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 mainstream street journalism the listening post covers the way the news is covered on the jerseys. a fire at a hospital in the iraqi capital baghdad kills dozens of covert 19 patients. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up desperation in india another record day for corona virus infections as doctors beg for more international help. to get more violence overnight around the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem israeli forces far stronger maids to disperse crowds

of palestinians and censorship in hong kong a documentary on the umbrella protests leads to a ban on the screening of this year's academy awards. at least 27 people have been killed after an explosion inside of baghdad hospital fire spread throughout a ward where covert 19 patients were being treated it's understood that an accident caused an oxygen tank to explode the fire has now been put out. in the beginning there was an explosion it started from there the sickly explosion was over there the fire spread like fuel smoke reached my brother my brother's sick i took him out into the streets next to the ship put in a came back and went up from it to the last floor that didn't been found a gill suffocating about 19 years. she was suffocating about to dawn lived out of

baghdad turn to al-jazeera some of the fall to tell us more about what's happened. we're outside the hospital where the fire erupted last night and you can see quite a heavy security presence here the hospital has now been cordoned off nobody is allowed to enter inside because at the moment there is a forensic team that has begun investigation which was announced by prime minister mr me last night the government also decided to dismiss or rather suspend the director of the hospital as well as other management staff as well as the director responsible for health care in this area now for many people here that is not enough the government often promises investigations and often promises to bring people to account but 'd many times it happens that the high level officials who

are deemed to be responsible for really what is corruption and systemic make off the health care sector which is believed to be the root cause of this fire those officials are hardly ever brought to account so all of this has really added to the public anger over the government's handling of the pandemic when the and that mix 1st broke out in the country there was not enough protective gear not enough supplies for hospitals like these and there is also not enough staff at these hospitals and i spoke to a doctor who works in this hospital last night and he mentioned that because of the shortage of staff it is relatives of patients who are often asked to handle these an oxygen cylinders which i believe to be the policy of the explosion and the mishandling of those oxygen cylinders is believed to be the reason behind this explosion so at the moment we're waiting for the result. this investigation

but of course the public anger is only expected to go up as the funerals off the victims. are way later in the thing ok thanks for that it's about a 0 sum of a full team reporting live from baghdad india is reporting a record number of coronavirus cases for a 4th straight day with nearly 350000 infections stall for overwhelmed hospitals a begging for oxygen supplies as the country's health care system buckles a lockdown across delhi has also been extended for another week the u.s. has expressed deep concern about the situation and plans to urgently deploy additional support china russia and the european union have already offered help with generating equipment which is there was elizabeth broad of reports from new delhi. mumbai and delhi have some of the best healthcare infrastructure in the country and yet here in the capital we continue to see the entrances to hospitals

filled with desperate family members begging for their loved ones their loved ones to be admitted being rejected because hospitals are full and we're hearing reports of people dying outside hospitals dying on the footpath outside hospitals waiting to be admitted the southern city of bengal luda which is also one of the richest cities in the country it is an i.t. harb it is known for its medical tourism is also now running out of i.c.u. beds and that will give you an idea then of the situation in much poorer areas like the most populous state orthopod their age or like can be hard where it's much more difficult for people to get to hospitals there you know who often have to travel tens if not hundreds of kilometers to actually reach proper hospitals that have the equipment that they need and we are seeing cases rising alarmingly in

india's most populous state with the predation cases a more than 30000 a day now and with their put their age like most of india still not conducting enough tests we also have a discrepancy a very big discrepancy between the number of deaths the official death toll and the predation also in other badly affected states like garage and madhya pradesh doesn't add up to the number of bodies which are being cremated coronavirus considers arise in argentina hospitals the struggle to keep up with the number of patients more than 500 people are dying every day doctors say a variant of covert by a team 1st detected in brazil could be behind the rise of the number of cases assumed. we have a very high demand on the emergency room doctors on duty are receiving covert non covert patients in a much greater proportion than in the previous weeks which is what the 2nd wave

