expanding the. actual. at least $21.00 killed in a truck bomb explosion in eastern afghanistan and one of the deadliest attacks in recent months. i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching algis there also coming up on the program growing anger and calls for

a public inquiry after dozens of ultra-orthodox jews killed during a stampede in northern israel india's plan to inoculate all adults over the age of 18 against the coronavirus just aren't enough vaccines to meet the demand and body bags signify brazil's growing death toll from the growing a virus thousands of the dead are babies and children. we begin this hour with a developing story from afghanistan where the interior ministry is saying 21 people have been killed and 91 wounded in a truck bomb attack that happened in the city which is the capital of logar province which is south of the afghan capital kabul no one has claimed responsibility for the attack which could be one of the deadliest in recent months

it comes a day before the u.s. and nato start withdrawing the remaining troops from the country for controversy joins us over the phone from kabul and it comes at a sensitive time as well because we are in the the muslim holy month of ramadan and people were breaking their fast at the time of this attack are there any further details about the casualties. well that's absolutely right mariam and you know these are extremely tense kinds here in afghanistan just because foreign troops have actually began there was droll from again the stand a number that you mentioned is the official number that keeps rising almost by the hour because locals they do put this number and they have been putting this number much higher since they attack has happened and it is expected to rise further as it's close to midnight here various efforts underway with the jing under the rubble for even more people who have been injured or died in the attack and we're talking about civilian students and even take people who are the hospitals that it was the

area of the attack according to the head of the low guard the provincial council there was a minit truck that drove in that area where the dormitory in the hospital where the people in the truck said that they were coming to distribute food for it start like you mentioned it's the holy month of ramadan and then the explosion happened buildings collapsed and again according to the head of a low guard provincial council and dormitory problem there were a lot of students who were there ready to take their university entrance exams and according to game on please don't one floor there were 25 people there and he said that he believes that they are all dead the hospital has been badly damaged there have been a lot of people who have been transferred here out of the emergency hospital and downtown kabul and as we speak there's dozens of people who are gathered outside the hospital trying to find out what's going on with their loved ones like you said

the government in a statement openly blames the taliban for their such attack though so far no one has claimed responsibility maryam thank you very much from kabul fellow hunter furry. well securing peace in afghanistan is at the center of talks taking place and the u.s. russia china and pakistan a meeting with taliban representatives some avenge of aid is in darren's as an earlier attack could pose a threat to progress 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 asked for 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 that 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 on boys from russia china the united states as well as pakistan attended this meeting with the taliban where all 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 in since last year when this deal was signed between the united states and the taliban 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. our other top story this hour calls are growing for a public inquiry in israel after the country's largest gathering since the pandemic ended in tragedy at least $45.00 people were killed in a stampede to a religious festival at mount marin where tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox jews gathered on thursday night how a force that reports now from the scene in northern israel. it's israel's largest religious festival attracting half a 1000000 mainly ultra-orthodox participants each year this year large 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 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 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 world. i saw tens of people lying here on the floor i saw it 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 a national day of mourning on sunday and defending the role of the emergency services but. 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 1st of all 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 he could.

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 it out 0 measure on northern israel. the 1st shipment of medical supplies from the us has arrived in india but it's unlikely to stop the country's deepening come. virus crisis more global infection records were broken there in the past day with more than 386000 new cases and 3500 deaths vaccinations are being opened up now to all adults but several states say they've run out of doses elizabeth branom has our report from the daily. money could gold 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 right now return to reporting today because the people predicted that we're going to have a very good except right out of the if you need something to support the person or it would be right i apologize for the person there. but. india's under-funded health care system is collapsing as it's overwhelmed by the world's biggest surge in cases. there are long lines outside oxygen supply is around the country there's tension here as people wait 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 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 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 fruit of the vaccination gambit. rainbows and so for now i would get about 3 years to doctors into. these records nation. but there is not votes and with 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 really hard to get along. to see what us up and to the rest of the world in terms of how the 2nd day was and unfortunately in our health researcher i sort of

