up to date with what's happening on the ground in the wood and in the land now more than ever the world needs w.-h. and making healthy a world for you. to everyone. in the world. with india's coronavirus tragedy growing worse by the day the world scrambles to offer more help. i'm about this and this is all deserve a live from doha also coming up a final pullout begins from afghanistan the top u.s. general reveals how troops will finally leave after almost 20 years. of fears of

spiraling violence in somalia a supporters of a defiant president fights with those opposed to his extended role. and how the pandemic is affecting the mental health of children in the philippines. we're going to begin in india where the world's largest coronavirus surge is getting worse nearly 350000 new cases of being reported making for days of record rises with oxygen medicine and bed still in short supply other countries say they're going to step up to help or in that shortly after elizabeth put on a report from new delhi. the hour that. so they've bought breaks down as he pleads with staff in india's biggest coded mine hospital to admit his wife much moving them in limited but she's lying 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. leslie 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 bit with folded hands i pleaded with the acquaintance to take care of my child. tensions run high outside the hospital where family members tell stahl they have nowhere else to go to any of the nigerians 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. but eventually after waiting 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 no naruto does it too has been running low on oxygen supply when the delhi regional government took the matter to the high court and the a solicitor general told it. let's try and not be a crybaby. 50 people died in the capitol after their oxygen supply ran out and on saturday 6 patients died in the state of punjab because of the same reason. health care workers say they are helpless in the face of such a calamity. we need in the immediate leave and my own. wondering and their fire. but. there is more help more. so they've gotta leave spoke nakata his ambulance driver tells him his wife will die if they keep waiting there elizabeth pradhan al-jazeera knew danny.

jordaan saudis an indian journalist and he says the outbreak has been mishandled and things will get worse in the coming days every day they 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 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 deadly hospital last night and every day every 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 pockley

because in our prime minister and the government and 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 addressed a bias of senior politicians specially the prime minister norman as to the religious congregations record 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 meanwhile it is government's ordered social media firms to remove content critical of its handling of the pandemic dozens of

posts on facebook twitter and instagram have been taken down the censored posts include calls for prime minister modi to resign and critics from journalists and opposition politicians india's government says the post were targeted for spreading what it calls fake news and misleading information. or international efforts to help india are building the u.k. sending more than 600 medical devices including oxygen concentrator us and ventilators the 1st shipment is due to arrive on tuesday foreign secretary dominic rob says more is on the way. with 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 known going to

scotians with the indian government about for the things that they may or may not need president joe biden says the u.s. will help india just as it helped america through the worst moments of its outbreak his chief medical advisor dr anthony fox he spoke to a.b.c. news is the white house announced italy media to send medical and protective gear as well as role 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 in the 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 from bicycle haman in washington. well the biden ministration has been under increasing pressure to take these steps especially after thursday at the state department the spokesperson

asked about sending aid to india so 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 advisor jake sullivan in his counterpart now keep in mind there is a ban in the united states for acts already in 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 it would be the humane thing to do when he was running for president but so far they are just only say that they are considering whether to take those steps obviously something in the pharmaceutical industry is against but that is something that the biden mr ation is going to continue to be asked to do as the spikes across the globe. state of emergency has come into effect in japan as it fights its own surge in cases that are new restrictions in tokyo as well as 3 other districts this is the 3rd lockdown since last year lost homes and entertainment venues will be shut sporting events are being called off the sections

that are expected to end on may 11th later in the summer tokyo is expected to host the olympics the commander of foreign forces in afghanistan general scott miller says u.s. and nato troops have started their final withdrawal u.s. president biden wants all combat soldiers out by september 11th 20 years after the $911.00 attacks shallot ballasts report. speaking to afghan journalists at the nato base in kabul us general scott miller described the beginning of the aid to foreign troops in afghanistan ferocious are now preparing to retrograde 1st the notification they will be 1st a man. of the same time as we start taking local actions we've already begun the proof of the departure can be found at this kandahar the scrap heap the yarn another proud recipient of unwanted or broken equipment from kandahar airfield a key american banks over the last 20 years. that shines

a lot of demand out guys who can find containers that are freezer reuters chairs tables and anything you would need generators and even some stuff in working condition you can find anything from around the world what. the trumpet ministration and the taliban had agreed that foreign forces would be gone by may 1st if the taliban negotiated with afghan leaders and cut ties with al qaeda this month u.s. president joe biden and danced a new plan the u.s. will leave by september 11th but with no conditions this despite a recent u.n. report that up to 500 al-qaeda fighters remain in afghanistan as close allies of the taliban general miller with his leverage gone issued this warning as fair as a relationship between al qaeda and the taliban the taliban have to break that relationship that is something they have committed to. the world expects under broke that relationship and certainly know that afghanistan will never be use

