went and a highly regarded doctor in chicago who still misses her homeland just one day is possibly thinking of returning to jordan al-jazeera world meets 2 successful arab doctors in north america arabs abroad the humanitarian and the healer on al-jazeera . carparks turned into kramatorsk the w.h.o. says 3 new variants and large gatherings may have contributed to india's latest surge of covert 19 infections. so robert you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes at least 2 people were killed in chad's capital during protests against the recent military takeover world leaders have condemned the violence also

the palestinian government welcomes a reporter accusing israel of apartheid like crimes and calls on the international community to do its part. also the u.s. navy says one of its ships had a tense encounter with an iranian vet's earlier this month amid tension over tehran's nuclear plans. to the program the world health organization says 3 new covert 19 variance in india may have contributed to its latest surge it's also warning large public gatherings may be to blame for the crisis the devastating 2nd wave is overwhelming india's hospitals and trauma tory arms are with a shortage of medicine and oxygen new cases of stayed above 300000 for the 6th day the surge has left families and patients pleading for oxygen outside hospitals and

as of parana has the latest from new delhi. despite the international aid pouring in we've seen it coming in the last few days the world health organization has said that they are preparing to send 4000 oxygen concentrator. has said that they are planning to set up tens of oxygen generation plants we continue to see those pictures of hospitals oxygen stockists time lines full of desperate people trying to find beds and oxygen supplies for their loved ones which is why the announcement from the delhi government on tuesday that they are setting up. that health facility in a 5 star hotel for the delhi high court judges and their families that announcement hasn't been received very well now this was at the request of the delhi high court and there has been backlash on social media with people asking if it's a joke when people are dying outside of hospitals because there aren't enough beds

and there isn't enough oxygen and despite all the some cases rise in the law many in states including. we have leaders of the predations chief minister yoga the 2 not saying that there are no shortages despite people dying there because they can't find beds and oxygen and asking government officials are asking police officers to take action against hospitals which put up signs saying they can't admit patients because of a lack of oxygen to investigate whether they're doing that to create panic this is hospital directors and doctors all over the country breaking down because they don't have the resources to save lives. from the. government. organization he says his group is overwhelmed with requests for oxygen supply medical assistance. i compared it to forswear with. 100 of us in a month but oxygen getting $15000.00 requests on headline news.

and instagram and we did as well. on a daily basis we're getting under 2000 people. head banging up for doxygen the media not far from delhi and the national guard and region the 2nd being maharashtra and then with their position. we are not just working in delhi and. making us work and ban india now at the moment general public is getting in 420000 rupees if they're lucky and we obviously have a bit of our jonathan vendors and be lucky enough to have a strong network where we can get people and give it to them it definitely makes my look. at this one sided language people but you know we do face issues every day and we have been asked to move one of our great where we would only mention that you know our. oxygen. debt is there because our head of the world's leading 2020 cricket tournament is coming under growing

pressure to be called off 4 players pulled out of the indian premier league on monday others suited up in p.p.s. 13 travels from chennai to delhi australian players are asking for chants of flights to be provided at the end of the tournament after the government suspended flights because of the surge in cases others are grateful to be playing in the secure bubble. it's not nice to be honest watching from afar certainly considering how lucky we are to be in a bubble and not be affected by it very much and we'll see lend support and heartfelt gratitude to everybody who is ill or going through tough times. at least 2 people are being killed in charging protests against the new military transitional council demonstrators want to return to civilian rule after the military took charge following president addressed death last week the opposition

is against the military's appointment of a new prime minister france has strongly condemned the violence against demonstrators the military council says it will hold elections within 18 months luis community. we want to express our worry over the development of the situation 1st of all by strongly condemning the repression of protests and the violence that took place this morning in engine men or we are calling for the respect of the commitments that were taken by the transitional military council that of a peaceful and politically inclusive transition let me be very clear i gave my support to the integrity and the stability of chad very clearly an end to mina i support a peaceful democratic inclusive transition i do not support a plan of succession and france will never be on the side of those who formed this plan. well let's get more this will correspond and address who joins me from the couple had the opposition were calling for peaceful protests and the supporters were met with violence on the streets what more do we know about what happened.

