police are trying very hard to confront a scenario that happened last week when thousands were rioting in cities across the uk. some protesters started throwing stones at letting off fireworks police on horseback moved into cleary our. 'd 2 children are among the more than 100 people killed in the most violent day of me on mars and he could protests. hello there i missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from dar hall also coming up iran signs a cooperation deal with china the 1st of its kind with a major wild power and good news for its struggling economy.

more protests across the u.s. calling for an end to violence against asian americans. and there's some progress and dislodging the mega ship currently blocking the suez canal but no one knows how long it will take what does that mean for all of us and the global economy. but we begin in myanmar where the military has once again and its weapons on its own people on armed forces day the military opened fire on civilian protesters across the country this is the bloodiest day yet since the february 1st crew more than $100.00 people were reportedly killed in that crackdown including children on top of at least $320.00 deaths that rights groups have already confirmed now this violence coincided with a military parade in the cap. little where the lives of the injuns have pledged to

safeguard democracy and hold elections without giving any time frame that has been global condemnation but the u.s. secretary of state the latest to denounce the violence in a tweet and say blinken says he's horrified by the day's events criticizing me on laws military for what he calls a reign of terror well tony chang has this report now on the day's events and a warning you may find some of the images disturbing from the outset. furthermore about. both. the inconsolable cry of a father who's dead son in his arms the 13 year old boy was shot at his home and central myanmar as the security forces moved in. and muslim just city yangon looked and sounded like a battle zone the soldiers and police roam the streets burning barricades firing stun grenades and live rounds. and pain everyday lives

and he said don't curse the saying these engineers they said these are this a community leaders and he's a student this wounded man was dragged visibly bleeding into the road rather than help provide 1st aid the soldiers beat him as he laid in a pool of his own blood in the southern city of daraa way these 3 men on a motorcycle or shot at random as they passed police trucks to manage to get to their feet and flee a 3rd wounded trapped beneath his bike. and those wounded or killed dragged away unceremoniously to be bundled into army trucks. all of this on a day meant to celebrate myanmar's armed forces but celebrate they did outside the capital naypyidaw on an enormous parade ground and or inspiring display of military hardware and might the gentle leader in his address avoided the fact these soldiers

are now fighting their own people and reinforced his statement that members of the army are the guardians democracy. the armed forces unavoidably assume the state responsibility by lawful means due to the unlawful acts of the n l d led government in the 2020 election after the accomplishment of the state of emergency provision a free and fair election will be rerun and the handover of state responsibility will be continued while the military has faced little opposition so far manned mars armed ethnic groups have been threatening to intervene if the violence continues her young. they continue to shoot at protesters and bully the people i think all ethnic groups would not just stand by and do nothing but it's civilians who now face the military's role 7 year old. was shot in the head inside his home in mandalay don't worry everything will be ok but don't sleep say his parents as they

tried to treat his room. children are now facing the full might of myanmar's military machine tony chang al-jazeera. other countries there other than the u.s. have showing their support for the janitor 8 nations including china and russia sent representatives to saturday's military parade in his address me and last top commander described moscow as a true friend. it is a got out i would like to express my profound gratitude to the high level delegation from the russian armed forces for the pleasure of their company at this military parade i would also like to say that the russian government and the russian armed forces are acknowledged for this substantial support to 1000000 mas armed forces in a friendly manner even though we are far apart well holy mary a kid is another apologist and

a senior researcher at the danish institute for international studies focusing on justice and security meola she says these protests show a failure of the on the strategies. well everybody has spent been fearing what would happen today on the armed forces day where they would use this opportunity to to show increasing might and that they control and that they have the power and the institutional might to do so despite the massive protests that we've seen it's clear now from the massive opposition in the population 'd that the political strategy that the military had to the beginning has failed the strikes by the civil disobedience newman has paralyzed lots of the economy and the civil service and lots and lots of people across ethnic religious and other divides have come together against the military so it seems now that they're using today to show well we're strong and we can control and control the nation but this idea that they

could hold elections and get legitimacy in the population who seemed to be lost so far we've seen people who can be incredibly resilient we especially soon among the young people say 'd we would rather die than live under democracy so i think there's still a lot of energy. there's still a lot of push to mobilize and organize but at the same time we're also seeing people leaving the cities people who are not a ritually from big cities like going back to their rule areas we also see more and more people moving into the border areas that is the border areas where some of the ethnic groups that we mentioned before have nominal control have sort of parallel states and have had so for the kates we have seen people also mean because it is getting increasingly dangerous. now moving on and china and iran have signed a landmark 25 year cooperation pact that deal which has been in the what's now since 2016 was signed by chinese foreign minister and his iranian counterpart job

