inside this in a low a cartel part 2 of a 2 part investigation people in power on al jazeera if you want to help save the world. sneeze enduro. a train collision in southern egypt kills at least 32 people dozens have been injured the president promises to punish those responsible. are watching al-jazeera live from ahead quarters and i'm dead you know we're going to also coming up after months of denying their presence if yoga's prime minister says eritrean soldiers will now leave the northern sea gray region a warning germany's 3rd wave of covert 1000 may be the worst one yet with fears of

100000 infections per day. china are sanctioned several u.k. politicians and groups accusing them of telling lies about reported rights abuses against muslim leaders. hello 2 trains have collided in central egypt killing at least 32 people and injuring at least 66 others the railway author already says someone triggered the emergency brakes on one of the trains on the other one crashed into it from behind president's promising to punish those responsible laura burton manley reports. the tangled wreckage from these train carriages reveals the sheer force of the crash that killed dozens of people. the 2 trains collided and so had province in central egypt egypt's railway authority says the 1st train stopped when someone triggered

it's the mergence he breaks another crashed into it from behind causing 3 carriages to flip over parts landed in a nearby field bystanders rushed to help survivors while dozens of ambulances scramble to the scene really. we need an official to come see what has happened we can't remove the people from underneath the trains it's a shame look at the children we need a crane but they don't have one people or did we can even save the ones who are alive present abdel fattah el-sisi says those who caused the crash will be punished but i don't believe it's the right the right thing to do or and it's not the right way to go i believe there is a serious serious problem and serious issues when it comes to fundamental services given to the egyptian people including of course they were away egypt's road network has been plagued with train disasters in 2000 to 373

people died when people were trapped on a train as a firing to the carriages in southern kyra. and 2 years ago a train ran into a barrier at high speed a cairo's main railway station killing more than 20 people there are more than 1000 train accidents annually in egypt and that is according to the government's statistical authority cat 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 this month the world bank approved a loan to $440000000.00 to move nice some of egypt's $5000.00 comes around that walk but it full short of the $14000000000.00 the government previously said was needed to overhaul the system. for the victims and their relatives in this latest

tragedy any upgrades if they do happen are too late during. ethiopia says eritrea has agreed to withdraw its forces from the northern region where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians prime minister abu ahmed has just returned from talks in the eritrean capital us mara there been growing calls for eritrean troops to pull out of t. grave if you launched a military offensive there in november accusing the region's governing party of destabilizing the country well the allegations against eritrean 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 chain's on tuesday when he admitted their involvement there had been international calls for an investigation into the violence u.s. secretary of state and city blinken described it as acts of ethnic cleansing and the u.n.

estimates nearly 2300000 people or nearly half of the greater population are risk of starvation or in need of her emergency food aid and nearly 60000 people have escaped into neighboring sudan the un has just reached 2 camps for eritrean refugees inside to grey and found them destroyed. as 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. gray and she melbourne they had 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 then have moved either on their own or with the help of ethiopian authorities to southern camps or to have camps in the south and they've been provided with assistance where we are helping them with their immediate needs but

many are still unaccounted for when our teams were able to reach kids us and she melba what they saw was a it's a large areas of the shelters level to the ground our offices our staff guesthouse also burned to the ground so the situation is quite worrying out of the $20000.00 return refugees that we had in his us and she 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 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.

german health officials are warning that its latest wave of the current virus could be the worst so far they're urging people to stay home during the upcoming easter holiday to help slow the rapid rise in infections there are fears there could be as many as $100000.00 new cases every day and that's the spread as current ignore. there are clear signals that this wave could become significantly worse than the 1st 2 waves we must prepare for the number of cases rising strongly and that more people get seriously ill again that hospitals will get overburdened and that's a lot of people will die we are just at the beginning of this development and if we don't massively contest it immediately the consequences will be grave doctor christer spector's a medical expert and journalist he says the mismanagement of the vaccine rollout across europe has allowed infections to surge. what is surprising is the not to fix

it in germany we have changed the test regimen in the coupler in the last couple of weeks so we are now looking more in this dark for you the estimate number of not reported on unreported cases in the last week or last week so maybe it's a matter of the notification number so the other thing is that we had an immunization campaign in the last the 2 or 3 months and we managed to emit new human eyes 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 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 in the lead if you compare it to the u.k. or israel you see what the what the differences are and i'm glad merkel so lost this very comfortable position which she had in the beginning of the pandemic that's true so there we lost trust in it. france is accusing britain of trying to blackmail the european union over the delivery of coronavirus vaccines for ministers on eve the duryea says the u.k. is under pressure because it doesn't have enough doses to give people a 2nd shots the e.u. 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 the global efforts to combat the pandemic that's also butler has more from paris on the e.u.'s efforts to step up its vaccination campaign. 27 leaders of

