off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are english enough to heat a new in each week be part of today's discussion this dream on out is the end. 'd of the world. india records the highest a single day a spike in the pandemic the world scrambles to war for more help. i'm about this and this is a disease and live from doha also coming up the final pullout begins from afghanistan the top u.s. general reveals how troops are leaving after almost 20 years. fears of spiraling

violence in somalia a supporters of a defiant president fight with those opposed to his extended rule. no man's land stars at the oscars award night it wins best film best actress and best director. ever going to begin for the world's largest coronavirus surge is getting worse more than 350000 new cases have been reported on monday making 4 days of record rises and 2812 people have died the biggest single day spike with oxygen medicine and beds still in short supply other countries say they're going to step up to help more on that shortly after elizabeth anonymous report from new delhi. having been there i doubt that it was so there but breaks down as he pleads with staff in india's biggest coded mine hospital to admit

his wife much meaning them in hamburg 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 the hospitals we live in now mostly out of it 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 are willing to give us a bed with folded hands i pleaded with the acquaintance to take care of my child. pick up tensions run high outside the hospice old family members tell stahl they have nowhere else to go to ok they have enough nigerians but look nyuk already has 1850 patients and only 1500 beds staff told us hundreds and 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 to 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 that isn't running low on oxygen supply when the delhi regional government took the matter to the high court and the us for the for the general told it let's try and not be a cry baby. 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 oxygen the revered. and. wondering if. there is more help mold.

say they've got to leave my account to his and then strive to tells him his wife will die if they keep waiting. what is a little bit is joining us now live from new delhi elizabeth real sense of people's desperation in your report there just talk us the latest with this international aid that's expected. so we now have the u.s. sending 300 oxygen concentrator as they are on their way these are medical devices which filter the air to retain oxygen release nitrogen back in the air and then they use that oxygen as supply air india is bringing 5 tons of oxygen concentrator is from the u.s. the u.k. is sending ventilators and oxygen concentrator as canada has reached out to the indian government and asked what it can do what it can send immediately now that the aid can't come soon enough with people with hospitals in delhi hospitals in

delhi still complaining nearly a week after they raise the alarm about the critical shortage of oxygen that they still don't have enough one medical director of a hospital which lost around 25 patients a few days ago when their supply ran out broke down on national media on monday furious that they're losing lives because of the time it's taken for oxygen deliveries. the indian air force indian railways are transporting oxygen around the country and that is as cases are rising alarmingly and in more and more states now states like the most populous of the and also the southern state of karnataka so it's really spreading about a month ago we saw the virus in in maharashtra in delhi in mother predation that we are seeing it being recorded these numbers in a lot more places now there's been a lot of criticisms of the wrong political parties for holding. elections

particularly in the west bengal we've got millions of people voting to do in west bengal and that's despite the pressure on the country's health system. that's right there around 8600000 people who are eligible to vote in west bengal today and west end of capital calcutta kolkata recorded it showed a positivity rate of 50 percent on sunday meaning that 50 percent of the people who had test star were positive and west bengal conducts the least number of tests some of the lowest test anywhere in the country so the real number of infections are many times higher it's where we have seen large political rallies for a few months now by all of the political parties involved including the b j p including prime minister narendra modi who stood in front of thousands of people just days ago without a mask and said that he had never seen such large crowds and so there is criticism

of the government often for allowing such large gatherings to go ahead. modi maze disaster was trending on twitter and the government's response to that was to ask twitter and other social media platforms to remove such criticism elizabeth thank you very much that's elizabeth put on and talking to us from new delhi. where colombia is going through its worst peak of dealing infections in death since the start of the pandemic hospitals or on the brink of collapse in major cities and authorities are imposing new restrictions and to add to the problems the vaccination drive has been slow as alexander ramp yeti reports had a man could at this was drilled at the idea of receiving the 2nd dose of the signal back back scene but just before his appointment he instead received a message saying his shot was postponed until further notice.

