blue mountain the lightning strike and down in costa rica and panama persistence in the rain type nice and warm mexico monterey's 33 is well above the average on its way up i suspect as well in south america the big story is that produced giant hail tennis ball size hail are still there moving into paraguayan this being saturday. it. seems of desperation outside indian hospitals overrun by the record breaking code infections and unable to get enough life saving oxygen in the u.s. health regulators are lifting their paws on johnson and johnson's coronavirus vaccine despite a small risk of blood. i'm

come out santamaria here in doha those stories in a moment and the rest of the world news from al-jazeera has rescued us from several countries keep scouring indonesian waters for a missing submarine despite its air supply running hours and socialite delay maxwell pleads not guilty to child sex trafficking she faces a judge in court for the 1st time since her arrest. contrasting news on coronavirus today 1st to india where the pandemic has taken an unprecedented toll on the health care system for another day it's record of the world's highest number of new infections more than 332000 of them and hospitals are short of pretty much everything beds medicine and oxygen from new delhi elizabeth

purana has our report. overcome with grief and this man and other family members of 14 people were killed in a fire at this hosp. in maharashtra state broke down as they confronted staff the blaze swept through the intensive care unit or i.c.u. from other for me about unfortunately a major fire disaster happened at our hospital at about 3 am there was a sudden spark from the air condition and since there was a lot of oxygen supply in the i.c.u. it was completely engulfed within 2 minutes. 2 days ago in the same state a lake and an oxygen tank killed 24 clothed 19 patients on ventilators after their supply was disrupted many indian states are facing a critical shortage of hospital beds and oxygen supplies in the capital new delhi distraught family members a struggling to find beds for their loved ones. well i've been running around for

a hospital to get my mother admitted since the 21st of april i visited all the hospitals in delhi they all say the same thing the beds and all debatable another patient my son is home who do i take care of i'm so stressed. reports of people dying because they can't find beds or oxygen are increasing every day this is one of new delhi's biggest private hospitals where the director said 25 people died in one day because of low oxygen supply the family of a 39 year old man who passed away says his oxygen was reduced without their knowledge and that his last words were please save me they also say they counted at least 45 bodies and that a catastrophe is being covered up the hospitals chairman says they've never had so many deaths in one day but he denies they were a result of oxygen shortage you delis leader has pleaded with prime minister that in their morty to ensure the uninterrupted delivery of oxygen to the capital after

reports it was being stopped by bordering states. negative image order we can't leave our people to die we need people to. and that every life is important to us i appeal to you on behalf of the people of delhi if concrete steps are taken the city will witness a catastrophe. and start that climate or i'm some burial grounds work day and night the government has been using planes and trains to transport the life saving gas elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi. so this oxygen shortage it has been warned well experts have been warning about it for some time they say medical oxygen is expensive it's complicated to transport and that's compounded pressure on a creaking healthcare infrastructure now the courts are stepping in judges in new delhi of urge the government to their words beg borrow or steal oxygen to meet the city's needs the government's begun diverting oxygen that was destined for the

industrial sector to be used in hospitals while air force planes are transporting large oxygen tank has 2 filling stations across the country is on an hour but who is a journalist and senior correspondent for scroll in india news website he told us an even supplies and logistical issues are the biggest problems. because i literally thought you know gospel. i'm dying because there's not too. india has them individually has a cut and oxen that wyman's their own ecology and mystic dance and you know it was supply of farms if you once industrial oxygen of just or was stone talking to fans and. tons of police around but i think i think guns the student know what to do critical and just breeze which cannot do without oxygen so it is a massive shock fun and a lot of the chalk fall and. the fact that transporting might be up to the oxygen

is the complicated process and in the also os running out of and those that been used not fox urine oh i'm glad we took was to the east in not the more effective is the not and gentle india kids are growing up at a very merry. christmas and to date unfortunately as i pointed out before you know not often lands in the states are meant to be high points and speeds like that in u.s. capital daily more mediocrity manufacturing capacity. meeting with the produce in the us largest state and want to avoid the effect it. had been any capacity then there is another big state law just like states and you know much but the issue which has no production it's all so that has really been bunkered problems more u.s. regulators are lifting the pause that they put on the johnson and johnson single

shot same has been a new recommendation from the centers for disease control and prevention which says the vaccines benefits outweigh the serious but small risk involved nearly 8000000 people in the u.s. have received the johnson and johnson shot 15 cases of blood crossing have been identified 3 of which were fatal. after hearing of the liberation of the advisory committee on immunization practices the c.d.c. in partnership with the f.d.a. is recommending that administration of the johnson and johnson or yankton vaccine resent to be clear we are no longer recommending up hans to the johnson and johnson vaccine i support the a c. i.p.s. recommendation that the johnson and johnson coping 1000 back seem to be used for persons 18 years of age or older in the united states population under the f.d.a. is emergency use authorization and i have signed this recommendation more on this now with rob reynolds in los angeles. in

