in republic of venezuela. people in power the bay of pigs limits on al-jazeera. there is no channel that covers world news like we do we revisit places. and says here it really invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. running out of wood india's capital struggles to crim 8 instead is a number of covert 19 fatalities surges past 200000. the growing crisis is not confined to india just numbers of neighboring pakistan are also hitting new highs. this is live from doha also coming up as joe biden approaches an important milestone he's preparing for his 1st major address to the u.s.

congress. ages economy starts to lift off but we look at what could still put the region's recovery at risk. corona virus infections in india have spiraled to more than 360000 new cases in the past day that is a global record and has led to more than 3300 recorded deaths that takes india's death toll past 200000 there many critics say the official numbers for both deaths and infections are far below the reality india correspondent elizabeth problem has this report now from new delhi. after failing to find help at medical facilities family members of covert 19 patients bring them to attend to outside the sikh temple on the outskirts of delhi. volunteers here providing oxygen for free often driving long distances to find stockists really. all over india all over

britain. turn to god. how do you do our job board and all over the nearby cities from 10400 members of our. family members of patients to have traveled for hours to bring them here because they can write we want to have less money to commute from my place and come here for this oxygen so i can not take my car without an oxygen so i have to give it one no matter how much time it takes away to. india seeing shortages not only of oxygen but of hospital beds diagnostic tests and vaccines vaccinations centers in the worst affected states ran out of doses again on wednesday. they're telling us that injections aren't available here as vaccines haven't arrived i registered to come here 3 days ago all the way from chamber to bhangra i only found out after coming here there's no proper information they tell us to call the helpline number and come back in the morning the world

health organization says the low rate of vaccinations is one of the reasons for india's surge in cases the u.s. is sending raw materials so india can manufacture more of its own vaccines and many countries ascending and other medical supplies. well kramatorsk worked day and night to keep up with demand mass cremations have become the norm predatory and behind me has been working from 6 in the morning until midnight but because it doesn't have enough pires to cremate the bodies which are being brought every day and had to build 20 in the park next to it and now these 50 in this open space. those who've lost family members say they went through the same struggle to cremate their loved ones as they did find their hospital bed when they were alive elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. works in an intensive care unit in

a hospital in kolkata the capital of west bengal and he says the government should have called off the election to avoid these large crowds and rallies. the reason is just because lack of scientific temperament and proceed to the to counteract this kind of nasty national disaster which flows and we are unfortunate that our country has declared this a national disaster which it should be yesterday only one day of just so i could declare said that we should be declared as a national emergency and this is just a lack of vision lack of foresight and of a government we are married will things going on around in the middle of these for an epidemic they are all milla humans cabinet with and the lack of them with their every day prime minister or the all sentient minister or chief minister there holding big figure and as you can see on the screen he was gathering well when weather wise can spread like anything and will last one month scantiness lee is

going on there there were protests from all all segments of the intelligent people but the main never like didn't bother to listen to them hear them and the situation isn't like what you are facing today what you have with interest exultant cases today that actually get all you can find opportunity in it this is the guts to what is 2000 i can which is which is absolutely for the data and must see that all is a minimum pain to point to tanks what was given by the government statistics which is absolutely fine and this death toll is going to rise after the election is over i don't know why the government proper action didn't stop the election right now was it so necessary to go ahead with the election is like for people of wait what and then election i and really we're disappointed very frustrated. pakistan has reported a new daily record of $201.00 coronavirus deaths and there have been more than

$5000.00 new infections health officials say hospitals are being overwhelmed less than one percent of the country's 220000000 people have been vaccinated soldiers have been deployed to cities with high infection rates to enforce restrictions has more now from islamabad. there's a constitutional clause in the pakistani constitution which really and government can call in the military forces in case of emergency and. administration richard exactly what has happened 16 major. had now guard troops fanning out to ensure that people continue. to. time the military of. any other contingency given the fact that the situation across the border in india is getting back from bad to. be

very careful because of. the pandemic one that gets to be the country decided to relax. and. this time the government did not taking any chances and plans to close down major. communication transport there will be no intercity transport people will be. much simpler and of course the interior ministry. will be closed in order to avoid a large number of people are travelling to go. which. country. doored that day medical facilities are stretched up to 70 percent of the rent in.

