al jazeera. you're watching the news hour life from a headquarters and. we gave that coming up in the next 60 minutes a train collision in southern egypt kills at least $32.00 people dozens have been injured the president promises to punish those responsible after months of denying their presence if you prime minister says eritrean soldiers will now leave the

northern region. protesting against new covert $1000.00 restrictions demonstrations are underway in rio de janeiro brazil is struggling to contain the virus prompting some of its neighbors to ban flights china sanctioned several u.k. politicians and groups accusing them of telling lies about reports of rights abuses against muslim leaders and he's a similar view schooled rebels maxim stuff and 6 the pace and practice of the bahrain grand prix and world cup winning football a tyrian reimold says that he's quitting social media until one is done about online abuse. hello we begin this news hour in egypt that's where 2 passenger trains have collided killing at least $32.00 people and injuring many more president of the fatah has sisi is promising tough punishment for those responsible for the crash in

the southern province of soha the railway authours says the 1st train stopped when someone triggered its emergency brakes the other train then ran into it from the back causing several passenger carriages to flip over now egypt's railway system has a his. story of badly maintained equipment a state of emergency has been declared in southern egypt hospitals let's speak to mohamed el masri he's an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the door institute for graduate studies is joining us from doha thanks for your time i know this is something that you've written about in the past of the state of egypt's railway system what is your reaction to this latest tragedy. well i think it's interesting that sisi says that he's going to punish people who are responsible are quite frankly i think if if he's sincere he should start with himself or with members of his government there are more than $1000.00 train

accidents annually in egypt and that is according to the government's statistical authority cap mass. i have a hard time believing that that's the product of incompetence on the part of low level employees what we have is an infrastructure problem we have a government problem there's a lack of prioritization there is mismanagement of resources and tons are not being funneled into the rail system and other systems are going to egypt has you know problems of infrastructure really across the board. i think it's really important to highlight that in 2017 the transportation minister has shot model caught stood up in a public forum on national television in cc's president presence and asked for 570000000 dollars to modernize the system the rail system sisi mocked and ridiculed him on national television saying that he couldn't come up with that kind of money

meanwhile he was spending $45000000000.00 about 80 times that amount on a new capital city which isn't going to benefit the overwhelming majority of egyptians one iota but i have the largest power in africa opera whatever that's worth i mean this is a system that has been crumbling during ceases presidency as well as before sisi it's a power why is the railway system just not a priority to be upgraded. well egypt is it's a poor country i mean to be to be fair obviously there are there are probably meager means but it's also an authoritarian society so this is a product of the mubarak system which mobarak inherited from saddam and from. there has to be a will on the part of the government and the new government there has to be

competence there has to be a sense of vision there has to be concern for egyptian people because it's egyptian people every day gyptian is that a pay the price for these regular accidents for you know the product for buildings collapsing you know authoritarianism breeds inefficiency it breeds incompetence it breeds corruption and c.c. just hasn't shown the will to want to fix. any of these problems quite frankly and to put this into context there are about according to figures 1400000 people in egypt who use the trains every day passengers that is so do you expect any sort of reaction from egyptians on the streets in the passengers that use these trains well i mean injections are mostly muzzled i mean this again it's an authoritarian society the media apparatus provides a singular narrative that is favorable to c.c.

and even egypt since you know our problem on social media their social media accounts are monitored so but certainly we know from anecdotally and talking with people and even going back to the last major accident 421000 people are outraged they're angered and obviously people are mourning mourning their dead but unfortunately there's a long track record here and the government isn't isn't very concerned with the egyptian lives. we'll leave it there thank you so much mohamed in a city for speaking to us from doha now if you. agree to withdraw its forces from the northern region that's where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians prime minister has just returned from talks in the eritrean capital us tomorrow there have been growing calls for eritrean troops to pull out of t. gray launched a military offensive there in november accusing the region's governing party of

destabilizing the country and the allegations against their retrain forces began to emerge soon after ethiopia launched its military operation but for months the prime minister denied eritrean forces were in the country that changed on choose day when he admitted their involvement there had been international calls for an investigation into the violence the us secretary of state antony blinken described it as acts of ethnic cleansing the u.n. estimates nearly 2300000 people or nearly half of population or at risk of starvation or in need of emergency food aid and nearly 60000 people have escaped into neighboring sue don the un has just reached 2 camps for eritrea and refugees inside to grey and found them destroyed boris recovers a spokesman for the u.n. h.c.r. he says some of the eritrean refugees who lived in those camps are missing. we now finally have access to these 2 camps in the north of t.

