north korea fires 2 ballistic missiles and its 1st major provocation since u.s. president joe biden took office. a dream for the given this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out of a pandemic milestone for brazil its total number of deaths crosses 300000 with hospitals a breaking point plus i'm a. border with migrant refugee numbers or. vice

president palmer letters to deal with your rivals on the. situation here is growing desperate. at a sign of hope the olympic torch relay begins in japan for the tokyo games postponed by the pandemic. tension is rising on the korean peninsula after north korea launched 2 ballistic missiles off its eastern coast it's the 1st significant publication by pyongyang since u.s. president joe biden took office in january they were launched from north korea's south i'm going 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 sanctions. so

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. in the south korean capital raw proprietor's in seoul for us rob what more can you tell us about this latest launch by north korea this certainly is a significant development and people here as elsewhere are asking whether this could mark a new phase in north korea's dealings with its neighbors and also with the united states for the past couple of years since the denuclearization talks have stalled north korea has returned to kind of carry on developing its weapons arsenal but it's been very careful largely to avoid these provocative but listing missile test

which of which of course are banned under u.n. resolutions it has instead been firing off and testing weapons systems rockets which are permitted under u.n. rules and we saw that just this last weekend with the firing of 2 lesser cruise missiles now these are weapons it is allowed to test and this was seen as in fact the 1st weapons test to confront the new incoming biden administration and the white house largely ignored it well it's far harder for president biden to avoid but listing missiles as always with north korea it is often about timing and yes later thursday we have president joe biden's 1st full news conference so this will ensure of course that north korea will be front and center at that event he cannot avoid commenting on it from the region we have already had comments condemnation from japan and also from chunky yong south korea's foreign minister there has been his expression of disapproval. you know 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 denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula. now this is an important time of course with a new administration in the us north korea often chooses moments like this to test out the incoming administration but we just have the secretary of state and to me blinken visiting northeast asia to formulate the u.s. strategy towards north korea and there was a feeling that north korea would wait and see to exceed what exactly that strategy looks like before responding wouldn't do anything provocative well at this test thursday looks like it could be a change of heart a change of direction and this could well be north korea deciding it has nothing to lose and now is the time to round put pressure on the u.s.

. bride reporting live from seoul rob many thanks indeed china's foreign ministry is urging all sides to continue diplomatic efforts to deescalate the situation we were talking about and our. solving the problems we dialogue in consultation serves the common interest of all and is the aspiration of the international community we cool on all relevant sides to meet each other half way and continue to maintain the deescalation situation to advance a political settlement and work for lasting peace and security on the peninsula during the past year north korea has been quietly testing its latest missiles and steadily expanding its arsenal in march 20 twentieth's military terms to the new type of multiple rocket launcher can hit targets daily 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 evade missile defense since north

korea's been building a diesel submarine that can launch nuclear missiles while submerged these new submarine launched missiles have been shown off during recent military parades both korea recently unveiled its largest long range intercontinental ballistic missile that in theory could reach any. city in the united states graham on webb joins us now from singapore he's a fellow at the rajaratnam school of international studies at the nanyang technological university good to have you with us again graham what are your thoughts on this latest launch by north korea well my thoughts are that this is not at all surprising this is a matter of time and i completely agree with the commentary that the north koreans are expert when it comes to signing things and making sure everything's on cue and i think the message is quite clear. condone warning and his administration is trying to rattle the americans particularly newly installed i didn't mention to

tell them that it we're still here we are very serious about our nuclear military developments we want to have a discussion on our terms which have been more all along here department debt a section and were not to be fooled around with and saw i think this is going to be a start on a series of we're going to see what the course of this year war how is the u.s. then and its allies in the region likely to react. all too well a lot you can project because. despite appear that the best way to deal with john youngs to follow us. we've seen a series of episodes over the last 2 decades in which given a one cycle of discussions ramping up expectations halts for resolution only to crash into to disappointment because of the inability for or all sides optically not korea actually on our all of course sense whom to