the member states meeting a by video conference only discuss the covert pandemic they all agreed at the end of the summit it is clear that pharmaceutical companies that have promised doses to the e.u. must deliver those doses of on the lead the e commission head said that the british swedish for 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 i made it very clear that pharmaceutical companies must must attain to the commitments in their contracts 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 e.u. leaders failed to unite behind a proposal that had been put forward by the commission to curb exports of covert

vaccines e.u. leaders have been pretty divided on this you know you have countries like italy and france who fully supported to say the 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 employed 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. on al-jazeera. celebrations turned to violence in bangladesh as it marks 50 years of independence and stuck in the sweat as one of the world's biggest container ships continues to block a crucial trade agreement.

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rain into the far south of china through 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 line of showers actually drawing their way across southern parts of the bay of bengal easing across into sri lanka in the far south of india much of india is fine and dry and turning hot towards the northwest. and the pioneer of respect he lost the chance to play for his country but one a legal battle that paved the way for a generation of brazilian players. footballing legend eric cantona introduces. people by his club for his political beliefs he took power into his own hands and

blazed the trail for players right. i'll just see. how they work on the top stories on al-jazeera this hour 2 passenger trains have collided south of cairo killing at least 32 people and injuring many more egypt's government says someone triggered emergency breaks in one of the trains before the other one ran into it eritrea has agreed to withdraw its troops from ethiopia stingray region after months of fighting eritrean troops have faced allegations of killing civilians as well as rape and torture francaise britain is trying to

blackmail the european union in their escalating dispute over covered 1000 vaccines the french foreign minister says britain is under pressure because it doesn't have enough 2nd vaccination shots. as tensions rise between the u.k. and e.u. over vaccine supplies the british government says it has enough doses to vaccinate the entire population by july or a challenge has more from outside a vaccination center and crawley. after many notable scandals and failures in the u.k.'s covert 19 response the country's vaccination rollout has been a notable high points and here at this specially built vaccination center in crawley we've been watching it in action here they're using both the astra zeneca and the pfizer jobs and they've done about $20000.00 so far. just at times it's been emotional to see how many patients they've been shooting for months and you know they're waiting to go back to their normal lives and so on

it's been great. despite the round with europe over supplies the u.k. government says it has enough doses to vaccinate all vulnerable groups and the over fifty's by the middle of april and the entire adult population by july 1 of the key reasons you're seeing today it's because it's been given to probably care to g.p. practices who know their communities they know what they meet and they've been able to be really quick and charlie setting things up this is an entirely new unit you know and he started to be built just as the vaccines that 1st started being wheeled out while building you know they've done another 20000 patients a question that remains is what happens once everyone has been vaccinated how does the country ease back to normal life the government has floated the idea of perhaps having vaccination passports to get into venues like pubs but after an outcry from the hospitality industry and conservative backbenchers that idea seems to have been

put on the back burner. 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's ramping up efforts to quickly release children from government custody more than 15000 unaccompanied minors are in u.s. border custody. joining us from callan texas so what's going on where you are shihab what are you seeing. it's quite a sort of shit you know when you think of the 10s of billions of dollars 55000000000 dollars spent by obama trumbull militarizing the border the most high tech surveillance of military equipment to try and prevent my groups from coming in and yet when the asylum seekers all released into the system it's all up to

christian charities catholic charities in towns like this and mccallum to try and try and pick up the pieces to try and let people find relatives in the u.s. be reunited 80 percent of these of these asylum seekers have someone in the u.s. who they can go and visit so we're. very aware. department homeland security buses are coming almost every 20 minutes now and discouraging their passengers in the main actually this morning's at me it's been about a young mothers with very young children who have been coming in they go into that white tents that you see it will be done by a local catholic charity they get a covert test and then they are leds up the streets down a few blocks down down the road to a shelter where the local charity helps them with that paper get in touch with that relatives and then to the right there is the bus station so either they get on the bus to go and go and see that go and go be reunited with their relatives or they go to the day by apple but it's so out of the hall it's such

a it's just you know based on goodwill there's no bureaucracy it is no system in place for what is an inevitable but all men and every few years and when we see you know we see migrants coming to the border and it becomes another crisis you know you can you can do for migration for a year with a crackdown but as we've seen you just have to look at the statistics but they always come back you know because in part because central america remains a very unstable place and why is central america a very unstable place with plenty of this about the moment the pandemic several hurricanes but also decades of u.s. foreign policy which it shows that will america is a very unstable place and it's it's clear now that these politicians are coming and i'm not sure they're going to be addressing some of those issues yet so what will they be addressing what are the politicians planning on saying. we're already getting. social media is being used liberally biased by the republican contingent is that the border region republican senators have been they

