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during protests demanding the expulsion of the french ambassador. world football bosses wave the red flag as many of europe's biggest clubs announce the formation of a new breakaways separately. ok we're going to begin in india where corona virus infections of reached record levels since the start of the pandemic nearly 274000 cases were recorded on monday and more than 1600 deaths and the government has just announced a week long curfew in the capital region of delhi the search has put a huge strain on hospitals with many around the country already struggling with a shortage of beds the demand for oxygen has forced the government to divert supplies meant for industry to medical use several states are running short millions of pilgrims have been ordered to quarantine for 2 weeks if they return to

the capital more than 3 and a half 1000 people tested positive at the comella festival india's vaccinated more than 100000000 of its 1300000000 population but there are fears a new double mutant variant could have an impact on the effectiveness of vaccines put in the mean is just she is the political editor of hindu business line and she blames the government's complacency for the latest surge. the government has been got going to be under it's doggedly. and they've been not only caught under various they have been directly and sent it as they have allowed the elections to go on even if you talk only action still going on in this thing going on despite this take up my dancing the election commission to crunch the next of the faeces then these all of the numbers rising in this thing go on there still going ahead that the t.v.'s are still left in him because their politicians and partner parties are

being people to get to a denny's got them in large numbers but who in their mosques. had a huge gathering at the. in her it's like they're cut deep i mean you have 300000 people taking a dip in the gun got in fun the norm and you see the cases raise indents of people out. of cities like delhi $25000.00 it's but the indian. soul nor health care system can take care of this that's all but the government doesn't have any alternative but to announce a lockdown because the city's running out of oxygen be running short of that it's not this marketing lingo i mean you know medicine snake sensitive this and. there simply aren't enough ospital that so i know all of my doctors friends are. worth it for the saudis what they give out because they've been at it great for 7 and for the last one year this 50 sitting in 747 doctors that died in the last one

you know of course that hundreds of passengers from a stranger have arrived in new zealand after their governments reopened borders families and friends have been uniting after the 2 countries launched a so-called travel bubble on monday that allows quarantine free travel for the 1st time in more than a year new zealand and australia shut their borders to everyone except residents and citizens in march 2020. well my daughter has been you see it's january 20. 5th $630.00 now. so it's a bit emotional for me yeah i think this is going to be. a lot of hugs a lot of tears i have to tease. we were there in january last year we were for a wedding but since a long time we haven't been able to control that it feels like forever. the foreign

policy chief says russia is responsible for jailed kremlin critic alexina vali and must provide him with medical care of all his allies say he's near death and has been on a hunger strike for more than 3 weeks the u.s. has warned of consequences if dies i do joe castro reports from washington d.c. . it's been nearly 3 weeks since alexina volley 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 these suffered in august but 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 test which showed up a normal level of the 1st film which is associated with imminent risk of getting

a fair and. heart issues so we are indeed very worried i think the count is in days and you know he. 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 there now asking russians to return to the streets on wednesday pretty late is saying of the events are unfolding too quickly and extremely badly we can no longer wait in a jury and extreme situation requires extreme decisions we're announcing the protest now. lisa arrested more than 10000 people during a 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 involved he says. was politically motivated his

doctors say they were not allowed inside the prison to scene of all the sunday crunch. but we 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 of no volley is totally unfair and totally inappropriate and on sunday the u.s. national security adviser warned that if the volley dies in russian custody the international community will hold the kremlin accountable and there will be consequences heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington there have been reports of shelling in eastern ukraine radio free europe has published a video showing soldiers inside

a trench and the sound of gunfire heard in the distance the footage hasn't been independently verified the report comes as tensions rise between moscow and kiev over the buildup of russian troops along the ukrainian border. a banned political party in pakistan has released 11 police officers that took all stage during protests on sunday police said earlier raided the offices of the daily bake which led to violent protests that killed 3 people shot a bus reports. the forces have to recalibrate pakistan to not be silenced no one is healed he they started protesting last year after caricature of the prophet muhammad who republican fronts well last week they protested after the government arrested their leader cleric sod risky he had demanded the french ambassador of pakistan be exposed and a ban on french products the. those protests resulted in the government.

which led to more protests. on sunday a party spokesman said security forces raided the offices in la who are they responded again on the streets in all several of the supporters were killed and dozens were injured they're going to put this out the challenge will be at the police straight away it started shelling and fired bullets directly at us boys were injured some got bullets in the chest some got shot in the head but when it rectified here they fired directly at us and threw us had water some men had their chest burnt others their back to the store body always later they returned with their original grievance against from us 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 expelled the french ambassador and cut off relations with france.

