in which some are seeking to turn the tide. and there are 3 individuals. feel that it's really exciting the season of programming exploring the climate. ahead of. the al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for getting this is that he was a live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes reports of the 1st attack in myanmar by a coalition of ethnic rebel groups targeting police. iran tests a new centrifuge that is capable of enriching uranium much faster than the ones allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal. more unrest in the issues surrounding the

u.k.'s exit from the european union are among the grievances. and most of all no worries into the serious film industry turns its attention to make a pandemic comeback. sports including gulf action from the. remains the cash balances need is now down to just one shot. we start this news in myanmar where a coalition of rebels has reportedly launched a major attack on security forces for the 1st time at least 10 officers are said to have been killed in the eastern shan states when asked month 3 rebel groups announced that they were joining forces against the military and embargo about 90 kilometers northeast of yang on details are emerging of a violent crackdown on friday activists say that the military killed more than 80

people i was there as tony chang has the latest. even before the sun roof the sounds of battle raged. forces moving into the city of fargo and then pulled. gateway to the south behind the barricades the protesters tried to stand their ground but the military advance was fierce automatic gunfire and evidence that heavier weapons pictures posted to social media appear to show rifle launched grenades and reports that 3 of myanmar's ethnic rebel groups attacked a police station in the far eastern shan state on saturday morning unity amongst these disparate groups could be problematic for the military as it faces attacks on its outposts and civil unrest in towns and cities at a news conference in yangon the gintas spokesman said support for the protests was waning and the death toll is considerably lower than reported with an ominous

warning. if we really shoot at the protest group using automatic rifles the $500.00 you referred to could be killed within hours but the evidence from mandalay on saturday suggest protesters is still out in large numbers marching through the streets despite the threat of detention or worse. some have fled the cities however for the relative safety of the bases of the ethnic rebel groups along the border while the conditions may be basic the alternative could have been worse. you will need you know you will need we know that if we were to get arrested the security forces would not let us live they'd kill us so we had to run away. and the steady flow of people heading towards the borders is growing as many now fear myanmar is on an unavoidable course towards civil war a short time ago tony brought us up speed with the latest developments in the. it's been reported the attack was launched by these 3 groups at 5 am at the police

station it's about 20 kilometers outside last year on the mandalay last year highway an important road heading towards the chinese border one which the myanmar military control but as somebody described it to me you know as the area a little while ago it was a soft target you could see from from pictures that it was defended with barbed wire but it must have been a fairly ferocious attack exemption status say that between 10 and 14 policemen were killed in the compound families of the policemen were also living and a number of people are being reported injured. said that the military then sent a helicopter to fly over the area about an hour after the attack finished at 7 am local time that then caused the 3 ethnic groups to leave the area although there are conflicting reports as to whether there are still there still fighting going on

but i think it is very significant that they have shown they're prepared to launch this attack since the coup on february 1st there's been talk about the ethnic term groups forming an alliance getting together and we've seen various agreements being signed within some of these groups but it was also being felt they were disparate they had conflicting interests well now we've seen them actually work together on an attack that could make the military feel vulnerable in some of their more extreme posts on friday the u.n. security council heard pleas from the people of myanmar for action to stop the crackdown at an unofficial meeting of council members or diplomatic editor james bays reports. as the military continues its crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protesters there also now reneging on their own promises a spokesman for the june to assess although at the time of the coup they. pledged to hold elections in a year they now won't take place for 2 my years at the un in new york

a meeting was held to give security council ambassadors a picture of the deteriorating situation now most people feel that they are left alone to face the brutal regime armed to its feet start from by the same international actors who preventing action the military and the north are kind of nations posing a test for the security council with the council well council who are over language in yet another statement are we apt to save the lives of the people myanmar's u.n. ambassador who opposes the generals who called for a no fly zone an arms embargo and targeted sanctions leave the the state action. this meeting was organized by the u.k. all security council members were invited but it wasn't a formal security council meeting both china and russia which object to an official

open meeting only sent low level diplomats not surprisingly both countries seem opposed to any sanctions on the generals we share the same the main thrust of recent diplomacy has been in the region here earlier this week the indonesian foreign minister meeting her u.k. counterpart i'm told a meeting of the leaders of the 10 countries in the regional as the only group is likely in indonesia in the next 2 weeks but how do you persuade the generals to talk and to give ground the un special envoy christine sharana bergen has had her permission to visit myanmar denied i'm told there are some countries that are contemplating the idea of appeasing the generals and giving them a few in the governance of the country something that would appall human rights activists and those protesting on the streets james al-jazeera at the united nations western powers including the u.s. u.k. and european union have imposed economic sanctions to force the jointer into

