today on al jazeera. being eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera. 0. 00000 i marianna my 0 watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes u.s. officials say president biden has decided to withdraw all remaining american troops from afghanistan by september the 11th. just before and. explained the. russian rejects nato's

call to halt its military buildup for ukraine's border as the u.s. stresses its commitment to kiev hospital mortuaries run out of space in india which is again reported the world's highest daily number of covert cases and water runs short in sindh vincent where a volcano continues to erupt covering the caribbean island in ash and contaminating reservoirs i'm german ash with the sports chelsea air into the champions league is semifinals and i'll be joined by paris our man who knocked out holders by munich. welcome to the news hour we begin in the u.s. where president joe biden has decided to withdraw all remaining american troops from afghanistan by september the 11th a u.s. official says biden will announce the plans on wednesday will around 2 and

a half hours and u.s. troops are still in afghanistan down from a peak of more than 100000 in 2011. decision would miss the may 1st deadline for the withdrawal agreed with the taliban by the trumpet ministration september the 11th this year is the 20th anniversary of the $911.00 attacks by al qaida which led to the u.s. invasion of afghanistan and america's longest war the afghan. government says it respects any u.s. troop decision stating that its forces have recently conducted close to 98 percent of operations independently but it's also been announced that turkey will host a high level peace on the in istanbul later this month to to jumpstart efforts to try and end the war the taliban has already said they won't be taking part and let's cross to mike hanna now in washington so mike do we have any more details on why the you know why the by administration plans to delay the troop withdrawal from

afghanistan. but we don't have any direct information on that although it is known that many within the pentagon were concerned about that timeline that president trump had agreed to last year which is may the 1st they believe that this was too soon they needed more time in order to form an effective drawing down of troops within afghanistan so certainly the pentagon's advice it would appear was that it extended the timeline president biden now likely to announce tomorrow that date of september 11th by which time the troop withdrawal will be complete that's a significant date obviously the 20th anniversary of the terror attack on the world trade center here in the united states so president biden very clearly intent on a step issuing a clear line when the troops will be withdrawn in the hope that this or prevent any

action by taliban which has threatened to take action against u.s. troops should they not pull out by that agreed date of may the 1st. and of course the other big development that is he has the attention of the international community right now is that build up of russian troops on the border with ukraine president joe biden has spoken directly with putin about that now what do we know about the his conversation there with the russian president. well 1st of all what we do not know is who initiated the call the press secretary would not be drawn on that particular issue however we do know that the president biden spoke forcefully it is said to the russian president in terms of his actions on the border with crimea asking him to deescalate tensions in that particular reason region president bryden also reportedly brought up the issue of russian interference in u.s.

elections criticizing the russian president strongly for that particular case but in another development as well it is said that president biden is asked for a summit meeting with president putin at some stage in the coming months in a 3rd country now significantly it's reported from the kremlin that president putin's shortly afterwards put a phone call in to the finnish prime minister it must be remembered that when the president from met putin it was in finland so the possibility open there's a venue cannot be ruled out at this particular point so president biden harshly critical of this said of the russian president but at the same time attempting to get some kind of dialogue going through a meeting in a 3rd country thanks very much with the latest from washington i can or. so as you were hearing from mike there the u.s. is offering its full support for ukraine over the escalating tensions with russia nato has also called on russia to hold its military build out near the ukrainian border describing it as deeply concerning ukraine estimates about 40000 troops and

massing around voronezh to its northeast and another 40000 in crimea to the south the u.s. is sending 2 of its warships to the nearby black sea this week russia has told the ships to stay well away from crimea for quote their own good russia's defense minister says it's taking measures to respond to what it calls threatening military action by nato including troop exercises and combat readiness checks 14000 people have been killed in the donbass region of eastern ukraine over the past 7 years with frequent violations to the cease fire that supposed to be in place as action butler reports. unjustified and unexplained was how the head of nato described russia's buildup of troops on its border with ukraine after meeting with ukraine's foreign minister in brussels russia must and this military buildup in and

around ukraine stop its provocations on the escalate immediately. russia has deployed naval ships heavy armor and tens of thousands of troops in recent weeks violence is risen between russian backed separatists and ukrainian forces in ukraine's east ukraine's foreign minister said nato must respond to what he called a threat of war by gathering today we try to avoid the mistake that was made in 2014 when russia was ready to act swiftly and pursue its military goals in crimea and gone bust while our western partners were considering their reactions to what was happening on the ground. russia will not be able to catch anyone by surprise anymore we labor also discussed the situation with the u.s. secretary of state is on a 3 day visit to proselytise the u.s.

