those the close of 19 you are dealing with a very powerful people people in influential positions in government where we know there were elements within the police completely. we're getting screwed twee we're getting too close to some people higher up the line to get out there to. do the job itself. it is essentially the perfect crime you have a diplomatic bag that caught the eye and the search al-jazeera investigates the poachers pipeline. it's the political debate show that's challenging the way you

think i want to know where you to stand on cancer culture decreasing the range of 80 years that can be heard from international politics to the global pandemic and everything in between tech companies are the ones with the power what do we do what's the solution get organized what are world leaders or governments missing talking about targets in like 2040 or 20 targets we're now up front with me marc lamont hill 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. live from london also coming up

a surge in crossings and the ministration under pressure. vice president come on harris to solve the migration crisis at the southern.