so they do not cross into argentine territory from this small margin tined of forty's and money for what's happening in its economic exclusive zones but what authorities here are saying is that what's important is to regulate what's happening in international waters. if you o.p.'s prime minister says eritrean troops will withdraw from the tigre a region after months of denying they were there. you know i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program at least 32 people are dead after 2 trains crash in southern egypt with many passengers left trapped in the wreckage. there are protests in

rio against a new covert lockdown as brazil suffers a new high of over 3 and a half 1000 deaths in one day in the global cost of getting stuck in the su is where they can now traffic jam is grow to more than $200.00 vessels. after months of brutal conflict in ethiopia's northern region eritrea has agreed to withdraw its troops from the area human rights groups saying thousands of people died in the fighting and the eritreans who went in to back up ethiopian government forces are accused of killing raping and torturing civilians it was only this week that the ethiopian prime minister ahmed finally admitted eritrean forces are in fact into gray after months of denials eritrea and ethiopia fought a border war from 1908 to 2000 although a final peace deal wasn't agreed until 2018 was awarded the nobel peace prize for

ending the conflict ethiopia's current government in eritrea have a common enemy in the grand people's liberation front or t.p.m. left which was the leading force in ethiopian politics for almost 30 years until abi a became prime minister there is katherine sawyer has more. one of the clearest indications of the presence of eritrean forces in tikrit i came from the town of be that this was right before if e.o.p. and prime minister ahmed addressed parliament on tuesday and admitted for the 1st time the troops from the neighboring country had crossed into border areas in the north west of to guy he argued the soldiers crossed into theall because of concerns about attacks by forces of the to guy people's liberation front several rockets were fired into every trap from t.j. when the conflict began last november your national security would those the reason

why because of concern we also informed. of wrong doing. other things the government strongly denies the allegations in this and said it would take strong measures on any of the soldiers who are found guilty. and prime minister been now says they returned soldiers will leave this is after a meeting he held with the president. in the eritrea and capital asmara the detail and timeline of the withdrawal he's high of a still unclear if the eritrean troops withdrawal and that is if they totally withdraw which is a big if they're not mean that it would be very difficult. to a military so completely crush this rebellion by the so great defense forces so it's really not clear what the implications of a military strategy there is from the federal government. they are also looking to pursue some sort of secession hostilities and there are more reports coming out of

the region the un refugee agency units are space to refugee camps that were hosting about $20000.00 every trend refugees destroyed by and known people and there were about of most of the refugees is a known been able to contact around 2000 they are also staying in the neighboring towns. some have also been pounding the capital addis but when our teams were able to reach its absence you melba what they saw was a. large areas of the shelters level to the ground or offices or just holes also burned to the ground the forces integrity have been accused of abuses including killings torture rape and destruction of property they feel human rights commission and the united nations refugee agency have agreed to conduct a joint investigation into their leg ations of abuses committed by all sides catherine sawyer are to 0 now 2 trains have crashed in egypt killing at least 32

people and injuring 165 more the railway authority says someone triggered the emergency brakes on one of the trains and the other crashed into it from behind president is promising to punish those responsible manly or for its. the tangled wreckage from these train carriages reveals the sheer force of the crash that killed dozens of people c.c.t.v. footage shows the moment of impact in so hard province south of cairo. egypt's railway authority says the 1st train stopped when someone triggered its emergency brakes and other crashed into it from behind causing tree carriages to flip over. parts landed in the nearby fields bystanders rushed to help survivors what dozens of ambulances scrambled to the scene really. think 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 are dead and we can't even save the ones who are alive present abdel fattah el-sisi says those who caused the crash will be punished by i don't believe it's the right the right think that will 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 the way 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 fire ripped to the carriages in southern cairo 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. i have a hard time believing that that's. the product of incompetence on the part of what level and we have as an infrastructure problem we have a government problem this month the world bank approved a loan of $440000000.00 to modernize some of egypt's $5000.00 comes around network but it falls 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 lure a person to syria. brazil is broken yet another coronavirus record more than 3600 people died in the past day

