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border with mexico painting starkly different pictures of the challenges there. china expands a boycott campaign targeting western fashion brands as tensions rise over allegations of abuse inching john and brazil's worrying coronavirus strained an alarming increase in infections among young people. to the end. to. the leader of myanmar's ruling giunta has promised to safeguard democracy and protects the people as the military put on a show of force in an annual parades. the pledge was in sharp contrast to earlier warnings out on tycoon protesters who interrupted the armed forces day commemorations could be shot the event walks the army's resistance to japanese occupation in world war 2 meanwhile another 3 people

were killed in protests on friday rise groups say they have confirmed the deaths of $320.00 protesters since the military seize power almost 2 months ago but the true number is likely to be much higher as bring in tony chang who's in bangkok our forests following developments in myanmar tell us 1st tony about the message the army's trying to send today by going ahead with this parade. but clearly it's a force we saw the parade start even before dawn has broken in the door of the capital of india. with thousands of show soldiers marching out on this parade ground there were overhead fly bys by fighter jets helicopters rocket launchers paraded cannons fired and then we heard a message from minong by the head of military gent who said that violent acts of protests were inappropriate he said. unlawful acts would be punished

he accused leading members of the n l d including aung san suu kyi of being guilty of corruption he said they'd already been found guilty but further investigations were ongoing of course no actual evidence of that and he repeated again the claims of the military joined to the coup was necessary because of electoral impropriety in the general elections last november which the n.l. the one with a huge landslide but again i think what we're seeing here is the military showing its strength trying to really. create the impression people's minds that any opposition is absolutely futile that said people are still going out and they have been since the very early hours of this morning in fact in yangon protests started at 230 a strategy they've tried to employ to avoid encounters with the military and that

despite a very stark warning on state television last night that protesters would be shot in the head or in the back so no doubt as to the kind of resistance that will be met by anyone protesting on the streets of me amount of day thank you for that tony tony chang away that update there from bangkok. in other news a residential building has collapsed in egypt's capital cairo it's unclear how many were in the multi-story building when it came down in the middle of the night local media reports say at least 3 people have died in 23 others are injured and this building collapse happened just hours after 2 trains collided in central egypt killing at least 62 people and injuring another 165 the railway authority says someone triggered the emergency brakes on one of the trains and the other crashed into it from behind the president is promising to punish those responsible.

to the u.s. now where politicians sparing over the surge of migrants crossing the border with mexico including the arrival of unaccompanied children which has reached record levels in recent weeks both democrats and republicans have been visiting facilities in texas and blame each other for the crisis chabris hand reports of macallan texas on friday dueling congressional delegation has attempted to frame the u.s. is latest border crisis light across the river we heard coyotes human smugglers saying we're coming republicans have been using social media to bolster their narrative of a free for all being taken advantage of by traffickers and undocumented migrants we have an upside down border policy in america what do i mean we have open borders on the southern border there's no doubt by the way the people come in and were released immediately almost testing they're all open borders no testing

for covert but in fact president biden has retained the most draconian of donald trump's migration policies for asylum seekers in violation of domestic and international humanitarian law only unaccompanied children and in the last month parents with children under 7 are being allowed to claim asylum migrant rights groups say this is the reason why families faced with the uncertainty of homelessness in dangerous mexican border towns are choosing to send their teenage children across the border unaccompanied in the hope that at least they will find safety when asylum seekers are released those not sent to government run refugee facilities are sent to border cities like macallan texas the refugees release here have to rely on a local catholic charity which gives them a covert test and turned over there and then helps reunite them with their family members in the u.s. the democratic party congressional delegation said the fault lay with donald trump 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 the reality is more complex 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 war. instead of actually finding humane ways to welcome people to the united states president to act swiftly to resolve the overcrowding at the border the press conference on thursday he suggested his main strategy was pressuring mexico to take in more asylum seekers but migrant rights groups say the short term solution is to flood the border with resources to process refugees to meet the u.s. is legal humanitarian obligations and give all migrants due process.

