are those who are who don't work for him or. me cackle like to think that their national is not as ugly as someone else's national park one of. a fire at a hospital in the iraqi capital baghdad kills dozens of patients. 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. more violence overnight around the al aqsa mosque compound in east jerusalem israeli forces. to disperse crowds of palestinians. and censorship in hong kong

a documentary on the protests leads to a ban on the screening of this year's academy awards. at least 58 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 extinguished. 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 we're not from there to the last floor that didn't been found a ghost suffocating about 19 years old she was suffocating about to die of a serious not a full team reports now from baghdad. we're outside at the hospital where.

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 . c the government also decided to dismiss or rather suspend the director of the hospital as well as other management director responsible for health care area for many people here not enough the government often promises investigations often promises to bring people to account but c many times it happens that the high level officials were deemed to be responsible for really what is corruption. 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. 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 sections stuff that overwhelmed hospitals are begging for oxygen supplies a lockdown across study has been extended for the week the u.s. has expressed deep concern about the situation and plans to urgently deploy additional support china russia the european union. already offered help with

oxygen generating power and elizabeth veronica reports now from new delhi. and 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 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 there 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 orthopod there also in other badly affected states like garage and madhya pradesh doesn't add up to the number of bodies which are being cremated. and sorry as an indian journalist he says that the outbreak has been mishandled and that things will get worse in the coming days. every day there are protests there is tremendous

amount of anger and despair and the frightening part is that the worst is yet to come a government panel an expert panel set up by the government has predicted that the surge the peak will come a month from now when numbers could it could go as high as 500000 day as it is 20 people died for want of elect for want to fox region in a delhi hospital last night and every day by the cries go out the hospitals are rushing to the courts petitioning them saying that they are via only minutes away from our oxygen supply is running out and and therefore india has amounted to climb we are up against it the government also appears to be reluctant partly because the prime minister and the government i want to the world to believe that india being dobbed of the pharma industry was leading this fight against the pandemic there are they allowed themselves convinced themselves into believing that india had got the

better of this pandemic the time that could have been used to argument had in infrastructure was wasted to regroup complacent there were big political rallies where hundreds and thousands of people gathered and were dressed the bios of senior politicians specially the prime minister nor minister the religious congregations rep again hundreds and thousands of people who are allowed to gather so covert behavior was thrown out of the reds and others under which we now have the situation which has exploded in our face and like i said earlier the fear is that the worst is yet to come. well it's a similar situation in argentina coronavirus to a rising us hospital 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 cases i see more than often and we have a very high demand on the emergency room doctors on duty are receiving covert and

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 there's been a 3rd night of violence there the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem israeli security forces fired stun grenades and water cannon the palestinian protesters who are angry at restrictions on gathering string the muslim month of ramadan on thursday israeli forces say they preen prevented far right israeli activists from confronting a group of palestinians carrefour supports now from west jerusalem. 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 mightly pres 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 and arab chanting racist . death to arabs chance as they marched from west jerusalem to confront the palestinians at damascus gate the police israeli police said that they were going to prevent them from getting there in the end they got very close they were just criticism on the night thursday night they were more heavy handed dealing with the palestinian protesters the new we're with the israeli jewish ones and there were

about 125 injuries on the night rebels in northern child say they're ready to observe a cease fire and discuss a political settlement from the change in concord in chad also known as facts crossed from libya on april 11th calling for an end to president idriss deby is rule that he was killed fighting the group on the front line a military council headed by the late president's son the hamas will oversee an 18 month transition to elections let's go live to enjoy mina in chatham to serious have a morgan. but what exactly is the rebel said and how is the transitional government likely to respond. well adrian let's not forget that there are these cease fire the call for a ceasefire by the forefront for change and concord group which is responsible for the death of chad's longtime president idriss deby seems to be a response to the call by the military council which upon announcing that it will

be leaving the country for the next 18 months during the transitional period has called for dialogue and said they want all chaldeans whether it's the internal opposition groups or the outside groups including the armed groups to come out around the table to discuss how to go on forward following the death of injuries that b. so this one seems to be a response to those calls but it comes just days after a fact announced that they have been subjected to as strikes by government forces on the same day where states are on the same day when a state funeral was held for agrees that be on friday but then there are also other groups who are who need to be looked into. as we look at the response from the rebel group known as fact there is the military command council for salvation. of the republic as well as the movement for democracy and justice in chad so these are some of the rebel groups who have put out a statement following the statement from fact that they are not going to recognize this transitional military government and they will continue fighting they say that

they do not want to be some how might it be to be the one in charge and that there should be a civilian in place while the various groups as well as the opposition and the military sits down around the table to discuss how to move on forward following the sudden death of injuries there be 07 morgan reporting live from madrid. still to come here on i was his hero urging pilgrims to go green and one of iraq's holy cities is trying to manage the waste left behind by millions of visitors every year. the to. add new zealand provides a think into a post to make world. hello there let's start in southeast asia where we're seeing more settled conditions for

much of the philippines now that typhoon is firmly out to sea we'll have sunshine and showers full northern areas 30 degrees in manila but it's in the south that we'll see those heavier downpours as we go into chews day you can see those yellow peaks for much of the malaysian ensure we will see some showers and thunderstorms heavy a downpours for vietnam and cambodia as well as southern thailand we could also see some heavy showers as well for parts of indonesia but the wetter weather is in australia northern areas of queensland seeing those downpours continue it's been a rather wet month and ken's is going to see some more wet weather for the west things are looking dry and settled 28 degrees in perth we've got a warm wind blowing there it's cooler as we head to the south victoria seeing some cloud coming in we'll see the odd shower as well and a brisk wind good blowing across tasmania is going to keep those temperatures

around 19 degrees for new zealand we have got a weather system working its way across the south island and that is going to bring some wetter weather as well to the north island. for. an hour that stays for the blind and a robotic arm for the disabled. a young girl straightly an engineer isn't venting tools to help people gain independence looked at it as a tiny tiny little side of that will put the ability to recognize objects all over the fire and say that people with limited vision will be able to recognize everyday objects women make science robo gals on al-jazeera.

