play an important role protecting you when. ringback the 1st burials are held in israel after a stampede at a religious festival kills at least 45 people. but i think a lot of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at least 25 people are dead after a large explosion in a provincial capital just south of kabul. even when we had it deployed to set the vaccine for not available all that. several indian states say they've run out of

covert 19 vaccines even as the government plans to start vaccinating everybody over 18 from saturday. and trouble at the border between kurdistan and tetchy can stun fights he leaves several dead and injured. because a growing for a 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 sunday will be a national day of mourning ari force it reports now from maryland in northern israel. it's israel's largest religious festival attracting half a 1000000 mainly ultra-orthodox participants each year this year like bomber 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 exile taishan turned in minutes to panic injury and death a narrow passageway became a compacted sea of stumbling swaying crowds trying to get out of the. 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 we were lucky if i saw tens of people lying here on the floor i saw tens of injured walking and bleeding i saw it 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. 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. 6 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 just. 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 she 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 well known as the chief political correspondent at the jerusalem post and he says we can force what measures contributed to the disaster. every year people said that the crowding was overwhelming and that it was a miracle that a disaster didn't happen this year it was more complicated because it broke with restrictions that were of course transit and ascetic lee said that soon or so they

put up barriers to keep people somewhat separate at the barrier but it's harder for people simply it's just the cave even more helpless and there is no doubt that the owner of the dogs have been that independent minded throughout this crisis and when they have left them on for thorny they've been hit by the pandemic this report says that. they are providing the balance of power and it's no government without that he only did them all without the 1st 2 years i mean trying to get rid of the government fast as possible. now we have a minority government being formed in the process and it's roughly as you. say could be a majority government the fuel for the banks will join it now there are those who also played the government the whole of minister of health a particularly weak mandate is sicily he came to town and although he saw that over crowding and less for the disaster happened. very close to. 'd

being held accountable he actually had i think it will notice some developing news from afghanistan where we've been getting reports of at least 25 people have been killed in a complement to like the blast happened in pull a city that's the couple of local programs south of kabul that has been no immediate claim of responsibility. securing peace in afghanistan is at the center of talks right here in doha the united states russia china pakistan are all meeting with taliban representatives that says the u.s. begins a gradual drawdown of its remaining troops in afghanistan we can speak to his own pinch of aid he's been following those talks for us here in doha and whoever is responsible for the attack in libya province it just demonstrates how urgent the need for peace is enough and. why absolutely this is the biggest concern that all parties have who are engaged in these talks

that the violence is going to increase in of going to stand in less than 48 hours when the deadline expires as per the agreement between the taliban and the united states that all foreign forces will leave the united states has indicated with its new administration that the u.s. forces are going to be withdrawing gradually there they would draw will begin from a the 1st but it will not be completed at that time which has been a longstanding demand of the taliban and to discuss that special representatives and always from russia china the united states as well as pakistan attended this meeting with the taliban where all 'd of these issues were discussed the taliban insisting that they need to see their prisoners being released a few 100 of them still remain in prisons they need to be delisted from a terrorist organization status by the united nations and other demands by the taliban which they say have not been met by the parties and the other parties including the united states is concerned about the violence it's concerned about the spike in attacks that have happened since last year when this deal was signed

between the united states and the taliban so it is all coming to an end where foreign forces are gradually building beginning there of a draw but there is no sense of the ending of violence that was expected earlier the afghan side has been saying that the u.s. government has given too much to the taliban and given them a higher pedestal and the taliban has accused the government of dragging its feet over this issue all of these international players who are in afghanistan not just the nato forces and the united states but also neighboring countries including iran and pakistan have been trying to mediate in these talks as well trying to tell these parties to come to some sort of a conclusion because one of the understand cannot stand is another war and as the previous u.s. secretary of state put it that this is the graveyard of empires and the united states does not want to be there for an indefinite period of time was almost. from here in doha.

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 starting on saturday but health ministers in several hard hit states say they've run out of doses casting doubt on the government's ability to vaccinate 600000000 newly eligible people elizabeth purana reports now from new . money could goal sits by her husband's hospital bed just hours after she lost her mother to car the 19 she's managed to find him oxygen but not the ventilator doctors say he needs for her return to the marketing director for them to take them over incredibly productive right now but if you need something the doctors are would be right i don't know how the number of births in their lives but.