mccallum texas. on the other side of the border in mexico he says migrants. hopeful to get into the u.s. one day. well we've been returning to this migrant camp at inch up but i'll port of entry really just a few meters away from the us mexico border where there are somewhere between 80058500 migrants that have been camped out here some of them for over a month others new arrivals in the time that we've been here over the past few days we've seen a steady flow of people continuing to arrive in in fact the 1st line of tents that we have behind us here is actually just popped up overnight and people here are abreast of the news a lot of the folks that we've been speaking to say that they did actually listen to that press conference yesterday where president biden made it very clear that the border is closed where he said that he expects mexico to share in the burden of

taking care of migrant families that will be inevitably deported from the united states back to mexico but the overwhelming sentiment to the common theme that we hear from families whether it be central american families from countries like honduras and guatemala or families from southern mexico seats like me truck on and one haka and psychotic us fleeing violence linked to cartels there is hope they hope that by the grace of god by u.s. authorities border authorities will change their minds will open the borders give them opportunity to plead their asylum cases to u.s. officials. a growing number of western retail giant sink looting h. and m. and nike are facing a boycott in china for expressing concerns about the use of weak will force in labor production in shing jiang the company's made the statements last year but they were repulsive by the communist youth league after western governments impose sanctions on chinese officials that sponte huge backlash on chinese social media

with a hashtag i support john cotton getting more than 5 and a half 1000000000 views several e-commerce platforms also join the boycott by pulling h. and m. products from their online stores they include and dot com thousands of chinese celebrities have also cut ties in terminated contracts with the brands one of them wrote the country's interests are above all and the list is growing with state backed newspaper china daily naming more companies that vowed to stop buying cotton from sheen john let's speak to richard mcgregor about this his senior fellow at the no institute and joins us via skype from sydney very good to have you with us on richard this just goes to show you doesn't it the power of chinese state in social media in whipping up nationalism and a reminder of the challenges western brands faces a court the men spending power of chinese consumers it's a very tough position to manage isn't it. well just about impossible to manage really i mean so the 1st time we've had sort of state lead consumable it cuts in

china against japanese south korean goods in the past but i feel it's different this time for a number of reasons this is an explicit response to western sanctions against china and. this case which of course is something that's going to be happened more happening more and of course china is a much more important market for wisdom brands i think h. and m. the swedish still had about 550 outlets in china enough that these companies china is the growth market right so it's a real threat to the business and so it has a real impact here as you say shane jiang is the man usually thorny issue because they have been. in the past but this one seems different and western brands face pressure at home to distance sam south boston from possible abuses in change and do you think this campaign by china will actually work what impact do you see it happening. well it's a very good question and we know that

a lot of western brands in western countries have taken stances against racism against sexism and the like and they're quite willing to take political stances but they really done affect their bottom line now we have a case in china where if they do take political stances it's a big whack to their bottom line so that's the 1st thing is difficult at the companies in that respect the 2nd thing is the extent to which these current sort of the take downs against the brands in china how long but last fall and how long that the system for as you can see with the power of the states the communist party and its pressure on its jewishness they can take your brand all climb in 2 seconds and that's what's happened one that whether it be a short shop at a time this time but it could last longer in the future and looking at the bigger picture and tell now beijing had had more cordial relations then with them with the european union then they did with the u.s. but in the coordinated western sanctions against china and china's ensuing respond

has led some to describe this as possibly a new cold war emerging would you agree with with this i mean there is an end to dependence between the 2 sides a trading partner is can they really a 14 gauge into this cold war. well that's the problem with the cold war analogy is the economic independence but of course that what we have now happening on top of that is a quote of you know consumer separation perhaps separation and technologies and the like so you know on top that integration is being sort of unwound a little bit now i think it's a cold 'd war ish in this respect is this shows by the way these sanctions against the new and against european products and american products is just to china signed a trade deal with the e.u. a political coup but this shows that china's prior these are political at home in other words they are going to stand by the system at home no matter what happens

