the news encounter for that matter. played an important role in protecting human. face. a fire at a hospital in the iraqi capital baghdad kills dozens of patients. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. more violence overnight around the al aqsa mosque compound in east jerusalem israeli forces fire stun grenades to disperse crowds of palestinians. a look at how the pandemic is hurting germany's favorite vegetable. censorship in hong kong

a documentary on the umbrella protests leads to a ban on screening of this year's academy awards. at least 27 people have been killed after an explosion inside a 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 that 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 old she was suffocating about to die. 0 sum out

of 14 reports now from baghdad. we're outside the hospital where the fire erupted last night 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 . last night the government also decided to dismiss or rather suspend the director of the hospital as well as other management the director responsible for health care in this area now for many people here is not enough the government often promises investigations often promises to bring people to account but many times it happens that the high level officials were deemed to be responsible for really what is corruption and systemic off the health care sector which believes to be the root cause of this fire both officials are hardly ever brought to account

for all of this has really added to the public anger over the government's handling of. the pandemic 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. it is relatives of patients who are often asked to handle these an oxygen cylinder which i believe to be the cause of the explosion india is reporting a record number of corona virus cases for a 4th straight day with nearly 350000 and traction stuff that overwhelmed hospitals are begging for oxygen supply is a lockdown across turkey has put extended for another week the u.s. has expressed deep concern about the situation of plans to urgently deploy additional support china russia the european union already offered help with oxygen

generating equipment elizabeth brought up ports now from new delhi. mumbai and delhi have some of the best health care 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 to 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 of 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 their predation cases a more than 30000 a day now and with a predict 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 or 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. there's a similar situation in argentina where coronavirus deaths are rising fast as hospitals struggle to keep up with the number of patients more than 500 people are

now dying every day doctors say that a variant of covert 19 1st detected in brazil could be behind the sudden rise in the number of cases i see more than often and we have a very high demand on the emergency room doctors on duty are receiving covert non-code 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 cases governments in the region are being criticized for the slow rollout of vaccination programs but for the many frontline workers it's a daily battle to help the struggling patients. looks now 2 of them 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 1000 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 is a nurse working in cuenca in the southwest of colombia to reach vaccinate elderly members of the missing indigenous community. ogu from house to house reason or witness about vaccination against the virus because people always are differences in a supportive thing from the disease the refusing. 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 shares a 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 deaths being near total up to more than 70000 there's an even worse picture in brazil with more than 40000000 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 says he's never seen anything like this he never expected to have to deal with such little endless misery dorsett you we hope that today will be a better day but 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 in their al-jazeera cyrus. there's been a 3rd night of violence near the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem israeli

security forces fired stun grenades and water cannon a palestinian protesters who are 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 who live out of western. forces can tell us more harry what's the latest with these clashes why are they continuing. we are so it's a pretty dangerous brew of factors which have fueled this so far and risk fueling it even further towards a bigger escalation involving other parts of the region the question that started the the protests which have been going really since the beginning of ramadan the 1st night of ramadan is the issue of the steps outside damascus gate the one of the most famous entrances to the old city in occupied east jerusalem where after nightly prayers it is traditional for people to come and assemble and

gather this year the police have prevented that happening they've put up barriers just allowing people to enter and leave without being able to congregate on the steps so since the 1st night of ramadan there have been these skirmishes and clashes what's changed in the last few days has been this attempt by a group of several 100 of a couple 100 or more of far right israeli jewish activists anti arab chanting racist death to arab chance as they marched from west jerusalem to confront the palestinians at damascus gate the police israeli said that they were going to prevent them from getting there in the end they got very close there was criticism on the night thursday night that they were more heavy handed dealing with the palestinian protesters than they were with the israeli jewish ones and there were about 125 injuries on that night and the same time this is also being fueled by the

fact that far right elements of israeli politics and now represented in the israeli knesset the parliament since the last election there's been alliance that was really sponsored by the prime minister benjamin netanyahu that allowed such representation they have been sharing videos of palestinians attacking jews talking about terrorists ripping down israeli flags and we also have the fact there are palestina. elections will take place later in may we have hamas and its military wing talking about supporting the protest is inside east jerusalem and there have been a large number of rockets fired over the last couple of nights from gaza toward southern israel and so there is a real risk that given all of these factors that this won't necessarily die down and could indeed spread into a really quite dangerous escalation of 0 as harry forces reporting live there from

west or islam harry many thanks indeed. still to come here on al-jazeera why our media's prime minister is stepping down leading to a stark election in june. it's time for the perfect journey. with a sponsored point qatar airways that we got a bit of a mixed weather picture over a year this weekend and that's going to continue as we go into next week we've got this area of high pressure sitting across the north sea that's bringing woman drier weather to central and northern parts but we've got low pressure over western russia so we're going to see some cooler conditions here a bit of a wintry mix as well and for the iberian peninsula that low pressure is going to be bringing thunderstorms and showers across portugal extending into spain with lots of cloud and those showers are going to continue as we go into the week plenty of

sunshine around for france though and into germany as we go into monday those showers will creep up across southern areas the france the british isles we have got brighter weather lots of sunshine coming through it's been a rather dry month and those dry conditions will continue norway seeing a lot of that woman weather as well it's further east as we get to western russia that we're seeing that wintery mix rain sleet and snow and cloud and rain as well for eastern parts of europe further south things are preaching we've got a wintry mix pushing into turkey but have a brisk wind and that's going to blow across into north africa where we could see some sandstorms across libya. spoke to qatar airways argentinas be like is being jeopardized by industrialised agriculture uncontrolled cattle grazing to reasonable takes you want to jump into the event i'm not going to