order to take in and get an order for spike the likes of which. being right now is . a british study shows that a single dose of covert 1000 vaccine can cut the risk of household transmission by half the report by public health england included more than 57000 vaccinated people from 24000 homes found those who got the 1st dose of pfizer or astra zeneca jabs were 38 to 49 percent less likely to pass on the virus researchers say protection against cave 19 kicks in about 2 weeks after vaccination the british health secretary has welcomed the report and is urging those eligible to get the job just as soon as possible. forrester soto is of religious to keel university and she says the vaccines are crucial to keep those infected with $1000.00 out of hospitals. this is really encouraging news on 2 fronts firstly that a single jab is able to reduce transmission because that was we have not been certain that the chapel be able to use transmission at all and so the fact that

it's now seems working with just a single dose of either the pfizer of the astra zeneca vaccine is really good news and just helped with thinking about how back to the nation is going to help reduce the number of cases the back scenes are very effective at preventing against severe disease so coronavirus or there are a lot of people get really mild disease having a coronavirus vaccine against coronaviruses it's a very is it's going to be really key at preventing people ending up in hospital and sadly preventing some of the pathology is that we're seeing so this news that it actually also prevents transmission is probably really key in helping people understand that by getting the vaccine they're also protecting those people who they care about and so that even if unfortunately 'd they get infected after getting the vaccine they're much less likely to transmit it to anybody and unfortunately it's just too soon yet we just haven't got the length of time to have

that data. i mean we have about 9 months worth of data from the people who best buy's their back seen in the clinical trial way back in july but we really are looking at you know another year before we understand the longevity of the immunity but certainly the effectiveness now in driving down cases is very promising some breaking news now out of the united states where federal investigators have raided the manhattan apartment of donald trump's lawyer rudy giuliani during the raid his electronic devices were seized the f.b.i. is looking in something about giuliani to foreign dealings in ukraine and he's also facing ethics charges over his efforts to overturn trump's loss in last year's u.s. presidential election we'll bring you more on this as it develops a 5 liter boyo. progress on the vaccines is helping the global economies recover in asia pacific countries a full cause to rebound stronger than previously thought but the asian development

bank says new outbreaks could still put their recovery at risk for as many reports now from quantum. when the pandemic hit and countries closed their borders businesses that rely mainly on tarus were badly affected hot air balloon pilot hired him and his sister who run a company that organizes ballooning events tend to there are the passion baking cookies to supplement their income we had to downsize by letting go. we've been for the past 6 years and also we had to let go of. domestic lockdowns closed international borders a global recession these factors drag down output in most economies. but economic recovery has begun in many asian countries according to a forecast by the asian development bank growth which strengthened in the latter part of last year has been driven mostly by exports of electronics and personal protective equipment developing asia which groups $45.00 countries in asia pacific

is forecast to grow 7.3 percent this year rapid economic recovery. stronger import. the us. economy. we are one of the top. trading partners and therefore will likely provide. but the outlook for asia pacific countries will depend mainly on how the pandemic unfolds many countries have started vaccination programs but any delay in rollout could prolong the crisis new outbreaks and subsequent curbs on movement will disrupt mobility and economic activity even as economies recover countries will be counting the cost of the pandemic for years to come school closures disrupted education and students in developing asia last nearly a 3rd of a year's learning on average that to substantially reduce future earnings and productivity the asian development bank says getting back on the path to growth

will require a vast amount of government and private funds lawrence lee. so they are trying to clear the air we look at u.s. relations with china president joe biden's 1st 100 days in office. i am simona 4000 in iraq desert close to the border with saudi arabia where nomadic tribes are struggling to cope with the effects of climate change. hello there were dolly not the temperature across the middle east let me show you exactly where this heat this high heat is starting to build and it's toward turkey cyprus and the levant let me put on the temperatures now honey this will really

tell the story 34 degrees for aleppo we're also getting into the thirty's on cyprus we have some unusual showers popping up into yemen unusual and that is so far north and east also starting to spill into the huge as mountains and saudi arabia so that is the picture on friday looking good in doha $36.00 degrees and plenty of sun to go around take you to africa and still bouts of what weather remains unsettled for tanzania this is been really the trend for the last several days also what weather for the democratic republic of the congo central african republic and right through into cameroon that will continue on friday take you to south africa right now and we do have the eastern cape quite a push of moisture coming onshore this is cruel rain to some snow the 1st of this season for the suit to and show the 3 day forecast for zanzibar that unsettled and wet trend will really continue right through into the weekend saturday 32 degrees.

frank assessments of poison but the government wants one exactly happened and what may have meant taking for the situation might not be repeated ever again and in-depth analysis of the day global headlines inside story on around his iraq. a series of special events is being planned to mark 100 years since the creation of northern ireland but gregg's it has renewed old tensions and put irish reunification back on the agenda al-jazeera will be reporting from both sides of the border in this milestone moment for irish politics.