will station an extra $500.00 troops in germany we're seeing unfortunately. record taking over in providing americans want to come to her we're now seeing the largest concentration. of russian forces unpretty border since 2014 kremlin officials say the troops are on a training exercise and the ukraine has been acting provocatively some analysts say vladimir putin is less interested in conflict than in challenging washington where we have seen over the last few months is a breakdown of the u.s. russia and relation. by the mystery of. power and i think putin is basically trying to duck and he's testing be by going to be sufficient to see how far i'd be willing to go on john for they really are on russia the white house says u.s. president biden has called russia's leader to urge a deescalation of tensions the kiev the best way to end the conflict with russia

would be food nato to 1st track its request for membership of the alliance sending a clear message to moscow the ukraine sovereignty could not be threatened in such a bottler al-jazeera paris. or. global affairs analyst who has previously a spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in europe based in ukraine joins me now from vancouver island so what russia have to gain from activating or escalating hostilities in the region. well you know it's very difficult to get into mr putin's mind but with the build up of so many troops and so much military hardware it's unprecedented and i think there are several objectives here possible objectives one is to put more pressure on ukraine to agree to the 2015 minutes framework which by the way is much more in russia's favor because it does call for things like somebody autonomy they don't boss local

elections that sort of thing and i think also it's a way to send a test to the bottom an administration that this is the kind of post code new world order that russia sees is that it can do whatever it wants when it chooses and very similarly i think acting very much like china right now being the strongman and defining a kind of sphere of influence that intends to pursue and then one more thing of course some russia is always proclaiming that it has the right to defend russian speaking citizens or russian citizens in the past 2 years given out 650000 passports to people in the so this is really a kind of passport protectorate of russia that it intends to defend. what can the find an administration do. well i will say this is that words have been crn just aren't enough it didn't work in the current situation in myanmar and it start working in the current situation and in russia i think they have to go pretty much

for the nuclear option and that would be really implementing those really strict financial sanctions including possibly temporarily at least removing russia from the international banking system the so-called swift payment system but also making it very difficult for the people immediately in putin's circle the oligarchs to do things like property transactions in london as you know billions of dollars have been spent there but russian oligarchs to to send their kids to school by property if that were to be cut off i'm sure mr putin would get several phone calls right away but it won't cause him to change his current position. well i think the only thing that will cause them to some restraint is the idea of some kind of deal over minsk is made because remember he's also constrained in the guards that they're having a big fight with coverage right now the economy is not performing well and taking

over the done by one of the most bomb dog areas in the world would be very very costly to the russian economy and then finally miriam is that this kind of foreign adventurism the past in crimea things like that just does not give the popularity boost that it once did at home and don't forget there are duma elections coming up later this year what about. crane wants to try and initiate a membership proceedings that's not likely to happen is it. with all due respect to president zelinsky and his foreign minister i know i think this is a nonstarter i call it the nuclear option if nato were to expand its. footprint if you will right to the border of russia russia will take very very strong action including military intervention that isn't the way to go i think is the steps i may mention previously would be more like it and one more thing miriam if i can the other objective probably mr putin's mind to kind of subtly get more control over

these areas too is to deploy russian so-called peacekeepers would look sort of benign but would be another way of securing that area to be under russia's control thank you so much michael bostick you for joining us today on the news hour appreciate it my pleasure thank you so have for you on this news hour from london johnson and johnson delays the rollout of its vaccine in europe the u.s. investigates blood clots in 6 women. to minnesota resign over the shooting of 20 year old dante right on sunday as the defense begins its case in the trial of the death of george foley and in sport the taiwanese baseball player has been subjected to racist abuse often making a mistake during the game. india has again reported the world's highest daily tally of new code that infections more

than 161000 new cases on tuesday and 879 deaths but the actual numbers to be much higher because test results over the weekend would delay the country of almost 1400000000 is seeing a huge surge of infections that's threatening to overwhelm hospitals in the hardest hit cities elizabeth brings us more from. unfortunately we are seeing the kinds of pictures that we did last year during the peak of the 1st wave of the coronavirus most recently we have seen pictures of bodies outside the biggest government run hospital in the city of port and dr who's chief medical officer said this is because they don't have enough freezes to keep the bodies and that more bodies at cravath tory and in the city than can be cremated that hospital's intensive care units and oxygen equipped beds have been at almost full capacity

