i don't ever take anybody's one word because there is always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are too little to heat a new only to be part of today's discussion this dream on out is there an. agenda. jordan's form across britain says he's under house arrest and accuses the country's leaders of corruption and incompetence. clubs' a robin your charges are alive by headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes bulgarians vote for a new parliament after months of anti-government protests and a rise in coronavirus factions. don't lose hope the roman catholic pope's easter

message as millions of europeans face tougher covert restrictions. and cast out how accusations of witchcraft are putting lives at risk in ghana during the covert 19 pandemic. welcome to the program jordan's former crown prince says he's been placed under house arrest in amman the military denies that but so is a former minister a member of the royal family and others have been detained as part of an ongoing investigation in a video prince homs are accused of corruption incompetence and harassment laura but manley has more. 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 220 in 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 but some our dollar. was a long time also that of the ching and was at one time a minister of finance and 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 there 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 for long says it

a stable country in the middle east or about in money jazeera. me is an associate professor of political science at long island university in the u.s. she says the situation has been building during the past 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 are 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 is has reached $35000000000.00 it's 90 percent 95 percent of the country's g.d.p.

and so 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. voting is underway bulgaria's general election prime minister. with his center right party corruption and managing the crowbars pandemic have been

the main issues in the campaign well gary has seen a recent surge in inspections and turnout will be watched very closely ben smith is our correspondent joins me now from the capital city and the campaigning is over the polling stations have been open for several hours now what are the pollsters saying about potential winners. well there's a steady turnout of voters at this polling station in the sun jewels of fear has been a concern that might be low this time around because of covert. there's the whole areas where the highest code infection rates in europe at the moment one of the lowest oxidation rates in the e.u. just 3.6 percent or guerin's vaccinated but or cobra's off the prime minister is hoping for a 4th term he's been in power pretty much entirely since 2009 early polls suggest before voting started that he may manage to scrabble some sort of coalition together he's increased the minimum basic average salary here by about 36 percent

since he came to power to around $900.00 a month but is the prime minister of a country that remains the e.u.'s poorest and according to transparency international its most corrupt. well gary's prime minister hasn't given any interviews in this election campaign just photo opportunities where the only camera loud 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 arbitrary arrests 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 i.q. to mature but on the other hand there concrete i experience is that the ball guerin's over the past 3 decades in the fact that they have nonbeing been able to reap the benefits of a democratic system in theory should provide so they have become disenchanted the

more of the fold dairies that state 45 percent would prefer a mano a 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 by want to bulgaria is most powerful man bristow ivan off says the e.u. ignores the corruption here because boris office party these are allied with the largest center right coalition in the european parliament with of is not an ideal he doesn't. sort of make any political pronouncement he is a tyrant practitioner of a paternalism of corruption we have been people's party the elite in brussels and in berlin frankly we will need to understand that they cannot afford any longer to go the blind eye to eye opening in the office any protests now

a tiny in comparison that's part of covert part resignation. and a former prime minister says the e.u. ignores at its peril what is happening here that demands better. has to be put on a new on the road it came. financing from european union became a force option not for the development of the european commission says corruption is a major obstacle to development in bulgaria. well but of course the coded pandemic has impacted the campaign it's also impacted society as a whole in the past 15 months in bulgaria how does that sort of playing into the way people potentially might vote. well like everywhere the economy was really hit hard by covert related lockdowns of

the beginning of march the prime minister was under intense pressure to reopen so he reopened everything but 10 days later after an explosion in infection rates bulgaria went into lockdown again just last night restaurants were allowed to open to customers sitting outside has been a slight easing of the lock down the hospital's still overflowing nevertheless economically his money has a reputation despite the widespread corruption of managing of increasing salaries increasing wages here and it's what's in people's pockets that is often the most important factor when they considering it who to vote for so all those polling stations still open for several hours and we'll be checking in with you through the day but it's myth in sofia. now hundreds of people are expected to take part in anti-government protests in thailand's capital there demanding the resignation of the government and the immediate release of pro-democracy protesters on saturday the police declared that a planned protest at the bangkok remand prison would be illegal to any change is

live for us in bangkok with the very latest we see people behind you tony protestors or just onlookers. protesters definitely but it's quiet man 6 months ago when they were all denies in protest there were tens of thousands of people. actually jamming the streets around this area today there are hundreds i think they may make a 1000 but there are empty chairs here in front of the stage and i think it illustrates just how much of the steam has come out of these anti-government protests it really looked in november of last year as if the government was teetering on the edge there was as often there is in thailand a lot of talk about the possibility of a coup the prime minister looked very imperiled and yet here we are 4 months later and they seem stronger than ever there are a number of reasons for that they have what the authorities the government have

