and al jazeera. play an important role in checking in with. ringback al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes at least 32 people have died and many more have been injured after 2 trains collided near the city of so high in egypt. if the o.p.'s prime minister says that a trillion forces will leave the conflict hit region of t. gray where they've been accused of committing war crimes. the british prime

minister weighs into an escalating dispute with china saying he backs those sanctions for speaking out about the abuse of muslim weekers. and france accuses britain of vaccine blackmail as evil leaders meet to discuss the global pandemic and regional challenge it's. about peace family of sports germany italy and england all make a winning start to make campaign to qualify for the world cup and so to sweden with the help of the latter libra him of it shoots up the winning goal on his return to international football. we're going to begin with breaking news from egypt 2 trains have collided killing at least 32 people the state television says at least 66 others have been injured in the accident in so hog province egypt's railway authority says the 1st train

stopped when someone triggered its emergency brakes the other 2. then crashed into it from behind that was causing 3 passenger cars to flip over the railway system has a history of badly maintained equipment president of the fatah el-sisi has previously said his government needed an extra 14000000000 dollars to overhaul the railway system. official figures suggest there were nearly 1500 train accidents which took place in 2017 across the country in 2018 a passenger train derailed in sus in the southern city of ras one at least 6 people were injured during that accident we're going to get more details on this as we get them in the meantime ethiopia says at a trade has agreed to withdraw its forces in the northern tier a region where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians prime minister ahmed has just returned from talks in the editorial capital a smaller have been growing calls for at

a train troops to pull out of ethiopia launched a military offensive there in the vendor accusing the region's governing party of destabilizing the country and the allegations against at a train forces began to emerge soon after ethiopia launched its military operation but for months prime minister i'll be on the denied added trained forces word in the country that changed on tuesday when he admitted the involvement of an international calls for an investigation into the violence us secretary of state and to the blinken has described it as acts of ethnic cleansing the u.n. estimates nearly 2300000 people on the huff of teachers population out of risk of starvation or in need of emergency food aid and nearly 60000 people have escaped into neighboring sudan the un has just reached 2 camps for editorial refugees inside and it's found them destroyed catherine saw it has more from the kenyan capital nairobi. the un refugee agency that you a.c.r.

have just released a very detailed statement about this to come to say that the teams finally got to this comes that have been completely destroyed these are comes that host ed about 20000 eritrea and refugees people who had fled for eritrea years before and the u.n. also saying that it's unclear where much of the 20000 of them are only about 7000 right now can be accounted for some of them are hiding out in towns neighboring towns but most of them it's unclear where they are other aid agencies saying that they could have been forced back to eritrea so those are the concerns that are being raised and this obviously comes off the back of this announcement by prime minister saying that eritrea and troops will be withdrawn from areas in to grab where they have occupied he has for months denied that of any presence of foreign

troops but finally just at the beginning of this week he made a statement in parliament where he gave reasons why they're a trance are they in the 1st place saying that they have sort of created a buffer zone especially after the ethiopian forces started pushing p.l.f. forces that city grand forces more to the central part of the region but a lot of people are also saying that beyond this troops being being withdrawn there needs to be investigation because of also being accused of human rights abuses ok let's bring in voters' choice for coffins a spokesman for u.n.h.c.r. is joining us live by skype from geneva it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera talk us through the kind of conditions that refugees have been experiencing in. well what we have been this is the latest update we received is we now finally have access to these 2 camps in the north of the great hits out century melbourne and

they have remained out of reach since november when the conflict 1st began and now our teams are on the ground what they found is that they're completely destroyed these 2 locations used to house 20000 eritrean refugees some of them have moved either on their own or with the help of ethiopian authorities to southern camps there to have camps in the south and they've been provided with the systems where we're helping them with their immediate needs but many are still unaccounted for we've been able to contact around 2000 that are also staying in the neighboring towns in the kalar and shira some have also been found in the capital addis but when our teams were able to reach kids us and she melba what they saw was it hits a large areas of the shelters level to the ground our offices our staff guesthouse also burnt to the ground so the situation is quite worrying but now that we've received this access and we been calling to reach these areas for quite some time

we are deploying staff we are deploying resources and we hope that we can get more lifesaving assistance into this area we should know that these are camps for at a train refugees inside to play what do we make of the fact that these 2 camps have been razed to the grimes. well. there were already reports surfacing towards the start of this year and some were releasing satellite imagery we've also had accounts from refugees as early as january that these 2 locations were destroyed now we were able to confirm that we've been gradually gaining access in various parts of the great we were able to get into the south of the region where in the 2 camps of my iranian. we started to receive people who were relocating on their own and sometimes with the support of ethiopian authorities and to provide them with shelter with food with with help with with health and mental health especially now that we're reaching these areas we are priority will be there to meet their