and zarif beijing is expected to invest in key sectors of iran's economy as part of that agreement in shooting energy and infrastructure the iranian economy has suffered under u.s. sanctions since washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement as a bag has more now from the iranian capital. increasingly iran has been turning to russia and china especially since the former us president donald trump imposed sanctions on iran sanctions are still in place today but this visit does come at a time where china has reportedly stepped up its purchase of direct oil sales for from iran and also this is the highest chinese official that's visited iran since the election of president joe biden in january so both politically and economically iran has been turning to russia and china and back last year in october when the united states and the president donald trump was planning to put forth a motion to the united nations to stop an arms embargo being lifted the foreign

ministry here told us that their understanding was and that they were confident that russia and china would intervene with a veto but this deal does have some does have some critics inside the country even though it's been backed by the highest authority the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei now the former president mahmoud ahmadinejad said that the details of this deal have not been made available to the public and the squid not be really passed by parliament but there were also rumors that iran would be handing over control of some of its islands to china now the government here have denied that they said that there's nothing inside the deal that gives any country control of islands or chinese military forces presence in the country but it does have widespread political support inside this country and it's a way for 'd iran to be independent and build a country in an economy that is sanctions resilient well i don't need is the director of the china policy center he says sanctions will be an incentive for both iran and china to make this cooperation path to success. both beijing and terrell

have a number of reasons for wanting to still given the current international environment it's taken some years to get this deal done so this show politically both countries are looking for partners to work with both on the fair bit of pressure from the united states as we know china's relation with the u.s. is to terrorise significantly in recent years should teach a competition has escalated and president biden is rightly u.s. allies and partners in an effort to call a policy against china so better relations between china and us is not on the horizon in fact competition is likely to deepen and for iran of course it has also been a significant lead it going to come that pressure from the us and all this especially on the trump initiation so if it both are looking for partners to strengthen the hand of the boy diplomatically and strategic isolation beijing is looking for ways to increase trade with non-western countries make foreign investment as part of its building own initiative and importantly secure its energy resources and sea lanes of trade and energy supply so for iran trade with china investment from chinese

companies and importantly the expertise in technology that china can bring to its collaboration with iran a pretty big you sentence and these incentives have being amplified because of the sanctions now protests being held across the united states to condemn a recent rise in acts of violence against asian americans. rather. rallies like this one in new york all demanding an end to asian hates this month 6 women of asian descent who killed in the shoe saying atlanta that incident caused fear among the asian american community which has been increasingly targeted during this coronavirus pandemic how does your castro is it one of those protests for us in washington d.c. . it was a pretty good turnout a few 100 people fewer than there were here last weekend but the activists here so they were in a keep up the pressure because even as the victims of those georgia shootings 6 of

whom were asian american women even as they are being laid to rest this weekend the number of attacks on asian americans across the country continue to grow these are attacks have been captured on surveillance cameras in various cities older people being pushed to the ground unprovoked stabbings people being slashed in the face and of course the racial slurs and comments that many in the asian american community have grown accustomed to and they said that this is simply a pass to stop that it's been enough the group stopped a.p.i. hate has accumulated reports of more than 3800 incidents of hate against asian americans just in this past year and its founders say that very much to blame is former president donald trump and his rhetoric blaming the coded pandemic on china using racial slurs to describe the virus and that's why the activists were

out here today also new york city and los angeles many other places and 60 cities all together and what they're calling a day of action to protect asian americans and demand that these attacks against them stop. while still ahead here on al-jazeera how the coronavirus has neighboring counties countries in latin america nervously eyeing one another. and both loners coronavirus experiment some covert tests get people don't sing again. tornadoes at night arguably even worse than tornadoes by day and you can't see coming the damage is much the same and that was it on its way through georgia got badly hit 12 places wasn't just georgia rockin so too and this is the sort of hours

we're getting these early spring tornadoes it could get worse in fact in the immediate future it is cool that once again come down across the plains we might find yet another junction and this was a line coming through during sunday they look like thunderstorms rather nothing more dangerous at the moment but that's not a sort of the end of it so ask a rather showery day possibly a sunday possibly was during sunday talk and distil cold enough to snow not interrupt unnecessarily but certainly needs no teria as more snow coming in from the pacific on that northerly which i think will make some significant progress well all the way down once again almost to colorado that as it comes across the plains is going to be a drop in temperature and against it we've got this walls that will eventually come back up from the gulf so the potential is likely to grow again for tuesday or maybe wednesday is pretty fine though further south tried breeze when you few showers quite a few showers for this morals the lesser antilles for the most part in the caribbean

it's fine warm and sunny. but. this was wrong to take children away from their parents and herd them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put is a big player and we sort of look after ourselves i don't remember the children's. literature you can it is dark secret on al-jazeera. why. the.

