discover the current events. conscience. and conflict in politics. when i went east on al-jazeera. russian authorities say alexina vali is being moved to a prison hospital the jailed opposition leader has been on hunger strike for nearly 3 weeks. about this and this is on syria live from doha also coming up another record single day surge in corona virus infections in india its capital will be under a curfew for a week. but in a certainly and new zealand restrictions are being eased with the opening of

a travel bubble linking the 2 countries. and european football is rocked by the news that 12 of the continent's biggest teams are planning a breakaway super league. russia's prison service says opposition leader lennox in a volley is being moved to hospital concern about these health has grown during the last few days the kremlin critic spin on hunger strike for several weeks protesting against his jailing of what he says are political charges his allies have called for demonstrations on wednesday which the kremlin says will be considered illegal and smith has more from moscow. the prison authorities in russia say alexander valley has been transferred to a prison hospital it's about 90 kilometers away from the penal colony or colony where he's serving 2 and

a half year sentence for parole violations they say he's also receiving a vitamin therapy by his own consent valley started his hunger strike on march 31st of this is now day 20 and since then he'd only been drinking water his via his wife visited him last week in prison she said he'd lost a lot of weight he had difficulty speaking he's suffering from spinal problems and he's on the weekend is our eyes said his life was hanging by a thread and a valley supporters are also called for nationwide protests from on wednesday evening they were calling for 500000 people to sign a petition after which they would have these protests there just slightly short of that but because of novell needs failing health they believe it's much more urgently needed to have these protests to bring attention to his circumstances the police service in russia today has warned people that they shouldn't attend those

protests on wednesday meanwhile e.u. foreign ministers have been debating alexina vollies condition and the situation in russia stephanie decker's good more on that. they're going to start by discussing the expulsion of russian diplomats from the czech republic and the retaliatory measures measures that moscow has taken they are going to discuss the health conditions of alexina valley we had a strong statement from the e.u. yesterday saying that novelli should be allowed access to his own doctors doctors that he trusts and that his health conditions is fully in the hands of the russians that they hold russia responsible for his his situation that he should be released and they're also going to be discussing ukraine and the russian troop buildup along ukraine's borders and they will be joined by ukraine's foreign minister as well now he has been pushing. for more pressure but i think certainly initial reports

coming out of the e.u. that we will not be expecting any form of new sanctions announced today we are expecting a virtual press conference in about 3 hours from now so we will have to wait and see what they come up with but certainly the indications at the moment probably strong statements rather than actual new sanctions being imposed on a santoso if you have an independent politician on part of the opposition in russia explains how sanctions can be used to put pressure on russia. i'm not sure that they do really care about it until something personal for them happens for instance there is a big difference for our or russian authorities between economic sanctions and personal sanctions they don't care about economic sanctions because they don't care about the consequences for the whole economy of the country somehow or other they will compensate their losses by putting more taxes and wages for us for russian citizens because they are being driven by their personal interests not by national

interests but when it comes for possible sanctions they do really care because their families their assets their stolen money everything is in europe and the united states they adore in their reality those countries know despite their rhetoric and they will really care only when if it happens that something personal for them happens with some countries in the united states as well do not understand or probably ignore the fact that you cannot just place one figure into the sanctions least because their business their dirty business are being done by their cronies you need just a classical political investigation in order to make clear who is their cronies and in order to put into the sanctions at least personality it's that are totally not public. corona virus infections a reached record levels in india and 274000 cases were confirmed on monday and more

than 1600 deaths the government's announced a weeklong curfew in the capital region of delhi and britain's prime minister has just cancelled his visit to india that had been planned for next week and to again be reports. india is in the grip of the 2nd wave of cave in 19 and nowhere is that being felt moved in its hospitals there are shortages of beds oxygen supplies and medicine adult to say this time they've seen a change in who is being admitted to hospital what we're seeing and this is all anecdotal of personal experience is there are younger patients who are being admitted into hospital. and are more strict than the type of disease that young patients usually have mitch is made to moderate india reported 275000 new cases on monday that's the highest daily tally in

a country that's now the 2nd worst affected in the world. scientists say a new variant with a double mutation may be driving up infections in most cases we've only seen one area of the virus mutating from the original virus in this case we have 2 separate me taishan 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. despite the rising cases political and religious gatherings are continuing in many places last week 3000000 hindu pilgrims bathed in the ganges river for the festival and millions more voted in local elections in the state of utter pradesh. i think the guard was let down or just by indians but by indian leaders massive election rallies were held.

