lovely weather coming through lovely weather too across a good part of the caribbean is slushy fine and try sense to be looking at plenty of blue skies with just the outside chance of the arch shalah. for the 2nd time in a week north korea fires another volley of missiles off its eastern coast. followed i'm having my heels in and this is al jazeera life from doha also coming up a pandemic out of control now another milestone hits in brazil 300000 dead from covert 1900. the u.s. state the tory astri's in the death penalty becomes the latest to abolish capital

punishment. i'm an old apple on the us mexico border migrant and refugee numbers are rolling was president joe biden is after vice president carmel appears to deal with your rivals on the other side situation here is growing desperate. japan says north korea has far too ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast the projectiles were launched from south hand young province japanese prime minister your shahid a sukkah says he strongly condemns the act that threatens peace and stability in the region well south korean and u.s. intelligence authorities are now analyzing the launches and u.s. pacific command has just said they are aware of the north korean missile launches but no further details let's get more now from bob braids he joins us live from saw

rob what can you tell us about this missile launch. this is a significant development it has been condemned by japan they have lodged a complaint with the north koreans through their embassy in beijing it has been condemned by the prime minister it was the japanese that 1st detected that the japanese coast guard detected this launch early thursday morning said the projectile had landed some 450 kilometers in the seas that separate japan from the korean peninsula this was later confirmed by south korean officials there were 2 projectiles and both the u.s. and japan are now describing these ballistic missiles which are obviously banned under u.n. resolutions interestingly south korean officials have yet to come to that conclusion they say it's too early to say but if these are ballistic missiles then certainly this is north korea really upping the ante increasing the pressure they have

largely for the past couple of years or so since denuclearization talks broke down with the u.s. largely least steered away from such provocative acts like this they have carried on launching and testing other weapon systems and in fact just last weekend they were testing 2 cruise type missiles which are allowed international and international law but fact that we shrugged off by the white house joe biden president joe biden saying it wasn't concerned it was business as usual at these ballistic missiles are indeed were being fired this thursday that is a lot harder for the u.s. to ignore and. you've been covering this region for quite some time now. do we know why the north koreans would do something so inflammatory. it is a significant time you have a change in the u.s. administration and in the blinken the secretary of state from the u.s.

was in fact just in northeast asia last week visiting counterparts in japan and south korea is the united states formulates its policy towards north korea moving forward now all the indications out of pyongyang were that they were it was a game of wait and see wait and see what the policy years before they would respond not take anything provocative actions like this but it does look as though possibly they are rethinking that they've got nothing to lose maybe up the ante now and increase the pressure at this at this moment. there bring us all the very latest from seoul rob thank you neal. at least 300 scientists and brazilians have now died from covert 19 president gyre balsa naro has repeatedly time played the stress of the virus from the outset of the pandemic the numbers of control in the death toll 2nd only to the united states. caved to mention pressure and announced a national committee to tackle the crisis i want to play in our care for reports

from rio de janeiro. is brazil school the death toll keeps growing women across brazil have joined hands one boy their grief and the names of all those who died from 19 this by november the map of america this panel has 2 and a half meters per present 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 presidential aide 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 park 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 this square 19 year old in ways that castro embroider the names of her daughter in law and a friend he says she can deal with the sorrow but not with the anguish of watching nothing being done meineke an arche of al-jazeera we are degeneres the european union and the u.k. appear to still be on a collision course over vaccine supply is what faces

a 3rd wave of coronavirus it's expected to tighter rules on exporting vaccines with supplies of the astra zeneca job a central issue but before any more vaccines arrives several countries are struggling to find the right measures to stop more citizens falling sick or a challenge 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. admissions while 8 member states are now reporting increase number of deaths 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. and 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 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 the uk in. 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 rory chalons al-jazeera the u.s. state of virginia has abolished the death penalty one of 1300 people had been executed since its findings a koan a 4th centuries ago governor ralph northam says capital punishment has no place in the states in the say all 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 ultimate punishment without being 100 percent sure that we're right. and we can't sentence people to that ultimate punishment knowing that this system doesn't work the same for everyone. i did your 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. after