restoring democracy and the cash flows through to large entities economic holdings ltd and they are not economic corporation that owns more than 100 companies from construction to tourism and banking these companies are often run by family members or current or former military officials that also includes children of the leader of the military government's general men on i'm they've now been put under u.s. sanctions kill dates is the man maher policy adviser for the for global witness he says the targeted sanctions will impact the military and have no effect on civilians. these companies are kind of set up with the explicit explicit purpose of benefitting members of the military and members of. and the military itself as an institution these companies are not providing significant amounts of jobs to nonmilitary people they're not from. members of the public are not

a significant shareholders these companies do business with with international many international companies and that does that certainly limit the amount of affective ness that they can they can have say 2 things one 1st of all it's important to these sanctions are important just as a as a condemnation of the militaries behavior i think the international community is kind of been horrified by what they've been seeing hundreds of people murdered in the streets thousands of people detained in nighttime raids and it's important for the international community to take a stand and say that this is this is not acceptable. but also these sanctions need to be played paired with with intense regional diplomatic efforts we've already seen that the indonesian government and other governments within southeast asia have called for reverse of this coup even the chinese government has explained express displeasure with the military for this so you know this is this is also part of this needs to be put sanctions need to be paired with

a broader diplomatic push and regional engagement with countries that do have diplomatic influence in myanmar in order to make them more effective and also to push diplomatic efforts to resolve the current crisis forward iran says it's become testing new advanced iranian enrichment centrifuges just ahead of another round of talks in vienna president hassan rouhani made the announcement during a virtual meeting on iran's annual national nuclear technology day to iran has been steadily moving away from the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal since the u.s. pulled out of the donald trump of the parties to the deal of trying to revive it i said big has the latest from tehran. this is a national day of nuclear chief this day came about back in 2006 when iran managed . to about 3.5 percent using centrifuges made in the country now we were expecting over $130.00 announcement of new achievements in relation to its nuclear program

now iran is using more advanced centrifuges and feeding into them but also began production of the centrifuges that's important because under the 2015 nuclear deal iran is restricted to using older and less efficient centrifuges not these ones but also. apparently the production of the centrifuges was damaged because of apparent sabotage last summer and iran says that they are producing this now this is all in the context of those talks that took place in vienna and did yesterday continue next week on wednesday and this is just iran showing that they will continue along this line along this path as long as those sanctions lifted and. the europeans are not living up to their commitments and iran has been pretty transparent about it they've told the international atomic agency of what they've been doing and as far as iran is concerned they're within the agreement to take what they see as remedial measures but the europeans and i think this is a breach but the supreme leader said just 2 weeks ago that iran will continue down

this path as some of the other countries don't fulfill their responsibilities but it does add that extra layer of complexity to those talks because as time goes by iran continues to take steps further away from those restrictions imposed on its nuclear program as part of that 2015 nuclear deal. the u.s. defense secretary is due to visit israel on sunday lloyd austin is expected to meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu israel has so far opposed american attempts to rejoin the iran nuclear deal reports that israeli military chiefs heading to washington to meet with u.s. officials for discussions over iran's nuclear program my job undone far as iran lecturer at the into disciplinary center has leah he joins us now live via skype from good to have you with us so what is israel up to here is it actively lobbying the u.s. over the iran nuclear deal. what legend i think 1st of all of this is a lesson learned israel has not realized the netanyahu ministration that

he made a mistake during the obama administration off daring ollie's differences with the obama in the public media to the city are one as far as giving a speech in a congress against the iranian cliff deal that only did not work it also hurt sort of relationship with the united states so on the one hand we see israel is now. talking to the americans but it's doing so in intensity but privately 1st and foremost. secondly yes there are concerns of when you are not party to talks but the effect you have is that case you need it with israel. it's always more difficult to get what you want it's even more difficult i mean it's already difficult enough for the parties involved in talks directly to get what they want here for israel which is not party to the talks it's even more difficult so they

are you know the current israeli government through these talks it's putting its point across to the united states to divide it ministration with the hope that during these the warship. the result will also be suitable for israel in their nuclear program and also all you've got another concern that israel has with iran 1st of foremost the new in the missile program and also its presence in the middle east ok i was going to ask you what does israel really fear as far as iran is concerned is it but that iran may develop a nuclear bomb or is there more to it as you've just suggested than that. well they didn't you know since the 2015 j.c. pilate. you. know the world has changed 1st of all most geopolitics that changed. the rattlers also in terms of its capabilities to change whereas if you and i were having this conversation saying december 2014 i don't see

