thousands of children were removed from east timor during the indonesian occupation decades later one when essentially the lost generation is a fine head. on al-jazeera. india reports a global record of more than 314000 new coronavirus infections as patients struggle to get hospital beds and oxygen the supplies that are coming in we're told video. uncertain that is a model for more tension in the system you're not able to fully focus of it in a do so on. on the clinical part of it.

i'm not about this and this is a disease or a live from doha also coming up the u.s. justice department launches an investigation into policing in minneapolis after a former officer is convicted of murdering george floyd. the search for a missing indonesian submarine focuses on an oil slick north of bali. i mean a close hawk in senegal on the edge of what is known as the great green wall an ambitious project to plant trees from west to east africa in an attempt to stop the desert from expanding. and is reporting a global record of more than 314000 new coronavirus cases and more than 2000 deaths it's the highest daily case count in a single county. since the virus surface more than

a year ago several states are struggling with severe shortages of oxygen the delhi high court has strongly criticised the government's response to the shortage saying and i quote beg borrow or steal it is and national emergency the health ministry says it's increased oxygen quotas for the worst hit regions we have at least 350 percent all of them problem all of them require oxygen oxygen varying from fi leaders to 15 leaders to even more so there is a kind of demand that is there at the moment and because of which the supplies that are coming in we showed video. uncertain there is a lot of you know tension in the system we are not able to fully focus our energies on. on the political border for it and we are sadly distracted but not stately nor majorly distracted by the. their supply chain problems or one of those is maharashtra what authorities have now added further restrictions to its partial

lockdown the prime ministers urge states to avoid total lawton's despite soaring cases and in the face of sharp criticism politicians continue to hold campaign rallies in west bengal's ongoing elections polling for the latest phase is underway . well elizabeth proton is joining us live from a hospital in new delhi let's talk about the the numbers in the country in a moment elizabeth but 1st of all this situation with the oxygen just seems to be hiding to a whole raft of problems that the country is facing. absolutely of all that and that is because of the number of cases as they go up so do the number of hospitalizations and the number of people needing oxygen and we are outside one of daddy's biggest public hospitals they have a capacity of 1500 beds full clothed 19 patients they are completely full we are seeing patients arriving das bigfoot would destroy family members trying to get that message but seeing other patients arriving already on all sides in supply

using all season cylinders and lying in their cars now john these health minister has said has described this as a grave the cry fish with many of the capital's hospitals only having a few hours of oxygen supply left with so many thousands of patients on ventilators that's why one of india's biggest private hospitals took the matter to the delhi high court which directed the central government to urgently send off that into delhi it also said that the lives of thousands of people were at stake and said to the government that it was going to be responsible for the lives of these people if it didn't wake up to this situation now we also have a similar situation it's not as bad but people are dying elsewhere in the country because they can't get to hospital beds or to bed today says it's why the government is now importing 50000 metric tons of oxygen to send to 12 of the states

that are the worst affected. and as we mentioned before india continue to set records for essentially all the wrong reasons and reasons another 314000 new coronavirus cases just talk us through what the situation is generally across the country. well apart from you know what we're seeing the scenes outside hospitals what these huge numbers mean is law and everything again here in the capital of delhi as in the other worst affected states there were long queues outside every single testing center with people having to wait days to get there was also a month ago they had to wait a maximum of 12 hours and what we're seeing is earlier we saw a man bringing his clearly ill wife i'm on the back of his crew says she couldn't even sit up their door so it was holding her upright and he was saying it to hospital authorities that she has all of the symptoms her the x. rays of her lungs show that she has an infection but they're still waiting for

their test results it's been days and so far spittles won't admit there were lines outside crime a toy burial grounds but. official death numbers and some of the really badly affected states like the month adding up to the number of bodies being carried out of clovis fine hospital bodies being cremated and so should deal with this why is that we are seeing i mean 100000 cases during the peak of the 1st wave cases didn't reach 100000 now we're seeing more than 300006 states bringing in more and more restrictions to try and keep the health care system working because at the moment it is crumbling under the number of cases elizabeth thanks very much elizabeth cohen i'm outside a hospital in new delhi. and

minneapolis brings forces under investigation by the u.s. justice department it's part of a push to root out systemic abuse in the force following derrick children's conviction for murdering george floyd there's also a move in congress to pos laws to reform policing across the united states john has more from minneapolis. george floyd square has transformed from crime scene to memorial to his somber site of celebration. yesterday. came back to celebrate. in the grass. with abner thing this. is. really what it is as many who've been demonstrating for 11 months felt buoyed further by the announcement on wednesday that the u.s. justice department has launched