over the past week i put it in the state of chuck the school which is one of the worst affected at the moment it also has a disproportionately high death rate which is why the central government and to medical teams to top the school to find out why the situation is so bad there why more people seem to be dying there and those teams reported back and said that there are a number of issues there is a lack of hospital beds in many districts there's a shortage of ambulances in one district that the number of r.t. p.c.r. test of going down that containment measures aren't being imposed properly and that there is resistance to other containment measures including attacks on health care workers because these issues and chapters are not unique to that state most of these issues are and we have reports of a shortage of medical facilities of equipment in a number of places most notably in the worst affected state maharashtra where medical teams which were sent there also said that there was a lack of oxygen supply and even malfunctioning ventilators meanwhile turkey's

announced a partial closure for the 1st 2 weeks of ramadan to corona virus infections countries registered nearly 60000 new infections in the past 24 hours in response president want is extended a week day curfew limited the use of public transport and banned all events in close spaces until after the month of ramadan you. will come into effect on wednesday night. has been a setback in the united states and its push to get americans vaccinated found that 19 federal regulators announced a surprise pool was in the use of the johnson and johnson vaccine at a calling explains why. it was heralded as a big step forward out of the pandemic the johnson and johnson vaccine easier to administer just one shot and cheaper than the other approved vaccines but now federal authorities are urging health care providers to hold off on using it the reason of the 6800000 people who have received this vaccine 6 people have developed

blood clots one died another is in critical condition critics say the federal response is an overreaction we've already heard from 6 o'clock it's of this very rare or severe or unusual out of 6.8 almost 7000000 rocks nations were that's less than one in a 1000000. compared to how she's going to go that is 10 times lower than what you found where. in germany and for tara and. then when she found. these type of blood clots show up in the unvaccinated population between $2.00 to $14.00 people per 1000000 in the united states every year but authorities here at the f.d.a. say it's the combination of this type of blood clot and low platelets that is raise the alarm because if doctors don't know to ask have you had the johnson and johnson vaccine they can give the wrong treatment and that can be fatal officials are

urging people to keep an eye out for symptoms pay attention do you have symptoms headache you have shortness of breath chest discomfort do you have anything that resembles a neurological syndrome and obviously if you have something as serious as a seizure i mean you that's pretty clear but there is concern that this will. we further increase vaccine hesitancy with more than a 3rd of people telling pollsters they will wait to take the shot or take it all lee if it is required and many say they simply won't take it ever officials say they expect the delay to last just days and the biden ministration says it won't impact their overall goal for how many shots are administered but what they uncover about this could have a huge impact on the rest of the globe as many countries are counting on this vaccine to get them past the pandemic pedicle pain al-jazeera silver spring maryland. the minnesota police officer fatally shot 20 year old unarmed black man

dante wright has resigned along with the brooklyn center's police chief dante riots was shot on sunday after being pulled over for an expired registration not far from where george floyd was shot. the former police chief tim gannon can possibly zines shortly after local council passed a resolution to dismiss them gannon says pasta mistook her for a taser when she shot right well those are the latest developments that so far in civil rights attorney benjamin crump has spoken about his disbelief while appearing alongside the families of dante rice and george floyd in minneapolis. served our current not. better many of america's furrowed or.

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justified in pain in george floyd's the ground during what he described as frantic resistance broad's opinion is in contradiction to the testimonies of several top many police officials including the city's police chief who said show then used excessive force and went against it please practice and training broad says officers don't have to wait for something to happen they need to have a reasonable fear that there's a threat and then adjust their actions accordingly for a police officer show than is on trial for murder and manslaughter and knelt on floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes during his arrest during arrest and 2020. i felt. it was justified it was acting with objective reasonable miss following many police department policy and current standards of law enforcement and interactions with mr ford so it's easy to judge in an office on officers

conduct it's more of a challenge to again put yourself in your future to try to make it evaluation through what they are feeling what they're sensing the fear they have and then make a determination and john hendren is live for us outside the court in minneapolis tell us more about the testimony we've heard so far today and the sort of teles of the arguments that the defense team is focusing on. well day 12 began with the prosecution saying the state of minnesota rested its case with that launch the beginning of the defense testimony and what you heard was a series of police officers and medical experts as mentally just contradicting everything we've heard for the past 2 weeks they wasted no time in putting george floyd on in trial turning the attention from derek show when the man of cuties the

