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problems for millions of brazil's poorest people. in the polls open in bulgaria as parliamentary elections in the middle of a surge in coronavirus cases and months of anti-government protests. the former crown prince of jordan says he's under house arrest in amman the military denies that but says a former minister a member of the royal family and others have been detained as part of an ongoing investigation lebanon egypt and gulf countries have expressed solidarity with jordan's king abdullah laura but manly as this and. in a video past the media by his lawyer jordan's prince hamza says this may be the last time he can contact anyone he says he's been ordered by the army's chief to stay at home and that his phone and internet are being cut off. he criticized

jordan's leaders for corruption and tonight being part of any conspiracy. agenda there is no outside agenda there is nothing on my part to affect the country or outside plotting from behind the scenes we listen to these accusations over and over again this is only in order to make a smokescreen over the retreat and retraction that we witness in the country every day in our beloved country. when. the video is released came shortly after 2 tinian state t.v. an ounce multiple arrests of former senior officials on fast say night jordan's army chief denied the prince how it was among them but it didn't mention the arrest of the former head of the royal court bus and our dollar. was a long time. of the cheating and was at one time a minister of finance and he has been arrested along with several others that

were very close to the heart of court it is not clear exactly what the role that prince. played and that but clearly there has been any division inside the court that has led the security forces to consider this a danger to the stability of jordan's government. prince hamza is the half brother of king abdullah when their father king hussein passed away in 1909 king abdullah was crowned and prince hamza became the crown prince of jordan however king abdullah stripped him of this title 5 years later following saturday's arrests regional leaders including the g.c.c. were quick to express solidarity with king abdullah security personnel have been deployed in the capital amman and other parts of the country there are still more questions than answers about the highly unusual arrests and what flaunting it says

it a stable country in the middle east lore about in many. a letter now from dalia fahmy he's an associate professor of political science at long island university and she says the situation has been building over the last few years. this is really reflective of a domestic internal rift and the wording of the former crown prince about corruption really is reflective of what's been happening economically in jordan you know this king king abdullah has been running or talking about economic reforms not really political reform since he took office and you have a country that's hurting economically it becomes a point where opposition forces or opposition within the government can rise and say we haven't had political reform especially since the arab spring the economic reforms are failing today for example jordan's foreign debt has reached $35000000000.00 it's 90 percent 95 percent of the country's g.d.p.

and so what that does is it lends itself to several challenges this is probably not going to lead anywhere but what the king has to do is probably raise some of the austerity measures here it's going to be very difficult because these are the conditions the i.m.f. has placed time to reduce the debt to g.d.p. ratio in order for the i.m.f. loans to continue so domestically it's going to be a tough time for the king in terms of international relations and where he stands in the region there probably won't be any changes he still held favorably in the united states and in the u.k. he's a long term ally jordan shares a very long border with israel and so there might not be any change in status quo internationally this is really a domestic rift iran's foreign ministry says it will reject any gradual approach the lifting of sanctions terror on made the comments ahead of planned talks in vienna this week on a return to the 2015 nuclear deal between iran and global post former u.s.

president donald trump pulled out of the deal in 2018 and reimpose sanctions on iran and iran says it wants us to lift all solutions told state t.v. that step by step plan will not be considered. police in somalia's capital of mogadishu say a suicide attack on a busy cafe has killed at least 6 people including the bomber now the group has claimed responsibility for those separate attacks early on saturday on 2 military bases outside of mogadishu the military says it successfully pushed back al-shabaab killing 76 fighters the head of the roman catholic churches urged his followers not to lose hope during the pandemic francis deliver the message during a scaled back easter vigil service and peter's basilica about $200.00 people were allowed to attend and all had to wear masks the vatican dropped its traditional baptism ceremonies to curb the spread of covert 90. day trying to mend the ravine all see that even from the ruinous fragments of our humanity god prepares

a new story he always goes before us in the cross of the suffering in the desolation of death as well as in the glory of a life that resurrects a story that changes hope that comes back to life and in these dark months of the pandemic let us listen to the risen lord as he invites us to begin a new and never lose hope. millions of people in europe are marking easter on the current of us restrictions france has entered its 3rd national lockdown on saturday and italy is returning to stricter measures after a surge in covert 900 factions are concerns that the slow vaccine rollout and new contagious variants of the virus will make a 3rd wave of the pandemic difficult to contain all the number of covert 1000 infections in latin america has problems 25000000 brazil is the hardest hit country in the region with the world's highest 2nd highest number of cases behind the united states widespread spike in infections has prompted both chile and bolivia to close their borders improve also impose new measures over the easter holidays to