grey he had said so and she melbourne and they had remained out of reach since november when the conflict 1st began and now our teams are on the ground what they've found is that they're completely destroyed these 2 locations used to house 20000 eritrean refugees some of then have moved either on their own or with the help of ethiopian authorities to southern camps or to head camps in the south and they've been provided with assistance where we're helping them with their immediate needs but many are still unaccounted for when our teams were able to reach kids doesn't she melba what they saw was a good sets a large areas of the shelters level to the ground our officers our staff guesthouse also burned to the ground so the situation is quite worrying out of the $20000.00 eritrean refugees that we had in his us and should melba there are some 7 to 10000 that are still unaccounted for so we think that they're scattered in the area we're

looking to have a 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 we also need resources we've launched an appeal to cover the needs from january until june 2021 it's about 99000000 united states dollars we are 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 on time i had on the other during these are including best stock in the suez oil prices start to rise as one of the world's biggest container ships blocks the crystal trade group. celebrations turn into greece in bangladesh which is marking 50 years of independence. and it's also mild threadlet on who is enjoying a winning return for the swedish team up stories coming up in sports with peter.

but 1st the latest surge in coronavirus cases is threatening to unravel progress and relations across europe as leaders face the possibility of a 3rd wave they're also having to deal with a shortfall in vaccines now it's led to heightened tensions between the e.u. and the u.k. france is accusing britain of blackmail as both sides struggle to get enough jobs germany is warning the latest resurgence could be its worse yet with as many as 100000 new infections expected a day if the spread doesn't slow down and berlin has sent a plane load of ventilators to brazil to help manage a record daily infections and deaths there meanwhile argentina has shut its borders with brazil chile and mexico all travelers returning from abroad will now need to have a covert test on a rival and take a look at the scene in rio de janeiro just a moment there it is that's where people have gathered to protest against new

coronavirus restrictions we have 3 correspondents following all these latest developments are standing by for us in paris we'll speak to her in a moment and also speak to raise a bow and want to sirees but 1st let's bring in monica in rio where those demonstrations are taking place tell us what you've been seeing. here as well of like exactly these people that are here behind me they are street vendors and a visionary who has shut down everything except for central servers to even the beach which is a place where 50000 people make a living selling all kinds of things everything have been shut down for 10 days and they have nothing to live on so they're saying we want to work emergency aid in brazil ended in january so literally these people are out on the street so that is one problem but the other problem is the rising number of the. and that's also

among the young people there were 100000 cases just now of the last 24 hours there are over 300000 dead and no vaccine rollout less than 7 percent of the brazilian population has been vaccinated now there is one good news which is that the book the institute from st paul who is making the chinese vaccine together with the chinese also started its own bad thing called the book back and it will pass today to start human trials and they hope to have it ready by around may so that would be the good news in the midst of all this very very tragic situation all right monica thank you so much for that update from rio de janeiro from brazil take you over to want to saris that's right there is a bow is joining us from and what can you tell us about the new travel restrictions in place. well there's

a major concern in argentina about what's happening in the region altogether the situation in brazil the amount the collapse in many hospitals around the country what's happening in but i why what's happening also in or why with the rise in infections there and that's why the government announced that it is true strict in flights coming from brazil from chile and from mexico this is a similar measure taken by the government last december when they banned flans flights coming from the united kingdom aside from this new restrictions all tourists that are returning to argentina will have to have a test when they board the plane and another one once they land and if that's tested positive they will have to self isolate in the whole tell the government has been debated different types of measures in order to prevent the rise of infections in this country argentina was one of the 1st countries in latin america to impose a very strict lockdown to prevent the spread of cold vigilante in last year it was

the longest lockdowns in the world and that's why they're taking measures now in order to prevent that right now as we speak the mercosur trade bloc summit the precedential summit is happening here in one aside it was taken online because of coronavirus bad press and there were press sent out about it before the members brazilian president want to put out a needle any this from para white among others and there was one basic call it especially from smaller countries like qatar why is that demand for more vaccines they're saying that as a regional bloc they should work together in order to get vaccines because it's one of the biggest one of the biggest problems the region is facing that today just as monica was saying that in brazil there is not enough vaccines there's not enough vaccines also here in argentina empower a white and in other countries chile is one exception in the region but altogether there's been call for more vaccines several corruption scandals have erupted because of lots of vaccines in the regions and imposing long to. as winter comes