murdering floyd to the man he is accused of murdering and they begin with arrest video not from this past may 25th when floyd died from a year prior to that and what they were trying to show was that george floyd was allegedly taking a drug while he had his back to the police officer was trying to arrest him and then allegedly a paramedic says that he acknowledged that he had done so that he had taken drugs on that occasion and what they were trying to show was that he had a habit of resisting arrest and a habit of popping drugs just before the the arrest happened and that's important because the defense argument in this case is that derek children didn't kill george floyd but that george floyd died of a combination of drugs and a bad heart condition so that is what the testimony we're hearing now and then what you heard there was their star witness of the day that's very broad arguing as you heard there that direction did nothing wrong well the prosecution came back on him

hard in the cross-examination getting him to acknowledge after he 1st said that. that was not a use of force and pushing george floor to the ground like that and putting his knee on him cross-examine or said in fact if it causes pain that is use of force right and brought acknowledge that and then the prosecutor also pushed back and said look. george floyd you took one of the officers took his posts. and after that he was cleared. not resisting arrest in fact he appeared to be dead and braun acknowledged that at that point the officer show over and was holding floyd down when he wasn't resisting arrest so we're going to hear testimony like this are out the week but the goal of the defense is to show that direction over there was not the direct cause of the death of george floyd and that his hold of george floyd for 9 and a half minutes with his knee on his neck was appropriate. all right and so what about the rest of the trial john what are we expecting in the coming week and of

course. then we have clarity on whether or not the defense will be prepared to put doubt show the not. that is the big question nobody really knows but in the case of say o.j. simpson there was so much damning evidence against him that he had to get up and prosecute and a lot of legal observers are saying that's what's happening in this case of the prosecution's case is extraordinarily strong and that there will be pressure on the defense to put derek chauvet on the stand that won't happen for a few days the judge says he believes the defense will be able to wrap my thursday or friday of this week that's for a faster than the 2 weeks and one day the prosecution took and the judge said he expects to have closing arguments as soon as monday and when that happens he says he's going to sequester the jury that is to isolate them will be in a hotel in

a place where they cannot have access to outside media and they will be guarded during that time it also serves to accelerate their deliberations but whether or not derek chauvin will testify that we don't know thank you very much john hendren in minneapolis well joseph daly is emerson's professor at mitchell hamlin school of law and actually taught defense attorney and he joins us via skype from minneapolis could i start by getting you all sots on what john was saying there about barry broad being the star witness. the use of force expert basically supporting the defense's argument that barrett show then did use reasonable force in line with training how do you think is that plausible to the jerry when show then former colleagues including the city's police chief in a diary around said that using any to pin someone to the floor was of course not part of their training ethics or valleys. it's it's not plausible in my mind however it's necessary because the police officer

who's trying to restrain someone can only use reasonable force and this is a former police officer who know teachers has always taught our servers how to use force and now as an advisor on the country to various police departments and mr supply solicited his opinion is important but how do you deal with 9 units in 29 seconds is still problem for the defense you. taught nelson the defense attorney i know it was a while ago now what do you make earth. the task that he now has at of him because we've heard from medical examiners police experts over the past few weeks does he is the defense's case facing an uphill struggle now. but the defense has been facing an uphill struggle from the moment that video is made. it is

so emotional and so impactful and so shocking to anyone who looks including the jurors but. it's possible that the defense that he's setting out which is he was trained this way this is how they trained the minneapolis police can be something that resonates with the jury in the sense that. we're not going to find him guilty of murder in the 2nd degree hyatt's currently shurtleff maybe that be something lesser that they'll come up with. how difficult is it going to be for nelson to overcome repeated testimony from medical examiners saying that george floyd died because he couldn't breathe because he was pinned to the ground on his front causing a lack of oxygen on mentioning a footage that that was also very powerful. if it's

going to be difficult but the actual had been county medical examiner got her into bigger actually in some ways supports the theory of the defense which is that mr floyd died of a heart attack over the rib me of our having friends and all and inserted means in the system and then struggling like he did it caused problems with his heart this yr of the kids for the prosecution is his oxygen was cut out of the diapers fix you so when they bring in the medical experts who is are going to do. starting tomorrow i'm sure in real genuine medical experts who are oppressive and have a different view of the car the death that it will be a valuable defense. thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us just have to really m.r. says professor mitchell hamlin school of law you are convict you. well joe biden has joined congressional leaders and paying their respects to billy evans

a police officer run down by a car in an attack on the capitol building earlier this month at a ceremony in the capitol rotunda he described evans as a hero choose days event was the 2nd such memorial for police killed in attacks on the capital this year his death came 3 months after a violent mob of president donald trump supporters still in the same building officer brian signet died after engaging with the rioters though officials don't yet know exactly what caused his death. as much more still ahead on this news hour terry's dependent thailand faces its was dow break of covert so far forcing it to cancel its well famous new yes out abrasions provisional results show a resounding victory for benny's president in an election critics say was stacked in his favor. and an injury blow for england cricketer ben stokes gemma will have those details in sports.