india's underfunded health care system is collapsing as it's overwhelmed by the world's biggest surge in cases that there are long lines outside oxygen supply is around the country this tension here as people wait in the hope of getting oxygen for the sick relatives some has been waiting for more than 12 hours but with hospitals out of beds and oxygen these supply is a 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 role 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 but bearing fruit of the vaccination gambit. between those and so for. health care

about theirs and the doctors into. the nation but there is no votes in those. 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 city or the 2nd day was and unfortunately in our. research or i sort of failed to see the kind of preparation that i was i was expecting that the government would be doing in the last one year money says her mother wasn't a victim of clothes at 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 piron an al-jazeera new delhi. turkey has recorded its biggest daily death toll from growth

of our us with 394 deaths in the past 24 hours the worsening situation is to residents ordered to stay home for 3 weeks except for essential needs such as this from. these 3 weeks are meant to be the strictest lockdown across turkey since the global pandemic hit the country last year this time they were all with a partial lockdown on weekends and in the evenings until mornings but then why did the turkish government decide to head into full lockdown this time basically it's the surge in the number of the daily infections in the country in early april the number of daily infections were more than 65000 in mid april the number came down to 30000 however the figures are still worrying and these figures ranked turkey the 4th in the world and number one in europe in terms of the highest figures however there are challenges the spite the government claims that they are planning to

bring down the daily infections down below $5000.00 at the end of these 3 weeks 1st the inflation is in double digits 2nd the turkish lira is sinking and no need to mention craftsmen who suffered the lock downs and the measures the most are in a tight financial corner and no need to mention despite an early kick in early january turkey if full behind its planned intercalation schedule but the good news from the health ministry is that the shortfall in vaccination will be overcome in the next 2 months with the new vaccines arriving to turkey. still ahead here on out of the u.n. marks 40 years since the 1st aids cases were identified what lessons that evident holds for a world battling it 90. we look at why the survival of thousands of elephants is being threatened by an avocado phone and.

there's some to talk about in the arabian peninsula weatherwise 1st of all we have got rain but it's significant rain in yemen in the southwest of saudi there's rather more normal rain in the eastern side of turkey running across to the western side of the caspian and in between lot of sunshine is quite warm still event temps are above the average of course $41.00 in baghdad and in down in q 8 but it's probably down in yemen protect the sun a unit is things completely different the temperatures well below where it should be largely because of the persistence under stalled in the higher ground and the significant rain even on low ground i think we'll see some flooding down here and it's lasting for a couple of days is what we've got to sunday now in the still rain showing up well inland in yemen now everywhere else remains quite the temps come down a bit in baghdad there's a spreading of light show struck the iranian mountains otherwise sings just

gradually return to what you might call seasonal normal we are watching the monsoon winds turn they always turn around the coast of africa voice starts take the rain up towards india and when the 1st signs is what's happening in tanzania at the moment the onshore breeze which is fairly she was available should produces rain in 10 states doing that is still a huge amount of it but it's doing it all the same more significantly just south of that is in the eastern cape and in southern mozambique. frank assessments of poison. why exactly how and why taking for a situation like a man not to be ever again informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking the military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing mr assets this is a message to the region that the united states fears a rethinking here to military posture in-depth analysis of the day school ople

headlines inside story on al-jazeera. and again you what you had 0 and $1.00 of our top stories this hour and israel's prime minister has promised an investigation after at least $45.00 people were killed in a stampede if a religious festival happened in mount meron were up 220-0000 ultra-orthodox jews gathered. there are reports that at least 25 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in afghanistan last happened in the city a city couple of nogo problems solved there has been no claim of responsibility so far. 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. russia has added jailed kremlin critic of these organizations onto a list that involves terrorism and extremism the anti corruption foundation has been banned in the country noel and his lawyer was detained for supposedly disclosing classified information on thursday novelli made his 1st court appearance since ending a 3 week hunger strike he's currently in prison for breaking parole conditions around here i mean it's a good thing i have just been searched lawyers documents representing lawyers secrets have been confiscated practically all the documents on the saffron of case have been confiscated i was against it let's hear now from bonus mithu has more 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 the valley and his organization of 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. 40 years after the 1st aids cases were reported the u.n. is warning that hiv epidemic it's a getting worse in many developing countries it says there were 1700000 new hiv infections in 2019 that's 3 times higher than the 2020 political target of less than half a 1000000 you infections the united nations secretary general antonio terrorist says that covert $1000.00 is not an excuse for missing aids targets but has certainly been a setback it's also blamed gender inequality and lack of care services for the

increase the u.n. is hopeful that ending aids as a public health threats by 2030 is still within reach is calling for 20 $9000000000.00 of extra investment in low and middle income countries to help close the gap in resources. as director of icap which is a global public health provider and she says the cave in 1000 pandemic has drained resources away from the fight against hiv. i think we are facing a very difficult moment in history we are now facing such as you see in the consequences of going with 1001 of the same time we have unfinished business we have not been able as of yet to end the eades epidemic so the timing of the kobe death endemic is as really been. it's been catastrophic insurance. jeopardizing or quick intially jeopardizing some of the gains that have been achieved in tackling the each of them in particular so i think what needs to happen

is there needs to be every effort needs to be needed in order to maintain the gains that have been achieved in the response against the epidemic and evidence they have been substantial while at the same time continuing the momentum moving forward so we can bring down the numbers of new cases and also bring down the numbers of deaths. as well there are many lessons to be learned and i would say some of them include that we've learned the hard way the importance of having a leadership both at a national level as well as community level in terms of mobilizing the response against corbett that's very very important we've also learned the importance of engaging communities and we learned that from the each of you respond that's been one of the major lessons learned from the egypt leaders funds. a large majority of female journalists experience harassment threats and abuse while doing their jobs it surveyed nearly a 1000 female journalists from 125 countries and found nearly 3 quarters of them