failed to see the kind of preparation that i was expecting that the government would be doing in the last one year money because his her mother wasn't a victim of covert $19.00 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. or in another of the world's worst outbreaks right now brazil has recorded 400000 coronavirus deaths activists have protested on copacabana beach in rio de janeiro bring rain flags and rock body bags despite the spike in deaths president jabal sonar is consistently downplayed the effects of the virus a quarter of those fatalities have been recorded in this month alone brazil has the 2nd highest number of deaths in the world after the united states. there's also been an alarming rise in the number of babies and children under the age of 10 succumbing to the virus on ikea anneke have reports on that 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 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 then joe specialized in public health has released data showing an explosion of deaths among children and babies in brazil. if. the near brazilian variant is partly responsible because it has a larger fire alone 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 her 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 reus in the iran 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's revolve so rocketry and result in death. doctors say the number of coded 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 with health congress has launched an inquiry to investigate the government's handling of the pandemic and its responsibility in the deaths of 400000 people for the 1st time a pretty good will be paid to the children many have thought would be fair from the buyer a group of mothers moved this carpet a reminder that at least 2000 of brazil's victims were younger than 9 years old. meinecke an i.q. of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. much more still ahead for you on the program some of sport's biggest names log off to fight back against online abuse we'll tell you why these mass ahead is fair an avocado fun could put that way of life at risk.

europe is divided literally at the moment by a frontal system that just won't go away is in this massive cloud here it's going roughly from southwest to northeast and here it is but the fact that it's moving very slowly has got ripples all it means it will produce some pretty heavy rain fronts be where this weekend this is it developing in the northeast of a spade and then this part of southern france running to switch to the northern italy significant amounts of rains or flooding as well likely significant snow for the alps as you can see here it's also dividing because to the north which is still the low side northerly with the low countries it means 14 in paris and 40 in berlin and that's the improvement on friday the other side it's really quite warm southerly breeze out of africa has lifted temperatures in for example greece the rail to heavy as it runs through the czech republic and probably poland during

sunday leaving things a little bit quieter back in switzerland and france athens remains hot this is the generally warm area for laundry science words and the temperature in essence is remarkably high given the obvious 22 the record is 2036 we're approaching recoveries but we were to get that that heat extends or comes from the other side of the water in benghazi were 40 that again is well above where it should be. for. the century again they were cold colonialists. 50 years ago they were known as immigrants today they are citizens. in the light of france's 2021 contentious so-called separatism laws we'll look back at the history of muslim immigration in france in a 3 part series. muslims affronts episode one. on

al-jazeera. the the i'm. a come back the main stories now afghanistan's interior ministry says 21 people have been killed and 91 wounded in a truck bomb attack it comes ahead of the u.s. and nato troop withdrawal and as negotiations continue in doha calls are growing for a public inquiry in israel of the country's largest gathering since the pandemic began ended in tragedy at least $45.00 people were killed in a stampede at a religious festival at mount merapi the 1st shipment of medical supplies from the

us has arrived in india more global infection records were broken there in the past day with more than 386000 new cases and 3500 deaths when other stories are following authorities in russia targeting a lawyer for the jailed opposition politician alexina valley. was briefly detained after being charged with treason a well known lawyer who is defending the vollies anticorruption foundation is accused of disclosing classified information the latest setback for the putin critics but its goal campaign which was also added to a list of extremist organizations the country of them you mean it's a good thing i have just been searched documents representing lawyers secrets have been confiscated practically all the documents on the suffering of case have been confiscated i was against that al-jazeera is bonnet smith brings us more now from moscow. so 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 journalists called. sovereign off meanwhile yet more bad news for an avowal in the andes organization of like a further setback really russia's financial monitoring agency has added one of on these 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 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. at least a dozen people have been killed after a cease fire between his town and care this town fell apart within an hour as several more people were injured as talks between officials from both countries met to try to end the border scum ish the fighting is centered in a remote mountain region and up but can with a dispute over water supplies fueling fears of a wider conflict alexy o'brien now reports. 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

