when i went east on al-jazeera. a pandemic out of control now another milestone hit in brazil 300000 dead from covert 19. i'm having my kids in this is al jazeera my from doha also coming up as the european union faces a 3rd wave of corona virus infections and a vaccine shortage the broad considers export limits to secure a supply it's. the number of migrants along the us mexico border continues to grow now joe biden's asters vice president come the harris to deal with the influx and

the waiting game following israel's election why the current prime minister netanyahu space could rest in the hands of a newly formed party. at least 300000 brazilians have died from covert 19 president gyre balsa naro has repeatedly time played the threat of the virus from the outset of the pandemic with the numbers no so out of control and the death toll 2nd only to the united states olsen r.-o. a snow cave to mounting pressure and announced a national committee to tackle the crisis want to an accurate reports from rio de janeiro. is brazil school the death toll keeps growing women across brazil have joined hands one reuter their grief and the names of all those who died from corbett 19. this by november's map of america this panel has 2 and

a half meters per presents only 0 point one percent of the number of victims we would need $1000.00 panels like this one for all the victims that's another 2 and a half kilometers of. pressure against president who has been mounting as infections and death continue to spiral out of control brazil's bar association has asked the attorney general to charge president. with criminally mishandling the pandemic $500.00 bankers economists and business men wrote a letter asking the government to stop boycotting measures aimed at controlling the new wave of infections and to start heating to the advice of doctors and scientists . on tuesday matter went on television to say he was in favor of the vaccines he had criticised in the past and was slow to start finding raw brazil his words were greeted with poc banging protests with next year's presidential election in mind

also narrow met wednesday with representatives from congress in the supreme court one year after couvade 19 struck brazil the government has finally announced a committee to deal with the pandemic on a national level meanwhile in the square 19 year old in weezer castro embroider the names of her daughter in law and her friend she says she can deal with the sorrow but not with the anguish of watching nothing being done or we can cross. care of in rio monica if we leave the politics of the so one side's just outlined for us high bad stock over situation is in brazil. well in. fact you have of us a little like brazil is 2nd in the world after the united states the united states has the vax the vaccines are coming in whereas here the vaccines are slow the

hospitals are full of medicine to into bait patients there is running low so it's everything nothing is really working and although there was this decision to finally have a national committee the 1st meeting already showed some differences pres them both so not all walked out of the meeting talking about preventive medicine which in this case your main new thing all the medicines that have not been proven to prevent. cheating. so there still is a dispute between science and the whale of a president that i have been downplaying the virus since the beginning. and all of this coming of course on the day that the brazilian health minister and i and so over 300 brazilians have now died from corona virus want to have in rio de janeiro thank you very much. the european union and the u.k.

appear to still be on a collision course over vaccine supplies as the bloc faces a 3rd wave of coronavirus is set to tighten rules on exporting vaccines with supplies of the astra zeneca job a central issue but before any more vaccines arrived several countries are struggling to find the right measures to stop more citizens becoming sick or a challenge has this report's. 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. admissions while 8 member states are now reporting increase number of us with more care 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 apologized and cancelled a hastily planned 5 day easter lockdown after a political backlash and feel it's been unfairly 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 trial. 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 hoff 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 your k. 0 dollars especially in exporters from your k e. 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 francaise a shipment block should be considered if that's not true confusion to an already fraught atmosphere or a chalons 0 india says it's to texas what's being described as a double mutant variants of the corona virus it was found in 206 samples of the

stay in the state of maharashtra and a further 9 in need delhi a double need since as an entirely new variant but with the characteristics of 2 other previously identified types as india's worst affected states but officials say it's not clear if the new variance is responsible for the upsurge. cutter is very imposing a series of coronavirus restrictions after daily cases started rising steadily in recent weeks around 570 new infections were recorded on wednesday the measures include a ban on large gatherings and the culture of gyms swimming pools and spas there will also be reduced capacity at restaurants qatar has reported a total of nearly 175000 covert cases. pope francis has ordered a pay cut for staff at the vatican in an attempt to save jobs during the economic