i was so disappointed when i saw the message i was looking forward to the 2nd shot to finally be done with us and be free to see my nephews i don't understand why they didn't plan to keep enough shots for those who got the 1st one. and the 79 year old is not alone health services in colombia have suspended appointments for thousands of people because they don't have enough doses so far just 2.7 percent of colombians have been fully vaccinated well 6 percent of received one those a recent report found that at this rate it will take almost 2 years for divac c. nation kind of pain to make an impact. to try to speed up the process the government authorized large private enterprises to buy vaccines internationally for dinner employees but manufacturers like pfizer and c. novak say they will not sell to private businesses for the time being both the government and the private sector are recognizing the government's falling short

it's commitment to vaccinate the entire colombian population it's more like a fear of victory by the private sector that they're now you know keeping praise at the government for allowing them to proceed but there's really nothing that they can do in the short term to expand access to vaccination all this happening while doing its worst crisis since the start of this and then make averaging more than $400.00 deaths per day and with intensive care units close to collapse. columbia's capital is under strict weekly and lockdowns and has nightly curfews among other restrictions and alternatives are expected to impose more. over the weekend the city set up new field hospitals to try to ease the pressure on the capital's health infrastructure well the mayor pleaded with people to stay home

there's as executive i know it's a major sacrifice and an economic and emotional sacrifice but be certain it will not be in vain. and the tories fear the next 2 weeks could be particularly severe as colombia struggles with another expected surge at least in the. 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 russ trials and entertainment venues will be shut sporting events have been called off the restrictions are expected to end on may the 11th later in the summer tokyo is hoping 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 joe biden wants all combat soldiers out by september the 11th 20 years

after the $911.00 attacks charlotte ballasts reports. speaking to afghan journalists at the nato base in kabul us gen scott miller describes the beginning of the aid for foreign troops in afghanistan ferocious are now preparing to retrograde. the notification will be the 1st demand. at the same time as we start taking our 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 base over the last 20 years. that shows a lot of demand out guys who can find containers that are free to reuters cheers tables and anything you would need generators and even some stuff in working condition you can find anything from around the world. 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 certain now 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 offices in 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 ensure that the afghan security forces are in the best possible security posture 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 bombers to qatar and will keep an aircraft carrier in the region as cover in k. taliban aggression bellus 00 still had an al-jazeera life on the frontline with an eastern ukraine her family speak of the struggles and the cost of a 7 year war around one of the most diverse all screens in history and find out who was big winners.

hello there things have been heating up across the middle east they are going to cool slightly particularly across the levant region but as we go into monday the gulf states seeing those high temperatures 40 degrees in q 8 $36.00 degrees in riyadh we could see some showers as well for south western parts of saudi arabia and western parts of yemen turkey seeing wetter weather as well and korea sits at around 18 degrees and we got a brisk wind blowing those cooler conditions into neben on iraq still seeing those high temperatures $43.00 degrees in baghdad and it's a similar story for iran to run seeing $32.00 degrees that's about 10 degrees above average and what we expect for this time of year as we head to central africa now

that tropical cyclone has made landfall in tanzania that's weekend we could see some heavier rain some stronger winds but that's sort of died down as we go into tuesday we'll see heavy a showers across northern parts of mozambique and the central parts we are seeing those heat of the day showers across the democratic republic of congo as we had further south things are looking rather warm we've got a weather system bringing some rain to cape town. thousands of children were removed from east timor during meeting denise you know education decades later one i want to join as members of the last generation as they finally head home. on al-jazeera if the political debate show that's challenging the way you think i want to know where you're to stand on cancer culture it is decreasing the range of ideas that can be heard what

a world leaders or governments missing when he talks but now up front with me mark lamont hill on al-jazeera. i want to go to 0 remind of our top stories this hour india's record of the world's highest number of new covert 19 infections for the 5th consecutive day 352000 cases were reported on monday 2812 people died that's the biggest single day spike so far. the u.k. the u.s. and the 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

