as a correspondent with any breaking news story we want to hear from those people who would normally not get their voices heard on the international news channel one moment i'll be very proud of all those when we covered the nepal earthquake of 2050 a terrible natural disaster and the story that needed to be told from the heart of the affected area to be that to tell the people story was very important at the time. i know. that. it is coronavirus tragedy growing worse by the day the world scrambles to offer more help. to lower income all santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera for a few years of spiraling violence in somalia as supporters of the defiant president

fight with those opposed to this extended rule also 3 days of mourning in iraq after a hospital fired back that killed 82 people the health minister is suspended but there are more calls for accountability. and 890000 seat stadium with just 8000 fans start though the crowds return to english football for the league cup final at wembley. india is in the middle of the world's largest coronavirus surge and it's only getting worse maybe 350000 new cases have been reported that means 4 days consecutive days of record rises with oxygen medicine and beds still critically short in supply the world is stepping up to help we'll hear more about that in a moment 1st this report from elizabeth around him in new delhi. that.

i saw there but breaks down as he pleads with staff in india's biggest coded mine hospital to admit his wife much meaning. that she's line in the back of an ambulance breathing with the help of an oxygen cylinder he tells al jazeera they came here after being turned away by other hospitals. honestly you know to me i have no one else except my wife and child who have left in the world with an acquaintance who is no one to look after us we aren't getting a bed and i've tried many hospitals but there's no one around to give us a bed with folded hands i pleaded with the acquaintance to take care of my child. tensions run high outside the hospital the family members tell stahl they have nowhere else to go to any of them. but look nyuk already has 1850 patients and only 1500 beds staff told us hundreds of lying on the floor i work is very hard we try to help and guide people but they

don't listen people are becoming very frustrated some even become physical. doesn't venture out awaiting for alice months to give up and begin their search for a bed again hoping to find a hospital where someone has been discharged. despite being india's biggest co the 19 hospitals stop at north naruto does it too has been running low on oxygen supply when the delhi regional government took the matter to the high court india for the for the general told it let's try and not be a crybaby. 50 people died in the capital after their oxygen supply ran out and on saturday 6 patients died in the state of punjab because of the st louis said . health care workers say they are helpless in the face of such a calamity. we need the radio and my already.

wandering and therefore. there is more help more. so they have bought to leave spoke nakata his ambulance driver tells him his wife will die if they keep waiting there elizabeth pradhan al-jazeera new daddy. india's government has ordered social media firms to remove content. which is critical of its handling of the pandemic dozens of posts on facebook twitter and instagram have been taken down the sense of posts included calls for prime minister modi to resign and critiques from journalists and opposition politicians and these governments as the posts were targeted for spreading his or its words fake news and misleading information. let's hear from dr malik director of roddick's healthcare a private hospital in new delhi he says this medical emergency in india right now simply cannot be overstated. we are in the midst of one of the most previous challenges our country has faced since the partition of 947 just seeing in

a very very vulnerable population continuously in search for oxygen basic beds them the medicines and things even like the mall in smaller towns in india point 35000000 new cases each are being recorded and this is when we do not have adequate testing happening on the ground seem massive so it's of young population getting affected by the 2nd wave and i truly believe that the you have not achieved the peaking yet the are going to see the peak in the coming one on one and a half weeks from now that is massive shortage of oxygen in hospital and. morning we just have 10 minutes of oxygen left in hospitals that have been more than 45 deaths recorded deaths and then he knocks them hospital because of lack of

oxygen and the other on oxygen s.o.s. colds and and until and unless the government provides us with oxygen which is an essential medicine to fight over and this is the only medicine which actually works this is something which is the need of the hour and if you do not do that you will see a lot of bloodshed in delhi and other parts of the country i believe that any patient who dies can you stay or can i stephen don't oxygen for even a minute dancer is no oxygen is a basic necessity and specially for me it is like very very savvy and other drugs have questionable clinical clients oxygen is the only essential medicine we have something by the government called the essential medicines act that the source of medicine is oxygen and if you do not have oxygen how do we fight a. which is salt. and so in stitches.

well international international efforts to help india are building the u.k. is sending more than 600 medical devices oxygen concentrators ventilators that sort of thing 1st shipment due to arrive on tuesday and foreign secretary dominic rob says more on the way. we're sending out an emergency shipment of over 600 items of equipment ventilators oxygen concentrator is and the aim is to provide the support that the indians need at their hour of need really if judging by the distressing scenes we've seen in many of the hospitals in india will be a series of other shipments the 1st one goes out today and we are in i'm going to scotians with the indian government about further things that they may or may not need us president joe biden says his country will help india just as it helped america through the worst moments of its outbreak history of medical advisor dr anthony fauci spoke to a.b.c. news as the white house announced it will immediately send medical and protective gear and raw materials for producing vaccines there's discussions about really

ramping up what we can do on the ground oxygen supply drugs tests p p as well as taking a look in the intermediate and long run about how we can get vaccines to these individuals both immediately now as well as in the situation where you help them to be able to essentially make vaccines themselves more on this side of the story with patty calhoun in washington. well the biden ministration has been under increasing pressure to take these steps especially after thursday the state department spokesperson asked about sending aid to india said that they were focusing on vaccinating americans that was their priority but now we know that they are going to send some supplies we know this because the white house put out a statement reading out a call between the national security adviser jake sullivan and his counterpart now keep in mind there is a ban in the united states for x.