a press briefing the head of the centers for disease control a dr ritual lenski explained that she and other top u.s. public health officials had given the go ahead for the johnson and johnson vaccine to be resumed in administering to patients and that it would be resumed almost immediately likely the 1st doses of this single shot vaccine will be rolled out and given to people in the u.s. on saturday morning local time the. the head of the c.d.c. dr alecky explained that they did a risk benefit analysis and they found that continuing with johnson and johnson could save thousands and thousands of people from hospitalization and thousands of people from death as well despite the relatively rare risk of blood

clots and a low 'd platelet counts and the mechanism for exactly how the. vaccine may have caused those side effects is not at all clear at the moment what is clear however is that johnson and johnson's vaccine does feel an important nisha in the overall vaccination effort in this country it is as people have noted a single dose one and done shot unlike the moderna and pfizer vaccines to other news now indonesia where rescue teams continue their battle against time to find a submarine that is missing with 53 crew on board it's as supplies are calculated to have already run out still the search crews are working in the waters around the indonesian island of bali with several nations helping out. at the request of the indonesian government we are sending airborne assets to include a navy p. 8 poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to assist in the search of their missing

submarine secretary austin spoke to the minister defense of in an easier today to make sure he knew that this aircraft was coming in also to make an offer for any other additional support or systems that the indonesian government might have indonesia is a good friend and a strategic partner we were all deeply saddened to see the reports about their submarine and our thoughts and our prayers are with the indonesian sailors the indonesian navy and of course all their families let's check in with jessica washington now in jakarta just just there any any good news any news at all. this is a slowly developing situation come on as you mentioned when the search for this submarine began authorities indicated that this 1st 72 hours was a crucial period and beyond that if the submarine is somehow still intact oxygen

reserves on board would have depleted making it difficult for the $53.00 crew on board to still be alive at this point there is still no specific location for the submarine we do know that there are 16 points of search around the north coast of barley around 40 kilometers from the coast and authorities are looking into specifically the area surrounding the oil slick it's believed that that may be the area where the submarine began to sink now there is international assistance in this effort as we just heard from the u.s. that p. 8 poseidon maritime helicopter has already arrived in bali and is assisting with the search america vessel from the extremely a navy has already arrived it arrived yesterday afternoon it is equipped with sonar capabilities and a sea hawk as well indonesia has 16 vessels currently involved in the search from the navy as well as 4 police boats but even with all this is systems from various

departments in indonesia and international partners as well there is still no indication of exactly where this submarine might be now experts warn that the submarine may have sunk below its collapse capacity and it may be that the depths of the waters around this area of barley could be as as deep as 700 meters now everyone in indonesia has been following this story very closely it's what people are talking about on the streets what people are talking about online and people want to believe that this crew is alive and well and that the submarine could be found but as the hours pass that outcome seems more and more unlikely thank you for that update just a washington in jakarta. in the news ahead southeast asian nations consider diplomacy and legitimacy they welcomed me in march military leader to talk to. scientists make a breakthrough in the fight against malaria

a disease which kills half a 1000000 people every issue. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways that's very warm and sunny in japan despite that north of the drift in the breeze spring sunshine and the same is true in the korean peninsula with this rain which has been persistent the yellow sea is dying out on its way back into the east coast of china beijing's ackroyd has been quite good reason enough to get a drop very much shanghai shanghai has not been secured may change a bit with the on shore breeze and the rain is fairly obvious that you might expect during spring that line to extend through japan has been interrupted by typhoons sort of a which remains out over the open water producing a big swell admittedly this rain is going sags towards hong kong to give you

a rather wet day or at least end today on sunday and of course a pretty humid one as well for indonesia other rainy seasons fairly much stopped at the moment the rain's going north through malaysia and beyond that through thailand cambodia and vietnam with his heavy downpours recently and certainly true in sumatra not to be the case of course the next few days if not weeks having seen significant snow recently in the finals of india it's now in the poll and fading away temperatures are rising in those in india they're a bit above the average that is that time of the year we get the pre monsoon heat and certainly there was showers confined to the south mostly carola. sponsored poll qatar airways a weekly critique of the stories hitting the headlines the news media have been left to sort through mixed messages on a quite complex story from main street to street journalism the listening post covers the way the news is covered on the jerseys. this week life is being

jeopardized by industrialised agriculture and uncontrolled cattle grazing to resubmit takes you want to jump into the event our national park to explore what's being done to protect nature and meet some of those determined to one concrete winding argentina told to al-jazeera in the field. to newark. the top stories this hour on knowledge of 0 india reporting the world's highest daily tally of infections for a 2nd straight day more than 332000 coated cases all schools have critical shortages of beds medicine and oxygen. u.s. regulators are lifting the cause which they put on the johnson and johnson single shot back saying after

