cool. india reports are global work order more than 314-5000 new coronavirus infections as patients struggle to get hospital beds and oxygen. i'm about to send this is 0 to 0 live from doha also coming up the search for a missing indonesian submarine focuses on an oil slick north of bali. the u.s. justice department launches an investigation into policing in minneapolis after

a former officer is convicted of murdering george floyd 'd. plus fears in china that going green could risk jobs and economic recovery as beijing attempts to find common ground with washington at a global summit. india 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 day in a single country since the virus surfaced more than a year ago several states are struggling with severe shortages of oxygen the delhi high court has strongly criticized the government's response to the shortage saying and i quote beg borrow or steal it is a national emergency the health ministry says it's increased oxygen quotas for the

worst hit regions. we have at least $350.00 patients and all of them probably all of them require oxygen oxygen varying from finally does to 15 meters 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 saw very regular. uncertain there is a lot of you know tension in the system we are not able to fully focus our energies on. on the clinical board offered and we are sadly distracted but not stately you know majorly distracted by the. someplace chain problems one of those regions is not for the authorities have now added further restrictions to its partial lockdown the prime minister states to avoid total lockdowns despite soling cases and in the face of shop criticism politicians continue to hold campaign rallies in west bengal's ongoing elections polling is also under way elizabeth protons in new delhi

and she describes the crisis the hospitals are facing. we are outside one of delhi's biggest public hospitals they have a capacity of 1500 beds full quoted 1000 patients they are completely full we are seeing patients arriving gossiping foot and would destroy family members trying to get them admitted was seeing other patients arriving already on oxygen supply using oxygen cylinders and lying in their cars now johnny's health minister has said he has described this as a grave crisis 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 ventilators 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 ok workers and they're struggling as the country faces a major surgeon covered 1000 infections on the spine it's nearly a 3rd of the population getting vaccinated critics say the government has failed to build on its early success in containing the virus america addison's he and human reports. normally sedate or appliance protest by banging pots and pans they blame the government for allowing it to transit from the success story to the country with the highest per capita infection rate in the world and in just

a few weeks the small south american country which is sandwiched between argentina and brazil. hill had been hailed as the exception in a region of pandemic turmoil but now the bubble has burst. we must take care of ourselves those who don't get vaccinated will die simple they're going to die if they get infected they die. with a population of only $3500000.00 or requies seeing more than $3000.00 infections per day by far the highest per capita in the world and also the 5th highest death rate the government has never ordered lockdowns or enforced other measures calling it a matter of principle but this has led to a blahs a attitude among citizens even though health experts warned that the more contagious variant of the virus from neighboring brazil wouldn't thank them quickly a bucket of water. until the dead are your dead he will think whatever you want

until it happens in your family it's difficult for people to become aware. of the latest wave of cold it is breaking new records every day in latin america in colombia deaths are surpassing more than 420 daily aking there you go hopes his wife won't be one of them as she waits for an i.c.u. bed at this maybe he in hospital and but they do good on them a great sense of helplessness because what can you do as a human being you can't do anything the pan american health organization says no region has been harder hit maugham's to be 1000000 people. and really. happened right here in the americans back in hospitals are running out of sedatives needed for using respirators in critical care units a painful reminder that in this pandemic over confidence is

a dangerous thing. to see in human out 0. 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 n gala for 2 men missing during a military exercise on wednesday and there's been no contact since an oil spill has been spotted in the area and the sound was detected around the time the vessel disappeared let's get more on this from jessica washington who's joining us live from jakarta suggest i understand that the indonesian military have been releasing some information one of them in saying. just a few moments ago we did hear from indonesia military authorities discussing their investigation into k r r 4 o 2 and they did confirm as you mentioned earlier that the deadline is getting tighter and that by early saturday morning the crew on board this vessel will run out of oxygen there was enough oxygen for around 72 hours but of course there are

