in ways in which some are seeking to turn the tide there straight ahead there are 3 individuals in very rare to see that was really exciting the season of programming exploring the climate crisis ahead of earth day on al-jazeera. 'd iran sirs it's an act of terrorism a power blackout at its main nuclear facility. the whole romney watching all of their lives my headquarters here in doha are also coming up china admits it's reviewing the effectiveness of vaccines it's produced to combat covert 19. also rights groups raise concerns about refugees and migrant workers being left out of lebanon's covert 19 vaccination program. and history for

heche and matthew yamma the 29 year old becomes the 1st japanese man to win a major golf title. welcome to the program a power blackout iran's main nuclear facility is being described as an act of terrorism and that comes from the head of the country's atomic energy agency ali akbar salehi he hasn't specified who's behind what was initially called an accident at the town's facility but israeli media quoting an identified sources claim it was a cyber attack carried out by israel's intelligence services it's happened a day after iran and veiled advance to radio centrifuges that its site and where iran and the u.s. are struggling to revive the 2015 nuclear deal laura rockwood is director of the

open nuclear network she helped write global atomic rules for a 3 decade long legal career with the nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. now she thinks what happened in the turns wasn't a coincidence. the i.a.e.a. has its eye on natanz enrichment facility on a regular basis regardless of the j c p o a regardless of the iran deal so the i.a.e.a. inspectors have a very good sense of what's going on what kind of centrifuges are spinning how much in which the rain is being produced so i don't think that it's a serious issue i think this could be a brief setback for iran but what i don't think it will do is deter iran from continuing to enrich uranium and to install more and better centrifuges in my view without a doubt this is definitely not a coincidence and one thing you need to remember well it is. it israel is the usual

suspect in these events over the last few years one must be mindful there there are many opponents in many different corners to the resumption of their joint comprehensive plan of action not the least of which is from within iran itself so it certainly is not coincidental in my view but i think that both president rouhani and president biden are committed to trying to find a peaceful resolution to this issue and a way to get back to the basic constraints in the j.c. . they're all this nuclear program was only agenda during a visit to israel by the u.s. secretary of defense lawyer dalston that his israeli counterpart benny gantz who says any new deal with iran must not undermine regional security how he feels it has the latest from west true. flying into the major foreign policy issue confronting israel's alliance with the united states the divergence in approach to

iran and its nuclear program u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin is the most senior biden administration official to visit israel since the new u.s. president was sworn in. after 4 years of a trump white house which favored the israeli line on iran these a different days as the u.s. explores options for reviving the iran nuclear deal as a major strategic partner for the united states are below bilateral relationship with israel in particular is central to regional stability and security in the middle east and during our meeting i reaffirmed to mr gant our commitment to israel is enduring and it is our inquiry austen's opposite number israeli defense minister benny gantz pledged cooperation in confronting what he called a threat to international security and region and israel. and we wore closely

our american airliners to ensure that any new agreement. would secure the vital interest of the ward of the united states prevent dangerous armories you know region and protect this new interviews but in the midst of talks in vienna aimed at finding a new agreement the language from israel's prime minister has been very different benjamin netanyahu insisting that israel would not be bound by any deal that pave the way to an iranian nuclear weapon israel is already confronting iran on multiple fronts reportedly behind the attack on an iranian ship in the red sea last week regularly targeting the iranian military inside syria blamed by iran for assassinating its chief nuclear scientist last year israel's defense minister may be talking about cooperating with the americans on a new deal but it'll be interesting to see the language used by his political rival the prime minister benjamin netanyahu long the most vehement opponent of any such

deal when he meets the u.s. defense secretary on monday ari force at al-jazeera west jerusalem. almost $100.00 days out from the. olympics japan has adopted more coronavirus restrictions all restaurants and businesses and densely populated areas must close before 8 o'clock each evening large events have been limited to $5000.00 people japan's government says it's doing what it can to prevent outbreaks in the run up to the games and the number of coronavirus infections in india has hit a record for a 6th consecutive day it's reported the highest single death toll in 5 months as it struggles to contain another wave of cases authorities in several states are warning of vaccine shortages in the coming days but india's health minister says state governments should end what he calls see among growing. and china's top