achieve your objectives and or agreements that have been set up so i think we're going to see much more of seeing going for. war the only difference is that the lord jesus being a hit more korea will not inevitably will have. a military capability that's going to be very threatening and i think that's a change the region and so i think the you still have to put a lot of work to make sure that we sign an all koreans and prevent them from getting to that stage where it's going to be a position of strength for north korea and then for the rest of us to submit this term i think a very simple symbol gram where does china come into all of this you heard just a few moments ago its foreign ministry spokesperson urging all sides to continue diplomatic efforts to deescalate the situation. what china has to say it has to say that because china is also in a very difficult if you like not well you know if you just had

a war we this is the northeast asia i buy and lincoln i think part of the ministrations position and i mean start clear all sides of the aisle. in washington d.c. are united on china so a very hawkish position i think you're china's trying to just leave it one of the pressure that brought to bear on aging i saying that the understandable fear is a pawn in all sides it's also difficult for us and i think right now we're going to best think it is what you get that make sure the north koreans are disciplined to some degree prevent them from actually carrying on with these unacceptable crossing the red lines i think beijing is saying the right thing at this point i'm trying to strike a civilized rather uncertain situation could store to are going to grab many thanks dave graham on web in singapore and you. one in 4 people dying of covert 19 globally is brazilian more than 300000 people

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authorities. astra zeneca slightly downgraded the effectiveness of its covert dive team vaccine to 76 percent the company had initially said it's to those job was 79 percent effective at preventing symptoms the u.s. agency overseeing vaccine trials in said the company's days it wasn't up to date it's not including more results from a clinical trial held in peru chile and the us. a weather update next here on al-jazeera the opposition in the republic of congo calls the president's election win $40.00. and the u.s. state bound for its use of the death penalty becomes the latest to abolish capital punishment. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways

we've got more of that when few whether lurking around southeast in parts of europe are the sort of the black sea see these areas of cloud here more snow coming in across parts of turkey easing up towards southern areas of you cry through a remain erupt towards the northwest is a little more spring like we got some rather sharp showers rolling in tightening i suppose increasing wind as we go on through the next couple of days and cold air coming in behind that cold front that's our weather for the weekend it will sweep through in 20 increase the wet across into western parts of scotland northern areas of england as we go on through thursday back down towards the southeast there we go with us no other side of the black sea things quietly down but still there nevertheless and temperatures really struggling barely getting into double figures there in athens we'll see whether it's the central parts of the. that blustery weather which will continue as we go on and say friday turning a little colder as well as they comes in from a more northwesterly direction 7 celsius there in glasgow still getting up to

around 12 degrees in london and west of weather coming in across a good part of france by that state we shall is all along the spells of right still quite into central parts of the wintry have it was a southeast and cold and blustery winds will continue just graze the far north of ajax the little bit of wet weather from the libya. support qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this show and julian on global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are nowhere to 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've been disconnected from who we are good enough to keep the new in the team to be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there.

this is 00 let's remind you of the main news this hour north korea has fired 2 political missiles into the sea off its eastern coastline the u.s. pacific command has responded saying reaction show the pyongyang is a threat to its neighbors. one in 4 people dying of covert 900 globally is brazilian more than 300000 people now died since the pandemic began president jaya balsam hour has downplayed the threat of the virus last year. and astra zeneca downgraded the effectiveness of its covert 19 vaccine to 76 percent the company had initially said its to do its job for 79 percent effective at preventing symptoms it's not including more results from trials. with most of the votes counted after

israel's 4th election in just 2 years there's still no clear idea of who end up in pa but it's a small palestinian israeli party which may hold the key as harry force of reports from west. 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 ironist left wing is criticize his stance on . 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 and outcome. and 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. be welcomed in an s n yahoo coalition. a bus is 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 lockheed 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 the opposition in republic of congo has rejected the results of sunday's presidential election as 40 lent their actual commission says the president. won by more than 88 percent of the vote most opposition