humanitarian needs and they need safety they need security we're calling on all the parties to make sure that civilians are protected in this ongoing volatility that we still have inside the news that they at a train troops are leaving. at least that certain the border regions as we understand it what kind of impact do you think that's going to have on the situation on the ground and to calais. well i think it's probably for others to also comment our our main priority is the humanitarian agency as the u.n. refugee agency is to make sure that we can work with our partners with the authorities and to get to identify those that are missing because out of the 20000 eritrean refugees that we had in hits us and chanel but there is some 7 to 10000 that are still unaccounted for we think that they're scattered in the area we're looking to have very soon another mission to go and seek out these people to identify them and to make sure that we can start getting assistance to them at the

same time the priority has to be for those that are already found in the in the soudan counts of the great but also in some of the urban areas because their needs are more pressing and they're only growing by the day and we also need resources we've launched an appeal to cover the needs from january until june 2021 it's about $99000000.00 united states dollars we're only receiving 44 percent so far and so we need urgent support from the from the international community to help us provide this lifesaving aid but assessor call from the u.n. and say we appreciate you joining us and i was in a thank you very much indeed thank you for having me saudi arabia's defense minister says it will be taking action to protect its oil facilities that's after yemen's who at the rebels launched a series of drone attacks on saudi military and oil sites one spot to fire at an oil distribution station near their shared border inside

a government's condemned the incident as an act of sabotage the military spokesman says the attack marks the 6th anniversary of the saudi led offensive on ne'eman even for a hat as an associate professor in international conflict resolution at the doha institute for graduate studies he says the latest attacks could lead to bigger concerns for the saudis. a sound any but i think they have used everything they could because this has been a lot in in in the m. and s. not on be causing a humanitarian disaster in yemen but also has been extremely costly for saudi arabia and now that vital product that's a gift to the south the economy like always thought it gets an import i don't think so that any of the you know has options as that is able to afford to continue to see these guys in those over time i think this is an important question

and replace as we saw in the past some sort of a stay the other to the security package that's you know for good now that india and the united states because they are not as big as providing that means. as a source to get a given the percent that they've got providing sitting in the arms of hundreds of billions of dollars during the recession at least. and we're not seeing that this. capability is that as the security systems that so that the united states provides so that they get is really difficult obviously and so i think we are seeing in my view some sort of a security barrier in this part that you that you as american soldiers that's on a bill to stop that act and for that reason i think that who does all the allies think this well and they're taking note of this and then just delay think more and more. u.k. prime minister bows johnson says he supports the british politicians lawyers and

organizations who've been sanctioned by china he says they've been highlighting gross human rights violations perpetrated against muslim leaders beijing is accusing those targeted of spreading lies about what's happening in its region and various fulda is a senior fellow at the university of nottingham asia research institute he's joining us from nottingham it's good to have you with us on. the u.k. prime minister is kind of getting himself into a bit of a bind dismay because it wasn't that long ago that his government was hailing china as the answer to the ukase trade prayers after brags that now he's being cornered if you like into the situation of taking some stance against china yes absolutely tit for tat sanctions really mark i would say a historic turning point in the west relationship with china so on monday the e.u. u.k. u.s. and canada and post magnitsky sanctions on for chinese officials and one chinese

entity implicated in the crimes against humanity and seemed young and then. last night the chinese. retaliated by sanctioning 5 m.p.'s lawyers and what i find particularly gelling a british academic and she said young expert dr joe smith finlay she's a reader in chinese studies at newcastle university as well as for british entities and so. these sanctioned individuals and their families are now old banned from entering china given the fact that china does have a history of essentially like for like responses when it comes to when it feels. threatened or concerned about something where do you think this is going to go how far do you think this is going to escalate. would say that this week really

marks a turning point in terms of politics so we will now see. realignment in terms of the e.u. or u.s. transatlantic partnership but also u.k. u.s. trance that partnership. they will certainly see this as increasing it systemic rivalry not just. geopolitical great power rivalry and from the vantage point of the people to republic of china and the leadership of the communist party they have pledged to work closely with russia so in a way. both sides now are in in a kind of a double bind because of the c.c.p. will not spec down. this would damage the authority of general secretary sitting on but neither can western liberal democracies afford to give ground when it comes to dealing with what is effectively

