you know what i'm usually. told untold stories from asia and the pacific on the. 0. hello there i'm a star and this is the news hour live from our headquarters here and coming up in the next 60 minutes iran has reported an accident at its main nuclear facility a day after it started enriching uranium using advanced centrifuges. the u.s. secretary of defense makes his 1st official visit to israel iran is expected to be high on that agenda. chad is holding

a presidential election incumbent interest everyone's to extend his grip on power. and evacuation orders issued on the caribbean island of st vincent where one storm and volcano is now erupting. hello i'm satisfied it's with sports as hideki matsui young a storms and a leader of the monster is aiming to become the fast japanese man to win a major title. now iran has reported an accident at its main nuclear facility at natanz tehran's atomic agency says it's affected the sites and the trickle distribution grid power was out of cross the facilities above ground rock shops as well as the underground in richmond tolls on saturday president hassan rouhani said iran had launched new advanced enrichment centrifuges at that size this is also several centrifuges were

damaged in a fire last year an incident that tehran called an act of sabotage well iran is high on the agenda as u.s. secretary of defense right austin visits israel now tensions in that region have been escalating in recent weeks. the to hear and of today poses a strategic threat to international security today tell you the middle east in the state of israel in the war closely resolve of american allies to ensure that any new agreement with iran would secure the vital interest of the ward of the united states prevent dangerous arms race you know our region and protect the state of israel well harry force that is in west jerusalem and we'll have more on the right austin's visit for us just a moment but 1st let's speak to us a bag he's and terror on acid when it comes to this accident i mean accidents in u.k. probably never sounds like good news what more do we know about this and how dangerous

it could be. layering is haven't given much information we know that there was an electrical incident they've said that they are no leaks and no injuries and they are investigating the matter and they will release that when the time is right. is iran's main nuclear facility and under the 2015 nuclear deal iran is allowed to enrich uranium at this facility and just days ago it was announced acted van centrifuges will start being used at this tense facility where reason we're talking about this is because last summer we were told by the ring is that it was a fire outside natanz facility at or outside it was called at the time it was shown images on state t.v. and iran was downplaying it but then foreign media published satellite images that show that the damage is quite extensive then we heard from the iranians that there was an explosion then it was called an act of sabotage and just yesterday an

official from the 10s client said that it was an act of terror so there are suspicions currently we have lawmakers saying that there's a possibility that this was an infiltration and all this is going on whilst iran is expected to return to vienna next week to continue those talks around the nuclear deal the 2015 nuclear deal where iran was all trump era sanctions lifted and want the united states return to the deal and the united states wants iran to come back into compliance in terms of that 2015 nuclear deal of course and i want to ask you a little more about that especially in terms of the timing of this obviously very critical delicate moment in those talks how might this actually affect those discussions. well it's definitely not going to help those discussions just on tuesday and iranian ship was targeted by a minor reporter saying israel is behind an extra layer of complex complex

complexity because the lawmakers here and others in this country believe that there are active attempts to sabotage the deal rail those negotiations and in the region we know that saudi arabia u.a.e. and israel are not happy with that 2015 nuclear deal the never been happy with that 2050 nuclear deal and they're not happy with joe biden and his administration's policy in terms of engaging with iran so if these if these incidents continue yet we still don't know who's behind them definitely could anger the iranians and make those negotiations far tougher than they already are back there for us in tehran the iranian capital thank you so much us and well let's now cross over to harry for search and westerly stand for us harry no doubt there's already been some discussion about iran during this visit but it really has been about re-offending time is for mr austin said to go to israel. well certainly that's the public facing impression that both he and his counterpart here benny

gantz the israeli defense minister were trying to protrude a jury in the news conference after the 1st meeting here on sunday both of them talked about the long term nature of the israeli u.s. relationship and indeed plans going forward in terms of military acquisitions of course united states gives in a $4000000000.00 a year of military assistance to israel as well as that talking about the nature of the relationship going forward and the fact that it is as strong as it ever has been so you get you get that pretty typical kind of language but obviously we're talking at a time when the iran issue is the main issue and the issue of divergence between these 2 administrations very different from the trump era the biden ministration wants to try to engineer a return to the j.c. p.o.