a sweeping investigation into whether the minneapolis police department engages in discriminatory or unconstitutional practices building trust between community and law enforcement will take time and effort by all of us but we undertake this task with the terminations and urgency. knowing that change cannot wait on capitol hill a bill named after george floyd would ban racial profiling in police chokeholds we must remain diligent in our efforts to bring meaningful change to police departments across the country to reform practices in training and the legal protections that grant too great a shield to police officers guilty of misconduct here were floyd spent his last moments of life many said the verdict against former minneapolis police officer derrick children is a start the people we've talked to here at the sight of george lloyd's murder say this movement isn't over with the conviction of derek chauvin or even with the other officers involved they say it will end when they no longer have to say that

black lives matter for the floyd family knowing the children won't get away with using his badge to justify murder brings a long awaited release i feel better feel relieved actually went to sleep for like 5 hours and that was that was great and that offers hope and perhaps change to the next generation of black americans john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis well the police killing of another black man has angered people in north carolina city of elizabeth crowds marched through the streets calling for justice after brown jr was shot and killed while police were serving a search warrant on wednesday police have yet to release details but witnesses say he was killed while trying to drive away from officers. indonesia's navy chief is warning that oxygen supplies on a missing submarine will run out by saturday $53.00 crew members on board the k

r i n one got a 4 or 2 went missing during a military exercise on wednesday and there's been no contact since an oil spill has been spotted in the area a sound was detected a run the time the vessel disappeared jessica washington has this update from jakarta. what we do know is that a huge search operation is underway in the water to the north of bali we know that there are 5 vessels involved in that search as well as a navy helicopter and authorities are looking into what appears to be an oil spill in the area north of bali but at this stage they say it's too soon to tell whether that oil spill or whether what appears to be the smell of fuel in the area is linked to this submarine we do know that help is on the way from international neighbors singapore and australia have offered their assistance in this issue singapore has already sent a submarine rescue vessel however it could take around 2 days to arrive we also

know that indonesia is sending what is called an hydro oceanographic vessel that has underwater detection technology and that vessel was used recently in the search of the java sea after the sri which crashed in january so this is an ongoing operation we don't know at this stage how much oxygen the crew has on board but as time passes as it's been more than 24 hours since this submarine lost contact concerns are growing here in indonesia the israeli army says the syrian anti-aircraft missiles missed its target and exploded near a nuclear facility in southern israel the blast was felt in jerusalem and other areas in central israel the missile was fired as israel was carrying out air strikes inside syria israel's military says it's attacked missile batteries in syria in retaliation. still ahead on al-jazeera. the protesters in russia demand the release of opposition leader alexina violently

who's in a prison hospital. and a drug war between 2 major drug cartels in southern mexico is intensifying in an exclusive report al jazeera is john paul one takes us to ground 0 of the fighting. the residents of norway and sweden are in for a big shock in the immediate future of more arctic air some of it will leak elsewhere and it's not necessarily obvious where it's coming from brits coming from here on this cold for those lines up they go towards the north pole that is going to be the coldest part of europe most the rest of your of sort recovered from a recent cold spell right into the teens most places it's even warmer in western france disappointing wet in spain the moment a line of rain that stretches through its city tails off in the balkans moment and then there's more gathering in place that better us and ukraine but look at

stockholm at 3 degrees you wouldn't expect it to be there i know it's spring but there is 11 and to have 2 days a snow falling is a little unusual in stockholm in particular that cold will spread into the baltic states some snowfall even in poland but that's where the real cold is held elsewhere in europe well it's not the rains disappearing in the waltz is with some not with all that bordeaux shows it may be best of all the war was place in europe 26 degrees the average is 70 we. chuckle a little bit in the next couple of days most of north africa is fine particularly hot in libya and tunisia but not in tunis itself. frank assessments there are a lot of poison but the government used one exactly and one measure never taking for a situation like i'm not to believe you could ever get informed opinions is the u.s.

with thinking the military positioning of the middle east wasn't just a simple act of reorganizing ministry assets this is a message to the region the united states years rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. there to go to 0 remind of our top stories this hour india's report of the world's largest daily increase in corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic more than 314000 new cases were registered many hospitals are warned dangerously

low on oxygen. the u.s. justice department announced an investigation into the minneapolis police department and its use of force comes a day after former officer david chauvin was found guilty of murdering george floyd . indonesia's maiden chief is warning that oxygen supply is that of missing submarine will run out by saturday $53.00 crew members on board went missing during a military exercise on wednesday an oil spill has been spotted in the area. russian police have run it up more than 1400 people demonstrating in support of alexey the kremlin critic has been on hunger strike and protesters want his own doctors to treat him but despite the rallies president vladimir putin didn't mention the volley during his state of the nation address balance with reports from moscow. russia's president says his country has red lines that he hopes no one will cross. annual state of the nation speech came as moscow amasses tens of