a genocide in india and seoul right now i can really see an off ramp in terms of diplomacy and i think we will see more like tit for tat sanctions and recriminations on both sides and given the way that you've described what's been happening for day with china's foreign policy shall we say in its approach to 2 other countries do you think that china is still reacting to things that happened to it or do you think do you get a sense that china is getting more strong in its approach and more defiant for want of a better phrase in its approach to the rest of the world. well in what we've seen in a way it was an over reaction many commentators have noted that the countess sanctions were disproportionate. they also not only targeted state actors but also civil society and i could dimia in germany for example a very renowned and very well respected china related think tank merrick's was put

on the sanction list and as i said here in the u.k. a very well respected independent academic like. dr joe smith finally is now on this list as well and so i think this is going to be. quite a strategic blunder if i'm honest with you because this will certainly galvanize opposition to these kind of. threats against. freedom academic freedom in mainland europe but also here in the u.k. and certainly will lead to. stronger opposition towards to change in the weeks and months ahead. we appreciate your joining us as always on al-jazeera thank you very much indeed for your time sir my pleasure ok let's return to our top story the train crash in egypt where at least 32 people have been killed let's bring in

middle east analyst and yeah kind of he's joining us live from doha good to have you with us i understand that the president of the fattah el-sisi is now promising punishment for those who have caused this accident. given the circumstances regarding egyptian railways and what appears to be the case that they are badly underfunded and there are regular accidents is punishment the right route to go. no i don't believe it's the right to the right thing to do and it's not the right way to go i believe is a serious serious problem and serious issues when it comes to fundamental services given to the egyptian people including of course the railway. it's so sad and it's heartbreaking to see these kind of accidents happens on sometimes even weekly basis and all

the egyptians here is just as justification and talk by the officials about the punishment for the train drivers and those people whom i do not in most cases see or hold responsible the responsibility falls on the system on the riggio on the president himself the president i remember seeing and hearing him in a public rally 2 years ago listening he was sitting and listening to the head of the. authority of the railway when he asked the president for half a 1000000000 half 1000000000 u.s. dollars to make this service safe for the egyptians the president mocked him in public and he said half a 1000000000 u.s. dollars to make it safe if i put that amount of money in any bank how much do i get in return as an interest. a country any country cannot be run as

a grocery store or a department store become tree and the states being run differently the president doesn't know the basic the basics of running a country like egypt. so i believe that talking about the punishment again as in all previous cases in accidents and incidents punishment for the drivers or they are. small employees or low ranking employees is not good and it's not going to fix anything at all if i understand of what correctly what you're saying that it seems that the president and his government are essentially out of touch with what the regular people want one would have thought that for something so intrinsic to basic life within egypt such as a functioning transport system which clearly thousands of people use every day it would be vitally important to make that a priority and yet we hear a great deal about other construction projects that are mounted in egypt millions

and millions of dollars they seem to be bypassing the rail network why is that that they appear to be having this this blinkered approach towards what is essentially a key public service again the reason for this litany quote the president himself in a public rally a year ago. to my astonishment he was bragging he was bragging in public when he said that you think i'm a politician i'm not a politician the man things that being a politician is something shameful and since the head of the state doesn't want to be a politician of course he doesn't have any idea about the priorities and that's why we are seeing all these meaningless projects about the highest in africa the biggest mosque in africa or in the world the biggest church in the world which are

being erected in his new capital. he's building right now and he spends billions billions of dollars on building this this city you know we appreciate it as always thank you very much indeed you have got them joining us and on his ear thank you. but of more ahead on the news hour including stuck in the sewer as oil prices start to rise as one of the world's biggest container ships blocks a crucial trade route. we will why my 130 in office have administered 200000000 shots if you lose one u.s. president joe biden outlines his priorities as criticism months about a migrant crisis at the southern border. and in sports with peter we're going to build up to the opening race of formula one season in bahrain. france is accusing britain of trying to blackmail the european union with the

delivery of coronavirus back seems foreign minister. says the u.k. is under pressure because it doesn't have enough doses to give people a 2nd shot the e.u. is also facing a shortfall but leaders have failed to come up with a plan to protect distribution and we're going to speak to natasha bottle in paris shortly 1st here's her report. after a meeting by video conference it became clear that e.u. leaders were not united behind a proposal by the e.u. commission to curb exports of covert fax scenes having promoted the plan e.u. commission head ursula von delenn made little reference to it after the summit preferring instead to focus on the use exports track record let there be no mistake the european union can be proud and is proud to be the home of vaccine producers who are not only delivered to european citizens but export around the globe