had experience online abuse 25 percent said they'd been physically threatened in africa says black indigenous jewish and female journalists experience both the highest rates and were severe impacts of online violence across one of have a morgan is in sudan's capital of khartoum and she says she regularly experiences online abuse and threats as a result of her reporting. when i covered the south sudan conflict in 20152016 as well as covering the conflict by talking to refugees basically in both context sexual violence has been used as a weapon of war and because i'm not in those areas when reporting on the report comes out i'm usually out of the areas which is affected by conflict the people who are basically attacking me online they don't have the capacity to attack me in person so i see an increase of of of sexual violence threats of threats of some comments such as you know being a female you should know you would not know better if this was somebody else

reporting and sometimes even with a certain type of i would say racial comments online racially charged comments online saying that because you're an african you would not know how to report this or probably english person or a westerner would know how to do better so there's these kinds of comments that you get that shakes your confidence and when you go back home you tend to reflect on the stories wondering if you could have done better if there was something different that you could have done to a story that would make ultimately reduce the amount of online abuse that we get and at the end of the day the stories out there and it's people's stories that we tell and not everybody will be happy but still it does affect your self-confidence and self-esteem. khoja stone says a cease fire along its border with to gie christiane is largely holding despite a renewal of gunfire earlier on friday but 40 people were killed and almost 200 others injured on thursday in some of the heaviest fighting between the 2 countries in years alexy abroad as this report. this is

what a cease fire sounds like on the border between tajikistan and. the video was shared by local media on friday morning hours after both sides had agreed to stop fighting was. 6 the violence broke out at a water reservoir that both countries claim as their own each side accusing the other of firing 1st. their skirmishes here every few months as communities i.q. are the access to land a more natural resources. but majoring gage lutes by government troops are rare this is the worst fighting to me 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 is in border checkpoints on the koga side a said to have been set 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 thora 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. the border area is a long way from the 2 nations capitals of bishkek and duchesne bay analysts say people living there often feel isolated and ignored by the late is. fuelling the frequent and sometimes vs territorial disputes. bryan al-jazeera. a south korean activist to send john balloons carrying a half a 1000000 propaganda leaflets across the border to north korea the flaws condemned the government headed by kim jong un. risks up to 3 years in prison for the move which is considered a criminal offense the critics accuse soul of sacrificing freedom of expression in the effort to improve ties with pyongyang a community of mass i heard is in kenya is fighting to protect its grazing land and

livelihoods from and i go cultural company conservationists affair that plans to build a potentially lucrative avocado farm will be disastrous for elephants and for wildlife tourism michael ware reports from near the town of c'mon up. to thousands of years people have been hurting livestock on the plains around mount kilimanjaro. and they've been teaming with wildlife for even longer. tourists come here to see it. the shan can any guide them when he's not with his cows his community of messiah herders agreed with the government that this area should be reserved for open grazing and wildlife and so he's alarmed that some of it's been fenced off for farming crops you know we moved from place to a not of lettuce so that this land now it's for one person with forest in the muscle. we see very long defined thing stopping just long. the land available for nomadic grazing here in kenya has been shrinking ever since

colonialism the farmers are fenced off just under a square kilometer of land conservationists say it's followed a series of irregular decisions by the relevant or thorough and they say many more investors are waiting to see if this farm will be allowed to continue and if it is they say many more tracks of land will be fenced off and that will be devastating for the herders and for the wildlife within the fence a company called killie are very fresh plans to grow for cargoes for export and other crops it belongs to some agricultural investors from the capital nairobi 200 kilometers away so it's not. the farm manager jerry myself who's from this area also owns some shares i can see the fish is very bright as you can see which was a sign us agricultural land now these are not like you have to exist in that land with the activity of other. people how to transform themselves from their

traditional way of life to modern life danielle if somebody says the land here isn't idle we work for a conservation group he says thousands of tourism jobs depend on the wildlife and the survival of about 2000 allophones here depends on a code or the green area connecting to wildlife reserves. the blue lines show their tracks and the farm sits in the middle of them it's not the 1st farm here but he says it'll open the floodgates to many more it's interfering with the whole system because you know the community to conserve us is might collapse their families in the wrong place because that decision it did areas where you can do fine without interfering with their land use and environmental tribunals would it kill you have a to stop the farm. says it's papers are in order and it's appealing the decision many of kenya's 13000000 herders a poorer than those living in farming communities towns and cities. says if they

lose the last of their past years they'll lose everything malcolm webb al-jazeera came on i can yeah. just a wee nudge in the direction of our website al jazeera dot com is the address all the news recovery right there in country and analysis. so let's just check out the headlines here on al-jazeera and 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 be at the mount marin disaster is one of the worst disasters that has befallen the state of israel but we mourn the victims our hearts go out to the families and also to the wounded whom we wish for their full recovery there were heartbreaking sights here people crushed to death including children.