in the light of france's 2021 contentious so-called separatism let's look back at the history of muslim immigration in front. see. the sins of fronts episode one. on al-jazeera. at least 38 people are killed in a stampede at a religious festival in northern israel. the soldiers are alive from dell heim ferry non-gay the also coming up on hold what would have been palestine's 1st elections in 15 years are postponed hamas the scribes the decision as a coup. brazil becomes the 2nd country to surpass 400000 covert 1000 deaths and

health officials are warning of more gruesome days ahead. president joe biden hits the road to promote his plan to rebuild the u.s. economy as he marks 100 days in office. hello we begin with breaking news out of israel at least 38 people have been killed in a stampede it happens in mount meron which is in the north where people had gathered for a religious holiday oriel goldberg is the international relations coordinator for magen david adom paramedics who were at the scene of the incident he says many people more people are injured and more could die. and we do need a teams responded provided a those were instance i backup teams 200 amp. and then a cycle of mobile unit helical as to the scene to transform back in just to the

hustle. carousel vestal area flag and maybe people still seen we have number one right. now rafah set has more from west jerusalem this is extremely serious and a large scale incident one that the prime minister of israel has called a terrible tragedy it took place after midnight we understand there are some diversion reports as to exactly how it happened some reports that there was a collapse of a stand the reports talking about a roof collapse but the most current reporting seems just that it was in fact a stampede that there were videos is emerging of one area where people were trying to get out with police blocked an exit that had been proceeded by people videoing what looked like a buckling roof or support structure above them it seemed to be swaying so that

could give some indication as to what took place but this is an extremely large scale event estimated $100000.00 people with there even as things were planned they were very very tightly packed together so once this problem started to emerge it got worse it seems much more quickly and also the kind of overcrowding at the event prevented or at least delayed attempts to try to get people out and to get medical attention to them so once the the issue began it seems that the sheer numbers and when literally the weight of numbers made it worse very quickly and made it more difficult to try to get help. palestine's 1st parliamentary elections in 15 years have been disposed and they were due to take place next month but president mahmoud abbas decided to postpone the polls because of a dispute with israel over voting and occupied east jerusalem. reports a day before the electoral campaign with to start president mahmoud abbas put the

palestinian elections on hold he's blaming israel for uncertainty whether people in occupied east jerusalem will be able to participate in the vote. once they say yes we will hold elections to more as long as we are free to go to the polls will campaign and whoever wins wins this is a democracy we believe in a. rival palestinian factions fact the hand of hamas had agreed in january to hold the 1st parliamentary and presidential elections in 15 years but differences soon emerged. how matters rejected the election today saying it will harm palestinian interests in previous elections is really allowed a few 1000 palestinians to vote in his really controlled post offices in east jerusalem this time israeli officials say they don't have a government to approve the palestinian request you have

a tentative instead of israeli post office locations that means as well and will move on the ground and try to prevent them by force which is not a bad thing but this internet and particular means that we have to be ready for some kind of political confrontation with his land which my mother doesn't want palestinians haven't been to the polls in 15 years and are eager to have elections that could restore national unity and fight corruption if we wanted to hold elections we would have found a way even if we smuggle palestinians from jerusalem to ramallah it's easy to find excuses he doesn't she of us are not going to be our under occupation what can we do if it were up to us we would love to have elections. it's really bad as a young 21 year old palestinian i've never felt that i had freedom to voice my opinion or be involved in the political system. a record number of 36 electoral lists have signed up for the elections well some say it shows how eager tolleson

ians are 1st change others say it threatened about his authority senior leaders have split from fatah means slate and plan to run separately. some of the candidates who rejected today have taken to the streets of ramallah to protest the bass's decision polls suggest that the majority of palestinians think it's important to have elections and people here think that the president is using jerusalem as an excuse to delay holding them up both as the factions would work towards forming a national unity government but that might not be enough. to quell the anger of the streets. bank let's go back to our breaking news out of northern israel more than 38 people have been killed in a stampede harry fawcett is on his way to the scene he's just stopped off to speak to us and give us an update harry what are you hearing about what set off the sound

of a stampede. well still the reports are relatively unclear there is no question though that there was an enormous number of people at this very significant religious event last year it was severely curtailed because of coded 19 restrictions so this time there were more than 100000 people there by most estimates some suggesting it was even a greatly higher number than that and certainly the videos bear that out you see people gathered at this new site close to the tomb of a 2nd century rabbi a religious figure appeared figure whose death is marked every year in this large boehmer festival and so these crowds were swaying together dancing together jumping up and down there were images of people falling into each other as they were channeled through very narrow areas so the precise cause is still to some extent on