downturn the holy see is predicting a $59000000.00 deficit this year the forced closure of vatican museums due to the pandemic has set a major source of its revenue cardinals will have their wages cut by 10 percent or lower paid clerics will have their pay docked at a proportional rate. the saudi led coalition has cleared for fuel ships to dock at yemen's red sea port of her days or comes after the run back to 3 said it would said they would all be greed to a saudi seas far proposal if an air and sea blockades were lifted ambassador barbara woodward as the permanent representative of the u.k. to the united nations she says the opening up of the ports is a move in the right direction. it contains the absolutely key elements to end the war and to end the suffering the humanitarian suffering in yemen so a cease fire reopening the airport and reopening the port in the data implementing

the stockholm agreement and allowing fuel and food through the ports and starting inclusive consultations those are really critical elements for returning to peace and building peace in yemen we are also gravely concerned by the continued escalation of the attacks on marriage the latest attacks on upper airports in south and saudi arabia and the growing numbers of yemeni people who are suffering from famine and starvation and lack of food and access to facilities so the un has a number of tools that we can use during us presidency of the security council in february for example we passed a security council resolution that for the 1st time put security council sanctions on individual members of the who tease and last week the security council again called for. for peace for ceasefire and condemned

very clearly the attack on marriage which has displaced so many people who don't already gone there for refuge as well as the people who were living in marriage and we are as you said earlier in your broadcast greatly concerned by the apparent efforts of the who cheesed to use violence in order to seek gains rather than pursuing a ceasefire and a political settlement which would be the best thing for the people of yemen who suffered for too long. the un has confirmed reports its special rapporteur who investigated the murder of journalist. received 4 she perceived as a death threats from a top side the official the guardian newspaper initially reported that the official threatened dying is calum are saying she would be taken care of she was not reined in kalam are published a detailed reports into her show g.'s murder back in 2018. now

with most of the votes counted today after israel's 4th election in just 2 years this still one no clear idea of who will end up in power unexpectedly it's a small palestinian party which may hold the key very false it reports now from west jerusalem. when months or a bus decided to split from the rest of the mainly palestinian israeli joint list alliance and campaign separately it was a big gamble that earned him plenty of blowback now with 5 seats in the israeli parliament his united arab list in theory has the power to bestow either side a majority. vote so he can be kingmakers in the elections we need to 6 eighth's that 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 wingers criticize his stance on

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 and senior members of his party started openly discussing working with us for some even having such a conversation represents a political watershed the very engaged meant between the 2 particularly to the extent that it would be public is going to be a story and a transformative for israeli politics. from that point of view it could have results an outcome. it 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. a buses party says it would 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 and 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. still to come on al-jazeera

a u.s. states notorious for using the death penalty becomes the latest to abolish capital punishment and tough talk from nato the u.s. secretary of state is promising his allies action against russia and china. but. we've got more very heavy rain pushing into southern parts of the u.s. you can see this impressive cold of cloud which runs all the way up across the appalachians through the midwest down across the northern plains were true and that warm moist air from the gulf of mexico ahead of that city 23 celsius there in d.c. cola behind minneapolis 9 celsius just about is double figures there for kansas city and on the southern flank where we have got that moisture coming into that

cooler lots of very heavy rain because these c. 100 millimeters of rain in one of the spots as we go on through thursday for many behind that satisfied and dry across a good part of the plains more snow coming in over the rockies for a time that will make its way a little further east with as we go through friday with regards to that heavier right gradually peter out across the florida panhandle up towards the mid atlantic states that heavy rain pushing right up into new england into the eastern side of canada was snow for good weather on the northern flank but still warm in new york at 20 celsius and at 25 and they say so very spring like here some lovely weather coming through lovely weather too across a good part of the caribbean is slushy fine and dry sense to be looking at plenty of police guys with just the outside chance of the arch shalah. from the al-jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation

generally when i mean it's all about race and racism. with no host and no limitations our society has structural racism built into part one of the shaheen and adam brotherhood low paid people tend to be migrant labor and disproportionately women in care whether it comes down to prejudice studio unscripted on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera quick reminder of our top stories this hour at least 300 faison brazilians have died from covert 19 president joe your bills in our own time played the threats of the forest is now the committee to tackle the crisis the european

union and the u.k. appeared to be only a collision course over vaccine supplies and the boat faces a 3rd wave of coronavirus it's planning to tighten rules on exporting vaccines supplies over the astra zeneca jab a central machine. and most of the votes in israel's election have been counted prime minister binyamin netanyahu has prospects of retaining a right wing coalition that's looking uncertain. the u.s. states all virginia has abolished the death penalty when the 1st 100 people has been executed since its founding as a cohen a 4 centuries ago governor northen says capital punishment has no place in the states in the south or in the nation around the country more than 170 people have been released from death row since

1973 due to evidence of their innocence. that is simply wrong we can't give out the all too much punishment without being 100 percent sure that we're right. and we came senate people to that automatic punishment knowing that the system doesn't work the same for everyone. let's go live now to haiti joe castro or in washington d.c. for more heidi this is an interesting one because virginia was quite prolific in its use of the death penalty so why are they making this decision no and what will it mean for other states that still have the death penalty. you're absolutely right this has been a dramatic turnaround in a very short period of time for the state of virginia in fact it was just last year

that a similar measure to abolish the death penalty was struck down in the state by democrats and now just a year later it was all democrats joined by 3 republicans in the state's general assembly who voted to have this death penalty be abolished so the big question is what happened why now well there is a name george floyd that had a huge impact his death and the protests the reckoning of racial inequity in this country that followed and virginia's democratic governor northam he said that seeing those protests was an awakening for him and he saw the statistics that blacks are given the death penalty or a sentence of the death penalty in far greater number than white defendants he said that show the inequity and there was simply no way that the state could push forward and once he announced his support for abolishing the death penalty in virginia than many others followed and we saw this quickly come to pass so now

virginia has become the 23rd us state to abolish the death penalty and notably it is the 1st southern state to do so and that has given some confidence some hope to those who would like to abolish the death penalty across the united states and they're particularly looking at the state of texas which is the number one in the use of capital punishment on prisoners there the big question whether other southern states will follow in virginia as example but in texas it's very different scenario there different set of politics and there is still a little momentum toward abolishing the death penalty there a fascinating development. line for us in washington d.c. thank you heidi. u.s. president joe biden has appointed come a harris to manage the steady influx of migrants at the southern border the vice president's will lead u.s. efforts with mexico to stem the flow of migration members of congress and in

visiting recently reopened emergency facilities to cope with the surge that follows a growing outcry after images revealed over crowded and makeshift conditions at a different center in texas and so it's not like someone sits around hand in someone of what amounts i got a great idea of us over there we have the money to hire you really haven't taken our kids or us to the ford or america take for cross rivers in the desert we don't speak your language it won't be fun. and one of the ways we learned is that. if you deal with the problems in the country it benefits. us that people closing down there. she have returned say is on the u.s. side of the border at donna in texas. several steps which he

said she would take but each and each announcement actually more questions were raised in the mere fact that joe biden seemed to be getting all nostalgic there about how he had undertaken the same role under president obama to deal with unaccompanied children at the border you know when obama was president suggested actually a biden didn't actually fix anything didn't actually get very far and one column went through the different steps 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 i 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 up lead off into 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 of the border contract is

making it an almost fortune defense contract is a lot of the given to the democratic party and also building shelters which often quite substandard because they're in for the profit motive in fact right now as the biden session looks from all shoulders there are real questions about whether some of the people who are being given the contracts have a very poor record on housing housing migrants from the u.s. side of the border to the mexican side now we can join manu el pollo he's in t want to know what's the situation like. over the border. paula we want to set the scene for you a little bit we are outside of. port of entry into the united states quite literally a stone's throw away from the us mexico border what you see behind us is a makeshift camp of migrants up popped up just a little over just a little are over a month ago we're told that the majority of people here are either migrants from