vandelay and said there was a shortage of facts in doses in the e.u. because pharmaceutical companies including british swedish giant astra zeneca had failed to deliver the promised doses e.u. council headshell michel said that blocks priority now is boosting the vaccine rollout in. the urgent impervious to pupil working in europe to improve the production in distribution of stored member states that is the priority we are totally mobilized the rising cost of it infections and deaths in many countries of put european governments under increased pressure several parts of france including paris are battling a 3rd wave the government has tightened restrictions but unless a ramps up its vaccine rollout some doctors say that the country could be heading into another national lock down one in 10 people in france has received a 1st covert vaccine dose compared to hof of the u.k.'s population france's president said that the e.u. . needs a fresh approach or triple for the i believe very deeply this is one of the lessons

of the crisis for europe as for france we must drastically simplify our responses we are too slow we're too complex we're too stuck in our own bureaucracies cutting coded vaccine exports would be a controversial move for the e.u. and it's not off the table yet for some though the proposal is a sign of desperation as european governments try to end the health crisis for others it would send a strong message to pharmaceutical companies that the block means business ok let's go to natasha and paris for us natasha ear leader sort of on the lane has been saying that vaccine companies should be honoring their contracts but i guess the question is what does the e.u. do if they don't. and that was a question that was left unanswered at the end of the 1st day of the summit it was held by video conference. the commission head said the vaccine companies

had to do more to deliver the doses that had been expected by the e.u. she used the british swedish company astra zeneca as an example she said they have only delivered 30 percent of the $90000000.00 doses the they've been contracted to deliver in the 1st quarter of this year she said that was obviously unexceptable and that the e.u. expected a lot more what she didn't do though was say what would happen if these pharmaceutical companies complete continue to lag behind in their delivery of doses now the u. commission had proposed before going into this summit to put curbs on exports of vaccines abroad but it seems at the end of the summit i mean it was clear the e.u. leaders simply didn't back this proposal all the way they were always very divided on this plan which was seen as quite controversial on one side countries like italy and france fully supported it saying that yes pharmaceutical companies should not

be able to export vaccine doses whilst they haven't delivered the doses expected in the e.u. imagine micro the french president was certainly very vocal in his press conference after the summit on thursday on the other hand countries like the netherlands and belgium far more cautious and they said look this isn't keeping with the values we need to keep these sort of global supply chains open they said we should continue to supply vaccines to other parts the world and that is just what we do so it was a mixed response but where we are left is with the e.u. ramping up the rhetoric on these pharmaceutical companies telling them to do more but yet not really telling them all happen if they fail to deliver. now that's about over to us from paris natasha thank you very much indeed rory chalons is joining us live from a vaccination center in crawley in the u.k. so it looks as though tension growing again between the u.k. and the e.u.

but in the meantime the u.k. rollout at least according to the u.k. government appears to be going reasonably well just talk us through what's going on . yeah well certainly i think there is a lot of relief in the u.k. today the the european media for the moment at least doesn't seem to go on for that nuclear option of limiting vaccine exports outside the block in the u.k. government and its ministers have been keen to stress on the breakfast new shows that the u.k. is on track for its vaccination targets rather general a cabinet minister was saying that. they expect that all the over fifty's and vulnerable groups are expected to be have at least one of their jobs by the middle of april and the entire adult population should be vaccinated by july and we've been hearing this vaccination center in crawley watching some of that in

progress today it's been a slow but steady stream of people coming in here to get their injections and we can speak now we know the socially distance the interview with catherine saunders who is the chief executive of the federation that is overseeing the theory of vaccination row that catherine what is it do you think that has been particularly successful so far in the u.k.'s response to to the vaccination program is something . that i think one of the main things you're seeing this morning is our involvement of our general practices of primary care say g.p.'s in the stuff know that patients really well and they can get in touch with you and i can encourage them to come and take up their vaccine when it's their turn and they can support them when they get here often seeing friendly faces vaccinating in so i think that that's made a real difference that personal touch and what about the actual supply of that sees themselves is that something that you watch for that concern you or you know that the argument has been going on with the european union how much of that play out on

