and a bizarre yet or dangerous attempt. at regime change in the bolivarian republic of the. people in power the bay of pigs limits on al-jazeera. a growing international response to india's coronavirus emergency the w.h.o. calls the situation there heartbreaking. low on our intake of this is the al-jazeera live from coming from london coming up the white house confirms it will share 60000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine with countries in need. the u.s. decision to recognize the mass killings of armenians as genocide turkey's president

says the decision is groundless and unfair. and outrage in the u.k. often iranian court sentences aid worker nazneen zebari radcliff to one more year in prison. in the world health organization chief says the staggering number of coronavirus infections and deaths in india is beyond heartbreaking dr tetris good research says the w.h.o. will send extra staff and supplies to help fight the pandemic there us president joe biden spoke with the indian prime minister narendra modi after the u.s. announced it was sharing millions of doses of the astra zeneca vaccine worldwide germany is sending oxygen and medical aid all the european union and the u.k. are also promising assistance including equipment. or than 2800 people died from the virus on monday an almost 10 fold increase on the figure just 4 weeks ago the

w.h.o. chief says 2600 extra staff are being sent to india for support along with thousands of oxygen concentrator is and critical supplies a 14 day lockdown has been ordered for the city of bengal uhuru home to 12000000 it's facing the 2nd highest surgeon infections behind only the national capital delhi but in west bengal state more than 8000000 people have been allowed to vote in local elections despite record high case numbers over the weekend it is about piron and reports. india may be experiencing the world's worst outbreak of cholera that 19 but millions of people still turned out to elect a regional leaders in the state of west bengal on monday it's one of 5 states that has held elections in recent weeks despite the drastically rising number of infections. hospitals across the country are facing

a critical shortage of beds and oxygen. the u.s. and u.k. have responded by sending life saving medical supplies to india we want to try them all the support because they're close friends increasingly important partners but also we need this kind of international collaboration if we're going to get through the pandemic we don't can be safe until we're all safe. once the aid arrives armed police are deployed to escort the precious cargo that says regional states accuse each other of stealing oxygen. soldiers god a newly opened 19 care center in new delhi. there are 500 beds so far for the many family members who couldn't get their loved ones admitted to hospitals even fewer people are being turned away being told that they can only be admitted if they have a referral and have prevented just the same to also says that it can't accept those who are critically ill leaving many with nowhere else to go.

as many people die because of a lack of help promised on the day and the more he has been criticized for allowing the larger political and religious events to go ahead that led to the government asking twitter to take down dozens of posts critical of its handling of the pandemic this stems primarily from the fact that this government does not take very kindly to criticism its very sensitive to criticism and also from the desire to try and control the narrative as the days have gone by this government has come in increasingly. for criticism increasingly from citizens and also i may say from from the court. on monday the address high court in the southern city of chennai said india's election commission is single handedly responsible for the 2nd wave of the coronavirus elizabeth piron an al-jazeera you daddy. white house

correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. under pressure from global governments to do more to help fight cope with dying team the united states is sending much needed medical supplies to india there are a number of areas that have are of great interest and are of great need to india at this point time oxygen is one of them at india's request we are exploring options to provide action and related supplies and we've identified u.s. commercial suppliers of friends of beer that are immediately available to help relieve the suffering of in $1000.00 patients in india we've identified rapid diagnostic testing supplies personal protective equipment and additional ventilators on monday u.s. president biden called india's prime minister modi to discuss how the 2 countries can work together to protect their populations although. india is experiencing one of the worst covert 19 outbreaks the world has ever seen and oxygen supply are

short the u.s. and other developed nations have been under criticism for stockpiling vaccine doses while poor countries struggle after weeks of hesitation the u.s. now says it will assist india in boosting its vaccine supply 53 percent of the u.s. population has received at least one vaccine dose of them a dirda pfizer or johnson and johnson vaccines and appointments are now easy to obtain but vaccines for america's astra zeneca stockpile have not yet been approved in the u.s. still the biden of ministration will now make up to 60000000 doses available for export to countries like india following a government review before any astra zeneca doses are shipped from the united states the f.d.a. will confirm any such doses meet its expectations for product quality the u.s. is also sending a team of experts from the centers for disease control to help. india manage its

crisis the us actions are reciprocal india sent the united states assistance in the early days of the pandemic when the us was hard hit now that biden ministration wants to return the favor medical professionals say the u.s. move is a good start but more must be done and what's needed in the long term is quite clear a waiver of all intellectual property patents. that control 'd or that hinder district global distribution of the covert vaccines and other covert related technologies as india battles its covert crisis some countries and airlines have banned flights to and from india but the white house says it has no plans to ban travelers from india to the united states can really help get al-jazeera the white house the european union is suing the pharmaceutical company astra zeneca to deny is in the delivery of covert 19 vaccines it's accuse the company of breaching its

contract to supply enough jobs for the brooke astor's anika says the legal action is without merit and that it has complied with the agreement potential partners in paris with more on why the european union is making this move. they might be wanting to put more pressure on the british swedish pharmaceutical company to speed up the delivery of its doses they've also come under quite a bit of a criticism from eve member states for the slow vaccine rollout in the e.u. which is a seen very much as being the e.u. commission's responsibility the commission saying that that slow rollout was in part due to the fact that they just didn't have enough astra zeneca doses at least not the ones that they said they were promised 30000000 doses of astra zeneca were delivered by the company in the 1st quarter the year that's far short of the 120000000 doses that the e.u.

