these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to myanmar. a pandemic out of control now another milestone hits in brazil 300000 dead from coal with 19. other that i'm out of my head saying this is al jazeera why from doha also coming up as the european union faces a 3rd wave of corona virus infections and a vaccine shortage the block considers export limits to secure supplies. the number

of migrants on the us mexico border continues to grow now richard biters asters vice president calm lyra's to deal with the influx and a year statement tory astray using the death penalty becomes elisa's to abolish capital punishment. at least 300000 brazilians have died from covert 19 president gerry boyle scenario has repeatedly during played the threat of the virus from there it sets now with numbers now out of control understaffed all 2nd only to the united states bill scenario has caved to mines and pressure and announced a national committee to tackle the crisis markey inaccurate 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. all those who died from

cold did 19 this by november the 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 panels like this one for all the victims that's another 2 and a half kilometers of. pressure against president maduro 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 both sonata 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 national 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 this 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 you can join that one again arc you have lived in rio de janeiro monaco even the poet 61 sites just explain for us how bad the covert situation is in brazil. well it's very serious because people don't see a way out they. they're running out of places in the hospitals but they're also

running out of medicine to incubate patients in some places they're running out of oxygen vaccines are slow in coming so although brazil is 2nd to the united states and an absolute numbers of covert 19 deaths it doesn't have this light at the end of the tunnel which is an amount of vaccines arriving and and and and being a solution also it's very it's it has been very mixed messages so far with states with to and cities imposing lock downs and curfews the president. saying that he is against them he still lives although there is this a national committee made the basically what they agreed on is the basic thing that vaccination should happen that vaccines are good but he still is very much against the law downs and he still is in favor of those alternative medicines that he has

been suggesting people take to prevent getting the infection that smaller can you not give their life from rio de janeiro thank you monica the european union and the u.k. he appears to still be on a collision course vaccine supplies as the book faces a 3rd wave of coronavirus is expected to tell you should rule some exports and vaccines with supplies of the extra senate could jab the central issue but before any move excuse arrives several countries are struggling to find the right measures to stop citizens becoming sick re chalons 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 15 member states are

reporting increased hospital and i.c.u. admissions while 8 member states are now reporting increase 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 peace and i ask for forgiveness. for sale 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 he 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 still 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 export france as a shipment block should be considered if that's not true confusion to an already

fraught atmosphere. al-jazeera. india says it's detected what's been described as a double mutant variants of the corona virus it was found in 206 samples in the state of maharashtra and a further 9 in. a double mutants is an entirely new variance from the characteristics of 2 other previously identified types maharashtra is india's a worst affected states but officials say it's not clear if the new variance is responsible for the upsurge so korea and japan say north korea has farts to project cells into the sea off its east coast apparently launched from south province south korea and u.s. intelligence authorities and analyzing those launches let's get more now from rob price he joins us live from seoul what more to be nor about this missile launch at

the stage. it was the japanese coast guard that 1st reported this launch saying that at least one projectile had been fired early thursday morning landing in the seas separating it from the korean peninsula it said that it landed outside of its territorial waters and outside of waters that are part of its special economic zone but early on said that it could have been a ballistic missile now this is what military analysts from south korea and their u.s. counterparts are feverish lee working on now to analyze exactly what it is because if it is a ballistic missile it would might be the kind of missile which of course is banned from being fired under u.n. resolutions now south north korea for the past couple of years since negotiations about denuclearization broke down with the u.s. has of course been testing all sorts of different armaments and missiles but has

stopped short of testing those sorts of missiles which are banned under u.n. resolutions that would be a very provocative move indeed so people are trying to work out exactly what these missiles are north korea has of course they've been testing short range missiles in fact there was a cruise type missile which is allowed to be tested that was fired over the weekend which was thought to be in response to the u.s. formulating its new strategy when dealing with north korea but that didn't bother the u.s. or the south koreans to the same extent in fact president joe biden said just in the past day or so that it was business as usual but there is a meeting going on right now by the national security council at the president's office here trying to work out what the response should be and as they try to figure out exactly what these missiles were. citizen we will of course be back for more but for now robin bred in seoul thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera the waiting game following israel's election by current prime minister netanyahu