variables and we can't exactly confirm when the crew would run out of oxygen already say that they are still looking at this area around north coast and they're looking in particular at an oil slick now there are 2 possibilities according to the engine asian military chief chief either there was some sort of fuel leak or potentially the crew on board the vessel deliberately released some of the fuel perhaps to lighten the load of the vessel or perhaps to send some sort of signal but some of the experts that we've spoken to say that the 2nd alternative does seem quite unlikely we know that there are 21 indonesian ships involved in this search effort as well as 3 indonesian submarines indonesia only has 5 submarines and it doesn't have the sophisticated maritime technology that its neighbors strangely and singapore have in terms of rescue efforts so we have called indonesia's government has called on assistance from singapore and australia we understand that

a vessel from singapore a submarine rescue vessel is already on the way and would arrive in belize waters in around 2 days assistance from australia we don't have any confirmation as to what that will look like but due to the distance they may be limited to assistance that they can send by air we did recently hear from indonesia's defense minister who said that modernizing indonesia's maritime infrastructure is a priority this vessel 1st came into service in 19181 authorities say that it is in good condition in this still looking at the reasons behind this incident but of course the age of the vessel could be a factor as to washington bridge is up to date from. the minneapolis police force is under investigation by the u.s. justice department it's part of

a push to root out systemic abuse in the force following derrick sean's conviction for murdering george floyd there's also a move in congress to pass laws to reform policing across the united states john hendren has more from minneapolis george floyd square his transform from crime scene to memorial to his summer site of celebration there's a feeling of hope that there is a big turn yesterday. you know be. just came back to celebrate take some time out. you know as if to grasp the moment grasses has been having these last couple months saying no this. give a sigh of relief not as 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 term a nation an 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 and 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 site of george floyd'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 the police killing of another black man has angered people in the north carolina city of elizabeth crowds marched through the streets calling for justice after andro brown jr was shot and killed while police were serving a search warrant and weapon state police have yet to release details but witnesses say he was killed while trying to drive away from officers. still ahead on al-jazeera it's the world's 2nd biggest polluter the doubts about u.s. president joe biden's big plans to cut emissions. and a nation divided by chance opposition is calling the formation of a military council

a coup. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways it was a shock to the residents of stockholm this morning a draw for temperature about 12 degrees colder air across scandinavia has reintroduced winter now it's not entirely confined to scandinavia but this is the direction the wind round those lines there so it's quite a strong winds through denmark into germany and poland then it kills rounds the real cost of this probably could be kept in the baltic the baltic states and it will warm up slowly in stockholm for the rest of europe the sun's out over a good part of of a sudden journey at least france and beyond disappointingly wet through spain in fact through the central med as a line of the system rain even thunderstorms and that is the front of the coldish air going slowly into eastern europe so this book the specific forecast

a stock or 2 degrees for thursday yes it snowed a bit it would stick on the ground i don't think but up to 8 degrees as to well below average for the next couple of days and here is the picture for friday for most of europe where that cold is gone east was reliable it will walk back into the low countries bit more sunshine into eastern side of spain which is bone beach so disappointing recently and we are dry for the most part in north africa are quite windy and even dusty libya and sudden tunisia. sponsored poll qatar airways jump into this story there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we and be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land

we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from the new an e.t.a. could be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is the inner. courtyard is either a reminder 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 $314000.00 new cases will register many hospitals have won their dangerously low on oxygen. indonesia's navy chief is warning that oxygen supplies in a missing submarine will run out by saturday 53 crew members on board went missing during a military exercise on weapon state an oil spill has been spotted in the area. 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 children was found guilty of murder in georgia floyd. a hong kong investigative journalist is being convicted and fined for charges linked to a documentary exposing police misconduct joining the $29000.00 protests crowds gathered outside calls in support of both charlie and called for an end to the cracks on the press freedom joy produced a program showing police officers delaying their response to a mobile tactic against protesters you need to use a bit of a more let's cross live to do go paul and in the whole call dave you just talk us through the background to this 1st of all. right 1st we have to tell you that she was found guilty of violating 2 counts of road traffic ordinance and with that she was given