targeted the student leaders with wave after wave of criminal charges from things a small as disturbing the peace to the very serious charge of $11.00 to mention a charge here in thailand that comes with a 15 year jail sentence they've tied them up in all sorts of legal cases bail hearings and that has left the student movement rather leaderless we've also seen the splintering of different groups some like the one protesting here today focusing on calling for the government to step down others are really pushing on with questions over the monarchy and that it's split the support but i think also there's been something of a malays so people want change but they didn't see the protests actually moving forward and that's left a lot of the popular support not coming out on the streets streets instead sitting at home indeed to civil society might have their opinions about the military but the more one does about the calls for reform of the monarchy. is it as strong as it

was 5 months ago there's always very divided opinion about this issue. there is a very divisive issue here in thailand and when people started talking about it in october or november last year i think we were all surprised about how quickly and how open the discussion came however the government has slapped down the student leaders with a lot of these charges of match day and still saying that the monarchy the king has also been present in thailand pretty much consuello it consistently since december last year he had spent a lot of the previous years living in germany the fact that he's here i think has concentrated the minds of the government the military the police so that when these protests are being announced they are being met with very stiff resistance in the last couple of months when they've organized process we've seen huge lines of

containers going up across strategic positions that the protesters are trying to march to we've seen the police using much tougher techniques deploying tear gas water again as they had done in the past they used very sparingly i think the fact that the monarch is now in residence in bangkok is focusing everybody's minds on the fact that if they do allow these things to get out of hand they'll be in very big trouble and that is working but it's also a divisive issue for the protesters i think some people here particularly the young want to see that very very deep change they fear they feel this is the time to push forward some of the older protests is know that it's such a sensitive issue they don't want to rock the boat and that is to succeed for the thanks very much tony force in bangkok well still ahead here on al-jazeera desperate for something to eat covert 90 minutes to the problems for millions of brazilians brazil's poorest people. an assault on the right to expression

protesters in the u.k. marches to know all that would lead police crackdown on demonstrations those stories after the break. was. that. as a change in the wind field in southeast asia if you look at where this cloud is going it seems to be congregating in thailand that seems to be about right ross there is a good line of big showers in northern borneo is this here bangkok me and my western side of thailand and potential malays he will see the wettest was next 2 days in java is rather moving from the west slowly east was which means most as more as the east are fairly dry it's actually was developing to the northwest of australia which is taking much of the energy this thing here a tropical low mostly offshore of the moment there's more feet of tropical air into

queensland and into new south wales just a backward low and there is on the shore so this is fairly heavy rain after having record breaking march rain in southern queensland and floods in new south wales you don't really want to see this i'm sure it's still fairly warm in person about 30 degrees but beyond that nothing changes in new zealand there is still a feet of parts of poe's cloud or wet weather on the western side of south park that's not exactly extraordinary tries churches up to another amazing 28 degrees not sure that will necessarily last without a 22 by tuesday but mostly both islands are enjoying the sunshine. a unique yet endangered biodiversity lies in the heart of one of the back windows tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about schiano most of which have here and now they're proud

they are just coming back to their stuff better mission their communities al-jazeera journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist and her teams our fight to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. pool. world. book about you're watching all jews are with me so robin a reminder of our top story is the former crown prince of jordan says he's under house arrest in amman the military has denied that but says it's all the minister a member of the wall family and others are detained as part of an investigation. is

underway in bulgaria's general election prime minister boyko boss office seeking a 4th term with the center right party corruption and the coronavirus pandemic have been the main campaign issues. and to government demonstrators gather in thailand's capital demanding the immediate release of pro-democracy activists the police have declared the planned protests illegal. the head of the roman catholic church is leading easter mass at the vatican in a scaled back service due to coronavirus restrictions pope francis offered his blessings to the world earlier he urged his followers not to lose hope during the pandemic easter mass is usually held in st peter's square in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims the borders are closed the new restrictions are in place across latin america and the caribbean where there have been more than

$25000900.00 cases of widespread surjit infections as prompted both chile and bolivia to close their borders ecuador and peru have also imposed new measures over the easter holidays. in brazil which has the 2nd highest number of infections and deaths in the world many of its poorest people rely on food handouts to survive a survey found more than 80 percent of those living in slums depend on donations while a chaotic year of joined workers from one campaign group in rio de janeiro 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 i mean come here for a bath and i hear. on the bus. 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 the emergency aid benefiting half of brazil's population just as infections began to spiral out of control forcing new lockdowns. to pay 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 dropped by 95 percent and the number of people dying from cover 19 is growing i just lost 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 bubble like this $1.00 for example has rice and be an oil it cost the equivalent of 10 dollars but it only lasts one week and a family of 4 who had 19 has affected donations in another way whiny 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 monika and i give al-jazeera rio de janeiro. 22 indian security personnel have died during a raid on a maoist rebel hideout in eastern junkies go to state one man was fired who was killed police say they acted on intelligence the group was hiding in a forest what ensued was a 4 hour gun battle with one officer saying rebels use grenades the most for the government for more than 4 decades demanding land and jobs for farmers. the leaders of countries neighboring mozambique will hold talks next week about the violence in its northern region the u.n. says the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly group stormed the town of parma a week ago killing dozens of people and displacing thousands a tour score is the emergency coordinator for doctors without borders he says thousands of people have yet to reach safety in cabo delgado. all