it in nuclear program of iran would be the biggest concern for his state of israel but today. april 2021 ringback it's also program equally concerned but the policy if you want it's a nuclear weapon it's unlikely that you would use it but it would be good could become more aggressive towards the state of israel but also what has brought us the missiles equal to the nuclear threat for israel is that we saw in september 2900 very precise we side attacked by the money and against saudi always so you one of the capability there now what about the intention well listen as an aside like in september 2017 said in the next war between the state of israel and hezbollah hizbullah could target. the mona nuclear facilities of israel and we all

know what would happen even if the 1000 that the nuclear facility so what you know the intention and keep it billet often iranian besides that also makes it as dangerous as the as that iranian nuclear program which is why according to foreign news agencies is really the past according to them has targeted iran and we saw the facilities are really good to talk to so many thanks to my a drive and done for them in tel aviv the president of turkey and ukraine have held a closed door meeting in istanbul russia typer one unflawed a man selenski we're expected to discuss defense industry cooperation trade and tourism but the talks come as russian troops gather on the border with ukraine is called live to istanbul i'm just here as some quasi all of us there for us to know what happened at this meeting some of. well as reinstill we are waiting for this by

a literal meeting to end then we are expecting to presence deliver a joint press conference maybe in an hour or less than an hour so basically as you mentioned those are the topics that the 2 leaders discussed by the way this is the 2nd time as a landscape and don come together after last october and last october in 2022 countries signed many deals many economic cooperation deals and the most significant ones were the actually of defense corp dius ukraine it is purchasing turkey's groans of the drones that turkey has been using in its terror a sions in iraq syria and also in libya and basically at the new generation of drones will be equipped with the ukrainian engines this is also an important defense industry cooperation between the 2 countries but of course it is important the time is this is important because given the latest tension over ukraine between

moscow and washington united states officials pentagon officers and ounce that they are deploying 2 u.s. navy ships or warships to the black sea and they notify turkey about those vessels then. as per the terms of to monterrey grim and that provides turkey a give permit to the war vessels those u.s. warships will reach the black sea on april 14th and 15 and russia's also russia sees all these as. provocations by in ukraine and by united states against itself but i must admit that given turkey's relations strength is strengthening relations with ukraine given its fragile partnership with russia and being a nato ally this is a difficult for a difficult time for turkey especially if it come. to a point where turkey needs to side with any of those players but currently we know

about 2 leaders are discussing the by later relations more alternatives to deep. to provide depth for those relations but no doubt that the regional issues especially the latest fashion and the black sea is also on that agenda after. reporting live from istanbul so many things here with the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program. the united kingdom prince philip the husband of queen elizabeth who died on friday at the age of 19. and in sport we build up to one of the biggest games in world football classical between barcelona and real madrid. gun salutes been fired across the u.k.

and at sea to on a prince philip. queen elizabeth's husband died on friday at the age of 99 he served in the british navy during world war 2 let's go live now to buckingham palace al-jazeera for a challenge is there in london for us and we've all heard of a 21 gun salute this was a 41 gun salute in honor of a former military man henri. yeah and the reason for that is that as you say the normal 21 gun salutes 20 guns get added to that if the location of the salute is in a royal park well there are royal parks involved in this honoring prince philip and also warships too so there were shots fired from batteries in london in edinburgh in cardiff in belfast. and it was ships out at sea

h.m.s. diamond and h.m.s. montrose this. that was given to queen victoria and to the woods and churchill as well when he died in 965 i'm like those figures though who had to state funerals we understand it was the. duke of edinburgh's wishes not to have a state funeral himself so he won't get that he will also not really get a public funeral hall and that's not because of his wishes but because of prove it's coded has drastically altered the plans that had been put in place by buckingham palace. for there to be processions through the streets for there to be essentially a public. celebration of his life and a public mourning of his death what we will likely see is something that's much more intimate a much more family based the u.k.