. the commander of foreign forces in afghanistan says u.s. and nato troops have started the withdrawal process u.s. president joe biden wants to get all combat soldiers out by september the 11th 20 years since the $911.00 attacks. somalia's capital has descended into violence there's been a gunfight between soldiers loyal to the president and those who want to see him step down and recently voted to extend the time of muhammad the fatah module and talks to organize a new election have stalled catherine soy has more. these are images many people in somalia don't want to see a political and security crisis is threatening to destabilize the country once again and now security forces are taking sides the soldiers arrived in the capital mogadishu from frontline positions in here in the south because by this sector commander who's opposed to the extension of president mohamed up to life are my

just stop in off a span of the 2 yes they went to the streets in protest. alongside some city residents. they fought with police forces loyal to present my just several times. to the most of the people are in defiance of the government extending term limits the president his term is finished could lead the country into war a peaceful demonstration is underway here now and the military a capturing new position of the country could be taken back into civil war. last week a police commander who was fired for trying to stop parliament from debating the presidential term limits retreated to his home in a residential area of mogadishu with forces loyal to him and only say the security crisis is likely to embolden al shabaab fighters to take control of areas that might be abandoned by military forces and step up their tasks this is actually a dangerous decision that has triggered all of these problems but the root cause is

. often has some sort of a rotation of power that hasn't been it under the leadership of the president parliament recently voted to extend the time of the president and his government after 8 expired in february and talks to organize and the other election has stalled after leaders fails to agree on the process. the president is under pressure to step down but he accuses some leaders from regional states of making things difficult and some countries like kenya and djibouti interfering with somalia's political i think as president the need is to deescalate this conflict. go back to the negotiations with the member state is the opposition there is no other way out that i can see the president for module has tried to get support from international partners including the african union with little success

now he appears to be increasingly isolated but he and his supporters are standing their ground things so mali is a sovereign country and the presidential time extension was necessary to avoid a political vacuum catherine saw a. libyan gunman said to be loyal to the son of one of her half to our health 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 prepare for the 1st visit to the city but the interim prime minister benghazi is a long time have to a strong hold the national unity government was sworn in last month to try to unify the war torn country and steered towards elections later this year. this is pension of iraq's health minister as well as several other people has done very 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 the whole

team 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 off the oxygen and in the hospital burns down i lost 2 of them we couldn't rescue 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. the. 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 that is all. occasional safe it is. in such buildings when we look at the official reports about. the entity we see there is no oil to extinguish them all room lighting system

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 in hospital 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. 'd 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 . israeli police have removed barricades from nearly all x. 0 mosque compound which were partly blamed for provoking several nights of tension and clashes protesters were angry they couldn't gather on the damascus gate steps through the holy month of ramadan israel says the barriers were put in place as part of coronavirus restrictions but was still some scuffles and 10 palestinians

were reportedly detained. elsewhere israeli soldiers fired tear gas on young palestinian protesters who gathered near gaza's body of friends palestinians burned tires and threw stones at israeli media reports a rocket was fired from the gaza strip and they are falling in an empty field in southern israeli controlled territory israel says it's restricting gaza's fishing zone in response to recent rocket fire. russian president vladimir putin is planning to meet u.s. president 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 or russia has been flexing its military muscles close to the border in recent weeks. reports from samar like in stone your crane. nadi and valentino remember a better life a life before fighting started between russian bank separatists and the ukrainian

army in the east 7 years ago before their village of chair 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 sniper and machine gun positions among the trees few people go down to the bank on this side anymore. if danger is 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 lie over and you don't know where to hide the ukrainian army keeps a low profile in the village that 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 night person 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 lasting political settlement 7 years of failed ceasefires in the goshi ations kiev 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 negotiations with the occupied territories for example. or try to federalize ukraine or actually try to control ukraine we're these occupied territories it couldn't be accepted by any government here in this country not you're a 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 no man's land has won the oscar for best picture. and they ask goes to. no man's land. the movie tells the story of

a woman in her sixty's who loses everything in the 2002 session and joins the growing number of americans living out of violence frances mcdormand won the best actress award for her role in the movie chloe jo who directed the film became only the 2nd woman to win the oscar for best director she's also the 1st woman of color ever on and in this category brunell's has more from los angeles. 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 or 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 and lees were that he was going to be

posthumously gifted or granted this honor. the u.k. is hosted the biggest crowd at an outdoor sports event since the 1st lockdown in march last year 80000 fans turned up to see manchester city when the english league cup game at wembley stadium wembley is going to host 8 more matches with crowds cheering the european football championship in june sunday's final had been delayed in order to allow more fans to attend as coronavirus restrictions were lifted. i'm about to some of the headlines on india's record of the world's highest number of new covert 1000 infections for the 5th consecutive day more than 350000 cases were reported on monday 2812 people died the biggest single day spike so far hospitals are struggling.