world music legion of discounters like nothing you've ever seen. but we want to know is how do these things affect people we visit me state even when they're no international like. al-jazeera really invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. the 1st burials are held in israel launches turned heated a religious festival kills at least $45.00. i don't make like this is out 0 life and also coming out. even when we had it deployed to set the vaccines are not available it is not that and did this several indian states say they've run out of covert 19 vaccines even as the government plans to stop vaccinating everyone over 18 from saturday. brazil marks

a grim milestone 400000 cases with deaths since the onset of. the u.n. warns of a famine in madagascar where children are starving after drought and storms strike . the 1st we're going to breaking news from afghanistan where we're getting reports that at least 25 people have been killed in a car bomb attack at the blast happened in a city that's the capital of logo province south of kabul and there's been no claim of responsibility but it appears to be one of the deadliest attacks in afghanistan in recent months we will of course bring you more on this as it comes in to us here at officer. now calls a growing for public inquiry in israel after the country's largest gathering since a pandemic began and ended in tragedy at least $45.00 people were killed in a stampede at a religious festival at mount meron where tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox jews

gathered on thursday night prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that sunday will be a national day of mourning her 4th of reports now from iran in northern israel. it's israel's largest religious festival attracting half a 1000000 mainly ultra-orthodox participants each year this year are celebrating a 2nd century rabbi and sage to his tomb was also the largest gathering of any kind since the start of the pandemic mass excell taishan turned in minutes to panic injury and death. a narrow passageway became a compacted sea of stumbling swaying crowds trying to get out. close by people were pressing on metal sheeting a few overwhelmed police improvising an escape route while also trying to keep some back. it was clear by now that a mass tragedy was unfolding the crowding and confusion that led to it also

hampering the rescue efforts in its aftermath sure work. i saw tens of people if you lying here on the floor i saw tens of injured walking and bleeding i saw at children i saw adults very difficult sites. the next day brought a mass evacuation operation and the start of a major police investigation it also brought the israeli prime minister announcing and national day of mourning on sunday and defending the role of the emergency services. have with europe there was a rapid rescue operation by the police the rescue and security forces and we are grateful to them they prevented a much bigger disaster we will conduct a thorough serious and in-depth investigation to ensure that such a disaster does not reoccur. some protested against the presence of the head of israel's secular government during an ongoing religious festival no matter netanyahu is close partnership with ultra-orthodox political parties there are pressing questions now for the ultra orthodox rabbis who are in charge of this

event for the police who are meant to safeguard it for the political leaders who allowed it to take place with such apparent light intervention added to that is the fact that there have long been warnings about this precipitous pathway this bottleneck on the way out and the dangers lurking here. some of those making their way home accuse the police of blocking an exit others said an event like this had long been a risk i felt unsafe and this isn't. about the 100 percent. but it was miracles every year but you could do it you could do the best out of it should be like. the human being should be at least safe to how much he could have. nonetheless some were determined to continue this year's festival even as others mourned their recalls now for a full independent public inquiry to accompany the police investigation ari force at al-jazeera meron northern israel.

corona virus infections across india have reached another record high with more than 386000 new cases and nearly 3500 deaths reported vaccinations are being opened up to all adults above 18 that starts on saturday but its health ministers in several hard hit states say they've run out of doses casting doubts on the government's ability to vaccinate $600000000.00 newly eligible people elizabeth per anum reports now from new delhi. money could go sits by her husband's hospital bed just hours after she lost her mother to car the 19 and she's managed to find him oxygen but not the ventilator doctors say he needs from her return to the marketing director for the privilege of serving her but her right now. you need something to support the person you are putting right i don't know how the numbers are

birthing their families. and he is under funded health care system is collapsing as it's overwhelmed by the world's biggest surge in cases that have long lines outside oxygen supply is around the country this tension here as people waste. in the hope of getting oxygen for the sick relatives some had been waiting for more than 12 hours but with hospitals out of beds and oxygen these supplies are many people's only hope. aid began arriving from other countries this week with the 1st cargo from the u.s. touching down in new delhi on friday the military plane was carrying more than 400 oxygen cylinders hospital equipment and nearly a 1000000 rapid tests the u.s. will also send hundreds of thousands of vaccines and the rule materials needed to manufacture more that says many states say they don't have enough doses to start and knock it out to all adults from saturday as planned bearing for the vaccination

