feeling serious. and. impartial we tell your story we are your voice your news your net al-jazeera. taiwan's worst train disaster in decades dozens of people have been killed and many more been taken to hospital. and given al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up several deaths from a fire near of a hindu refugee camp in bangladesh. we've got addicted and we've been trying really hard to. break that addiction. george floyd's girlfriend testifies

about their drug battle at the trial of the former policeman accused of his murder . the u.n. says more than half of cameron's women and girls have experienced sexual violence with armed groups accused of using rape as a weapon of war and. we begin with breaking news out of east entire wall where at least 36 people have been killed in a train crash a train came off the tracks inside a tunnel just north of the city of who are at the end dozens of people have been taken to hospital there were 350 passengers on board it's taiwan's worst train disaster and of the 3 decades. i was sitting on the outside and i was thrown to the floor because there's an oar the way for us to walk be had to climb to the top of the train and they climbed down across lived out

a dream brown who is monitoring developments from hong kong adrian what more do we know about what happened. well frantic rescue efforts are going on at the moment for carriages are still stuck inside that tunnel it is a very narrow tunnel making it very difficult for rescue teams to get inside the train those carriages are resting on one side leaning against the wall we know that some passengers actually had to smash the windows of the carriages in order to get out now many people have been led away uninjured but many others more than 70 have been seriously injured and of course we know that the death toll is now approaching 40 certainly 36 confirmed deaths according to the reuters news agency as to what caused this accidents well a number of theories are going about but the one that is dominating local media is

this it seems that above the crash site there is a service road which is very close to a construction site and it seems that a vehicle possibly a truck fell or dropped from that service road either just as the train was passing or it fell onto the track before the train reached that spot slamming into it that hasn't been confirmed but certainly if you see those aerial pictures you can see quite clearly a sort of construction site above the track so that's one theory that will almost certainly be investigated this is the worst train accident in taiwan the last serious one was actually back in 1981 when 30 people died but this of course is now being overtaken by by this accident it's all happening on what is one of the busiest weekends really in not just taiwan but right across greater china because it's the ching ming grave sweeping festival and people on that train it's fair to

assume we're heading back to their hometowns to take part in that festival where people go to the greats of their ancestors to pay their respects so that brings us sort of a. poignancy to this tragedy adrian now we're looking at pictures of the rescue effort now what more can you tell us about about the rescue effort because i'm looking at the location and looks like there's a lot of vegetation it looks fairly remote tell us a little bit more about you know the efforts to actually get to the site where this is happened. well you're right it is quite remote this is the southeast corner of taiwan it's an area a very scenic area very popular with holiday makers not just in taiwan but you know right across southeast asia the line where this accident happened actually opened in 1979 it's a high speed rail line the trains on that track can go up to speeds of 150 kilometers an hour so not really a high speed train a sort of moderately high speed train it's difficult for fire crews at the moment

because not only is it quite a remote area but the train itself those 4 carriages 8 to 5 are inside the tunnel on their side and of course it's extremely difficult to get into that tunnel and it's going to get more difficult actually as the day progresses because what it's now just after 3 pm local time in taiwan arm so in 3 to 4 hours' time it's going to start to get dark and i think rescuers will be doing all they can to get as many people out as they can before it does turn dark all right thank you for that update there adrian brown monitoring developments from hong kong. 3 people are confirmed to have been killed by a fire near a ring a refugee camp in bangladesh it broke out in the early hours of the morning and has now been brought under control and happened less than 2 weeks after a huge fire nearby which destroyed thousands of tents and killed at least 15 people

. joins me now live from dakar there what more do we know. well this happened somewhere our early morning local time 430 in a bazaar which is just a jesson to the. refugee camp now this is a bazaar we have visited before that a lot of local host shopkeepers as well as throwing out the shop there for dry fish grain vegetables fruits and other stuff many of them actually own small shops there so so far we can come from officially at least 3 people are dead that bodies were found we don't know if there's any more angel that are dead but as often i would say people that there's a big current signing that owing to a refugee camp i've been talking to many of our contacts on the temple days there's been smaller incidents off fired since the last incident on. march 22 which was

devastating tens of thousands of us there are 15 killed now they're saying the smaller incidents of fires were not deadly field offices rather where bond but they're concerned that this is becoming an ongoing trend it could be an arson it could be something else but there is brain one running a lady who was arrested and detained because she was caught during an arson attack so this is a major concern there's been fire in the last year there's been fire in january this year so a major cause for concern and also many of their anger has been now shifted to bosham chart i learned yesterday a few 1000 during as were taken there there's already $14000.00 there at least 100000 now targeted to be shifted to decongest the camp but this fire incident is still to be investigated the one on the 22nd march there's no investigative results yet what was the cause behind the fire one of the possible reason could be

