these returns it's to reset those striving to reduce or negative impact on the planet has president joe biden kept his campaign promises we'll have special coverage and in-depth analysis of his 1st $100.00 days in the oval office april on al-jazeera. a potential breakthrough a container ship blocking one of the world's busiest waterways has been partially refloated. clubs a whole romany watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next 30 minutes thailand says it's bracing for a mass exodus of refugees from nearby as thousands flee a surge in violence. also 100 escape a 5 day siege in northern mozambique but there's concern that dozens of others are

being killed while trying to escape. and living in the shadow of afghanistan's past the struggling cave dwellers of the family are who fear a resurgence of the taliban. welcome to the program the container ship that's blocked the serious canal for nearly a week has been partially refloated but it remains unclear when the ever given will be able to continue its voyage the giant vessel run aground in one of the world's busiest waterways costing billions of dollars in trade every day alexia bryant has this update. she is of celebration and the so is canal and horns blaring. as the every given finally appears to make in the. back of our bad days and despite a multinational rescue effort the vessel has how. oddly badged now finally it's

been partially roofs floated. waged across the suez canal the scale of the problem has dwarfed the machinery seen as the solution is and diggers have removed thousands of cubic meters of say into from underneath the giant container ship and a team of at least 10 tug boats has been trying to dislodge it for days since it ran aground to tankers and cargo ships carrying oil gas and grain have stacked up at either end of the canal delaying global trade and costing billions of dollars every day around about 70 percent of the world's oil trade goes through the series canal and it can't any any ship has the choice of taking the longer route round the south of africa takes around 2 weeks longer obviously cost more because of the additional i'm shipping cost so ships are having to make their decision do they whites are in that queue of $300.00 or do they take the the long trip the crisis is

where the having an impact on syria the authorities forced to announce a few rationing of supplies from iran a stock the news coming out of syria is deeply deeply worrying the country was already heating crisis point with cannot make collapse hitting syria and the daily lives of syrians and now these delays to fuel shipments will make an really bad situation worse there had been fears an operation would be needed to lighten the ship which is 20000 containers on board requiring a crane and other equipment that's yet to arrive but it appears a flotilla of tugboats and a higher tide may have deemed that unnecessary brian al-jazeera. i mean miles military has said current state with more air strikes forcing thousands of people to flee their homes many cross the border into thailand and prime minister china char says that the government is preparing for

a potential flood of refugees mia miles military has been targeting the current national liberation army the armed ethnic group is one of dozens fighting for greater autonomy teaching has across developments for us and joins us now from bangkok in neighboring thailand tony of course these are definite groups are now being targeted powerfully by the military one wonders where they really are going to be drawn into this fight now. well they do appear to be and they themselves have been threatening to engage mars military if they continue to crack down on protesters if they felt people not only in their areas but in other areas were being treated unfairly those are the words that they've used that said this may be the myanmar military trying to seize the initiative we've seen them. conducting these airstrikes on the qur'an the k n u down in the south there's been clashes up in the north think

a chin state overnight in callin in the strategically important town in the chin state there were clashes to the army fighting local street residents not armed insurgents of the local residents but using things like r.p.g. crinoids so they really have decided to step up the attack that may be folly they're opening up another front in. front sentient against armed aggressors while they're already trying to deal with a general populace who are deeply unhappy. not protesting every day we've seen most of the major urban centers many of the towns even out of the countryside people still continuing to protest and that must be using an awful lot of military resources but maybe they feel and they're so confident in their strength that they feel this is a fight they can win and win relatively easily and of course tony of the last 48

hours we've seen again yet again the military attack a shoot at peaceful demonstrators a distressing scenes of funerals so really you know what has been happening over night. well again much much the same as we've seen for the last week. residents of mandalay reported to me they heard gunshots ringing through the city overnight there were squads of soldiers and police roaming through neighborhoods as they had done firing guns into windows stun grenades they also reported hearing helicopters and planes overhead many concerned that the bombings had been happening in other parts against these ethnic groups could be coming to the areas now i don't think there's certainly hasn't happened yet but it's an indication of how much people feel that the army has turned against them that they might be prepared to bomb and centers and the fighting has spilled

over into day this this fighting in yangon or should i say the armed forces are moving into areas firing reports of fatalities there up in mitchell in the north of kitchen state so i think once again we see this cycle perpetrated you know the violence is continuing the protesters are still going out on the streets but what does seem to be changing is the tank takes the military using it getting even more severe the weapons they using are getting harder in fact it was reported that in gone in yangon last night they were on the troop carriers out on the streets as well so certainly the outlook for the next couple of days isn't very good of course will continue to be with you. for the bank of the. now foreign companies are being told not to mix business with politics if they want to keep operating in china the warnings come from a spokesman for regional government at