close in this part of the world is a major challenge to because of economic difficulties argentina is currently negotiating with the international monetary fund poverty have been on the right that's why vaccines are crucial at this point to save lives ok thank you for that update from. difficulties as well in europe let's bring in a brother she is joining us from paris and the surgeon coronavirus cases in countries across the continent threatening to unravel any progress that's been made the tosh as well as relations amongst you countries. yes. summit that was held by video conference what we had was it was clear are countries in the 27 member states who are 7 struggling with the pandemic because many of these countries are facing a 3rd wave infections very high in many member states and the e.u.

commission head said there's also a desperate shortage of vaccine doses in the e.u. she has said that that is mainly because of pharmaceutical companies failing to deliver doses that she has called on pharmaceutical companies to do more to make sure that they deliver the doses that were contracted and expected she's used the example of the british swedish company astra zeneca saying that they have only delivered a 3rd of the 90000000 doses that they were expected to deliver in the 1st quarter of the year that is simply not good enough now what the had wanted to do was try and persuade member states to back a proposal to curb exports of vaccines abroad because the commission says while these pharmaceutical companies are sending doses abroad doses are being produced in the e.u. they should actually be keeping them in the e.u. and delivering them to the e.u.

as contract is well unfortunately for the commission member states and he didn't back that proposal some countries like france and italy thought it was a very good idea they want to send a strong message to pharmaceutical companies to do more other countries like the netherlands and belgium certainly a lot more cautious saying that they want to keep this sort of vaccine supply chain open and this is in keeping with evaluate nevertheless governments in the e.u. are under a lot of pressure because of the rising infection rates we have seen here in france hospitals in the paris region absolutely saturated and news from germany also looking particularly. with one of the main health experts in germany saying that the cases could end up being about 100008 day unless more is done to more restrictions are put in place more is done to curb the spread of the variants mainly the parents of this virus ok that's a thank you very much for that update from paris and we'll continue the

conversation on germany in particular and speak to dr christopher specks is a medical expert and journalist he is joining us from disorder thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera so i suppose the most obvious question is why are cases rising again so rapidly in germany. well actually we don't know really but 1st of all we have to distinguish between the incidence and the notification rate and actually what is surprising is that modification rate in germany we have changed the test regimen in the couple in the last couple of weeks so we are now looking more in this dark for you the estimated number of not reported on unreported cases in the last we last weeks so maybe it's a matter of the notification number so the other thing is that we had an immunization campaign in the last 2 or 3 months and we managed to unionize the elderly 80 years and older and this worked quite well but we didn't

manage to immunize the the younger ones and this is probably because why we see those rising numbers now and is there a fear that this so-called the possibility rather of this 3rd wave is going to be harder to curb than the 1st 2. yes that's what we are afraid of and. minister mr spawn said that he is calculating with 100000 cases a day in just a couple of weeks and if this will come true this of course would be a very bad situation but i'm not sure whether we'll come into effect and that is because we hope there immunization will catch up with the immunization in the next month or so there are many bios which should arrive in germany so we really hope for for the immunization campaign how much trust is there in the immunization

campaign in germany and also how much trust is there in angola merkel's handling of the response at this point she was seen as a safe pair of hands in the beginning of the pandemic but now some seem to think that she's wavering with her response. you're absolutely right and we did very well in the you know the damage but we lost this leading. position so to speak we are not in the lead anymore and that is probably too true to our mismanagement in. ordering the immunization yes you know the e.u. it was the one who did it and i think from the time on when we decided that let let the e.u. handle this it was clear that we would not be in the lead if you compare it to the u.k. or israel or you see what the what the differences are and. so

lost is very comfortable to a position which she had in the beginning of the pen demick that's true so we lost trust in it ok we thank you so much dr chris suspect for speaking to us from just. thank you. several u.s. politicians are visiting border patrol facilities in texas on friday to draw attention to the plight of unaccompanied children being held there it comes a day after president joe biden defended his handling of the influx of migrants at the southern border calling it a seasonal increase biden said he is ramping up afterwards to quickly release children from governments custody more than 15000 unaccompanied minors are in u.s. border. let's find out what's going on and bring in shihab rattansi he's running us from macallan texas what have you been seeing she happen what can we expect out of the senator's visit. i think a lot of posturing when the reality is that both the democratic congressional