local 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 both social media has been cut in some areas the tailpiece and get to ludes from the rates remaining muslim majority nations in october the crown defended the publication of caricature of the prophet muhammad caricature that free school teaches samuel past each owning 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 o p. 6 months later the party has banned the lead it is paying the supporters killed and wounded and still they chant on challenge ballots. a

monitoring group an me and mars warning the military will continue to torture and murder pro-democracy activists if the international community doesn't act their systems association for political prisoners made the playoffs to state t.v. broadcast images of 6 detainees with signs of what it called hollowing abuse meanwhile supporters of a newly deformed prober democracy government rallied in del way on sunday the national unity government says it should be included in crisis talks with neighboring countries and is criticized an invitation issued by a regional bloc asean for the 1000000 mom military leader to attend a special summit in jakarta on saturday only chang is monitoring developments from buying calk and he has more on the allegations of abuse of detainees. 6 you 4 men 2 women who are from the chin area of yang gone they

appear to have been detained on sunday the images were broadcast on the nightly bullets in a day 8 pm local time and they showed images of these people before their arrest and images of them afterwards and there is a very clear change. all of them show signs of being beaten quite severely one of the women kin who has a large swelling on her jaw a black eye they all look very downcast the announce announcement said that they had been solved in a bombing. on saturday at 2 pm outside the government office in which 3 government soldiers had been injured didn't provide any more information than that we've seen the military turn to accusing people quite spirits of the crimes we've also seen them using this technique in the since the military coup

showing people in detention presumably as a deterrent for for those who are still going out protesting and over the weekend once again we saw crowds in all the major urban centers going out to show their disagreement with the with the military coup their disapproval of the military genter but that doesn't seem to be stopping the military junta. still ahead on al-jazeera countries in latin america struggle to make progress with vaccination plans as coronavirus cases soar across the region. i really struggle being on my own. most of the sub will not be able to see my found me in these times as england opens up university students are demanding to know when they'll be allowed to return to class.

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at all as an 18 imagery but notice quite a few showers there across spain will see some showers just brushing the far north of libya as well look at the hate in cairo 41 degrees celsius on monday it does cool down to 33 by the time you come to choose day is taste fine dry and sunny. sponsor qatar airways. it's the political debate show that's challenging the way you think i want to know where you're to stand on cancer culture decreasing the range of ideas that can be heard from international politics to the global pandemic and everything in between if tech companies are the ones with all the power what do we do what's the solution 'd we get organized what are world leaders or governments missing thread talking about targets like 2040 we're trying to clean when we talk of right now up front with me marc lamont hill on al-jazeera.

george how does it remind of our top stories this hour india's capital region of delhi will be under a weeklong curfew for monday night as the country battles of backroads surge in infections almost 274000 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours and more than 1600 deaths. and ease foreign policy chief says russia is responsible for kremlin critic alexina vali and must provide him with medical care and the us is one of the consequences if nirvana he dies in prison is in the 3rd week of a hunger strike. a band political party in pakistan has released 11 police officers that took hostages during protests on sunday police said earlier raided the offices

of the tele elevator which led to violent protests that killed 3 people. keep verdi's ruling party has returned to power with the majority off to winning sunday's parliamentary election prime minister career de silva ran a campaign based on turning around the economy which has been devastated by the pandemic reports from cape verde is capital trial. drawn by the beats of prime minister to religious grace here was campaign music his supporters take over the streets of the capital more than a celebration of his victory in their victory he says to go about the tour guide who lost his job because of the pandemic. i want him to get like the tourist the kaminsky ready because that would depend or the torah system if the good old poorest you get the money then what's the matter what the word for the rest of us

go forward should have been. during the campaign crisis of a blame the country's problems on the pandemic while the opposition leader on my conceded defeat she accuses the government of mismanaging the economy among those that hoped she would become the country's 1st female prime minister is 84 year old . despite it being difficult for me to walk for me voting is a way to keep the struggle alive for all the women of cape furred. generations of men fleeing drought and famine migrated abroad in search for work they left behind wives sisters and mothers who now make up the majority of the archipelago. they are g. demographic that transformed key bird from one of the world's least developed countries to a thriving middle income economy in this election the number of women elected in parliament doubled over half of them are from the prime minister's living party.

after the celebrations prime minister will issue a scoring i still vote will have to put words to action because he's promised face people jobs jumpstarted economy and there were churn of tourists in this area island nation. in an interview with al jazeera rather prime minister admits his country. unprecedented challenges. with 3 years of severe drought the worst of the last 37. families and the farming sector. more than a year of pandemic and we face the worst economic and social crisis that expedience manage to protect companies jobs and protect people's incomes. in the ruling party slogan. hope for change in their circumstances and the country's future.