proportional here is equally should be the quantity of people that it was around a right to shake places like more than one guy they all want to place a panda so we are we are assuming that there are probably dozens of thousands of people in the buddha and in the in the forest hiding or trying to reach safe places and and there probably they are the ones that they are or either more or more terrified or probably the ones that they are more vulnerable or more sick and they cannot reach to the places where they can be assisted or a little bit possible because we are not we are not receiving as much people that we were expecting but for example i am speaking with my colleagues who are most of them displaced themselves from the last year of the space many muslim world a prayer or you know you know their places in cover their god oh and they are just the hunted by by the by the time that they were spent they spent. heidi in like 456

days they were hiding in the in the in the forest and they need to play another 4 or 5 days to reach take place it and 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 little by little coming to to the places of people has left the houses with no with nothing on the honshu so a lot of people is better food a lot of people is a show in a injuries in the in the food and the feet and then in their arms and of course they didn't have food or what they are for a few days. no there have been demonstrations in several u.k. cities against a bill little give police more power to break up protests the bill was drafted after these so-called extinction rebellion rallies in 2019 it would lead police time and noise limits on rallies activists say it's an attack on freedom of speech paul brennan was at one of the demonstrations in london report so why the policing bill is so controversial. it's largely inspired 52916000 rebellion protest

which power lies in central london for many many weeks and the police felt powerless to actually move people on and get the refers of london the roads open and running again the criticism of all 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. and impose more of the strictures 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 not in 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. to open climate talks for the middle east and north africa on sunday u.s. special presidential envoy for climate john kerry traveled to the united arab emirates and met sultan. who's taken on a similar role for the u.a.e. now they discussed national and regional preparations ahead of the u.n. climate summit in glasgow scotland for november. here's a bite counterpart in this effort to make glasgow a successful 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. doing an extraordinary. parabolic. solar facility which was one of the 1st ever created of its kind. and also. listening to dr our driver and his plans and the plans of the u.s. to help lead the world for years communities in gone as far northern regions have been banishing people they accuse of practicing witchcraft neighboring regions that comes to help those who've been forced out but as a broker reports from the bag are concerned now because of coronavirus if more people are being sent away the car you'll pass he is blind and his health is failing he wants to go home to live out his final days but not some likely to happen. he was punished promised village years ago by those who once called his

family on us friends and they want to take him back a boy died in the community and they accused me of killing him by witchcraft they chased me out of the community and i ended up here many people in this camp have similar stories now radley 6 so-called which comes my close enough i'm gonna pass on people who are accused of witchcraft and chased from their homes nation. but in the way this is a hero sleep every night and day and then if you went there in the name 2. there are a lot of records here and there are haitians here see the cover 1908 may be one reason why more people now arrive and seeking refuge and yet gonna was the 1st country to receive couldn't do this another kovacs program and hearing a 12 hour drive north of capital. many people simply don't believe in the facts and

instead they believe in which costs. we do all of this stuff the government and non-government agencies are running cobbett education campaigns and hold a vinyl doesn't make much sense when us. people understand why a strong young man wakes up gets called would have difficulty in briefing have difficulty in been in all the body suddenly young man diapers in all communities and not doing. it to not be accepted there or have to find out why and don't go to the lab or trees to do it was more. work to do which doctor should do what we should i would do a fetish priests and definitely their finances and as i will fall on a whim if you haven't for housing common cases have been reported in gone a snotty but officials fear the actual number is far higher and keep rising. go

also have taken to record in the council rejected any long forgotten but small i arrive in a day and that is increasing a concern about the spread of the koran of our old as they are forced to share a smaller space the risk becomes a so much greater. you want yours there with me cell raman a reminder of our top stories the former crown prince of jordan says as he's under house arrest in amman the military has denied but says a former minister a member of the royal family and others were detained as part of an ongoing investigation the prince released a video saying it's part of a crackdown on critics that accuse the leaders of corruption incompetence and harassment. agenda who do you know there is no outside agenda there is nothing on my part to affect the country all.