a fine of amounting to $6000.00 homecoming dollars which comes up to just under a 1000 u.s. dollars. but although there was a collective sigh of relief here among the media scrum the fact that this case got this far in the process has been of huge concern now about troy is a prolific journalist here she's known for investigative work as you said there what's being questioned is her methods during a documentary she was investigating and reporting on where she looked up license plates numbers on a public archive and a public set of data set a database that anyone should be able to access but according to the police she use false pretenses for it now this is a very common method used across the world investigative journalism on accessing public databases so there are now many questions although this case has closed what this now will lead to particularly for journalism here in hong kong and also there

are questions about the station that she works with it's a broadcaster call r t h k it's funded by the government it was once very open and critical of hong kong's government acted with independence complete editorial. dependence has been modeled on the b.b.c. but that also is now coming under scrutiny did you as you were saying i mean this seems like so decent basic journalism to me is the media in hong kong responding to this you mentioned that there is concern but what do these say. absolutely not since the national security law was imposed in hong kong that was in july in july last year there has been many infringements on a journalism here in the income particularly with local journalists who are suddenly their methods and what they're reporting on has been questions particularly for it's critical of the authorities in beijing or the government here

and especially sensitive to any criticism of the police here but it's not just the local media that's been affected and that there's a large concern over how freely they'll be able to operate from now on there's also concern for the international media although it has been a lot more subtle moves against them in particular with journalists being on able to get visas to come and work here are those who work here their visas are not reviewed especially if they're known to have printed articles or broadcast a subject matter that is critical of beijing or the hong kong government so in general there is a large concern here about hong kong's freedom of press freedom of expression being hugely eroded very quickly and this court case perhaps is one of the biggest particularly you know due to the fact that this is supposed to be something about a traffic warden and but the amount of attention it has been given shows how concerned people here are in hong kong not just the comedic community community but

people across the board who are used to getting uncensored open information and it has always been as it is here in hong kong and life across the border in beijing where there is a massive far wall and information is being monitored and the concern and the fear now is that will be the next step here in monitoring or cracking down on any dissent in hong kong bigger problem in the whole call thank you. it's earth day and the u.s. is returning to center stage later on thursday in the fight against climate change president joe biden begins hosting a virtual 2 day summit of world leaders aimed at speeding up global efforts to clark explains what's at stake this virtual summit is the 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 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 galvanize 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. the summons being seen as a rare area of potential cooperation between the u.s. and china and just a moment we're going to have katrina news report from china's sounds she provence 1st our white house correspondent kimberly hauck and has more on president biden's climate strategy. it's not uncommon to find oil and gas companies operating right in the middle of communities. this site in inglewood california is pumping for oil using a controversial process called fracking that environmentalist like one flora's want banned by new fracking has become an. idle people. because they know that their

lives their livelihood it's fracking is a process of drilling uses high pressure water to force oil and gas out of rock deep in the earth environmentalist say the process pollutes water and releases methane gas into the atmosphere contributing to climate change but banning the practice has divided president joe biden's democratic party and to be clear. i know it always comes up we're not going to ban fracking but others in the party like congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez and senator bernie sanders are pushing for a federal ban we don't need america but republicans are in favor of fracking some members of biden's own democratic party including senator joe manchin representing the energy producing state of west virginia also support fracking. and

even in liberal leaning states like california where a fracking ban have the support of the governor legislation has so far failed to lobbying by the oil and gas industry it's millions of jobs without a doubt ruining small towns across america oil gas and chemical companies spent more than $100000000.00 lobbying last year including on political ads like this one that aired during the 2020 presidential election campaign to push back on efforts to ban fracking in this last one was activists are angry and say biden's efforts on fracking are simply a half measure he suspended new oil and gas drilling on federal lands but that accounts for less than a quarter of total u.s. oil production biting claims he never promised an end to fracking but activists like one florist say that's exactly why he worked to get biden elected.