a recommendation from the centers for disease control and prevention it says the back scenes benefits outweigh the serious but small risk. in the search for missing indonesian submarines taking on added urgency as oxygen supplies on board are now calculated to have run out sub went missing with $53.00 people on board on wednesday. southeast asian nations are preparing for talks with me and miles military ruler leaders are arriving for the summit in jakarta due to begin in a few hours time general min is attending his 1st visit abroad since he launched a military coup in crackdown that has now killed more than 700 people protest leaders and rights groups a regional leaders should work with the newly formed national unity government instead well me and mars u.n. ambassador is an outspoken critic of the military and was sacked by the shooter but he has progress can be made the u.s. has not really see un i'm sorry has not recognised his dismissal he's been speaking

to a diplomatic editor james pace whatever that did the asian made by the leaders of the earth. this should take into account of saving lives or in north sensibility and. buying the millet saving leisel in north sensibility and in ma and a providing humanitarian assistance to the people in need we need to stop the atrocity the inhumane act committed by the military these 3 point that the need to take into account whatever decision that they meet because they're just very important saving lives in the sensibility is very important for the everyone that is the nobles toxic. for the human kind please see life or in your sense a 1000000000 that is the visit point that take into account one never did take that position you know that the commander in chief of me and why our military general

min on line is going to be attending this summit what do you want other leaders to say to him and is it as some have suggested time while the military are in control to expel or suspend myanmar from r.c.n. for now. you know the the beginning what we want is the us the end should listen. to not only from the the military but also from the democratic forces so that you know but unfortunately anyone found the the national unity government was. no one from the nation a unity government was invited to the meeting. so let's talk about this with michael but the cure to sue is the asia regional director at the center for humanitarian dialogue he is with us from singapore michael thank you for your time it is historic in the sense that. a lot of countries are coming and they are

getting together to talk about this one country but with really almost 3 months now since the coup 700 people dead as you are acting a little late here. well i mean if people of course are complaining about that and . worried that you know us humans moved too slowly there was of course a foreign minister's meeting held in march indonesia then proposed a leaders' summit and of course a lot of this is being complicated by the covert 900 situation the reluctance of leaders to travel the lack of face to face diplomacy but all that aside yes they have not moved as quickly as many people would have wanted so the military leaders coming there he will be part of these talks does that give him some legitimacy or does it come down to individual countries or even us as a group to say whether we actually recognize him or not well no i mean i think the priority as you heard from the u.n. ambassador just now is to save lives and so what the us in leaders really need to

do and hopefully will do is focus on a plan to relieve the suffering of the myanmar people which involves you know either some sort of humanitarian assistance plan the appointment of a special envoy certainly gaining entry to the country to help on the ground is a very important priority now as to what they say to general mean old line this will be behind closed doors we can expect a certain degree of frankness what about the national unity government obviously there are those who say that dialogue should be happening with them is there any space based in this official realm for the national unity government which has been formed but i mean all governments i think in the region have engaged whether officially or informally the way through officials all through tracked through diplomacy with the c.r.p. a joy and u.g. no one in the world has really recognized them as a parallel government or exile government but it is important to engage everyone

here is concerned that there's a need to engage with all stakeholders. so what do you think could possibly come out of this i know that's crystal ball gazing and pointed out everything is still very delicate stage but that idea of actually helping the people of me and mother people who have been have been protesting and who have frankly been killed well i think there are 2 possible ideas on the table one is a plan for humanitarian assistance which of course takes a leaf out of what has happened before in myanmar when there were natural disasters back in 2008 the other is a rather more sort of diplomatic approach using a sort of friends of friends of the chair of us to sort of try and establish a set of interlocutors or an envoy to engage with the military and with other stakeholders to seek a political solution i hope it's a combination of both really really is there are urgent humanitarian needs and there's a need for us in the region to lead on efforts to engage with the military about

with stakeholders to address the crisis michael. joining us from singapore to talk through the latest on me and my thank you for your time was really security forces fought with protesters in occupied east jerusalem for a 2nd night palestinians rallied against restrictions imposed for the month of ramadan far right israelis have also been gathering more than $100.00 people have been injured since it all began on thursday israeli army says 3 rockets have also been fired from gaza the un us and e.u. are all appealing for calm. saudi arabia is closing its borders to fruit and vegetables from lebanon until further notice that it says in comes after illicit drugs in the form of $5300000.00 pills were found in a pomegranate shipment going through the port of jeddah lebanon's agriculture minister says it will be a big hit for the country with fruit and vegetable exports to saudi arabia with $24000000.00 a year. around 130 people laffey had to be dead in the mediterranean sea their boat