his fate could france in the hands of a newly formed policy and the opposition in the republic of congo cries foul on president's election when. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways how i once again we've got lawsuit filed whether into central and northern parts of china at the moment cloud and rain is in the process of just easing out of that east the side of the country and it will bring in a few showers showers rather than long spells of right into the far south of japan will see some wetter weather for a time coming into honshu but temps just not fair it's a badly looking at temps getting up to around 19 celsius in tokyo and rising we could touch 21 celsius here on friday with more in the way of sunshine still

a chance of what it says showers for type of course that western side of japan but they will peter out so it's a little colder in beijing temperatures around 16 celsius but not too bad over the next day or so central parts of china on the other hand could see some longer spells of frame look dispose of rain continue cross central parts of southeast asia running a lowly equator of course here this is the intertropical convergence so the itc's at those seasonal showers and they're packing up quite nicely as they should to join up with the showers that we have just making their way into was for a time much of india on the other hand looking 5 and righteous of want to wintry flowers just around the foothills of the himalayas but nothing too much to speak of for the most part so without the sunshine temperatures generally getting up into the mid to high thirty's. support qatar airways. meets the minimalists

a turkish couple and their daughter decide to quit the right phrase book into the time with us. let's just throw everything away outers or world expose the simple living movement aimed at reducing personal consumption credit and clock times i hope to be happier as a result. a simple life on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera quick reminder of the top stories for you now to pounce prime minister says north korea has far too ballistic missiles there she discusses they felt it signs japan's exclusive economic zone south korean and u.s.

intelligence authorities and that analyzing those launches at least 300000 brazilians have died from cold at 19 president joe your bills in our overtime play the threat of the virus house that is the committee to tackle the crisis. that the european union and u.k. appears to still be on a collision course over vaccine supply he says faces the 3rd wave of the coronavirus is planning to tighten rules on exporting vaccines supplies of the astra zeneca jobs essential issue. the us state of virginia has abolished the death penalty and 1300 people have been executed their senses finding as a koan a 4 centuries ago governor ralph northam 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. how did you castro has more now from washington d.c. . 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 in 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 her junior has become the 23rd u.s. 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 with a question whether other southern states will follow in virginia's example but in texas it's very different scenario their different set of politics and there is still a little momentum toward abolishing the death penalty there u.s. president joe biden his opponent who's come $100.00 is to manage the steady influx of migrants southern border the vice president will lead us efforts with mexico to

stem the flow of migration members of congress have been visiting emergency facilities that have been reopened recently for those who cry after images revealed . shift conditions to different sensor texas. and so it's not like someone sits around hand in hand you take someone and one of them all and said i got a great idea let's sell everything we have given money to buy really haven't take our kids or us to the 4th or america take for cross rivers in the desert we don't speak the language won't that be fun. and one of the ways we learned is that. if you deal with the problems in your country it benefits. it just better people grow within counties that. what she had written see is on the u.s. side of the boys or at donna in texas. laid out 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 engaging the private sector hasn't been a problem $55000000000.00 has been spent since 2008 to 2020 of 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 them don't have 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. joins us now from tijuana on the mexican side of the boards. like where you're standing right now. hello we'll set the scene for you a little bit we are just a stone's throw from the us mexico border at inch up out on port of entry into the united states and what you see behind me here is a makeshift migrant camp that came up with just a little over a month ago we're told that a majority of people here are either mexican central american migrants folks from

under a squat amala there's a many mexican migrants from southern mexico states like chiapas one hockey truck gun but there's also haitian nationals and colombian nationals and people really from all over the world and the sense that we're getting from many of the folks that we've been speaking to today is that people here are waiting some of been waiting for more than a month others are new arrivals that are that are showing up every day but it doesn't seem to be clear what exactly it is that they're waiting for many of them are hoping that the visibility of this camp here outside of the us mexico border will will be seen by u.s. officials others are hoping that the demonstrations and marches that they've been holding here over the past few weeks will be seen and heard by u.s. officials and their asylum cases will be heard we spoke to one gentleman from guatemala who says that he's been here for more than a month but in that time no one from the mexican government there's been no charity agencies that have come in approached his family to tour to give them instructions as to what what it is that they're supposed to do next and he says that he he is