congress members of congress and the republican i was a congress both parties have a great deal of blame for the yearly annual chaos and the sudden manufactured crisis that we see on a regular basis these are seasonal migration patterns that we know happen each year and yet when as you mentioned asylum seekers unaccompanied children families with young children are being released where they all eventually released their often taken by bus and we just saw this happen in the last half hour to cities like this because on the border and then they have to rely on charities the goodwill of charities so in the last we saw a bus to school with its passengers. mainly actually seemingly young mothers with very young children and that seems to be what we have the c.b.p. that they are now being allowed in they go to this tent here which is run by a local catholic charity they get a covert test and then and we expected this shortly they'll be escorted by

department of homeland security offices to a child shelter just across the road. where they'll be helped with their paperwork . maybe 80 percent of the asylum seekers have someone in the u.s. who can take care of them and then here is the bus station here so then there to help with that paperwork about the. sent on their way on the bus over to the airport nearby and they have their court dates when they have to have to appear but it's all being done using charity despite the 10s of billions of dollars that they democrats and republicans have spent on militarizing the border which clearly doesn't change anything as far as the need of migrants to escape the terrible conditions in central america let's let's get some more analysis on this the alexis alexis bay joins us from the texas civil rights. the rights group is a project. i mean that's the point. if you believe your $155000000000.00 of it was spent about 12 years or militarizing on militarizing the border and yet there's no humane way of dealing with the influx of bugs that we

know is going to happen anyway no matter how much you spend on the military they'll screw complex you're absolutely right unfortunately us here on the border have to bear witness to. multiple administrations making the decision that it's more important to militarize the border. drones and more money for vehicles and the border wall instead of actually finding humane ways to welcome people to the united states have their needs met as they come into the country and then send them on the way because most of them when they arrive at the border are just trying to get on whatever bus or means of transportation that they need to get to their destination where someone is actually waiting for them the vast majority of the people you see coming to the border have a person waiting for them it might be a parent a sibling sometimes family members that have they haven't seen in years you know and why why are they why they coming is it because joe biden is a nice guy as the republicans are suggesting and whistles regularly the biden has

basically kept the trump policies intact and the border is firmly shut in in violation of humanitarian who are still right. unfortunately under guess what title 42 and m.p.p. programs that were created under trump they're still in effect title 42 expulsions are happening every day there are people who arrive and within the same day are thrown back into mexico and i know so specifically from here and unfortunately it's . there's no one that comes here because joe biden is a nice guy people are coming here as you mentioned as a part of the natural ebb and flow of migration but it is expression we. a tense moment in the sense of covert had held back a lot of migration and now as things are sort of subsiding there we see more folks coming there were 2 major hurricanes in central america that displaced 8000000 people that is also

a humongous factor something else to take into consideration is they were programs for miners to allow them to apply for asylum and home country in the northern tranquil and come to the united states trump discontinued that and biting barely reopen that and so you see so many miners who are coming because they didn't have that safe option and that's on top of what we've always known has been going on which is there is a lot of instability economically especially in central america and also the fact that a lot of these folks face a very harsh reality for many adults who are the breadwinners of their family even if their business is super small they get extorted by gangs or for children young boys will try to be asked to join the gang on their way to school and for young girls it's a threat of sex trafficking so if you think about all these factors there's i mean take your pick as to why people are coming here not because they necessarily want

to but it's because they need to for survival this is about survival and i just very thank you very much and we're going to see the republicans out the democrats have their press conferences in the next few hours the republicans saying look at these these leeches who are coming here to try and get part of the american dream ignoring the fact that that sort of instability that alexis was speaking about is in large what holds to by the northern neighbor by the u.s. who tends to with its hard policy has destabilized central america for many many many decades i don't think that sets of incontrovertibly fact so that responsibility doesn't seem to ever be admitted to certainly by republicans and democrat politicians joe biden helped overthrow a democratic government on juries not too long ago but will they consider. to monitor things here back to you well ok she has crossed back to the later thank you so much for the time being. i'm scott idler on the tide myanmar border high authorities are saying they are preparing for the possibility of