a gas cylinder use for cooking by that owing as ok thank you for the time to challenge it in life. george floyd's girlfriend has spoken about the couple's opioid addiction courtney rolls testified on day 4 of the trial of the former police officer accused of floyd's murder drug use is expected to become a focus of the trial when the defense presents its case later gabriel amazon are reports from minneapolis and a warning some of the pitches may be disturbing this image of george floyd adopted by the black lives matter movement after his death is recognized all over the world as a symbol of police brutality and it is based on a selfie kind of photograph business.

selfie that's according to georgia girlfriend courtney ross who was the 1st to testify on day 4 of the derek show ven murder trial. in her often emotional testimony she described how the pair met in 2017 when floyd was working as a security guard upon questioning she also described how they fell into addiction. it was an apparent attempt by the prosecution to get ahead of a central plank of chauvinist defense team's argument that it was the drugs that killed george floyd and not the officers more than a 9 minute choke hold in their defense attorney eric nelson questioned about

a drug overdose floyd had in march as a court session was ongoing ben crump the floyd family attorney released a statement saying in part we fully expected the defense to put george's character and struggles with addiction on trial because that is the go to tactic when the facts are not on your side we are confident that the jury will see past that to arrive at the truth. the jury later heard from paramedics part of the team who arrived at the scene to treat floyd they testified when they arrived show up and still had his knee on floyd's neck and that floyd was unconscious in a living person there should be a poster i do not feel on i suspected. at the moment that you're checking for this crime and haas and the officer start this and on top of mr blair. yes the trial is moving into a new phase instead of heart wrenching testimony from eyewitnesses like what we've

heard most of the week the trial is now shifting into fundamental questions like how george floyd died exactly when and who or what is to blame gabriel's andro al-jazeera minneapolis. united nations report says more than hall for all women and girls in cameroon have been victims of some form of sexual violence and rights groups warn that being used as weapons of war by armed groups are just there as the reports. jamie claris lives in my room in cameron's far north region where boko haram is stepping up its attacks but she says it was a neighbor who came to her home and raped her she was 12 at the time and the family found out she was pregnant the baby was taken away from her and jimmy was abandoned . my parents choose me out of the house i became

a stain for them a source of shame and so close my eyes and hid in the forest according to the u.n. more than half of women and girls in cameroon have suffered from emotional and sexual violence rights groups say rape is a crime that goes unpunished especially in conflict areas of the far north and the english speaking regions armed groups like booker and security forces have been accused of using rape as a weapon of war the girls themselves are treated as subjects of suspicion you know they what's called bad blood back into the community some big mountain to climb sometimes to get the girls accepted and their children to. consider does as really something to keep on ostracized my room i escaped after being abducted by boko haram fighters who repeatedly raped her and then forced her into marriage where she gave birth to 3 children because of the identity of their father will not recognize them or register them as citizens without documentation the children cannot go to

school. and i found a book was horrible but here is not easy because of who the father is my children cannot have an education it's a constant battle for us to be accepted by society but i will fight for my children . despite the challenges and trauma both my room and jimmy have suffered they're trying to rebuild their lives in a country where rape has become not just a weapon of war but a way of robbing young girls of their childhood and their future nicholas hawke al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera and the expands its vaccination program this case is so some of the poorest people aren't paying it only makes it we'll tell you why. 100 years since it's passed on to tina pays tribute to a controversial composer who revolutionized the tango and divided musical world.

how they we have still got some heat across parts of western europe after a recent heat wife so we're on the chinese that we have got bands of cloud coming in from the north sea a northerly wind tucking in behind just rolling around this area of high pressure that's going to cool down for many of us as we go on through the next couple of days as a result of that remember the temperatures into the mid twenty's in london for example just a couple of days ago 12 celsius the top temperature here on friday and fall and 16 celsius in paris found around 10 degrees on yesterday's value in berlin cold enough as well 21 celsius in 0 that's not too bad some rain perhaps in states though where it was at the eastern side of europe pushing into western russia there was some wet

weather to into the balkans not just some cloud and rain to just coming in across a process by maybe northern portugal for a time tending to pater out as we go on through saturday too bad but there will still be a few showers around here showers continue over towards the balkans towards the black sea remain you're seeing some showers possibly was some snow pushing up towards ukraine whether they're into italy as well dry there further north but cool 10 celsius in london by the time we come to monday blucher gets around a decrease fought a dry crust northwestern parts of africa meanwhile we have got a little bit away from the phone all of egypt. it's a very bleak picture for a lot of americans out there white supremacy impacts all of our patients you're putting more money into the hands of some workers taking money out of the hands of other workers federal goes to their camp it becomes us versus them this is the deal about constraining your nuclear program the bottom line the big questions on out is