hello again i'm still here tender heart that's remind you about top stories here the salah myanmar has seen its worst day of violence since its military seized power nearly 2 months ago local media say children are among the more than $100.00 people killed in the latest crackdown against protesters a condemnation of the military's actions as come from around the wild with the u.s. secretary of state the latest to denounce the violence in myanmar and the big can says he's horrified by the day's events and what he calls the army's reign of terror. china under run of science a landmark 25 year ration pact the deal will see beijing invest in key sectors of iran's economy including energy and infrastructure the iranian economy has suffered under u.s. sanctions since washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement. no new attempts being made to move the ship that's been blocking the suez canal in

egypt for the past 5 days now the dutch salvage fund that's working to free the ever given says it could be successful by the start of next week the stern of the vessel is now free and they're hoping that higher tides and the arrival of 2 more tug boats on sunday will help their operation well let's bring in josh young he's the chief investment officer and the co-founder at investment firm bison interest he joins us now from houston josh just in terms of the impact of all of this i see greenberg is estimating that each day this continues that's holding up something like 9600000000 dollars of goods i know some of that is oil your firm deals with publicly traded energy equities we've already seen energy prices rise this week do you see that happening again i know others are warning it could even drive up global inflation. yes it's really interesting this specific thing actually is quite small but we're already seeing a lot of inflation show up as well as. people are experiencing consumers are

experiencing in the stores but isn't showing up in the c.p.i. index so well this you $19000000000.00 a day actually is quite small relative to the overall global economy you obviously there are there are ripple effects and we're already seeing a lot of just we've already seen how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted shipping driving up the cost and or the knock on effects of managing than just ics for instance we saw a lack of shipping containers and asia filling all those online orders for the u.s. is something like this just going to compound what are already record high freight prices. yeah that's a great question i mean it seems like great prices have been rising on the back of that i think i saw best characterized as potentially distraught that breaks the camel's back so potentially it's like hard to know exactly what it's going to be that really kicks off substantial additional inflation and maybe a broader recognition of inflation taking place but this this could be it in that

you're saying container ships and available containers for those ships and so on are scarce right now that you're talking about knock on effect so there are lots of things obviously sitting waiting to go through that canal including livestock and we already know how vulnerable supply chains are how long before we start seeing major supply disruptions and could they say impact food prices for instance yeah that's a great question i mean like we're already seeing food inflation kind of independent of this so food price inflation so i think it's just a question of like what does it take to kick things off to the next level and again this on its own is quite small it's horrible that there are i think more than a dozen ships that have live animals on them you know there could be really terrible kind of humane issues there but from a global price perspective this is kind of small i think what it does is it calls attention to an existing problem already which is that you know production capacity

was cut back during coated in the room lots of destruction through that time period and so now we're seeing the price result and so this could just kind of exacerbate what. just what's going through the minds of the onus of the ships that are now sitting there waiting to pass there something like more than 300 of them i know some of the ships are heading around the cape of good hope instead which itself has time and fuel cost implications so how long do you wait before trying to move to plan b. yeah that's a great question that's a kind of whole other concern beyond kind of price inflation i think the owners of the ships do well because they just charge a day rate to the people that are renting the ships but the charters of the ships i think i think could be in a little bit of trouble because if they're obligated to deliver stuff i saw that chevron and shell and other oil transporters as well as transporters of other non oil and gas stuff you know their ships are stuck you know there could be some

significant cost to those specific company and josh also just thinking about it when the when the canal actually is finally cleared the traffic jam that we're seeing is just going to end up at ports right with ships arriving all at once or presumably even further delay is that. yeah although it is important to highlight that the suez canal is relatively small compared to the trade. and across the atlantic as well as across the pacific so relatively speaking this is a relatively small choke point but there could potentially be backlogs and frankly there were already kind of backlogs even before the suez canal issue josh young the chief investment officer at bison interesting to us from houston great to get your insights here on out of there thanks for being with us. thank you now in turkey protests have been held against the government's decision to withdraw from the european treaty to protect women.

the 20 levon istanbul convention signed by 45 countries and the e.u. requires governments to take tough action against domestic violence marital rape and female genital mutilation critics and tacky that i say the accord damages family unity encourages divorce and supports the movement. now the french energy giant turtle has halted operations in mozambique after an attack on the northern town of palma nearly $200.00 people including foreigners trapped in a hotel where fighting is now taking place for a 4th day the amarilla hotel has been under attack by iceland fighters the government is trying to take control of that situation in the coastal town several people have reportedly been killed the reuters news agency is also reporting the deaths of civilians after their convoy came under attack if they tried to escape.