and subsequently the masses in don't pester will of home all out on. to work massive search in the city of ghaziabad the creditor aims awful so some families had to cremate their relatives on the street and with a new variant with a double mutation to contend with india faces many mood difficult days ahead victoria gate and b. al-jazeera hundreds of passes from mr ali have arrived in new zealand after their governments reopen borders and friends a reuniting 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. 4 my daughter has been in new zealand same it's january 20. first. so finally i left her there she's 15 she's 16 now. so it's been emotional for me yeah i think

it's going to be a feat is a lot of hugs it is perhaps it is because we were there in january last year we were fortunate to go back for a wedding but yet since a locked down and we haven't been able to control that it feels like forever. a monitoring group in me and maher is warning the military will continue to torture and murder pro-democracy activists if the international community doesn't act this instance association for political prisoners made the plea after state t.v. broadcast images of 6 detainees with signs of how to wing abuse meanwhile supporters of a newly formed pro-democracy government rally didn't die away on sunday the national unity government says it should be included in crisis talks with neighboring countries it's criticizing us ians invitation for the military leaders to attend a special summit in jakarta on saturday when tony chain is watching developments

from bangkok in neighboring thailand. well this was part of sunday night news broadcast when 6 teenagers were shown pictures were shown on t.v. they appeared to have been badly beaten we understand they were taken from the yankin district of yangon on they've been accused of being involved in a bombing there outside a government office on saturday in which 3 soldiers were reported to be injured no evidence was presented of their involvement but some of them showed really quite severe signs of beating one in particular kidney into a young woman had a very swollen cheek and appeared to have a very black eye and this is not the 1st time we've seen people who are in detention being shown to have been quite badly beaten in fact throughout these protests and the military crackdown that's followed we've seen members of the security services using stream force in the detention of demonstrators some of them

being very badly beaten dragged away unconscious of the streets we've also had reports from some of those coming out of detention that they've been treated physically very badly while in military custody so it does continue to be a major problem the message of course from the military government is very clear and there is a warning to people that if they engage in these protests this is the the fate that could befall them charge the military says it's halted an advance on the capital and germany from its northern region a spokesman says hundreds of rebel fighters were arrested or killed but the rebel group has said its forces will press ahead with their drive to oust the president is there be who is on course to extend his 3 decade long hold on power. a large fire in cape town has ravaged large parts of table mountain the slopes above the new orleans neighborhood are in flames more residential areas are threatened cape

town university has been evacuated fires often break out in this part of south africa during periods of drought or robin adams is live for us now in cape town robyn just bring us up to date before the latest is on the situation. in the 50 plus hours for the $263.00 well so far if i can essentially from one across the city to contain this blaze as things stand at the moment the blame has not yet been under control or brought under control and neighboring areas particularly on the slopes of the health. and evacuate their homes nodes of the adjacent been closed as well and schools have been closed to we are at the station at the buckets to c'mon this particular operation and as i said $200.00 firefighters being tasked with bringing this blaze under control at the moment if that's all being employed someone. who was

a little mountain national park said that they were hoping that some course of this week speaking at least of this would have helped the if that's winds in excess of 80 kilometers per hour but a monday morning they were talking speeds of. the wind is playing a big factor at the moment. it's an area of 3 to hook in particular a big worry for the firefighters about what we have the a little bit earlier loads of smoke loads of people actually up the belongings one lady told her that she'd been living there for 18 years. and that's the big one is of. the back of the fire trucks. i was just mentioning i mean we're just saying that the fires do often break out because of the drug conditions that the area normally has what's different about this one. yeah there is something called the fire season and table mountain in particular is due to these particular fires but this is just being on

a different state and spell that we haven't seen in decent years back to being told to evacuate their homes there the university of cape town in particular has been so badly affected by this fire and studies library in particular using you know decades and centuries old journals and documentation. history items in south africa and then also the oldest green in the county has been around since $7091006.00 mos the bullet was the only thing we need more in south africa that is no more so the devastation i think that's a pox on people's lives there we're just seeing some of those pictures as you were describing them to them but for now robin thanks very much andy. still ahead on our visit countries in latin america struggle to make progress with vaccination plans as coronavirus cases soar across the region. group in pakistan releases police officers into taken hostage during protests demanding the expulsion of the

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less you got a broken bone every minute of it was beautiful witness presents off to circus on and just you know that's face this show patience is still must go on. georgia go to 0 remind of our top stories this hour russian state media says kremlin critic alexina obama is being transferred to a hospital for prisoners his allies have called for demonstrations on the white in the state which the kremlin says will be considered illegal the u.s. has warned of consequences if he dies in prison. and his capital region of delhi will be under

a weeklong curfew from monday night as the country battles of record surge of infections only 2 174000 new cases recalled in the last 24 hours and more than 1600 deaths. i want to group in myanmar as warning the military will continue to torture and murder pro-democracy activists if the international community doesn't act the plea was made after state t.v. broadcast images of 6 detainees. a band political party in pakistan has released 11 police officers it took hostage joining protests on sunday police had earlier raided the offices of the think big which led to violent protests that killed 3 people shot a bus reports. is of to recalibrate pakistan to not be silenced known as seal team they started protesting last year after caricature of the prophet muhammad who republican fronts. then last week they protested after