campaign restarted mega. retrain thousands of. health care about careers and doctors into those dark these records nation gambit but there is no votes in with us health experts say the government failed to prepare for the 2nd wave and was lucky enough to have a 2nd the 2nd wave which was delayed compared to many other countries out there and be hard to get along i mean to see what us up and to the rest of the world in terms of our year the 2nd day was and unfortunately health researcher i sort of fail to see the kind of preparation that i was i was expecting that the government would be doing in the last one year money because her mother wasn't a victim of covert 19 but a lack of preparedness by the government and that she doesn't know what she'll tell her 8 year old son if she goes home without his father elizabeth purana al-jazeera

new delhi. brazil is marking another bleak milestone in the crowd of us pandemic half the number of deaths past 400008 quarter of those fatalities were recorded this month alone for zille is only the 2nd country off the united states to reach that figure there's also been a lot of me increase in deaths of babies and children under the age of 10 as well as yannick if reports now 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's old islam has become their playground joining 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 covert 19. runs a workshop for pregnant women and single mothers in the proceedings islam and apollo was part of her group last december she gave birth to a healthy boy. but shortly after turning 2 months old back 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 their own practice in children is common and can develop into pneumonia but it's usually cured if you get medical attention in time this is the 1st case i've seen for it to evolve so ironically and result in death. doctors say the number of couvade 1000 deaths in children is still small compared to those among the elderly and people with preexisting conditions but it can no longer be ignored specially in brazil where the pandemic is still out of control brazil's congress has 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 prick you 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

where we can speaks more to live now from rio monikers all just so you side is not a dreadful milestone in a grim month. yes it is and there are just numbers people are just looking at them as numbers many times because they keep piling up so this is why today here on the copacabana beach where i'm standing it's an iconic big it has been filled with the body bags 400 body bags and they represent the 400000 brazilians that have died just so you can imagine how fast this is spreading one 4th of the of these people 100000 died in the past 36 hour. days only and this person that standing there he is his name is philippe he's a lawyer and he's a voluntary with the send geo that is staging this awareness campaign he has been

digging a grave every hour a symbolic grave and as you can see the in the body tags the body bags instead of tags they have flags of brazil and anyway so basically this is just an awareness campaign they are asking who is responsible for this and who are the accomplices and the people that have staged this this protest they are saying that they were they blame the government for for brazil being in the situation because they say president not only downplayed the virus he was very slow at starting the vaccine rollout and now there are many people that are supposed to have their 2nd dose and have not had it for a lack of vaccines so basically yes this is a very grim. milestone yet again it's a tragic story monica thanks that for the from. still ahead here in algeria

refugee rights to safe passage why the english channel has become dangerous for migrants and those protecting them. was. in trouble at the border between kurdistan and to fighting leave several dead and injured. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways. raise return to japan i know it's been raining but there's more on its way on saturday a slow moving system stretching from the korean peninsula right through the home show some of the are incented suggest some big down poles and given what happened a couple days ago that's more potential for landslides certainly for flash flooding and caution slightly warmer than 79 is

a parra neverwhere to the west is now largely sunny and warm quiet beijing and shanghai roughly the same time she is quite hot in hong kong humidity so it is very little rain in china what there is is trying to come in from the west it's not really a seasonal stuff just yet we have break in the line of what should be seasonal rain there is more of the other end of it so what's developing in western china is through out this part of southeast asia anywhere from vietnam back towards thailand to be some pretty big downpours recent the same is true in the on the border of the southern philippines know the philippines look quite fine a moment and a change in the fear i think in the weather in india waltzer into the low to middle forty's in most of northern india the pre monsoon heat there's an increasing humidity all over the place it's these big showers in the northeast of india in bangladesh things to worry about there pretty violent. to put. qatar airways. one 3rd of all the food produced is wasted with

tens of thousands of put out that tower in sussed korea has been transformed from west of founder into global leader in food recycling either reporting on how new technology is making this possible. in kenya i mean the promise and sundays what he had lit it in the soil the library has depended on was a new place a phrase just you. how did you watch the odds are among the top stories this hour and there are reports that at least 25 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in afghanistan the blast happened in full city that c.