all the recent early spring wards is being squeezed out of europe but he's still there in western russia and the reason really is because the years will be coming in from the north for her in this cold fronts or most places the western single figures as hard tempted by a day a few perks the east the teens serving here for example but moscow's at 22 so we're pushing the code in this direction we're doing with this from the snowed for the snow that's going to fall on wednesday in poland slovakia for example right here is probably going to retrogress and come back towards west and probably even germany come thursday this area is turning will stay cold if you like the cold extends down to least dalton greece so greece looks quite well so there's some part of fronts but for most of us it's also a very pretty picture. it's even turning wet in spain and portugal that border one

of the boys place in france in his you'll see that colored wooden boards from the north and northeast dropped interest at about 14 by friday the opposite is happening in africa has been particularly warm in the sahara for weeks now and yes you do have the seasonal wind bring in dust with it attempts around santa go and for this part of mar tamia have been up into the high forty's. from. a star striker in the top a top in the what they voted to the working class of his hometown and its club. footballing legend eric cantona and to give his christiane the look at a one of a kind see the stuff. he could do it buys funds for his socialist values and his many goals against italy's footballing elite football rivals on our dizzy.

most people will never know what's beyond these storms. deafening silence of 100000 volumes how it feels to touch danger every day. most people will never know what it's like to work with every breath is precious with me it is not an option. but when know most people. who are. already. welcome back a look at the main stories now being widely reported that president joe biden has

decided to withdraw all remaining u.s. troops from afghanistan by september the 11th the 20th anniversary of the 911 attacks biden is expected to make a statement on his plans on wednesday the u.s. president is also. to deescalate border tensions with ukraine russia has already dismissed nato school for it to withdraw the forces it's deploying new ukraine. and our other top story india is again reported the world's highest daily tally of new covert infections confirmed more than 161000 new cases on choose day and 879 deaths. the german government has approved controversial law changes that will centralize more power in so it and it can impose tougher coronavirus restrictions if the change is approved by parliament the government will be able to introduce curfews and close schools and businesses the changes will only apply until the end of june germany is battling

a 3rd wave of covert 195 months before an election. and now thailand is facing what appears to be its west outbreak of. it's a blow to the terrorism dependent nation which was looking to reopen its economy and celebrate the new here holiday sky high blair reports from the capital bangkok . this is what streets across thailand should look like this week here locals and tourists in bangkok backpacking hub of coast sun road out in mass celebrating the thai songkran new year with parties and water fights but on how sun wrote this year and nationwide the party has been cancelled a recent spike in covert cases thought to have started at night life spots in bangkok has raced across the country thailand has been viewed as a covert success story with low infection rates but now a 3rd wave is here throwing cold water on the hopes of many in the tourist and hospitality industry just as it was positioning for rebound b. has run her hair braiding shop

a long road for so long she doesn't even remember when she started as she relies on backpacking tourists she might have to close for good yeah yeah. this is a very tiring time after the 1st outbreak i still had some savings left after the 2nd outbreak things got a little bit better but the latest wave is looking like the worst i don't know what to do despite the dim outlook some are still setting up for song but without the celebrations what's deeply concerning to health officials about this new wave is that some of the cases have the highly transmissible u.k. variants and this week has seen the largest daily infection rates of the pandemic and bad new patients from the 3rd wave mainly from bangkok's middle class but the capability to move around hopkins who is the quarantine and isolation of new patients hospitals are running out of space when the 1st clusters were discovered the need for testing was so great many private hospitals ran out of covert testing

supplies prime minister pale announced that there would not. to be a national lockdown but each province could decide entry restrictions his government directly hit by the new wave at least 5 cabinet members are now in quarantine including the minister of health. only about 500000 doses of covert vaccines have been given to the population of 69000000 people some of the opposition see the lagging vaccination program as one of multiple failings by the administration. that they really underestimated the severe t. of the crisis and failed on sourcing more vaccine options did not continue but covert ready next step at the beginning of the pen demick they were not ready to immediately respond to dissuade. wishing that next year songkran will again look like it's supposed to most thais will be closely watching the infection rates over the next 2 weeks hoping there won't be a spike after everyone returns to work after the holiday raising the possibility of a happy new year scott al-jazeera bangkok now the un human rights chief is the

