river be panning for gold in the se area for centuries the best time of year to do it is the winter because the river is low the jury in the summer months these tiny little yellow flanks you can see fun don't look much they were around $50.00 a gram. armed groups joined forces against me and mas military leaders and are reportedly behind a deadly attack on a police station in shan state. oh i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera coming up on the program iran trials an advanced nuclear centrifuge just days before a 2nd round of talks to revive the 2050 nuclear agreement

a curfew is among new restrictions now in place in argentina where corona virus infections continue to rise and there's been more violence on the streets of belfast where issues triggered by breck's it have led to some of the worst on rest in years. ago welcome to the program we begin this hour and me in la where the political crisis appears to be shifting or taking on a new dimension for the 1st time mom groups have joined forces reportedly been involved in an attack on the security forces a police station in shan state was targeted and 10 police officers were killed wearable groups have been increasingly critical of the gent since the fed be recouped and of their treatment of protesters meanwhile in bago about 90 kilometers northeast of yang gone activists say the military killed 80 people in a violent crackdown on friday tony chang has our report. even before

the sun rose the sounds of battle raged myanmar's armed forces moving into the city of boggo an important 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 yang gone the gentle 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 suggests protesters are 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 tony ching al jazeera. iran says it's testing new more advanced centrifuges for enriching uranium despite preparing for another round of talks aimed at reviving the nuclear deal with while

powers president hassan rouhani made the announcement during a virtual meeting on iran's and you knew nuclear technology day the country's been steadily moving away from the terms of the 2050 nuclear deal since the united states pulled out under former president donald trump the european union's been acting as a go between to try and facilitate some sort of negotiating process well as a big as intact ron and says iran has not changed path. 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 announcements of new achievements in relation to its nuclear program now iran is using more advanced centrifuges and feeding into them but it's also began production of the 6 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. producing this this is all in the context of those talks that took place in vienna that ended 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 are not 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 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 of some of the other countries don't fulfill their responsibilities but it does 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. when our present rush of type one is promising to support ukraine over its border tensions with russia and says he hopes the dispute can be solved through dialogue it came as a good one welcomed his ukrainian counterpart vladimir is a lenski to istanbul for talks russia has dramatically increased its military presence across the border and has said that it is ready to intervene to help separatists in ukraine's donbass region. allergan tina has recorded a record high number of new corona virus infections for the 4th day in a row more than 24000 new cases reported on saturday the government has impose tougher restrictions including a 3 week nighttime curfew in an effort to contain the new wave of infections that's

going to desires and people in the highest risk areas are now living under some tough restrictions how is the situation in argentina right now. what the key to all of this i think marion is to try to keep the pressure off of the hospitals argentina has coped relatively well with the number of people using the i.c.u. beds i mean the figures here are as drastic as dramatic as anywhere else 56000 people dead and as you mentioned this record number of infections but the medical services have been coping albeit under pressure but with these new rises in infections the fear is that they they will reach a tipping point so the new restrictions have come back in it's been difficult the long as it has been elsewhere in the world but many of these measures have been in place probably many of them since march of last year universities for instance

haven't gone back to classes people are still doing classes online schools did go back a few weeks ago most people are still wearing masks in public so in that sense we've had restrictions all the way through but i think it's the sheer amount of time that people have had to put up with this the fact that the vaccines were promised they started to arrive about 5 or 6 weeks ago haven't come in sufficient numbers to help people and patients in this situation so it has become a very difficult situation the new measures again whether the people are going to adhere to them whether they're going to respect them there has been opposition in many cases some people out on the streets defying the measures so we'll have to see how they how they take effect in the next few days indeed and the reaction to restrictions or just. that defiance you describe has been a problem in brazil which now has a 2nd highest death toll in the world from co that 19 how do we know about the way

in which the hospital system and health care workers are coping in that country. well we know the hospitals across brazil reaching 100 percent capacity there are big queues of people outside there's a shortage of medicine and shortages of oxygen so a dire situation in many parts of brazil they've had their own restrictions certainly in the rio de janeiro one of the worst hit regions of brazil they've now been lifted they will be lifted on monday because again those pressures coming from the president himself job also nardo to go back to work urging people to stop complaining. the numbers continue to rise there there are these pressures on people to go back to work to get the economy running so really what people are saying or what you know one side of the situation very very difficult to know contradictions

all the way through a very difficult situation right across the region we're being told the paraguayan the hospitals there are reaching a breaking point we hear that haiti a country with a low number of deaths and infections which very few people who many people suspect are not the true figures haven't received a single vaccine in a country of 11000000 people with a very poor health infrastructure of a single vaccine has reached their sort of really serious situation across the board numbers rising vaccines not arriving and hospitals reaching breaking point thank you very much john huish i'm going but as iris. well elsewhere 10000 field hospital beds are being hastily set up in bangkok as thailand fights a 3rd way the infections 8600 new cases reported on friday a rest bike in a country which has successfully kept numbers low there a few years millions of people could travel in the coming days for the song grand new year holiday some regions of imposed restrictions but the national government has avoided air tight on recorded just 96 deaths in the past year. well some of the

