taken from their homes and executed under pressure venice well as the tents minister vladimir by breena said the armed forces were open lige to defend their country from the regular groups and if their human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated 'd. iran has reported an accident as its main nuclear facility a day after it started enriching uranium using advanced centrifuges. below them or a kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. child goes to the polls but is the result of a foregone conclusion present interest every 6 to extend his 30 year grip on our.

families of those killed in mere miles by go town say they are being asked to pay a ransom to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones. and evacuation orders have been issued on the caribbean island of 10 vincent where a once dormant volcano has burst into life. iran has reported an accident at its main nuclear facility and the talents tehran's atomic agency says it affected the sites electrical distribution grid power was out across the facilities above ground workshops and underground and richmond halls on saturday present house on rouhani said iran have launched new advances and which centrifuges the site this softer several centrifuges were damaged in a fire last year that was an incidence terror on called an act. of sabotage and

iran is high on the agenda as the u.s. secretary of defense visits israel tensions in the region have been escalating in recent weeks well we'll get more on lloyd austin's visit in just a moment from her a force that is there for us in west jerusalem 1st of all that let's go over to our side bay he's in tehran and i said what more can you tell us about this incident. well iran is saying that this was an electrical incident but there was no leakage or injuries they said that they are investigating it and the findings will be disclosed later now in a tense nuclear plant is the main nuclear facility for iran and under the 2015 nuclear deal there are allowed to enrich uranium there so if this is just an electric incident why are we standing here talking about it that's because iran has a habit of downplaying. such incidents in last summer we were told that there was just a fire at an outdoor facility at natanz we were shown state. then we were told there

was an explosion and then we were told that it was an act of sabotage and yesterday it was referred to by an official in the transplant as a terrorist attack also this takes place at a time where a new ring in ship was targeted in the red sea mine we understand in israel is being blamed for that and at the same plant in 2010 a virus affected the centrifuges but also towards the end of last year in november iran's lead scientist and factors other was assassinated here into her answer all these incidents taking place. raise questions around iran's security but also the comp complexity to those talks are set to take place and will continue in vienna next week and it does raise suspicions specially here in the iran with some saying there are efforts underway to try to derail those talks. thanks very much for the update from tehran let's cross over now to harry and 1st will harry what's

being said about this intense incident in israel. well there's been some pretty interesting reporting in the israeli media i should preface this by saying that what i'm about to refer to as one report from one newspaper the jerusalem post in the exclusive report it says that it has learned that this was not an accident the. electricity grid that this was something that caused substantially greater damage than iran is currently admitting to and that it seemed from the reports that it was referring to to have been the result of a cyber attack now none of the sourcing of this was even really referred 'd to in that report so we have to put a bit of a health warning on it but that's what the jerusalem post is reporting and as well as that we've been hearing from the head of the israeli army earlier on sunday at

the time general harvey he's been at a memorial event for fall in israeli soldiers ahead of the official israeli memorial day which takes place next week and during that ceremony he also made what could be read as an allusion to at least israel's efforts on the iran front if not in particular as incident he said that israel's military actions are not hidden from our enemies are as they are watching us seeing our capabilities carefully considering their next steps now no official israeli comment on this whatsoever so far but as i say some people reading something into those statements from the most senior military officer in the israeli army and all very interesting especially as the 1st senior official from the pie demonstration arriving in israel the sexy of defense lloyd austin and iran surely very heavily in

any discussions he's having with the israelis. indeed both he and his opposite number benny gantz with whom he's had his 1st meeting referred to the regional security situation is very clear that they were talking about iran our sin himself didn't go into any detail on the iran issue he talked about the us ironclad an enduring commitment to israel's security to making sure that it maintained its military edge in the region against any potential opponent and talking about long term military acquisitions as being part of the discussions that the 2 men had however benny gantz did refer to iran specifically here's what he had to say that the here and of today poses a strategic threat to international security to do in toto middle east. to the state of israel and we war closely of american allies to ensure

that any new agreement. would secure the vital interest of the ward of the united states prevent dangerous arm race you know region and protect the state of israel. so benny gantz talking about working closely to try to improve in israel's eyes any potential deal that's very different from the line that we've been hearing from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu you might expect that given the fact that he and dance are bitter political rivals are just fought an election campaign against each other so they don't share. an agenda really on a number of things but netanyahu last week he was saying to our best friends are pretty clear indications talk about the united states i would say an agreement with iran which paves its way to nuclear weapons that threaten us with destruction an