abroad and that respect is you know lots of resonance of the cold war feel like even if the analogy is not really 100 percent accurate richard mcgregor thank you very much for talking to us about this thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera anger and arrests as the u.s. state of georgia signed controversial new voting restrictions into law. by covert 19 why many artists on the island of bali in indonesia say they're struggling to get money. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways. 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 find and try temperatures here in doha to around $38.00 celsius a brisk when those system lifted just the sand 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 run 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 westie disturbance coming through here meanwhile across the whole of africa we have got largely clear skies more sunshine coming through one or 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 notice a little bit more cloud just around that east aside off south africa is going to be rather wet here with the rank rationing if you weigh. sponsored by

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promised to safeguard democracy and protect the people as the military put on a show of force in an annual parade earlier the army warned on tight protesters who interrupted the event could be shocked u.s. politicians have been visiting border facilities in texas following a surge of migrants arriving in recent weeks democrats say they've inherited a broken system from the trump administration while republicans accuse president biden of encouraging asylum seekers to me the journey. and a growing number of western retail giant so facing a boycott in china for voicing concern over the alleged use of wiggle forced labor inching john dozens of celebrities and economists platforms are cutting ties with the bronx. or britain has also been targeted by china as it heads fact that sanctions imposed on chinese officials by western governments now 9 u.k. citizens politicians lawyers and academic have been banned from entering china hong

kong and macau or doing business there andrew symonds has the details. live of the century is the way the chinese embassy in london described the u.k.'s stand only human rights of. the foreign ministry in beijing went further saying actions imposed on china by the u.k. and other western powers had been outrageous thembi inches high who now. runs on chinese individuals and entities citing so-called human rights issues in sion jacking a based on lies and disinformation it breaches international law and basic norms governing international relations it interferes in china's affairs and undermines bilateral relations among the 9 individuals sanctioned by china is ian duncan smith's former leader of britain's conservative party he said the chinese action gave him a dollar for speaking out. in the tweets u.k. prime minister boris johnson supported those who'd 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 embassador he will be summoned and we will explain in very clear terms the position breaker 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 weak is in camps which china says are reeducation sentence the rift between china and the west on this issue has a new low some analysts say it's likely to get worse this is if you will not back down on 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 rift andrew symonds out. u.s. president joe biden has described new voting assumptions in the state of georgia as outrageous and atrocity the law will curtail voting hours and make it a crime to provide water to voters while they wait to cast their ballots democrats say the law is intended to suppress the voice of minority voters alan fisher has more from washington. from the white house condemnation of georgia's new voting what's your curiosity you don't leave me here oh. no this is nothing but you're here because i think your phone was demonstrators gathered in the state house as the republican governor signed the sweeping measures behind closed doors why is the governor trying to sign something in private once the legislature was arrested for banging on the door. pulling on

a. georgia voted for joe biden in the presidential election then sent 2 democratic senators to congress in a runoff election is panti 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 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 read it to scare you into millions of dollars in their own pocket there was no bribe this is not about. this is a response to is the increase voter turnout black and brown 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 a 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 demonstrations against a proposed crime bill in the u.k. have turned violent thousands of people in the city of bristol ignored coronavirus

restrictions to vent frustration over the bill that would give police new powers to limit street protests some officers say they were pelted with gas got glass bottles and eggs it's a fair protest against a proposed bill in a week. a car bomb has exploded in a town in southwest colombia injuring at least 17 people it happened outside the mayor's residence in corinto the region has seen an increase in violence in spite of a 2016 peace deal between the government and fock rebels present yvonne doki has condemned the attack as an act of terrorism and ordered a military response. brazil has reported more than 3600 coronavirus deaths a new record for a single day and as the death toll mounts there is alarm over the growing number of young people becoming seriously ill and dying from covert 19 it's one of several worrying trends that are forced state and local authorities to take action when it came back every force from rio de janeiro. in an unusual holiday in rio de janeiro