world's poorest countries might have to wait longer for the 2nd doses of their vaccines up to 60 countries that have started their vaccine rollout may have to wait until june for more shots supply shortages have seen nearly all deliveries through the kovacs program blocks the world health organization scheme is designed to give the poor countries fair access to vaccines one in 4 adults in the world's richest countries have already had at least one. now it's 23 years to the day since the signing of the good friday agreement that was supposed to bring peace to northern ireland but the past week has shown how fragile it really is the 1009 $108.00 deal agreed power sharing between unionists who want the region to stay in the u.k. and nationalists who want it to join with ireland it brought an end to 3 decades of conflict known as the troubles which claimed 3 and a half 1000 lives but the effects of the u.k.'s breaks it deal on the controversy over coronavirus restrictions has shown that the tensions remain and as andrew

symonds now reports from belfast it's led to a week of violent scenes people had hoped they would never see again. 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 hours 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 navy just exactly a year ago the story and i are a member of a veteran i remember had died and the police did took no action with the 2000

people amongst them in fein leaders who broke 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 alim 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. so that. making a comeback indonesia's once been a film industry strong. to return to its former glory off to the pandemic and the search for to temple reveals a 50 egypt at last at thousands of lives. we've got some very heavy right now starting to push its way into western parts of europe clouded rights from the atlantic tiny particular unsettled has to go on through the next couple of days and that wet weather coming in across the bay of biscay into western parts of france through the low countries see some heavy rain coming into a good part of belgium luxembourg all the way up into the netherlands and eventually running across the northern areas of germany 3 potent and up towards the

baltic states to the north of that we've got colder you see that spike ling of shallot cloud rolling in from the atlantic and that's going to see some wintry showers in once again across northern parts of the u.k. scattered navy are in the mix for some of that wintry weather as well still a few wintry flurries into central and eastern parts of turkey but the west the weather will be across western parts of europe turns to snow over the alps some very wet weather to eastern side of spain at the moment feeding up into our northern areas of italy same bank of cloud of rice making its way across northern parts of morocco wissen sundry downpours some localized flooding as a result of that west of weather extending across into northern parts of algeria for a time showers meanwhile there continue across a good part of west africa slowly but surely making their way through the north. but. the story goes that the start you have an ancient greek god has been

with the waves for millennia. until a palestinian fisherman on earth the priceless relic. the story continues that has the world's attention was drawn to her as mysteriously the day it disappeared once again. the apollo of gaza. on a. back and back on main stories now temple east officers have been killed in an attack by an anti military alliance in may and mar this comes after

a deadly confrontation between troops and protesters against the coup which killed at least 80 people iran is an else the testing of new equipment to enrich uranium even as it engages in talks on reviving the deal with world powers president hasn't rouhani use the annual nuclear technology day to talk about the centrifuges. in a meeting with ukraine's leader turkey's president has offered his supporters against russian incursions earlier ukraine's defense minister said a russian troop build up could provoke an armed response. or here in the united kingdom it's been else the funeral of prince philip will take place on saturday april 17th but the event at windsor castle just outside london will be relatively low as henri chalons reports military tributes have been paid for the husband of queen elizabeth who died on friday at the age of 99 was.

across the u.k. including london edinburgh cardiff northern ireland former royal naval ships at sea and gibraltar to a special gun salute for prince philip once a minute 41 times a tribute to from his son prince charles. my dear pa was was a very special person who i think above all else would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him and from that point of who we are my family deeply grateful for all that it will sustain us in this particular loss and at this particular time. outside the queen's london residence a growing row of flowers from the public for the man who stood beside her 73 years of marriage. to remind us of you know those wonderful values of bravery and

loyalty and he was just a great british man someone who gives that many years to public service. just come down on. from a sad moment isn't it. well meaning something the royal family is trying to discourage because of covert restrictions what you palace is keen to avoid the royal residence is turning into a focus of mass mourning is actually asked people not to come down here and lay flowers but as you can see there is a steady stream of people who've turned up to pay their respects anyway the pandemic has also drastically scaled down plans for how he'll be laid to rest philip himself had ruled out a state funeral buckingham palace has announced the service at windsor castle on april 17th is to have no public access for public procession beforehand as per the u.k.'s pandemic regulations the number of mourners will be limited to 30 prince