this is the greatest number in a single 24 hour period despite that people in rio have been protesting against a new 10 day lockdown. the. demonstrators are against the forced closure of nonessential shops and a ban on visiting beaches wash the country is struggling is infection numbers saw thanks in part to a more infectious variant discovered in the country hospitals in almost every state have few or no beds available let's go to monica anneke of who's in rio de janeiro now it is just alarming these numbers new cases and the number of deaths continuing to rise after initially this downplaying this virus and we saw this at the highest political levels in the country is there a sense of urgency now to try and bring the pandemic under some control into to come up with a plan to save lives. yes

and no. the federal government finally set up a national committee but president. is still. does not is not in favor of lockdowns not in favor of curfews and these measures have been taken by governors and mayors on their own and criticized by the president so there is political pressure mounting on the president governors and mayors are taking measures on their own and there is an economic problem. for example shutting down the beaches there like thousands and thousands of street vendors that live off this now they're left without any income because the emergency aid ended in january so they won't be working they can't be locked up in their homes in the countryside or anything and so they have a point but it's also true that it's very very worrisome what's going on here

because hospitals are running out of medicine not just of beds but medicine in some cases oxygen doctors are running out of time and of. really stressed out just coping with this whole situation so it's very worrisome and something had to be done how is the vaccination program going in the country brazil is unveiled to domestically developed vaccine candidates for human trials could be a major boost. for the campaign to vaccinate people. yes now brazil was slow to start vaccinating also the president was not had criticised a couple of vaccines which are now on the market and just less than 7 percent of the population has been vaccinated it started with the older people but now this new variant is really affecting young people people that are below 60 and now they

just. analyses to vaccines but they have to start the human trial for this will take time there is hope but it won't just thought of everything right now right now there is this urgency. thank you monica hanna kevin rio de janeiro. france baz overwhelming responsibilities for their a london genocide but was not complicit in the events of 1904 this is the main finding of a commission set up by the french government it said the state was blind in its support for what it calls a racist regime behind the killings about 800000 mainly ethnic tootsie people were slaughtered over the space of 3 months under the new 2 regime france was an active supporter of the government at the time and the report's authors say it could have done much more to prevent the genocide. under wallace is a chalice and author of silent accomplice the untold story of the role of france and there are one genocide he says this report is a significant step forward in french or wanton relations it is exposed if in some

ways in france the history of france in rwanda in the last 27 years has been pretty grim and there have been various efforts and in 98 those of french report which said it had been misled by the genocidal government and president sarkozy 10 years ago went as far as to say france had made so this is a substantial increase in language here and really the devil will be in the report itself is 1200 pages it will take a while to get through. but really it is it is explosive stuff and credit to the president not going to breaking with his predecessors and allowing. these investigators these historians to look truly archives in the presidency defense from ministries and to to to make these findings. still ahead for you on the

program as yet more people make their way towards america's southern border politicians visit as well with differing views on who's to blame. and i'm going to russia is the u.s. state of georgia signed into law a controversial new version rules president biden has branded an atrocity. to say we got some quiet weather now coming in across the eastern side of australia we've had some western weather coming through tasmania once again not a little system rolling across the by will produce some wet weather there across pushing across the good parts of victoria as well befana try to save me by this state 27 celsius so as floodwaters begin to recede into that eastern side of the south was fun to try to burst but at around 30 celsius in pleasant weather showers

around the table peninsula up around the top and you might catch wanted to showers in around the interior as we go on through saturday they'll tend to fade as we go on into sunday much of a straight up fine and dry by this stage should be a little drier in tasmania but still some showers rolling through here and notice wetter weather just making its way towards new zealand so talking a little more autumnal as we go through the next couple of days we've got wetter weather making its way it's was japan over the next day or 2 cloud in the rain rolling out of that eastern side of china spreading across the korean peninsula make the most of sas day in japan in 1906 and pleasant sunshine in tokyo because it does go downhill that wetter weather will come through the right will be heavy at times possibility of some localized flooding that wet weather spreading to all parts by the end of the day. uncounted but also should rich countries and big pharma give developing countries

to take all the cheap speed up and roll out of vaccines. based in mental health good be good food for mobile economic growth plus islamic finance doesn't cost the religious texts to come to make calls on al-jazeera. what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through. we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. who was the on the earth. welcome back our main stories now says eritrea is agreed to withdraw its forces from ted gray where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians

fighting broke out there in november. france was not complicit in their a one the genocide according to a commission set up by the french government but it does bear overwhelming responsibility for the slaughter which saw 800002 its he's killed in 1904. and at least 32 people have been killed after 2 trains crashed in egypt more than 100 people were injured in the collision when one train train slammed into the back of another. well the crash comes as egypt struggles with a transportation disaster of a different kind the latest attempt to refloat the container ship blocking the suez canal has failed and there are fears the ever given could now be stuck there for several more days more than 200 ships are waiting to get through the canal in the world's largest maritime traffic jam the su is one of the world's most important shipping routes linking asia and europe shipping companies are considering whether to route ships around africa but that could take an extra 2 weeks and as imran khan

now reports it's already affecting the global economy. 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 metres long weighing 200000 tonnes 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 this series can now i'm a feat of amazing engineering the world has taken for granted for 150 years what has happened is very unusual i can't remember it happening before the ever 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 oil 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 wait the suez canal authority says around $20000.00 ships pass through

the canal last year and in egypt billions of dollars in total for the revenue the ever given is one 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. u.s. politicians aspiring of a sudden people crossing the border with mexico including the arrival of unaccompanied children which has reached near record levels in recent weeks members of the 2 main parties have been visiting the border in texas democrats say the trumpet ministration left behind a broken system on able to deal with asylum seekers humanely but republicans blame president biden frank car aging migrants to make the journey well let's go to times he was in mccallum texas and have i suppose it's important to bear in mind that really people are escaping gang violence the economic crisis as well as natural disasters in central america but that doesn't seem to make its way into the debate

or the narrative proposed by either party. neither party ever seems to accept the fact that the reason why there is such instability in central america is in large part due to the success of democrat and republican administrations who have destabilized central america through their foreign policy but yesterday we've had the republicans say that the over crowding out the border is because of a by the administration gone mad they flung open the from ted to disease ridden migrants the coyote's were trafficking them whereas the democrats are saying that no this is a system that was broke couldn't buy trump and now they have as the cavalry to fix the system. all of us today witnessed the biden cage's what is occurring here on the border is heartbreaking and it is a tragedy we requested that media company in the facility by did ministration said

no. the trump administration allowed media inside facilities like that the obama administration allowed media inside facilities like the george w. bush administration had the bill clinton administration hand but the administration wants to hide what is going on here. there's been a lot of discussion some folks would say controversy over the conditions at the border. we need to be clear about something. president biden inherited a situation where the previous administration had sought to dismantle the infrastructure for processing asylum seekers and settling asylum seekers in the united states. and it's true yes donald trump did dismantle the system of asylum in the u.s. at the southern border but it's also true contrary to that republican narrative the joe biden has retained the most draconian parts off that flouting of domestic and

international humanitarian law when it comes to dealing with asylum joe biden is not allowing the vast majority of asylum seekers to get into the system he's not allowing them due process only unaccompanied children and now apparently reluctantly by the decision is allowing in families as mothers and fathers with children under the age of 7 but only because mexico is refusing to take those families i'm vat is why we're hearing increasingly from migrant groups is why we're saying that spike in the number of unaccompanied 16 and 17 year old kids because the adults are being let in. on us the kids are very very young to get facing that die lama as a family at the border do you say homeless in a dangerous mexican border city where we know crime is rife or do that at least send you a 16 or 17 year old child who was there in the system they can begin to get some due process and hopefully that they're at least safer than they would be in mexico

the other county kids to spike it on a couple kids isn't happening. with children traveling up central america and through mexico that separations happening at the mexican border directly because of the biden ministration then you add in the pandemic you had a hurricane you had climate change and you had decades of u.s. foreign policy in the instability in central america some of it by democrats over by republicans some of it by joe biden in the last administration the obama administration well this is a situation you got just just again just briefly wondering about kids children that are now stuck in these facilities that are not accompanied by their families and they're not being processed because the system doesn't have the capacity what are the conditions like for them. well that's one of the other big issues is the is and we saw that in the biden press conference we are not getting access no one's really getting access to to these facilities independent media on if they are on highly choreographed tours off the nice facility the health

and human services refugee resettlement facilities which are designed for children we should say the vast majority of the of the 151-6000 children in the system right now about 1011000 of them are in those sorts of facilities whereas 56000 are in the customs and border protection facilities here at the border which inhumane for adults let alone children who are being overcrowded but we really don't know who what the latest situation is all we do know is that at the best of times customs and border protection facilities are inhumane they're often called the i spokes because they're so they're so cold and in fact exhibiting those republicans who you know you always wonder what are they actually suggesting they're saying they should make the conditions even harsher the latest legislation they produced in congress was to have kids stay out of 30 days in those facilities with no legal representation because they feel that would be more of a deterrent effect against other company children caught crossing the border all right thank you from macao in texas. well in other developments a coalition of civil rights groups is suing the u.s.