hello again this is al jazeera the main news this hour at least 58 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital in iraq's capital baghdad the flame has been through a ward where covert 19 patients were being treated an oxygen tank explosion may have been the cause find. india is reporting a record number of coronavirus cases for a 4th straight day with nearly 350000 infections stuff that overwhelmed hospitals are begging for oxygen supplies as the health care system buckles. and it's been a 3rd night of violence near the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem israeli security forces fired stun grenades and it looks account of the palestinians who are angry about restrictions during ramadan. joe biden has become

the 1st u.s. president to formally recognize the mass killing of armenians during the also but empire as an act of genocide biden said his intention is not to cost blame but to ensure that it can never happen again rob reynolds reports from want to bellow 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 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. 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. our relationship with the us is already really bad and this only worsening. 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 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 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. well the u.s. recognition of those mass killings as genocide comes on me as prime minister submitted his resignation the act formally sets the stage for snap elections on june 20th a colpus indian had 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 voting is underway in albania and what's expected to be a tight race between the ruling socialists and opposition democrats prime minister of iran cost his ballots in the general election a short while ago it's the 1st vote contested on the new laws aimed at stamping out to regularities the previous votes albania is seeking e.u. membership and needs to hold an election that meets international standards. indonesia's president joko widodo says the entire country is in deep sorrow after the loss of $53.00 sailors presumed dead after the submarine sank off dozens of ships the aircraft combed the area for 4 days the fate of the crew was confirmed when search crews found a brief from the missing vessel the salvage operation is on the way but. i don't put that up they are the best sons of the nation patriots guarding the sovereignty of the country all the best efforts of search and rescue had been and

are still being done for that and that its author our best wishes as well as prayers for the 53 best patriots who guard the country's sovereignty and i hope all family members are given strength in the city of karbala and iraq is struggling to manage tons of garbage left behind by millions of pilgrims who visit the holy sites every year the waste and up in landfills rivers and eventually the sea activists urging people to reduce their consumption of plastic become green pilgrims a solid job had reports from kabul. this is what happens to single use plastics all over the world many items end up in waterways and eventually the sea. 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 if the command center we receive $50000000.00 visitors every year about 2000000 pilgrims for anniversaries 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 and basement. 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. 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 working from 6 am and sometimes 2 11 pm this is a situation 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 residents isabel is 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 i'm here to raise awareness about the excess use of plastic here i would request every program to bring to gain their own do you think. that larry said and then you really was able cuts so that we were using all kinds of plastic

a styrofoam or paper cuts a lot needs to be done here in that you need to also provide alternate solutions to educate the local communities 1st and then it's our responsibility as visitors who are 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 and this millions of them reduced using their billions of pieces of plastic some of their a couple of. syria's oil minister 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 had recently arrived at bam e.-s. refinery instance fox a large fire which has now been put out israel has declined to comment. staged the world's largest concert since the pandemic began 50000 fans packed clinton's

stadium to see a rock band before reports. in fact thanks to both the paper in new zealand there is no pen dimmick no social distancing will face masks or overwhelmed hospitals and so it is here that 50000 fans could cram into a stadium for a concert 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 covert 900 free since june the governments keep the virus out with strict border controls and snap lock downs of any cases emerge. for 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 and you saw there was 660 play 210-0000 people in recent months making them the world's largest touring band. i was in my eyes it was amazing to see how. just phonetic copay for wood and excited about being out in 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 thing you know it's new zealand's largest sports stadium that was recently approved for concerts to see if the. musicians hope this event is a window of life with. for the billions in its grips shelob ellis 0. australia

and new zealand of health services to our soldiers who served in the 1st war wall. or are our. anzac day marks the 1915 gallipoli landing in northern turkey where thousands of soldiers from australia and new zealand were killed it also commemorates service members killed in or conflicts since. for the 1st time since 969 hong kong movie fans won't be able to watch the academy awards live on t.v. 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 protesters showing their resistance to live political leadership in beijing so it was no surprise that they will react in some way only up to my knees this is no doubt 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 what 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. at stake is the city's rich cultural heritage which could be impacted by the new law where film songs or any form of art precedes us anti china could face consequences the law criminalizes acts of secession subversion terrorism and collision with foreign forces but what's wrong if the local already did do a bad thing too and that divvying is not against national security law we've seen so many things all people in the main office they are actually we sort of volunteer and courage and odds are. 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 t.v. gopal an al-jazeera. that is could tell you with a slow way dreams are going to hear in doha the headlines on al-jazeera iraq's interior ministry says that at least 82 people have been killed in a fire a hospital in the capital baghdad the flames been through a war where covert 19 patients were being treated as an oxygen tank explosion may have caused the fire some of the 14 reports from baghdad all of this has really added fuel to the public anger over the government's handling of the pandemic when and then it 1st broke out in the country that was not.