the government to restrict their leader clear excite risky he had demanded the french ambassador in pakistan be exposed and a ban on french products. those protests resulted in the government outlawing t.l.p. which lead to more protests. on sunday a party spokesman said security forces raided the offices in the who're. they responded again on the streets you know several of the supporters were killed and dozens were injured they're going to put this out 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 but when it rectified they fired directly at us and threw us with water sun men had their chest burnt others their back face or body hours 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 expelled the french ambassador and cut off relations with france. police said sunday's violence began after a police station was attacked they accused piece 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 caught in some areas the t.l. peace and good news france were there the rates remaining muslim majority nations in october the crown defended the publication of caricature of the prophet muhammad caricature is that for each school teacher samuel passy had shown in class before he was beheaded we caught some protests well 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 leader displaying his supporters killed and wounded and still they chant on charlotte ballasts 0. plays in brazil have rated illegal parties in sao paulo as the countries whose records daily cover $1000.00 deaths and the new dangerous strain of 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 parties. a lot in america. received its 1st batch of vaccines in december and it was great fun fair that it would end the pandemic there but 4 months later death and infection rates in some countries have reached record levels reports from one a service where many vaccination programs have 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 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 you know 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 and 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 we're going to provide them with 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 in 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 led to 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 . officials from saudi arabia and iran have held diplomatic talks in an effort to ease tensions between the 2 countries the cut ties 5 years ago after saudi arabia's execution of

a shia cleric would spawn violence against its embassy in tehran the recent talks were held in iraq in early april and the reported have included discussions about iranian backed hooty rebel attacks from yemen into saudi arabia sources quoted in the report say discussions also focused on lebanon's growing political vacuum we also address the growing alarm among gulf arab states over the increasing influence of lebanon's iran backed hezbollah movement in the region u.s. space agency nasa has made history by successfully flying a helicopter on mars the flight is called ingenuity it's powered by solar batteries and it's controlled by a team here on earth it was sent to mars attached to the perseverance rover which touched down in february sarah webb's an astronomer with swinburne university of technology and she says this excess of the helicopter will help future explorations huge game changer i think. being able to design across that was able to maneuver

itself without needing to change the actual planets have been able to fly from location to location will have huge advantages in the next coming decades right now we do have the incredible mars rovers and the brand new one parity the 2025. which they do incredible funny up from these rovers but they are able to travel very great distances they land they have you know a small region where they are able to chapel and if we really want to explore the red planet explore possibility of paths right present microbes and things like that and the different conditions on the martian surface we're going to need to be able to travel great distances which a helicopter like this would absolutely allow in the. now for some news to come out of football tottenham f.c. in england announcing sacked manager jose millennium he's only been in charge 17 months but he's been unable to replicate the success he's had at other clubs

tottenham are currently 7th in the english premier league a lot of this comes amid another story this rocks european club football 12 top teams including tottenham have signed up to a breakaway super league competition and it sparked a very angry response at all levels of the game they would stokes as the latest. football european governing body u.a.e. for is under attack 12 of the continent's biggest clubs have announced they're breaking away from the prestigious champions league to form a rival european super league barcelona real madrid not letter of agree to join from spain in italy both ac and into milan have signed up alongside you ventus and 6 clubs from england's premier league also want to slice of the party manchester united manchester city liverpool chelsea arsenal and tottenham the onus of the no once much much more than. all that that on that me obviously

all too much so it was much more money and they want it now so far there are no teams from france or germany including the current european champions by munich but 3 more clubs are expected to join the list of founding members who are all set to pocket more than $400000000.00 each just for signing up seriously the midst of a pandemic an economic crisis football clubs at national league level going boss nearly furloughing players clubs on the edge in league one and 2 and these larvae to soon calls about breaking away and basically create more great. joke the managers of these teams are now in an awkward position a little clot for example has previously spoken out against the idea of a super league manchester united's only going to solve dodged the question at his news conference on sunday and i don't think it's for me to comment on now. it's an issue we just have to wait and see where it went up and there was a similar defensive response from athletic emma dreads coach diego simeone any

terribly does the internet i'm just a manager and i'm prepared to coach mark players under any circumstances i have no doubt that the club will decide what's best for selves the super league clubs want to start a soon as possible while still competing in their own national leagues that seems unlikely though given that the premier league the league and syria have all joined you a for in condemning the move saying they'll do whatever it takes to stop it world governing body pfieffer has also said that any players who take part will be barred from their major competitions including the world cup. 4000 fans were allowed into wembley for the f.a. cup semifinal on sunday and some of them made their views clear on the superleague when you take. you may have had a close shop assistant it seems like a lot of big boys there not that there is great pressure. taking away some of their revenue with each old. never figure out a college one of you a physics committee meets on monday the super league announcement has no doubt

added a few things to the agenda david stakes al-jazeera. a lot of breaking news around this morning you can find a lot more background and pictures and all the stories on our website al-jazeera don't own. this is all just these of the top stories from russian state media saying kremlin critic alexina vonnie is being transferred to a hospital for prisoners his allies have called for demonstrations on wednesday which the kremlin says will be considered illegal the u.s. has warned of consequences if he dies in prison well earlier the e.u. foreign policy chief said russia is responsible for me and must provide him with medical care. there very much worried about.