a the iran nuclear deal the government of benjamin netanyahu is very much opposed unless very serious set of of requirements from israel are met which are unlikely to be met in any such return so it was interesting was that benny gantz in the comments that you heard earlier was talking about working closely with the united states to try to to make the best of any deal that's very different from the language you're getting from benjamin netanyahu recent days saying that israel would not be bound by any deal that would simply pave the way to iran getting nuclear weapons in the future as for lloyd austin himself he was also talking about how the alliance remains a strong as ever our commitment to israel is enduring and it is our employer. and i pledge to continue close consultations with the order to ensure israel's qualitative military edge and to strengthen israel's security and

why this is also happening as we're seeing this potentially shadowy maritime conflicts happening between israel and iran is that likely to feature and in the discussions in the next few days well i think almost certainly it will mean that there are reports that israel had been in touch with the united states about that incident. was referring to earlier in the red sea on tuesday with the iranian ship being struck by or being attacked with a mine and yes that is something that is very much playing in the background and is interesting given what netanyahu saying about not being bound by any potential agreement because there have been reports of this covert israeli long term military attempts to stop iran exporting oil via ships to syria that there have been a number of alleged attacks along those fronts in february and march there have been

2 explosions on israeli owned shipping in the arabian sea which has been blamed on iran and this most recent event now and of course we have this electricity failure at natanz which is being interpreted in the israeli media and assessed in the israeli media which has close links to the israeli security establishment as some kind of a sabotage event so with that you know talking about essentially freedom of action of israel out with any return to the j.c. p.o. a and this kind of background at the same time as austin is here at the same time as these talks are going on i think it's pretty clear that they will be on the agenda very interesting indeed high force that they with all the latest for us from west bank cemetary. now jordan's king abdullah and his half brother have appeared together for the 1st time since their political rift from the crown prince hum's adjoins the monarch as well as other as members of the royal family at

a ceremony marking 100 years since independence and you recall last week the government accused him of being involved in a prop to destabilize the country and as he was put under house arrest that he later pledged his allegiance to the king. now versioning is underway in chad where president idriss deby is running for a 6th term in office himself has cost his voters in the capital mena and the opposition has called for a boycott it accuses the government of repression and of cracking down on anti-government protesters on saturday the interior ministry said it arrested several people for planning attacks on polling stations and our correspondent is on the ground to the morgan is at a polling station in jena you know we've seen protests against this government since back in february what has turned out there looking like. the early hours of the polling when the balls all kind of around 60 with president reagan so being the want to pass the 1st ballots there are about $100.00 over

$100.00 votes is here at this polling station where we are right now but as they always for growth and with about 4 hours to go until paul close you can see that not a lot of people are turning or turning out to cast their ballots oh this is something that we've seen around polling stations. around the capital in germany are many of them having very few people attending to the stations to cast their ballot this is something that the opposition opposition say is the result of them calling on voters to parts of the election 7.3 have registered to vote in the selections of course into the national electoral commission but the opposition have been calling on their supporters especially after late february when there was an attack on opposition leader dealer's house the opposition have been calling on their supporters to believe the selection based the elections will not be free and fair so while driving around town here in the capital and we've seen heavy security

deployments especially in the southern part of the capital where there have been protests over the past few weeks and there have been protests over the past few days as world opposition members say that they have called on their supporters or most of them in the southern part of india may now to take to the streets to make its. heard to the government and to the observers who have come to observe there's a mix sense that they're not satisfied with the way things are going on this election day they say that they want to make sure that people know that they are not happy with the turnout and meanwhile president when he calls his votes has called on people are tired the ends and the capital around the country to crank out their force and make their voices heard have a morgan there on the ground for us at a polling station in demeanor thanks so much have a well let's now bring in white naseer imagine he's a senior research at the institute for security studies and he also joins us from the chaldean capital and i mena now when i see her there were saying that she's seeing very low turnout i'm curious what do you make of that especially within the context of the opposition boycott of this poll. you.

