limitation our society has structural racism built into the part of. an atom rather people tend to be migrant labor disproportionately women in care where he comes down supposed to. be unscripted and al-jazeera. suicide bombers targets a cathedral in indonesia silly ways the island at the start of easter week at least 14 people are injured. so rob marciano is there a line from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes at least 60 houses a damaged in a fire in me and miles latest crackdown against anti cooper testers a day after 114 people were killed also

a cry for help nearly 200 foreign workers are trapped in a hotel in north in mozambique after a remote town was attacked by an armed group. energy from the east howard ancient chinese martial art is finding its way into iran's public space since. back into the program at least 14 people have been injured in a suicide bomb attack on a cathedral in indonesia it was carried out in the city of macassar on the island of sicily ways a as a congregation was gathering for the 1st day of easter week police say the attackers tried to enter the building on a motorcycle but was stopped at the gate before the bomb went off a fact that got it but again. it happened during the shift change of prayer the attacker was trying to enter a church and one of our stuff was suspicious when the attacker was trying to stand near the gate and later at the bomb exploded. just to washington joins us now from

the capital jakarta eyewitness testimony there from the location but what are the authorities saying jessica about this attack. well so we have heard from indonesian authorities just in the recent hours speaking out about this horrific attack which happened on palm sunday an important day for christians around the world we recently heard from the president of indonesia joker widodo who said that he condemns this attack and that all religious teachings rejects this kind of violence he's urged the public to remain calm and said that indonesia does protect all individuals and gives people the freedom to worship peacefully now he has called on every indonesian to work together to fight terrorism in this country we've also heard from the minister of religion who has reiterated the importance of moderate religion of peaceful teachings and also

called on security to security forces to increase the efforts around places of worship not just churches but places of worship generally we have heard from indonesia's national counterterrorism agency which has declared this to be an act of terrorism we don't yet know what has motivated the 2 attackers and we also don't know whether they belong to a particular network the investigation into that matter is still continuing and of course just a guest on al-jazeera that we spoke to sort of talked about the fact that the authorities have increased security around places of worship for minority groups as the years have progressed there have been successive attacks on various groups what's your understanding of the sort of security process and protection for minority groups at the moment. well so hell if we were having this conversation 10 or 15 years ago it would be a very different matter but the reality is is that security forces indonesian

authorities have been very successful in improving the security situation in indonesia not just around places of worship not just protecting religious minorities but indonesia in general we have seen this concerted concerted effort carried out by security forces by the police as well against this handful of active militant organizations within indonesia to the extent that now for the most part when these attacks do happen they happen on a small scale with a low number of casualties and often more often than not the fatalities a limited to the bombers themselves that doesn't mean the threat is completely at 0 the threat does still exist it does however mean that often we see that the police or security forces themselves have sort of become the number one target for these organizations so what we don't yet know in terms of this attack was whether this attack was in retaliation in response to the recent arrests that have been made of

some members of militant organizations what we do know is that as the security situation has improved the security situation has improved in part because of the arrests because the of the active role of security forces and that has really sort of dampen down on the power of these groups because some of the expertise in terms of people who may have been involved in planning these attacks or bomb making some of the pin those people are already arrested or behind bars what that means is that these groups are mostly limited to small scale attacks within communities with a low number of casualties now it doesn't mean that there is no threat for indonesia but for the most part it does seem unlikely that there would be further attacks on churches in this east to seasonal for the major attacks but it is something we'll have to continue to monitor. washington for us because. the pressure is building on me a mars militant a global condemnation grows over its crackdown on anti q.

protesters saturday was the bloodiest day since the army seized power nearly 2 months ago with reports of at least 114 people being killed military chiefs from the u.s. and many other allies issued a rare joint statement denouncing the amounts of forces saying there should be protecting and not harming the people teaching has the latest from bangkok in neighboring thailand. there's no hiding the soldiers in between the police anymore they're just coming out there's no hiding the automatic weapons in amongst the rubber bullets and those rifles they're just firing indiscriminately we saw that out on the streets yesterday the funerals and now starting to take place all across . we've seen the mat in mandalay. and this i think is an opportunity for people to come out and show some sort of protest a lot of the street protests haven't been taking place there because people are planning to attend those funerals the security services as i understand it so far

have backed off and that's something they have done in the last couple of weeks let those funerals go ahead ended but there are also people waking up to massive destruction in mandalay overnight there was a huge fire in the p.g. township which destroyed 60 homes and people were trying to get in there to put these fires out and we're being fired on by the security security services now people are trying to collect medicine food basic bedding clothing and shelter for those people they still can't get there because the security services are in the way and they're scared of going out into the streets again and i think that's an indication of how desperate the situation is getting and how bleak the outlook is for at least the next couple of weeks inside myanmar. but doctors are so was appointed as me a special envoy to the u.n. by the disbanded parliament he walls of the international community fails to intervene because plunged into

a fully fledged civil war. it is impossible for us to express the pain that we feel when we saw those foreign deployment try me hands with those celebrations of military age and others these showed their current smoking guns and dissolute all those weapon that it is placed today was to only kill the people of myanmar is disgraceful it is unacceptable and today we know who are the friends of the people of myanmar and who are the friends of military generally jeems who are now be car their release up in addition we name all to show that even then these military to the worse are there already is a commission there for all international community we appealed to them.