disease control official says locally produced vaccines aren't highly effective it's a rare admission by the center for disease control china has produced 4 different covert 19 jobs and has shipped millions of them abroad health officials are reviewing their vaccine strategy and considering mixing different brands one study found that the sin of act jab has a success rate of just above 50 percent and the maker of sort of arc is recommending longer intervals between the 2 doses to increase jobs effectiveness spokesman at mit's the vaccine could work better in some countries than others you may argue about which shot it out which show that the protection rate of the vaccine is affected by many factors such as the intensity of the local outbreak the vaccine immunization program different virus strains the criteria for determining the case the age range of patients under observation and so on this is one of the reasons for the different protection rate of sign of covert 1000 vaccine in a different country. a study in israel is suggesting that the pfizer vaccine may be

less effective against the south african strain it's compared to $800.00 people who tested positive for the virus after receiving one or 2 doses of the vaccine with the same number of those who didn't get the pfizer job the variant was more prevalent amongst those who receive the fires a shot and those who had been vaccinated but researchers caution that the studies sample size or small dr eric began doing is an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he says there are advantages and disadvantages to almost all types of vaccines. vaccines are protect against severe disease and debts wonderfully well almost all vaccines do you get pretty well the question is you know how well this also protects against the variants because some argue that maybe the chinese maxine protects against marion's better because it prevents you mixture by the whole virus as opposed to just a spike protein we don't know for sure whether it's always better because in

certain ways brazil had a huge number of infections brazil had huge number infections then in the placebo group with a lot of imprimis infections the already have been immune to lots and so that would also bring the efficacy lower than normal but it is it is something to be careful of and this is why to back seems to be a double vaccinations are much more important because with the side of back you were seen around 20 percent with just one vaccine so this wipes you vaccines is really urgent lebanon's health ministry is coming under fire for not like sating that many refugees human rights groups say syrians and palestinians are being left out but ministers say it's not that simple cynical to reports no other nation finds that a 3rd of its entire population of migrants. 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 dated 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 could buy the vaccine who 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 a prevent you from registering because you are a syrian or if you know or it or whatever if you are just. 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 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 vaccine 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. beirut. jordan's king abdullah and his half brother have appeared together for the 1st time since the political rift the former crown prince comes on been insane seen here in the light blue face mask joined the monarch and other members of the royal family at a ceremony marking 100 years of independence last week the government accused times of being part of a plot to destabilize the country comes and says he was part of the house arrest but he later pledged allegiance to the king. still ahead here on al-jazeera voting in the middle of a pandemic proview is cast their ballots for president turns credit virus cases surge and teenagers on the front line of conflict in northern ireland but the older generation are being blamed for reigniting the troubles those stories after the

break. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored by qatar airways how it's been a lovely week for much of japan fine and dry a similar picture to into the korean peninsula but that's about to change we've got some western weather coming into central parts of china as wary of high pressure for japan that's what's been keeping it settled and sunny that's getting pushed out of the way over the next day or so so the cloud of rain that winds out there will push out into the east china sea korean peninsula turning increasingly west and heavy downpours coming into north korea particularly as we go through monday and as we go into the last part of monday the showers longer spells of right started to fade their way into q.c. southern parts of honshu and they'll continue to move across the sea of japan

western areas of honshu turning increasingly wet still some warmth in tokyo shot by the mountains i think it should stay dry at least until mid week 20 degrees celsius for tokyo for the dry say for southern areas of china hong kong at around $29.00 celsius in la she fired into writing for a good part of the philippine. we got some showers into southern areas of the country usual rashes showers across a good part of southeast asia start to see more in the way as showers slightly cooler the into thailand showers to across southern parts of india over the next day or so but further north it stays very hot and sunday. school support qatar airways. in the yugoslav rule is of the ninety's crimes were committed by a bull's eyes. out as they're well meets me at cookouts a croatian side who went to jail for crimes he says he didn't commit. was he

a guard in a concentration camp or was he simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. it's trial and error on al-jazeera. you're watching i was there with me so whole run a reminder of our top news stories a power blackout at iran's main nuclear facility has been described as an act of terrorism and israeli media quoting an identified sources claims it was a cyber attack carried out by israel's intelligence services. also with almost 100 days to go before the olympics japan has adopted more coronavirus restrictions