agreement like that will not bind us so when you're talking about being bound the opposite of that is having freedom of action and that's being talked about in the context of the kind of shadow conflicts that we've been seeing and that assad said was it was talking about a couple minutes ago and so it'll be very interesting to see when austin has his meeting with netanyahu whether there's a different kind of message different sorts of wording that comes out of that and a very interesting diplomacy going on there indeed ok harry for a moment thanks very much now at least 70 people have died during fighting in yemen's merab region in the past 24 hours that's according to government forces a battle for control of the oil rich region intensified over the weekend with more than 50 killed on saturday iran backed rebels launched an offensive on marriage in february the u.s. and united nations have increased diplomatic efforts 1st ceasefire deal to end yemen 6 year civil war. voting is underway in chad where present

is looking to extend his 3 decades in power by seeking a 6th term in office your position has called for a boycott of the poll that accuses the government of repression and cracking down on anti-government protesters on the interior ministry said it arrested several people planning attacks on polling stations. have a morgan is outside one polling station in the capsule and they have a house voting been going there today. lauren when the polls open at around 60 it started with incumbent president. has fixed term after 30 years in power casting the 1st ballot followed by his wife. and then people started voting now initially there were hundreds of people lined up at the polling station where because his vote but who went to all the polling stations and spoke to people there they say that the turnout was quite low that's because in

leading up to this day there were hundreds of people protesting against their candidacy saying that they don't want him to run for a 6th term and that they want to see change the opposition have mobilized lots of protests which human rights watch and amnesty said were met by ruthless ruthless force by security forces and so people are saying that they've decided to boycott the elections now joining me here today is the opposition leader. who has also boycotts of elections with the holy. part of the opposition and he called for a boycott and for a march today but we see the elections ongoing what comes next what if there be wins what happens to the opposition you're still going to look at their looks and how. many people that's. just a free people that needs i believe that the goal of the shown accepted by our

population. no election this is not event so they did not election day only this is you see few people come that you call it an election on election day many people come on give voice to the need to be in the next time but today no people come just feel or people that we call the calling of the bike or is will be so we turn people on next a moment not even now they just brought this to us in the order of the city and your manner. tomorrow or tomorrow after tomorrow will organization the pacific march on us if you put the station in shell what about dealing with the government and the ruling party the election results are not out until after 2 weeks from today until then what do you plan to do no deal with the government on till we accept it to. us because we need

a dialogue if you look we demand on mic this. election because not election we have we don't have any potential candidate all day for the sean did this election so it's possible that you can organize an election with our freedom we transparency with our democracy so if the government accept our calder we organize and after this dialogue we sit to the praise then be on leave. leave leave people. are right that we need you talking about democracy people are voting today if the outcome is in favor if he gets more than 50 percent he's the winner so if you guys are against that then you're against us democracy why did you guys not mobilize yourselves that . this is not possible that the president did we will get. something like

this. look at this this is the real you talk no people come to the to do i like to how can he get over 50 percent it's impossible if if. it is the rule so we call all the people that you call the united nation on the united states of america all these. brigida n.d.b. there or live. there all the opposition with the other people that organize on real . transparency accepted by all and. of course we want to know the results of the elections until after 2 weeks from the voting which is today now many people say that the most crucial issue that they have. they want to see being dealt with is the issue of security chad has been going through a civil war in the east and is involved in counterterrorism operations in the north

so many people say that's one of the top issues that they're concerned about followed by the economy lots of things that their own company president could handle in the absence of an opposition ok have a morgan reporting from chad thanks very much. still ahead head on al-jazeera china considers adjustments to its vaccination plans as officials admit for the 1st time the job is not affective. and they make up a 3rd of the population but they're not being vaccinated by refugees and migrants in lebanon are being left behind. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point cut some ways however we got some wet weather now pushing across central parts of china it's going to continue feeding across so central areas into the east coast eventually it

will make its way towards japan but for the time big lovely sunshine across much of japan high pressure in charge settled and pleasantly warm light winds it really will feel lovely 19 so she's in tokyo but there's that west of weather coming out of central and eastern china pushing through shanghai korean peninsula turning increased the west as we go through monday and come choose day the rain will sweep further east was through the sea of japan q she's seeing some very heavy rainfall some wet weather coming to some possible and eventually it will make its way across the west of the country 20 celsius ahead of that rain in tokyo meanwhile for southern parts of china fine and dry and warm hong kong at around 29 degrees very warm meanwhile across a good part of south asia temperatures quite readily getting into the forty's in many areas but notice more show is just starting to crop up across central and southern parts of india will see some heavy showers too into sri lanka for a time the show is

a little widespread as we go through chews day further north there we go with that very warm weather we see those temperatures getting up into the forty's with 39 in you daddy. at ways. in the yugoslav wars of the ninety's crimes were committed by a bull's eyes. out there world meets. a creation who went to jail for crimes he says he didn't commit. god in a concentration camp or was he simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. it's trial and error on al-jazeera.