a flow of refugees while on the other side in ethnic army saying they are sheltering 511 of violence. and struggling to survive we look at why unemployment in indonesia is at its worst level in more than a decade and sports news will tell you who's setting the pace ahead of the opening race of the formula one season in bahrain. we've got warmer weather at long last coming in across turkey still a fair amount of cloud here we have seen some very snowy weather recently still a little bit snow to get out of the way just pushing across the eastern side of turkey towards georgia just around the caucasus south of that stand we fine and dry temperatures here in doha to around $38.00 celsius a brisk wind system lifted just

a cent to watch out for over the next couple of days with that wind coming in from a northwesterly direction the small way and temperatures picked back to around 32 degrees on sunday further north there we go clear skies coming back in and around the black sea anchor at around 8 degrees celsius at long last getting up somewhere near double figures the wintry mix that's making its way across northern parts of afghanistan i think over towards the far north of pakistan as we go on through the next couple days a westerly disturbance coming through meanwhile across the whole of africa we have got largely clear skies more sunshine coming through one of 2 showers into uganda will see wanted to show was there into tanzania northern parts of mozambique could see some wet weather and those showers stretch all the way up into the. gulf of guinea now there's a little bit more cloud just around the base of sod off south africa is going to be rather wet here with the rank gradually moving away. but. this was wrong to

take children away from their parents and herd them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put us in the big player and we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names. kind of his dark secret on al-jazeera. from the al-jazeera london pearl cost center to people in thoughtful conversation generally when everyone's work about race the races and the thing with no host and no limitation our society has structural racism built into it part one of pfizer's shaheen and adam brotherhood low paid people tend to be migrant labor and disproportionately women in care way that ultimately comes down to prejudice studio unscripted on al-jazeera.

on the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour 2 passenger trains have collided south of cairo killing at least 32 people and injuring many more egypt's government triggered emergency breaks in one of the trains before the other one ran into it. eritrea has agreed to withdraw its troops from ethiopia after months of fighting eritrea and troops faced allegations of killing civilians as well as rape and torture for trying to blackmail the european union in their escalating dispute over . the french foreign minister says britain is under pressure because it doesn't

have enough 2nd vaccination shots. now the u.s. is saying it will put $30000000.00 towards ebola assistance in the democratic republic of congo and guinea several countries and international organizations have been holding a virtual summit on the continuing threat of the disease and parts of africa regional leaders have also been urged to stick by their promise to contribute to a pool of 2000000 health care workers to deal with future health emergencies at least 9 people have died from ebola in guinea and 6 in the democratic republic of congo since february let's speak to george alfred who is the world health organization's representative to guinea he's joining us from the capital thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera you yourself attended that virtual summit with the international organizations like the w.h.o. and c.d.c. . what do you think came out affects. thank you very much i think. this question on the threat of.

pandemics came out strong commitments from member states of. the actually can you know and also. coordination not group regional and country level and investments in. security. means to secure who. come in yes the lessons learned from 2014 to 20 seats in an epidemic way reflected on and a lot of experiences were shared by member states the guinea. uganda and she had early on and this was a reach discussion under the auspices of the african union.

the u.s. department of. health and foreign office so it was i look at some of it looking at governance of the nation performance of less and less cost outcomes believe it or not and. right but also you know visions we know but ongoing. and giving innovations such as back scenes and new turn up their teams making a lot of difference number important aspects was engaging communities actually docking and all of the society approach so bad governments public sector private sector and you will ship in society and communities can come together with the support. the u.n. and. others how make up iraq does ebola running right now how big

a threat is able are right now where it where you are in guinea and and in the d.r. sea where there have been new outbreaks recently yes the outbreaks are slowing down you can actually do to be seen organisations and also but do gentle response is something that is improving. snow to keep more critically and good response is deployed betty strongly and very early and this is changing the face of. india and c.n.n. guinea now starting a countdown after more than 3 weeks. out this is so we now up to 42 days in these 2 pieces enters make sure

the lens is very active before we can but. oh ok i. need to maintain ok thank you so much we've run out of time george offered his air about thank you for speaking to us from cannot very thank you very much thanks now funeral proceedings for tanzania's former president john mica fully have been held in his hometown of chatto by the fully died just over a week ago from heart complications but critics suspect he had covered 19 he was a prominent skeptic of the pandemic only admitting to a problem in the country earlier this year the service and chatter was the last of multiple more and more memorials held around the country. police in bangladesh have opened fire on crowds protesting against the visit by the indian prime minister narendra modi killing 4 people there were demonstrations in several cities

