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u.s. border with mexico the politicians pitting starting different pictures of the challenges there. and trying to expand the boycott campaign targeting western fashion brands as tensions rise about allegations of rights abuses in shing jan. welcome to the program the military has opened fire on protesters in 3 cities and me in marketing at least 10 people. rights groups say they've confirmed the deaths of 320 protesters since the military seized power in a coup nearly 2 months ago but the true number may be much higher the violence coincides with a military parade in the capital where the leader of the ruling joint pledged to safeguard democracy the annual show of force is a tribute to the army's resistance to japanese occupation during world war 2 so he

is following events for us across the border in bangkok in tyler joins us now live tony the crackdown continues despite the ongoing protests and now this escalating number of deaths is being reported. it is indeed was a chilling statement released on state t.v. overnight in myanmar warning protesters that if they came out today they could be shot in the head or in the back and that is clearly a threat that the military is following through we are hearing reports of crackdowns all over the country in the last year and sent shan state early this morning we got news of the fatalities with 2 protesters there shot in the head we've been seeing in mandalay which is miramar 2nd city the city center is really this dense smoke at the moment has as the armed forces have moved in

there burning barricades anything that stands in their way quite openly using live like weapons live live rounds we've seen pictures of snipers in placements all over the city and a not high number of casualties to the protesters did come out earlier in the day a strategy they've employed recently in an effort to avoid confrontation with the security services in mandalay they were out early in the morning parading through the city on motorbikes we understand several people were shot on those occasions too and they really they've been there's nothing holding them back at this stage so holding back the security services we've also seen footage of soldiers setting up and firing just outside the ministry in mandalay and arresting monks. earlier today as well then young gone they were out the protesters came out at 2 30 am in an

effort to avoid a confrontation the soldiers moved in the form we understand the 4 people died but this is a really very much a developing situation those numbers of casualties are increasing literally by the minute and we're hearing of an awful lot of talent is in a lot of awful lot of head shots as well. is that that threat issued by the military on state t.v. appears to be being carried out and indeed very chilling go in the armed forces parade itself was a huge show of my sort of subliminal message perhaps of what anyone is up against if they want to challenge them socially politically or even militarily. absolutely i think there had been some suggestion that the military might postpone this parade or even cancel it given the violence of the last 6 weeks or so. but none of it at all they were out before the crack of dawn thousands of soldiers marching in this huge parade ground outside knepper door we saw tanks coming out

missiles on this ultra helicopters fighter jets and the message was very clear i mean i guess it's ironic that these are weapons of mass destruction that are being deployed at the moment against their own people the head of the joint or general manana lie said that the military had been forced into this coup by the illegal actions of the n l t talked about corruption charges being filed against the end of the of course all of this is proved nonetheless he's following the line that he has followed since the coup and at this stage even despite the sort of huge escalation in the violence being used against the protesters on the streets it seems the is no sign of the military turning course there was only one international delegation present at that military program that of the russian deputy defense minister who said he wanted to

encourage better relations with the military all the other international. diplomatic representatives seem to have avoided it just a representation i think the fact that men are really is entering a period where it's going to be forced into the cold will keep through what happens in the country with you tony as the day progresses thanks very much tony joining the force in bangkok. the delivery of vaccines to poor and middle income countries through the kovacs program could be sent back weeks because of delays from a major indian producer international vaccine buyers have been told that more doses will stay in india after it reported its highest number of new cases for the year on friday but nearly 60000 let's get more this more correspondent to the dealers but probably joining me now from the capital new delhi elizabeth i mean india's announcement that it's keeping its sort of homemade vaccines in country will be

a huge blow to those poor nations who are really depending on india to supply them through the kovacs scheme. it absolutely will so and that's because the serum institute of india is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer it is the biggest supplier to that international un backed alliance known as kovacs the women stude has already sent 28000000 vaccines to kovacs and it was planning to send a further $48000000.15 in april but the kovacs alliance have said that there are going to be delays because of the situation and via the. increasing demand locally because of the rising number of covered 19 cases we've also had serum institute saying that they're going to try to

send to send when they can but there has been a lot of criticism in india and that's because up until about how india has exported more vaccines than the number of people who have been inoculated in the country because along with kovacs india has also been providing vaccines to other countries in aid and commercial agreements more than 60000000 vaccines have been sent to 76 countries and only 58000000 people have been vaccinated in the country so what the rising number of cases we do. you now have a slowdown if not a complete stop now of that scene exports so let's just focus in the old india on exactly where the problems are right now are we talking about the whole of the country or are we talking about specific hot spots. one of the moment maharashtra the western state of maharashtra continues to be the worst affected region it's been recording more than 30000 cases