restrictions of the moment because of the covert all that only 30 people are allowed to gather for funerals the restrictions of also meant that buckingham palace has asked people not to come down to you know this royal residence and other ones around the country and leave flowers at say that you know we've been out there talking to people who have been bringing flowers either they didn't hear of the advice or chose to disregard it they were paying tribute to a man they saw as representative of true british values. also paying tribute to a man who for 73 years stood by his wife the queen and did loyal service to the country so for the for the kind of people who come down here this is a real moments of mourning a real moment of sadness how does it worry shannon's reporting live from buckingham palace in london or in many things several police officers were injured in another night of street violence in northern ireland protestors in belfast through petrol

bombs and rammed a burning car into a police vehicle despite calls for calm out of respect for the death of prince philip young pro british loyalists have been rioting every night for more than a week now angry about post break cities hughes from belfast andrew simmons has borne the causes of the violence 2 decades after the good friday agreement brought peace to northern ireland. many had warned about the fragile peace in northern ireland being threatened by arrangements over bricks it coming back to the good friday agreement on this day it was signed 23 years ago and it is being the center point of those bricks and negotiations the end result was to avoid a hard hard border to put it across the ira see that cause chaos and trade for northern ireland it led to a whole area of dissent and then into mingled with a whole range of other issues with republicans demonstrating quite clearly their

strength during a funeral exactly well nearly just exactly a year ago bobbie story and i are a member of a petrol i remember had died and the police did took no action with the 2000 people amongst them in fein leaders who broke coded regulations apparently now the loyalists of the unionist politicians have said point blank the police should have taken action and we have amongst this or all of this with the police under pressure a call from the 1st minister ali and foster for the chief constable of northern ireland to resign which he refuses to do so you have that going on as an irritation to loyalists who are furious about that add to that the nature of the paramilitaries the loyalist paramilitaries being involved in organized crime some theories suggest that they are the cause of

a lot of this violence they're actually organizing it and in fact calling for a low in all of the violence because of prince philip dying that was breached on friday night as we saw and now there is a worry that this could go on this is not going away by no means. is director of the robert schumann center the european university institute she says that it was clear well before the referendum the brig's it would be dangerous for northern ireland and the current events were predictable. it's happening because there's an impossible problem there once the left is into markers in the customs union it has an international border with the u. arn and it's a member state of the when main so a border has to go somewhere and from the beginning it was realized that you can't simply couldn't police the 300 crossings of the land border and people who live

on that border voted decisively against bretz so they simply would not give their consent so then the only result to get the kind of brecht's that the boris johnson wanted which was sovereignty 1st breath was that there he had to a border in the irish sea having himself said that no british prime minister. and this has undermined. the loyalist. their sense that london will take care of them it has raised issues of identity the demographics in northern ireland are shifting so the lawyer loyalists immunise feel more vulnerable now and this then comes on top of a lot of socio economic problems in loyalist areas so what we're seeing in the minority and today it's very dangerous it's not just a problem for the u.k. government i think london dublin brussels and i would also say washington needs to look carefully at the protocol grama time at the checks if necessary some of those

checks should happen in fact before breaking the pay to northern ireland and now the e.u. see all of the computer and the computer systems and data systems on what is what is crossing and then de dramatise everything but that still doesn't solve the political problem which is there must be a border and the one thing about the sea is people don't live on the sea where is a land border in my view is completely impossible. so the protocol will have survived but he they really and i don't just mean london but everyone involved with power and authority need to make sure that ease streamlined to the extent possible that it is now in the minds to the extent possible but there still would remain a problem for loyalism at a time as i already said all that is significant democrat demographic shift in northern ireland and the group in northern ireland that meeting right and sizes

lawyer is unionist or nationalists are the group who will determine whether or not northern ireland stays long term in the united kingdom because of weather update next here on the news hour then lock downs and soaring coronavirus infection rates across south america we'll have a live update from argentina. that could children soon be widely vaccinated against covert 19 we'll ask an expert as drug makers report more progress and that later it's course a major league baseball action including an historic night for the san diego padres . but. how i once again we've got more showers just around the eastern side of the mediterranean and central and eastern parts of turkey remain on the cool side that

cold air now slipping down across cypress into that western side of syria lebanon jordan also seeing some of the cooler air as i want to say showers making their way towards southern parts of the caspian maybe a shower or 2 to northern areas of iran maybe a little bit of a wintry mix over towards northern parts of afghanistan the south of that generally not too bad little legacy of cloud he can just make out says just moving across kuwait that will eventually just drag its way just to the north of us here in qatar temperatures generally. up into the low thirty's over the next day plenty of hazy sunshine and then notching up next week plenty of hazy sunshine just around the horn of africa larry is the shallows there into central and southern parts. and then the they do ramp up once again is the southern part of uganda some heavy downpours over towards the democratic republic of congo and we stay in some very heavy rain now starting to push its way up into the gulf of guinea the show is

