it's making this possible. in kenya i mean the promise and scientists. the livelihoods depend on it was a new place a phrase or. at least 27 people killed and many more injured after oxygen cylinders exploded inside a baghdad hospital. i'm kemal santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden is labeled as genocides the killing of armenians a century ago prompting turkey to summon america's ambassador in protest. also

a maritime sound off in the black sea russia restricts access for ukraine's naval vessels. coverage for new zealand stages the world's largest concert since the pandemic began. doctors in iraq say at least 27 people have been killed now after an explosion inside a baghdad hospital fire burned through award week over 1000 patients were being treated. the accident was caused by a faulty oxygen tank dozens of people have been badly injured putting pressure on a health system struggling with surging coronavirus cases some wonderful scene has more from baghdad. we understand at the time of the incident there were 120 patients admitted. to hospital 30 of them were specifically in the respiratory

carrying it because this is a hospital that handles primarily covert 1000 patients and in addition to these 120 patients there were several family members want to perfect per patient minute because this is a people curiosity in the iraqi health care system that family members are actually allowed to be present alongside covert patients in the hospital and of course in addition to that there were also health care workers so at the moment the death toll is expected to increase because many people were rushed to nearby hospitals with severe burn injuries and what we understand in terms of the cause of this fire it was caused by the explosion of an oxygen oxygen cylinder the way it works of oxygen supply in these hospitals in many hospitals in iraq in fact is that there is no central oxygen supply system was so patients that require

a ventilator that require oxygen supply then depend on these oxy the oxygen cylinders which are provided and which are placed next to the patients bears and i spoke to one doctor who works in this hospital and he mentioned that because of the lack of staff members to care for the patients what ends up happening is that the relatives of patients often end up handling these oxygen cylinders and he believes that. any kind of mishandling may have caused this explosion and now prime minister mr card to me has promised an investigation into the incident but of course that is not enough for many iraqis you often hear the government promising investigations but we really really see the results or government officials responsible for what appears to be they collected mismanagement being brought to account. on to other news and u.s.

president joe biden has formally recognized the $915.00 mass killings of armenians in the also an empire as an act of genocide in a written statement to the u.s. president said we remember the lives of all those who died in the autumn an era armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring he added we do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated turkey's rejected that statement and has summoned the u.s. ambassador in ankara in protest foreign minister. said words cannot change will rewrite history we have nothing to learn from anybody on our own past political opportunism is the greatest betrayal to peace and justice we entirely reject this statement based soley on populism for many and so this is a watershed moment at home and among the extensive dast for a worldwide president biden's announcement coincided with the 106th anniversary of the mass killings i mean in prime minister nicole passion young says it is

a powerful step towards justice or reaction after the support from hashem holborow which does contain images some may find disturbing. it's a story more than 100 years old for turkey it's a chapter that's turned but for the united states and other members of the international community turkey must apologize for the events that started in 1915 that was when ottoman turks deported hundreds of thousands of armenians from eastern and atoll year to the syrian desert but what happened and how many were then killed remains disputed many historians say more than a 1000000 armenians lost their lives turkish officials deny any systematic killings took place saying it was a time of war and the death toll has been exaggerated turkey has always been angered by government describing the event that began in 1915 during the ottoman

empire as a genocide the armenian genocide remembrance day that takes place in armenia and is observed by many armenians abroad on april 24th every year is why this scene in turkey as a western propaganda aimed at a time machine the country's reputation was very strong objections to the use of the word genocide those see it as being linked to the holocaust you know these are 2 separate atrocities 30 years apart for that's not really the case they also worry about some kind of legal claims against them but again these are tragic events that occurred more than 100 years ago that's very unlikely the announcement by biden comes at a delicate moment in u.s. turkish relations ties between the 2 nato are lies have been strained for years. in 2020 the trump administration imposed sanctions against turkey over the spur chase

of russian weapons systems but trump and turkey's president. managed to prevent an escalation and described the relationship as friendly but when biden was elected president turkish officials expressed concerns that might get worse during the u.s. presidential election campaign last year when biden was democratic candidate he described as an autocrat and over the last few months the by the administration has pressed to improve its record in human rights with biden's latest move the u.s. joins dozens of countries that have declared the atrocities against armenians more than a century ago an act of genocide are al-jazeera. is a former foreign affairs adviser to the armenian prime minister and the founder and