a safe haven for terrorism. it's hard to break a relationship you don't have the taliban has long denied there are any al-qaeda members in afghanistan they are quick however to confirm their attacks on sunday alone they published 16 posts on their website boasting of killing dozens of afghan soldiers and police officers and recent days if you could be verified 80 miller is america's longest serving commander in afghanistan he has tried to reassure afghan security forces saying he'll leave them with as much equipment as possible it's my objective to make sure that the afghan security forces are in the best possible security posture and that means transitioning bases and equipment to the afghan security forces more than 10000 u.s. and coalition troops need to leave afghanistan within 5 months as numbers dwindle the pentagon has seemed to be $52.00 bombers to qatar and will keep an aircraft

carrier in the region as cover in case of taliban aggression shiela bellus al-jazeera. in somalia gunfire and explosions of shaken the capital mogadishu there have been violent confrontations between supporters of the president and those who oppose plans to extend his time in office bottom and recently voted to extend mohamad. and talks to organize a new election of stalled well in lawrence is professor of political science at the american university he's also a former u.s. diplomat and regional security officer in west africa he says somalia is in desperate need of international mediation. camp for some of its 1st one may have won elections since 1980 and it was negotiations were down over a number of issues mostly just about the conduct of the elections the president was accused of stature and is back we go like election borenstein and other issues and

there's also the. power distribution she's between the provinces and the president to the fight made provinces so all of this broke down and that led to an exploration both parliaments and the presidents man the february in this new law passed by the lower house of parliament called the people's parliament on it for 14 and that led to all kinds of reactions including one commander of the front line saying if you will resign from power well you know international this seems to be a joke retsinas consequences that declaration. and the whole thing could sort of fall apart like a house of cards if this doesn't get back on track somalia proving again and again that they can't work these things out on their own and international mediation must be not only brought in theory quickly in order to resolve this the last negotiations in early april at the airport were done and in the aegis of african

union peacekeeping troops that printing the arab or and the mediator search for him as we've seen in other horn of africa the context and don't definitely need international mediation. still ahead an all visit of life on the front line we're in eastern ukraine where families speak of their struggles and the cost of a 7 year war and one of the most of us oldsters in history is under way with a record number of nominations for women and people of color we're going to be live from los angeles. hello that 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 a kaido as we head to southeast asia now the philippines a see 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 cambodia and thailand we could see a few showers in malaysia too. for

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we want to go to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour india's record of the world's highest number of new covered 19 infections for the 4th consecutive day almost 350000 cases have been reported and hospitals are struggling to cope. the commander of foreign forces in afghanistan says u.s. and nato troops have started the withdrawal process president biden wants to get all combat soldiers out by september the 11th 20 years since the $911.00 attacks. soldiers loyal to somalia's president took the fighting with troops opposed to him in the capital mogadishu parliament's recently voted to extend the time muhammad out the heart of the lockheed fund marjoe and talks to organize a new election stalled. nomad land has just won the award for best picture at the oscars a little earlier the lady who made the film for example who became only the 2nd

woman to win the oscar for best director for her road movie she's also the 1st woman of color ever on the road in this category let's cross over now to rob runnels who's live for us in los angeles rob it was back in 2015 that hash tag oscars so white started doing the rounds what's the situation with regards to diversity now in the way that the nominations in the films are being represented. well it was definitely one of the most diverse slate of nominees both in terms of gender and in terms of race there were 9 actors of color in the acting categories best actress best actor for best supporting actor and actress there were 76 different nominations for 70 women in a variety of categories so according to the university of california los angeles

that does an annual survey on diversity in hollywood and surveys you know more than 100 top films this was one of the better years. for the acting and and writing. categories and jobs but there are still under represented there is still under representation for women and people of color in the important behind the camera jobs now we were expecting perhaps to have more actors and actresses of color winning the top awards here but there was a surprise with anthony hopkins the 83 year old great british actor winning best actor for the father beating out chadwick boseman the late 43 year old the late actor who died at age 43 last year who was had a tremendous role in my rainey's black bottom bozeman had been sort of everybody's

top choice for the prognostications at least were that he was going to be posthumously gifted or granted this honor in the best actress category you had a number of very fine black actresses including. viola davis from our rainey's black bottom but this award went to. frances mcdormand for nomad land for the 3rd time this is the 3rd oscar that frances mcdormand has picked up in her long career so a little less diversity at the very top there of course chloe xiao very important win for women and for people of color she is a chinese national and also you joan you who won for her charming performance in the film menai as playing the grandmother role she