situation and meanwhile will turn into a full blown conflict like the one in syria. stronger action against me and me saying targeted sanctions won't be enough protests against february's coup have grown across the country despite a harsh military crackdown more than 700 people have been killed since the coup and more than 3000 arrested with reports that 23 people are now facing the death penalty. out nearly a quarter of a 1000000 syrian refugees live in iraq after fleeing the war in their country which is now in its 11th year for many children life in a camp is all they know but as concerns living conditions are getting worse as an image of a reports from northern iraq. is 2 days old and like his brother was born in iraq a generation of syrian children who hear about their home learn but have never been outside a refugee camp in one of the country. is happy to be

a big sister again she wants to become a de. so she can take care of people in the camp. here you see and it has been she tells us her parents talk to her about syria but she doesn't remember it they have to escape in 2013 when isis fighters began threatening the people of commission and they don't think they'll be going home anytime soon hurdle had. 3 of my children were born here we feel it safer than syria away from killings and kidnappings. around 2 and a half 1000 people live in the remote but sarah mccammon it's one of 10 in the northern kurdish region for syrian refugees that have nearly a quarter of a 1000000 syrians in iraq just 40 percent are in camps the rest live in informal settlements but host communities. this hospital was set up by syrian refugees dr mohammed summer called it home now despite all the challenges and inequalities he arrived in iraq with just the clothes on his back and then trying to move on before

coming back as. i travel to germany with my son but i cannot live there i returned to study to get in iraq a medical certification i have a steady income and i serve syrian refugees and other iraqis for those living in the camp there is no work in surrounding villages because of the pandemic before covered $1000.00 almost 2 thirds of the refugees had jobs but most are now dependent on humanitarian aid it costs about $10.00 to go to the nearest city to look for work and most people cannot afford it. there's been no additional support during the coronavirus crisis schools were closed in 2020 and although reluctant to speak on camera company just elice $35.00 teachers have not been paid since last year unicef says the ministry of education is responsible for the payments but iraq's struggling economy and rifts between baghdad central government and the kurdish regional government means many people have worked for months without receiving any money during the fatigue and reigning international interest have

only made matters worse officials here called the plight of syrian refugees a forgotten humanitarian crisis there is a need for around 225000000 euros to about 0. neuters of the civic to sit down a few days in the camps and camps but this has never been provided for the. 7 year old use of is as old as this camp he has never seen a shopping mall and does not know what an i pod is. for the older generation they reminisce about the old days in syria and those left behind. it's been 10 years since the war in syria every syrian we've spoken to says they want to go back but with no end in sight to the conflict home is this 7 year old car for the foreseeable future a summer job without the fear of blubber northern iraq. turning to other stories we're following iran says it will begin enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity its highest level yet days after an attack on its main nuclear facility this is

russia and iran's foreign ministers met in town ran to sign a cooperation agreement. by this condemned the attack on the natanz nuclear plants encourage the u.s. to return to the 2050 nuclear deal and left sanctions or israeli media says an israeli owned commercial ship has been attacked near for gerald ports in the united arab emirates unnamed israeli officials blame the attack on iran on monday iran accused israel of sabotaging the natanz plant. egyptian authorities have impounded the container ship that brought the suez canal last month the ever given was stuck for nearly a week disrupting billions of dollars worth of global trade ahead of the suez canal says the vessel won't be released until its japanese owner settles a claim for compensation reports to be worth around $900000000.00 now the world food programme is saying that nearly a 1000000 people are facing severe hunger in northern mozambique hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee violence in the northernmost province

of kabul delgado over the past year on the groups have been escalating attacks fighting the army and seizing towns with a high number of civilian deaths police say 12 people were beheaded last month during a siege on the town of palma. now to bimini where the president has been reelected after an election by violence in reaction to his decision to stand for a 2nd term provisional results showing that the trees total received 86 percent of the vote but many of question the legitimacy of the election with official data showing a low turnout of 50 percent solid position parties boycotts the office helen abandon the 2016 pledge to serve just one term and also been a crackdown on his opponents ahmed address has more from. southern coast. a few dozen supporters. streets on. the street 3 the large margin of. 3 generally you're curious to hear the results of the flight