limit travel and public gatherings. well the pandemic has left many of brazil's poorest citizens reliant on food handouts to survive the survey found that more than 80 percent of people living in slums depend on donations to feed their families one of chaotic you have joined workers from one campaign in rio de janeiro is trying to stem a rising tide of hunger. the lines are growing in the center of rio de janeiro and not just in front of the soup kitchens many come here for a bath and a haircut. in the past. the number of people living in the streets has doubled since the beginning of the pandemic many here have lost their jobs at home 10000000 brazilians were already going hungry when the pandemic began now the situation is much worse in january the government suspended emergency aid benefiting half of brazil's population just as infections began to spiral out of control forcing new

lockdowns. the crisis affected private businesses which were contributions to charity last year and can no longer afford to do so with no help from the public sector and no jobs for people in the slums and core neighborhoods are literally starving to death. is part of the g 10 a group of brazil's 10 biggest slums they have started the campaign empty pots in brazil together they were able to obtain the 1st donation this year. 1000 basic food baskets to share among way too many 180000 people live in the hasi alone. we received 10000 basic food baskets to distribute but this year it was only 100 donations drop by 95 percent and the number of people dying from covered 19 is growing by just last 10

friends and one week william has been walking the streets of to pick those who have nothing in their pockets oh you very much like my family who lives with her 86 year old mother and stopped working after she got sick. 7 out of 10 people living in brazilian slums have no money to buy food they're receiving donations but much less than last year a bag like this $1.00 for example has rice and being an oil it cost the equivalent of 10 dollars but it only lasts one week and a family of 4 who over 1000 has affected donations in another way dwane vasconcellos tells us the number of people working in soup kitchens has decreased some volunteers were infected with the coronavirus while others are too afraid to go out on the streets monica and i give al-jazeera rio de janeiro.

voting is underway in both gary's general election. a prime minister boyhood borders so often seeking a 4th term with the center right party of fighting corruption and managing the coronavirus pandemic could be key issues in the company has seen recent surge in trade with 900 factions turnout will be one of the most keenly watched aspects of the vote smith reports from sofia. bulgaria the prime minister hasn't given any interviews in this election campaign just photo opportunities the only camera allowed is from his own team. governs an e.u. country where according to the u.s. state department there's little judicial independence there are opportunities and journalists are threatened with violence in sunday's election he could well retain his grip on this form a satellite of the soviet union. takes long for democratic states to mature but on the other hand there are concrete. experiences of the both gerunds over the past 3

decades and the fact that they have none being been able to reap the benefits of a democratic system in theory should provide so they have become disenchanted the more of the fold there is that state 45 percent would prefer a motto of strongman leadership last summer several months of anti corruption protests with the biggest challenge to power so they started after an opposition leader tried to set foot on a public beach that had been sealed off for use spy want to bog areas most powerful but. christo ivan off says the e.u. ignores the corruption here because boris off's party he's aligned with the largest center right coalition in the european parliament with of his not an ideologue he doesn't. sort of make any political pronounce and he's a tyrant practitioner of opponents not only them but of corruption to be open people's party the elite in brussels and in berlin frankly we will need to understand that they cannot afford any longer to load the blind eye to what is

happening in office any protests now a tiny in comparison that's part phase of covert part resignation. and a former prime minister says the e.u. ignores at its peril what is happening here that transparency fielitz have defined has to be put on a new on the road it came to. bandon so financing from european union became a song choice but it got action not for the development of the plan the european commission says corruption is a major obstacle to development in bulgaria. the latest polls give the prime minister's party around the 28 percent of the vote the opposition socialists a trailing around 8 percent behind political experts here say that could be a government of national unity if that's the case then boyko boris off as head of

the largest party will keep his job as prime minister. but it's made al-jazeera saffir. as it had here in algeria why the u.s. state of georgia is most famous sporting event is in the rough civil rights. and a spectacle fit for kings and queens egypt moves its role engine monies to a new resting. college we got some subtle changes taking place in the weather across the middle east over the next couple of days we have still got some clouds some rain a little bit of a wintry weather there across northern parts of the region the bylaws here those temperatures are starting to notch up at long last so we're getting into the low

twenty's there in damascus $22.00 celsius by rate 80 degrees to reflect a similar temperature here as well so when she weather moving across took mega-star northern parts of afghanistan further south it is largely dry but temperatures starting to fall away here in doha 29 celsius earlier on in the week we're into the high thirty's so that is something of a change the winds have gone round to move in northwesterly direction the wind setting in the a little cane as we go on and soon monday system lifted dust and sand to watch out for on an eastern side of saudi arabia maybe also hitting concept further south it's dry and sunny in that sunshine stretching across the whole of africa you might see one of 2 showers just creeping their way into southern part. somalia as we go through sunday southern areas of ethiopia as well and the showers of course stretching right up into the gulf of guinea they do run right across into northern parts of mozambique northern areas of madagascar south of that is fine and dry so looking last he settled south africa.