with empty streets in a crowded sidewalk protesters angry at the latest government to addict the mayor's a real one some have decreed an extended holiday and shut down brazil's 2 major cities keeping only essential services open and hundreds took to the streets saying they want their jobs back. informal workers see they're being punished for mistakes made by others much damage damage that we represent 50000 beach vendors who are left with no income the lack of vaccines and public policies to encourage the use of masks and control clan destroying parties have led to this chaos where the ones paying the price. more than 300000 brazilians have lost their lives jacoby 19 since the ban demick began a year ago hospitals across the country are running out of rooms medicine oxygen for the growing number of patients and what's more worrisome the virus and its more

infectious variants are killing young people since january been a number of brazilians in their thirties infected by cope of 19 has increased by 500 percent infections among those in their forty's have risen 600 percent. doctors in this intensive care unit say they have seen a dramatic increase in the number of patients below 60 years of age or how much power this tendency began in february joined carnival the festivities were cancelled but people partied anyway it's. specially young people who are now getting sick and spreading infections to others just this month a huge open air festival was held in the modest slums of rio de janeiro. and the police had to break up this plan this time party in a middle class neighborhood. on friday the federal government announced that brazil was developing 2 national vaccines one of them comeback is ready for clinical

trials after a slow start there is hope brazil me jump start it's a marquis lation program targeting not just the old but increasingly the youngest well monica you knock you all just 00. health officials are warning that germany's latest wave of corona virus could be the worst so far they've confirmed to more than 20000 new cases people have been a shift stay home during the upcoming easter holiday to help slow the rapid rise in infections if years they could be as many as $100000.00 new cases every day and less to spread is curbs is acknowledged as the civilian movie had become there are clear signals that this we have 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. the funeral for tanzania's former president john michael fully has been held in his hometown he died last week from what the government said was hot complications so there's speculation he had covered 19 by before he was a prominent coronavirus skeptic only admitting to a problem in the country this year a service in a chattel is the latest of several memorials held across the country over the past week. now for centuries indonesian island of bali has been a cultural hub with galleries and museums displaying the work of traditional artists but the pandemic has forced many to close their doors some artists have found ways to keep selling their work but many say they're struggling to get by jessica washington reports from jakarta on the island of bali in the village of birth to one y. and mother who has been making and selling masks for more than 50 years they're

used for traditional dances and are often sold as souvenirs to us but with barely closed to foreign tourists because of the pandemic he struggled to find customers want to go out why young. there are 300 or 4 families in this village 95 percent of us are masks craftsman because of covert all sales were canceled. some artists in the village have turned to other jobs but that's not an option for everyone so you know that when the good many of us about the suffering i'm old only i cannot do anything else i can't work of course structured site i don't have the strength. since indonesia's shut its borders he earns 30 dollars each month from sales nearby and other experienced artist works in his studio he could do it soucie is one of a group of artists who created this style of painting look at me. i'm a guy that i paint to maintain balinese culture i want to show people with the

supported by leave the island the harvesting paddy fields cultivating the land cows ducks flowing water this is. his granddaughter set up an instagram page to help sell his paintings online although he's forced to sell at a cheaper price he says he's fortunate. that. these days many people love stop painting entirely because it's so hard to sell their work. gallery owners are also feeling the impact with almost no walk in customers at this wood carving showroom nothing has been sold in months yeah here don. but this is the darkest moment for the tourism industry there were incidents like the bali bombings and the volcanic eruption that impacted tourism but it's worse now. he's determined to stop his business from closing down like many

galleries have. noticed but he took we will never shut down even if there are no customers i want the world to know that we are fighting. even though he isn't making any sales he still orders new sculptures from local artists to keep the industry alive while they all wait for better days jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. hey again i'm fully back to bo with the headlines on al-jazeera the leader of myanmar as well in june to has promised to safeguard democracy and protect the people as the military put on a show of force in an annual parade the army warned anti-corporate testers who interrupted the event could be shot tony chang has more from bangkok we did see large numbers thousands and thousands of troops coming out. to parade on the square

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