again you watch out 0 remind of our top stories this hour and india has seen its worst day so far from crown of our after nearly 3300 more fatalities taking the official told past 200000 but the actual number is thought to be much higher. pakistan has reported a new daily record of 201 coronavirus deaths and there were more than 5000 new infections soldiers being deployed to cities with high infection rates to enforce restrictions. u.s. federal investigators have raided the manhattan apartment of donald trump's lawyer rudy giuliani you have to be eyes looking into giuliani's foreign dealings in ukraine he's also facing ethics charges over his efforts to overturn trump's loss in last year's u.s. presidential election. but on the eve of his 100th day in office u.s. president joe biden's due to give his 1st speech to a joint session of congress it is an opportunity for biden to update americans on where his election promise is currently stand the pandemic in his $1.00 trillion

dollar american families plan likely to feature prominently at official joins us live now from the white house and tell us more about what the president is likely to say. well the air is to go you would suspect that the speech is all 'd but written probably a few last tweaks going ahead we expect him to say look what i did with the coronavirus recovery has been great he promised 100000000 vaccines in the 1st 100 days many people thought that he would under played that number but certainly they've exceeded expectations and the whole vaccine is doing well you remember the joe biden push through the covert relief bill as well it meant for $200.00 checks for every eligible american he believes that the economy is recovering and that's a mainly done to him and what he has done he'll talk about foreign policy he'll talk about how he's confronting russia how he's pulling the troops out of afghanistan in september remember u.s. was already committed to doing that under donald trump in may joe biden has pushed

that date slightly farther back but by the end of september and the 1st terror of joe biden's administration they will be ending america's longest war but we're all waiting to see what he says about the american family plan know he's got 1.8 trillion dollars he wants to commit to this among the things he's promising is free preschool for every 3 and 4 year old in the u.s. free community college for 2 years in the u.s. he wants to extend the safety net for risk families by giving them more money through various tax incentives and tax breaks he wants to make sure that there is paid sick leave that is paid family leave as well and he wants to improve access to health care across the united states so that's what he's going to push in his speech of course we don't normally get a speech this late into a farce normally we see them the 1st one or 2 weeks upon it was all about shuttling difficulties but it gives joe biden the chance to talk up his achievements and just a reminder the only 200 people in the room when he makes that speech because of

covert restrictions it means that a lot of biden supporters will have to watch it on al jazeera and for all these plans where is the money coming from. it's the $1.00 trillion dollar question how do you get that much money while he's talking about raising taxes on those who are the wealthiest in the u.s. raising the top level of tax from 36 percent where it was placed by donald trump to 39.6 percent and it will really only be the richest people that will do that he wants to double the rate of capital gains taxes well he believes he can draw in the $700000000000.00 from better enforcement of tax laws and also closing tax loopholes but every politician says they're going to close tax loopholes but he thinks with this money he can make a substantial difference in america 40 years ago ronald reagan said that the government wasn't the answer to the problems in the united states it was the problem joe biden doesn't believe that he believes in bigger government he believes

in the government helping out families that are risky he makes the point that no family ending under $400000.00 a year will pay any more in these tax increases republicans soon as you start hearing tax increases they don't like that idea joe biden thinks he can get by the partisanship in washington by addressing the american people directly saying look these are my plans what do you think if you look at the polls there's a lot of people who believe that joe biden is on the right track so by that token he will be able to sidestep the republicans on capitol hill and push through saying that is what the american people want and that is what i'm going to deliver i don't think that's an official at the white house where when joe biden became u.s. president there were hopes of improving strained relations with china but as he approaches the 100th day of his presidency ties all those forces ever brown reports now from hong kong. when senior u.s. and chinese officials met in alaska last month their encounter matched the freezing

temperatures outside the u.s. was in no position to lecture china wounded top diplomat young. does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to china from a position of strength u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has been equally blunt our relationship with china will be competitive when it should be collaborative when it candy and adversarial when it must be there had been hopes that under president joe biden the relationship would be less confrontational that it had become under his peat assessor biden and chinese president xi jinping met many times when the 2 vice presidents analysts say that biden's china strategy is based on a stronger alliance with allies i think he's done a very good job of messaging. which is to say to the chinese that the the old rules of the past 4 apply anymore. and they've been very tactically astute economic

diplomatic and even military tensions between the 2 rival superpowers are continuing to rise relations are fraught on a number of issues the south china sea dispute the well documented evidence of human rights abuses in shin jiang china's tightening controls here in hong kong and taiwan the nearby island republic over with china claims sovereignty. and biden has lowered expectations of a breakthrough on another friction point with china north korea washington places denuclearization of north korea and its tom of its priority list with respect to pyongyang that's not the case for beijing beijing is more interested in stability yet in one area at least there's a promise of cooperation at a virtual summit this week china and the u.s. the world's 2 biggest carbon emitters pledged to work more closely on cutting their

emissions a rare display of collaboration but one unlikely to be repeated on other fronts adrian brown al jazeera hong kong the u.k.'s prime minister has denied any wrongdoing in the dining street flats make over scandal boris johnson says he covered the cost of the affair pursuant of the property himself didn't clarify who initially paid the u.k. political watchdog launched a full investigation into johnson and a possible violation of finance rules a former adviser says the prime minister trying to get conservative party donors to secretly pay for the renovations i have powered the costs and by that most people will find it absolutely bizarre and of course as an electoral commission investigating this now i can tell you that i conformed in full with the code of conduct with. ministers. code and officials who have been kept. vising me throughout this whole thing but i think people will think it absolutely bizarre that he is focusing on these issues. appropriate and has more now from