the question there were early reports of a structure collapsing but most reports now suggest in fact it may have been to do with an exit being barred and a stampede and crushing happen happening as a result of that there was one video that showed police appearing to bar the way to people who were walking under what looked like a temporary roofing structure which seemed to be buckling and swaying under the weight of something on top of it people were pointing their mobile phones and filming this and you saw in this video police barring the way whether that is the same event that's also being reported as as an exit being blocked is not clear but certainly this is a major disaster that one that the prime minister has called a terrible disaster the other senior israeli politicians saying similar things so this is a major national event during the course of the most highly attended religious

festival ever here have we heard it all from the organizers of this festival here. well we heard in the run up to it that there were supposed to be some $10000.00 people. at the site itself now there is a. permanent sort of set settlement around the tomb of the 2nd century rabbi and so that is the that that the really the real epicenter of the events every year there was supposed to be $10000.00 limited in terms of entry to that particular site. however mount meron is a national park and so there is there is direction more widely so many more people than that gathered and this kind of ultra-orthodox event does often attract these very large crushing sorts of crowds and you do see. the the sort of the musical celebrates of this often accompanied by people jumping up and down

together in times of the music often on steeply raked stands there are all sorts of safety questions that have been raised about these sorts of incidents in the past so i think that will be obviously a key part once the immediate aftermath of this is dealt with people treated in hospital access of course is a major issue trying to evacuate people and get them treatment once the immediate wounds attended to the investigation to this of course will center on exactly how this was organized whether it was done safely whether enough measures were put in place to try to ensure that nothing like this could have happened ok harry foster thank you so much for that update. brazil is marking another bleak milestone in the coronavirus pandemic after the

number of deaths passed 400008 quarter of those fatalities were recorded. was only the 2nd country after the us to reach that figure and it's also seeing an alarming increase in deaths of babies and children under the age of 10 monica have reports from rio de janeiro. behind a store a haven for children there's no school and a huge patio with new when unusual toys this abandoned factory at the entrance of real sold a slum has become their playground during the pandemic its walls shield them from the traffic and violence outside but offer little protection from covert 19 or you know since the pandemic began in march of 2020 until last february 47000 babies and children under the age of 10 have been hospitalized with the virus and 2100 have

died vital strategies and in jos specialized in public health has released data showing an explosion of deaths among children and babies in brazil. as against the near brazilian variant is partly responsible because it has a larger viral load than the original one and has more capacity to affect the young but poverty and inequality also play a big part in this strategy and almost all babies who died are poor and black. brazil also accounts for half of the world's maternal deaths by qubit 19. runs a workshop for pregnant women and single mothers in the proceedings. and apollo was part of her group last december she gave birth to a healthy boy. but shortly after turning 2 months old to stopped eating because he had difficulty breathing his mother told us she took him to the hospital twice but was sent back home the 3rd time he was hospitalized but died soon afterwards of

acute respiratory syndrome in thrown we assume the crisis in children is common and can develop into pneumonia but it's usually cured if you get medical attention in time now this is the 1st case i've seen for it to evolve so quickly and result in death. doctors say the number of covert 1000 deaths in children is still small compared to those among the elderly and people with preexisting conditions but he can no longer be ignored specially in brazil where the pandemic is still out of control with health congress have launched an inquiry to investigate the government's handling of the pandemic and its responsibility in the deaths of $400000.00 people for the 1st time a tribute will be paid to the children many have thought would be spared from the virus a group of mothers moved this carpet a reminder that at least 2000 of brazil's victims were younger than 9 years old.

all just sirrah rio de janeiro. coronavirus cases deaths across india have reached a new high as the country grapples with a devastating 2nd wave there as they saw more than 3600 fatalities and nearly 380000 new cases despite the surge millions of people turned out to vote for regional elections in west bengal about sparking fears the state may become the new epicenter. at this point in time you have you have it beyond our capacity for us to see what effect it has between. the legislators you're using and if you have a direct link to their young patients oh yes yes they did fight back and i got a pretty good. deficiency on the ward were very sick ideally should be the night but you know these women still had on al-jazeera to cause.