know how does your you want to save the tree looks and seems to have knocked you know the level of speech agreed upon felix fictive and these $4000000.00 reasons it's also because the election were a bit of a problem very tense here in the country with yours insecurity you situation that happened last fall but also are all in the book the stations that are being called up and or the dog was eaten by. news that. the sole show social political and economic situation in the country that events and the fact that the government was again running these elections we don't use the negative leading opposition because. you got on one play there. i'm sorry i we appear to have lost mr mudgee there we apologize we'll try to get

him back kid but for now let's move on because in been in people there are also choosing a president now that version comes during a time of political tension to present victories settle in is facing a weakened opposition in a vote that he is likely to win he's accused of sidelining most of his rivals now to long came to power in 2016 promising to serve one term and vowing to stamp out corruption all the top opposition candidates in binion's presidential election and mostly either in exile or have had their candidacies rejected now the main opposition need a wreck amadou who was arrested in march on terrorism charges and other prominent opposition members sebastian hours of on is in exile he's accused of drug trafficking forgery and ford and he could face prison if he returns now not as well known as the sun soon now he's still in the race and was a former education minister corrent in co who is also up for election he's a lifelong local politician but is now running for president for the 1st time well

i'm editor says outside a polling station for us and quite a new he says the government limited who could run in this 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 they 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 mid 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 time softball to numbers we are just witnessing scanty numbers. this is a please 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 observers 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. well let's now return to the presidential election and chad we've managed to get one at the back is

a senior research at the institute for security studies and speaking to us again from injury and now i'm curious picking up where we left off given the state of things the protests we've seen since february will the election result be broadly accepted or will we see more protests or i think those are the situation are we are seeing actually is that people do moment or experience of being to look forward and to they are from the small observations on maybe around the place i'm losing or the participation is very low and another new day there was not too much people are around or just offices. for the virus. or is it i mean are we see that those elections are not butting into what's good for the population and also looks like. by the man up one stop you there

it. nations here. well i saw a human rights watch described a ruthless crackdown ahead of today's poll the u.n. has called for an investigation after that raid we saw on a former minister what are the chances chances of accountability going forward. ya know as already sell your listeners who hears very tense fever laura or test and author of the scene before the elections a lot of artists are of an e-book but also those that don't are going to divorce so it's obvious that we're still very tense and what we also see from the war become a brain that discovers there is no color to f.e.m.a. or only showing that the country we'd be suffering from and somebody that lives in iowa but it once more went between the opposition parties and who is that actually must stop all of the police and the defense moves to i mean we keep one reacting

against of this i think that there lections is kind of a review of one again but use long but he and his ability of the country if there is that looks i looked for after the elections well speaking of instability obviously a huge swathe of challenges ahead both for the country and its leaders the escalating violence and the so how the flashpoints for domestic conflict not to mention the economy despite being oil rich what is top of the agenda there. i think that's actually what we didn't believe we. look marci he was really one of the biggest things about gender because. if you're sued by a against it will. also elect i was at the hands of the ruling party and belittlement was done it lead but again. it's also a way we'll lose is my love for the city lawrence. supports you know

so i think that the economics which isn't actually in the bucket is not very early on from the figures of the world bank except where are we actually one of the poorest countries in that way so it's means that i don't see any real agenda now you get to what books you all i mean we are just little working for the people we've got a lot of discourses to be we will be your servant i mean there are not be elite new discourses is the same people have lived there it's not so large that you know that belittle one and 7 after the elections well believe. in religion love money and give people so are you that a senior researcher at the institute for security studies speaking to us from the child in capital and to me in a really great to get your thoughts here on out of there thanks for being with us sir thank you. i still plenty more ahead here this news hour including

when about the voters in kurdistan which critics say threatens to return the country so what are tearing the role. they make up a 3rd of the population the band not being vaccinated and why refugees and migrants and levanon are being left behind. and it's not real madrid beat barcelona and el classico is it a top of the spanish league or that's coming up with our. now the number of corona virus infections in india has hit a record for a 6th day now the country is struggling to contain yet another wave on sunday reported the highest single day death toll in 5 months with artie's in several states a warning a vaccine shortage as well in the coming days but india's health minister says state governments should end their fear mongering when that speak to dr raj of just gupta he's a professor at the center of social medicine and community health and joel narry