commission say were promised under the contract that it sides with astra zeneca now that is why they're launching this legal action the u. commission says that astra zeneca simply breached its contract and also failed to find other ways of making up the shortfall for example the commission said that astra zeneca could for example have diverted doses from the u.k. where those doses were being produced to the e.u. when needed now astra zeneca has responded to this legal action they say that there's no merit in it and that they look forward to being able to clear their name in court. takis president has officially responded to the u.s. decision to recognize the mass killing of armenians as genocide. the one says the us is groundlessly exporting past tragedies which has upset turkey and damaged

relations the massacres occurred in 115 during the decline of the ottoman empire. then there are. those who are you know it is true that these incidents were unfortunate similarly the muslims have also witnessed unfortunate events on these lands these tragic events cannot be manipulated by the west we as a people as a government cannot manipulate any of these tragic events an iranian revolutionary court has sentenced british iranian aid worker zakaria ratcliffe to another year in prison after she was found guilty of propaganda it's been met with outrage from family and supporters coming just a month since she finished a 5 year sentence on separate charges of plotting against iran's government who brennan reports from london. photos of a smiling and relieved nazanin cigar iraq left last month after her 5 year ordeal seemed nearly over having spent 4 years in jail she spent the final months of her

prison sentence under house arrest at her parents' home in tehran wearing an ankle tac to monitor her movements but hope she might soon return to the u.k. were dashed by a new charge of making propaganda and now a guilty verdict which nelson and husband emphatically rejects last time around were trying to court this time around the sentence. saying you know we've watched this now for 4 years. we've clearly been and as collateral. and we are still. sick are exactly the project manager with the charity the thomson reuters foundation was arrested a tehran airport in april 26th seen after visiting her parents she was later convicted on a national security charge an allegation she has always denied the new propaganda allegation dates back even further this new conviction relates to an event here at the iranian embassy in london back in 2009 a full 12 years ago and antigovernment protesters attended by now isn't in iraq

cliff at which she gave an interview to the b.b.c. persian service now as a men's friends and supporters are frankly astounded and appalled that it should be resurrected now for the purposes of this new criminal case in tehran and they fear that there are bigger forces at work here. nazanin is one of a number of jewel nationals in iranian detention many observers draw a direct link to a $550000000.00 debt owed by britain to iran for a consignment of chieftain tanks ordered before iran's islamic revolution which the u.k. never delivered there's also the issue of broader sanctions and iran's nuclear ambitions i don't think it's right at all that nazanin should be sentenced to any more time in in jail i think that it was wrong that it's wrong that she's there in the in the 1st place and we'll be working very hard to secure her release from

iran her ability to return to her family here in the u.k. just as we work for all our jewel national cases in iran now as an ns legal team have 21 days to appeal against her new conviction and they've already said that they will pull brennan al-jazeera london. some audio position fighters have taken up positions in parts of mogadishu a day after clashes with government troops over the president's bid to extend his mandate witnesses have reportedly seen armed men and vehicles mounted with machine guns on monday a key roads in the capital were blocked somalia is facing its worst political crisis in recent years after the failure to hold planned elections in february on sunday heavy gunfire was heard well into the night after fighting broke out between government forces and the allies of various opposition leaders catherine sawyer is following those developments from the kenyan capital nairobi. we're being told now that the opposing forces have held their positions but we've not heard of any our

active engagement this morning there appears to be a lot of shuttle diplomacy going on nobody skin for an outright war so polish diplomats are trying to get the politicians and the opposing sides to the talking table saying that they must negotiate the mast deescalate the tensions with the in statements from international partners like the u.k. the e.u. the u.n. as well are calling for calm and saying that whoever tries to keep. over the edge is going to be held responsible we've also had a televised statement from the security minister yesterday who said that government forces are fighting a militia who have been brought to mogadishu by some opposition some opposition leaders to cause calles he says that the government is containing the situation but people in the city are very wary indeed especially now that they're seeing that the