implies we are afraid this wave will overwhelm us with latin america again seeing a rise in covert biotene cases governments in the region are being criticised for the slow rollout of vaccination programs in the meantime frontline workers are going out day after day to fight the pandemic danny looks at 2 such cases a nurse in colombia and an ambulance driver in brazil. 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 back than 8 elderly members of the missing indigenous community. i think ogu from house to house reason

awareness about vaccination against the virus because older people always are 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. to barlow's shares and 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 bring 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 billions driver. sees it every day. 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 but says he's never seen anything like this and never expected to have to deal with such little in this misery. was it 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 than 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 was cyrus as for the 3rd night of violence nearly alex a mosque compound in jerusalem israeli security forces fired stun grenades and water cannon the palestinians they're angry at restrictions on gatherings during the muslim fasting month of ramadan on thursday israeli forces say they prevented far right israeli activists from confronting a group of palestinians let's go live to our west jerusalem our series harry forces there harry what's the latest with these clashes and why are they continuing.

well yes as you say there were more on saturday night in into sunday this is a pretty dangerous brew of factors that could lead towards further escalation since the beginning of ramadan the attempts by people to gather at this very significant place damascus gate there's a sort of a notch there's an amphitheater sun cannot be theater where people after the nightly prayers traditionally gather that has been barred off and so they've just been allowed a little channels down the steps to gain access to the old city people aren't allowed to gather there so they have been protests and clashes and skirmishes there every night since the beginning of ramadan what has changed in the last few days has been this intervention by this far right extremist group of anti arab activists chanting racist slogans who came to confront them on thursday so there was a major disturbance there with as you say israeli security forces in between these

2 groups some 125 injuries during that and that led to further disturbances and protests and clashes not just in by these troops the but also the occupied west bank there are also protests in gaza and potentially more significantly there were $36.00 rockets fired from gaza towards israel on friday night a long way the largest such incident since the beginning of the year and several more rockets were fired overnight saturday into sunday with one heading towards the israeli town of steroids being intercepted by the israeli iron dome others said to a full and within gaza itself added to all this and 10 surely escalating it are various videos going around some showing palestinian youths harris seeing and slapping ultra-orthodox israelis that's what the far right is really group said they were coming to protest against on thursday night and overnight last night as

well we saw a video with that apparently showed one part. being led into a police unit sort of base near the damascus gate area pushed down below the window and seemed to be flailing arms of israeli security forces seen directed at him so there are videos that are being shared on both sides which are fueling this kind of anger the israeli media is reporting that intelligence sources are worried about a developing escalation on the gaza front israeli prime minister is calling for calm or on all sides but being prepared for all scenarios so there is a dangerous mix which could continue how does harry force at their life in west or aslan very many thanks. the weather next here on our 0 then urging pilgrims to go green how one of iraq's holy cities is trying to manage the waste left behind by millions of visitors every year at a maritime standoff in the black sea russia restricts access for ukraine's naval

vessels. hello we've got some lovely spring sunshine continuing across many parts of central and northern europe at the moment 5 weather continuing remaining unusually dry having said that into a good part of the british isles and on into scandinavia high pressure still firmly in charge here and you can see have it runs down into those sent flowers if you let's move out of the way look what's coming got to an area of low pressure just spinning into spain and portugal as we go on through the next couple of days are going to say it's heading increasingly wet here as we go through sunday some heavy showers rattling in as we go through the next couple days it stays dry there across a good cost of the british hours across the low countries at really

a sleep raise is going to make it feel fantastic it has to be said as it runs in across east anglia and the southeast down across the low countries but as dry as can be largely dry to into those central parts shall a sweep across spain by the time we do come to monday lots of weather coming to northern parts of italy still a chance of one of 2 shots just around the eastern side of but for the med it's fine and dries is the case across a good part of northern africa well the past in iraq when the other hand will see some shop shells from time to time quite a brisk wind as well lifting some dust and sand and staying very warm through towards the east. in the 1st time lands of mesopotamia with the 1st. settlements formed the cradle of civilization iraqi people who've depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted and pollution al-jazeera world reveals how the manmade

decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. hello again this is al jazeera the main news this hour at least 27 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital in iraq's capital baghdad blazed through a ward where covert 19 patients were being treated it's understood that an accident caused an oxygen tank to explode. india is reporting a record number of corona virus cases for a 4th straight day with almost 350000 infections stuff that overwhelmed hospitals

a begging for oxygen supplies as the health care system buckles. and there's been a 3rd night of violence there the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem israeli security forces fired stun grenades and water cannons palestinians angry at restrictions on gatherings during the muslim holy month of ramadan. joe biden has become the 1st u.s. president to formally recognize the mass killing of armenians cheering the also an empire as an act of genocide biden said his intention is not to cost blame but to ensure it never happens again rob reynolds reports from malta bello california. a day of sorrel and remembrance at the armenian martyrs memorial near los angeles all day long families came to pay their respects laying flowers to commemorate the dead but this was also a watershed day for armenian americans as u.s. president joe biden officially declared the mass killing of armenians under the

ottoman empire during the 1st world war as genocide i think the whole armenian community really think you for him to pronounce as a genocide so we. we so appreciate it the finally the justice it's coming i'm so happy that president biden made the statement today and. i wish my parents were alive to hear this and see this my mother and her family did go through the walking through the desert and syria. they killed her father my mother's father my mother's youngest sister died biden's statement said we remember the lives of all those who died in the ottoman era armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from

ever again recurring previous presidents of voided use of the term for fear of angering nato ally turkey and indeed turkish officials lashed out summoning the u.s. ambassador to lodge a protest and foreign minister may have led couples so glued declaring words can't change history we won't take any lessons about our own history from anyone turkey has fiercely denied the mass killings of 1000000 500000 armenian men women and children was an act of genocide saying that deaths were the result of warfare in istanbul many people. rejected the genocide label young outlaw must not be on the sort of no such thing ever happened during the war things happen on both sides so it's meaningless to describe it like that my eventual good to good in our relationship with the us is already really bad and this will only worsen in the us

turkey relations have frayed in recent months as a candidate biden declared the turkish president race it tayyip aired a one as an autocrat and his administration has pressed on corrupt to stop human rights abuses in the armenian capital yerevan people marched in cheered and the country's leaders applauded by the statement many armenian americans here say the terrible events of more than a century ago are like a festering wound that never heals no matter how many decades have passed we grow up you know. you know with with the the the stories that have been passed down from survivors the story of survival so much trauma and it's and it's and it's multi-generational trauma but some say for them the president's words have shifted something like a sense of relief because it's it's out in the open it's been a knowledge by by now perhaps there can be some measure of healing robert

oulds al jazeera montebello california civil society groups in chad according to demonstrations today on the dissolution of the transitional military council it's headed by general mohamed addressed ab who took power following the death of his father idris table. we are calling on the chechen population all over the country to take to the streets on tuesday for public demonstration and we will stay on the street to for our not listen to we place ourselves under the protection of the african union and the united nations and ask that the mechanism be urgently set into motion to assure the protection of citizens to take charge of the process of comprehensive and to close a dialogue to build a consensual transition to create the conditions that grantee a lasting political handover to this and who reject any possibility of using french forces for this purpose even if they are already positioned in the territory syria's oil ministry is blaming israel for

a drone attack on an oil tanker off its coast the identity of the vessel remains unclear iran's state media says the tanker was one of 3 iranian ships that recently arrived at the refinery incident sparked a large fire which has now been put out israel has to clients to comment. the city of karbala in iraq is struggling to manage tons of garbage left behind by millions of pilgrims who visit the holy sites every year the way stands up in landfills rivers and eventually the sea activists are urging people to reduce their consumption of plastic and become green pilgrims some of in java reports now from kabul. this is what happens to single use plastics all over the world many items end up in waterways and eventually the seat. iraq's holy sites are no exception millions of pilgrims leave behind tons of trash in karbala. a lot of it gets dumped in the streets with an army of workers employed to clean it all up. for the

municipality it's a major challenge the stockmen center we have seen kabul receives 50000000 visitors every year about 2000000 pilgrims friend of research and the rest for weekly gatherings it's a challenge for the small city which doesn't have enough roads and services we need the help from citizens n.p.o. grams plastic is more than 50 percent of the waste we have 200 acres allocated for a project to better manage dumping trash but we are white and grisman and there are fewer visitors due to the pandemic but garbage continues to mount and this is where it all goes the stench is unbearable and it goes on for miles in the absence of recycling facilities garbage collectors sift through it with their hands they sell to a number of factories which reuse the nylon and plastic about $100.00 kilos sells for just over $15.00. it can take up to 3 days to collect that amount of dust.