university he joins us now from new delhi a professor as we see other countries push for more restrictions i see india is still holding big political rallies there were quite mixed messages going on there is there the appetite to actually try to control this. rather sadly the discourse on mixed messages has been the main message this week. it is true that in 5 states elections are on and of course as indian elections go very impressive political congregations by all parties concerned i think what's important to mention is that several doctors associations have written to the country's election commission pointing to more and try to go guidelines given that given the realities of the indian election and yes in all alone states cases are on the rise as in the rest of the country in the southern state does not mean one candidate actually passed only on account of all that in place who wins

that election to that constituency will have to be held against that's as far as the election and the court would situation goes now professor when you and i last spoke we were discussing the vaccine rolled out i see the government now has said it sets a new world record for the shortest time to vaccinate 100000000 people so that was in $85.00 days but that somewhat glosses over the failures and shortages how is it going now. well again it's a big story on the plus side the country was immunizing about an average of $2500000.00 but day in india in the last fortnight of march that has gone up 2 to 3500000 in the 1st fortnight of april that's on the positive side on the. part of it several states actually have

got 'd stocks that would last for only a few days and on an average of about $8.00 to $10.00 days of stops in the pipeline and the states are actually what it also does a large country so the fact originated in terms of the percentage population covered state it's as low as 3 percent in the northeastern state of money and as high as 70 percent of the population in its neighboring state of tippett i'm not too far away from this however the large states between 7 to 10 percent and the national average is 6 percent so in spite of an impressive increase in terms of population protection it's still a long way to go now professor you mentioned a big country obviously given the size of india's population presumably how the country deals with the virus also has global ramifications i mean the wild card controlled by the 19 if india can control the 19 so what is the next step here.

well the next step as far as the government decisions go really to make more taxis available we are likely to do you know some very important announcements in the next 24 hours or at best in the next couple of days more vaccines are certainly going to be authorized in various in various models however all her elation and actual availability really have some lag time and therefore it is understood that in the next few weeks the situation is going to be challenging in some of the key states but yes the government is working overtime to make more vaccines available. so that things could potentially get worse before they get better professor roger dust up to the from doha down there are going to ask you always great to get your insights here with us on al-jazeera thanks for being with us again. thank you very much countries across south america are on the other side rushing in restrictions

as they battle to contain the virus the problems there are being made west by so vaccine rollouts and already weak health systems but in the west affected country brazil there are now moves to ease restrictions and places that have seen a huge rise in 1000 cases as well as deaths then you're trying to reports now from when is area. a mixture of relief and disbelief the 2 weeks of lockdown are lifted in rio de janeiro one of the worst coronaviruses cities in brazil and the war of images of this one we'll bring you the good news is that by enforcing the 14 day epidemiological period suggested by specialists plus other restrictions we managed to lower the number of people seeking the city's basic health system. yet for the past week across brazil there have been an average of 4000 deaths a day adding to a total of more than 350002nd in the world only to the united states health experts say much more needs to be done to curb the spread and. we can't sleep

because we don't know full be able to attend to the patients if we will have medicines oxygen today we have them but if these cases continue growing at some point it will be chaotic there is no other way we don't sleep today's reality is that health workers don't trust chile despite a vigorous vaccination campaign has also seen a recent surge in coverage 1000 cases coming a few weeks after restrictions were lifted to encourage tourism in the pacific resort of vineyard omar and the nearby port city of el paraiso. we believe that this increases directly related to several factors but one of them is the holiday permits which allowed a significant number of people to travel to districts in our region in a festive spirit has periods of rest relaxation and disconnection after a very bad year your require has also extended lockdown restrictions until the end of april to contain a surge in covered 1000 cases well here in argentina we've seen

a record number of daily infections and a new set of restrictions including a nighttime curfew. that people aren't going to tolerate being locked up again like last year many people want to go out they don't want to let their children or their family go hungry they need to look for their daily bread. vaccines are being applied but many complain there are too few a new batch is a not a riding fast enough but since will those vaccination programs start to take effect the only other option if overburdened health systems of the code is to impose ever more lock down restrictions but with people angry and defiant those measures are proving to be increasingly ineffective. for their own 2010 cyrus well meanwhile colombia has imposed a strict 3 day lockdown in its capital bogota the city of 8000000 is facing restrictions on movement and a ban on alcohol sales coronavirus cases are rising rapidly across the country the