curfews replays of restaurants and businesses and large events have been limited to 5000 people and china's top disease control of vishal says their locally produced vaccines are tightly effective the center for disease control made the rare admission after one study found the sign of a job had a success rate of just above 50 percent. now the polls have just closed and peru for the 1st round of its election for a new president the current i was pandemic has overshadowed the vote tens of thousands have died there have been more than 1600000 cases 18 candidates are running but none are strong enough to have an outright win in the 1st round let's get more on this mariana such as joins me now live from lima of course the polls have closed marianna when can we expect results. well. holes closed just about 15 minutes ago and that's

when we heard the 1st flash of new. that is always tradition here by the pollster. that gave the 1st numbers that. give us some idea of what a trend could be and i say could be because this is a very fragmented. very fragmented election and it has been really surprising to see that in this flush we have seen that the candidate of the extreme radical left. a teacher from the northern region of america is leading in that flush with 16 point one percent of the vote and the way i asked her about 11.9 percent for both numbers so tall and

number so colby in this a very famous economist who is known in many countries around the world for a very controversial. plan to alleviate poverty with given titles to the poor he is hand in hand with. the daughter of. the who's in jail for gross human rights violations she was let go from jail last year because of the pandemic she was in jail on charges of corruption she's still under investigation she has was given a special permit to campaign both of them 11.9 percent of the vote and then after that 11 points for you need us can know who has the most powerful party in congress and who's been leading the polls throughout this weeks of election and now comes. not for with for in 4th place we will see what happens it will be

a long week because every vote will be counted by hand indeed it will come back to you during the week of course when we get those results mariana sanchez for us there in lima thank you. because also just finished an ecuador's presidential runoff election it's on track to be a time phrase between the leftist economist and the as our us and the conservative banker to the state of the economy has dominated the political fight i could always hugely and partly because of the recent global oil price crash our latin america editor is following the votes from neighboring chile she says the new surge in covert 1000 cases has had an impact on the vote. the turnout hasn't been as high as it was in the 1st round as one might have expected because the number of infections the next door like just about everywhere else here in south america has been increasing steadily but it was a healthy enough turnout and the interesting thing is that we have heard from at least some of the authorized polling companies that are allowed to give the results

of exit polls and they have coming out with some pretty surprising results although it is still within the realms of a technical it does seem to give them more laughs so the conservative banker and business woman lead up to a 7 point lead now and that is the tender from the left wing coalition says that he has and he addressed his followers are short while ago we told them not to listen to the exit polls to wait for the official results but a significant percentage of those results will not be out for at least several more hours so it is still apparently a nail biting election. the counting is underway and believes presidential election the incumbent president patrice tallow is being challenged by 2 candidates but voter turnout is low the desire to just reports from the country's largest city contineu even though the president's predicted win newbies expected him to be on

the ballot. when patrice to move became believes leading teachers 16 he said he would remain in office only for 12. but 5 years later he is. for his 2nd presidential term after you voted to long dismissed the recent protests that broke out in parts of the country. it looks like we'll get a lot of just your security forces dealt with the problem with tact the troublemakers were young men and were unfortunately objects of manipulation our security forces overcame a situation calmly by this time tomorrow the healing process begins and will make sure such a situation never arises again. i heard of sunday's vote security forces were deployed in large numbers to maintain order nearly 5 1000000 people have registered to vote in the election in 29000 less than a quarter of the voting population participated in the parliamentary election that

was won by the governing party in very poorly stations like this only a handful of voters turned up to cast their ballots other stuff stayed away because of concerns about recent attacks now we actually officials admit that the protests have disrupted the supply of election materials in the mainly opposition stronghold of the north. a week an opposition has accused the government of harassing and intimidating its waters one of the candidates threatened to pull out of the race 2 days before the election citing continuing harassment and intimidation of the opposition by the government. there is ample. it is interesting for all the parties taking part in this election that the participation rate exceeds at least 70 percent elections are held so that citizens can choose to choose means to vote to vote means to choose who isn't trusted with the future of this country for the next 5 years i hope that victory will be on our side because it is a sanction vote detained bite with the economy slowing down many voters have high

expectations of course ever winds. i want to see the elected president provide jobs and improve security as it is it's too dangerous to go out at night. tension is still high in some parts of believes and election observers are calling for calm. to all of their appeal is. to continue to engage event. continue to ensure that. the playing field is level. continue to give opportunity to everybody to but dissipate results are expected within 48 hours if you expect this vote to go into a 2nd round which means the president alone would likely secure a 2nd 5 year mandate that could strengthen his grip on power i may decrease al-jazeera. also being counted in chad's presidential election present address debbie is seeking a 6th term to extend his 30 year rule in the central african nation the opposition