the local level. so we absolutely want to make sure we've got enough vaccine to vaccinate all the patients who are eligible and we do at the moment we are getting to the end of this cohort of patients that you just described and we still have enough vaccine for the over fifty's in those clinically wrong patients that want to come forward so we won't be vaccinating new patients at quite a rate we have been told absolutely but i think this time to get our 2nd dose is than to get out to some of the harder to reach groups that might be a bit hesitant in taking out the vaccine and then hopefully will be ready to back up in may when there's more supply so go into that a bit more water than one of the difficulties what are some of the challenges of persuading people to come in who are the people who are less likely to come for their vaccinations i think right now it's a mixture of sometimes it's people who don't have english as a 1st language and so we're trying to make sure that we're providing that inviting as many languages as possible would provide language support on site for patients that come maybe patients who aren't able to travel so we definitely going out and

doing house burn patients we're also doing pop up vaccinations in town senses more scsi hindu temples one of the supermarkets at the moment so just trying to make sure that it's as easy as possible for people to get the vaccine and that really encourage anyone that's invited to just take up that offer as soon as possible not to wait catherine thank you very much for joining us for that's catherine sort of give us an idea of how the case vaccine program is big operates at a local level rory thanks very much indeed laurie johns talking to us from the vaccination center in crawley in the u.k. time for the other because everton. of seeing those violent storms making their way across the southeastern coast of the us of this little clutch of thunderheads rattling through this is where we saw those tornadoes pushing across northern parts of alabama causing that damage there we have got that system still in place here as we go on through the next couple of days actually an affair that could be further

problems just around the deep south across a similar area showers perhaps not quite as intense as we go through saturday but come sunday if anything they will pep up that become a little more widespread so there is the likelihood of further tornadoes coming through here as we go on through the good parts of this weekend that west the weather will push up towards the eastern seaboard cooling off to the new york and also for d.c. there was some snow in the northern flank of that eastern parts of canada central areas will turn a little dry by the time we do come to west sunday what a weather some snow coming in across the pacific northwest into that western side of canada notice still some wet weather there all the way down into southern parts of texas wanted to showers to just spreading the way across the eastern areas of mexico a little more cloud here at least for a time but across much of the caribbean it's looking good as go through the next couple of days more the west sunshine than salus and still ahead and al jazeera struggling to survive real good why unemployment in tunisia is at its worst levels

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and. al jazeera. and. the like. it was raja 0 reminder of our top stories this egypt's president has vowed punishment after 2 trains collided killing at least 32 people about 66 others have

been injured in the crash in the province of the railway authority says the 1st train stopped when someone triggered its emergency brakes. ethiopia's prime minister says editorial will withdraw its forces from the tikrit region at a tree and troops have faced allegations of killing civilians rape and torture the un has reached 2 counts for editorial refugees inside to break and this find them destroyed. european union leaders have voiced frustration about a shortfall in covert 19 vaccine deliveries but they failed to back up plan that would have blocked some exports produced within the e.u. . argentina's announced is going to suspend flights from brazil chile and mexico to prevent the spread of news. brains of covert 19 the measures are going to come into effect on saturday the government says it's concerned about the rising number of infections in neighboring brazil which is recorded more than 12000000 cases

argentina has reported nearly 2300000 infections so far a large as it is to the supposed life for us in the bonus set is i understand that there's a meeting today of the mucks or trade block summit i would imagine that covered $1000.00 is going to be at the top of that agenda. well that's correct the mercosur trade block that composes argentina brazil you're white and parable and associate states like bolivia is the 30th anniversary happening today this friday was expected to happen here in when a site is for the precedence of precedents for not of for example but argentina's government decided to take it online mostly because of the pandemic it's expected there's been big ideological clashes especially between argentina and brazil we know that president when adam has called president from nam they're saying that he's a socialist and that he's going to take argentina to figure what if a man this as referred to what's the matter as being

a racist and massage and his time on gaba thing they both had a conversation online last november and apparently they made some amends but it's not clear where the dialogue here is going to go during this 30th anniversary of the mercosur trade there's already been some cooperation between member states to acquire vaccines which is a major concern in latin america right now we know that argentina for example has been assisting the livia and para why that is in the middle of a huge political crisis with people taking to the streets almost every day because of the lacks of vaccines in the country argentina has played a crucial role but also economics how to help this region recover after the pandemic hafter the enormous consequences that corona virus has had in that in america we know that some countries like you are why paranoid and brazil are more liberal they would like to allow for example or members to have bilateral agreements outside the block while argentina is more restrictive to leave the