14 any sort of ingredient that goes into making these coated vaccines so this statement is very carefully worded it says that they have found a some source they have found a supply source for helping to make that vaccine it doesn't say that it's u.s. based or where it's from but it goes on to list a couple of other things like you mentioned that they'll be sending in such as personal protective gear testing kits they're going to send some therapeutics of medicine that we know can help treat severe covert cases and there's an inch of health experts so one of the issues here is they don't say how much of these supplies they're going to send they say they're going to work generating oxygen capacity but doesn't say exactly how that's going to work or what they're going to do for this urgent need and there's another source of criticism now facing the biden ministration the u.s. has the technology obviously to make pfizer the madonna vaccine the johnson and johnson there is pressure for him to relax intellectual property rights in the

patents and to share that technology with the world so they can make their own vaccine that is something he said he would be the humane thing to do it was running for president but so far they are just only say that they are considering whether to take those steps obvious on the in the pharmaceutical industry is against but that is something that the biden mr action is going to continue to be asked to do as the spikes across the globe. let's move to other news somalia where gunfire and explosions of shaken the capital mogadishu in violent confrontations between supporters of the president and those opposed to an extension of his term in office on a man recently voted to extend mohammed out the life of marjorie's term and talks to organize a new election stall. the formality of the building that most of the people are in defiance of the government extending term limits the president whose term is finished could lead the country into war a peaceful demonstration is under way here now and the military capture a new position might be taken back into civil war. today we've gathered here to

show our feelings towards the government extending its term and towards a dictator who wants to use force to stay in power we thank the military forces who helped us demonstrate peacefully. william lawrence is with us now from washington here is a professor of political science at the american university in former u.s. diplomat and regional security officer in west africa a pleasure to have you with us so let's start with well the source of all the problems i guess the fact that there is a political impasse that the leader has been sort of re-installed again i mean it's understandable that people would be upset about that where's the impasse come from . well goes all the way back when and if it can't for some not its 1st one may 1 salute elections since the 1960 adults negotiations to write down over

a number of issues mostly just about the conduct of the elections the president was accused of stature and his stack reelect election board sent and other issues and there's also. a power distribution between the provinces and the president actually 2 of the 5 made provinces so all of this broke down and that led to an exploration of parliament and the presidents many soon be wary and this new law passed by the lower house of parliament called the people's parliament on it more 14th and that it's all kinds of reactions including one commander of the trend line saying if you will resign the power will you know international this seems to be going to correct some of the consequences that declaration right so that will be a huge issue if this does become. some sort of military issue do i have read and heard the idea of of somalia falling back into a civil war do you think it could get that bad. absolutely it will lead to

persistent howard jurists who hold a swath of territory in south central somalia terrorists who are. stepping up their attacks now and that's course was the cause of the original breakdown in many respects but this is empowering the different clans rabble clans against each other including as personified with the leader of these 2 provinces that i mention of course there's another province a 1000000 it's already declared independence and the whole thing could sort of fall apart like a house of cards if this doesn't get back on track somalians is proving again and again that they can't work these things out on their own and international mediation must be not only brought in government in theory quickly in order to resolve this the last negotiations in early april at the airport were done under the aegis of african union peacekeeping troops that protect the airport and the mediator since laurean as we've seen in other one of africa's conflicts that i've

discussed in your program before and don't definitely need international mediation when you months i'm going to maybe there we haven't had the greatest audio unfortunately on the skype line but thank you so much for your time we appreciate it. in the news ahead palestinians celebrate the removal of barricades in occupied east jerusalem. are reports of escalating unrest elsewhere hollywood's most glamorous show is getting underway breaking records as well for diversity in the rise of online films will get a live update from the all schools in los angeles. it's time for the perfect gentleman. with a sponsored point qatar airways hello there china is going to see quite a bit of wet weather we can see that cloud over central and southern areas with

heavy a downpours around india china we could see some localized flooding across northern vietnam with those showers are particularly heavy and as we go into choose day those showers are going to push towards the east coast will have rain as well in hong kong the temperature is sitting at about mid twenty's there you go further north things are looking rather clear and fine beijing seeing lots of sunshine 23 degrees got a bit of a brisk wind we could see some dust in the air for the korean peninsula ahead of that rain we've got clearer skies for south korea similar story for japan lots of fine and dry weather temperatures slightly below what we expect for this time of year and that weather system is pushed out to sea we could see one to 2 showers in . as we head to southeast asia now the philippines a seeing plenty is settled weather sunshine and showers for manila at 30 degrees as we go into cheers day the south could see some heavier rainfall you can see those yellow peaks there but much of the intense downpours are going to be across