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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour and the former crown prince of jordan says he's under house arrest and among the military denies prince hamza has been detained efficiently news agency says to form a senior officials and other suspects have been arrested for security. lockdowns are in place across parts of europe to combat surging coronavirus numbers from people shot schools and non-essential shops for 4 weeks military is looking down the. number of corona virus infections in latin america has passed 25000000 still remains the reasons the hardest hit country libya and chile took place in the borders because of a spike in infections. leaders of countries neighboring mozambique will hold talks next week about ongoing violence the u.n. says the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly group storm the town of palmer a week ago killing dozens of people and displacing thousands. years co is the emergency

coordinator for doctors without borders he says thousands of people have yet to reach safety and a couple about carter. on proportional what theoretically should be the quantity of people that it was around a right to safe places like more than one god there are multiple ways of. show we're we are assuming that there are probably dozens of thousands of people in the shining there in the forest hiding or trying to reach safe places. and there probably they are the ones that they are or either more or more terrified of probably the ones that they are more vulnerable or more sick and they cannot reach . the bases where they can be assisted early to be possible because we are not we have not received been as much people that we were just checked in but for example a misspeaking with my colleague x. who are most of them displays themselves from the last year of the space many more see what a prayer or even a know their places think of their god oh and they they are just hounded by by

their by the time that they were spent they spent. hiding like for 56 days they were hiding in there in there in the forest and then he took another 4 or 5 days to reach safe places and now what people are saying to us is that they are trying to avoid the few roads that they are there because they are afraid and they're literally people coming to their places of people has left their houses with no with nothing on their hands so so a lot of people use birth food a lot of people essentially no injuries in their food and in their defeat in the in their in their arms honor of course they didn't have food or water for a few days and least 5 more people have been killed them in ma in the latest crackdown on anti q protests a local rights group says at least 550 people have died since military seize power 2 months ago on saturday 10 ethnic armed groups announce their support for the protest movement that's raised concerns of violence because foreign interests of war. prosecutors in taiwan is seeking an arrest warrant for

a construction site manager whose truck course the devastating train crash on friday 51 people died but that number could rise as crews continue to search the wreckage from slavery as. who may survived the carnage but lost her husband his son and her daughter they were on their way to for the annual to sweeping day a traditional chinese festival she remembers hearing a loud bang just before the train and took the tunnel. it was like a living hell our carriage was mangled things had fallen off and piled on top of passengers shelves fell on top of me it was dark. the train had crashed into a construction truck that it slid down a hill and onto the track just minutes earlier. this is the one we only go with what i got hold of a mobile phone and turned on the torch to try to find my husband and children i saw them but there was nothing i could do to get them out so many objects piled on top

of them i tried to remove some of the things such as iron bars but there was just too much stuff and when i did a voice kept asking me not to move anything because it hurt him so i just sat still was rescued an hour later president trying when visited a hospital where dozens of the injured are being treated and promised a thorough investigation into the accident as well as government support to affected families for you. this distressing accident caused heavy casualties i came to while in today to visit our wounded and express my sympathy to the families of the victims. officials have said the driver may have failed to properly applied the brakes of the construction truck prosecutors have sought an arrest warrant for the manager of the company that carries out tracks like maintenance a court has released the man on a farm. workers are still trying to remove the more heavily damaged sections of the train that remain inside the tunnel. as taiwan marks

a 2nd day of mourning families of the crash victims gathered at the site of the disaster on saturday to say press conduct religious rites and grieve for those they've lost florence louis al-jazeera. there's been demonstrations in several you case it is against a bill that will give police more power to break up protests bill was drafted after the so-called extinction rebellion rallies in 2019 police time and noise limits on rallies like this an attack on freedom of speech brennan was one of the demonstrations in the capital there reports on why the police in bill it's so controversial. it's largely inspired by 2960 action rebellion protests which paralyzed central london for many many weeks and the police felt powerless to actually move people on and get the thought affairs of london the roads open and running again the criticism of all 'd of this particular proposed legislation is that it goes too far the other way that it wouldn't allow the police on