a news conference where he was asked about the alleged use of ethnic we guess as forced labor to produce cotton a growing number of western retail giants including haitian eben nike of facing a boycott in china for voicing their concerns and that sparked a backlash on chinese social media with dozens of celebrities dropping deals with the brands. of. the chinese people including those engine john have already expressed their anger these companies are just harming themselves we hope global enterprises like internet can open their eyes to what's right and what's wrong and not just blindly impose these measures they need to be reasonable if they want to continue doing business in china well adrian brown is in hong kong he's ocean jungle officials are warning the world well not to mess with china. the message was quite simple and it was basically this don't believe what the western media is saying about the situation in chin jang it bears no comparison with reality where's

the evidence of sexual violence against women in these so-called vocational training centers which human rights groups call labor camps where is the evidence of forced labor in the cotton farms and cotton mills and cotton factories where is there evidence of of people being repressed when it comes to religion there is no evidence and that was the message that came through loud and clear and there was another i think theme throughout and it was this don't mess with china we've had you know years decades of being humiliated by the west we're tired of the smears we're tired of the lies the media who were in attendance were actually invited to go to sion jang to see for themselves what of course as we've seen from the past when the media go to shin jang they tend to be heavily chaperoned so this was an attempt also by the not just the shin gen government but also by the the central government to respond to the sanctions that have been placed on china those targeted sanctions by the united kingdom the united states canada and the e.u.

because of the well documented repression they say is taking place and changing and of course china in the last few days has responded with sanctions of its own so this media conference was part and parcel of that. mozambique's military says dozens of defenseless civilians are being killed in a 5 day seen each month that were 7 people on bush as they try to escape a hotel in the northern town of parma foreign nationals are among those caught in the violence. survivors from the siege in parma arrived in the port city of pinback just along the coast but many others weren't as fortunate defense officials say dozens of others were killed trying to escape the fighting and some of them were ambushed as they tried to leave. in a convoy one of the courage of. the defense and security forces regret this loss of human lives and a drive that they continue to develop at this moment concerted actions of pursuit

with the aim of eliminating some pockets of resistance. since wednesday when an armed group lost its attack on parma communications have been down and many families are still waiting to hear what's happened to be loved ones are you going to see it the situation of losing someone it's hard he don't know where this person is he can't reach them or know what condition they're in this is horrible and it's destabilize humanity it's really not fair. this is the only footage that has emerged from inside the hotel where up to 200 people have reportedly taken refuge. hundreds of others have attempted to flee the town running into forests and nearby villages to see the soundness. we don't know how we will get out of here if we can get to the sea or if we'll be rescued by whom there are helicopters flying over the hotel they checking to see if we can reach the beach to get

a boat out but as you can hear we don't know if it's possible the situation is critical we have no food just water we're in god's hands now. all gun battles have been going on for days between the armed group that calls itself and government forces trying to take back control of the coastal town. there's been fighting in northern missouri and beak mainly in carbondale gado province since 2017 this is a region major gas discoveries have been made in recent years but the town of parma has been relatively safe for foreigners working on africa's largest liquefied natural gas project until this week. the french in the giant hotel has now evacuated $1000.00 of its workers at a suspended its operations it was due to restart a $20000000000.00 project after stopping work in january because of security concerns that's now on hold. on.

we're. trying to. project. more than 2500 people have been killed and half a 1000000 forced to leave their homes during years of fighting in the province it's really a toxic mix of various issues is programmed the northernmost province or is marginalized people feel frustrated they have been people of the land. mining activities they ruby mines specifically amnesty international blame several parties for war crimes it has accused armed groups and the government backed private south african military firm of being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians it also says government troops have made arrests without reason tortured detainees and carried out extrajudicial killings security forces say

fighting is still ongoing with army officials are trying to eliminate pockets of resistance humanitarian workers say it could be days before the actual number of dead is known and they warn they'll be even more internal displacement as people try to escape the fighting. out either. well still ahead here on al-jazeera solving the problem of the covert vaccine cold chain what's being done to help distribution in poor countries plus. i'm john hendren in minneapolis where opening arguments begin in the trial of derek chauvinism an accused of killing george floyd . the smell of spring will be in the air even early summer i think for a good part of western and northern europe that has been there for a while now basically the air is coming in from the atlantic still it's still quite

windy cloudy in for some wet but it's displacing most people a stubborn culp to clean east now that at least some of that cold is still there from poland east was on monday and is heading down towards turkey so not everyone will benefit from what is a clear rise in temperature a good part of the european plain and british isles will see temperatures rising above the average considerably yet may not last is a nice burst at least the forecast from london shows it 17 up to 21 the wind lies all the time in the sun in the sky and eventually yes it will push push across to poland was source code will be replaced by warsaw warms up to about 18 degrees the obvious 10 so we are exceeding the averages well to say won't last but we'll just enjoy it while it's there and it didn't hurt that the cold that's in eastern europe we pushed on across the black sea and once again turkey in past at least we'll see temperatures drop a bit below where you might like them and that strong wind that comes down in

through the gene to the east and south of the med will carry on blowing through egypt and pick up the sand in chad and the. frank assessments the world is on a. brink of a catastrophic moral failure is that a fair assessment you would be a catastrophic moral failure to waste 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 our jersey or. world.