editor in chief of media he told us the recognition is important because it will now affect domestic and foreign u.s. policy. this is historic this is historic for many reasons this is historic because it is the 1st time well. president ronald reagan back in the day in 1901 also once mentioned the word genocide but this is key because the white house and executive in the u.s. are now formally recognizing it which will mean that there will be policy changes and those policy changes will be both domestic in the united states and in the foreign policy of washington it's not just important to us it's important because once you use the word it becomes a legal and politically binding process which means that there should be responsibility carried out because of that that's why turkey is more afraid of the word than anyone else so they are ready to hear anything that they're ready to accept the deputations which are factually based by the autumn on archives but

they're afraid of the word genocide because that will mean there's a very clear ramifications for the turkish state and i think that that's part that's part of the reason why the so-called do you wore it which the turks were calling for a number of years for decades now has been basically one of the big stigma for them now by president joe biden statement it is finally becoming clear that the united states which has long recognized the armenian genocide which has armenian communities that ended up in this country because of that genocide is now formally talking about it and he's formally going to make it part of its policy and that remains to be seen. we also heard from turkey's presidential spokesman abraham colleen who told us just biden statement has no legal basis our president the president had gone made a call back in 2005 to form. a joint commission commission of historians turkish armenian russian british and other historians to look into what happened exactly in

115 before and after and we open our archives so all the facts in fact are available but again as i said driven by political. agendas never a political agenda unfortunately some of these parliaments and governments have chosen to accept this armenian propaganda of the killing of armenians in 1915 historical facts are out there what is presented as a case for genocide has no historical basis has no legal basis in fact to call anything a genocide you need an international court established particularly for that purpose this is the case with syrup anita and rwanda 2 recent cases of genocide in modern history in closer history you have to international courts deciding on this and there is no such court decision so why use this term if it doesn't have any legal basis and it only has turn issues negative political consequences

we. communicated all this points to the us administration but it's clearly a day it's clear that they make this statement without any historical grounds without any legal or political grounds other than the fact that they just. you know play into the hands of a group of lobbyists for this and unfortunately this of course casts a doubt and clout on us turkish relations but also it makes in our efforts to normalize relations with our many a much more difficult. there has been a 3rd night of violence near a mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem israeli security forces fired stun grenades and water cannon at palestinians who are angry at restrictions on gatherings during the muslim holy month of ramadan on thursday israeli forces say they prevented far right israeli activists from confronting a group of palestinians. now there is more tension between russia and ukraine and

this time it's at sea russia has closed all naval access to the kurds strait ukraine says that's illegal and violates the treaty but moscow says its forces are conducting military drills it follows the mobilization of tens of thousands of russian troops on the ukraine border in recent weeks and smith reports now from crimea. on the way out of crimea but very much still in charge of russia's land sea and air forces are heading back to their bases after 2 weeks of exercises along the border with ukraine and in the black sea it was a mobilization big enough to worry nato with at least 100000 russian soldiers estimated to have been involved but russia is keeping up the pressure on its neighbor by closing the curch straight to the ukrainian navy this links the black sea to the sea of and ukraine's eastern ports russia's main motive is to demonstrate that it controls crimea because russia has recognized graeme years

bottle for russia for the way a reason to control 'd this equitorial around the peninsula and closing down the rated you must raise who is in this part of the black sea and in the sea the bridge over the strait was built by russia in the years after its 2014 occupation of crimea it creates a permanent link to the russian mainland there's a treaty between russia and ukraine agreeing equal access to the sea but russia says it can close the strait the military exercises and these will last until the end of october there's not much ukraine can do unless it wants to take on russia's navy burn its main al-jazeera crimea. in the news ahead debris from an indonesian submarine has been found revealing crucial evidence about why the vessel disappeared with 53 people on board this one telling how the pandemics hurting germany's favorite vegetable.