capital flow drop and south of kabul there's been no claim of responsibility so far . israel's prime minister has promised an investigation after at least 45 people were killed in a stampede at a religious festival that happened in mount meron where up 220-0000 ultra-orthodox jews that gathered. several indian states say they've already run out of coronavirus jobs a day before the country starts its vaccination drive for all adults above 18 new infections across india have reached a new high with 386000 cases reported in the past 24 hours. russia has added jailed criminy critical these organizations onto a list that involves terrorism and extremism the anti corruption foundation has been banned in the country earlier noel and his lawyer was detained for supposedly disclosing classified information but as smith has more now from moscow. even power law for 20 years has defended people involved in some the most sensitive cases in

russia involving accusations of treason and espionage and it's extremely unusual for a lawyer even involved in such sensitive cases to be detained in any way now that he's been detained under a rarely used law and he's accused of disclosing this classified information in relation to an investigation into one of his clients a journalist called. sovereign off so. powerful or is still being questioned as we understand this afternoon he's been questioned now for about 4 hours meanwhile yet more bad news for avowedly and his organization are like a further setback really russia's financial monitoring agency has added in the valleys regional offices to its list of groups as are involved in terrorism and extremism we know already there's a court case going on against those groups they've already on thursday close

themselves down because they sort of knew this was coming but it is yet another example of 'd the pressure being piled on in the valley and his supporters making it extremely difficult for them to continue operating and it means that really the most sort of the loudest critic of president vladimir putin he's avenues of speaking out against putin are very very slowly or quickly now and surely being closed down. kurdistan says it sees far along its border with the g christiane is largely holding despite a renewal of gunfire earlier on friday about 40 people were killed and almost 200 others injured on thursday in some of the heaviest fighting between the 2 countries in years and they say pride has this report. this is what a ceasefire sounds like on the border between tajik is down and. the video was

shared by local media on friday morning hours after both sides had agreed to stop fighting was. the violence broke out at a water reservoir that both countries claim is their own each side accusing the other of firing 1st. their skirmishes here every few months as communities to access to land and more actual resources. but majoring gages by government troops are rare this is the worst fighting in is 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 got a valley where back to stand if you can stand in kyrgyzstan all sort of tangle around one another it's a very complicated ethnic catchwords 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 well it isn't border checkpoints on the koga side is said to have been say on fire thousands of people have fled the fighting and and now sheltering in schools a little bit on the through milk here is the good and they launch it here out of the bullets at the moment the shooting has stopped. the ceasefire was brokered on thursday night by the prime ministers have to take a stand and kurdistan the un welcomed the move and urged both sides to continue talking and resolve outstanding issues peacefully. to stand as a closed strongly or thorough tarion state and updates from inside and not common. but on the kurgan's side of the border they've been released calling for more weapons and soldiers to defend their land from what they say is aggression. dear presidents we have supported you we voted for you and we put our trust in you so please show an equal commitment and respect us. from the border area is

a long way from the 2 nations capitals of bush cake and duchesne bay analysts say people living there often feel isolated and ignored by the leaders. feeling the frequent and sometimes vs territorial disputes. o'brian al-jazeera. volunteers have been on the cliffs of the english coast in an effort to fight the mistreatment of refugees at the english channel has once again become a rallying point for the u.k. government in the far right as refugees cross from france the group has been facing threats because of its efforts to ensure that refugees have safe passage. whole join members on a dawn watch of the dangerous crossing it's an early start for the channel rescue volunteers scanning the horizon from the cliff tops and see for signs of life in small boats. people getting

into. incredibly dangerous and we are concerned about. as day breaks mobile software shows u.k. ball of vessels responding to a distress call 10 nautical miles from shore a rescue is on the way channel rescues mission is to monitor and document as much as they can seeing the proper procedures are followed that human rights are upheld . this is just one of a number of rescues taking place today among those on board women and very young children or u.k. border force has done what it's obliged to do under international law that brought these people to safety here to the fort of dover i counted 30 maybe 40 people crammed onto that border force vessel to dinghies that they used to make their journey attached to it they'll be processed here and then taken to

a variety of forms of accommodation at the start of what could be a very lengthy asylum application process and while they are treated with care they aren't welcomed with open arms by a conservative government intent on tightening its immigration rules and discouraging asylum seekers. chill's is an immigration lawyer who gives much of his time to channel rescue the home secretary perceives how he said that if she wants to fix a broken immigration system well she was the one that's broken and here idea is. you know militarization and such totally change people's visual perception of poor people in military barracks that's militarize the border let's get trains it's talk about warships. that that's that's frightening and that's why the organization started this very very awful rhetoric is something that we don't want to subscribe to and we want to. shows people. there are