security forces are involved and appear to have been to be taking sides so to come in this half hour families in indonesia pay tribute to the $53.00 sailors found dead in a sunken navy submarine. i'm 6 years out of the zeke a virus outbreak our families affected. but. we've got some pleasant spring wall into the eastern side of the u.s. east policy of canada as well over the next couple of days something of a contrast in the temperatures suddenly way in the scumming in the cross the plains pushing up towards the lakes as we go through the next behind this this warm front

so that's pulling out of the gulf of mexico but much cooler air tucking in behind temperatures hit generally around the the mid to high teens but we're getting up into the twenty's well into the twenty's across the plains bad habits will see eastern seaboard as well as we go on through the next day i would say will say that temperature is continuing to pick up quite nicely as a 24 chicago 20. some places of cloud and rain the be some wet weather into the midwest and notice that wintry weather over the high ground all sliding a little further race words as we go on through wednesday so somewhat of weather coming in across the plains as we go throughout wednesday easing up towards new england pennsylvania seeing some wet weather easing up as that eastern side of kind of the still award look at that they say getting up to 30 degrees celsius on where to say that fine weather stretches down across the southeast and kona extends down across a good part of the caribbean we have one or 2 showers though the hispaniola. frank

assessments. that you have made of not taking quite a situation like i'm not viewing you get ever again informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a symptom of reorganizing ministry us that this is a message to the region the united states fears are rethinking here its military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. i'm on a top stories here now jazeera the world health organization chief says the staggering

number of coronavirus infections and deaths in india is beyond heartbreaking and as india registered yet another daily record number of deaths from herbut 19 more than 2800 on monday other countries stepping up to help. the european union is suing a pharmaceutical company astra zeneca after delays in the delivery of code 19 vaccines it's accuse the company of breaching its contract to supply enough doses for growth astra zeneca says the legal action is without merit. turkey's president has officially responded to the u.s. decision to recognize the mass killing of armenians as genocide but up to about one says the u.s. is groundlessly exploiting past tragedies and has upset turkey and damaged relations. about a 100 moroccan migrants have tried to swim to spain's border its national civil guard says they set off from beaches in northern morocco on sunday

a few kilometers south of the enclave of ceuta one of 9 populated spanish territories in africa spanish police say some managed to reach the beach on their own while most were rescued they were set off they set off in groups of $20.00 to $30.00 including several children throughout the day they receive medical checks by red cross workers and 3 people were taken to hospital with hypothermia. spain's maritime rescue service says at least 17 people are believed to have died aboard a migrant boat found adrift of the canary islands a miniature helicopter and if to 3 survivors to land a political network linked to kremlin critic has been suspended from operating while a court considers whether it should be outlawed prosecutors are seeking to have the anticorruption foundation which new on the founded declared an extremist group of army was this year jailed for a parole violation and recently ended a hunger strike in prison he says the charges against him are politically motivated

and smith has more from moscow. what'll happen is the later this week prosecutors will ask a moscow court to declare his organization isn't a corruption organization that is affiliated political groups all around russia as extremist putting them on a level with al qaeda in the interim prosecutors of ask the court to make a ruling to essentially stop the activities of those groups while the court decides on a final ruling so we're expecting that now tomorrow on tuesday now in the valleys group say that they have stopped the social media postings they've closed the telegram channel down they've closed their overs social media groups but they will reemerge under different names they say that they will keep spreading the. message and they will emerge under different names with the problem is that particularly for his political of political groups around the country what they were doing was they were

advising people where and how and who to cast their vote for in elections in a way that would dislodge local representatives of the united russia party that's right in their putin's party this was the only way of recruit reducing the representation of united russia in the parliament now this was a very successful tactic in 2019 moscow city council elections because it was so successful the government would want to see that tactic being employed in elections national elections here in september that is believed to be why prosecutors are asking the court to make that ruling. indonesian navy is trying to find a way of retrieving the bodies of the 53 sailors who died in last week's submarine disaster it's discussing salvage plans with specialists and international naval allies the vessel is found at a depth of nearly 850 meters and experts say retrieval will be difficult family members have been paying tribute to their loved ones jessica washington has more

from the indonesian capital jakarta. in. denise's central java this father enjoys what no parent should have to as he grieves for his son we know we had was one of the 53 men completing a submarine training exercise in waters near bali when the vessel named k r i n n 4 o 2 lost contact and sank his younger brother last saw him 2 weeks ago. so for me he was perfect everything about him was good. you know we're used to work on another submarine but it was recently reassigned to the camera for a to in shock and sadness this community is coming together to on to his life indonesia's president joko widodo says the government will raise the ranks of the sailors and pay for the education of their children.