extend across the northern parts of angola northern areas of zambia well in parts of mozambique but to the south of that it's fine dry and sunny. but. you financial crisis is the defining story of our time never before have done it already in human health so clearly outlined and tried in atmospheres award winning environmental solutions for example across the world we seek out people who are fighting nato us gone and combating climate change while finding ways to protect the border life on our planet earth life coming soon on the sierra. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges have said dish on the state line becomes the default when media namely devoted looking

for images that lead to that matter to these guys and just how did he create a new series makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream to shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. it's good to have you with us hello adrian forget here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera reports are emerging that b.m. mas military killed more than 80 people in the town of boggo on friday and in a separate incident a coalition of rebels is claiming its 1st major attack against security forces iran says that it's begun using advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges just ahead of

another round of talks in vienna president hassan rouhani made the announcement during a virtual ceremony to mark its national nuclear technology day and the presidents of turkey and ukraine holding talks in istanbul defense deals a free trade agreement and tourism are high on the agenda. thailand has set up 10 field hospitals in bangkok to deal with a surge in the number of coronavirus patients but he beds can accommodate up to 3000 people thailand is struggling with a new wave of infections with 500 new cases on friday new corona virus infections in india hit a record high for the 4th day more than 145000 cases were reported on saturday haiti is yet to receive a single code that 19 vaccine the country is supposed to be receiving 3 quarters of

a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine from the u.s. but that's been delayed after the country missed deadlines for essential paperwork countries across latin america the caribbean began receiving jobs under the code kovacs scheme 5 weeks ago. colombia's capital bogota is being put under a strict 3 day lockdown the city of 8000000 is facing complete restrictions on mobility at a panel or alcohol sales coronavirus case is surging across the country with the number of new infections doubling during the last month intensive care units are rapidly approaching capacity in a number of cities and argentina has broken its record for the number of new corona virus infections for the 4th straight day more than 24000 new cases of covert by teen were reported in the last 24 hours the government has recently brought in tougher restrictions in an effort to contain a new wave of infections let's go live now to point to as al-jazeera stereo is

monitoring developments. danielle there's been an increase in the number of covert 19 infections right across latin america especially brazil and the been some political tensions as a result of what's being done to tackle all this. well i mean much the same as we've seen right through right from the beginning of the pandemic age and a barge with increasing levels or decreasing levels of effectiveness i think people are increasingly ignoring some of the measures put into place to try to hack attack with its pandemic we certainly see that in brazil which you mentioned there is no national policy to try to contain the virus president job also narrows against that he wants to see the economy opened up he's involved in several legal conflicts to try to allow places of worship to reopen to try to get business running again in the meantime we've seen some of the worst affected areas the city of rio de janeiro

for instance which has been that has had measures in place for the last 10 days reopening their bars restaurants and beaches from monday on words despite the numbers going up the most populous state sao paolo many of the measures are staying in place but schools are going to go we're going to be returning on monday so a very patchy response right across the region we have the health minister in power of white talking about the situation there being a breaking point and i think in many ways the root of the problem is very poor investment in infrastructure right across the region you mentioned haiti earlier on 11000000 people they say that only $250.00 people have died from the virus up and so now most health experts doubt that figure they expected they they suspect it's much much higher but there is very little investment in the health system there massive corruption as well and we're seeing mounting violence both political and

criminal in haiti with many people saying they have enough to worry about really the pandemic is just another onerous problem that they're having to deal with as i say very similar right across the region with very few success stories to be told perhaps chile where they are vaccinating at a very fast rate more than half the population vaccinated yet even there we're seeing the numbers going up the number of infected the number of deaths you have very little lights on the horizon i'm afraid. i'm reporting live from one of saddam's many thanks indeed daniel. fi's and bio and tech have asked us regulators to approve that corona virus vaccine for emergency use in some young children the companies of past the u.s. food and drug administration to give the vaccine the ok for kids aged $12.00 to $15.00 many experts say that vaccination young children is a critical step towards reaching so-called herd immunity and easing the pandemic will 3 vaccines are currently or the rise for emergency use in the united states