book about to watch al-jazeera with me so whole robin remind us of our top stories the containership that's bought these series canal for almost a week has been partially refloated canal 40 say they hope the ever given will be fully free during the high tide in around 2 and a half hours the mass military is carried out more airstrikes targeting separatists fighters in karen's days thailand has preparing for a possible flood of refugees as thousands flee across the border and mozambique's military says dozens of defenseless civilians have been killed in a 5 day siege amongst them was 7 people ambushed as they tried to escape a hotel in the northern town of hama. let's head back to our top story of course the blockage of the sewers canal die platen is the secretary general of the international chamber of shipping joins me now via skype from london good to have

you with us on the program mr platen from the news that we're getting in from what you'll see good hearing is the ship now out of trouble or is there some sort of of a few nervous hours ahead of waiting. but the pictures are good data and thanks so much having me on yet from the pitch that's when it does look like they've made substantial progress i don't think she's quite finally free yet but certainly the pictures i've seen she's in the stones move 'd about 100 meters or so into the to ascend to the canal so one would hope the next high water they can really finally create completely so let it sink its course with that and then get the canal trying to clone again if it can be moved are there a number of safety sort of checks and balances that have to be undertaken on the whole before you can actually move a ship that saeed's that's been stuck in that position for what nearly a week when it does appear that there's been no pollution is no sign of any water ingress into the hull whatsoever so i suspect they'll they'll just built sanding

out the various compartments to make sure there's no water come in or anything like that and so this ship will be good enough to move 'd it which is the priority now to get it to a safe place and then to do a full and thorough investigation as to what happened and to check any other damage at that point so i think the the experts there will be looking very carefully at the hull and they'll be confident that once again applaud they can move but it is somewhere safe that the suez canal is a very exceptional waterway globally so how do you expect traffic now to move along that waterway if and when the ever given is moved to do they move it out of the canal completely before they allow other ships to enter and begin the process of transport globally for other other vessels. well look you're the exact the professional that things are going to happen next obviously want to move or that she's not that far from the sun entrance of the canal anyway is my understanding so i suspect they will move down there and then allow the traffic to flow the some like to engine 50 ships or plus which is not

a bad lot. i think that my understanding from my contact there we do it on the people who turned up 1st will get their ships with the exception perhaps of livestock ships which will be given some probably for obvious reasons obviously that there are some major lessons to be learned from what happened and from what we understand is that a some stall may have been part of the problem in blocking the view of those that were were sailing this particular ship what what needs to be put in place what checks and balances now need to be put in place by the egyptian authorities to help merchant vessels get through this canal safely in the future and i think if we can look at a thing like that let her have a full and proper and full investigation into exactly what's happened and only then when we can we determine the fact it can we look at what lessons need to be learned what other additional measures may or may not need to be put in place we must remember to conduct it this is a very very very rare occurrence it's been 18000 transit see it over 50 usually per day so this has been some time since the last time

a ship was blocked so but nonetheless it's really important a full investigation is carried out and lessons learned where they need to be learnt but what are the main questions that your members are asking in terms of. safe passage through the suez canal at the moment i mean you know it's a unique issue and scenario that's developed here in the last week but i say there are many questions about how transport haitian needs you might say plan b. if something goes wrong with the suez canal again. well indeed there was always a plan b. anyway which is to go around the south coast south to south africa the cape of good hope and come up there that does that a 3 and a half 1000 miles to the to the journey $300.00 think that's in part 100 nautical miles so that has always been the plan b. but clearly it's a strategic route from asia to europe it cuts out those extra days which can be up to 2 weeks so my members will be prioritizing hours trying to get their ships through if they're waiting and to get trade flowing again can you give us an idea

of how much this is all cost international business. well each day that passes there's about $7.00 to $8000000000.00 worth of goods which would usually pass through the canal so are we talking $4550000000000.00 of delays really is back to the thing will we catch up on some of that but it will be ongoing place it's hard to put a figure on it and of course some carcasses may perish because there are time critical they'll be in no doubt some big insurance claims going in and this certain to get some resolution don't call it so it's definitely in the billions indeed it's could get your insights will afford a baby having or the program again to discuss this further in the future guy platen that the secretary general of the international action chamber of shipping thanks for joining us from london thank you. national civil rights leaders in the us a calling for justice to jolt floyd they held a press service alongside his family before the start of directions to trial later on monday unfoldment minneapolis police officer excused of killing floyd in may