the best to sons' of the nation the best part she was guarding this of drainage of the country and the guy. personally as husband was one of the men on board she gave birth 3 weeks ago now she must raise her son without him. i am proud of my husband he did his duty with open heart people when he had to leave me and our small baby he did his duty well he was a hero to this country. in bali the family of captain a get a card to go hopes they will be able to hold a funeral service for him. we pray to god the body of our nephew can be retrieved from the sea so we can perform the rituals. it's not clear if they will get that chance. the submarine was found broken into 3 parts almost 850 meters below the ocean surface retrieving it will be complex and indonesian authorities are seeking guidance from international experts. a few months ago the same

loose filmed this video said to a song about saying goodbye and seeing someone again thousands have shared the video online as a tribute to them. outside the home of commander hurry said he are one people offer their condolences to his family but i have to be strong i have to calm my heart many people are helping to make me stronger in an instant her family was changed forever when karen and girl 0402 disappeared into the depths of the ocean a pain they share with all the loved ones of the 53 sailors on board just a washington al-jazeera jakarta. in 2015 the zeek a virus swept through the americas causing severe birth defects the world health organization declared it a public health emergency and the impact is still being felt the mosquito borne

infection is named after the place it was 1st identified in monkeys in uganda's zico forest in 147 it was detected in humans 5 years later a mild infection circulated sporadically in africa asia and the pacific for decades but it was the 2015 outbreak in brazil that raised major health concerns and by 2016 more than 270000 had contracted the virus evidence showed could be transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy or birth and cause microcephaly a defect where babies are born with abnormally small heads there's still no vaccine for the prevention or treatment of zeek a virus the w.h.o. says it remains an active area of research was a chorus made it as far east as the cape verde islands off the western coast of africa before suddenly disappearing nicholas haq reports from the capered capital

prior on the aftermath of the seeker outbreak 6 years on. alice was not the child her mother expected larger was 3 months pregnant when doctors told her she was infected with zeke of iris and that her unborn daughter would suffer from lifelong disabilities realizing that alice will never have a childhood like other kids her heart sank but 4 years on proud as has the disability turned out to be a blessing. she's loved by her neighbors the family and most of all by children who seem to be able to communicate with her better than i can and she wants to play with them but sometimes her disability gets in the way she has convulsions her muscles are weak she can't sit properly ellis is born with what doctors call microcephaly her brain is failing to develop fully it's a consequence of her mother being infected with physical virus through a mosquito bite during her pregnancy there are no vaccines no cure for the virus that spreads through mosquitoes and sexual contact in 2016 the world health

organization declared public health emergency of international concern the outbreak started in brazil spreading to cape verde as a result of the epidemic more than 3700 babies worldwide were born with birth defects of a toy countries issued travel warnings including asking citizens to delay pregnancies there was this fear that would spread from the islands of cape verde to the rest of africa on to the rest of the world but that did not happen the virus suddenly disappeared just like it appeared dr george annoyed but it took from the country's health ministry believes zico ran its course infected a large portion of the population and herd immunity developed halting the spread still he fears eco's lurking in the capital's drainage system that's a breeding ground for mosquitoes saying there could be another outbreak. as the

years we believe can be also can be a good. unprepared. for the. surveillance of infected children has stalled due to the covert pandemic in mothers fear bringing their children to hospital children have cerebral palsy need continuous physical therapy and good nutrition support and commitment of parents makes a lot of difference because of the pandemic cloudier 2 has been avoiding hospitals when alice is in pain or has convulsions. she plays the song to her that she would listen to when she was pregnant to soothe her daughter's pain nicholas falk al-jazeera. the film nomad lan has been the big winner at this year's scaled back oscar ceremony and chinese born director carrie zhao became the 1st woman of color and the 2nd woman ever to take home a cademy award for best director francis went home and won best actress for her

work on the film and another 1st huge role noon became the 1st south korean to win best supporting actress. oscar winning been essentially ignored in her home country of china continue in beijing explains why. chloe was being congratulated around the world for making oscars history but not here in her home country early on monday there were some reports of her winning best director and best movie but these were taken down shortly after comments about her in chinese social media have been censored and an oscars viewing party in shanghai organized by her alma mater was disrupted after they had trouble with the internet connection which i was actually born here in beijing to an elite family have father was head of state on steel company and his stepmother is a famous actress and initially her success at the golden globes was lauded but that was short lived after a 2030 interview she gave resurfaced where she criticised china saying that here

there will lies everywhere shortly after that all mention of a on the chinese internet was blocked and the april release of her movie nor mad land was cancelled. a few weeks in need of brightening up to take a look into the night sky the 1st super moon of the year has arrived known as the pink moon seen here rising over a platter only one is our east coast the phenomenon happens when the moon is at one of its closest points to earth and if you miss the super moon there's an even bigger and brighter one on the way next month. and one of the top stories here on to 0 as india ridge to do yet another daily record number of deaths from curb 19 world in 2800 on monday other countries have stepped up to help us president joe biden spoke with the indian prime minister on the range of modi.