did this member of the middle it in the rose should be designed it did as for aim there are always organizations labeled as stories organization because 'd they have to be kidding the enormous than arms people of myanmar so what do we need to prove more how many people will die before international take action we need powerful strong and target international sanctions economic early and diplomatic ready we need unify and strong message coming from our neighbors and also for with us in a common india united nations if this no actions only words i'm afraid my country we have to go through. the craters see if you will that we have never seen before and it's almost impossible to imagine that the blood in

days and months ahead this where we have to be a pyrrhic to international community to punish this is general worst military to nurse who are not become terrorist organization as soon as possible before my country call ups completely. the french energy giant total has halted operations in mozambique after the attack on the town of parma in the northern province of cover delgado nearly $200.00 people including foreign nationals of trapped in a hotel where fighting is into its 5th day. hotel has been attacked by fighters linked to eisele and the reuters news agency is reporting that some civilians who try to escape have been killed or would toss a joins us now from harare in neighboring zimbabwe of course details sketchy as we get them but what more do we know about what's actually going on in parma.

well communication has been down for a few days so getting information from my that we can independently verify it isn't easy but what we know so far from official sources is that the attack happened when they are to noon armed groups into the town from different directions they targeted a bank of business center and indeed also targeted some kind of army post or police post people in the town ran away into the bush people in a neighboring village also ran into neighboring worst ones and we can give them some foreigners were holed up in a hotel there in part we've been told that some of them have been evacuated to pay back the provincial capital the attack happened just hours after the french capital trial and now it's resuming operations in the area thank you will think the attack could have something to do with that but the another theory relatively quiet in that area for a while there was a charm for humanitarian workers to finally bring in food and medicine into the

area through the is a theory that the armed groups the insurgents are possibly targeting those supplies as well and of course one wonders what sort of assistance the mozambican authorities are getting to fight these insurgency it's quite a remote part of the country. the is the place very very remote the south african government has fear that some of its citizens are stranded in the area of the beach that started in the embassy in matthew termers and his capital and the plan is to try and reach out to anyone who still trapped in that area the united states that is going to send special forces to train the mozambican on the portugal the former colonial power has committed to changing the minds and beacons there are reports that south africa is also training people in the mozambican army there's also reports of private armies operating in that area they need god's gas installations some of them are from south africa and there are reports that been evacuating people from that hotel to locations when it comes to

the region 7 as you got what are leaders in this village and doing about the problem in my eyes i'm beginning to have meetings on and off virtually or in person waiting to see if there is a plan to help mozambique but they haven't said what that plan is going to be so people are speculating that that figure is a big economy in the region people assume it has equipment if there is a military intervention they could go in and some countries in the region could help them also with that process humanitarian workers are now concerned they saying that any military intervention of course is going to take people on the ground and they say do we know that some of those people from part my neighboring areas are trying to get here towards paying back the eventual capital they will get some assistance from aid workers and government officials and because the place is now getting very very crowded the government are going big and humanitarian workers are trying to move some of these people to think the areas in the country which also in harare thank you for the update. well still ahead here on how does there

a national day of action protesters across the u.s. demand an end to prejudice and violence against asian americans also. reclaiming their future we hear from one young farmer in zimbabwe looking to change land reforms to help the next generation to stay with us here on out is there a. there's been some breakout sherry rain running up to the end among nicobar as you see from the cloud there to be reflected in the forecast doesn't necessarily mean it's a 1st push it might just be a bit of a circulation then start to come back down again that's the hint that i would sumatra there's been a gap in the middle there are still some showers in borneo but the heavy ones that

look in the southern philippines down towards sort of ways it but java's still covered in mostly light showers it's still after all rainy season really now thanks to the rain has stopped in new south wales the floods have doggone pork or lost my looks wasn't entirely back with power either however there's a hint of more showers coming up cigs the same part of new south wales in the next day or so mostly the whole continent is druther a few tropical showers it's warm in perth at about 33 degrees that's light to drop down i think there is significant rain on the other side of the tasman the still a feed of moisture coming down from the tropics which means for the north and in particular monday looks quite wet and that hint of the air coming of the mountains and warming up is still there in christchurch a nice warm day for you were 27 degrees but let me cut off the supply of water back down to know about 20 on tuesday and the rain is still falling in northern ireland .