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these are the top stories this hour on al-jazeera india has recorded the world's highest number of new covert 9000 infections for the 4th consecutive day almost 350000 cases have been reported in hospitals are still struggling to cope and so the u.k. u.s. and e.u. are promising to deliver medical supplies to india president joe biden says the u.s. will help india just as india helped america through the worst moments of its outbreak and soldiers loyal to somalia's president of been fighting with troops opposed to him in the capital mogadishu. recently voted to extend mohamed the ability from august term in talks to organize a new election of storms. libyan government said to be loyal to the some of warlord khalifa haftar have prevented the unity government delegation from entering benghazi militia members surrounded the airport after the delegations plane landed

it then flew back to tripoli this delegation came to prepare for the interim prime minister's 1st visit to the city which is a long time after a stronghold of national unity government was sworn in last month that tries to unify the water on country and steer it towards elections later this year. and 2nd iraq with the suspension of the health minister and others has done little to quell the anger over a hospital fire 82 people killed in the explosion because that fire it has put more focus on corruption and the government's handling of the pandemic simona 14 reports from baghdad. a neighborhood truck by grief after an explosion ripped through a crowded covert 19 ward lost his father who had been a patient at the hospital as well as his brother who had stayed by his bedside to care for him. my father was about to recover they even took him off the oxygen and in the hospital burns down i lost 2 of them we couldn't risk give them the

explosion and but that's even possible where around 120 patients were treated for cope with 19 was likely caused by a poorly handled oxygen cylinder doctors say the facility lacks basic equipment including a central oxygen supply system and that patients relatives often handle oxygen cylinders because of a shortage of medical staff was there to attend to his elderly on 20 blast went off but he couldn't save her. everyone left behind the patients and just ran out in a few seconds the entire floor was ablaze with heavy fire despite the risk of covered 19 infection there was no restriction on the number of relatives allowed in the wards which further increased fatalities. this is neglect from the hospital because you shouldn't allow anyone to enter the family members a greater number than the patients inside the i.c.u.

. witnesses say the emergency response was slow while iraq's human rights commission told al jazeera the hospital lacked adequate fire safety systems we know very well that is all. occasional safe it is. buildings when we look at the official reports on both. sides entity we see there is no oil to extinguish them all room. the prime minister has ordered an investigation and has suspended several officials including the ministry of health and the governor of baghdad the deadly fire at the hospital has stirred a few public anger over the government's handling of the coronavirus and them and for many it's a manifestation of the deeply rooted corruption that has crippled the healthcare sector. on sunday families began holding funerals but few have hope for

genuine accountability from the government or that the structural issues that lie at the heart of such accidents will be addressed seen one of 14 al-jazeera but that is ready police have removed barricades from near alex a mosque compound which were partly plain for provoking several nights of tension and clashes protesters were angry they couldn't gather on the damascus gate steps during the holy month of ramadan israel says the barriers were put in place as part of coronavirus restrictions other civilians were seen celebrating after their removal but there were still some scuffles and 10 palestinians were reportedly detain. elsewhere israeli soldiers fired tear gas on palestinian youth protesters who gathered near gaza's barrier fence palestinians burned tires and threw stones as well israeli media reports a rocket had been fired from the strip earlier falling into an empty field in southern israeli controlled territory israel says it is restricting gaza's fishing

zone in response to the recent rocket fire. the u.k. has hosted its biggest crowds at an outdoor sporting event since the 1st lockdown in march of last year 8000 fans turned up to see manchester city win the english league cup when the stadium when they will host 8 more matches with crowds during the european football championship in june sunday's final had been delayed in order to allow more fans to attend has the coronavirus restrictions lifted correspondent paul brennan was amongst the limited crowds in north london. a big day for wembley stadium and a lot more at stake than just the car cup in this event this is the 2nd large scale test event here at wembley stadium with 8000 spectators allowed to attend the game 4000 of them are actually club sounds from both manchester city and from tottenham hotspur the other 4000 residents and they just workers who secured their tickets