explode what's being done to protect nature. and meet some of those determined to go and call the bonding argentina told to al-jazeera in the field there is no channel that conference world news like we do we revisit cases. on syria. and that's a privilege as a journalist. well again this is al-jazeera made news this hour at least 37 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital in iraq's capital baghdad the flame is through a ward where covert by team patients were being treated an oxygen tank explosion may have caused the fire. india is reporting

a record number of corona virus cases for a 4th straight day with nearly 350000 infections staff are overwhelmed hospitals are backing for oxygen supplies as the health care system as. it has been a part of violence there the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem israeli security forces fired stun grenades and water cannon the palestinians angry about restrictions during ramadan. joe biden has become the 1st u.s. president to formally recognize the masking the killing of armenians during the ottoman empire as an act of genocide biden said his intention is not to cost blame but to ensure that it better happens again rob reynolds reports from what about a 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 the 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 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 blue 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 p. . rejected the genocide label yana too long must not be on the 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 our relationship with the us is already really bad

and this will only worsen. us turkey relations have frayed in recent months as a candidate biden declared the turkish president race it 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 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. montebello california the u.s. recognition of those mass killings comes as a genocide comes as armenia's prime minister submitted his resignation the act formally sets the stage for snap elections on june 20th nicole me and i've been under pressure for his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan the conflict ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories al-jazeera has written for us to walk is in tbilisi in neighboring georgia he joins us now why has amin is president of prime minister rather had his resignation in now. ok. it was never a question. and it was always a question of when and that's because his resignation is a constitution that. he knew would have full. the country to then move forward

with step elections so it's a procedural matter but at the same time i think it's interesting that he chose the day after president 'd biden's words describing the mass killings of 2950 the genocide i think the timing is interesting because it will have given some comfort to the army in so we feel like it's sort of a feel good. 'd making this announcement he's actually quite and then went back to prime minister because for most every day since the end of the war. in the quarter kyra back last september which. lost quite decisively in its fights with azerbaijan not has been the real mark on his premiership and so they've been protests calling for his

resignation by the opposition who claim that he's responsible for having lost that war missed the passion it's fought back and still maintains that he has the popularity to go ahead now and win these elections and so he's making he's trying to announce his resignation kickstarts that process with elections in june expected june 20 we're going for a walk up after live in tbilisi the search for a missing indonesian submarine has turned into a salvage operation the $53.00 crewmembers are now presumed dead after daybreak was found the vessel was declared sunk on saturday 4 days after it disappeared under schapelle reports. what were search and rescue boats returned to port prepared for a change of mission a day after indonesia's navy declared a missing submarine sunk with 53 souls on board karen on gala 402 last saw the

surface on wednesday off the coast of bali debris that's been found indicates its whole collapsed under pressure. i got the indonesian navy has changed the status of. for missing to drowned or sunk submarine all of us indonesians express our deep sorrow over this charge of deep space and to the families of the submarine crew. members of the public hopeful that the crew would be found alive now send their condolences yeah. i hope that the family members of the victims will soon get good news from it and the submarine will be found soon no matter how the condition is and i hope the family is strong enough to face it. yeah i think. i can imagine you twas a difficult moment for the crew and it was deep down under the sea but also even if the ease advanced technology they must have been the human element you're in the

operation so these cool be a learning opportunity in our demise to the main to improve the technology and be careful using it because people's lives are at stake and the others are sharing a video of the men that's become a viral tribute of a submarine crew on eternal patrol. and are schapelle al-jazeera. it's what's called asparagus time in germany around spring when its spirit is ready for harvest during the growing season eastern european employees come to work the fields but the pandemic has not only made that travel more difficult it's also affecting sales staff a deck of reports from bandits and in 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 you've been coming there for so doing for years. but just for asparagus yes just for fun. and why to give money is. it's. no money going here is the best. and coronado's made a difference to travel. a lot 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 core not even changed in law enforce power goes. only about 25 percent of the whole asparagus goes to west tongs but now they all close dollar on. that perhaps leave.

all the asparagus and even have a look for foreign markets but in the same situation. 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. guy wanted to talk about how it stood for profit that is done only by women most of them are from thailand and we all know why only women not men and we're told that simply 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 we're told are carried out around twice a week. many of these men have left their families behind in romania to earn off

the land when you can when we've been grown when you know the money is good better than romania i feel at home here nothing to complain about. to resume its painstaking work but for these men worth it they will harvest 1500000 kilo's 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 east in germany. for the 1st time since 960 night hong kong movie fans won't be able to watch the academy awards live on television but he says 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 obviously don't like our

look and that was no surprise at all because our look mentor is about a group. showing their resistance to live political leadership in beijing so it was no surprise that they will react in some way only open to my mind is this is no question of censorship hong kong broadcaster t.v. which has aired the oscars live since 1989 declined our interview requests but sent a statement saying that the move was made purely for commercial reasons but the no matter doing is not that different than what the prime years to 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. why 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 all for already did you have that thing do and huge that divvying is not against national security lol we seem so many things all people in the name of ox they are actually

be resorting to violence 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 into not split have fled the city davey gopalan are just their own. story and new zealand have held services to our soldiers who served in the 1st war will. there are as. i'm saying today marks the 1915 going to be landing in northern turkey where thousands of soldiers from australia and new zealand were killed it also commemorates service members killed and or conflicts since.