pandemic is a crucial subject in this meeting there's lots of concerns lots of fear especially in countries like argentina and oral why and vaccination in this part of the world is crucial to save lives i know obviously that's key when it comes to dealing with government level responses to this across latin america but as we were talking about before argentina's going to suspend flights from brazil chile and mexico this is of course where it starts to hit individual people very hard. well that's correct and there's also fear of the possibility of a new strength to be. distributed here in argentina and that's why the government is taking measures to prevent flights from there from mexico and from brazil from coming into the country past december they carried out a similar measure with 5 coming from the united kingdom aside from the measures imposed by the governments are for example tourists coming into argentina will have

to take another test once they land that if that test is they will have to isolate in the house hotel it's interesting to know that argentina that last year 2020 was one of the 1st countries in the region to impose a lockdown and that's why according to experts it's one of the reasons why the hospital the hospital health care system in this country did not collapse but now for example with the possibility of new a rising infection that's not so concerned vaccination is going very slow there was a scam those that forced the rest ignatius of the minister of health and that's why argentina is trying to take measures to protect the country but also ran half vaccination in order to prevent more deaths to do so thanks very much indeed to his abode talking to us from one service. well several u.s. politicians are visiting border patrol facilities in texas on fridays who draw attention to the plight of unaccompanied children being held there and it comes

a day after president joe biden defended his handling of the influx of migrants at the southern border calling it a seasonal includes biden says he's ramping up efforts to quickly release children from government custody more than 150018 company minors are in u.s. border custody a white house correspondent kimberly hawker is joining us now that was the 1st press conference that joe biden held since he had taken office and he wanted to talk about covert everybody else wanted to talk about immigration that's really dominating the news lines at the moment. now there's no question that the u.s. president came in hoping to really help americans with his 1.9 trillion dollar coated relief package he's still trying to sell it but a lot of that is not getting the headlines he had hoped it's one of the biggest it has meant to the social safety net in decades but what is really garnering headlines here in the united states is what is quickly becoming a political crisis for the president on the southern border of the united states

and mexico the u.s. president in his 1st press conference defending his policies insisting that this is not a crisis even if his own department of homeland security says this is on pace in terms of the number of illegal crossings of migrants into the united states to be among the highest in 2 decades so he says that he is working he is reviewing the plans but he also blamed his predecessor saying that right now he's inherited what is a broken immigration system it's going to take time to build it back up at the same time he's once again projecting the message that the border is closed even as we're seeing images that some are being allowed to stay on against all of this we've got the backdrop of the complex warming issues of voting in the united states republicans in the u.s. state of georgia posturing a new law imposing greta restrictions on voting access talk us through it softening their. yet more fallout from the 2020 us election you'll remember the us state of

georgia one of the states that helped decide the presidential election in favor of joe biden now that republican controlled legislature putting in place sweeping new changes to voting bit many in the united states say are restrictive and will limit people of color having access to the ballot box as well as young people these changes include requiring identification restricting mail in ballots conservatives say this is necessary in order to ensure election security but joe biden at his press conference called it an american and already we're seeing that this is taking place not just in georgia where it's been signed into law but 42 other states out of the united states so that's why we're already seeing activists at the sort of the legal realm working to try and do some of this activist filing court cases in georgia and respect that there will be others all across the united states or protest of these changes can help out at the white house committee thanks very much

indeed the u.s. president says north korea will face consequences if it chooses the path of escalation on thursday pyongyang confirmed it tested a new guided missile north korean official said the weapon will act as a deterrent against any military threats it was the 1st major provocations since joe biden took office in january we're consulting with our allies and partners. and. there will be responses if they choose to escalate. we will respond accordingly but i'm also prepared. for some form of diplomacy. but it has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearization so. that's we're doing right now some arounds. tug boats in

a specialized digger are being used to try to dislodge one of the world's biggest container ships blocking the suez canal it's been stuck for 3 days dozens of other cargo vessels are waiting for the canal to clear some have already begun taking a much longer route around the african continent and that's having an effect on oil prices spencer wells is vice president of oil markets with i.h.s. market it's a global information and analytics company he says mediterranean oil refineries rely on the suez canal for deliveries of crude and they're concerned the blockage may outlast the reserves. so the series canal is a feat of of amazing engineering that the will just taken for granted for 150 years around 1012 percent of global shipping trade goes through that series canal around 5 percent of global oil trite goes through it and it's not just crude oil coming from the middle east into europe it's also oil products under the going from europe

and heading towards asia things like net and fuel oil and some gasoline so it's a 2 way artery that keeps the global economy or helps to keep the global economy going so there was initial spike in oil prices by a couple of dollars per barrel that's that's maybe by 4 percent that has that has reversed and one of the reasons why it has reversed these as you said the pandemic so so oil stocks around the world both of crude oil and of refined products are pretty high because of low demand in 2020 i'm so if we hadn't have just been coming out of cove its stock levels would have been low and it would have been a bit more of a slightly bigger impact but even so this is this is not it's not totally critical the alternative fright routes and to turn to suppose it is a source of supply and shipping companies right now are making those decisions

