as my town and in hospitality we have protected these men who are violent and bully the unscripted on al-jazeera. the arab. the u.s. swarms russia of consequences of kremlin critic alexina found the dies in prison some 3rd of a hunger strike and for tat moscow expels 20 czech diplomats in a growing dispute over a 2014 explosion. i'm sam is a than this is al jazeera live from coming up. ruling party inches towards election

victory on the promise to revive the economy. countries in latin america struggle to make progress with vaccination plans as coronavirus cases saw. the us president is threatening russia of consequences if kremlin critic alexina boundary dies in prison joe biden is denouncing his treatment as unfair the found these health is rapidly deteriorating and runs the risk of kidney failure calling to his personal doctor he's on a hunger strike for over 3 weeks now i do joe castro reports from washington d.c. . it's been nearly 3 weeks since alexina vali launched a hunger strike after russian prison officials denied him access to private doctors to treat. back pain and the loss of feeling in his legs the symptoms possibly

lingering effects of the poisoning of all he suffered in august that the opposition leader barely survived and blames on the kremlin now his colleague tells al-jazeera the bombing may be near death situation deteriorated on friday when we seized his blood which showed up in normal level of the 1st film which is associated with imminent risk of getting a failure and. heart issues so we are indeed very worried i think the count is in days and his is likely to give in fearing the volume will soon be dead his supporters have scrapped plans to accumulate half a 1000000 registrants for the next round of mass protests they are now asking russians to return to the streets on wednesday. saying that the events are unfolding too quickly and extremely badly we can no longer wait in

a jury an extreme situation requires extreme decisions we're analysing the protest no. police arrested more than 10000 people during nationwide protest in january calling for an evolving to be freed he was arrested upon returning to russia from germany where he had spent 5 months recovering from the nova chalk poisoning he's now serving a 2 and a half year prison sentence for violating the terms of a previous fraud conviction that involving says was politically motivated his doctors say they were not allowed inside the prison to scene of all the sunday crunch. came as doctors but it's cruel and monstrous to deny access to a dying patient we will call the medical unit and try to find out what's going on we'll keep trying but at the moment we've done everything we can we can't do anything else the u.s. is closely monitoring of all the situation president joe biden has said the treatment. if no volley is totally unfair and totally inappropriate and on sunday

the u.s. national security adviser warned that if dies in russian custody the international community will hold the kremlin accountable and there will be consequences castro al-jazeera washington tensions between russia and the west are also rising following a week of sanctions and diplomatic expulsions moscow's ordered 20 diplomats from the czech republic to leave a day after prague told a team of russians to get out the attack move was sparked off the probably accused russian spies of involvement in the 2014 explosion at an arms depo but a smith reports from moscow. a series of explosions hit this ammunition depot 330 kilometers southeast of prague in october and december 24th seen 2 men were killed almost 7 years later the czech government says it now knows who is responsible and

i quote you know that based on clear evidence obtained during the investigation conducted by our security services i can say there is a well grounded suspicion about the involvement of officers of the russian intelligence service in the explosions at them when you know 2014 these are the 2 men the czech government wants to question their travel to prague and 2014 on the russian passports under the names of alexander petro of and. they are the same men wanted in britain for the attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter surrogate and u.s. cripple were poisoned with a nerve agent smeared on the front door handle of their home in solve spree in 28. the some were interviewed on russian television the men said they gone to solve for some sightseeing particularly the city's cathedral spire they are very unlikely to face questioning for either the czech explosions all the british poisonings as russia doesn't extradited citizens the 18 russians forced to leave prague join

a growing list of diplomats forced to fly home to moscow in recent months 7 european countries and the u.s. have either expelled russian diplomats for alleged spying or in response to russia expelling european diplomats the foreign ministry here says it's retaliation will force fraud to fully understand its responsibility but is strong the foundations of normal bilateral times burnitz met al-jazeera moscow. there have been reports of shelling in eastern ukraine radio free europe published a video showing soldiers inside a trench and the sound of gunfire heard in the distance the footage has not been independently verified the report comes as tensions rise between moscow and kiev over a buildup of russian troops along the ukrainian border. k. bird's ruling party is inching towards victory in parliamentary elections prime

minister you re sure squares silva ran a campaign promising to turn around the pandemic hit economy the opposition leader has resigned from her post and conceded defeat because hark has more from the capital prior. just waved outside his apartment here to a crowd of spectators here where i'm still waiting for him to actually make a proper statement but moments ago the opposition leader. conceded defeat also saying that she respects the will of the camp virgin people as well as saying that she'll resign as the party head of the. party for african independence historic party here so clearly the man in charge for the next 5 years is the prime minister who ran a campaign with the slogan. meaning that he is the sure path