london political commentators here in london where unanimous in saying that the prime minister looked angry and rattled red faced and really struggling at times to answer the very for and sick questioning of the leader of the opposition secure starmer the labor party leader whose questioning basically concentrated on who exactly paid the initial invoice for these rather expensive renovation works the took place at the downing street apartment of the prime minister when he 1st moved in there with his girlfriend kerry simons now the prime minister insisted repeatedly that he had covered the cost but he very studiously avoided saying who had covered the initial invoice the payments and there is anecdotal evidence to say that it could possibly have been the conservative party that actually paid the initial bill and then was repaid by boris johnson and who paid the conservative

party's funds well large conservative donors probably it's called it's been called here cash for curtains as in the with the potential for it being a kind of cash for influence kind of affair now that's not to say that it has been that. the commission that has responsibility for transparency and party funding is now going to look into it but they dropped a bombshell into the mix just an hour before that prime minister's question session when they revealed and they announced that they had enough evidence on the face of it to believe or to suspect that there had possibly been an offense committed. the leader of northern ireland's democratic unionist party eileen foster has announced she's stepping down the 1st minister said she will resign as leader of her party on may the 28th in this mold nylons 1st minister by the end of june critics accuse foster of failing to secure a break the deal that saw no night and leave the e.u.

on the same terms as the rest of the u.k. . unions in colombia's capital a protest against president even duke is economic policies despite a ban on gatherings juta coronavirus they're angry about fiscal reforms including tax hikes protesters pressed ahead with a rally despite a government plea to postpone police say they will enforce the law by local authorities colombia's saw a widespread anti-government protest in 2019 but they died down during the pandemic south africa's president has told a corruption inquiry involving his predecessor that he will not defend the indefensible several roma poses says the governing party could have done more to prevent corruption during jacobs used a new term opposes the highest ranking official to testify in the so-called state capture scandal zuma faces allegations of allowing a business family close to him to secure government contracts and influence policy

iraq spread or winds are under threat from climate change hot summer and erratic rain patterns of forcing many of them to abandon their traditional way of life so wonderful team reports from the remote deserts of iraq's went on a province. spring has arrived in the deserts of iraq southernmost on the province april is a time when the sandy soil should turn into grazing land to allow life stock to gain weight ahead of the scorching summer heat instead camels must make do with scattered patches of scruffy grass. climate change is a road in the sustenance of these animals spelling and existential crisis for the nomadic tribes who depend on them. and the land is dry the grass. you have to sell some animals to buy food for the rest this is what life has become. during our visit clouds gathered in what some hoped would be the 1st proper downpour this year but only

a few drops trickled from the sky barely enough to wet the ground there has been very little precipitation this year and when it does rain it's only for a few minutes which is not enough to transform this into pastures for life stuck to feed on the wells that want sustained animals and humans alike have long run dry rather than migrating in sync with mother nature the bedouins by water and truck it from a nearby village but how much longer can they keep going before they're forced to abandon this increasingly difficult way of life. cannot imagine doing anything else he has no education no other source of income. i never thought about leaving this life and i never will until my animals leave me step by step the animals will disappear. his friends that he left the desert a long time ago today has come back to visit from

a nearby town. there's no future here they only know how to herd animals there's no education there's no future for the bedouins maybe in the end there won't be any left. out of 9 siblings only one still lives and no magic life the rest have swapped tents for brick and mortar dwellings in the desert hamlet of. here sat on found work in the local water department and. i prefer the desert but the kids have gotten used to the town air conditioners and phones they go to school. sons' 5 children only know bedouin traditions from stories passed down from their grandfather tales about humans living in harmony with nature about large animal herds moving freely across borders and feeding on seemingly endless green pastures it's a way of life that could soon be just a memory seem wonderful to an al-jazeera in iraq smith on

a province the apollo 11 pilot michael collins who was on the 1st manned mission has died aged 90 unlike his crewmates collins never actually set foot on the moon he stayed behind in flew the module is orbit involved he died on wednesday after a battle with cancer his family said mike always face the challenges of life with grace and humility and face this his final challenge in the same way. so this is i deserve these are the top stories and india has seen its worst day so far from corona virus with nearly 3300 more fatalities taking official told past 200000 but the actual number sought to be much higher. let's vote for one of them the latest now from new delhi. the situation is such in delhi that people family members often going from hospital to hospital to have their loved ones admitted

they're now going from credit toward them to cover towing him from burial to burial ground to hold funerals in a country where.