number of new infections there has doubled during the last month and intensive care units approaching capacity in a number of cities. it is now time for the weather and his efforts. the weather is improving nicely across much of australia say much because i was towards the west we have some nasty weather pushing through dangerous weather actually in the form of tropical socks sort of russia that will make landfall over the coming hours and listen see that wet weather lingering here as we go on through good parts of a monday so the moment winds of around 130 phone to us it's ramped up slightly recently but it is moving pretty quickly at 43 kilometers per. hour drive its way across the southwestern corner but the usual has it's damaging winds we're looking at heavy rain flash floods and dangerous tights over the next 24 hours or so that sea expect a track of the storm and just moving through to the north of perth and this is of course a part of the world that doesn't usually see tropical sightless so it will cause

widespread damage functionally though it is moving pretty quickly elsewhere across the country is fine and dry because some warmer weather coming into the southeastern corner eventually 121 celsius there on monday in sydney but pushing up to around 25 by that stage i went to weather financial cosatu and just clipping the fossils of south australia pushing towards victoria which was there's a typical some wet weather coming through and tending rather unsettled. still ahead here on out there. china considers adjustments to its vaccination plans as officials admit for the fast time their job is not as effective and in fort action from the n.b.a. as the utah jazz defends their incredible record time for coming up shortly without . it's the political debate show that's challenging the way you think i want to know

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hello again i'm starting a tender on that's reminder about top stories here this hour iran has reported an accident at its main nuclear facility at natanz it's atomic agency says the incident on sunday morning affected the electrical distribution grid and comes a day after iran resumed enriching uranium. but iran is high on the agenda as the u.s. secretary of defense stuart austin visits israel defense minister benny gantz says his government is ready to work with its allies to ensure any new deal with iran does not undermine regional security. and voting is underway in chad where president interested he is working to extend his 3 decades in power by seeking a 6th term in office the opposition is called for

a boycott it accuses the government of oppression. now ash from a volcanic eruption on the caribbean island of st vincent is now falling on barbados that's nearly 200 kilometers away thousands of people have been forced to flee and already say that eruption could go on for weeks alexy o'brien reports while lush caribbean island sentiment sent transformed into a gray gloomy moonscape. streets and buildings blanketed by spewed from a nearby volcano. ended decades of interactivity on friday when it erupted in speak tech you'll affection there were several earthquakes and a column of air was pumped up to 15 kilometers into the air we're going to want to work with you chris. you know and it's hampering the escape of

thousands of people who are now in shelters across the island i am. been brought up best every family or. so i. 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 us nearly 200 kilometers away countries including venezuela cuba ghana and the united states a sending aid to the island nation. cruise 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 them and experience in their work enough to force them and they were dead i was 9 years old they've been 5 explosive eruption zones in france and in the past 300 years the most recent in 979

while there have been no deaths reported this time an eruption a 902 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. now some families in myanmar say security forces are forcing them to pay a $100.00 in order to retrieve the bodies of their relatives killed in recent protests $82.00 demonstrators were killed during a crackdown on friday protests are continuing in several cities including young gone away and mandalay early on saturday 3 rebel groups in eastern shan state reportedly attacked security forces in the 1st attack since

a ceasefire back in 201920 chiang has more now from bangkok in neighboring thailand we have had it confirmed by the banco student union who have had to pay to recover a number of bodies they have told us that the rate that's being asked for by the police to recover the bodies of the $82.00 people who are reported to died in their crackdown on friday is 120000 that's the equivalent of about $100.00 us dollars and there have been some terrible stories coming out the case of caking a woman whose husband was lost in the crackdown was killed she was asked to pay this $120000.00 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 takings could recover the body of her husband many people are