i collect plastic bottles nile and cod black only during the pilgrimage days i collected 100 kilos a day i have 2 kids and live in a slum we start working from 6 am and sometimes to 11 pm this is a situation of children and youth working here no one cares about our suffering and yet tons of plastic trash still floats in the canals and waterways of iraq what appears to be solid ground is water from the euphrates river covered in plastic environmentalist believe in the clergy can play its role to persuade residences veliz visitors to adopt a greener habits it could create a major impact because people never get to see what happens to their trash they generally don't care. zara comes to the holy sites a few times a year she says local population and wildlife is at risk if programs don't change their habits here to raise awareness about. plastic here i would request every pilgrim to bring their own. cups so that

using all kinds of plastic. to also provide alternate solutions to the local communities 1st and then it's our responsibility to visit coming in from more than 40 countries hundreds of deaths have been attributed to water borne diseases and pollution in war torn iraq and the people who come to the country to pay homage might be putting its future at stake unless millions of them produce using their billions of pieces of plastic. down to 0. an uneasy tension between russia and ukraine is playing out this time at sea russia has closed all naval access to the straits ukraine says that's illegal and violates a treaty moscow says its forces are merely conducting military drills but smith reports from crimea. on the way out of crimea 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 as off and ukraine's eastern ports russia's main motive is to demonstrate that it controls crimea because russia has recognized gray mir's part of russia for the way a reason to control 'd this equitorial around on the peninsula and closing down the rated you must raise who is in this part of 'd 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. for the 1st time since i seen 6 and i in hong kong movie fans won't be able to watch the academy awards live on t.v. many say that's because a documentary about protests in the territory has been nominated to be a part of reports. this be the reason the academy awards will not be shown live in hong kong to not split has been nominated for an oscar in the short subject documentary category the 35 minute film centers around the anti-government demonstrations of 2019. baby jane and obviously we don't like our look at men and that was no surprise at all because our look meant it is about a group of protesters showing their resistance to live political leadership in bay

day so it was no surprise that they would react in some way only up to my mind is this is no question of censorship hong kong broadcaster t.v. which is aired the oscars live since 1989 declined our interview requests but sent a statement saying that the move was made purely for commercial reasons what the no matter doing is not that different than what the prime years did this movie's director is also fueling speculation that politics are at play nomad land received multiple nominations beijing born chloe zhao is the 1st chinese woman to be in contention for best director but instead of being celebrated she's accused of being disloyal for an interview she gave a decade ago where she appeared to be critical of china media reports claim that beijing authorities had instructed mainland media outlets to downplay the oscars. which is likely to have had

a knock on effect in hong kong and the national security law is casting a shadow on the city's film industry once considered the hollywood of the east at stake is the city's rich cultural heritage which could be. impacted by the new law where film songs are any form of art proceeds is anti china could face consequences the law criminalizes acts of secession subversion terrorism and collusion with foreign forces what was wrong if their local already did do a vetting to and hugh that divvying is not against national security law we seem so many means all people in the name of office they are actually be resorting to volunteer and courage ing father all right. since the law took effect in july activists and opposition politicians have been jailed more than 10000 people have been arrested in relation to the protests and many young people

including one of the main characters in to not split have fled the city of eagle pollen allergies era on. australia and new zealand of health services to all the troops who served in the 1st 12 all. and sank today marks the 1915 landing in northern turkey where thousands of soldiers from australia and new zealand were killed it also commemorates service members killed in all conflicts since this is anniversary comes as both nations prepared to completely withdraw troops from afghanistan it lined with u.s. plans to and the 20 year war. it's good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera a place to.