won best supporting actress and daniel kalu the one for best supporting actor for in judas and the black messiah rob thanks very much indeed does for abundances covering the oscars for us in los angeles. the suspension of iraq's health minister as well as several other people has done little to quell anger over a devastating hospital fire 82 people were killed in the explosion which has put more focus on corruption and the government's handling of the pandemic so many reports from baghdad. and neighborhoods 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 of 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 handled oxygen cylinders because of a shortage of medical staff how met 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. well in such buildings when we look at the official reports about. such entity we see there is no auto extinguish system already lighting system the prime minister has ordered an investigation and has suspended several officials including the ministry of health and the governor of but dad the deadly fire at the in a teapot spill has stirred a few public anger over the government's handling of the coronavirus and the mic 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 . libyan gunman said to be loyal to the song of all holy for half thought have prevented a unity government delegation from entering benghazi armed men surrounded the airport after the delegations plane landed then flew back to tripoli the delegation came to prepared to the for the 1st visit to the city but the interim prime minister it's a long time hoft a stronghold the national unity government was sworn in last month to try to unify the war torn country and steer it towards elections later this year. israeli police have removed barricades from near the al aqsa mosque compound which were partly blamed for provoking several nights of tension and clashes protesters were angry the couldn't gather on the damascus gate steps in the holy month of ramadan visual

says the barriers were put in place as part of coronavirus restrictions but was still some scuffles though and 10 palestinians were reportedly detained. elsewhere israeli soldiers fired tear gas on palestinian youth protesters who gathered near gaza's barrier fence palestinians burned timers and threw stones and israeli media reports a rocket was fired from the strip earlier falling into an empty field in southern israeli controlled territory israel says it's restricting gaza's fishing zone in response to recent rocket fire the interim military government in chad says it will not negotiate with a rebel group accused of killing president in. 2 week it comes after the front for change in concord rebels said they're ready to observe a cease fire and discuss a political settlement we crossed into chad from libya 2 weeks ago calling for an end to president ijaz davies rule is death was announced on tuesday

a day after he'd won a 6th term in office the military council headed by his son will oversee an 18 month transition to elections. russian president vladimir putin is planning a meeting with his u.s. counterpart joe biden in june according to a top kremlin aide biden offered a meeting on neutral territory earlier this month to discuss rising tensions between the 2 sides among the topics for discussion will be ukraine where russia has been flexing its military muscles close to the border in recent weeks as charles trafford reports from in eastern ukraine civilians are worried about a potential upsurge in violence. and violence seen remember a better life a life before fighting started between russian banks separatists and the ukrainian army in the east 7 years ago. before their village of chere malik became a front line in a conflict often described as

a battle between moscow and the west the situation has been calmer in the last couple of years but a recent escalation of fighting was a reminder of the risks they face. the separatists control the land across the river the army says there are a sniper and machine gun positions among the trees few people who go down to the bank on this side any more. even dangerous to go there because nobody knows from where the shooting will start it's quiet now but we are almost as afraid of the quiet as we are of the shell in when it started the shells fly over and you don't know where to hide the ukrainian army keeps a low profile in the village but has occupied many of the homes abandoned by families who fled the violence. many of the surrounding fields are mind. nobody can go to the cemetery because separatists niklas and ukrainian soldiers are close by balancing thinks he's parents' graves have been damaged by the fighting.

he misses life before the war. we used to go hunting i used to breed sheep i can't do this now because of the minefields or because the military stop us i had to kill most of our animals because i can't afford their food it's our easter soon and we hope the army will let us visit the cemetery but we don't know russia says it's pulling back its forces from the ukrainian borders after what he describes as military exercises but there is still no sign of any breakthrough in negotiations towards a last thing political settlement 7 years of failed cease fires in the goetia asians here blames moscow for making what it describes as unrealistic demands we also have red lines which we couldn't cross the russians would like

to misuse this forum and also to. bring us to the table to negotiations with the occupied territories for example. or try to federalize ukraine or actually try to control ukraine these occupy territories it couldn't be accepted by any government here in this country not euro balance in say the risk of a sudden escalation in fighting means their 5 children rarely visit them anymore life used to be beautiful and fun they say but everything is so uncertain now chance trafford al-jazeera cheer maalik eastern ukraine. matheson with the headlines on al-jazeera india's record of the world's highest number of new covered 19 infections for the 4th consecutive day almost 350000 cases were reported on sunday all spittles.