you've got a queue of ships around about 40 ships whiting to go through i'm sure those companies all think you do we white or do we now reroute that is going people have been killed in a fire the burst through a building in india's financial capital mumbai the building was hosing a private hospital treating coronavirus patients more than 70 of them to be moved to other clinics and investigations been lost to determine the cause. but as in bangladesh have opened fire on crowds protesting against a visit by indian prime minister narendra modi killing 4 people the demonstrations in several cities including the capital dhaka. motors in bangladesh as part of its independence day celebrations the protesters say he's not welcome accusing him of persecuting muslims in india. unemployment and indonesia has risen to its highest level in more than a decade with millions of people out of work and

a list say the economic impact of covert 19 is disproportionately affecting poor communities many still haven't received the social they they were promised more than a year ago jessica washington reports from jakarta. in the indonesian capital this travelling band goes from pillage to be lage. they perform because they love music but also out of necessity. a lot of the campaign is going to get i really want to go back to work if it's available as a woman i cannot rely on street performing for too long there is a lot of risk. like millions of indonesians she lost her job last year. according to the government statistics agency the number of unemployed people in indonesia it's at least 10000000 the highest in more than a decade single mother hi ya she was an administration assistant at a factory but she says she never had a formal contract she lost her job when the pandemic began and is now trying to

sell homemade snacks and in around $2.00 a week. financially it has been very hard for me i have to rely on my neighbors for food the majority of indonesia's working age population are informal workers with no contracts no fixed salaries and no employment rights the official data doesn't account for the informal on registered workers who have had their hour was reduced entirely most were already on low wages to begin with and now they face even greater financial hardship. experts say the statistic of 10000000 unemployed only tells part of the story we have on the employment of what could have been 1000000 up to 15000000 and the new workforce almost cut the 1000000 people affected by the coffin and. millions of indonesians are classified as me

a poor all living below the poverty line despite the country's progress in reducing poverty. social aid never reach to many struggling households and others say they were suddenly cut off with no warning how they got there he said i don't know why i don't get help anymore i asked the coordinator and he also doesn't know the government has pledged to improve its data collection so people in need are able to receive assistance. we realize there are more people who need assistance because of the impact of the pandemic and there must be an adjustment in our poverty alleviation programme the venue lost his job at a coffee chain 3 months ago now he's using his skills to support his young family by selling drinks on the street and i thought if you buy into the job the income is very different compared to when i was working and i really want to go back to work but during the pandemic i think it will be difficult. millions of indonesians are

navigating this same challenge and doing whatever it takes to get by without knowing when things will get better. jessica washington al jazeera. and so i had an al-jazeera we're going to round out the action from the european qualifiers for the world cup that's coming up in sports with peter.

all. of the supporters peter thank you very much we'll start with qualifying for because the world cup and 2014 champions germany go to a winning stalls in their campaign they. opened up with

a comfortable 3 no home win over iceland leon go red card have a gun the one with the golds gym the winning despite 2 of their players being put into quarantine before kickoff your last hofmann tested positive for curved 19 and marcello holston berg was identified as a close contact but a good day for coach yorkie learn who will not be in charge when the world cup comes around he's stepping down after this year's bureaus. it wasn't such a great night for the 2010 champions spain who beat germany 6 no in their last game they went ahead in their qualifier against greece with a well worked goal from morata but then they concede the questionable penalty in the 2nd half and it was on a stuffy or a back a set us who converted it to secure the point for greece next up for spain it's a trip to jewel on sunday. no problems for the full term world cup winners italy who actually failed to qualify for the last tournament in russia northern ireland