a day that accounts for more than of the total number of cases being recorded in the country and its capital which is india's financial capital mom by mumbai and maharashtra have been recording the highest number of daily case the since the pandemic began along with maharashtra we have just a handful of states these of punjab cannot. madhya pradesh kettler and time and not and they account for more than 80 percent of the cases in the country but what's worrying is even in places like delhi where the cases are not going up by anywhere near the kinds of numbers we're seeing in maharashtra they have more than doubled since last week in neighboring heidi on a case as are 3 times the number 4 times the number they were 3 weeks ago and so restrictions are coming back in many parts of the country districts in maharashtra have been put on the complete lockdown with health experts with the government saying that the rise in case this is the cause people have not been following the

guidelines off to the cases fell dramatically earlier this year to put the current rise in context we saw a peak of around $100000.00 cases in september last year but that fell to around $10000.00 a day in february and we are back up now to recording over 60000 cases a day and so that is why restrictions are coming back and there are bans on most states have put bans on public celebration of the festival a very popular festival or holy which is coming up tomorrow and monday because. certainly the reaction with that decision. brought it has been for us in new delhi thank you. state elections in india's west bengal state and assam are also underway polling is taking place in multiple phases lasting a month prime minister new interim ots b j p has been mounting an aggressive campaign to secure a win in west bengal for the 1st time both that the state and assam are in the east

and the border bangladesh now the 2 are at the core of tensions about a new law that grant citizenship to minorities from neighboring countries but excludes muslims u.s. politicians have been visiting my group facilities in texas near the mexican border the number of arrivals has reached near record levels in recent weeks and many unaccompanied children it's being called a crisis and democrats and republicans are blaming each other she has returned see has more from macallan in texas. on friday dueling congressional delegation has attempted to frame the us is latest border crisis light across the river we heard. michael are saying we are 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 without testing at all open borders no testing for coven 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 in that tent over there and 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 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. the border wall instead of actually finding. welcome people to the united states president biden has vowed to act swiftly to resolve the overcrowding at the border there at his 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 and to meet the u.s. is now legal humanitarian obligations and give all migrants due process. mccallum texas well still ahead here on al-jazeera the latest attempts to free the. canal failed maritime traffic builds up both ends of the books away. why many artists on the island of bali say that they're struggling to get their stories after the break. face to say we've got some slightly warmer weather pushing into the southeast of here as we go on through the next couple of days will start to lose that snow that we're seeing around and on the other side of the black sea but we have got some

blustery shower still rattling in across the northwest of here but spring showers here will see temperatures around 11 in london there's that wetter weather started to move in a cross and western part of scotland northern areas of england central parts still not too bad although there will be some bits and pieces of shabby rain coming in across germany long spells of brain around the baltic states over towards that eastern side of change for many as we go on into sunday. whether i'm going to say more that what's the weather coming in across northern parts of england blustery showers rattling 3 lossy dry though for central parts west the weather there over towards the crane pushing up towards belarus down towards the southeast at long last ankara getting somewhere near double figures fun a dry close a good part of the mediterranean low we still have that cool breeze dragging in across northern parts of egypt $21.00 celsius in congress that's going to be on the cool side it once again as whenever around $24.00 degrees funny try to many we have

got a few showers there looking around the canaries. but . frank assessments the world is on a brink of a catastrophic model fadia is that a fair assessment if catastrophic global hialeah to twice and valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines the inside story on out his era. move.

welcome back i want you all just 0 of me so whole robin a reminder of our top stories the military has opened fire on anti coup protest as a neared mark killing at least 10 people the violence coincides with a military parade in the capital where the leader of the ruling jointer pledged to safeguard democracy also the delivery of vaccines to poor and middle income countries through the kovacs program could be set back by weeks because of delays from a major indian producer comes as india saw its highest number of new cases this year democrats and republicans are blaming each other for a surge of people crossing the u.s. border from mexico the number of arrivals has reached near record levels in recent weeks. president joe biden has described new voting restrictions of 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 that

macross say the law is intended to suppress the voice of minority voters a lot of fish reports now from washington d.c. . from the white house condemnation of georgia's new voting wants to crush it you don't need anything you. know that this is nothing but you hear this i think people from both. demonstrators gathered in the state house as the republican governor signed this weeping measures behind closed doors why is the governor trying to find something in private one state legislature was arrested for banging on the door. 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 un-american. 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 an 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 in radio spots attacking this common sense 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 the only thing there is