thousands of troops in a ukraine and western countries impose sanctions over allegations of cyber hacking spying and election interference we decided to look at him we want good relations with all participants of the international dialogue and really we don't want to build bridges but if someone mistakes our good intentions for indifference or weakness and intends to burden or even blow up this group as themselves they should knowledge russia's response will be a symmetrical survived and harsh. hootin speech was dominated by domestic issues particularly the challenge of the pandemic and russia's slow vaccination rate. but there was no mention of another challenge opposition politician alexina valmy his supporters held nationwide protests on wednesday despite a police draw attention to these ailing health thousands marched through moscow riot police blocked access to main squares so the crowd kept moving thank you

mcglenn you how could i not come catastrophic changes for the worse are happening to the country by every measure social and economic previous undoubtedly supersedes the of ip i came to express my story there it is with the opposition because we have no alternatives all the time we see bureaucrats stealing and authorities don't care this was a body of all stock in russia's far east there were reports of detentions of protesters in at least 82 towns and cities across the country an avowal me a foreign impute inside for the past decade is seriously ill in hospital after 3 weeks on hunger strike now it could soon get even harder for the supporters to have their voices heard on monday prosecutors are asking a moscow court to declare the corruption foundation an extremist organization putting it on a level with al qaida that could mean even stiffer penalties for his supporters and finances and even harder jail sentences bernath with al-jazeera moscow.

it's earth day and the u.s. is returning to center stage in the fight against climate change in the coming hours president joe biden begins hosting a virtual 2 day summit of world leaders aimed at speeding up global efforts and the clock explains what's at stake. this virtual summit is a u.s. administration saying we're back in the fight after 4 years of donald trump ignoring the climate crisis for the world leaders have been invited including those nations responsible for 80 percent of global emissions and as you can see the top of that list is china and then the united states itself the 2 world's biggest polluters and together they account for nearly half of the world's emissions and that's why i joe biden special envoy for climate change john kerry was recently in china seeking an apparently getting a commitment to cooperate from chinese leaders but he knows much more is required at a moment ago no one nation no one nation can can make the difference here if try to

went to 0 tomorrow we still have a problem unless the other nations are also reducing but the point of the paris agreement was everybody accepted the goal so the summits aim is to delve in eyes nations much greater ambition ahead of a crucial un climate conference in glasgow in november to limit warming to one and a half degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels remember right now we're already at 1.2 degrees celsius and the effects of even that have been catastrophic from ice melt to wildfires to droughts and to floods to local swarms and super storms costing billions displacing millions up until this week national commitments to cut c o 2 have pointed to a reduction in global emissions of just one percent by 2030 the experts say we need a reduction of at least 40 percent by that time the world is banking once again on u.s.

leadership. well the great green wall initiative aims to plant trees from west to east africa to slow the expansion of the so hot desert the world bank the european union countries including friends with higher carbon footprints have placed 14 $1000000000.00 to make that happen but communities affected by the desert say the project is failing nicholas reports to bob deep in senegal region. no rains for months because once lush vegetable garden has turned to dust gone are the navy beans to feed her family the hibiscus she uses it to cook and to make juice for her children she says it's as if the land has given up on her but she has not given up on the land. in this land you could grow not just to biscuits but carrots potatoes onions cauliflower if only we had water. water in this our hell is as precious as gold.

and jerry travel west for hours on a rumor that there is a functioning well in what some here describe as a godforsaken land during the rainy season it's another story the land springs to life the state pays i whine others to plant trees as part of the great green wall project an initiative to stop desert if occasion from east to west africa france the world bank and the e.u. have pledged $14000000000.00 to the project it's hoped the completed wall would be a new wonder of the world overtaking the great barrier reef to be the largest living structure on earth. look at the great green wall now because of rising temperatures and the lack of rainfall most of the trees planted are either dying or already dead and while polluting countries have recently pledged billions of dollars more in funds for those projects people here say they are throwing money

into the desert they say they don't need more trees but more access to water. these falana herders are moving further south away from arid climates encroaching on farmland we will never stop hurting why should we abandon our ways it is so difficult to grow food that might kill has value if something goes wrong we can sell them even if the climate is changing i am not ready to change my ways in this conflict over land the state is largely absent armed groups in this a hell including al qaeda and the mixtape are exploiting grievances taking sites at stake is access to land for animals to graze and water and increasingly rare and precious resource that and others desperately need nicholas hawk al jazeera and back to about. the amount of barrels executive producer for our

visitors through his programs he's joining us live here in doha let's talk about the climate change meeting that's happening the virtual one that's happening in a few hours time amanda as a so often the case when we talk about climate change stories it's one thing to talk about it it's another thing to do something about it but how important is it that these countries are actually having these discussions. well it's not seek rate that they're talking about it in particular because it is the 1st time in 8 is that the u.s. is back in the game and it's talking to china so the 2 the world's 2 major polluters talking together and having made a commitment to tackle the climate crisis and other countries joining them so this is fantastic that people are coming to states of the on line table but there is there's a huge difference between talking and taking action and quite frankly the time for talking is over action is needed now it is urgently needed in order to make sure that we cut its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030 there's no more time for