for this country a country that has suffered greatly both in the last year from the pandemic and the economic. consequences of the pandemic for this country that relies on tourism something to remember during this election i thought was quite interesting unlike other west african country when there is an election usually the opposition isn't as quick to concede defeat well in this instance just hours after the vote was counted the opposition conceded defeat. in latin america receives its 1st batch of vaccines in december it was great. and the coronavirus nightmare but 4 months later deaths and infection rates in some countries have reached record level. in the reports from one of many vaccination programs that we've got going. another 800000 doses of the

corona virus not have a right. to part of the world health organization is called x. program designed to ensure they reach all corners of the globe. yeah they all you mean they were anything from today will be working to distribute this lake suspects to the different places that need it we're working as fast as possible and trying to speed up the distribution process. there led to the more than 6000000 doses already here in the country of 42000000 where infections are again reaching record levels it's not enough. it's also a long way short of the promises made by the previous health minister back in february. that the madame with the vaccine agreement we have reached and by the actions we are taking we estimate that in august or september we will have vaccinated all arjan time for one in a position to be accelerated he later resigned in

a corruption scandal the elderly in vulnerable and some key workers are being vaccinated but most are still asking when this will arrive they should have been here today receiving their vaccines but there aren't enough they're simply not arriving in sufficient numbers in the meantime the only other way to contain the virus a further lockdown measures and to keep waiting patiently. health workers in mexico are among the 1st to be vaccinated back in december optimistic then about a future that is still not arrived more than ever when the burner over the vaccine will be of great help in reducing the deaths that we health workers have there is no space in hospitals and so i think this is a good opportunity. there's a similar picture across much of latin america more than $25000000.00 people have been infected and 800000 have died but less than $4000000.00 vaccine doses of arrived in colombia half a 1000000 each and believe you are in ecuador just 250000 in venice weyler where

health workers have been protesting. our fight is to call for vaccines needed the government nor the president have pity for the people let the vaccines give us protective equipment and hospitals so that there are no more deaths in the world health organization says that for the vaccines to be effective at least 70 percent of the population must be covered one of the few success stories in the region is chile where more than half the population has received at least one dose meanwhile the rest of latin american jews yet more look down measures and continues to wait for the vaccines to arrive. when osiris on sunday iran recorded more than 400 deaths for the 1st time in months the number of covert 9000 infections are also at their peak with more than 23000 cases being

reported daily iran is battling a post-holiday case surge following the persian new year celebrations last month millions defied government warnings against traveling the world is currently experiencing its highest infection rate yet of a curve of 19 pandemic despite the ongoing vaccination rollout fuelling the rise is india which is recorded over a 1000000 cases in the last 4 days it added over 275000 cases on monday the highest single day spike so far since the pandemic began scientists are studying a new variant with a double mutation to see if it's behind the rise in infections chris for thompson is an immunologist and associate professor of biology loyola university in baltimore he explains how the double mutation will impact how the world tackles covert. in most cases we've only seen one area of the virus mutating from the

original virus in this case we have 2 separate mutation sites which is really concerning because as you know you know every time that we have a mutation we're worried about increased transmissibility increased threat of death and lack of ability of our vaccines to work now these both being in the same virus and being under study but we're seeing that they're growing rapidly in the number of cases is really concerning so there are 2 mutations in the part of the virus the spike protein that binds to our ace 2 receptor that receptor that is known to be the target of this virus and so we don't know a lot about either of these mutations we think that. that the l $452.00 are mutations on one of the 2 increases transmissibility by about 20 percent at least in other strains we see it decrease in antibody efficacy of up to 50 percent and an increase in the strength of the binding to our receptors now that's in

a different strain so we don't know how that will play with the other. the other mutation but that one too appears to have some decrease of antibiotic binding which could be problematic for vaccination and for people who have already had coated and who believe that their meaning. people can now travel freely between new zealand and australia without having to quarantine after months of coordination the 2 countries and finally launched their own travel bubble for trips across the tasman sea new zealand and australia shut their borders to almost everyone except residents and citizens in march 2020. 4 my daughter has. seen it's january 20. 8th. finally i left her there she was 15 she's 16 now yeah so it's a bit emotional for me yeah i think it's going to be. a lot of hugs. i had to