anyway by the much easier for you to. contribute to. peace and security and the particular. point. to be sworn in. as many people here in france believe that is partly due to. this particular election or counting the ballots from the 1st round of peru's general elections is nearly finished setting the stage for an interesting runoff vote extreme leftist bedrock a studio and a conservative rightist kickoff which in mori will face each other in next in the

next vote which will take place in the month of june though they are opposing ideological sides choosing the next president follows prove the ins won't be easy as my ana sanchez reports from lima. teacher but look at steel campaigned in remote towns were health care police and even the internet are an illusion nearly unknown castillo won the 1st round of the vote. while some live in great opulence and dressed in toys behind desks with a luxurious life my brothers today placed their trust in a man of the people those who bite their nails every day whilst waiting for their bread to come have removed their blindfolds. among promises the 51 year old union leader says he'll nationalize resources and change the constitution. those are marxist ideas that scare her but there's been some input from us and i would not

vote because he's too leftist extremists we have no option but to vote for. but brings a wealth of problems with the judiciary she faces 30 years in prison for corruption charges the 45 year old daughter of former autocratic leader albert differently madi jailed for grass human rights violations says she'll continue her father's legacy of governing with a hard fist given that. we will confront populism and the radical left and i know many will join us. 65 percent of peruvians say they would not vote for her. it's inexplicable people have no memory after all what the fuck imari family has done negatively i have no option but to vote for christie as always the least worst . after 5 years of political instability nearly 28 percent of peruvians didn't vote and 2800000 cast a blank or an old ballot chronic discontents with the state of things democracy and

politicians as many people search for an system solution. analysts say whoever wins the presidency will have a problem with legitimacy neither candidate was favored with even 20. percent of the vote. and now some analysts believe they have to move to the center of their extreme views to win voters if fact. as union leader studio is used to negotiating who doesn't have an m.b.a. like keiko who's never negotiated anything in her life and if she wins she won't have a majority in congress which means she could easily be ousted. this 5 year term in the july with the 5th precedent sworn in and for many disenchanted with politics the new vote will be like choosing between one illness or another for the innocent as i just needa leave. well the caribbean island of st vincent has been rocked by

another eruption is volcanic activity that threatens water and food supplies now the last of friable kaino started spewing ash and gas clouds last week but monday's eruption is thought to be the biggest yet 16000 residents have been evacuated with experts saying explosions could continue for weeks and gallacher reports. for decades less of free air remain dormant like last week's huge eruption sent gas and rocks spewing from its summit for the 50 kilometer this is. the summit now the initial impact led to evacuation orders 416000 residents on monday a big of a kind of explosion made a dire situation worse those that didn't evacuate to dealing with increasing amounts of choking ash and water shortages and fear that more eruptions may come i'm not telling or no i am right now i fear because we don't know if you it will get. their way how lay this out for

a walk aid from neighboring countries is slowly making its way to this island of 100000 people but the prime minister told al-jazeera the road to recovery will be hard we can see with mathematical precision how long it's going to last but this is a long haul we need to be in this condition before bob's or more what is going to take much longer time to react really did turn to reconstruct so far there were no reports of deaths or serious injuries from the multiple eruptions those that live close to the volcano were evacuated as scientists or signs of activity in 1000 know to an estimated 1600 people died during a violent a ruction those that remember the last eruption in 1979 and say this is worse if you looked up. there is this huge. in this. deadly drug only once and now within minutes. if you

just feel a change in the mood in the town the volcano sits on the northern part of the island away from most of the population but the threat to crops water supplies and the health of those still on the island is critical and vincent's prime minister says normal life doesn't exist and may not for some time to gallacher al-jazeera. still ahead on news our italian teenager who's carrying up to play wild one will want to know that joke of a astore and wall coming up with jennifer. from

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i. was born now with jenna thank you mariam holders a binary to have been knocked out of the champions league by paris sasha ma'am that's despite a one no win in paris. promoting the scored their goal to level the tie it to real but by and when souths on the way goals p.s.g. will face mint or manchester city in the semifinals former p.s.u. boss thomas tool saw his chelsea side beaten one nil by porto but they went through it's who won on aggregate it means chelsea are into the semifinals for the 1st time since 2014 where they will play either round the dritte or liverpool rather have a 31 lead going into the 2nd leg with liverpool on wednesday and the spanish club announced on tuesday that they reelected of florentino perez as president for a 6th term the 74 year old who stood unopposed in the election which was called by