harry who has distanced himself from the royal family will return from his new home in the us for it but his pregnant wife make an markel will not on the advice of her doctor. al-jazeera of the. heavy fighting is taking place in central yemen for the key oil producing region with more than 50 people killed in the past 24 hours who is the rebels are pushing are to take the last government region outside the south of the country where the control of the area will also control key oil supply lines the united nations says the 6 year war in yemen has killed more than 233000 people . well at least 4 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in somalia a man detonated his explosive belt in a cafe in the city of dough and local officials say the bomber was targeting the regional governor who survived the attack 2 of his bodyguards and several bystanders were injured. well the u.n. is urging the government in chad to respect civil rights ahead of sunday's election

president idriss deby is expected to win a 6th term as leader with most of his opponents sidelined rights groups and opposition parties accuse the government of repression the interior ministry says it has arrested several people for planning attacks on polling stations and trying to disrupt the elections. morgan is in niger mena where there are doubts about the poll being free and fair. in this presidential election. but notably. there's at least kind of the. president's.

political opposition say that. hundreds of. opposition in the days leading up to. political opposition say that. the climate.

being interrogated. they say that. in really big quantities more than half of our 17000000 population lives below the poverty line so they say they want to be hard to say that they want to see 3 points in their economic life style it's all just here who in school for them to say that some of them with pressing issue for them is that if they of security because tired right now is involved in several counterterrorism operations are longer border with money from when i made syria so before to say that they want to see someone who's able to handle those issues i leave those operations as all of the insurgencies in big east and along the border with libya is a very this is are also through them to have someone in the presidency who's able

to handle those affairs and lead them because that is their number one issue. a long dormant caribbean volcano that erupted on friday has remained active 1st 2nd day residents on the island of st vincent woke up to more clouds of ash on saturday government ordered 16000 people of encloses to less of a evill kaino to leave their homes vulcanologists say there could be more explosive eruptions in the coming days and weeks at least 7 people have been killed in an earthquake that struck off the coast of indonesia's main island of java a magnitude 6 quake damaged hundreds of buildings including homes schools and hospitals also fell in neighboring bali it's the 2nd disaster to strike the nation in a week after tropical cycle and so russia killed at least 165 people. one of asia's biggest film industries is trying to reinvent itself after being badly hit by the corona virus pandemic filmmakers in indonesia are appealing for more

government help with costs and training so they can better compete with foreign titles just washington reports from jakarta. and is a love story one of many popular recent films by indonesian who make it is. from romantic comedies like these to superhero and horror films and denise's 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 the very healthy and growing most exciting market the market to hardly. think how to rebuilt our market the way it was before. but after 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 are 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 sell and the pandemic hasn't stopped some corporations from investing in the industry construction on a new development called movieland is underway in west java the privately funded

site is intended to be a hub for filming set design production and more to have this type of. it is it is. i believe that it will help the industry to grow but investing in infrastructure doesn't make up for the shortage of skilled work is. indonesia still in. need of good schools and spending. and. in the indonesian government says it recognizes the importance of training. this new administration something's got to refocus on how we could increase. as well as increase. our. workforce with sectors. some call the years before the pandemic indonesia's golden age of cinema and despite the temporary challenge at a time and to revive that success just

a washington al-jazeera jakarta. well archaeologists in egypt have revealed more about a lost city that's more than 3000 years old that was discovered last year or such as were looking for the mortuary of king in common when they found what they believe could be the most important discovery in almost a century and your ship. while piecing together the remains of an ancient civilization archaeologists in egypt came across something unexpected clay pottery wine vessels and colorful jewelry from a city that has not been seen in 3400 years we believe that this girl didn't last the city is the most important discovery after the discovery documented on come what i call the golden because the rest found in the golden age of egypt 39200 b.c. i cared less city because it has lost money believed that the city could exist here

. it's the largest ancient city ever found in egypt according to the team that discovered it several neighborhoods and homes with walls nearly 3 meters high a bakery kitchen and areas for making sandals and sewing clothing and people who may have worn them it's believed this is where worship of the sun god antón began in medina the be. the discovery of the city has given us insight into the daily lives of ancient egyptians we've always believed that ancient egyptian culture was one of death and resurrection but now we know these details about the lives of the ancient egyptian. on the west bank of the nile river it's a once in a century finding dating back to the rule of king to the commons grandfather and egyptologist say they're just getting started and are chapelle al-jazeera. history is a made in the u.k.'s most famous horse race with the 1st female jockey to win the grand national blackmore's surge to victory on boardman l

a times at the aintree course in liverpool she's the 1st woman to ride the winner in 170 feet races dating back all the way to 1839 the grand national is one of the longest as and most difficult most races in the world run almost 7 kilometers and featuring 30 challenging fences. i don't feel male female right now i don't even feel human this is just on belief. let's take you through the top stories now 10 police officers have been killed in an attack by an anti military alliance and me in ma this comes after a deadly confrontation between troops and protesters against the coup killed at least 80 people there is evidence the army used automatic gunfire and rifles were launched as well in city of baghdad it does not appear to have deterred the protesters though with large crowds reported.