went on a tour of the rio grande at night last night ted cruz the senator tweeted video which he claimed was caught towels and human traffickers taunting them across the rio grande river. and the general narrative has been from several times is look joe biden has flung open the border. of america ease of trump's policies which is completely not true in fact that's the main issue that joe biden has retained the major policy of dollars from which which began in march of last year title $42.00 which is preventing the vast majority of asylum seekers and immigrants from getting due process as is required under domestic and international international law they are letting documented children to come in and now allowing families mothers and fathers with children under the age of 7 and older joe biden to suggest if he had his way maybe something that will to mexico that's what's so interesting about the debate right now from that press conference yesterday stop consciously consciously

donald trump has taken over the entire narrative immigration asylum seeking the u.s. taking in refugees is being presented as a bad thing joe biden should be trying to stop but i'm joe biden hoping that narrative along as well by saying you know we want to send them all back frankly and it's it is quite bizarre and all drug really does seem to be winning that narrative right now in the us what it is and it is really the fault of both the democrats and republicans who for decades now have not been spending on a humane infrastructure for the inevitable migration migrate things that we've seen a great deal of them again because of u.s. foreign policy instead they just spend a great deal of money on the trick quip and. repression at the border and it doesn't make any difference but it makes a lot of money for people in d.c. maryland virginia right ok she had thank you very much for that update from macallan texas police in bangladesh have opened fire on crowds protesting against a visit by the indian prime minister narendra modi killing 4 people there were demonstrations in several cities including in the capital dhaka.

modi's in bangladesh as part of its independence day celebrations the protesters say he's not welcome accusing him of persecuting muslims in india. well tugboat sound a specialized tanker are being used to try to dislodge one of the world's biggest container ships blocking this was canal it's been stuck for 3 days disrupting one of the most important global shipping routes iran can report its. confusion about the fate of the ever given a team of salvage experts flew in from the netherlands to help the so far unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the vessel while egyptian officials seemed confident the su is canal would reopen soon the dutch expert said they wouldn't commit to a specific time frame saying it could take days weeks it's a mammoth task the ship is 400 mi is long weighing 200000 tons and it's stuck in what's often described as the most important shipping lane in the world

a maritime accident with global implications shipping analysts already predicting disruption and price hikes. the series can now i'm a feat of amazing engineering that the world has taken for granted for 150 years what has happened is very unusual i can't remember it happening before they have a given container ship became wedged across the so is canal on choose day when high winds blew it off course about 12 percent of global trade passes through the 193 kilometer long canal which connects the red sea with the mediterranean providing the shortest link between asia and europe the vessel carrying around $20000.00 containers is registered in panama and operated by taiwanese transport company evergreen marine it was sailing from china to the port city of rotterdam in the netherlands when it got stuck this image posted on a ship tracking website shows the backlog of many vessels stuck at the exit and

entry points in the middle. the vast majority of oil from the gulf is transported to europe through the canal global prices have risen as a result industry experts are warning of a flood of insurance claims covering the vast amounts of cargo being held up automotive parts and consumer goods containers may have to be offloaded in order to lessen the weight the su is can now authorities says around $20000.00 ships pass through the canal last year and in egypt billions of dollars in toll fee revenue the ever given is $1.00 of the largest container ships in the world but for every hour and every day it remains stuck on a reef and stationary there are concerns about its financial fallout and the impact on global trade him on current. mean mars military warning its forces will shoot protesters in the head acknowledging a shoot to kill policy for the 1st time on state media. earlier at least 3 protesters were killed in the southern town of yak 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 activists are calling for mass demonstrations on saturday which is armed forces day in me and i'm armed. for the u.k. prime minister boris 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 it's targeted of spreading lies about what's happening in the should jang region katrina you has this update from beijing. beijing 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 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 and 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 week as. unemployment in indonesia has risen so what's highest level in more than a decade with millions of people out of work analysts say the economic impact of covert 19 is disproportionately affecting poor communities many still haven't received the 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 village to village. they perform because they love music but also out of necessity. a lot of again they don't go together 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 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 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 on that employment of what

could have been up to 15000000 and then your course almost cut the 1000000 but been affected by the gulf and i get. 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. and said i don't know why i don't get help anymore and i asked the coordinator and he also doesn't know the government has pledged to improve its data collection so people in need able to receive assistance and. 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 i saw. the end of 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. another again the headlines on al-jazeera 2 passenger trains have collided south of cairo killing at least 32 people and injuring many more in the province of soha egypt's government says someone triggered emergency brakes on one of the trains before the other ran into its.