through a ballot system now the conditions for getting a ticket include you have to have had a negative coronavirus lateral flow test in the last 24 hours and you have to agree to have subsequent testing in the coming days after this game but those fans that we've spoken to ahead of the game today say they're just glad to be back the last game i was at was 26 of february i was our last game been betrayed away so it's been a year. i ever do it's part an ongoing experiment and hopefully by the summer we'll be able to enjoy some big stadium and certainly by next season i want to go and watching the city at the atlanta game it's football fans a spurs fans that the main thing is seeing your mates going going to the games and i think this is the start hopefully of it easing off and things getting better and

better so yeah we are really excited about how things are going as i say there's a lot more at stake than. the cow about cup in this is the future of the european championships which are going to be played here at wembley they semifinals on the final in the couple of the group games as well later on during the summer now this 8000 people are attending to this game today the f.a. cup final on the middle of may is going to have 121-2000 spectators if this event goes well and by the time the european championships come around the expectation is that they'll be a minimum of 25 percent capacity and that's $22.00 and a half 1000 for this particular stadium and they hope that by the time the finals in the fall at the semifinals in the fall come around they'll be able potentially to have up to 50 percent capacity that's really important for a big stadium like this with a 90000 capacity to have the atmosphere so this event is very very important not just for the they care about cup but for the whole future of this major championship. of the entertainment world in the show must go on

a fact that is going on right now but due to the pandemic this year's academy awards will be handed out and it's a scaled back ceremony taking place in los angeles let's go there now with rob rain also as we discussed last hour rob not wearing your tuxedo this year but that's because it's different this year isn't it the whole thing. the whole thing is different this year indeed and just to bring you up to date on the awards so far the program is well underway and we've seen the 1st the award major award for a screenplay going to am ruled for now with the director of a promising young woman she's the 1st woman to receive the screenwriting award since 2008 and the in the category of international feature another round a danish film has one that as expected now everything being different here

before the show started the red carpet was really severely downsize socially distanced people wore their best outfits of course beautiful gowns but it wasn't quite the same the show itself is going on in the train station behind me las historic union station very limited number of people involved in vita the inside just the nominees the hosts and the guests one guest per person for the nominees we are expecting this to be an extremely interesting evening in terms of diversity . and in terms of of acknowledging the obvious i guess you could say that this was a pandemic year where everything changed in the world and in the entertainment industry. with the rise especially of the streaming services to such

a dominant position companies like netflix and amazon getting so many different feature films out there and so many nominations. actress and director regina king who is one of the hosts of the show she started the thing off by saying this year was difficult for all of us but the movies helped us get through it somehow so the show is going on we are expecting the. show to last for 3 hours and we'll bring you full updates as the awards are handed out those little gold men haven't changed very much that's what one of the only things that hasn't. at the oscars in los angeles to talk to you later thank you you know 8 to 5 years now since the hash tag is so white trended on social media and as talking about 2020 one's list of oscar nominees does feature more diversity 6 black actors and actresses equalling the record set and 2017 there are some other notable firsts resign the 1st muslim best

actor nominee for the sound of metal and the 1st of a korean american nominee you join you and for the film. also for the 1st time more than one woman has been nominated in the best director category emerald feliz nominated for a promising young woman. as well lands born in china as the 1st female director nominee of asian descent and the 1st woman to receive 4 nominations in a single you for producing directing writing and editing nomad land overall record $76.00 nominations went to women this year. spoke to us earlier creator of that hash tag austin so winds are now media strategist he says this is despite all of that doesn't change the fact that it remains a racially imbalanced institution. the gate keepers in hollywood have not changed they are still the same older white men that they have been since the studios began and they are the gatekeepers they are the ones who decide which movies get greenlit

every year so we can talk about the oscars and the fact that this year's slate of nominees is more diverse than usual but truly in that discussion east i'd be happening at the very beginning of the process the oscars the golden globes all the award shows are at the end of the film process who are the screenwriters whose stories are being told and who is telling those stories those are the questions that we need to ask with respect to inclusion and representation so what we're talking about is who is going to be behind the camera telling those stories the importance of the editor the cinematographer and providing those opportunities for people from under-represented communities so this is the 1st year 2021 that we have had 2 women nominated in the best directing category and in the entirety of the oscars over 90 years only one woman has ever won a best director and that's unfortunate because we know that there are thousands of

very talented women who just need the opportunity to show what they can do and the same is true throughout the other categories as well it is unfortunate that here we are in 2021 and we are still talking about firsts in a particular category. these are the headlines on al-jazeera this hour india recording the world's highest number of new covert 19 infections for the 4th consecutive day almost 250000 cases have been reported and hospitals are struggling to cope and so the u.k. u.s. and e.u. are all promising to deliver medical supplies to india u.s. president joe biden says his country will help india just as india helped america for the worst moments of its break as chief medical advisor dr anthony fauci says equipment will be delivered saying there's discussions about really ramping up what

we can do on the ground oxygen supply is drugs test.