including in the capital dhaka. modi is in bangladesh as part of its independence day celebrations the protesters say he's not welcome accusing him of persecuting muslims in tanveer choudhry has more from dhaka. there has been protests for the last one week actually by the leftist party as well as by the right wing religious parties and the criticism and not so much against india and its people the criticism is more the spotty they feel like this prime minister has a hand in. citizenship the border killing the kashmir 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 negotiating water treaty and other pending issues 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 the. one of the major religious platform who's been supporting against this program is supporting protesting against india as 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 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 officials say the weapon will act as a deterrent against any military threats it was the 1st major provocation since joe biden took office in january well the south korean president has called for talks. time aware that the people are deeply concerned about north korea's missile test firings yesterday now is the time for the south the north and the united states to

make efforts to continue dialogue creating difficulties for dialogue is never desirable the taliban says it will restart attacks against foreign troops unless they pull out of afghanistan by the 1st of may. taliban leaders say they'll be forced to fight to free their country if soldiers don't leave on their own it comes after president joe biden said washington is struggling to meet the deadline despite donald trump's administration agreeing to it last year at least 3 people have been killed in another day of protests in me and maher that's according to local media. on the. police in the southern town of me fired shots and tear gas into the crowd rights groups say they've confirmed the deaths of $320.00 protesters since the military seize power 2 months ago but the true death toll is likely much higher and people are now starting to escape to

neighboring countries with thailand preparing for refugees to arrive at its border scott had met some of those who fled previous unrest the man maher in the thai border city of my sons' mojo was a student leader in the 1988 uprising in me and. for that he spent 12 years in a yangon prison. at a mason museum dedicated to myanmar as political prisoners he shows us the brutality of everyday life. torture techniques that myanmar security forces have used for decades in their attempt to squash dissent the judge is accused of continuing these methods today but he thinks the protests happening now on the streets of myanmar are much different than past uprisings so this is going to be the last fight to end the dictatorship in a fight of judgement even though the civilians do not want to become refugees fleeing from the situation might arise in which they might have to become refugees

. along this section of the time e.m.r. border there is little preventing people from crossing over because of the volatile state in myanmar thai authorities have stepped up patrols but have also intensified contact with those on the other side when you go ahead and we are monitoring this situation and we have been communicating with out maybe us especially and think groups along the border we have been checking information the movie river here serves as the border between thailand and myanmar one of the korean ethnic armies you can see one of the camps right across the river they say in there they were sheltering hundreds of people who fled the increasingly violent crackdown by me and more security forces. we met the head of m a saad refugee committee in a football stadium local officials will use as temporary housing if refugees start coming across the border as many as 1000 would be housed here. he's concerned about

resources as the area has been home to me and most refugees for more than 40 years fleeing fighting and economic hardship like in iraq without anybody to plan it many new refugees come to thailand there might be a strain on resources for the existing refugees if donor organizations provide funding for the new arrivals will probably lose out the sun sets on friendship bridge ending a day in these uncertain times from a sought a community that's for decades served as the main gateway between thailand and myanmar both physically and culturally but with the unrest now unfolding in myanmar the differences are becoming more evidence the separation becoming more defined it's got harder al-jazeera may stop. tugboats specialized sigur are being used to dislodge one of the world's biggest container ships blocking the suez canal it's been stuck there for 3 days dozens of vessels are waiting for the canal to clear others have begun taking the much longer route around the african continent and

that's having an effect on global oil prices will be as one of the main arteries that keeps global trade moving carrying around 12 percent of the world's goods while it's blocked the it's costing the global economies some $3000000000.00 a day be 193 kilometer canal cuts through egypt linking the mediterranean and red sea it means there is 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 the vice president of oil markets with i.h.s. market that's a global information analytics company he says mediterranean oil refineries rely on the suez canal for deliveries of crude and their concern the blockage may their reserves. so the series canal is a feat of amazing engineering that the will to taken for granted for 150 years is