mexico's coded 1000 death toll is one of the one tightest with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital with the deadly upsurge she never took to take a good half a 1000000 visitors every day there's really no way that they could put her through this is to go with that for. all has the governments on all of the drug strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against 19 on al jazeera. moos. hold. of the back you're watching al-jazeera me so he'll run

a reminder of our top stories at least 14 people have been injured in a suicide bomb attack on a cathedral in indonesia that was carried out in the city of macassar as the congregation was gathering for the 1st day of the easter week military chiefs from the u.s. a nearly a dozen other countries are issued a rare joint statement denouncing me amal security forces saying they should protect citizens not harm them and that's after these 114 people killed on saturday . and the french energy giant total halted operations in mozambique following an attack on the remote northern town really 200 people including foreign nationals of trapped in a hotel in hama. protests against a rise in violence and discrimination against asian americans have been held across the u.s. the number of rallies has grown since a gunman killed 6 women of asian descent in atlanta heidegger castro has more from washington d.c. . as burials for the victims of the georgia asian spa shootings continue people

gathered in cities across the country for multi-day rallies against asian hate the crowd in the chinatown neighborhood of washington d.c. numbered about $100.00 among them was lille new when who left vietnam 8 years ago to study in the u.s. i didn't travel across the border to america to stay silent he says he had to speak up after the georgia mass shooting and after seeing a growing number of unprovoked attacks on asian americans this past year many of the victims have been elderly asian culture is we put our our our oldest our elder 1st so to see the most horrible people in our community and also the most well respected people in our community being attacked. we're we're even young in the young people we could take that personally and we part fear has been growing in a good american communities across the country many who had protested that they had

never taken their voices to the streets before but were now pushed to action because of everything violent that i walked in the street people were calling names out of nowhere and why why would you do that to the people of this kind of inherent racism there even as the protests continue more asians are being attacked one woman was punched in the face last weekend after attending a protest in new york with her daughter and near los angeles a man drove through a crosswalk during a stop asian hate rally yelling racist profanities asian americans are speaking out in a lot of white. black americans according to the a.p.i. good feel for the u.s. in this together the protesters blame former president donald trump for stoking racism against asians by linking them to the coronavirus they fear that open. a floodgate of heat that led to the killings and the attacks and they demand. how did

you castro al-jazeera washington. mexico has increased its official covert 19 death toll by nearly 60 percent the government said on saturday the real number of coronavirus deaths is more than 321000 or not 201000 as previously reported mexico's testing rate is low and its health care system is overwhelmed and that means that many people are dying at home without being tested well chile has launched its strictest coronavirus lockdown yet to curb the rise in cases more than 80 percent of the population is under mandatory isolation the president says it's necessary to ease pressure on the health care system about 40 percent of the population has been vaccinated more than any other latin american nation it more and more you that we have restricted transit through lockdowns and cemetery controls today more than

16000000 countrymen are under quarantine we are fully aware of the difficulties and sacrifices that this major means to july and families but to protect health to protect the lives of all our citizens is definitely our 1st priority now the number of crowd of virus deaths in brazil has topped 3000 for the 2nd day in a row the country now accounts for a quarter of the world's cove in $1000.00 hay tallaght ease and health experts are warning it could get worse the health care system is already struggling with intensive care units in most states near or at full capacity and like brazil state governments in the u.s. have considerable autonomy in dealing with the pandemic florida's republican governor faced criticism for refusing to shut down the economy or make it compulsory to wear masks now he says the state's economy is booming and his approach was right all along and he gallaher reports now from miami. businesses shouted deserted streets and strict measures in tackling

a global pandemic for most states in the u.s. these are familiar scenes but in florida it's a different picture there have been no statewide code restrictions for more than 6 months with restaurants and beaches open at full capacity republican governor ronda santa says his decisions which critics accuse of flying in the face of science based advice were right we actually have people opening new businesses here we actually have people hiring people our employment rates much less than the national average in way less than a lot of the walk down states like california new york today though we did we can build off this momentum that momentum is obvious in places like miami where tech finance companies and restaurants and relocating unemployment here is also lower than states like new york and california but encouraging people to come to florida has consequences oh. the authorities in miami beach put a curfew in place after thousands of revelers many masculists flocked to beaches