curve in $1000.00 infections are growing and alarming rates and latin america and the spiraling outbreak in brazil driven by those more contagious strains is being blamed for that savage as the country's death toll soars its neighbors are trying to keep those variants from spreading even further across their borders that are reports now from one is areas. there 3 of the worst hit countries in the region brazil mexico and chile. but origin tina also has a. struggling neighbors and i got a place in the middle of a family my the truth is that the neighboring countries are doing very poorly regarding the pandemic and it's good for us to close a bit to restrict to be able to resolve the problem internally. argentina has suffered more than 55000 deaths from the covered 1000 virus but the authorities in one osiris are particularly concerned about the situation over its long border with brazil where more than 307000 people have died and nearly 13000000 have been

infected many of them by the particularly virulent p one and p 2 strains of the virus. if i could go over it and when i arrived here i was almost dead 10 others that it's serious be careful because when it hits you when it hits your lungs you get weak weak weak. neighboring chile sore record number of stepan 1600 infections in a single day despite a tight lockdown covering almost the whole country and the robust next nation program does reach more than half its 90000000 population in some of the insider we all thought that when received the fastest of the vaccine we were protected and that we were immune to the virus but that's not the case. mexico last week became the 3rd country in the world after brazil in the united states to suffer more than 200000 deaths from cobbett 19 to him. when ak lots of people good

people and bad people have died and it hurts not being able to say goodbye as they did. they to join the list of countries no longer able to fly in and out of argentina and others may soon follow. peru has now registered more than one and a half 1000000 infections 11000 in one day 40000 confirmed as the more infectious variant from brazil. the brazilian variant which is a lot more contagious is collapsing our health system. the vaccines are coming but few are a much slower than everyone would like it was apparent from the start of the pandemic that the covered 19 virus was no respect to reporters forcing governments like the one here in argentina to take whatever measures necessary to reduce the impact of the corona virus until their vaccination program started to bite. for the outer 01 osiris or the philippines is again tightening quarantine measures there as

hospitals in manila struggle to cope with surging infections a lockdown will last for a week and will affect 24000000 people living in the capital and the nearby provinces the past 2 days have seen more than 9000 new cases and now the delivery of vaccines to developing countries through the u.n. backed kovacs program could be pushed back by weeks off to india put a hold on exports to prioritise rising infections at home there's a problem reports now from new delhi. for more than 3 months indian made that 19 back scenes have been delivered to countries around the world 60000000 doses have gone to 76 countries as part of aid and commercial agreements but india recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases in 5 months this week and the government says it must now prioritize local supply the director general of the world health organization says that's understandable but it's important india continues to

export vaccines we're already in discussion to keep a balance sort out they can use locally but of the same time continue to provide. other countries vaccines from the serum institute of india. the serum institute of india which is making the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is the world's largest manufacturer and the biggest contributor to the u.n. fact that finance india's decision to reduce exports is already being felt on the seas. medium as you go and buy that scenes from a country pay for it part of the shipment arrives in the country and one of the 2nd plane flies there their attorney general blocks the shipment these are unpredictable things that we think's botched there will be some relief in india itself health workers in maharashtra the worst affected and 2nd most populous state

struggling to deal with the highest number of cases since the pandemic began. there were no beds available for them here there's also a shortage of resident doctors even the resident doctors who are available overloaded with work and getting enough. there's also a shortage of supplies from the administration to an extent that is being resolved but it's not fast enough because the number of patients is so hard as cases rise the government has faced criticism that is export it more doses than for the 58000000 of its own citizens who have so far been inoculated the government is running behind its own should you look back so they sent 300000000 people but all this is to address that is expanding the criteria that was eligible for baxter as the plans to do a lot it's an occupation dr elizabeth cohen of al-jazeera new delhi. now i want to also learn as top music venues will hold a concert for 5000 people in

a covered 1000 experiment organizers want to see just how well they can prevent the virus from spreading at large events concert goers must present a negative test taken that day and also wear face masks summer event was held back in december. as a senior lecturer at university college london school of pharmacy she says such experiments will provide insight into the most effective ways to keep people safe. i think this is actually really important to better understand how economies that you have high rates of vaccination shouldn't flirt with any confined space so this type of experience is not the 1st we've seen similar again back in december we had a similar experience again in barcelona with 500 people there 5000 and equally also in berlin and germany and this is all going to be critical in terms of understanding exactly how we can provide interventions that keep people safe

journey in a pandemic when we know of course the rest of the world is lacking access to vaccines so in one sense this is a plan forward is a way to ensure that economies can recover in the short term but we also need to keep one eye about everything outside of our own borders and i don't think that countries within europe or u.k. are doing not sufficiently. clear that this is al jazeera and these are the headlines man mall has seen its worst day of violence since its military seized power in 18 months ago local media say children are among the more than 100 people killed in the latest crackdown against and to protest and punishment has flooded around the wilds with the u.s. secretary of state the latest to denounce the violence there and say blank and says he's.