but again you're watching al-jazeera as a reminder of our top stories this hour iran has reported an accident as its main nuclear facility at natanz atomic agency says the incident on sunday morning affected the electrical distribution grid it comes a day after a wrong that resumed enriching uranium. and iran is high on the agenda as the u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin visits israel and israeli defense minister but again it says israel is ready to work closely with its ally to ensure any new deal with iran does not undermine regional security. voting is underway in charge where president address debbie is looking to extend his 3 decades in power by seeking a 6th term in office our position has called for a boycott and accuses the government of repression. mean people also choose invent next president this facing comes during

a time of political tension president. is facing a weakened opposition in a vote he is likely to win he's accused of sidelining most of his rivals talent came to power in 2016 promising to serve one term and vowing to stamp out corruption i want to dress is outside a polling station in qatar no need and he says only 3 people have been approved to run in the race. most of the opposition candidates or the most of the opposition leaders either out of the country in exile in prison or they've been muzzled into silence so that's the situation right now and we've seen reaction to that in the north of the country which is an opposition stronghold protesters blocked highways preventing election materials from bridges such as polling stations as polls open today a short while ago president patrice telephone cast his ballot in this polling station along with his wife and dismissed those protests insisting that there are

nonstarters he said the protest was prompted by people who don't wish this country well and they hired hunters with guns and children to cause mayhem but he has deployed soldiers and heavy weapons to deal with the situation which of course for the time being everything is quiet on all fronts we also hear about late start of voting in such an area as this was expected because i was before the start of voting today the election commission announced that because of the protests that led to the blockade of highways. election material is able to reach polling stations as scheduled so they expected some delays especially in the north of the country in terms of voter numbers we are just witnessing scanty numbers. this is a place with at least 6 polling booths and since the start of voting 4 hours ago only a few people trickle in from time to time the largest number we witnessed was when president alone and his entourage came here to vote and the majority of people in

this compound were actually either security journalists or of service so that's the situation right now but election officials are telling us they are hoping that the numbers will increase before the end of voting today. some families a man must say security forces are forcing them to pay $100.00 to retrieve the bodies of relatives killed in recent protests $82.00 demonstrators were killed during a crackdown. in fact go on friday protests are continuing in several cities including young gone down way and mandalay on saturday 3 rebel groups in east and shan state reportedly attacked security forces in the 1st since a ceasefire in 2019 has more from bangkok. we have had it confirmed by the banco student union who had to pay to recover a number of bodies they told us that the rate that's being asked for by the police to recover the bodies of the 82 people who are reported to died in their crackdown

on friday is 120000 that's the equivalent of about $100.00 u.s. dollars and there have been some terrible stories coming out in the case of caking a woman whose husband was lost in the crime was killed she was asked to pay the standard $20000.00 she didn't have enough money so had to go to the community where people gathered those funds together including another woman whose nephew and son had both been killed she didn't have enough money so she decided to contribute what she did so the king's could recover the body of her husband many people are reporting the same thing some were too scared to go for it is still very hard to get information out of me with the new internet. blocks of the being put in place in the last week but the assistance association for political prisoners which seems to be the definitive. role. of confirmed 82 people died in just

one place in just one day. the number of corona virus infections in india has hit a record for a 5th day the country is struggling to contain another wave is now reporting more than 152000 new cases 839 people died from cova 1000 on sunday that's the highest single day death toll in 5 months or thirty's in several states are warning of vaccine shortages in the coming days but india's health minister says state governments should end fear mongering. china's center for disease control says the government may need a change in vaccine strategy after admitting issues with the effectiveness of locally produced jobs china had administered 65000000 doses by the middle of march its health agency has suggested nick seen vaccines or revising dose timetables but