2000000 their 1st game in parma with 1st half goals from domenica better out of the immobile a picked up these 1st italy the olsen's 2019 it was another clean sheet italy who have only conceded 3 goals in 13 matches since. so that anybody him a bitch made a winning return to sweden's team of the 5 years he came out of international retirement and set up a winner against georgia. from stockholm. back in a sweden shirt nearly 5 years after his international retirement and zlatan abraham of h. was immediately on song at least during the national anthems as he sang along to sweden's for the very 1st time in his long career almost felt exactly like the 1st match i played for the national team i had butterflies in the stomach i was excited i was motivated i carry well. this seemed a more mellow slot on in the swedish blue and yellow fully embracing the national colors after having once been less than at home despite and maybe because of his

giant talent which came to the forefront again to give the home side the breakthrough against a difficult georgia team the chest down and flick to victor clawson showing what sweden has missed the man who will be 40 in october but didn't see as much of the ball is he would have liked against opponents 69 places below sweden as georgia pushed for and almost got an equaliser but they couldn't spoil his return one nil and 3 points in the bag and another moment stored away for a highlights real. i mean i just filter to those movement that in just. a still over to me even if i'm 39 quite an artistic assister me today as well. this is than the and it brought it. was good i think it could have done more but. better than nothing. zlatan and sweden will get another chance against kosovo on the weekend as they try to amass points for the long

qualifying road ahead one in which they'll have to get past spain in greece. the next world cup is set to be the last for some of the big names of world football ledo messi of argentina and portugal's cristiana rinaldo likely to make their swan song in qatar a decisive moment from abraham of a chair in the 1st match of qualifying suggests that he too might be able to join them for a final farewell on the biggest stage polar east al-jazeera stockholm the brim of 8 shows received praise from one of his former managers shows a marine who worked with him at manchester united he said younger players need to be more like that or even. to read some of their 9 years old. this is not people that is in love with what football can give you because they have everything this is people that is in love with football so when you are out of

your old i think you are really to be in love with football another great striker teary on really has announced he is quitting social media because of toxic racism and bullying the former france and arsenal player who is now retired has 15000000 followers across twitter facebook and instagram but he will not use them again until more is done to regulate online abuse with the same vigor and ferocity with which copyright infringements on dealt with on recess is the sheer volume of racism bullying and resulting mental torture to individuals is too toxic to ignore the has to be some accountability it is far too easy to create an account use it to bully and harass without consequence and still remain anonymous practices underway for the 1st race of the formula one season in bahrain but cities are aiming for their 8th straight constructors title and lewis hamilton is going for

a record 8th drivers' championship but red bulls max for start button was faster in the 1st session on friday. fernando alonso is back in f one with the alpine team who he won 2 world titles with when they were called ray no he doesn't expect to be challenging for the championship the season though. a lot. going on we need missionary don't worry about here we really. need it to anyone in a continuation of the 22 and the revelations we expect. similar to last year so. maybe we should be the ones fighting for their political futures india have posted a formidable score after winning the toss and batting in the 2nd one day international against england including after losing 2 early wickets the recovery began new top schools with 108 he was supported by half centuries from visits kohli and the rich pennant but we could keep a hammered 177 for many 40 balls as only opposed to 336 to 6 in his role to

a good start in a chase their 111. try the philadelphia 76 ers have continued with their outstanding form in the n.b.a. the latest when come against the current champions the l.a. lakers formulators god danny green proving to be a thorn in the side of his old team helping themselves to 28 points for the top team in the eastern conference have now won 14 of their last 17. and we'll finish with some incredible pictures from the world of extreme kayaking these shots have just been released of frenchwoman nutria newman taking on a 1st serious waterfall in iceland back in october differently with another look and here's what it looked like from her point of view to 20 meter drops of a big risk of injury but thankfully as you can see she pulled it off and emerged unscathed but. not something i'd be interested in doing myself or of. it evokes

very much indeed that said from leave of madison to this cruiser i am going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news and join me then. it's a very bleak picture for a lot of americans out there white supremacy impacts all of our issues you're putting more money into the hands of someone 1st taking money out of the hands of other workers everyone goes to their camp it becomes us versus them this is the deal about constraining your nuclear program the bottom line of the big questions on out is they are. so said his unattained because. people believe in a post that is because then they're. very very well way to make a political in my city around the promise they represented they put themselves out to make the changes something that we. should have taken this long and they're

going to name as condemnation. we have this culture to slosh or to create new areas we have to change this culture i am one of the fortunate ones who can lead an establishment outside but all the people and on the majority of these legal research talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to myanmar. if the political debate show that's challenging the way you think i want to know where you're to stand on cancer culture. the range of ideas that can be heard from international politics to the global pandemic and everything in between if tech companies are the ones with all the power what do we do with the solution we get organized what are world leaders or governments missing thread talking about targets like 2014 or 2015 when we're talking what now up front with me welcome on

hill on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera. egypt's president promises tough punishment after 2 trains collided killing at least 32 people. come about us and this is all to syria live from doha also coming up ethiopia's prime minister says eritrean forces will leave the conflict that region of t. gray where they've been accused of committing war crimes. the british prime minister weighs in.