targets unlike 2040 or 2015 when we need targets but now up front with me marc lamont hill on al jazeera. revealing ecofriendly 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. don't know about us and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up ethiopia's prime minister says at train forces will leave the conflict that region of tikrit ray 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 leaders. and france accuses britain of vaccine blackmail as either leaders meet to discuss the global pandemic and regional challenges. and we're beginning with breaking news from egypt where the president is vowing tough punishment for those responsible for the collision between 2 trains state television says at least 32 people were killed and 66 others injured in the accident in so hogg province egypt's railway authority says the 1st train stops when someone triggered its emergency brakes the other train then crashed into it from behind causing several passenger carriages to flip over there was systems got a history of badly maintained equipment president sisi has previously said his government needed an extra $14000000000.00 to overhaul the railway system so let's

bring in middle east analyst ghanim he's joining us live here in doha. just looking at some of those pictures that we're getting from egypt they're absolutely extraordinary and the wreckage is terrible given the fact that the president is intending to mete out punishment for those who cause this how are people in egypt who use the trains regularly and rely on them going to react. well unfortunately i do not expect much from the people that you're talking about because you know the it's a longstanding legacy in egypt you know the governments are being indifferent to human lives over there and of course the justification every axle in that every accident the come up was justification 1st they punish. low ranking officials of course there's nothing there's nothing that you can call political responsibility for the high ranking ones so i do not expect you know much from

from the people the ordinary people reacting to this tragic accident. fortunately the of issues they always you know the line be talked about faith and this to me but of course it's it's nonsense because fate and business of the do not write. these kind of accidents it's us with negligence and the being indifferent to human lives again personally i'm not much of a train passenger but i remember the youth times that i used to train while i was living in egypt i use that in my life time over there for 10 times these 10 times twice i had an accident to train trips and to believe it or not i mean we had the 1st accident it was night in 94 we had to wait for the rescue teams

for 2 hours in my case although i'm a journalist i had to abandon my job as a journalist and report in order to rescue some of the buying people and be injured in this train on this train so i'm not expecting much of though and specially according to my experience after the 2 x. . adams that i was there myself i wrote and i talked and unfortunately it's it has been almost like a book's clamantis and deserved to nothing nothing was nothing was done over the years we've heard stories of major construction projects that are being carried out in egypt costing millions of dollars and yet it seems to be that the egyptian government is ignoring a fundamental part of the infrastructure which is of course the train network why do you think that is because there is no sense of priorities there is total absence

of sense of priorities in egypt and especially was this system within this system i mean they have started already to projects the monorail in the new capital city outside cairo which will cost around $4000000000.00 us and another train that connects fagor port seaport on the red sea with the northwestern coast in. up in lot from egypt crossing been new capital city which will cost 23000000000 us and it is i told you before the head of the railway authority in public he asked the president for half a 1000000000 to make the railways to a railway service safe to the passenger which actually serves more than 90 percent of the population and the president in public he mocked him and he said no

that's too much if i put it in the bank i'm going to game interest so there's no return for such investment again it's the lack and the absence almost absence in. care for the lives of the population. this system has always been indifferent to human lives in egypt and this is the real issue in egypt and obviously this is a breaking story as we get more information about it we're going to bring it to you but for now he has thank you very much indeed for the time thank you. if european says editor has agreed to withdraw its forces from the northern tier a region where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians prime minister has just returned from talks in the auditorium capital a smaller living growing calls for that are trained troops to pull out of tikrit if the opium launched a military offensive there in november accusing the region's governing party of

destabilizing the country on the allegations against ever trained forces began to emerge soon after ethiopia launched its military operation but for months prime minister ahmed denied editor in forces were in the country well that changed until tuesday when he admitted their involvement has been international calls for an investigation into the violence u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken described as acts of ethnic cleansing the u.n. estimates nearly 2300000 people are nearly half of population of address 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 t.v. and find them destroyed. has more from the kenyan capital nairobi. the u.n. refugee agency that you are if you are 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 eritrean 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 there was 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 if european forces started pushing p.l.f. forces are sitting 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. saudi arabia's defense ministry says it will be taking action to protect its oil facilities that's after yemen's who 3 rebels launched a series of drone attacks inside the military and oil sites and one sparked a fire at an all distributions station near their shared border and saudi governments condemned the incident as an act of sabotage the military spokesman says the attack marks the 6th anniversary of the saudi led offensive on yemen you know him for i had 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. so that i think they have used it with the court because this has been a war in yemen is not only causing a humanitarian disaster up in yemen but also has been extremely costly for saudi arabia and now that why can't products that it do that sowed the economy might that markets and an ample us have i don't think saudi any of the out you know has options and that is able to afford to could then you're going to see these kind of. over perhaps i think this is an important question and reflects as we saw in the past that some sort of a baby that that unit the package that you know called ports now that it and the united states because the united states is providing them ian you know being the