trouble at the border between kurdistan and to jerk a stunning conflict over water several dead and injured. south africa's president spends another day testifying to corruption inquiry. it's time for the perfect johnny. winter storm supply qatar airways. hello those drenching rains that have been plaguing areas of japan are now starting to slide off to the pacific but we've got another bout of moisture coming so let me break down those details 1st for that 1st system is out toward the pacific but still some heavy rains for northern areas of japan in the forecast on friday so let me take you to saturday now we see this disturbance in the sea of japan it's going to fling moisture on to honshu so tokyo your forecast over the next few days once

again becoming unsettled and why it well as we go to southeast asia we've really seen those heavy spells of what weather for indochina rate through into somalia and across borneo that continues friday and into the weekend for india we're seeing severe storms at times bubble up towards southern portions of the country strong storms for sri lanka as well still hanging on to that high heat for northern areas including new delhi some unusual weather we've been dealing with for areas of the middle east look what it has done into mecca i'm saying it's unusual because it's dropping re not just in the mountains in yemen but also over low ground as well and that will continue for saturday. at ways capturing a moment in time. snapshots of how the lives. of the stories.

provided a glimpse into someone else's what. we were called the threat we still believe the fight. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. i am the voice we are the voice witnesses on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories i'll just iran at least 38 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a stampede at a religious festival in northern israel that happened in mount meron where people have gathered for the holiday. palestinian president mahmoud abbas us bespoke

parliamentary elections scheduled for next month abbas cited a dispute with israel over voting in occupied east jerusalem hamas has rejected the decision calling it a coup. brazil has become the 2nd country to surpass 100000 deaths related to cover 19 after the us health officials warn the daily toll could remain high due to a slow vaccinations of those social restrictions. policing for august on a reporting a renewal of gunfire on their southern border with egypt a stand just hours after a cease fire agreement. at least 6 people have been killed in cautious since wednesday the heaviest fighting between the nations in the year it's the borders the spirited and the violence broke out at a water reservoir that both countries claim as their own steve swerdlow is a human rights lawyer an associate professor of human rights at the university of southern california and earlier we discussed what led to tensions on the border and

just how concerning the recent clashes are. it is the worst escalation that we've seen in a long time and it seems to come down to both sides seem intent on marking their territory you have the security services into jigga stand which are famously nontransparent if you can stand a very authoritarian state and then you have also the border guards here to stand increasingly coming to blows received some video of of arms being distributed population so we have some really worrying signs that the negotiation process is completely broken down there's a lot of hot rhetoric going. going back and forth this is one of the last undefined frontiers in the post soviet region in central asia when you look at this part of the map this is the very gonna valley where you spec is dented you can stand in kyrgyzstan all sort of around one another it's a very complicated ethnic patchwork of course you know you can't place blame on the fact that there are no clear geographic markers between the borders between the

securities and the tajik side so that that's just sort of geographic confusion you could say there's also tend to be upstream on the water on the rivers and have better access typically to water. downstream access of bet lesser access to water and these are fundamental rights but you know in addition to those things you have to periphery southern kyrgyzstan and northern to stand there just about as far as you can possibly get away from the capital cities of each of those countries and i think the residents of those areas those border communities are in economically depressed regions and they do not feel heard or respected very much by the central capitals. president joe biden as in the state of georgia where he held a drive in rally to mark his 100th day in office reflecting on his address to congress the day before he touted what has administration has achieved so far and

also echoed his promises to invest trillions in jobs infrastructure and education. it's all about 100 days left to tell you i've never been more optimistic about the future in america america is on the move again we're choosing hope over fair truth over lies light over darkness never working for work again we're dreaming again we're discovering again i wanted to know why i wrote again i just read the markers he could deliver for the people well during his victory speech biden promised to make racial inequality the top of his agenda but there is mounting pressure on him following the recent killings of unarmed black man by police how to kill him has more. be afraid. paul weinstock explaining what it's like when an african-american sees a police officer in the united states but this former convict now works with the washington d.c. police department to try and change that if we get more of the officers to engage

in the community and provide resources and things than that nature it can be better and that's and it's going to be perfect as nothing is never perfect but it's always a try and then go into these neighborhoods and hear what they have to say but many activists believe it will take more than that. george floyd briana taylor dante wright and the latest andrew brown now household names and symbols of police using deadly force president joe biden has promised racial justice will be a centerpiece of his administration and he took the unusual step of commenting on the murder trial of derek show then for the murder of george floyd before the verdict pre-nda verdict is the right. to go in right here and after no one should be above the law and today's verdict sends that message