al-jazeera. has ravaged large parts of table mountain slopes above the new neighborhood and flames more residential areas are threatened keep down the university has been evacuated as often break out in this part of south africa ensuring periods of drought. police in brazil have raided illegal parties in sao paulo as the country sees records daily covered in 19 deaths and a new dangerous strain armed police officers closed down venues and detained party goers as part of a special task force to enforce social distancing in the past month police have been cracking down on hundreds of clandestine pardons. latin america received its 1st batch of vaccines in december and there was great fanfare but it would end the pandemic there but 4 months later deaths and infection rates in some countries have reached record levels i missed while the reports from buenos aires were vaccination programs of barely got going. another 800000 doses of

the coronavirus vaccine have arrived in argentina they're part of the world health organizations culverts program designed to ensure they reach all corners of the globe yet they all you meet martha i need from today will be working to distribute this lake suspects 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 that 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 vaccinated he later resigned in

a corruption scandal the elderly in vulnerable and some key workers are being vaccinated but most are still asking when theirs 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 were among the 1st to be vaccinated back in december optimistic then about a future that is still not arrived more than ever one of the brighter than 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 this the $4000000.00 vaccine doses of arrived in colombia half

a 1000000 each and believe you are in ecuador just 250000 in venezuela where health workers have been protesting but. our fight is to call for vaccines needed the government nor the president have pity for the people let the vaccines in 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 america are in joules yet more lock down measures and continues to wait for the vaccines to arrive. and there are 01 osiris there's increasing anger in england over covered 19 restrictions continue to prevent face to face learning students have been working remotely since last

december and they won't be allowed to return until shortly before the academic year ends under simmons has been psystar for sure university let's talk on time. they're doing all the right things to stay covert secure but while shops has cylons of big gardens may have reopened university students can't get back to face to face lectures they could return within a month but it will be 3 weeks before the academic year ends for most of them as we've got students out there who might be working in the working in leisure centers but they can't come on campus to study and we know that they do want to come on just to finish off the air. and really meet meet their peers colleagues and get back into their education and the sort of more traditional way you know their 1st year at university or their graduation in those years you can get back. here again staffordshire university is doing better than most 2 thirds of its 12000 students

have been allowed to return for practical reasons. health and social services are among a host of courses here able to use immersive technology for instance we will bring in a physical patient or mannequin patient in this environment elsewhere though a mock courtroom remains empty law students are at home many politicians fear a spike of infections similar to what happened when universities opened last september but several surveys dispel that fear one of them from the office for national statistics which directly reports to the u.k. government they estimate up to 3 quarters of students have already returned to their accommodation and there are some who have lived on campus throughout the pandemic chris steers has only recently lifted himself out of depression i'm not going to lie at 1st i really struggled being on my own for most of the summer not

being able to see my family it is tough universe to say too many students are suffering now because of government inaction they say while schools have reopened higher education is being stifled and drew simmons al-jazeera stoke on trent. cuba's governing communist party is missing this week to select its new leadership and policies the government's under increasing pressure especially from the younger generations to make reforms has more. and i learned that stuck in the past that's the feeling people like i will mesa have had about cuba for many years. he's a cook in heaven there and estoppel leaving in the government's so-called reforms. if there's no radical change in the system there is no way out there has to be a different way of thinking if not then i'll have to see how i escape displace i've been

a cook for 10 years and because of the pandemic we have no work. with the social reforms over the past decade including the expansion of internet access have strengthened cuban civil society and many are now daring to speak out. small protests have cropped up this by tight control by authorities. cuba is in the middle of an economic crisis both because of the pandemic that's her tourism but also continuing and crippling u.s. sanctions this week the government announced it is loosening a decades old ban on slaughter of cattle and sale of beef and dairy ranchers will be allowed to do as they wish with their livestock after meeting state called us. says this will allow him to increase productivity well and this is sent out for 60 years we did not have the right to eat an animal however as long as i comply with

the regulations that are now being imposed on me by the state this opens up an opportunity it will also enhance and increase the production of cattle in the country. but economy say much more needs to happen for the country to get on the road to recovery by their government but that the measures need to have a big impact and they need to happen now to help develop the country put an end to be or ocracy i believe the new measures can be implemented and vietnam is an example of what we could become it's a country that has a communist party leading and has one of the fastest growing economies in the world you have to enter the world markets and reform the economy. people like i will miss her believe only political change can bring about radical reforms and that's why he continues to look for a future outside the island where he believes he'll be able to fulfill the dreams he says he's denied at home. and. 2 of europe's biggest football

clubs are the launch of breakaway supportively 6 english teams including liverpool chelsea and both manchester sides have agreed to join european giants real madrid barcelona and juventus will also play in the league the owners of the clubs are being accused of a power grab football governing body fee for i'm the way for threatened legal action attacks people meringues in the bin in sports correspondent in italy and he says the proposed european super league is all about money. it's a time where the football. not only to bring people together. but it is that especially one of the biggest industries in the wall of the making the most of the revenues of possibly the biggest entertainment sector they weighed. cinema but the thing is that. the people who thought that using it that it didn't saw the owners of the club but no one wants much much more the 11 year olds full

that that bond that me obviously have exposed them too much and possibly they are relieved that all that possibility is that for many years or so they want much more money and they want it now and these projects are with these $12.00 finding their clubs he's opened 8 more than this project he's got a thing than me or i you just lie since the very beginning and what we have thought your book you have a slice of 3 on the 50 meter not all you lost just for subscribing to this part. and this is on the savings of the top stories india's capital region of delhi will all go on to a week long curfew from monday night as the country battles.