capsized while making the dangerous crossing from africa to europe a rubber inflatable spotted by a humanitarian rescue vessel that was on thursday northeast of the libyan capital tripoli since then 10 bodies have been found no survivors though another wooden boat with about 40 people on board is also missing. turkey's economy continues to suffer from high inflation rates the new central bank governor says tight policies will continue until the one u.s. dollar is now crippling to more than 8 turkish lira inflation on the rise since the failed coup back in 2016 now a new malaria vaccine is being hailed as a game changer in the fight to eliminate the disease the oxford institute vaccine has proved 77 percent effective at stopping infections and is now entering larger human trials to rule out side effects malaria kills hoffer 1000000 people every

year many of them children support from dakar with nicolas. it's in this 100 kilometers away from brick you know francis capital ouagadougou deep in this how the region that a groundbreaking discovery was made here blood samples were analyzed from 450 children given an experimental vaccine against malaria developed by scientists from oxford university's general institute scientists say the results of their year long study are extraordinarily i have been part in other studies like these but never have i seen such good results all the mothers that are taking part in this study say their children are feeling great it's an extraordinary moment to see their vics seen against malaria actually works. malaria kills almost half a 1000000 people a year globally mostly children living in africa there's been efforts to try to slow the spread of malaria by distributing mosquito nets and repellents but during

the rainy season malaria thrives and last year more people died of it than cove at 19 and so and effective vaccine would save and protect not millions of people but billions of people living in tropical climates exposed to mosquitoes that carry the deadly parasite. larger trials on nearly $5000.00 children will now be carried out in 4 african countries but the general institute which was behind the astra zeneca covert vaccine is already seeking world health organization approval for the military a vaccine the world health organization wanted the 75 percent effective vaccine this is the 1st time we've gone just anyone's gone just above that level with certainty certain. really important really it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they will be able to produce 200000000 doses or more making the vaccine affordable for

those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research center in brooklyn afonso where there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough not just for science but for humanity nicholas hawke al-jazeera. at least 4 people have been killed including a child after an air force helicopter crashed into a house in a farming area the helicopter was on a training mission with 2 pilots and a technician when it disappeared from radar zimbabwe's air force complained its helicopters and fighter jets are old and they haven't been able to buy new ones because of sanctions from western countries. u.s. president joe biden has called on global leaders to work together on a transition to clean energy during the 2nd day of a global summit on climate change biden laid out how washington will achieve its talkative cutting carbon emissions in half by 2030 invited climate advisors and

business leaders to look at what he called the valuable economic opportunities of tackling the crisis among them bill gates who urge governments and the private sector to work together we need to develop and deploy breakthrough technologies that allow us to eliminate emissions throughout the physical economy 2nd we need to tap the power markets to fund and deploy these innovations for example by finding creative ways to finance technologies and by leveling the playing field so they can compete with fossil fuels 3rd governments and corporations need to adopt policies that will make it faster and cheaper to make the transition and leaders will need to reward those who take difficult steps the british socialite gillan maxwells appeared before us judge pleading not guilty to sex trafficking charges she's accused of helping the late finance here jeffrey epstein to recruit and sexually

abuse girls charlotte balance out the details. looking frail and noticeably older glenn maxwell made her 1st in person a parents in a new york court since her arrest last year the 59 year old is accused of 6 trafficking having allegedly helped her friend an ex-boyfriend jeffrey epstein gruman 614 age girls in the 1990 s. and 2 thousands the victims lawyers 1st brought a civil suit against mex while 7 years ago or 2 years ago if sting was arrested on 6 trafficking charges disgraced financier committed suicide in his jail cell a month later his accusers and now hoping for justice through mechs wells trial to be honest i was too afraid to come see me at the trial. and if this is a new feeling for me to be able to sort of and sit there and accept you know a lot and them yeah i do think that it it's hard to sit through it and it's painful

but it's good to appealing for the next wells boys say she's not only innocent but describe her treatment in custody as a pulling i've never seen anything like it in 23 years of being a criminal defense lawyer i've never seen anything like it how she's being treated it's the epstein effect it's the epstein effect she's being treated horribly because of the negligence and what happened to jeffrey abstain from the victim's lawyers refute that i don't believe that there is any credible. evidence any basis whatsoever to assert that this maxwell is the fact. i think that a media blitz that the defendants are putting on. i do not believe that that is productive for them. i do not believe that that is fair to the real victims here maxwells lawyers we back in court on monday they will ask the federal appeals court

in manhattan to grant her bio it has been denied. 3 times all we're asking for is a fair opportunity to fight this case and if she's given bail we know that will happen a 3 week trial is scheduled for july next will faces up to 80 years in prison if convicted of all charges. or. more on that story and all the rest of the day's top news that al jazeera dot com. check it out and if you . take it to the headlines right now though india has reported the world's highest daily tally of covert infections for a 2nd straight day more than 332000 of them hospitals have critical shortages of

beds medicine and oxygen with purana has more. this is one of new delhi's.