but it's not enough we can't stop here. but civil rights groups are pushing him to go further the federal government gives hundreds of millions of dollars to local police departments they want to tie the money to departments 1st proving they don't discriminate they have to collect data in west sap and police departments have been refusing to even collected data for example showing how racially skewed fare traffic stops our data on their use of force not just a lot of them don't even date on all the people that they kill the justice department will get those records in minneapolis and louisville to police departments they're now investigating it will determine whether l m p d n gauges in unconstitutional stops searches and seizures as well as whether the department of unlawfully execute search warrants this is black lives matter and our permanent fixture just outside of the white house the president did promise that in

his 1st 100 days he would establish a police commission but they scrapped that in part because activists say they would rather he focus on passing the george lloyd justice in policing act that would dramatically change the way police operate in the united states it's passed the house now these activists say they want to see the president push it through the senate in his next 100 days. al-jazeera washington. separatist groups and west pop was terrorist organizations it comes after the region's chief intelligence officer was killed on sunday activists say that doesn't nation gives more powers to security forces which have been accused of violating rights abuses against. groups in the resorts rich region have fought for independence from indonesia since jakarta to control in 1969 following a disputed referendum. south africa's president says there was nothing sinister about funding for his 2017 political campaign cyril ramaphosa testified in an

inquiry investigating corruption in government and state owned companies he was jacob zuma as that pretty during the peak of the graft and admitted more could have been done to prevent it from me there are other reports from johannesburg president still ramapo says the highest ranking official to testify at an ongoing inquiry into corruption in south africa many blame oppose us own party the african national congress for much of the graft which according to reports runs into billions of dollars over several years much of the looting is alleged to have taken place when rome opposes preterist says a jacob zuma was president zuma resigned in 2018 has been recognition of. my lais of corruption in the. house of state. military to my military sources

dispense i to me. all that and we've accepted in admitted in the past that that has resulted in and i. believe you and behavior you must refuse to return to testify at the inquiry saying he's being vilified it's alleged that zuma is relationship with the business family led to the abuse of state owned enterprises and influence the appointment of officials to serve their business interests and that corruption filtered through the ranks of the a.n.c. . we've seen the price that is being paid by the people as a whole if they're deprived of. group service delivery because the resource is being voted laundered the ain sees law support in recent years and many had hope that remote who was deputy president at the time would explain

what he did to try to stop corruption but some argue he was not questioned hard enough and instead responded strategically they in c. is going to have some gains as a brit from this exercise. there are no further losses that jacob zuma could suffer. and also i think that if the commission does its work where it was sadness spotlight on those structural issues in the a.n.c. that will show that a leopard cannot change its spots from up north as promised to fight corruption in south africa but his success is hinged on the party he leads rooting out corruption within its own ranks for me to malaya al-jazeera janice burke. turkey has entered its 1st full lockdown of the pandemic amid a surgeon infractions and deaths people stocked up on groceries and left cities

before 3 weeks of restrictions took effect on thursday residents will have to stay at home except for essential needs the government had previously imposed partial lockdowns or weekend curfews to reduce the economic impact. health care experts or nepal are warning the capital katmandu similar to neighboring india infections are rising at hospital beds are filling up with new restrictions being imposed officials say the situation is under control for many residents aren't taking any chances ports. empty streets in the capital as a 2 week lockdown is imposed to limit the spread of corona virus it's the 2nd wave to hit the country infections have surged and more than half are in the capital. but our. hospitals are seeing more cases in a shorter span of time the 2nd wave is more potent with more young people and

children infected as health workers struggle to contain the growing number of patients experts fear that thousands may have caught the mutant variant strains emerging out of neighboring india thousands of workers from nepal have left their jobs in indian cities with 1000 is spiraling out of control and they're arriving here in nepalese towns by the border and that's creating a major health crisis. it's like a mini india the situation was similar in the capital which has a dense population be difficult to cope with the existing health infrastructure more than 3 100000 people in nepal have got called it 1990 percent have recovered over $3000.00 people have died as daily cases surgery experts warn that the epidemic could overwhelm the health system if the country is unable to break the chain of transmission in time and health authorities have repeatedly appeals to the public to wear masks avoid crowds and to maintain social distance but recent

political rallies and religious festivals have helped fuel the spread of the disease thousands rush to leave the capital after the lockdown was announced i am not sure i'm waiting at the bus stop for a seat out of. its crowded the situation is difficult i'd rather be back in my village where i can make ends meet health authorities for. could spread the virus in villages across nepal. the situation has gotten out of control or spreading and life thing. launched a vaccination campaign in january giving doses from india and china to nearly 2000000 people but with a population of 20000000 and limited access to that seems now paul would have to seek support from the international community to prevent the epidemic from spiraling out of control. from italy book.