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when i went east on al-jazeera. the top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera doctors in iraq say at least 27 people have been killed after an explosion inside of baghdad hospital fire burned through a ward with over 1000 patients were being treated us joe biden has become the 1st us president to formally recognize the mass killing of armenians during the ultimate empire as an act of genocide turkey's rejecting biden's statement and it's something the u.s. ambassador in ankara in protest i mean prime minister only called pasha and says

though it's a powerful step towards justice. syria's oil ministry is blaming israel for an attack on an iranian oil tank the vessel was one of 3 iranian oil tankers that had recently arrived at the bunny refinery off the coast of syria incident sparked a large fire which is now been put out israel has declined to comment. well the 53 member crew of a missing submarine in indonesia are now presumed dead after more debris was found a submarine has been declared sunk 4 days after it disappeared jessica washington reports from jakarta. after days of searching by air and sea crews found this debris in waters near the island of bali a torpedo launch pipe a bottle with grease sponges and even what appears to be a primitive this debris is crucial evidence but also cause for concern. with the

discovery of evidence of equipment from the submarine this is the proof that there are cracks in the submarine juta heavy pressure the carolina girl a 4 o 2 was initially classified as missing authorities now say they are certain it sank crews found an oil spill with a radius of 16 kilometers in the search area and the vessel could be lying as deep as 850 meters below the ocean surface exceeding what the submarine was built to withstand 53 people were on board experts say it's very unlikely any have survived my ex information in my experience would say the time for searching is past the time for hoping for risky was just now is the time to understand what happened indonesian navy ships are on the scene and other countries including australia singapore and the u.s. are assisting with the search. days after the submarine lost contact indonesian

authorities say they are committed to finding it and trying to start the evacuation process but they warn it will be risky and complicated when the search began navy official said if they had been a total power outage on board the crew only had enough oxygen to last 72 hours that time has now passed. we cannot say how the victims are because we haven't found them until now so the conditions of the victims cannot be determined the submarine was built in the late 1970 s. and completed a 2 year refit in south korea in 2012 now after 40 years the carolina 4 o 2 has made its final journey and the family and friends of those on board awaiting to know what happened to their loved ones just a washington al-jazeera jakarta.

with latin america again seeing a rise in coded 19 deaths and infections governments in the region are been criticized for their slow rollout of the vaccinations in the meantime front line workers the going day after day going without story day after day to fight a pandemic. through such cases a nurse in colombia an ambulance driver. these are the scenes of the become all too common across latin america frontline doctors and nurses battling to keep covered 19 patients alive but there are thousands of others often laboring day after day behind the scenes or in remote communities is part of the same fight against the same unforgiving enemy. and still more to do is a nurse working in cuenca in the southwest of colombia to reach a vaccination elderly members of the missing indigenous community. ogu from house to house reason awareness about vaccination against the virus because older

people is a blue differences and is to protect them from the disease that were facing. the pandemic has hit indigenous people across latin america disproportionately hard since they often live in remote communities with limited access to adequate health facilities. you know they rely on medics like anselm but he's often met with distrust and suspicion so he can persuade to accept the vaccine. we didn't think of getting it because we used to cure ourselves of anything with plants but as this is a worldwide problem there is no other solution whoever wants to get the vaccine it's not obligatory but you will feel safer getting it. others proved to be more resistant. last name but not his belief in modern medicine. that. my family and i will not get vaccinated because that is my belief because the pastor has taught us that it is not necessary by trust again god will go through

this will overcome everything that comes our way including disease. colombia has recently seen an increase in coverage $1000.00 deaths being their total up to more than $70000.00 there's an even worse picture in brazil with more than $40000000.00 infections and 386000 deaths and billions drive a car. sees it every day. but also. we once brought in a couple husband and wife they were admitted they were very unwell they got worse were incubated and they both died 10 minutes apart from each other on the way to hospital even though they were in a bad way they were chatting something that stuck with me because it was very a couple imagine it was uneasy. the 52 year old has been an ambulance driver for 12 years says he's never seen anything like this he never expected to have to deal with such little leno's misery dorsett you we hope that today will be a better day let's hope it's not as bad as other days when we see people desperate

crying after all it gets to us because we're right there witnessing people suffering it's not easy for anyone brazil is suffering about $4000.00 deaths a day and with the vaccination program being rolled out more slowly the most people would like there's no end in sight no rest by the thousands of workers like god loss and then sell more than usual and there al-jazeera cyrus. now it is what's called asparagus time in germany around spring when the spears are ready for harvest during the growing season east european workers come to work the fields pacifically but the pandemics not only made their travel more difficult it's also affecting sales stephanie decker reports from peanuts in brandenburg eastern germany. nicknamed white gold or the noble vegetable this is germany's all time favorite white asparagus but it's not germans working the fields it's men