talking the talk is fantastic as are long as it leads to actual concrete actions a lot of the time when we do clever climate stories we tend to focus on the large scale ones as we were talking about in the tax package package there for example but of course the old saying is that think global acts local i mean what examples do can you give us for you for countries are actually doing something to put that into practice well and i think this is the best examples i can think of when that like the talks that we've just the climate summit today the government sort of government action meets the local action on the ground and also marries up with business so this one story that we've been we've covered in this series of earthrise which is from south korea now when people think about emissions they often think about fossil fuels that food waste is actually a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions globally it accounts for 8 percent for missions around the world so in the inside. career you see really good example of

how strict government regulations which mean that citizens have to pay for their food waste are inspiring individuals to take action to reduce their food waste but also to think about how food waste can be put to good use so for example there are $60000.00 machines around sol which take food ways to which ferment it into compost which are then used in minutes at the garden and then of course locals are growing that own vegetables and becoming much more in touch with their with the earth around them and then you add in business in the mix which sees that there's now a good opportunity in recycling food waste and there are extra really innovative startups around sol which for example one which which takes food waste that the liquid residue is turned into bio gas the solid waste is tied to slurry which is then fed into maggots which are then processed in seafood for animals and through these measures for a combination of government and locals and business then over the past couple of decades south korea having having recycled 2 percent of its food waste is now

recycling 95 percent so it's these kind of initiatives when when the 3 corners of the triangle business government and citizens come together this we need to see much more of these amanda thank you very much indeed this amount of barrels is executive producer for al-jazeera is earthrise program we're going to be talking to amanda later on as those talks progress protesters in haiti are demanding the release of 9 kidnapped people including priests and nuns catholic schools universities across haiti of close as part of a 3 day shutdown guying is reportedly something run some to free the hostages who abducted more than a week ago the number of kidnappings in haiti has doubled in the past 12 months. mulgrave. laughed softly despite the fact that we are suffering a lot from the priest absence the kidnapping call track gradually step by step we've already started by stopping activities for a day but 3 days have passed now believe me if nothing is done the church will be

forced to take severe measures and asked the population to fully support us in certain activities to be done if the priest are not released. the southern mexican state of michoacan has become a battleground for a drug war between 2 major cartels ground 0 has been the town. its potentially lucrative mines and drug routes have made it a prized target no journalists have been able to reach that town since fighting intensified until john coleman and his team made it and for this exclusive report. this is the only route into the town at the heart of a war between 2 cartels image to account southwest mexico. no journalists have been here since the new generation cartel bantz to take the territory around them but we've been told that by this dirt track over the mountains we can get in. that's holy school cartel turf too when we pass the 2nd checkpoint they wanted to talk.

we don't have any necessity to rob we're drug traffickers it's true that we're having a fight a struggle but we're fighting for the rights of each of us and for the people. there in a propaganda push to go with their advance. finally we make it out of the hills and into the town the fighting full. on the outskirts it looks like a ghost town thousands of fled the violence here and the isolation. the main road to the nearest city apart from gun has been closed by another group cartel is remedios they're fighting the holy school cartel and have the area under siege. petrol has to be smuggled in the carriage is out of action gas is scarce stories medicine bottled water pharmacy they can't get their crops cattle to market. and the sieges had other costs when danniella in gabriella's grandet had a burst stomach ulcer they couldn't get him to the hospital on the other side the

blockade he dives more to take but then i got so helpless because we couldn't do any hit it was out of our hands and angry it's not right that our living like this and he wasn't the only one at the same time and lady had a miscarriage because she was trying to get to the hospital and couldn't we heard more stories towns people killed in the crossfire between the cartels on the road or in the town itself there's a nightly soundtrack here. you can probably hear the sound of gunfire just outside the church no it is only just started shooting here the police and authorities are largely absent here but the state security minister did drop by to promise to get the road open it's election season here. the day after when we tried to leave we struggled to get through to a party got a gang who dug up the road just hours after the minister left with the highways closed once more the siege and suffering continues john homan how does it i get.

the u.s. has imposed sanctions on 2 more state owned businesses in me and it comes as the militants crackdown continues this video shows protesters fleeing security forces in del way washington's banning pearl and temper imports from 2 major firms linked to the zone to the firm's assets in the u.s. have also been frozen more than 700 people have been killed since the coup a federally. this is al jazeera these are the top stories india has reported the world's largest daily increase in corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic more than 314000 new cases were registered many hospitals of one their dangerously low on oxygen we have at least $350.00 covered bishops and all of them all of them require oxygen oxygen very promptly does do for.