pfizer was the 1st to be approved for people aged over 60 in a recent trial on 12 to 15 year olds was said to be safe and effective it's also running a trial on kids younger than 12 but as vaccine has emergency approval for people aged 18 and over days have from its own trial on adolescents is expected to come out soon and it's also running a trial on kids younger than 12 the johnston the vaccine from johnson and johnson is said to be the latest to be approved people over the age of 18 can take it and a clinical trial on teenagers is also on the web under way krista thompson is an associate professor of biology at loyola university maryland he joins us now via skype from baltimore good to have you with us so just how important is it to get young adults and children vaccinated against the corona virus yet this is critically important so we talk a lot about herd immunity in this idea that if we get enough people in the world

back need it that the virus will kind of die out it won't have anyone to replicate within so in the united states about 23 percent of the population are under the age of 18 so there's no way mathematically that we can get to herd immunity without vaccinating children so this is a huge step in the right direction but how will kids be affected by these vaccines actively the evidence is that the younger you are the more side effects you tend to get because you've got a healthier immune system. rate so there's this adage within the vaccine community that children are not just young adults so we have to really ready adapt the vaccines and the dosage and things that nature to children it may not just be a matter of giving them a lower dose the stuff the advisor has come out with is very promising so it looks as though it's very effective it's very safe and the side effects that we're seeing with that vaccine very similar to what adults have so some joint pain some muscle

pain at the side of injection maybe some fevers and and feeling a little under the weather for 24 hours or so but it doesn't appear that we're having major side effects that we might expect from younger immune systems as young people don't appear to be affected by the actual disease by covert 19 in the way that some adults off in that it doesn't tend to kill children it's this herd immunity thing though that that's important the fact that if they get the virus they could they could possible. right so they could pass it on and there are some instances where children get pretty severe disease it may not lead to death but there's this terrifying multi-organ inflammatory syndrome that can occur where basically the child's entire body all of the organ systems develop inflammatory process sees so we really want to maintain the health of the children but also contribute to the health of the community really good to talk to so many thanks indeed sharing your expertise christopher thompson and baltimore thank you so much

for having me stay safe. into voters in chad will go to the polls on sunday to extend to choose rather than next leader despite opposition calls to boycott the vote president interest intrastate be a cent to extend his 3 decade long rule the interior ministry says that it's arrested several people for planning attacks on polling stations and trying to disrupt the elections rights groups and opposition accuse president davies government of repression of the un is urging the country to respect civil rights and free speech for more on this let's speak to what are the soil in washington she's the deputy director of human rights watch is africa division good to have you with us what are the chances of this election being free or fair so we've documented how it has authorities and to 34th the brutal crackdown on the political opposition and protesters and really undermining all hope of a fair or credible election this weekend over the past 2 months many tidy and have bravely taken to the streets to peacefully call for an end to president that 30

year rule he is now running for a 6th term and respect of their basic rights protesters have spoken out against child them into the ocean on economic injustices with the country remaining one of the poorest in the world and despite its vast oil wealth and security forces responded to the overwhelmingly peaceful protest by using tear gas to disperse demonstrators often firing grenades directly at protesters and injuring dozens they also arbitrarily arrested over $100.00 opposition party leaders supporters and human rights defenders many of whom were badly treated in detention one told the subjected to electric shock and width repeatedly during its 8 days in detention and in a brazen attack on the home of one of the opposition leaders security forces killed his 80 year old mother and wounded 5 other family members the un is urging the country to respect civil rights and free speech but that's not enough is it what is

human rights rights in the international community to do. so cad is a key partner of france and the united states and others in counterterrorism efforts across the region and we've called on these international partners to not turn a blind eye to these abuses that child security forces are committing at home against their own population but to instead denounce the abuses pressley government to respect freedom of assembly and hold those responsible for abuses to account for many chaldeans this election is as if at the complete with president that being like unfortunately so many other longtime leaders across africa using the election to create a facade of democracy but in the context where the opposition and all dissenting voices have been sidelined or silenced and we need international players to speak out to denounce this call for free fair elections and an end to this type of repression that we're seeing in chad good sort of on many thanks for being part of sort of that in washington d.c.