a delay of more than a year the olympic torch relay for the 2 to q 2020 games has finally begun the flame started its journey in fukushima respect teachers were barred from the event judical one team event travels throughout the country for driving into a queue for the olympics used to stone its own a july 23rd the ceremony marks the 4 month current into the games the world's 1st major sporting event cheering and. still to come on al-jazeera tough talk from nato and u.s. secretary of state promising his allies action against russia and china and argentina's dirty war remember it's the endless search and disappears turns to technology. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways

how i once again we've got lost the fight 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 for central parts of southeast asia running along the equator of course here this is the intertropical convergence so the itc's at those seasonal showers and then peppering 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 fine and dry charts 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. sponsible qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian global community when i don't have all the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in the to be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there a. my

. this is al jazeera quick reminder of the top stories this hour japan's prime minister says north korea has found 2 ballistic missiles or so he says they fell outside japan's exclusive economic zone south korean and u.s. intelligence authorities are now analyzing the launches the european union and the u.k. appear to still be on a collision course the vaccine supply is just what faces a 3rd wave of coronavirus is planning to times and rules on exporting vaccines spoils the astra zeneca chad essential issue. and at least 300000 brazilians have not died from covert 19 president terrible sonoran of threat of the virus has now

announced a committee to tackle the crisis. well for more on this story let's bring in pollster taro he's the founder and distinguished fellow at the woodrow wilson center brazil institution joins us now from chevy chase in maryland schizo have you with us on the program the president has now announced a committee to help turn the country's fortunes around do you think this committee will help. no not at all the are peaceful selected from his inner circle the new minister of health. was inaugurated todays so on all those brazil has already missed many of return it just to do this right brazil has a medical community public health doctors that know what has to be done has to have done this in the past brazil is a country that after all control the a control. and we know how to do this stuff but not when you have

passed braz a dent a science denier that has put resume in this situation imagine that just 75 days ago we were at the 200000 mark not we were at 200000 got for a bit but we could be at 400000 in a matter all of a couple of months that this is so why is brazil struggling so much he mentioned the fact that it's tackled health crises before and done so very effectively and is the president the problem. yes the problem is the president every health expert in brazil has said that a lot of there is a push back because of the number of victims of fatalities there is now a pushback starting finally in congress saying that they will find a way of responding to this and maybe to take. away from the president it's very

difficult to do that in a country like brazil and. the country does not have vaccines in sufficient numbers imagine in a country that has the capacity to produce vaccines adding bus routes kate but you have to prepare for that we did not do due to the incompetence of this president but he's got men it's a very 'd old for it's a great how i mean it is the largest tragedy in brazil's history and so so why do you think the president is acting in this ways that he was the signs tonight here the evidence is there over 300000 brazilians have now i don't mind from cool that's why his chair bill scenario deliberately perceive in policy is that are killing so many brazilians because it's like his motto here and you're right states. president trump he governs by creating confusion and

chaos and coal that those really provide him my ideal opportunity to do this obviously at a horrible cost of life spent surely doesn't want it to done that that's my question he doesn't want to kill brazilians. i am not sure about that at the at the shoot just that he that because we could have prevented it most of these that swing low how to do this but he did not allow the government. we are in our 4th minister of health to take the precautions we loan what our car should we should be read clock down right now but he has already announced that you are a lot do that because that would hurt the economy obviously cause it hurts the economy much more ok published great to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us from maryland. the u.s.

senate confirms an openly transgender federal officials are keeping the very 1st time a top pennsylvania health official rachel levine will night be the nation's assistant secretary of health transgender rights activists appraised levine's appointments as a breakthrough few trans people haven't held office level is president joe biden has appointed come with her is 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 migration members of congress have been visiting emergency facilities that have been reopened recently she has returned reports from texas. president biden said no one was better qualified to take charge of the influx of unaccompanied migrant children than his vice president and he pointed out that this was the role he took under president obama when he was vice president and one of the ways we learned is that. if you deal with the problems in