central america countries like hunter s. and guatemala also many people here from southern mexico states like chiapas one huckabee truck on as well as nationals from haiti cuba and other countries so we really have quite the mix of migrants here and it's estimated we believe there to be somewhere between a 101500 people that have been staying at this camp some for more than a month now others that are new arrivals with new migrants arriving almost almost every day now we heard from one gentleman from guatemala earlier today who said that in the more than one month that he's been out here at no point has he been approached by any government officials or anyone from the mexican side or the u.s. side to sort of give him an idea of what to do next and that seems to be a common theme among many of the people here they seem to be waiting but they don't seem to be knowing what they're waiting for and there's a lot of frustration a lot of confusion s.g. as as to what they're going to do next what they're hoping is that there will be

some sort of visibility of their camps that u.s. officials will hear their voices have been holding many demonstrations out here so they're hoping that u.s. officials will hear their voices and give them an opportunity to to make their asylum cases be heard to border agents now we've been up and down the us mexico border throughout the course of the day with the red a different port of entry where there was a slow trickle of myron's and we should note here because there is this narrative that unaccompanied minors are able to stay in the united states if they cross illegally among those that we saw being deported today did include minors we spoke to. a few 100 boys who said that they were deported just a few days ago so we are. we should question that narrative given the fact that there are many miners that are being returned to mexico and while the u.s. politicians do seem to be saying that the border is cools and they are telling people that the boards are in schools why are people still coming to the camp or the are they not getting this message or to be just want to try any way.

all of the stories that we've heard throughout the course of the day really are heartbreaking one after the other we've seen we've heard stories that range from people who are fleeing who have been displaced by to back to back hurricanes that slammed into central america in honduras this displaced somewhere around a 1000000 people just in honduras alone we've heard stories from people who are fleeing extortion and violence in guatemala we met one family from the mexican state of gun who said that they were they had to flee their homes because of violence linked to the. new generation part tell and the commonality here the the common theme among all these migrants is that they would rather try their luck at the border then return to their homes and again there is this narrative floating around not only in the united states but here in mexico as well that a reversal of trump era policies is somehow being interpreted by migrants as an invitation to come out to the border but that is not what we're hearing from people here on the ground what we're hearing overwhelmingly are heartbreaking stories of

people that are saying all they want is an opportunity to plead their asylum cases to u.s. officials ok heartbreaking stuff indeed that live for us in d.c. one on the us mexico border thank you michael. the maritime authorities in egypt so have had to reopen an older section of the suez canal to divert traffic after one of the world's largest cargo ships blocked sits in both directions the $400.00 metre long 200000 ton ship was knocked off course spies strong winds tug boats are still struggling to dislodge its accidents has created a backlog of maritime traffic including tankers carrying saudi russian and american oil. a senior military figure loyal to libyan warlord hurley for half there has been killed in benghazi mahmud verifier leave was a special forces commander for have to use the libyan national army he was wanted

by the international criminal court for killing 33 people 220162018 human rights watch says a militia under his command is responsible for the disappearance of hundreds of bins or more insides of large they held to a cease fire which is agreed in a proper. nato members are very much on the same page when it comes to iran that's according to the u.s. secretary of state and city blinken has wrapped some pages 1st meetings with european counterparts they also discussed the timeline for u.s. troops leaving afghanistan dependency on washington gas and other issues china was also a major focus of the talks but in can urge the club of democracies to see presents a united front but in can also urge felonies or member turkey to dump its russian air defense system he met turkey's foreign minister cover song new on

the sidelines of the talks in brussels on cross purchase of russia's s 400 missiles as like 2 divisions within the nato it's a member state system is a security risk and worry about turkey developing closer ties with moscow. so korea and japan say north korea has carries us a new project our launch u.s. officials have also acknowledged the incidents but haven't provided any more information about how many were launched south korea says it may have been fired into the see. my this is al jazeera and these are the headlines at least 300000 brazilians have died from covert 19.