well basically this has been known for months since the military announced a bit to the death of president idriss deby a week ago and lot of people expected this because even during president during his tenure we've seen some protests that turned violent violent in charge and today although the protest was targeted and smaller protesters the band of protesters a smaller number and there were scattered all across the capital a lot of people feel that they have met the statement today earlier this morning streets like this one battlefields between protesters and the security services who fired tear gas and live rounds to disperse the crowds dozens of people have been arrested including of course journalists we understand that some journalists may still be held but may still are still in detention i held by the police so the

situation it's got to come out now for hours now on the streets of the capital but 2 the opposition seems like they're not deterred they want to go back on the streets again yes with all the plans i mean one would expect statements by the military council about whether such demonstrations can go ahead or how they will be met on the streets if they carry on and of course the opposition parties wondering how to move forward. exactly since last night the military council and almost any form of protest or demonstration on the street is illegal and therefore will be resisted by the security forces and that's exactly what happened today when people turned up on the streets of jamaica and other towns. today now the protest came ahead of the announcement will address by the head of the military council general how much it

will and i will start they will take concrete steps for dialogue and that will be tough on the insurgents plaguing the country and violence and so less rebels who have been thrust into the security of this country and of course he didn't rule out the possibility of dialogue with all such she's off the country however in the early days of this cool military takeover there was a strong statement from the military that they will not negotiate with rebels who have launched an insurrection against the state so we leave to see how we wanted to see how the next few days turn up whether the opposition and the protesters will be back on the streets or whether they have listen to the president to be off the streets old and military government to get off the streets and continue to dialogue and address it meant to be the thanks very much for the update. palestinian leaders have welcomed a report accusing israel of crimes against humanity human rights watch says israel is practicing apartheid and persecution against palestinians the israeli foreign

ministry has dismissed the reporter's biased and baseless are a force that has more for occupied east jerusalem. and the palestinian racism was on show in jerusalem last week with hundreds of israeli far right activists chanting death to arabs the far right thanks to an electoral alliance sponsored by the prime minister now has a foothold inside parliament but it is new report human rights watch makes a broader accusation that the israeli government itself practices apartheid and persecution and we started looking at it we saw the reality in which a single government rules of the road the area between the jordan river and the train you see roughly 6800000 jewish israelis and 6 for you in it and across these areas is really authorities systems. indians and privileged jewish israelis the report focuses on 4 arenas in israel where it says palestinian israeli citizens are discriminated against particularly in terms of land use. in

the occupied west bank where palestinians unlike israeli settlers are subject to military law and where settlers have preferential access to land resources and building permits in hamas controlled gaza from which palestinians are barred exit to live in the west bank or east jerusalem and in occupied east jerusalem where unlike israeli citizens palestinians can have their residency status revoked this is the 2nd high profile report this year that is accused israel of practicing apartheid in january the israeli rights group said the israeli government was an acting jewish supremacist policies in the occupied palestinian territories and inside israel itself israel is again rejecting such charges its foreign ministry saying human rights watch is. known to have a longstanding anti israeli agenda actively seeking for years to promote boycotts against israel their decision not to share this report for review or comment with

any israeli or 30 is clear indication that it is a propaganda pamphlet which lacks all credibility but critics point to the $2800.00 nation state law which defined national self-determination as quote unique to the jewish people and to the fact for several months last year israel's prime minister was advocating the permanent annexation of nearly a 3rd of the occupied west bank. and this is a very important report on israel practicing a past 8 policies the should be the position of the international community as it was with south africa and there should be punishment against the occupation human rights watch says with no viable peace process in place the situation has gone from temporary occupation to permanent domination it's calling on the international criminal court to investigate its allegations are a force that al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. has more from some of the issues highlighted by the report. we were here in in front of the palestinian

civil authority where many protesters were trying to lobby the palestinian authority to push israel to give their scholars says palestinian i.d.'s of palestinian passports to be able to live together in one geographical area this is one area that that report has talked about the fact that israel controls the population registry and that it doesn't allow many palestinians from arab nationals or even internationals when they marry people from when palestinians marry people from outside they don't allow them to get to the unification papers they don't allow them to get i.d.'s and passports and this is one element that that import mention but for many palestinians they would tell you that this is the reality on the ground these this is the really daily live under the israeli occupation policies many of them upset the f. told us that they're glad that the international community some groups are stepping

up and showing that israel is in deed implementing 2 systems for 2 people but for them this is a reality that they have long known well still ahead here on al-jazeera a growing standoff between saudi arabia i'm loving old we'll talk to the farmers caught in the middle and double whammy we look at the home for the economic crisis affecting argentina those stories after the break. hello there those showers that have been plaguing southern portions of china will begin to move out to ward japan seen some pretty heavy pockets of rain toward the hong kong area good news is as this starts to move through thursday we'll watch that band of showers shove into japan so somewhat days ahead for osaka on thursday