they are in some time i call swoons students have been bullied abused and humiliated by they teach it one no one east investigates thailand schools scandal oh no just see. you're watching al-jazeera our mind of our top stories this hour a train has derailed in taiwan killing at least 36 people rescue workers are trying to free trapped passengers taiwan's worst train disaster in 3 decades. 3 people are confirmed to have been killed in a fire near a refugee camp in bangladesh it happened less than 2 weeks after

a much bigger place which killed 15 people. george ford's girlfriend has testified about the couple struggled with opioid diction she spoke on day 4 of the trial of the former police officer accused of his murder. a build up of russian forces at ukraine's border is causing concern for kiev and its allies unverified social media video appears to show a military equipment moving toward areas bordering ukraine including in russian annexed crimea the u.s. has warned russia against intimidating its neighbors earlier this week ukraine's government accused separatists of violating a cease fire this happened as nato ambassadors met to discuss the recent rise in violence. our concern is predicated on russian escalations and aggressions in eastern ukraine of course we would be concerned by any attempts on the part of the russian federation to intimidate its neighbors and our partners of

course ukraine. is among them. the kremlin says it's free to move its military assets around whenever it wants and foreign minister sergei lavrov says if tensions are rising in eastern ukraine it's not bush's fault and you just want to talk to you look the united states addresses ukraine through the lens of geopolitics ukraine close to russia makes russia great russia lift without you crime is of no global importance i'm leaving the truthfulness of these ideas on the conscious of people professing them as well as their ability to appreciate modern russia president putin said not long ago but the statement is still relevant today that those who would try to start a new war and don't boss will destroy you crime. or has a short timeline of events leading up to this point in ukraine in february 24th the so-called revolution saw the russia friendly president had a covert deposed the opposition winning part the next month russian forces addicks

to crimea from ukraine prompting a series of western sanctions and april 24th progress in separatist seas parts of the eastern donbass starting the internal military conflict in ukraine in 2019 t.v. comedian autumn is in ski is elected ukraine's president he and russian president putin agreed to exchange prisoners and commit to a ceasefire most recently a ceasefire in donetsk and with donetsk separatists was agreed july that's close to breaking as ukraine acknowledges an escalation in fighting there. well from all this we're joined by political commentator peter zalmay with in kiev he is the executive director of the eurasia democracy initiative thank you for your time so why is russia sending military hardware to its border shooting up these tensions. well there are several factors responsible for it well 1st of all it's getting

warmer so obviously and you time it gets warmer it's not going to be work such actions to date place. the president immediately whom you mention mrs alecky is not as pliable as lattimer when expected to be in experience as he was coming into politics from a completely different area the area of interest in missile against you has actually shown some courage and some decisiveness recently when he went after the. media empire belong to one of russia a lot of it wouldn't confidence in ukraine closing down 3 pro russian t.v. channels and nearly weakening of the influence of pro russian never created keeping my russia. or our goal it's always the 2 are keep the go to with these regimes in the donetsk and lugansk but and ukraine you know there's. a

whole a nice you know want to do continue influencing ukraine's policies that we've been grateful for that works the last that's what is back in the sense that there is obviously domestic politics. the popularity has been in decline quantity and also as a result of the actions of its chief opposition leader mr natale who are looking that it will russia after a poison in fact attempt recently she released a scandalous leader that was made by a 100000000 people investigating and i have to balance that and he created a lot of light in that letter to the demonstrations and one of these that russia has wanted and it's my don't you think this might be a bit of a distraction technique that i'm one that i want to ask you how is that a subject but more about the situation in don bosco how shaky is the ceasefire there and what you think the line play hood is that this might become a sort of hot conflicts again as it were. well

a lot of 1st of all yes you mentioned that yes this is we don't want to distract the public at g.e. never we saw that in 2013 and 14 as you mention in your timeline it's happening now again you know that that is what i'm encouraged by despite the fact that this is a serious escalation and there's no doubt is that the russians are provoking there's been over 100 rotations in march alone but both sides and i mean by both sides russia and nato have been signally and integrated air to meet each other like forceful nato has said that it's bolstered its presence in the lead. and russians have massed their troops around and made it clear that these are exercises on the eastern northern border of ukraine and crimea which means that it's in their sick they need to do is out there i hope this meeting that our full out rate will be prevented but once again it is significant it is not happy but if you want to