called for a boycott it accuses the government of repression and cracking down on protesters interior ministry says it's arrested several people for planning attacks on polling stations. i mean mars military is being accused of forcing people to pay around $100.00 to retrieve the bodies of their relatives. more than 80 people were killed by security forces and by going on friday that system instructions continued in other cities including young dog dar way and delay the escalating violence is that a top egypt not to voice frustrations over russia and china's inaction 20 change has more from bangkok in neighboring thailand. we have had it confirmed by the bargo student union who have had to pay to recover a number of bodies they say 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 have died

in their crackdown on friday is 120000 jack that's the equivalent of about $100.00 u.s. dollars and there have been some some terrible stories coming out the case of caking a woman whose husband was lost in the crackdown and was killed she was asked to pay this 120000 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 were too scared to go for it is still very hard to get information out of me with the new internet so the blocks are the being put in place in the last week but the assistance association for political prisoners which seems to now

be the definitive. role of confirmed 82 people died in just one place in just one day. the violence in northern ireland has easy after a week of the worst rioting in decades. and claims that some groups broke virus restrictions sparked anger from the pro british unionists and as andrew simmons reports now from its capital belfast it's teenagers who are on the front line. it's a new generation engaged in the sort of confrontation that belongs in the last century their teenagers many of them encouraged to take part in the unrest by their elders the late 1960 s. saw the start of 3 decades of conflict that's happening here now isn't remotely like that but it's provocation and confrontation nevertheless and it's league youngsters not old enough to vote in many cases goaded on by adults that has

shocked people. well i blame the parents and i'm here with my son i fear to be in the streets. out of being horrified that the politicians here have to really unite and come together and condemn it and look for peaceful ways forward for you know the young people for the people who don't think they're being listened to at the moment in this process these are the grounds of stormont castle the seat of a devolve power sharing government created by the good friday peace agreement signed 23 years ago and irwin was born just before that now she's leading the youth wing of the alliance party which covers the middle ground in northern ireland politics parents don't feel they have the ability to to stop their kids going on at their because the kids are being drawn out by by community leaders by people here care stoking violence and stoking fears they're being joined by them. parents can't

really speak out against those darker forces they can't stop their kids going i'd because they know if they're seen to go against community leaders in that way they could face attacks themselves they could face threats they could face anything there's deprivation in both the loyalist and nationalist community says of northern ireland those who want to united ireland and the loyalist areas where there is anger about a border in the irish sea imposed by a brics deal in many areas like they're surrounded by echoes of the past it almost feels as if time stands still difficult then for young people to avoid the bad influences within this youth leader has no doubt that many of the young people are under the firm grip of power by the trees new children should be encouraged to take to the streets this kind of violence doesn't amount to child to be sets that's not something for the social services to consider in relation to this and even when we think about the sinister forces that are behind some of these young people taking

to the streets on the element of their plan that could be considered child abuse also stephen and others like him have an uphill battle on their hands andrew simmons al-jazeera belfast at least 4 migrants have been found on board a boat off morocco the vessel was spotted by a fishing boat near the canary islands on sunday 19 others have been airlifted to safety more than a dozen are in a serious condition. a weakened tropical cyclers is moving inland through western australia after tearing through coastal towns it made landfall as a category 3 storm bringing winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour roots have been ripped from homes and buildings flattened residents across an 800 kilometer stretch of western australia have been told to shelter at home and rescue efforts on the caribbean island of st vincent have been hampered after another volcanic eruption cause power outages and water outages the last is here

a volcano 1st erupted on friday and is expected to continue for weeks the government says most crops and livestock will be destroyed and 20000 people could be displaced for 4 months. if there. is one goal of u.s. masters tournament the 29 year old finished a shot ahead of the field after starting his final round of augusta national with a 4 shot lead it's his 1st tour win since 2070 he's the 1st japanese man to win a golfing major 5 times masters champion tiger woods says that would impact the entire golfing we're. watching all jazeera we still run a reminder of our top stories a power blackout at iran's of a nuclear facility has been described as an act of terrorism but israeli media

quoting an identified sources claim it was a cyber attack carried out by israel's intelligence services in.