reporting the same thing some are too scared to go for it is still very hard to get information out of me with the new internet so the blocks of the being put in place in the last week but the assistance association for political prisoners which seems to now be the definitive. role fatalities have confirmed that 82 people died in just one place in just one day. people in kurdistan versioning on proposed changes to their constitution that could include giving president sided jaffer of more powers and also allowed him to run for a 2nd term critics accuse him of trying to impose a more thorough tearing form of rule since taking office in january jumper of call for the referendum off the months of political turmoil saying that parliament system of governance is dysfunctional and corrupt child stratford is in bishkek for us and he explains just what's at stake here. critics are concerned both in this

country and the wider region and international bodies around the world are concerned that the kind of democratic progress in this country has been so proud of making despite sometimes it being in a violent fashion that democratic progress may well be being weakened by this decision to power off hopes that this is this is going to put an end to that is widely considered that these proposals for constitutional changes will be given a yes vote in this constitution they include things like appointing a judiciary the president will be able to appoint judges in the judiciary will be able to he will be able to appoint the attorney general he will be able to appoint ministers he will be able to introduce and veto legislation so of course there are serious ramifications potentially for they supposed supporters of these proposals for changes to the constitution to make it more presidential they say that

democratic freedoms such as freedom of speech freedom to to gather and protest against government decisions and policy they are saying that those freedoms are still a guarantee but if you speak to opponents they're very concerned about this move they say that it is potentially going to lead to a more thorough tear in political system here and they say that the power should stick with a parliamentary system and in stage work on building and reforming parties and building democratic institutions. presidential runoff election is currently underway in ecuador polls that are open just a short while ago are versus picking between a leftist economist under us are aus and conservative bank again last or now arouse one the 1st round and polling suggests he could win the 2nd round by a landslide but as a latin america at a tennessee newman reports whoever wins the verdict will still face major challenges. is

a rule indigenous community. 3 known for a true tragic culture and flower exports but here as in the rest of ecuador the economy and basic services have collapsed long before the pandemic. russified an angle is one of the many unemployed who's had to find a new way to survive she's raising and selling these guinea pigs at $8.00 each 2 2 2. here there are a popular dish at their facebook that's not a job that's all i ask of him. she's referring to and that is sad alice the leading presidential candidate i doubt says a young a clown a mist and protege of former left wing president rafael correa who was in power for a decade until 4 years ago and i was his name is frequently placed next to korea as image so they'll be no doubt about the connection there's a look something on the system it's not just me who will vote for a rose everyone says that korea did a lot for us they say he stole but he did

a lot. under gloria's citizens revolution poverty levels fell social spending soared and so did public works projects but there were also nagging accusations of corruption and persecution of opponents and the media to korea is now living in belgium and places 8 years in prison for corruption if you returned home. but korea is still a powerful force represented by 36 year old are else one of his former ministers. from ecuador's pacific coast to the mountains i doused has been campaigning hard to reinstate and it's celebrate their citizens revolution movement he says it was betrayed by current president mean more dental. they prefer to pay the foreign debt rather than protecting ecuadorians who had to leave their corpses on the street during the pandemic because there was no money for hospitals on one of his rival

more last saw faces an uphill battle he is perceived as close to the discredited current president and worse yet to the i.m.f. the bank of businessman is a 3 time presidential hopeful and a political conservative he warns that a return of korea's party would threaten democracy greens never go on yours i love it a lot for more than a decade they persecuted those who didn't buy out the tastes of the chief we represent those who consider diversity as one of ecuador's principle assets. that i asked former president correa about speculation that he'll return to ecuador as the power behind the throne if i doused the selected plan he's going to please i don't even plan to return to my country rather to continue in academia in belgium with my family furthermore the brainchild of a program to risk your ecuador is andras arose with a brilliant economist. backing candour a ph d.