thank you for having me. in northern syria areas on the rebel control so that they need more humanitarian aid some of the most vulnerable people including women and children are struggling after more than 10 years of war harding reports. these women share a common thread each one has lost her husband after a decade of fighting this camp is the place they call home but for these survivors of war making ends meet is tough. we are a group of widows and i am one of them and the situation is the fickle life is the fickle i have 2 seconds i want to give the medicine tens of thousands of women living here have no source of income and rely on aid from humanitarian organizations these widows say women without children have it worse and find it harder to get support but even with some child support life is hard. the month of ramadan is also approaching i want to be able to give them something new

a shirt or pants to make them feel happy but we are not getting any aid widows are not getting any aid we don't see anything outside of aleppo in the city of this department a family council in cooperation with international organizations is trying to help . as a caseworker and says the pandemic is making things worse problem. as many call it all and put a growing a crisis were active in giving psychological support and guidance to the families of the orphans and widows in but now it is limited because of covert the number of widows in syria is increasing as fighting continues in parts of the country even after 10 years of war they're struggling to patch up their lives leo harding al-jazeera. in today's as film industry a black others around the world has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic it's one of asia's biggest markets with many of its cinemas closed the demand for streaming services is surging some filmmakers are hoping the trend will help to

shake up the industry so that it can better compete with foreign titles jessica washington reports style from jakarta. and it's a love story one of many popular recent films by into the season to make it is for romantic comedies like these 2 superhero and horror films lineages film industry makes around $120.00 films a year. before the pandemic domestic films were the fastest growing part of the creative economy sector at an annual rate of around 20 percent the pandemic disrupted years of steady growth. is the big challenge for us from being a very healthy and growing exciting market the market to partly. think how to rebuilt our market the way it was before. but act america anita says the indonesian industry is resilient whatever the challenges that. they

face it doesn't stop them from making movies anyway there are more than $400.00 cinemas across indonesia but around half of them a closed because of covert 19 this month a group of into the filmmakers wrote to the president requesting subsidies for the industry and assistance with encouraging indonesians to return to cinemas but many in the industry say they have aspirations beyond returning things to the way they were with many cinemas closed streaming services are experiencing a boom and films from south korea are often more popular than local titles. their government has actually invested quite a lot for more than 20 years and that's why now they're reaping what they sow right the pandemic hasn't stopped some corporations from investing in the industry construction on a new development called movie land is underway in west java the privately funded

side is intended to be a hub for filming set design production and more to have this type of food bill and it is this. i believe that it will help the industry grow but investing in infrastructure doesn't make up for the shortage of skilled workers. in the need there than in need of good schools and spending. in finland the indonesian government says it recognizes the importance of training . this new administration so things are going to refocus on how we could increase. the employability as well as increase the skills of. work force we're going to sectors. some called the years before the pandemic indonesia's golden age of cinema and despite the temporary challenge at

a time and to revive the success jessica washington to counter. just ahead here all the news a w w e wrestling prepares to hold its 1st events with a large audience since the start of the pandemic that's coming up in the sport of soccer. in the yugoslav wars of the ninety's crimes were committed by a bull's eyes. out as their world meets me at cookouts a creation sob who went to jail for crimes he says he didn't commit. was he a guard in a concentration camp or was he simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. it's trial and error on al-jazeera. i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world i cover for impulse the national security this

is very much a political impasse here's the paul flick how do we illustrate it are we telling a good story will people get what we're trying to think here they're living outside in makeshift tents this is not the way any family wants to raise their children we're willing to get into taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feel that you were there . the. time to support his sorry my fellow a.j. let's start with gulf name is justin ray's continues need the masses by one show there was some low scores on friday but several top names failed to make the cut

davis thanks report day 2 of the masters in augusta national was playing a lot easier than on day one but not for leader justin rose after going 7 under in his opening round he could only manage a level par 72 on friday and that allowed the chasing pack to close in his 4 shot lead was whittled down to just one. american wills out a tourist's is one of 2 players breathing down his neck on 6 under the 24 year old still doesn't have a full p.g.a. talk card but doesn't seem fazed i'm excited to be here you know i've wanted to be here forever so there's no reason to feel intimidated now i mean i made it to here just to shop further back jordan spaeth is looking well placed to make a challenge he won the masters back in 2015 and has twice finished runner up. last week he won the texas open and dig a 4 year victory drought on if you can just get one percent better each day here on in on that leaves me with a pretty good opportunity i think. there were 10 players within 3 shots of the lead

including south korea's seaward kim who did well to post a 3 under round of $69.00 despite not having a putter for the final 4 holes he broke it in one go and had to use a fairway metal instead. the big hitting bryson to shambo recovered from a poor opening day picking up 7 birdies to give himself a chance. the 6 shots off the pace. i feel i can go i can go out tomorrow and shoot a good number a little earlier than the in the leaders and you know put myself in a great spot for sunday well number one dustin johnson won this tournament with a record score in november but it was a different story this week he bogey 3 of his last 4 holes and failed to make the cut along with rory mcilroy brooks kepcher lee westwood and sergio garcia veteran jose maria olazabal did make the weekend though the 55 year old spaniard a 2 time champion from the 1990 s. posted a halfway score of 2 over par but if justin rose he remains the man to catch top of