the club last week he's been in the row for the last 12 years under perez madrid have won 26 major titles including their 10th champions league trophy in 2014 they are also confirmed that their captain is ramos is tested positive for 19 he's now isolating in compliance with spanish health guidelines the defender who is also a captain of the spanish national team is currently injured and had already been ruled out of the liverpool game manchester city are getting ready to face dortmund in their champions league tie they also have a league cup final to look forward to against tottenham on april 25th and both clubs will be allowed 2000 fans at london's wembley stadium to get in the supporters must have a current of hours test at a designated site not at home 24 hours before the game and bring proof of a negative result but fans under the age of 18 on to loud to attend the game. yes a further step. if they're gone berman said we can do it is

a good news of resist there before 2000 and madge but it's ok the 1st pass for the step so hopefully in the future. will be will be get we'll come back to the normality of reading the sometimes always followed instructions for the. for the. for the government of cause or for the. same piece. the south american football confederation called me ball has reached a deal with chinese and pharmaceutical companies sign of acts of 50900 vaccines combo says the doses will be given to national squads of playing in the copa america later this year as well as to teams that playing in regional competitions the south american the world cup qualifiers are behind schedule after several matches had to be postponed because of coronavirus ok $1000.00 is also impacting tennis as well with world number 2 medvedev testing positive at the monte carlo

last is the russian is now withdrawn from the event as an adult is in isolation he's being monitored by the tournament and the tools medical teams on the courts in monte carlo a 19 year old yannick city will get to test himself against the world's best player novak djokovic in the 2nd round and he got there by beating albert ramos in your last in straight sets it will be the 1st time since his facebook which and the top seeds clearly impressed by the italian who he predicts will be a future champion in the sports it was a battle between 2 of this year's australian open semifinalist as if on a set of us and as one correct several went head to head in their 2nd round match and it was the number 4 seed is it so fast you came out on top winning 6364 against his russian opponent the cleveland indians a baseball player you chiang it was the target of racist abuse on social media after making a mistake during a game on monday chang was playing of 1st base against the chicago white sox and

made a throwing era which ultimately cost his side the game and afterwards chang used taiwanese was sent several asian tweets he posted some of these on his twitter account and responded with exercise your freedom of speech in a right way i accept all comments positive or negative but definitely not racist ones hashtags stock asian hate according to a recent report hate crimes against asian americans have risen in. 150 percent in major u.s. cities over the past year england cricketer ben stokes will miss the rest of this year's indian premier league after breaking his finger on the all rounder who plays if the rads time royals picked up the injury during the game with the punjab kings on monday stokes is going to remain in india to support the rest of the squad he'll have another x. ray in the next day or so in england's medical staff at being kept updated england to choose to play a 2 test series against new zealand next which starts on june the 2nd. and with

wednesday marking a 100 days to go until the take your olympics the international olympic committee's head of coordination has reiterated that the games will go ahead tokyo 2020 was perspiring by year because of the current of us pandemic and will be held without overseas spectators but says hold in the games successfully will send a global message most importantly for the athletes they will be able to show. will be able to show. this is a victory of human try and over the. us to show just what can be achieved well he together. i was going to give a quick mention to the northern ireland women's foot would say what they've qualified for your a 2022 which is their 1st ever major tournament so i went on to that a bit of a milestone for them fantastic thank you very much gemma that wraps up the news hour but i'll be back in a couple of minutes with

a full person for you. from the al-jazeera london broke. to people in thoughtful conversation people use the lowest get agreement they describe the outsider with no host and no limitation to the difference between a migrant and refugee is clearly a choice when you are refugee you are forced to speak of asma khan and has an act had what has happened

a lot in the west is that culture and for the separated studio to be unscripted and al-jazeera in colombia in the mid ninety's coca fields covered homes stretches of land far from the cities which were now on the high surveillance end of the ninety's people were talking about the potential for becoming an orchestra with the guerrillas turned out drug traffickers sought refuge in the jungles of mountains well out of the state's reach. a far right militia of 20000 men the united self defenders of colombia to find the guerrillas. meanwhile colombia's who just so much military suffered ambushes by the fall soldiers were abducted in the hundreds the systematic killing led to the displacement of millions of people the paramilitaries dictated that moles in the zones they took over areas the state could never reach under pressure from the d.n.a. the criminals who came off the problem escobar hunted down the shell companies were

dismantled under arrest increased. if you want to help save the world or more. sneeze into your elbow. the. u.s. officials say president biden has decided to withdraw all remaining american troops from afghanistan by september 11th. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program rush hour so a considerable military buildup put is unjustified unexplained on the bleak concerning.