that will have serious implications for more than 20 countries that are getting chinese made vaccines during church which faces a surge in infections despite a rollout of the. study there found only 3 percent efficacy after one dose compared to 56 percent with 2 shots chinese manufacturers have yet to publish phase 3 trial data into accusations of a lack of transparency around fact seen effectiveness. associate professor of infectious diseases that are national university he says despite having lower efficacy than some vaccines china's jobs are more accessible for many countries. the world health organization when we 1st started this journey into developing vaccines was happy for a vaccine that was 50 percent efficacious so 56 percent after 2 doses meets that criteria however in light of the extraordinary success we've seen with pfizer and

madonna being over 90 percent and astra zeneca being close to 80 percent after 2 doses it seems like a lot less and of course it also depends not just on the efficacy in preventing infection but preventing sivia disease and hospitalized patients as i said the world health organization has recommended 50 percent so after at least 2 doses for a vaccine to be considered viable to be rolled out and many vaccines are achieving that and if you are getting 50 percent after 2 doses and you're hearing about all the 70 on percents and 90 percent you'll be looking in that direction that all depends on access to vaccines and of course side effect profile of this well so if you have say facts things that are more efficacious that you can get supply of in a timely manner then you would do that but as we have seen around the world with the surge in what's being called vaccine nationalism particularly coming out of

europe where it is being difficult for other countries to get vaccines from the european region you are just trying to use what ever you have available and that is when mixing and matching might come into play. human rights groups and concerned migrant workers and refugees are being left out of the cove at 19 vaccine drive their butts the government blames the slow roll out on the limited number of jobs available so no reports from beirut. isolation is seen as a privilege for palestinian and syrian refugees in lebanon who have died from coronavirus at a higher rate than the national average along with migrant workers they make up 30 percent of a nation of 6000000 people they are included in the national vaccination campaign that is supposed to give equal priority to all but many refugees don't seem to be aware of their rights. nobody came and mentioned anything but if people truly take

it. government data shows only 3 percent of those vaccinated so for are non lebanese human rights groups blame this on hesitancy little information on how to register and the government deviating from the national plan. distribution by private sector has meant that they don't have to follow 1st priority categories so you have on the one hand people who are politically connected or work for organizations or couldn't buy the vaccine have access to it and then people like migrant workers and refugees who depend on the national. who aren't getting vaccinated and now health officials say the private sector is helping and your bankrupt state and limited supplies are the reason why only 2 percent of the adult population has so far been fully vaccinated no one is a prevent you from registering because you are a syrian or if you know it or whatever if you are just. to give the facts

one of the priority go no one is the prize and you are from having an appointment but for the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers registering can prove to be an issue they don't have enough accurate and reliable information on the different vaccines the side effects or any other information related to their illegal status given that i don't know are undocumented and nothing has yet been communicated publicly to give them guarantees that they will not be deported or arrested and they are not protected by the law the authorities long accused of corruption and nepotism enjoy little trust many question how they are distributing the vaccines for example a donation of 100000 doses is being given out by the priority groups there is concern migrant workers and refugees will get their turn if the criteria established is not followed 70. beirut. from

a volcanic eruption on the caribbean islands of benson's is now falling on barbados almost 200 kilometers away thousands of people have been forced to flee say the eruption could go on for weeks let's hear bryan reports. the caribbean island of sentiment sent transformed into a gray gloomy moonscape. streets and buildings blanketed by spewed from a nearby volcano. ended decades of inactivity on friday when it erupted in spectacular fashion there were several earthquakes and a column of ash was pumped up to 15 kilometers into the air we want to work on the river. and it's hampering the escape of thousands of people who are now in shelters across the island i am scared.

means sulfur outlet in english it's the only potentially active volcano on st vincent which is home to about a 1000 people from the eruptions rained down on several neighboring islands including barbados nearly 200 kilometers away countries including venezuela cuba ghana and the united states a sending aid to the island nation. crew ships have been sandton to help those fleeing the eruption but because of the pandemic anyone going on board will have to be vaccinated and everyone in a shelter will be tested for covert 19 this is the 2nd they're mad experience i never care enough to force them and they were dead i was 9 years they have been 5 explosive eruption zones in france and in the past 300 years the most recent to 900 . and tonight while there have been no deaths reported this time an eruption

a $902.00 killed more than a 1000 people but damage to crops and farms from the choking cloud of ash is expected to be severe. and experts say the eruption could continue for some time yet brian al jazeera. with al-jazeera these are all top stories iran has reported an accident at its main nuclear facility in a tense it's atomic agency says the incident on sunday morning affected the electrical distribution grid it comes a day after iran resumed enriching uranium and iran is high on the agenda as the u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin visits israel as.