speak we were there in january last year we were fortunate to go back for a wedding. since a locked down and we haven't been able to control that it feels like forever. still ahead on al-jazeera violence in pakistan during protests by a bad and right wing group. and we'll tell you why world football bosses though waving the red flag. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored point qatar airways however got more warm sunshine coming in across the middle east no great surprises here a little bit of cloud tell you notice just around that western side of saudi arabia of the fair weather nature a little further north getting up into the thirty's once again for beirut's 37

there in damascus in the 36 there for jerusalem 40 in baghdad very very hot weather and it is early in the it does cool off around the levant as we go through a choose day bag that does stay hot hot enough to in kuwait city into the mid thirty's across costs aren't pushing across into central parts of saudi arabia just want to showers possibly wintry nature of the high ground of afghanistan but elsewhere slushy dry and find the be a few showers to creep into the north of pakistan live the showers to around the therapy and highlands at the moment you can see the clouds just bubbling up here the seasonal rains kicking off some showers to just creep in the way into central and southern parts of somalia coastal showers there for tanzania maybe a few showers into kenya and the showers run all the way across towards the gulf of guinea they extend they way down across the northern parts of maize and big madagascar is well we have got a chance to somewhat to weather for the far south south africa.

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back here watching our just 0 time to recap our headlines the u.s. is warning of consequences if kremlin critic alexina valmy dies in prison and around the is in the 3rd week of a hunger strike and close to death according to his personal doctor russia has expelled 20 diplomats from the czech republic it's a reaction to a similar move by prague accusing russian spies of involvement in the 2014 explosion as an arms. verge ruling parties emerged victorious after sunday's parliamentary election prime minister you ratio's career a silver lining campaign based on turning around the economy it's been devastated by a pandemic. monitoring group in may and maher says the torture and murder of pro-democracy activists will continue if the international community doesn't act the assistance association for political prisoners made the play it says local t.v.

images show detainees bearing signs of how rowing abuse meanwhile supporters of a newly formed pro-democracy government rally didn't die away the national unity government says it should be included in crisis talks with neighboring countries it's criticised the invitation for the military leader to attend the special summit in jakarta on saturday. joins us now live from bangkok in neighboring thailand so tony let's start with the claims of abuse of detainees what do we know about that. did well we've seen lots of those claims lots of testimony coming out from people who have been detained but this is referring particularly to the night time news broadcast on sunday evening on state television that showed a group of 6 protesters who've been detained. and they used slightly different form here showing them before their detention and pictures that appeared to have been

taken from social media 6 young happy relaxed looking people and showing pictures after the detention all of them looking very downcast very tired and some of them showing signs of severe beating in fate kin to one of the 2 women shown had severe bruising on her face and a black eye that does appear to be something we've seen happening to protesters who've been taken away indeed we've seen video evidence of the security services beating people up quite freely on the streets and i think it's an illustration of the impunity the security services feel at the moment as they crack down on these protesters. but indeed. that. as that is going on. i think there's a huge outrage amongst ordinary people that not more is coming from the international community meanwhile 3229 people remain in detention

and the death toll since the february 1st coup has risen to 7371 thing the international community is doing the form of asiana is inviting the military leader to a summit in jakarta what is asia and saying it hopes to achieve by this or what their message will be. well most countries have remained relatively muted about the appearance of general minong ly who's expected to attend as myanmar's representative in jakarta or on saturday there have been words of criticism from internees malaysia and singapore thailand who confirmed that the general would be coming has remained relatively quiet we have heard also from who who's the deputy foreign minister of the government of unity you mentioned that they haven't been invited to participate he said it was very important that they should being polluted they are the elected representatives. and

if they didn't he said that this needs to be handled very carefully but i think many protesters inside or many ordinary people inside myanmar very concerned that. buying clued in gentlemen onli will give legitimacy to the military coup the problem for the nations is that if they want to include the unity government it's very hard to communicate with them some of their senior members like suchi remain in detention many others are in hiding so if they want to open up a line of dialogue it will be very complicated and i think the hope is here particularly in thailand but in other r.c.m. nations they can find at least some pathway to climb back down but with the level of violence we're seeing from the security services over the past couple of weeks i think it's going to be very complicated all right thanks so much tony. police in

