you know i was. waving. is what. north korea fires 2 ballistic missiles at its 1st major provocation since u.s. president took office. this is a lie from joe also coming up another pandemic milestone for brazil its total number of infections crosses 300000 with hospitals a breaking point. doing everything they can to survive we report on the plight of

abandoned children in cameroon after fighting with boko haram. a sign of hope the olympic torch relay begins in japan for the tokyo games spurned by the pandemic. tension is rising on the korean peninsula after north korea launched 2 ballistic missiles of its eastern coast it's the 1st significant provocation by pyongyang since u.s. president joe biden took office in january they were launched from north korea's south province into the sea near japan the u.s. pacific command says the move threatens countries in the region south korea and japan have expressed deep concern and condemnation of pyongyang's actions. larky to . you know here you are it is a threat to our country into regional security and it's also

a violation of the united nations security council resolution will strictly protest and condemn their actions. i'm determined to closely cooperate with the united states south korea and other related nations to protect the lives of our people live better so mcbride is there rob what more can you tell us about this latest launch from north korea it is certainly a significant development and people here as elsewhere are starting to wonder whether what we're seeing is now a new phase in north korea's relations with its neighbors and with the united states over the past couple of years since the denuclearization talks with the u.s. petered out north korea has concentrated on developing its arsenal of weapons but it has been very careful largely to avoid these provocative kind of ballistic missile test which are banned under the u.n. resolutions it's been concentrating instead on lesser missile and rocket systems

and we saw that in fact at the weekend when it test fired 2 cruise type missiles this was the 1st weapons test that north korea had conducted since the u.s. biden ministration had come into being and the white house largely shrugged it off well it's harder to shrug off ballistic missiles in the air and as always with north korea it is often about timing and it just so happens of course that much later thursday we see president joe biden give his 1st full press conference this will ensure that north korea will be front and center at that event he will have to give a response to it already that we have been getting responses from the region as well as condemnation from japan we have had chile young the south korean foreign minister expressing south korea's displeasure. we expressed deep concerns over north korea's latest firing of what appears to be short range ballistic missiles amid our government's various efforts to achieve the

goal of complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula and to make of thing the timing of this is that significant. well you do have of course the new administration coming in in the u.s. and north korea will often choose moments like that to carry out one of these provocative tests as a way of testing the metal if you like of the of the incoming administration and antony blinken the u.s. secretary of state has just been to this region came here last week as the u.s. formulates its strategy towards north korea it was felt judging by comments coming out of pyongyang that north korea may well have been waiting to see what that strategy looks like before it takes a new action or responds well this may well be a change of heart maybe does it has decided to be more proactive that it does no harm to launch a test like this and it may fail if anything that it now ups the ante it puts more

pressure on the united states or does it was robin pride reporting live from seoul many thanks which in the past year north korea has been quietly testing its latest missiles and steadily expanding its arsenal in march 2020 its military tested a new type of multiple rocket launcher that can hit targets nearly 400 kilometers away with great precision a short range ballistic missile the k n 24 was tested next it's designed to fly low and as a missile defenses north korea's been building a diesel submarine that can launch nuclear missiles while submerged these new submarine launched ballistic missiles have been shown off during recent military parades north korea recently unveiled its largest long range intercontinental ballistic missile that in theory could reach any city in the united states robert kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy

a busan national university he explains the reasons behind north korea's sudden show of strength. my sense that this is probably typical north korea testing of a new u.s. president whenever there is a new president the united states or in south korea the 2 primary opponents of north korea the north koreans usually poles some kind of stunt some kind of provocation missile tests have become particularly a big one for them in the last few years but they've done other things as well and they were quiet for a while during the trial period and so the missile tests are kind of new and make a bit of a splash and have gotten a world attention i think that's what they want to say you know we're still here it was you can sort of ignore us or believes i think most people assume that north korea doesn't actually want to start a war right away they had many opportunities to do this in the past i think the real concern is that you might have some kind of spark rethink spin out of control in the yellow sea for example their bench shoot outs and stuff like that past have these things spin out of control the north korea has substantially greater firepower to expand the conflict right you can now bombard japanese cities which is something it couldn't do as recently as you know 5 or 10 years ago expanded order

include china i think that's people big concern the secondary proliferation but we're going to sell these things or you know give away programs or or sketches and things like that one in 4 people dying of covert 19 globally is brazilian more than 300000 people have now died there since the pandemic began 100000 of them in just over 2 months president jiah balsa now or has downplayed the threat of the virus for the last year but has recently agreed to take action when a chaotic you have reports from rio. it's brazil school the death toll keeps growing women across brazil have joined hands twin broidery their grief and the names of all those who died from 19 this by november the map of america this panel has turned the hall of meters per presents only 0 point one percent of the number of victims we would need $1000.00 panels like this one for older victims that's another 2 and a half to law much as 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 night or went on television to say he was in favor of the vaccines he had criticised in the past and was slow to start fine rob brazil his words were greeted with talk banging protests with next year's presidential election in mind also not omit 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 she says she can deal with the sorrow but not with the anguish of watching nothing being done. there for. everybody silent while president j. boss and out of school and the virus the masks and the vaccine even the church which threw up against the day the ship is holding its dong i'm feeling very anguished knowing i have nobody to turn to she decided to write a letter to the pope but while waiting for an answer to her prayers in luisa and her friends will continue using their needle and thread to keep alive the memory of brazil's 300000 dead meineke an i.q. i'll just sirrah we are designer. like brazil chile is also seeing a rise in infections it's about to enter the world's toughest coronavirus lockdown