and bars the unusual move came after officials decided to spring break crowds posed a serious risk to public health and security there has been gun play opened brawling and other hazards and all that in the midst of a pandemic where mask usage and physical distance thing seems like an afterthought if that so we've had to implement measures we would prefer not to deploy but must the real metric that matters here is the state's reaction to covert 19 death rate per capita in florida places it 24th in the nation or right in the middle of a 30000 people have died and variants of covert 900 still pose a serious threat gov decided to spoil the policies have been vindicated some think it's too soon to say tourists a still flocking to the state driven in part by loose restrictions cheap flights and covert fatigue but economists say it may be years before the true cause. asked is known went wild all the aleve dance that we were going to. people knew this and

this is part of the reason why they did come to florida from an. on again you cannot really measure the economics and something year out or what is a constant terms of lives what has the constant terms of. and so on as the u.s. heads towards an uneasy return to normalcy challenges remain for the entire nation florida may have fared better than expected but the u.s. death rate remains among the highest in the world and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida high unemployment in zimbabwe makes it difficult for young people to find work and some of the coming farmers to earn a living in other leasing land or using farms their parents acquired during the government's land reform but more than 20 years after land was seized from whites some farms are still up being fully utilized so young farmers like terence my foes i say that needs to change my name is dead as my boys are also known as the

prince mark of really. 29 years old and i'm a farmer in zimbabwe the journey to becoming a farmer. it's came after a realisation that. i need a lasting solution to my personal financial program. it's difficult it's almost impossible to get employment after college or after 18 even all of our cities get on a level so to get by this issue has been and it's to going to create employment is special in our days right now i mean a small village you can see it's a small small village i don't only lent you this 4 spaces from a mum. so if my mum to want to decide which is me that means i'm lentulus. i believe the length of the reform programme now should be targeted at the youth because we are the future in the future is now so for us to secure the future for

the united nations to come we need to give the youth the length maybe the government would need to take a lead audit maybe and see those who are utilizing it positively and those who are not and those who are not they should be. taken of them and be given to the use was showing signs of potential to utilize the in positively. to be honest i see is subgroups in my business coincidentally way way in how i started into i am right now. and managing to take care of my family to give myself and even to expand more so for me something positive and i'm liking it and i believe in dick has to come. support is an ordinal position at that is the breadbasket of africa off southern africa i believe it was the us and are

taking a step at new terms of being made to move the ship the block the service canal in egypt for 6 days a dutch salvage firm working to free the ever given sands they could succeed by the start of next week but the vessel stern is now free in the company hopes that high tides and the arrival of 2 more tug boats will help the operation the $400.00 metre long container ship run aground on choose to close to the south end of the canal after the crew lost visibility under a sandstorm. if you're not a family it could have been a technical or human ever that will be revealed through the investigation many different mistakes might be the reason but we cannot prove anything yet the only clear reason is that there were strong winds under some storm but they might not be the only reasons any of those will be revealed during the investigation trying to iran have signed a landmark 25 year corp pact another deal has been the word since 2016 it was

signed by the foreign ministers of both countries beijing is expected to investing key sectors of iran's economy including energy and infrastructure that the iranian economy has suffered under u.s. sanctions as washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreements. from the chinese martial art of tight she is gaining popularity in iran particularly amongst women those taking part say it's helping change views and more women are joining the sport than men as a bird has more from tehran. i well known chinese martial art the past few years has seen it grow in popularity in iran especially among women. totally resting it's a way to release energy that's trapped in the body the sport requires a lot of patients usually women have more harmony and from the perspective of physical ability i think they deal better with the sport it's not common to see this kind of performance in public spaces in iran. in

a country where women practicing sports is usually held behind closed doors tightly seems to be the exception it's also not segregated like other sporting activities. this couple met at a thai chief festival you guys are going to enjoy for the good we practice together outdoors at home whenever there's an opportunity the sport doesn't require a lot of space neither of those types of tests if you have that impact of tight she i can tell you it has reduced her periods of anger and maybe arguments and within a few minutes iran has a national team and an annual championship. i can tell you some 70 percent of people who engage in this activity in iran are women many people like it and practice it in many parts of the country in this competition those taking part were aged between 8 and 63 some have competed internationally man s.s.l. said. this is the 3rd year i'm attending the national championship last year i got

a gold and 2 silvers and i received an invitation to the national team. but it's in public places like this that the sport is getting most attention inspiring others to join in while some simply appreciate the art form a side big al jazeera to her around. what you'll do there will be so whole rob a reminder of top stories at least 14 people are being injured today a suicide bomb attack or look at the drill in indonesia that was carried out in the city of book as a congregation was gathering for the 1st day of the easter week jesica washington has the latest from the capital jakarta we have heard from authorities just in recent hours in the aftermath of the attack on this cathedral in marcus' hour we've heard from indonesia's national agency for counterterrorism and they've described the attack as a terrorist attack we've also heard from the indonesian council on churches which

said the attack was a cruel act on the day of palm sunday when christians begin their easter.