politicians boycotted the poll are in jail welcomed web reports now from brussels though. political opposition in the republic of congo say they've been cheated the electoral commission said president denny sasser ingress a one with nearly 90 percent of the vote but to do it again with a bone to congo is not a democracy you can see what happened to congress 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 years forced labor that they were given off the challenging the result of the last election the police power fake 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 worst people voting liberal politically not a democrat human history the union of humanist strongly rejects these results as a whole and invites the constitutional court to do the same. then he sassing 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're 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 just now working health care. human rights violation record told you some leaders are in jail who's going to be happy and would be 8 percent no it doesn't make sense sensi. 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 the owner of a skyscraper sized cargo ship that's been blocking the suez canal as apologized for the accident japanese showy kiss and limited issued a statement saying that it's working hard to resolve the situation the 224000 ton container vessel lost control in high winds and run aground it's caused heavy disruption to the fastest shipping route between europe and asia u.s.

president joe biden has appointed carla harris to manage the steady arrival of asylum seekers of the southern border the vice president will lead efforts with mexico and central american countries to stem the flow of migrants members of congress have been visiting emergency facilities that have been reopened recently it follows a growing outcry after images revealed over crowded and makeshift conditions at the texas center. and so it's not like someone sits around here. somewhere to run a monster we're going to grill us so really we have the money or you really haven't taken our kids or us to the we're the mercury for cross reduce the there that we don't speak you lying we won't be. one of the ways we learned is that. if you deal with the problems you country. then if it. gets worse then the people who are in there. we have correspondents from both sides of the border reporting on

the story for a shahab return z. is on the u.s. side a dollar in southern texas and manuel ruppel is bringing us reaction from tijuana in mexico. several steps which he said she would take but in 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 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 crackdown 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 'd complex mainly high tech militarization of the border contract is making it an almost 14 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 by demonstration looks from all shelters there are real questions about whether some of the people who are being given the contracts have very poor record on housing housing migrants. 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 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 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 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 the u.s. state of virginia has abolished the death penalty it's the 23rd state to do so and the 1st in the southern u.s. 113 people have been executed there in the modern era of 2nd only to texas governor ralph novum says that capital punishment has no place in the state the south or 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 send its people to that ultimate punishment knowing that this system doesn't work the same for everyone for the 1st time the u.s. senate has confirmed an openly transgender federal official to a c.b.s. post rachel a vein will now be the nation's assistant secretary of health transgender rights activists of praise for appointment as a breakthrough with few trans people having held office at that level the red cross says that colombia's humanitarian situation was last year because of violence against civilians maybe 400 people were killed by explosive devices the highest number since 2016 a resurgence of conflict between the states and the number of groups have been hundreds of attacks against health care workers and facilities out of some tory m.p.'s he reports now from bogota. at the report from the red cross shows an

important increase in violent incidents the period. mathes placement in a number of regions in the country all compounded by the restrictions put in place by both the state and armed groups due to depend. and the violence seems to be expanding to new areas they documented for example over $250.00 victims of explosive devices in $69.00 municipalities across the country of which $41.00 had not reported any incident in 2019 the red cross also found a major increase in attacks against health care workers this is. exactly it's a paradox at the exact time when people need more medical attention and my health personnel are being attacked more than at any other time since we started collecting data in colombia. so this is a hugely complex humanitarian situation with many communities that have become even

more isolated and have received less protection doing the pandemic and that's why the red cross is calling on both the state the military and these armed groups to ensure their respect of human rights and also ensure the access to cover the 19 vaccines areas and to facilitate the work of humanitarian organizations in the country and. it's good to have you with us hello adrian sitting in here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera japan says that north korea has 5 ballistic missiles they were launched from south and young province into the sea near japan the u.s. pacific command says it shows the pyongyang is a threat to its neighbors.