degree incline to me or experience in banking i mean very little the only thing people say they want is a president who will remember that they need help to see in human al-jazeera while a neighboring peru people are also voting for president 18 candidates are running but it appears that none of them has a strong enough lead to form a majority peruvians are casting their ballots also amid the country's deadliest week of occur in a virus pandemic. meanwhile china's center for disease control now says the government made a change in their vaccine strategy after admitting issues with the effectiveness of locally produced jabs there and china had administered a 65000000 doses by the middle of last month its health agency has suggested mixing back scenes or revising dosage timetables that will have serious implications for the more than 20 countries that are getting chinese made vaccines that includes chile which faces a surge in infections despise rollout of the son of a job now

a study found one dose was only 3 percent effective compared to 56 percent with 2 shots chinese manufacturers have yet to publish phase 3 trial data all leading to accusations of a lack of transparency well earlier i spoke to some guys in the uk he's an associate professor of infectious diseases at australian national university and he says despite having low effectiveness and some vaccines china's jobs are more accessible. 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 severe 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 odd percent so 90 percent you'll be looking in that direction that all depends on access to vaccine and of course side effect profile as well so if you have safe sex scenes 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 were just trying to use what ever you have available and that is when mixing and matching might come into play well some of the labs poorest

countries may have to wait longer for the 2nd dose of their vaccines up to 60 countries that have already begun their backs him right out and i have to wait until june from washouts surprise shortages have seen any all that ever asked for the u.n. back kovacs program helps fund health organizations game is designed to have poorer nations fair access to vaccines. meanwhile a study in israel has now found the fire as a curve in $1000.00 vaccine is less effective against the variants that was 1st discovered in south africa it compared $400.00 people who tested positive for the virus after receiving 100 doses of the vaccine the same number of those who did not get the pfizer job scientists a television a vasty say a higher rate of the variant was found in patients who had received a 2nd dose but they've cautioned that the study had a small sample size. all human rights groups in lebanon meanwhile concerned that migrant workers and refugees are being left entirely out of the crime in 1000 backs and drive by the government blames the slow roll out there on the limited number of

jobs available in a whole reports now 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 the government data shows only 3 percent of those vaccinated so 4 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 those priorities or 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 in 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 of preventing you from registering because you are a syrian or if you know or if you are whatever if you are just. to get the vaccine one of the prior to 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 a lot of them are undocumented and nothing has yet been communicated publicly to

give them guarantees that they will not be the 4th id or arrested and they are not protected by the law the authorities long accused of corruption and nepotism and joy 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 the vulnerable will get their turn if the criteria established is not followed. beirut. still ahead here on out of their action from the mosque as intruding a rat hole in one that's coming up and sports are. to jump into the street there is a lot going on in this show and julian global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we don't want to feed than we are aware be part of the

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welcome back it's now time for sports thanks month they are all japanese go for a decade has stormed into the knees at the masters he's opened up a 4 shot advantage with just one round left to play as davis 6 has the latest with this report day 3 of the masters is known as moving day but play was stopped for more than 70 minutes as the storm passed through georgia while some players slipped up. others stepped up. after an hour sat in his car looking at his phone japan's had dec emotes yama came out firing after the rain delay birdies at $11.12 gave him a tie for the lead and then an eagle here at the 15th put him out in front. and he didn't stop there. this tee shot set up another birdie at 16.

and when he rolled in another at the 17th he was firmly in control of the tournament the japanese pyatt started the day 3 shots off the lead but finished 4 shots clear. to the right before the run july i probably hit the worst shot i've hit this week and i just figured i can't hit anything worse than that and so maybe it relieved some pressure that i hit well after the delight. justin rose the leader after the 1st 2 rounds is still in good spirits and still has a chance of victory he's one of 4 players tied on 7 under par including zonda shuffle a who nailed the 60 foot eagle put on the way to a 3rd round 68. 55 australia's mark leishman is also in that chasing pack and believes it's still all to play for with 18 holes left to play safe in a he plays well odds he can control his own destiny i guess. a lot can happen

around here. of cena. the shot of the day belong to cory connors only the 6th man in masters history to get a hole in one of the parts $36.00 hole. the canadian is 5 shots off the lead heading into the final day just a short further back is the former champion jordan spaeth. his chip in at the 10th got him to 5 under par but that still 6 shots behind the leader of the tournament as much as to lose his the edges closer to becoming the 1st ever japanese man to win a major. david stokes al-jazeera. old football and into milan of extended their lead at the top of the italian league they beach county arre one nail in the game on sunday but so dominant scoring the winner with 13 minutes left it puts them 11 points ahead of ac milan who are their nearest challenges and city royals. be