willing to wait here for as long as he can but he's starting to go grow desperate and considering crossing the border illegally trying his luck with u.s. authorities and he's not alone a lot of people citing the precarious conditions at this camp there's no running water there are no bathrooms a lot of people have been here waiting for their chance to plead their cases to asylum officials what's not clear is when they're going to have the opportunity to do so. live from tijuana on the us mexico border thank you. the saudi led coalition has cleared for fuel ships to talk at yemen's red sea port of data that comes after the iran back to the set would only agree to say the cease fire proposal if an air and sea blockade were lifted ambassador barbara woodward is the permanent representative all for you case 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 southern 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 mary but 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 that special rapporteur who investigated the murder of germans jamal khashoggi received what she perceived as a death threats from a top saudi official the guardian newspaper initially reported that the official threatens aeneas kalam are saying she would be taken care of if she was known as

reigned in column are published a detailed reports into murder in 2018. with most of the votes counted today after israel's 4th election in just 2 years the still no clear idea of who will end up in power unexpectantly it's a small palestinian party which may hold the key as harry false reports from west jerusalem. one 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 ion ist left wing is 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 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. in agreement. abbas isn't

the only one celebrating the prospects of influence in the new parliament the far right religious sign is. movement also outperformed expectations and would be welcomed in an s. and yahoo coalition. a bus's party says it won't sit with racists the opposition leader pede 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 wingers in the anti netanyahu bloc not every path to a government runs through months or about us for instance that he could try to poach off a right wing politician or 2 from another party like peter 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. maritime authorities in egypt have had to reopen an older section of the suez canal to divert traffic to one of the world's largest cargo ships blog sits in both directions the 400 metre long 200000 ton ship is not of course by strong winds tug boats are still struggling to dislodge its accidents as creases a backlog of maritime traffic including tankers carrying saudi russian and american oil. political position in the republic of congo have rejected the results solve the presidential election as fortunate presidents did he says soon get so has already ruled for decades in the electoral commission say he won more than 88 percent of the votes are there opposition politicians boycotts of the poll or are in jail on serious marcum where reports from the capital browser feel.

political opposition in the republic of congo say they've been cheated the electoral commission said president any sasa requests a one with nearly 90 percent of the vote but due to local news about the congo is not a democracy you can see what happened congress is a dictatorship pure and simple. presidential polls one sunday results were announced 2 days later the supporters here don't believe the results but also many of them say they're not surprised some of the opposition candidates boycotted the elections entirely to others who won in the last election are in jail serving sentences of 20 yazd forced labor that they were given off the challenging the result of the last election the breeze parfait collapse the most prominent opposition candidates is dead was announced just after voting he tested positive for covert. many of his supporters think he was poisoned his party officials say

they've discovered widespread irregularities like polling stations where the president won more than 6 times as many votes as the work people voting liberal politically not a democrat human history which the union of human are still strongly rejects the results as a whole and invites the constitutional court to do the same. then he sasso in queso has ruled for most of the last 40 years the french public relations company run his campaign along with the minister for education he told us the president's past record and charisma won him the vote over with yet in a party democracy can you say there is no democracy i think that those who are saying that are just in need of consoling themselves because they are not able to win an election. people complained of irregularities during the voting here dozens of armed police came when opposition supporters said a ruling party official was ballot stuffing many opposition politicians and rights

activist said there was never a chance of a democratic process in the 1st place if you so thought a country which is now working health care. human rights violation record told you some live angel who's going to be happy and maybe 8 percent no it doesn't make sense since. many people we spoke to here say they wanted change it looks like they won't get it. malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines japan's prime minister says north korea has far too ballistic missiles yes he does so guesses they fell outside japan's exclusive economic zone so korean and u.s. intelligence are now analyzing the launches. at least 300000 brazilians have died from cold with 19 president general sanaa has repeatedly downplayed the threat of

the virus from the outset but has no caved to maintain pressure and announced a national.