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. and fuel oil and some gasoline so it's a 2 way officer very 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 reverses 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 of 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 are thinking do we white or do we now reroute. unemployment in indonesia has risen to what's highest level in more than a decade with millions of people out of work analysts say the economic impact of covered 1000 is disproportionately affecting poor communities many still haven't received these social aid they were promised more than a year ago just to washington reports from jakarta. in the indonesian capital this travelling band goes from believed to be a lage. they perform because they love music but also out of necessity. a lot of gambling 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 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 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 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 underemployment 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 nia 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 also 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 ya 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. still had on the i was there a news hour a big drop the extreme cry at her who took on a giant waterfall in iceland that story's coming up in just a moment with peter and sports.

are going top of the sports news with peter thank you very much practice is on the way. for the season opening formula one grand prix in bahrain and there's predicted by many red bull are looking good max for stopping was quick and in the 1st session on friday champion lewis hamilton said on thursday that he thought red bull were ahead of his mercedes team were aiming for an 8th straight constructors title earlier we spoke to a sports f one correspondent full duncan who is in bahrain he expects things to be a lot closer this season well i guess the form book naturally over the last

7 years points towards misstating and lewis hamilton sadie's of one of our 7 drivers and constructors championships how it's enormously with this world championships he gallops away to the to the championship last year one of the 3 races to spare but the impression here in bahrain is that it's going to be a bit closer red bull seems to have closed the gap so i think there's a real hope i guess that we might see red bull and max a step in really taking the fight to lewis hamilton and miss a piece which should be great i think that's what the sport is really crying out for a bit more of a competitive field so hopefully red bull will be able to follow through on their encouraging pre-season form and really take the fight to. world cup winning striker theory henri has announced he's 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 are dealt with. on ri says the sheer volume of racism bullying and resulting mental torture to individuals is too toxic to ignore they has to be some accountability it is far too easy to create an account user to bully and her arrest without consequence and still remain anonymous. another great strikers last any bring 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 paul resort 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 carried all. this seemed a more mellow slaton 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 the interest. of the lover to me even if i am 39 quite an artistic assister me today as well.

this is than the in the broader goal so 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 greek. the next world cup is set to be the last for some of the big names of world football linnell 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 paul reese al-jazeera stockholm abraham of each has received praise from one of his former managers josie marino who worked with him at manchester united he said younger players need to be more like the latter 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 have really to be in love with football the qualifiers continue on saturday in the world's top ranked team belgium will be without 7 of their players against the czech republic in prague 5 of those players play in germany's blunders league and are not allowed to travel because of covert 19 restrictions 2 others are injured despite the spread of coronavirus in europe ahead of italy's football federation says he's sure the country will host the opening game of the euro's with fans in the stadium the tournament was pushed back again because of the pandemic and is said to begin in rome on june 11th when it's really host to keep you a for originally plan to hold the euros across 12 cities but it's still unclear if that is possible. england appear to be on their way to victory against india in the

2nd one day international impunity india won the toss and bettered k.l. rahul traffic school with 108 in the supported by half centuries from captain virat kohli and resharpened the wicket keeper hammered 77 for only 40 balls as india posted 336 for 6 but england looked very good in their chase their 318 for full thanks to 124 by jonny bairstow and 99 from ben stokes they need 9 to win and level the 3 match series that won each of philadelphia 76 have continued with their outstanding form in the n.b.a. the latest win came 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 they've now won 14 of their last 17 the olympic torch continues to make its way through japan ahead of the games in tokyo in july former olympic freestyle skier show in the as the local schoolchildren carried it

down a slope in fukushima on friday around 10000 people are expected to carry the torch of the next 4 months. staying on snow japan saw a 2nd as she made history in the world of ski jumping she finished 2nd at a competition in russia and that moved her to the top of the all time list of podium finishes with $109.00 all together in world cup individual events at space or than any jumper in the sports history man or woman. and if you thought ski jumping was scary how about extreme kayaking these shots of just being released of french woman new year newman taking on a pretty serious waterfall in iceland back in october safely with another look and here's what it looked like from her point of view it's a 20 news a drop so a big risk of injury but thankfully as you can see she pulled it off and emerged unscathed. that's what we'll leave it for now more sports news later they're in

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a 2 part investigation people in power on al-jazeera if you want to help save the world. a train collision in southern egypt kills at least 32 people dozens have been injured the president promises to punish those responsible. for watching i'll just 0 live from headquarters in doha i'm dead you know also coming up after months of denying their presence ethiopia's prime minister says eritrean soldiers will now leave the northern seagrave region a warning.