pakistan say supporters of a banned political party to kill a bank took 6 police officers hostage in lahore on sunday police said earlier raided their offices from think thousands to take to the streets in violent protests charlotte balance reports. i suppose is have to recalibrate pakistan to not be silenced nowness shield he they started protesting last year after caricature of the prophet muhammad who republished in france well last week they protested after the government arrested their leader clear excite risky he had demanded the french ambassador of pakistan be expelled and a ban on french products the was those protests resulted in the government outlawing t.l.p. which led to more protests. on sunday a party spokesman said security forces raided the offices in lahore they responded

again on the streets in all several of the supporters were killed and dozens were injured they're going to put us here at this hour the challenge will be attacked by police traitorous started shelling and fired bullets directly at us boys were injured some got bullets in the chest. some got shot in the head only the rectified and yet they fired directly at us and threw us with water sun men had their chest burnt others their back face or body always later they returned with their original grievance against france i. told the police we neither have weapons nor are we terrorists but they started firing on us and used tear gas many supporters died and those who were killed had one slogan oh prophet we are here for you expel the french ambassador and cut off relations with france. police said sunday's violence began after a police station was attacked they accused peace of forces of taking 6 officers

hostage torturing sub. prime minister imran khan said more than 600 officers were injured in protests last week there is a media blackout also show media has been cut in some areas of the t.v. all peace and good to lourdes from the rates through many muslim majority nations in october the crown defended the publication of caricature of the prophet muhammad caricatural is that for each school teacher samuel pass he had shown in class before he was beheaded boycott some protests were organized in bangladesh somalia syria libya yemen afghanistan iraq and here in pakistan championed by the t.l.p. . 6 months later the party has banned the leader displaying his supporters killed and wounded and still they chant on charlotte ballasts 00. 0 israel and greece have signed what's being described as their biggest ever defense

deal that includes a 1600000000 contract awarded to an israeli contractor to build and operate an air force training center in greece it's been announced as pilots from greece is several other countries take part in a joint exercise in greece. there are media reports of direct diplomatic meetings between iran and saudi arabia to cut diplomatic ties 5 years ago in 2016 after saudi arabia's execution of a shia cleric sparked violence against its embassy in tehran the recent talks were held in iraq in early april and the reported to have included discussions about reining in back who 3 rebel attacks from yemen into saudi arabia sources quoted in the report say discussions also focused on lebanon's growing political vacuum the statements also talks about growing along from gulf arab states over the expanding

role of lebanon's iran backed hezbollah movement in the region mark fitzpatrick is a former united states deputy assistant secretary of state he says biden's retreat from the middle east is pushing saudi arabia to take matters into its own hands. well this is a very good step you know the saudis have been wanting the united states to carry their water for them they've been demanding a seat at the table in the talks with iran to restore the j.c. way but now they have their own table set directly with iran and you know i don't think they're going to resolve their differences overnight these are very complex issues but it's a good start the iraq saudi rivalry has been playing out in many places in the middle east but most of this is leaked in yemen where you know iran doesn't have to be there but they like to have to make trouble for the saudis and

the way to just stop that troublemaking is to talk directly and try to persuade iran to stop sending missiles for example to it's a rebel allies i think the united states will be quite happy that the saudis anyone are talking i'm sure that the ministration has been recommending to its saudi partners that they really should take the initiative and talk directly with iran and you know that the fact that the united states is seen as pulling back from the middle east and pulling out of afghanistan for example is a is a reason why the saudis really have to take matters into their own hands they can't rely on the united states now a massive fire in capetown has ravaged large parts of table mountain the slopes above the newmans neighborhood or in flames more residential areas of threatened

cape town university has been evacuated far as often break out in this part of south africa during periods of drought. 12 of europe's biggest football clubs say they'll launch a breakaway superleague 6 english teams including liverpool chelsea and both manchester sides have agreed to join other european giants real madrid barcelona and eventers will also play in the lee the club's owners are being accused of a power grab football governing body's fee for and you a far right thing legal action can credit palmeri is the be in sports correspondent in italy he says the proposed european super league is all about money it's a time where the football is. not only to bring people together. but it is especially one of the biggest industries in the will of the making the most of the revenues possibly the biggest entertainment. factor they weighed.

cinema but the feeling is that. the people who thought that using it did but saw the owners of the club but no one wants much much more the 11 year olds. that bond that me obviously have exposed them to march and possibly they are relieved that all the possibilities for the many years so they want much more money and they want it now and these projects are. well of finding their clubs it is opened all 8 more than this project thing than i you just lie since the very beginning what we are talking about you have a slice of 3 and let the 15 medium are all you lost just for subscribing to this part.