human rights laws that exists the numbers over $8000.00 arriving by sea last year and said to be rising are still relatively small for a country the size of the u.k. but the fact that they come here whether as refugees all rizzi economic migrants has a political dimension far larger than that joho al-jazeera on the channel coast now there are warnings of famine is looming in southern madagascar after years of drought and sandstorms the world food program says some people have been forced to eat locusts and leaves the organizations. has described seeing horrific images of starving or malnourished families during his visit he says the scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief well the u.n. says about 750000 people don't know where their next meal is coming from last year and one of the worst hit areas it found 3 out of 4 children were missing school mostly to help their parents forage for food it wants $75000000.00 to cover the emergency in the next few months. is

a spokeswoman for the united nations world food program and she says the current a virus is worsened madagascar's hunger crisis. the situation in madagascar has just been declining since last year when the alarm bell rang what we call the lean season which is that window between planting and harvesting and we started to sort of build the awareness to really get the world to take notice operationally even even getting cargo to madagascar is it's. it's a small island off of southern africa and at the moment the countries in the middle of a lockdown so there are very few flights as one in 4. into madagascar and it's very tough to even get humanitarian workers into the country so we need resources we need resources yesterday we need to turn resources into food the world is

absolutely suffering from 100 percent you know we know that but i think the domino effect in madagascar is that because of consecutive drought where sandstorms have completely untreated harvest they've never had you know they haven't had a decent rain all in years and this will have a massive effect in 2021 on children on mothers and on family members military jointer is stepping up attacks on rebel strongholds as opposition to its takeover expands to fighters in the semi autonomous ethnic reasons and rebels have been targeting mema army positions scott hi there explains the history of the minority ethnic groups and their role in the movement against agenda. no one is questioning that ceasefire agreement of peace talks between the me and my army and some of the major armed ethnic groups are now either positive or out right there. about

a dozen rebel groups have announced their support for the addict who uprising on the streets some even protecting protesters from security forces as the crackdown became more violent. there are nearly 2 dozen armed ethnic groups mostly in the borderlands that for decades have been fighting the myanmar military for greater autonomy some feel that while each of the ethnic armies has their own objectives the current situation could draw them together as they coordinate against the military it might be a short lived loose alliance though as there are many rivalries and individual agreements between them. but there's a new element the urban based protesters mostly from the majority of them are ethnicity who are now banding together with the minority community. and in some cases as this video appears to show young protesters have gone from street protesting to joining rebel army camps in the jungle to train as fighters. what is new now is this if the people. that they understand the plight of the ethnic.

why do you fight for right now not fighting for your whiting the country but fighting for that autonomous and ended democratic government system some of the rebel army see the current crisis as an opportunity to step up attacks on army positions like one of the strongest a k n u a group representing the korean minority in its territory near the border with thailand. earlier in the week its fighters attacked and captured an army outpost along the river border. the military has stepped up air attacks on korean held territory injuring civilians and sending many fleeing for safety. in the north kitchen rebels have also increased their attacks on the army and like the korean they have also face an increase in air assault. even of all the estimated $75000.00 rebels band together they'd still be facing a $350000.00 strong army despite being outnumbered it's thought that if the pace of urban unrest continues and the rebels step up their attacks it could stretch the

army something that the newly formed unity government of ousted politicians and ethnic leaders hopes to do by creating a federal army got hodler al-jazeera. a prominent antigovernment protests leader in thailand has been sent to hospital following a 46 day hunger strike. she was known to supporters as penguin and has been held in pretrial detention on charges of insulting the monarchy the 22 year old lost more than 12 kilograms and been played a key role in last year's new youth led movement calling for reforms of the time monarchy and the resignation of. a south korean activist to send giant balloons carrying half a 1000000 propaganda leaflets across the border to north korea the flyers condemned the government headed by kim jong un. risks up to 3 years in prison for the move which is considered to be a criminal offense critics accuse soul of sacrificing freedom of expression in an effort to improve ties with pyongyang hundreds of fishermen across south korea have

been protesting against japan's decision to release contaminated water from its fukushima nuclear plant into the sea they fear the threat of contamination will have a huge impact on the industry and their livelihoods many are calling on tokyo to withdraw the plan just as soon as possible. so this is these are the top stories and there are reports that at least 25 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in afghanistan the blast happened in a pull city that's the capital of logar province south of kabul there's been no claim of responsibility so far israel's prime minister has promised an investigation after at least $45.00 people were killed in a stampede at a religious festival that happened in mount meron where up 220-0000 ultra-orthodox jews had gathered. to contribute the mountain air and disaster is one of the worse .