part of $31.00 in an eventful match the town in breckenridge set up their opener and they would sue goes up by half time to talk to the break time was shown a straight red card for something he said to the referee you'll see that a moment then out harm a pull to go back but milan raible to score another to make sure of the winner they remain 2nd 4 points clear of events as in 3rd. scenario madrid barcelona in el classico to go top of the spanish league the game was played in heavy rain and it was karim benzema who put madrid in front with a cheeky back heel now it was is 9th goal in 7 games and his 25th of the season overall another host then doubled their lead with a deflected free kit from tony bruce to make it to nail or scum and graze a pulled one by for barcelona and then real had a man sent off boss to hit the crossbar with a final move of the game as real held on to win 21 and they go top with

a better head to head record against us let's go. madrid who can retake top spot if they win later on sunday. if you come with we haven't won anything yet this is just a game and for the points it won't change anything we are in the same flight. or limit physically we must know wrist and recharge our bed she's because in wednesday we have another great match to play their next game on wednesdays awaits liverpool in the european champions league with reality leading 31 on aggregate liverpool won their latest game in the english premier league they force from behind to be aston villa little goal from egypt somehow months along when the winner from trend alexander alone in injury time and that ends a run of 6 straight defeats on home for different from. in germany leaders by mean of slip they were held to a 11 draw at home by union berlin equalise with just 5 minutes left that allowed 2nd place on the lip sync to take advantage now they easily beat the bryan murray

for one to close the gap to 5 points the 6 games left to play in the title race. and to the n.b.a. a little sunday's lakers came out on top in a battle of east and west they were up against the brooklyn nets without their big names their bron james and anthony davis while the nets were missing james harden they did have kevin girardi whose dunks certainly impressed his mom watching there in the stands now both teams had to play ejected kyrie irving and dennis schroeder were thrown out of the game for arguing is either with each other or not seem to affect the nets more the lakers won by $25.00 points or brooklyn's home winning streak is over. donovan mitchell was the star for the utah jazz who had top of the western conference he scored 42 points as they beat the sacramento kings by 16 and he showed he's pretty good in defense 2 now the giants have now extended the home winning run to $24.00 games. well dennis rodman is one

of the most famous names in n.b.a. history but now his daughter trinity is making her own way in professional football and she scolded every for the washington spirit team in the nationals national women's soccer league it's a good just 5 minutes to find the net after coming on as a sub in the 2nd half scoring with her 1st touch the 18 year old is the youngest of a player to be drafted in the league. and now on to one of the most famous horse races in the world the grand national which was won by a female jockey for the 1st time in its history rachel blackmore said she didn't feel human after riding 11 to one shot minutes time so victory aintree in liverpool they finished 6 and a half length clear of both day flow who's also trained by henry brown heads any 2nd now was 3rd all caps off a great week for blackmore who was also the 1st woman to be the leading jockey at cheltenham festival last month. well for now but i'll be more later

thanks so much sorry paul that is it for this news hour but don't go away i'll be back in just a moment. is only a change because. people believe in a purpose that is because then they're. trying to make a political in my city around the state senate they put themselves to make the changes that. we should have taken this. has got to learn we have a disco to slosh or to create new york areas we have to change this culture i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave an establishment outside but all the people and the majority of the legal research talk about just good hardworking people that

want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are hinge refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to myanmar. from the al-jazeera london broke out to people in thoughtful conversation people use the lowest get agreement they describe the outsider with no host and no limitation the difference between a migrant and refugee is purely a choice when you are refugee you are forced to speak of as my current act at what has happened a lot in the west is that culture and food are separated studio unscripted and al-jazeera. the star striker of the top italian but devoted to the working class of his hometown and it's close. to pulling legendary

come to know we just disagree on the lakotah. one of a kind superstar. he could be dogged by his fans for his socialist values and his many goals against italy's footballing elite football brother on disease. iran has reported an accident at its main nuclear facility a day after it started in which a new raney and using advanced centrifuges. and of their honest all the terraces out of their life and are also coming up. a top chinese health official warns that it's really ok made corona virus vaccines are not effect of enough hundreds of millions of doses have already been distributed around the country.