in the past remember that was one of the promises he's got in we were holding accountable. president biden is expected to make big promises during his climate summit but already some activists say it won't be enough can really help get out jazeera washington. toxic smoke leaking from power plants and factories is a common sight in. the northwest and puffins has for decades powered china's economic growth primarily by coal. it's contributed to the nation becoming the world's pollution responsible for roughly one 3rd of global cop and emissions. the coal industry employs most of the people who live here. pollution has been polluting for decades if they shut down all the factories what are we going to do everyone who works for the factories. last year this region produced about

1100000000 tons of coal china's reliance on burning coal as its main source of energy is its biggest obstacle to lowering carbon emissions the government is struggling to find ways to curb coal without affecting jobs or harming economic growth pollution caused by burning fossil fuels regularly shrouds the capital and heavy smoke has pledged to carbon emissions by 2030 and eliminate them altogether by 2060 but it's yet to detail how exactly plans to achieve this is not only about commitment is all about what we actually do right in the next 5 years we expect china can include more concrete policies and to give us a more clear roadmap of how they can achieve these 2 carbon targets increasing the use of renewable energy sources is crucial china is already the world's largest producer of wind and solar power it's also the biggest market for electric vehicles

the government has tightened regulations to pressure calm make it into transitioning away from gas but many say that's not enough us climate and boy john kerry was in shanghai last week trying to convince authorities to do more. for a big country with 1400000000 people. not easily believe it some countries are asking china to do more on climate change the free this is not very realistic researchers say china must close down more than 500 coal fired power plants in the next decade to meet its climate pledges that it continues to approve new ones at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world the government is planning to close down some old. factories here and build what it says greener more efficient whole facilities for some parts of china at least it seems the road to clean energy will be long and slow katrina al-jazeera says she province china. the opposition

in charge has denounced what it's calling an institutional coup that's after the song slain president idriss deby was appointed as leader he will morgan reports will in germany. it is that he was president of chad for 3 decades on the day of the news of his death it was announced his son mohamed will lead the country for the next 18 months as head of the transitional military council. the head of the government was a party says there are reasons for the military to take charge. it's understandable that the constitution says the speaker of parliament should be in charge but it's also understandable why the military is the one in charge what needs to happen now is a dialogue to bring other parties and groups to form a joint military civilian council to lead the country to democratic elections idriss deby who left the country since 1990 died from injuries sustained while leading his soldiers against the rebel front for change and concord group in the

northern region of based in libya the group launched an attack on a border position on april 11th days of fighting to push them back left more than 300 of the rebels that almost 150 captured the group says there's no way they'll accept them as chads leader. is not a monarchy they can be no dynastic devolution of power in our country the national resistance forces from the front for change and concord in chad or right now on their way towards germany with confidence but above all with courage and determination at $37.00 mohammed to be an army officer is now the youngest leader in the african continent 14 of the military officers are also in the council which stated that a transitional government to will be put in place and that they're not seeking permanent power. we wanted to reassure the public that the members of the transitional military council will hand over power to civilian government after

free and democratic elections within 18 months. chats constitution which has been dissolved by the military council states that the speaker of parliament is to lead the country in the event of the death of the president so sum up as a sham parties are calling the formation of a military council a coup. it's not only political parties that are split over the idea of a transitional military council leading the country following the death of the early election results showed he'd won nearly 80 percent of the vote in the weeks leading up to be election hundreds in the capital demonstrated calling for change and many boycotted the elections that ended with derby winning a 6th term with chad's residents are divided between mourning him and denouncing the council that's replaced him. the military council says it's going to form an interim cabinet in the coming days and has called political parties and armed groups for dialogue it's not clear who's going to agree to be president at any.