change the situation in ukraine the week she wants to change well have to leave it at the time thank you so much for your time. than they have there and can. india has seen its largest rise in infections in 6 months with more than 80000 covered 19 infections recorded in the last 24 hours the government is now stepping up efforts to inoculate as many people as possible india's vaccine campaign has moved to its 3rd phase it's now available to anyone above the age of 45 india wants to vaccinate 300000000 people by the end of july. everyone should get vaccinated it's absolutely safe as the vaccination campaign now includes everyone over 45 they should get the shots. or despite the vaccination drive in india some of the poorest

people in society aren't being an ocular is it millions of informal workers who salvage items from landfills are not eligible for vaccines are in the a correspondent elizabeth broderick reports from new delhi. from a distance these mounds in india's cities could be mistaken for small hills but they amount to end of waste and rummaging through them with their bare hands at thousands of waste pickers they make a meager living collecting recyclable materials and selling them to scrap dealers. but while sanitation workers employed by the government or private companies are among the 1st to be eligible because of 19 vaccines waste because aren't m.d.m. . or used the new delhi municipal council workers are getting vaccinated police are getting vaccinated then are we not human we pick up trash from your homes if one of us fall sick then we probably will infect 10 others. man what

a big complex rubbish from $300.00 homes but can't afford the $3.00 for each dose of covert 19 vaccine she lives with her family in a heart made from scrap cardboard there among around 2000000. informal waste work is in india. we can't earn like we used to before our incomes have been hit when we're finding it so difficult to get by each day how can we afford vaccines more of the all of us with the help of environmental group chintan has started an online petition asking the government to vaccinate waste workers like her chintan calls of the country's silent environmentalist they are highly organized they are highly skewed big up to $70.00 to $80.00 get it resolved so you can imagine that. born into a land pick up to collect the sygate to say that reese a good so this is extremely important so is that the city.

says that each year people like eliminate $900000.00 tonnes of carbon dioxide by diverting waste away from landfills. is but. i feel really sad that the government doesn't care about us. as india widens the numbers of those eligible for the 19 vaccines waste workers are asking to be among them elizabeth brannon al jazeera new daddy. but livia is closing its border with brazil and peru later south american country to increase travel restrictions to stop a rise in chronic virus cases there's concern about the spread of the more infections variants 1st identified in brazil living in off hours he's a putting border towns on the lockdown where it's been detected chile is closing all its borders for the month starting monday. graves are being emptied in brazil's largest city to make room for

a soaring number of covert $900.00 victims older remains in sao paulo are being moved to other locations officials insists it's standard practice but it's taken on renewed urgency brazil is reporting the highest number of deaths since the pandemic began on average about 3000 people died each day this week. a cult sits across argentine there are marking a 100 years since the birth of tango legend a store feels old his son conventional approach was criticized during his life now 19 years after his death his legacy is being celebrated today is about reports from what i cited. this is one of the most famous bangle songs worldwide. of you honey no it was written in 1989 by compulsory act of to beat farewell to his

former. argentine a celebrating 100 years of utter b.s. when asked birth with series of concerts and shows in the city of oneness i guess. because it would have been 3 says your wife. says this is the 1st time the city has to pay tribute to his music. in the beginning he was at war with the city of porn osiris don't forget that tango is from born as arias alongside heroic why he said he played music from the city he wanted to revolutionize music he wanted people to know there was more than 3 times 4 in the beginning he was more respected in europe than in argentina but people here looked at europe and saw him. museums and theatres in the city by putting his musical life on display early on in his career after p.s.o. left music arrangements were criticized by traditional italian musicians some even

accused him of killing and walking forward in elements of jazz and classical music and created what is now no more i want that and it became so successful that he's music is now known around the globe. yes i was born in the province of one of scientists but he's father moved to new york city. it was there where he was given his 1st abandon iana and since then he never stopped playing it. he rolled over $900.00 songs beer to take tango to a new level. music has been played in many of the world's top feeders. and in films and royal weddings. and was a close friend of the my fiddle and also his manager he says took 10 more to the

21st century. story that will certainly come after on the basis of turn go manages to create a new universal laws which that everyone understands and feels and you can hear it in so many different scenarios and on the 2nd note of a song you know it's a law he was special and elevated tango. but. 2 his music is now part of what i cited as a city that in a beginning rejected him but that today celebrates his art. it is how we're going to cite us. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories a train has derailed in taiwan killing at least 36 people rescue workers are trying to free trapped passengers taiwan's worst train disaster in 3 d. .