source security build up of saudi arabia and providing and selling arms of hundreds of billions of dollars from the recession at least. and we have not seen that this arms get a bill it is that at the security system so that the united states provided saudi arabia is really it was obvious and so i think we are seeing in my view that some sort of a security fairly out in this is not that you that you as an american soldier that's i mean built will solve that x. and for that reason i think that who does not you know i think this well and they're picking most of theirs and they're just getting more and more the u.k. prime minister bar songs and says he supports british politicians lawyers and organizations who have been sanctioned by china he says they've been highlighting gross human rights violations perpetrated against muslim windows beijing is accusing those target of spreading lies about what's happening and it's changing

region then the interest has who haven't we think with sanctions on chinese individuals and entities so. so-called human rights issues inch injecting a based on lies and disinform ation it breaches international law and basic norms governing international relations it interferes in china's affairs and undermines bilateral relations the foreign ministry has summoned the british ambassador to lodge representation and express opposition and condemnation have decided to sanction 9 individuals and 4 entity's. well voting is sending the message that it's becoming less sensitive to criticism from the west and that it's not afraid of standing up to what it sees as attacks against it what it considers its core interests now we've had since beijing has issued their own sanctions a response from the u.k. foreign secretary dominic rudd who says that beijing should allow access to international human rights experts titian jiang if it has nothing to hide and we've

seen this tit for tat between beijing and london becoming increasingly hostile and what as a result has happened is this deterioration between the 2 states now beijing has issued sanctions on 9 individuals and 4 entities in the u.k. which includes a travel ban as well as the freezing of assets in hong kong macau and on the mainland and this comes after the u.k. joined canada the u.s. and the e.u. and sanctioning shinji on government officials for what they say are human rights abuses in the state against the weak a muslim minority now china has consistently denied these claims the u.k. says up to 1000000 we go as a force to work in labor camps they yet to follow canada and the us and saying that this is genocide but still beijing is furious about this they've continued to deny this and say that these are not labor camps that is a vocational training center is designed to improve the economic opportunities of

the weakest and still had an al-jazeera. celebrations turned to grief in bangladesh as the country marks 50 years of independence. i'm stuck in the sewer as oil prices start to rise as one of the world's biggest container ships blocks of crucial trade routes. however we got a little bit of everything going on across eastern parts of asia over the next couple of days if i didn't write for japan at the moment it's looking rather wet though as we push across towards that eastern side of china this bank of cloud will continue to drive its way further east was through the low say turning pretty wet across the korean peninsula for saturday make the most of that settle whether the pleasant spring sunshine that we have in tokyo for example as we go on through

saturday 19 celsius say because the cloud on the right will make its way through we'll see some very wet weather coming into q 2 into much of conscious temperatures hang on to around 20 celsius but it's not going to be a pleasant 20 celsius quite of that brisk breeze coming through and that wet weather will spread to all parts by the end of the day for that lot of cloud and rain into the far south of china 3 taiwan one of 2 showers 2 coming into the philippines where weather will be across the southern areas of the philippines but some heavy showers there into a good part of malaysia and the showers continuing to into a good part of indonesia we've seen some showers says same line of showers actually drawing their way across southern parts of the bay of bengal easing across into sri lanka the far south of india much of in the air is fine and dry and turning hot towards the northwest.

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injured in the crash in the province of soft the really authority says the 1st train stops and someone triggers its emergency brakes. if the o.p.'s prime minister says editorial will withdraw its forces from the tikrit region and a trillion troops have faced allegations of killing civilians rape and torture the un has reached 2 camps for editorial refugees inside tiebreak and it's found them destroyed. u.k. prime minister barak's johnson's come out in support of british politicians lawyers and organizations sanctioned by china he says that we're highlighting gross human rights violations against muslim leaders but beijing says they were spreading lies police 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.

modi's in bangladesh as part of its independence day celebrations the protesters say is not welcome accusing him of persecuting muslims in india charging has more from ducky. there has been protests for the last one week actually by the leftist party as well as by the right wing religious parties and now the criticism and not so much against india and its people the criticism is 2nd is more the end this party they feel like this prime minister has a hand in good job dryad he is citizenship the border killing the cush made a killing against muslims in india all these issues come into play also the fact that india has not been a very good partner it has a negotiated water treaty and other pending issues now just today there's been major clashes in the commercial area by the progressive left wing students on the left and biggest mosque has a major protest by the religious right parties the mosque right now as i speak is surrounded by police and ruling party supporters has been clashing chittagong the