18 degrees showers to for taiwan in the forecast on thursday southeast asia we've had those heavy bouts of showers toward thailand malaysia and indonesia particularly for sumatra and borneo will see that continue on wednesday a nice day though for the philippines manila the sun will be out with a high of 31 showers are coming into the western coast of india really this story here is that building heat ahead of monsoon season so really from pakistan great through to west bank all your temperatures are at or above 40 degrees so new delhi goes from 43 to 40 on thursday and we're also tracking building heat into the middle east and cypress your temperatures we're going to dial them up so we take a look at the 3 day forecast for nicosia will be up to 34 degrees by the end of the week.

killing the debate down seeing the fiction and amplified your voice you're only human mr merivale the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world when we humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is that removing or just historical information is in the street where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching i was there at least the whole run the reminder of our top

stories the world health organization says 3 covert 19 variants that are present in india may have contributed to its latest surge more than 300000 new cases have been reported that for the 6th consecutive day. chad's new military transition council has sent in troops as protesters demand civilian rule at least 2 people are being killed in the unrest france has condemned the violence against demonstrators human rights watch is accusing israel of crimes against humanity practicing apartheid and persecution against palestinians and the sunni leaders have welcomed the report while the israeli foreign ministry has dismissed the findings. now the u.s. navy says an iranian warship aggressively approached american vessels in gulf waters of this month footage shows an iranian ship cut in front of a u.s. vessel which had to move out of its way to avoid a collision indirect talks are happening in the n.l. at the moment with the possibility of the u.s. returning to the 2015 iran nuclear deal hillary mann leverett is

a former state department and white house national security official she says this incident seems to show a major change in the u.s. strategy for the middle east. this incident reportedly happened april 2nd so it's been a few weeks it seems to happened on the eve of the announcement that the united states and iran would essentially hold these indirect talks in vienna about rejoining for the united states to rejoin the iran nuclear deal it also comes very very interesting the. other recent announcement by cent com the cent com commander u.s. cent com commander general mckenzie he said last week there for the 1st time in nearly 70 years for the 1st time since the korean war the united states does not have air superiority in a military theater where it's active so we 1st have this comment that the united states does not have air superiority and now the military is releasing a video that clearly shows the united states is not have naval superiority so it's

a very interesting question what is the u.s. department of defense doing is it doing it in conjunction with a coherent ordinated biden administration policy to show that the united states perhaps is not does not have and is not seeking to continue its overwhelming. essentially had germany in the middle east it's overwhelming control and influence in the middle east bahrain's only female political prisoner has been released after 3 years. bori was sentenced and 2019 after being detained for the year before and stripped of her citizenship her release came after weeks of protests denouncing the living conditions of those in jail there's also been a quote a virus outbreak in the present where she was being held. saudi arabia suspended the import of fruits and vegetables from lebanon it says shipments are being used for drug smuggling after millions of pills were found in boxes of pani granites

lebanon has already been facing its worst economic crisis in decades and the bands expected to hit farmers hard set harder reports. these farmers in lebanon are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah they had to i don't it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone. lebanon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every here one forced to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese

government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues levanon has a long history of drug called the patient have trafficking that because bally is the source of opium and hashish production factories producing captagon pills have been discovered as well western drug agencies say the amphetamine is also widely manufactured in syria. the discovery of 5300000 captagon pills in saudi arabia was the latest drug bust coming from lebanon on the timing of the ban has raised the question if politics is at play this disengagement strategy that saudi arabia as well as the broader gulf has adopted views of 11 on slowly turning into

a more us engagement than a negative engagement strategy in that case the pressure on the lebanese government in saudi arabia whose influence in lebanon has waned in recent years is angered by what many see as the iranian backed hezbollah lost control and influence in the country lebanon's leaders ordered the security services to crack down on drug smuggling and those behind it decisions are not in the hands of the lebanese government but in the hands of hezbollah. muddling routes are under its control and so is the airport and the ports there is no state in lebanon there's a lot of uncertainty saudi arabia wants guarantees that what it calls a systematic smuggling operations and few here believe it will be easy to control the drug trade center. beirut. russia is warning that it will do whatever is necessary to ensure security along its borders follows weeks of escalating tension between moscow and ukraine with russia amassing thousands of troops along the

frontier told of their withdrawal on thursday russia says actions by the u.s. and nato are behind the increasing military threat. ukrainian president of love them is alinsky says he expects to meet russia's vladimir putin soon in a bid to end the conflict in the east since it began a 7 years ago foreign volunteers have traveled to the region to fight on both sides charles trafford reports from the frontline village of chirac and where he met a fighter from georgia gulch or is a georgian war veteran in eastern ukraine the conflict here is something he recognizes because russia has also supported separatists in 2 breakaway regions of georgia. in 2008 the russian army invaded to support their independence be. the sound of shells exploding reverberates across the fields.