cases arising in other parts of latin america. reports now from santiago. frantic shoppers rush to south america's largest shopping mall their last chance before they and millions of other chileans go into lockdown. regus needed to buy a birthday present for her niece. if they are here family my daughter works in a clinic and says the number of patients is out of control this is a necessary measure although many don't believe it. despite a massive occupation campaign the number of critical care patients is the highest since the pandemic began. and the new restrictions more stringent than ever before only 2 police permits per week to buy food and medicine and a total nationwide lockdown without permits on weekends the aim is to keep 75 percent of the population at home until after easter and reduce infections enough

to allow national elections to take place in 2 weeks but there's no guarantee. south america is facing a fierce resurgence of the infections and deaths in neighboring peru relatives of 80 year old martin keyspace prepared to bury him he died at home because there were no beds left in hospitals is he one year old woman is one of the few lucky ones who's been able to get vaccinated. and that wider many people are dying every day i lost 2 children one who was 48 years old and 150 recently from 19. 1 year after people were literally dying on the streets from the virus in ecuador hospitals are again on the brink of collapse further north in venezuela the government has ordered a 2 week lockdown after having relaxed confinement measures because of the sudden spike in infections and severe shortages of critical care units oh my lord the

volume of patients has increased in this new wave and there are more serious cases than last year even an eye which until now was not regarded as a cold hotspot the government has tightened anti pandemic measures because of the sharp surging cases schools gyms and most public offices will be closed until april 12th. the president however says he does not believe in lockdowns. you see the most we have refused and we continue to do so because it is more a matter of principle than a practice and fortunately our principles are especially in this case the ones we believe we have to apply to move the country forward. whatever the containment strategy the entire continent is struggling to obtain and distribute vaccinations with the exception of chile and even here it hasn't been fast enough to prevent a new deadly viral way to see al-jazeera some p.r.

or another setback for the oxford astra zeneca vaccine venezuela's president nicolas maduro says that he won't allow its import more. than its will as authorized a set of vaccines that are going to enter the country no vaccine will enter the country nor should it be sent which has not been authorized by the national scientific institutes and health authorities astra zeneca slightly downgraded the efficacy of its covert time team vaccine to 76 percent it's to dose job was initially thought to be 79 percent effective a preventing covered by 18 symptoms it's not including results from a clinical trial held in peru chile and the us. cases in the us a past 30000000000 since the pandemic began public health experts say they're cautiously optimistic 3 months into the vaccination rollout 70 percent of americans who are 65 and older have now received at least one dose of a back seen and covert 19 related deaths and dropped below the 1000 daily average

for the 1st time since november. india says it's detected what's being described as a double variant of the virus it was found in $206.00 samples in the state of maharashtra and in another mine in new delhi a double mutant is an entirely new variant with the characteristics of 2 other previously identified types. a weather update next then the number of migrants arriving at the us mexico border is growing we'll hear how the white house is tackling the crisis. after the election prime minister benjamin netanyahu his fate could rest in the hands of a new party. 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 southeast side of year got some snow flurries over the high ground there certainly that turkey i was with the northwest this is where it's a little more spring like because the weather's coming in from the atlantic that south westerly wind dragging in a fair old rash of showers it's the truth be told i'm one of those showers will be wintry in nature generally over the high ground level just in glasgow 13 self's in london the planet with athens 9 degrees in athens glasgow is woman in greece which you played 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 but some places a plot of ground sliding out of the netherlands pushing across germany as we go on through thursday into friday making room for the next rash of showers which will

come i just notice how those winds start to swing around from a northwesterly direction how did something a little cool at least for a time the waltz continues down towards the southwest 19 celsius in madrid not seep out across northern parts of africa as well but that cooler across the eastern med brushing the final taste of egypt. frank assessments the world is on a brink. that model fabian is that a fair assessment you can be a catastrophic global hialeah to twice as valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bitcoin ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on outages iraq.