state of georgia on the republican governor signed into law sweeping new voting restrictions republicans in many of the states are looking at doing something similar which voting rights activists say will restrict the influence of black voters and as alan fischer reports from washington it hasn't gone down well with the president i thought. from the white house condemnation of georgia's new voting laws your cross city you don't need anything you. know that this is nothing but here is i think people from both was demonstrators gathered in the state house as the republican governor signed this weeping measures behind closed doors why is the governor trying to sign something in private once the legislature was arrested for banging on the door not pulling on the. georgia voted for joe biden in the presidential election then sent 2 democratic senators to congress in a runoff election is panty democratic. is on america. to try to

make it harder for people to vote. rather than making it easier. for people to vote here are some of the key measures in the new law there will be voter id number required for absentee voting that replaces the old signature checks there will be a limit on the number of drop boxes for early voters in each county so it will be less convenient the law makes it an offense to hand out food and drink to those waiting in line to vote and those lines get long but it does expand in past and early voting the man who signed the bill into law says this cuts the chances of electoral fraud georgia's will no doubt be soon overwhelmed with fancy t.v. ads mailers and radio spots attacking this commonsense election reform measure. in fact left wing groups funded by the state billionaires are already doing that now they're using outrageous false rhetoric to scare you into millions of dollars

in their own pocket there was no bribe this is not a. this is a response to is the increase voter turn our. voters in the state of georgia georgia's election process is already seen as one of the most efficient in the country so critics claim this is the solution to a problem that never existed one imagined by donald trump and his supporters it will put pressure on politicians in washington especially democrats to come up with a national baseline for voting rules and regulations and to do it soon alan fischer al-jazeera now britain is china's latest target as it hits back it sanctions imposed on chinese officials by western governments this week of human rights abuses against the weak of people in john province former conservative party leader in duncan smith is among 9 u.k. citizens banned from entering china hong kong and macau or doing business there

china hit back at the e.u. 1st immediately sanctioning several european politicians parliamentarians are now threatening not to ratify a major trade deal with china nike added as a chairman burberry all along the western apparel brands are now being boycotted in china because of their concerns about work practices in chin jan andrew symonds has more. lies of the century is the way the chinese embassy in london described the u.k.'s stand on the human rights of we go in ging jang the foreign ministry in beijing went further saying actions imposed on china by the u.k. and other western powers had been outrageous than the interest hack who now thanks since on chinese individuals and entities citing so-called human rights issues in changing a based on lies and disinformation it breaches international law and basic norms governing international relations and interferes in china's affairs and undermines

bilateral relations among the 9 individuals sanctioned by china is ian duncan smith former leader of britain's conservative party he said the chinese action gave him a badge of honor for speaking out in a tweets u.k. prime minister boris johnson supported those who had been sanctioned writing freedom to speak out in opposition to abuse is fundamental and i stand firmly with them johnson's foreign secretary says the criticism of china will be stopped. he will be summoned and we will explain in very clear terms the position data in relation to the m.p.'s and the other figures are spoken out but also that we will not be silenced. among the issues is the detention and reported abuse of week has in camps which china says are reeducation centers the rift between china and the west on this issue has a new low some analysts say it's likely to get worse. he will not back down.

this would damage the authority of general secretary sitting on but neither can western liberal democracies afford to give ground when it comes to dealing with what is effectively a genocide in india this isn't so much diplomatic spats but a major with andrew symonds. a recap of the headlines now at least 32 people have been killed after 2 trains crashed in egypt more than 100 others were injured in the collision which happened in the center of the country 360 kilometers south of cairo the rail authority says the emergency brakes were triggered on the 1st train bringing it to a sudden halt the 2nd train which was traveling in the same direction then slammed into the.