the country and benefit come to harris laid out several areas of focus and the pouring rain gauging independency with a government that kind of sex their civil society and amir's at least in el salvador guatemala and honduras and to strengthen democracy but the mere fact that once again a vice president is being tasked with this role is raising questions about whether harris will really be bringing new thinking to the issue of migration or will stick to strategies that clearly haven't worked in the past regional development isn't something that you can switch a light on and off it's going to take time it's going to take effort and it's going to be years of sustained outman so while what b.p. harris doing might pay off in the long run in the short term the more important thing is going to be to surge resources to the border to handle the arriving spam wheat and children safely and humane the biden ministration is being given credit

for speeding up the processing of child migrants who began entering the country in november when a court forced the trumpet ministration to relax its blanket ban on undocumented migration but only for unaccompanied children highly choreographed tour of a facility in correct so springs texas was arranged for one u.s. network and then distributed to the rest of the media on wednesday the footage showed uncrowded spaces the reporter on the tour wasn't allowed to speak to any children 400 kilometers south here and don't know texas at the border we know 2nd stances are different this facility is overflowing with unaccompanied children on sunday it was 1500 percent overcapacity there are many reasons why marjah is on track to see a record 17th. 1000 unaccompanied undocumented children enter the u.s. at the southern border not least the normal seasonal increase in migration in the spring that this year has been supplemented because don't trump close the border between margin of ember of last year but migrant groups say there's plenty of blame

to go around for the current chaos and distress starting with successive governments both democratic and republican that have spent an estimated $55000000000.00 over the last 12 years on what's referred to as the border industrial complex high tech equipment and militarization of the border instead of investing in humane facilities to shelter and process the yearly flow of undocumented migrants that streams to the border nonetheless she had her town see al-jazeera don a texas man or apollo has more now on the crisis from tijuana when the mexican side of the border. we are outside of. port of entry into the united states quite literally a stone's throw away from the us mexico border where you see behind us is a makeshift camp of migrants up popped up just a little over just a little over a month ago we're told that the majority of people here are either migrants from

central america countries like hunters and guatemala also many people here from southern mexico states like chiapas one huckabee truck gun 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 either 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 camp that u.s.

officials will hear their voices they've 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 tents on boats and try and spot fails to dislodge an enormous cargo ship that's waged across the suez canal authorities say work to release the ever given stall as the queue waits in fassel school's longer 224000 ton container ship lost control in high winds and run aground says canal is the fastest shipping routes to europe and asia. nato members are very much on the same page when it comes to iran nuts according to u.s. secretary of state antony blinken he's wrapped up his 1st meetings with european counterparts and also discussed the timeline for u.s. troops leaving afghanistan dependency on russian gas and other issues china is also

a major focus of the talks than can urge the club democracies to present a united front. united states won't force our allies into a us or them choice with china there's no question that beijing's course of behavior threatens our collective security and prosperity and that it is actively working to undercut the rules of the international system and the values we in our ally share but that doesn't mean that countries can't work with china where possible for example shell is like climate change and health security well blinken also urged fellow nato member turkey its own puts russian air defense system he met turkey's foreign minister met with kevin soul who on the sidelines of the talks in bustles i'm chris publish or purchase rather of russia's s 400 missiles has led to divisions within they too. argentinians have been commemorating the anniversary of the 1976 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 traceable ports going to sirees. 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 and what a sight is called. it covers an area of over $5000.00 hectares. to capacity to search for coordinates x. y. and z. it has the virtue of parent rating the vegetation today will be scanning the area called with a male. 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 3rd 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 a. it happened in company and the death 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 around 9 people and i'm not sure because they were passing very fast so people with long hair and beard live on the river 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's analyzed who used to physics like geo radars to detect if there's something in the areas marked by the lighter so later on we can go and investigate that 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. 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. al-jazeera when i say this and finally i might add on the italians sicily has a run. up to 900 meters and so there explosions could be heard in nearby towns in the airports in the city of catan there as kohl's because of the arch as 16 the option this year. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines japan's prime minister says north korea has far too ballistic missiles you're say he says says they fell outside japan's exclusive economic zone south korean and u.s. intelligence authorities and are analyzing the launches of macbride reports from seoul.