headquarters of this is that they slimy one of the major religious platform who's been supporting against this approach is supporting me in protesting against india's more these visit here so a lot of clashes going on many people have been detained dozens of people have been injured and it's an ongoing thing still going on in dhaka but this is are you at least 3 people have been killed in another day of protests in myanmar. and. police in the southern town of my e.q. fired shots and tear gas into the crowd rights groups say they've confirmed the deaths of 320 protesters since the military coup 2 months ago but the true death toll is likely to be much higher. german health officials are warning that its latest wave of coronavirus could be the worst so far they're urging germans to stay home during the upcoming easter

holiday to help slow the rapid rise in infections the head of the robert hawke institute for infectious diseases says there could be as many as 100000 new cases every day france is accusing britain of trying to blackmail the european union over the delivery of coronavirus vaccines foreign minister. says the u.k. is under pressure because it doesn't have enough doses to give people a 2nd shot in you is also facing a shortfall but leaders have failed to come up with a plan to protect distribution there are fears the rivalry between the e.u. and u.k. could damage global efforts to combat the pandemic. i hope an agreement can be reached with the united kingdom a relationship of cooperation so that astra zeneca fulfills its commitments with the european union and that everyone is well served we cannot deal this way and play blackmail as we wanted to continue vaccinating people nonstop for the 1st and

now we find ourselves with a bit of a handicap for the 2nd divs europe does not have to pay the cost of these policies that are bottlers got more from power so they use efforts to step up its vaccination print campaign. $27.00 leaders of the member states meeting by video conference only discuss the covert pandemic they all agreed at the end of their summit it is clear that pharmaceutical companies that have promised doses to the e.u. must deliver those doses o'sullivan delaying the commission head said that the british swedish their master seneca had only delivered 30 percent of the 90000000 doses it had been contracted to deliver in the 1st quarter of this year's have on delay and made it very clear that pharmaceutical companies must must adhere to the commitments in their contract they must deliver those doses but the question is what will the e.u. do if they do not because that was the question she failed to answer because it is

clear that leaders failed to unite behind a proposal that had been put forward by the commission to curb exports of covert vaccines leaders have been pretty divided on this you know you get countries like italy and france who fully supported to say that pharmaceutical companies should face severe penalties if they do not fulfill their contracts but other countries like the netherlands germany belgium far more cautious they didn't want to be imperiled in what would be seen as vaccine warfare so agrees appends on your perspective but some are saying that the e.u. in fact really failed to deliver on its threat to put in these export curbs others saying that perhaps the e.u. is ramping up the rhetoric ramping up the pressure on these pharmaceutical companies giving them a little bit more time. several u.s. politicians a visiting border patrol facilities in texas on friday to draw attention to the plight of unaccompanied children being held there comes

a day after president joe biden defended his handling of the influx of migrants of the southern border calling it a seasonal increase biden says is ramping up efforts to quickly release children in government custody more than 15000 unaccompanied minors are in u.s. border custody a white house correspondent kelly holcomb has more. there's no question that the u.s. president came in hoping to really help americans with his 1.9 trillion dollars coded 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 i have managed 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 us president in his 1st press conference defending his policies insisting that this is not a crisis even to 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 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. tugboats and 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 there 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 or shipping costs have almost doubled when the canal is $1.00 of the main arteries that keeps global trade moving is carrying around 12 percent of the world's goods lost is blocked it's costing the global economy some $3000000000.00

a day a 193 kilometer canal cuts through egypt linking the mediterranean and the red sea that means there's a route for goods from southeast asia to europe that takes around 3 weeks the only other route is around the cape of good hope thousands of kilometers and at least a week longer spencer welsh 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 sous canal for deliveries of crude and they are concerned the blockage may out lost their 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 is it 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 sources 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 whites or do we now reroute. unemployment in indonesia has risen to its highest level in more than a decade with millions of people are to work analysts say the economic impact of covert 19 is disproportionately affecting poor communities many still haven't received the social a they were promised more than a year ago jessica washington reports from jakarta. in the indonesian capital this travelling band goes from village to village. 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 look at what'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 is at least 10000000 the highest in more than a decade single mother 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 unning 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. because with no contracts no fix to 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 that employment of what could

have been 1000000 up to 15000000 and the new workforce almost cut the 1000000 people affected by the gulf and. millions of indonesians are classified as near 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. and 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 then you're 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. i am going to have 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 jakarta. this is all just here these are the top stories egypt's president vowed punishment after 2 trains collided killing at least 32 people about 66 others were injured in the crash in the province of so hard the railway authority says the 1st train stops when someone triggered its emergency brakes if the o.p.'s prime minister says editorial will withdraw its forces from the t. grave region at a tree and troops of face telling.