god just says russian back separatists fire at ukrainian army positions near here almost every day. you do hear that he says they're firing 120 millimeter caliber weapons he takes to the front line village of. every building was either damaged or completely destroyed during fighting in 2015. russia did many bad things to us in georgia they occupied our territory as they have done here in ukraine i'm not against the russian nation or people but their politics is a very dirty game that. georgian volunteers like got just started coming to ukraine to russian back separatists at the start of the conflict in 20142 years later the self-styled georgian national legion was incorporated into the ukrainian army analysts say russia has encouraged and supported territorial disputes in ukraine as

it did in georgia to hinder the 2 countries from joining nato. me at the can we georgians know what it means when your dignity and liberty is taken the ukrainians helped us and now it's our turn to help them they told us during our war that if we didn't start russia in georgia then we would eventually have to stop them in ukraine they predicted this would happen and they were right. the sound of gunshots could be heard every few minutes. the morning started with shelling and now they are trying to provoke us to shoot back and find out our positions this ukrainian soldier tells us there are around 50 georgians that are working with the ukrainian army right the way along the front line the army here the smalling very nervous they want to allow us to progress any further up this road because in the last half an hour or so we've heard what they describe as a fire targeting a position very close to here. both sides accuse each other of violating the

2015 cease fire agreement most every day. cleans his weapon before going back to his checkpoint he says defending ukraine is he's jude and he won't be returning to georgia any time soon charles trafford al-jazeera shirakawa eastern ukraine. now the anticorruption group founded by kremlin critical x. in the valley says it will continue its work despite new court imposed restrictions judges are considering whether to ban the foundation for fighting corruption as extremist organization among other curbs it's no longer allowed to share content online organize rallies novelli has been imprisoned since january his supporters say he's in poor health and at risk of dying russia says brazil's decision not to import its covert 19 vaccine is politically motivated the brazilian health regulator rejected requests from several states to approve russia's new jobs citing

a lack of data on its safety and efficacy the manufacturer points the blame at the u.s. government for persuading brazil against it brazil is the worst affected country in south america with more than 14300000 infections. the global economic devastation that's accompanied covert 19 has been specially severe in argentina it's already struggling economy shrank by nearly 10 percent in 2023rd straight year of recession trees about travel to greater point is a reason to find out how people are coping with the twin health and economic crises . the soup kitchen in moreno integrated one aside is is trying to me they increase in demand in recent weeks. out of their lease he says every day and you family comes in for food and already we have twice as much work because demand has doubled with new restrictions and children out of schools we've had 9 new families

in just a few weeks argentina's struggling to control a rising it's called 1000 infections the pandemic and years of economic troubles have left millions of people here in need poverty rates have soared in argentina in the past year 62 percent of children in this country are now poor the pandemic has had an enormous impact in neighborhoods like this one where most of the people work in the informal sector medium my daughter just moved to one of the kindle because she says she couldn't afford to pay rent anywhere else more affable google bought up on them a log and i'm coming here today because i have $5.00 children to feed they're not going to school so i have to take care of them and we can't afford to pay for everything elastica he said working in the area its staff assist the neighborhood of more than 40000 people with ford and activities for children. the government has suspended in person to lass's by children here have little access to internet to continue with their studies at home. madeline tested positive for covert 19 and was

forced to stay home with her 2 kids. for days we only had some pastor to eat and rice that was a we had i knew i had to stay home to prevent contagion i realized i had to start asking for help when we didn't have anything else in the fridge. the level of poverty and loss of jobs remind many of another crisis in 2001 when this country defaulted on its sovereign debt even though the government is now assisting millions with food and cash handouts elastic ask and consoli says much more is needed in a society. we need to have a series of policies that will help the whole country recover the needs to be investment to bring back jobs and improve people's lives in places like this we have only one school and one can to garden and we need at least 3 the pandemic has depleted argentina's economy it's now negotiating billions of dollars in foreign

aid with the international monetary fund was struggling to fight the spread of colvin $1000.00 a fight that's worsened economic troubles that began long before the pandemic families here are stuck in the middle trying to survive any way they can. is there with me so robin a reminder of our top stories the world health organization says 3 new covert 19 variants that are present in india may have contributed to its latest surge more than 300000 new cases have been reported for the 6th consecutive day elizabeth purana has more from new delhi despite the international aid pouring in and we're seeing that coming in the last few days the world health organization has said that they oppose.