a much lower threshold not from the risk of serious disorder but just from public nuisance grounds to. finish times and impose more destructions on protesters the government doesn't appear minded to back down on this they have a majority in parliament theoretically they could push it through if they wanted to there will be amendments no doubt submitted by opposition parties who are very angry about it and the biggest criticism really is that it's a mammoth bill which lumps lots of different things in together for example proposes longer sentences for serious crimes long prison sentences for less serious crimes they're kind of things that many people here in the u.k. would agree with on the protest side of things there that's where it really gets sticky and the idea of clamping down on people regard as a human right to dissent is not a popular measure. u.s. president joe biden says he supports major league baseball's decision to strip atlanta of the prestigious all star game it's because of new laws in the state of

georgia critics say the mage's signed off on georgia's republican governor limited access to the ballot box and target minority poor voters maybe in the baseball game is put pressure on georgia's most famous sporting event the masters golf tournament at all guster and that starts on thursday when civil rights group. governing body to cancel the tournament is called to boycott it till the law is repealed we can let. you know outflank is out. you know. or we can get in a fight with him and that's what we're doing i mean this is a call to everyone not only in georgia but all across the country to wake him to get in the fight and to help us in that fight because they are coming for you next i mean what event what. are they going after now what event are they going to go

after what convention political hate is in washington d.c. in says this goes beyond just the state of georgia this is a nationwide issue and now this all goes back to what is been dubbed the big lie the claim that there was widespread voter fraud which is why donald trump is no longer president i think it's important point out it's not just the media that says there is no evidence of widespread widespread voter fraud more than 50 courts took up cases and found in each and every one that there was no credible evidence still we're seeing republican leadership in $47.00 states put forward about $361.00 bills that would restrict restrict voting rights in their states and so now what you're seeing is companies react we've saw dozens and dozens of companies heads said in letters to georgia including the 2 major employers in georgia coca-cola and delta airlines saying this they disagree with this law they're trying to send the message

to these big companies we're talking about twitter and estee lauder and dozens and dozens of others sending the message to places where their headquarters where they're located saying look we don't want you to take these steps don't approve these voting restrictions but in georgia the governor's 5 firing back i would be will host climate talks for the middle east and north africa later on some day u.s. special presidential envoy for climate that's john kerry he traveled to the united arab emirates to meet with his you eat counterpart they discussed national and regional preparations ahead of the u.n. climate summit which will be held in november. he is my counterpart in this effort to make glasgow a success and bring our nations to a place where we are addressing the climate crisis with the seriousness that it demands and it's wonderful today i spent a day with sultan. viewing the largest solar field in the

world. viewing an extraordinary. parabolic. solar facility which was one of the 1st ever created of its kind. and also. listening to dr alexander and his plans and the plans of the u.a.e. to help lead the world the last vessel stranded by the grounding of a container ship in the suez canal have passed through the wood way more than 420 were delayed when the a given got stuck for nearly a week at one of the world's most final shipping routes. royal ancient mummies have been transported through egypt's capital to their new home crowds witness the multi $1000000.00 but of the 18 kings and 4 queens making the journey through karrie egypt hopes the event will help resurrect it struggling

tourism industry rankle as more. with all the fanfare the befits egypt's ancient kings and queens the highly anticipated meticulously planned ferries golden parade was the biggest cultural event cairo has seen in recent years travelling in individual vehicles bedecked an ancient egyptian style the mommy fire drills 22 of them in all were moved from caro's a gyptian museum in takrit square they moved through the capital streets to a new location a state of the art facility called the national museum of ancient civilization. where they were greeted by a concert from the cairo film monic featuring famous singers and then received by the egyptian president. the pharaohs of the stuff of legend and include amenhotep the 1st ramsay's the 2nd ramsay's the 3rd and queen never tire. you got to. sing.

without the well. prepared objects to travel around the well but then you got a spectacle to close on so the logistics behind it was very complex and you can imagine that it's very. spectacle but we also felt that everything goes to. the security operation was a mammoth undertaking streets were closed in cairo brought to a standstill the event which lost it around 2 hours was attended by very stigma trees including the director general of unesco the un's world heritage organization . once the money's arrived at the. new resting place they are to be put into restoration in a lab for 15 days and ready for display but there are a minority who mata darkly about an ancient curse legend has it that cursed will be

the ones that move the mummies they say the sioux is canal blockage disturbing global markets 2 trains colliding with each other a garment factory blaze and a residential building collapse all came after the announcement of the pharaoh's gold parade. but the ancient curse hasn't stopped the pharaohs once again appearing on the streets of egypt. the wrong car does or. so this is answer these are the top stories and the former crown prince of jordan says he's under house arrest in amman but the military denies prince hamza has been detained the official news agency says 2 former senior officials and other suspects have been arrested for security reasons. agenda there is no outside agenda there is nothing on my part to affect the country or outside looking from behind the scenes.