a response to is the increase will return our 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 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 and the company which supplied most of the electronic voting machines for last year's us presidential election is suing fox news for defamation hosts and guests on the conservative network repeatedly and falsely accuse dominion voting systems of helping to rig the election so joe biden could be donald trump dominion is now filing a $1600000000.00 lawsuit its machines were used in $28.00 of the 50 states

including most of the crucial swing states a growing number of western retail giant things reading hate and nike are facing a boycott in china after raising concerns about the suspected use of force labor by weekers inching jones cotton fields the company's made the statements last year but they were reposed by the communist youth league after western governments imposed sanctions on chinese officials that created a backlash on chinese social media with the hash tag i support cotton getting more than 5 and a half 1000000000 views several chinese e-commerce platforms of also joined the boycott by pulling 1000 of products from their online stores they include only barber and j.d. dot com. dozens of chinese celebrities also cut ties and terminated contracts with the browns one of them wrote the country's interests are above all the list is growing with state backed newspaper trying to daily naming more companies that vowed to stop buying cotton from. richard mcgregor he's

a senior fellow at the low institute he says western brands are not willing to take a political stance if it means losing the chinese market the 1st time we've had sort of the us state lead consumer boycotts 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 happen more happening more and of course china is a much more important market for western brands i think h. and m. sweeney still had about 550 outlets in china enough that these companies china is the growth market so it's a real threat to their business and so it has a real impact 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 don't affect their bottom line now we have a case in china where if they do take political stances it's a big wet 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 takedowns against the brands in china how long they last for and how long they persist for as you can see with the power of the state the communist party and its pressure on its traditions they can take your brand offline in 2 seconds and that's what's happened i wonder whether it might be a short sharp bit of pain this time but it could last longer in the future. 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 now local media reports say at least 3 people have died and 23 injured. and the building collapse happened just hours after 2 trains collided in central egypt killing at least 32 people and injuring 165 others the ro authority says someone

triggered the emergency brakes on the 1st train and the 2nd one crashed into it from behind president of the c.c. is promising to punish those responsible japanese owner who have a container ship block new ship soon as canal says crews will attempt to refloat it again during high tide on saturday but experts are holding out little hope with some warning it could take weeks if one can explains. 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 or 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 this series can now ease our feat of our 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. the ever given container ship became wedged across the su 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 and 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 weight the su is canal authority 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 one of the largest container ships in the world but for every hour and every day it remain stuck on a reef and stationary there are concerns about its financial fallout and the impact on global trade him on current. demonstrations against a proposed crime bill in the u.k. have turned violent thousands of people in the city of bristol ignored quota virus restrictions to vent frustration against the bill that would give police new powers to limit street protests some officers say they were pelted with glass bottles and eggs. friends bears overwhelming responsibilities for the rwandan

genocide but was not complicit in the events of 994 that's the main finding of a commission set up by the french government it says the state was blind to preparations for the slaughter of about $800000.00 mainly i think to see is chairing a 3 month period france actively supported the hutu led government at the time the report says it could have done much more to prevent the killings. the indonesian island of bali has been a cultural hub for centuries with galleries and museums displaying the work of traditional artists but the pandemic has false money to close their doors and some artists have found ways to keep selling their work but many say they're struggling to get by jessica washington has the story from jakarta on the island of bali in the village of 5 to one lion mark through has been making and filling masks for more than 50 years they're used for traditional dances and are often sold as

souvenirs too but with only closed to foreign tourists because of the pandemic he struggled to find customers lot of young. there are 300 in 4 families in this film 95 percent of us are masks craftsman because of covert or sales or counsel. 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. old early i cannot do anything else i can't work across structures site i don't have the strength. in tunisia shut its borders he earns 30 dollars each month from fails. nearby another experienced artist works in his studio he could do it soucie is one of a group of artists who created this style of painting. i'm a background that i paint to maintain balinese cults or i want to show people

overseas aboard bali the island the harvesting paddy fields cultivating the land cows ducks flowing water this is bali 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 are 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. 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.

they noticed that he took we will never shut down even if there are no customers i want the world to know that we're 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 just in washington al jazeera to counter. what you observe me as a whole robin a reminder of our top stories mere miles military has opened fire on cue protesters killing at least 10 people the violence coincides with a military parade in the capital where the leader of the ruling judge a pledge to safeguard democracy has more from bangkok we're hearing reports of crackdowns all over the country in last year and sent shan state early this morning we got news of early fatal illnesses with.