well again this is 0 let's remind you of the main news this hour north korea has fired 2 ballistic missiles into the sea off its eastern coastline the u.s. pacific command has responded saying the actions show the pyongyang is a threat to its neighbors. one in 4 people dying of coded 19 globally is brazilian more than 300000 people about died there since the pandemic began president jiah both an hour has downplayed the threat of the virus for a year. and astra zeneca has downgraded the effective dose of its covert 19 vaccine to 76 percent it's to dose job was initially thought to be 79 percent effective it's not including more results from trials held in peru chile and the us. us

president joe biden has appointed appointed kamel horace to manage the steady arrival of asylum seekers at the southern border the vice president will lead efforts with mexico and central american countries to stem the flow of migration members of congress have been visiting emergency facilities that have been reopened recently it follows a growing outcry after images reveal over crowded a makeshift conditions at a texas center. and so it's not like someone sits around handing you hand the tape somewhere and one of them on said i've got a great idea let's sell everything we have given money to try to really haven't taken our kids or us to the floor or america take for cross revisit it does that 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 them and it just benefits the people there were 3 counties there. let's say it out from about 0 as

shahab returns a who's on the u.s. side of that border a dollar in southern texas. several steps which he said she would take but each and each announcement actually more questions were raised i mean 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 that 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 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 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 buy 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. at the view from the other side of the border manuel rapa low report style from tijuana in mexico. 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 hundreds 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 as to do 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 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. vice president says the nation is not able to pay back its debts on previously agreed terms and rates cristina fernandez said the pandemic has made things worse on his economy has been in crisis since 2018 when it asked the international monetary fund for a $57000000000.00 loan the country defaulted to private creditors last year. so all those thoughts we all know all of us that the terms and rates for the debt are not an acceptable it's a position that is subjective no it's not a problem of subjectivity the problem is we can't pay because we don't have the money to pay with most of the votes counted after israel's 4th election in 2 years

there's still no clear idea of who end up in power but it's a small palestinian israeli party which may hold the king as harry force of 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 ironist left wing is criticize his stance on cue 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. they have results and outcome irrespective of whether it actually reaches a new coalition agreement. or bus 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 won't sit with racists the opposition leader peed 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 netanyahu bloc 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 the united nations estimates that 2000000 children in cameroon are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance many of them have been abandoned after being caught up in the conflict between boko haram and

government forces in cameroons northern region nicholas hark reports. these children have spent the best part of the night begging for food and money they've been abandoned here in cameroons far north region near the nigerian border they will not keep what they get instead they'll give it to this religious teacher who in exchange gives them shelter water and occasionally teaches them prayers sometimes he allows a charity and they offer maps for children to sleep on and teach them to read and write but the children are distracted most have been abused many have witnessed their fathers being killed or mothers being raped by book fighters who entered their villages like 8 year old mohammad yousuf. when i grow up i want to be a soldier because boko haram killed my father we were picking it when i saw them slit my thought their throat and take my mother away. 10 year old

a blue smoke hopes his father will come back to get him and his vocal her aunt came to my village and i picked up all the kids but i ran away my father well my father i don't know where he is thousands of children have been separated from their parents either abducted by boko haram or friend by the conflict between government forces and the fighters children who have escaped from the armed group or seen with suspicion with schools refusing to enroll them and the state authorities are unwilling to register them the un says state authorities are failing the children they are meant to protect. we have to recognize something children develop skills when they're with armed groups they develop an incredible sense of resilience sometimes leadership it's not it's an illicit kind of function but they nevertheless do develop some skills and some of those skills we need to capture and reinforce as well as help them get over the very negative experience. is one such

child while he has lost his parents and continues to beg on the streets he has joint state school he says he wants to be a doctor not only to heal his country but the children of cameroon who have been abandoned but worthy of care nicholas hawke al-jazeera. pakistan is holding its national day celebrations in the port city of karachi president of you took part in the annual military parade amazed that made a televised address some ceremonies were also held in pakistan administered kashmir prime minister iran comm was unable to attend since he tested positive for covert 19 last week. after a delay of more than a year the olympic torch relay for the tokyo 2020 games has begun the flame started its journey from fukushima which was devastated by a tsunami and earthquake 10 years ago and reports. you know

policies say cutting cutting a stop at long last the torch relay begins in japan for the olympic games. our football star. who was the 1st to carry the flame 10000 others will take it to every part of the country. it's shining a light on the progress made since fukushima was devastated by an earthquake tsunami and nuclear disaster 10 years ago. on the long road to tokyo it's hoped the relay will generate excitement for the games but many are wondering why it's still happening as a country is still battling cove it. so how could i see what it would be sad to see the olympics cancelled but the priority now is to end the pandemic we can still postpone it and hold the games when it's safe again the pundits say it could cause another pandemic here because people from all over the world are coming here. if it

is successful it will symbolize. many difficulties. moto knows what it's like to represent japan on the world stage and compete against the world's greatest he's worried organizers have run into too many problems to go ahead. with an effect on you all factors necessary for hosting the games are facing issues there are sports that have held qualifying events while others haven't when you look at domestic issues in japan the covert infections a far from over vaccination is not making progress. if the relay goes ahead safely over the next 4 months it'll go a long way in reassuring the public and signal the end of a dark chapter in japan's history and her schapelle al-jazeera. news could have you with us hello adrian finighan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera japan says that north korea has fired 2.