mostly from romania who come here specifically for the harvest how many years even coming. through for. just 1st target. and why because. it's. nobody here is the best. and coronado's made a difference. you know it's no different. this year workers are coming into germany they just need a negative 1000 test when the borders closed last year the german government made an exception and allowed in 30000 foreign workers to save the harvest but it still hasn't brought situation back to normal the corps not even trained in law enforce power goes. only about 25 percent of the whole asparagus goes to west but now they all close da one and read. that perhaps we won't

sell all the asparagus and even because i haven't looked for foreign markets but in the same situation you know it's it's another not not a solution. prices are now lower there are less sales and higher costs but the vegetables are ready and the harvest must go on now this is where you go back to work a bite i wanted to talk about how it stood for profit it is done only by women most of them are from poland and we all know why only one and not none and we're told. that. they get around $14.00 an hour we're told it's hard work both on and off the fields the farms owner tells us most germans don't want to work for that amount of money. a sign of the times not everyone likes to be tested were told are carried out around twice a week many of these men have left their families behind in romania to earn off the

land. and groom when you know the money is good better than romania i feel at home here nothing to complain about. the result it's painstaking work but for these men worth it they will harvest 1500000 kilos of asparagus on this farm this season feeding germany its precious vegetable and in turn feeding their families back home stephanie decker al-jazeera billets in brandenburg eastern germany. contrast all about covert news with new zealand which is just stage the world's largest concert since the pandemic began 50000 fans packed into organising park stadium to see the local band 660 before charlotte bella's reports. frank thanks. in new zealand there is no pen dimmick no social distancing will face masks or

overwhelmed hospitals and so it is here that $50000.00 fans could cram into a stadium for a concert is a world 1st since covered 19 began it's very important to us as humans to get together and be able to sing the same songs together and makes us feel like part of something and that's very important to all about mental health to feel like that together once. the nation of 5000000 people has been largely coded 1000 free since june the governments keep the virus out with strict border controls and snap lock downs of any cases and. this band it's a finale in a nationwide tour. we want that desperately for everyone else and all our friends and all our musicians around the world and we know what it's like to be in lockdown and it sucked and we don't know if we'll be able to play gigs again. but we're fortunate for a few reasons here in years i. was sick 60 played 100000 people in recent

months making them the world's largest touring band. i was in my eyes it was amazing to see how. just fanatical people were and excited about being out and seeing live music and seeing something you know to drag them out of. a long brutal year. this was also a christening of eden park as a music it's new zealand's largest sports stadium but was recently approved for concerts to succeed not with. the musicians hoped for this event is a window of life with. for the billions in its grips charlotte dallas. * . finally have you ever wanted to completely get away from it all for a few weeks yes i have well people in france and take it to the extreme 15

scientists and explorers are just emerged from 40 days of deep isolation with no sense of time and or chapell have. a jeweler an anesthesiologist a security guard and some scientists walk out of a cave and back into the world. they spent 6 weeks in isolation deep inside the pyrenees mountains in southwest france as part of a scientific study the 15 men and women lived in a human cave in partial darkness without phones watches natural light nor any other indicator of time. the deep time experiment is led by swiss french researcher and explore christian close to studying how extreme isolation affects people's cognition and emotions. close widely known for carrying out expeditions alone to remote reaches of the planet and this study focuses on how people can be disorientated by extreme events and explore ways to prepare for them. we want to

be true or. believe they can synchronize. and not trying to lead. you into the environment in situation. the group's sleep patterns behavior and social interactions were watched closely and sensors measured how thoughts and feelings are impacted in what seems a timeless space. out of the cave but not yet out of the woods the study is carrying on now that they've been reintroduced to the world outside and al-jazeera . it's half past the hour on al-jazeera these are the top stories doctors in iraq say at least 27 people have been killed after an explosion inside of baghdad a hospital fire burned through the waterway covered 19 patients were being treated and blamed on a faulty oxygen to.