the leaderboard heading into round 3. david stokes al-jazeera. well now it's one of the biggest games in world football el classico in spain in all messages boston are up against the arch rivals real madrid later on saturday now this was the boston team arriving at their hotel in madrid and it's a crucial game in the spanish title race both of them have a chance to replace us less time entry into the top one of the lucky we need the best missy but we also need the best barcelona to win i think we need to do things perfectly and create opportunities and to do that we need messi i hope he'll be decisive for us. as for al well they are some injury concerns bartz will be confident after beating liverpool $31.00 in their last game in european champions league there are 9 games left in the spanish season and just 3 points separate the top 3 let's let you call it out for myself i've let it go have the advantage because their 1st but it will go down to the wire it's

a very competitive league and i think any one of us can win and we won't find out until the very end of the english premier league leaders manchester city have been beaten to one by leeds who played most of the game with 10 men before kickoff both teams pay their respects to prince philip the duke of edinburgh who died on friday at the age of $99.00 now there are also be a tribute at the grand national horse race in entry in liverpool just over 100 days to go until the olympics and one of the gold medal favorite says she's right it's where she wants to be 5 time lympics winning champion kate ceilidh ecu won the 200 meter freestyle at an event in california and she did it with 2nd fastest time of her career including the u.s. open water record and 2 other athletes are looking in great form as they prepare for america's christa moore is the defending world champion and she's taking victory in the latest events in australia and the men's tournament was also won by defending champion it italo ferraro from brazil now both of them will compete in

japan wins japan windsurfing makes its olympic debut 6. i'm ready to roll with the punches i'm excited it feels really great to start off with you final appearances but it's a long year anything can happen and i just want to take it event by event. now more is one of several americans heading to tokyo the u.s. olympic committee says it will help its athletes get a coded 19 vaccine but it won't be forcing them to get one. we will not mandate a vaccine either for team usa athletes nor who are any other members of the delegation but we are encouraging it and we absolutely are facilitating that access to to try to help connect folks with you know local public health or local hospital systems local providers so that wherever they are training around the country they have an easy path to to get back needed and in africa kenya sports ministry is also

doing all it can to help us get the job they said they kicked off a nationwide program which aims to give $3500.00 sportsmen and women the vaccine over a 6 day period now ensued major league baseball and it was a record breaking night for the sunday go padres against the texas rangers story musgrave pitched the 1st ever no hits in the 52 year history of the franchise out that's when the opposing team failed to get a single hit in the game last year was making only his 2nd start for the team. and in the n.b.a. ziai and williamson impressed as a new orleans pelicans beat the philadelphia 76 ers he scored 37 points 15 rebounds and 8 assists said elfin missed the chance to talk to the nets at the top of the eastern conference. now doubles up to a wrestling a set 1st large crowd for more than a year 25000 fans a day to attend their biggest show wrestle mania reports. the

superstars of world wrestling entertainment are getting ready for the biggest show of the year wrestle mania. normally a sellout socially distant seating means tampa 65000 capacity raymond james stadium will be less than half full and won't look like this we're getting back into the essence of our industry of our craft and i'm excited man i'm hoping that people are as excited as we are and they're loud in that they're into it and we get to put on a great show the viper is bolder host state florida has already recorded more than 2000000 kobe 900 cases but organizers say safety is a top priority based mosques must be won by fans and there will be temperature checks on arrival there your. party separated it but it's many people together at once so i know that we're taking all of her passions

because. everybody and their families say so. when to be direct as if we didn't. fire oh since the pandemic began most doubly doubly events have taken place without violence the lack of intimacy a contributor to a drop in t.v. ratings responded by creating a virtual arena known as the thunderdome in a bid to win viewers back to the. way except for the upcoming event in tampa this is. about as close as it gets for most fans to be part of the action these days each week they can log onto one of these digital channels and through the camera on their device they can be beamed live onto one of the screens in a virtual arena. is set to return to his virtual arena off the rest of mania organizers have still not confirmed when live crowds will be able to make a permanent comeback so he'll malik al-jazeera. well useful for now i'll be

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investigated. if you want to help save the world. into your own. reports of a rare attack in myanmar by an alliance of ethnic rebels targeting police. again i'm adrian so again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the united kingdom on as prince philip the duke of edinburgh who died on friday. and go on the streets of belfast.