last year by kneeling on his neck for almost 9 minutes 200 house from minneapolis. to george floyd's death reignited the us civil rights movement and set off a racial revolution in american streets. it energized the black lives matter movement in harden the country's racial divide now the trial of the police officer accused of floyd's murder could either close a bitter chapter in american history. or rekindle the arson fueled riots of the summer of 2020 across the united states and i think will be similar to what took place when this happened you know we felt it all the way in chicago. you know people angry. venting their frustrations will say they know how the murder trial of fired police officer derek children is perhaps the most anticipated civil rights case here in the u.s. in the 21st century it will mark

a test case of racial justice in 2021 in the case of a black man who died beneath the knee of a white police officer who held him there for 8 minutes in 46 seconds. that jury will see show than in this disturbing video as floyd cries out for his life at the bridge. these are the images we don't take anything for granted we have to keep our eyes on the prize to make sure that he doesn't get away with murder as so many other police officers have done to people of karla in america. not since the racially charged trial of the white police officers charged in the 1991 beating of rodney king has one legal case so captured a moment in american racial history. 'd when a largely white suburban jury found the defendants not guilty the streets of los angeles a rock did in violent fury in black america police are now often seen in the darkest

light now people are not viewing the police as a welcome. rather as an unwelcome presence as it's been referred to over the years an occupying force. as minneapolis anxiously boards up for new demonstrations many fear what could happen if children is allowed to walk free people gonna be outraged because it again has proven that the system is not protected and so i think people gonna be upset and down why all right we have 15 this time a racially diverse jury of $12.00 and $3.00 alternates 9 white 4 black into mixed race will decide the fate of another white police officer. and that could set the direction of the american civil rights movement for years to come john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis.

now the president of china says he'll ask congress to postpone next month's election because of a surge in corona virus cases sebastian pinera won the vote for an assembly to write a new constitution to be moved from april to may not be seen a new wave of cavan $1000.00 infections at the end of a summer holiday last month now on sunday the government announced new lockdown measures to curb the spread. the 1st batch of astra zeneca vaccines from the un back kovacs scheme have arrived in kosovo the 24000 doses will be used for health care workers and elderly people because of it was the only country in europe that hasn't started inoculating its population. or one of the main elements in the global rollout of covert 900 vaccines as the cold chain the network of freezers and refrigerators used to protect bank scenes from degrading and becoming less effective while the oxford astra zeneca vaccine remained stable refrigerator temperatures of between $2.00 and $8.00 degrees for at least 6 months the pfizer biotech vaccine requires special freezers providing temperatures of minus 90 to

minus 60 to remain stable for up to 6 months unicef hopes to have 65000 solar powered fridges in lower income countries by the end of the year pfizer is also working on a powdered form of its vaccine. u.s. intelligence agencies have warned that the taliban could over in afghanistan within 3 years if american troops leave prematurely it's one of many concerns for afghans in bamiyan now the taliban destroyed a cultural treasure in the central province 20 years ago the same reports. carved out of the rock by buddhist monks more than a 1000 years ago these caves in by me our national park are now home to some of the ghana stans poorest people the government says they're squatters. but those living like this say they have nowhere else to go.

mohammed makes his living collecting scrap metal but it's barely enough to feed his family only one today. there are no jobs we don't have any other place and i don't have the means to build a house on the government to provide us with shelter and then a mission of. daily life is grim. there are no toilets burning wood for heat makes it difficult to breathe and insects are ever present as is the fear the taliban might come back. to mr. mr the taliban is a problem for us there is fighting 24 hours a day and people are in trouble they are not safe and there is no security on that . her worries are valid these communities live near the site of the bombing on bhutto's giant stone carvings from of ghana stands rich previous slum it passed in

20016 months before 911 the taliban declared the statues an affront to islam and drew a line in the sand for the whole world to see. more shown. through all or all of the statues of the buddha that once stood at this site in balmy on were an estimated 15 centuries old and they want us to part of afghanistan history they were a part of human history many officials here in afghanistan say that their destruction at the hands of the taliban is also a part of history now and that they are best left in the past. broken pieces of the buddhas still sit under lock and key with little hope of rebuilding but 20 years later a 3 d. projection helps afghans see the statues as they once were that arjun dimes archive at salt cost or madam afsana song the demand of the afghan people must be included in peace talks such mistake and crime should never be repeated again any group that

lives here should accept that this cultural and historical artifacts belong to the people history and culture of afghanistan. when the sun comes up the lights go down and the buddhas disappear once again leaving only veg and holes a grim reminder of the kind of violence afghans fear could happen again if the taliban come back zain bus ravi old a 0 balmy on. national deservedly so rob a reminder of our top stories the container ship that's blocked the service canal for almost a week has been partially refloated canal forward he say that they hope the.