i was. 6 the violence broke out at a water reservoir at both countries claim as their own each side accusing the other of firing 1st. their skirmishes here every few months as communities are the access to land and more casual resources. but majoring gage lutes by government troops are rare this is the worst fighting in is this is one of the last undefined frontiers in the region in central asia when you look at this part of the map this is the very gonna valley where back to stand if you can stand in kyrgyzstan all sort of tangle around one another it's a very complicated ethnic groups of course you know you can't place blame on the fact that there are no clear geographic markers between the borders between the the curate is in the tajik side so that that's just sort of geographic confusion you could say religious and border checkpoints on the koga side

a siege to have been seized on fire thousands of people have fled the fighting and and now sheltering in schools. here is the good in a to launch a hit 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 are 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. to 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 their leaders. fuelling the frequent and sometimes vs territorial disputes. brian al-jazeera. now and other stories are following apple faces a fine running into billions of dollars after european regulators charged it with being anti competitive over in app payments european union officials sided with spotify after it complained that i phone users were restricted from using streaming services other than apple's own the us from now has the opportunity to respond to the claim it forces app developers to use its own payment system by going to his could impose a fine potential of up to $27000000000.00 but it rarely goes for the full amount possible. some of sport's biggest names and governing bodies have gone silent on social media the 4 day boycott as part of an effort to fight back against online

abuse cricket rugby and tennis of old joined in the effort led by english football clubs and players they want social media companies to do more to stop discriminatory abuse and lean john is the director of inclusion at the english football association and says it's a world wide issue that needs to be changing addressed it's not that we all say that social media has a mechanism in and of itself is bad what we are saying is that there are not enough safety says not enough monitoring not enough in force men on social media platforms at the moment and that is why there is this horrible culture of the b.s. that is taking place day in day out without any consequences for many individuals all over the world you know the abuse isn't coming you know just from fans will by stealing them what you will be abuse is coming from across the globe for individuals some of him how much he no involvement or passion or following behind the school and not because you can stay at home in a completely different part of the wild type whatever you want online and actually

delete your account and face the consequences and go about your day and for all individuals who are receiving abuse in the victims be that a female play is be that racist and semitism homophobia or indeed any other type of discriminate. that stays with you beyond that moment and impacts you friends in the eyes around you and we cannot sit back and allow this to continue to happen and that's why for us as the english governing body and indeed as a collective of sport more widely we really needed to use our voices today and call on others to support us so we are calling on fans other organizations to get behind us to join us in this and to make your voices heard because this online discriminate tributes must stop. a surging demand for avocados could be putting one of africa's traditional ways of life at risk a community of mass is in kenya fighting to protect their grazing land and livelihoods from an agricultural company and conservation is fair its plans to

build an avocado farm will be disastrous for elephants and wildlife tourism welcome web reports now from near the town of kimono. for 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 so that. one. for us in the must. we see very different 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 it's not up to the farm manager jerry myself who's from this area also owns some shares. which is very bright as you can see which was assigned us agricultural land now these are not like you have a system that 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 you 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 corridor or the green area connecting to wildlife preserves the blue lines show their tracks and the farmer sits in the middle of them it's not the 1st farm here but he says he. in the flood gates to many more is interfering with the whole system because we do the community services might collapse the families in our own place because they deceived emitted areas where you can do from and without interfering with the other learn to use it environmental tribunals would it kill each other to stop the farm. so that its papers are in order and it's appealing the decision many of kenya's 3000000 herders a poor 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 kenya. and south africa zulu queen has died just a month after her husband's death led to her being appointed to the royal queen. was 65 years old and had reportedly been admitted to hospital after a brief illness she was appointed regent in march while a successor to the monarchy was chosen she was the 3rd and most senior wife of the late king goodwill so we. could look at main stories now afghanistan's interior ministry says 21 people have been killed and 91 wounded in a truck bomb attack this happened in the city of the capital of logar province

which lies south of the capital kabul no one has claimed responsibility for the attack which is one of the deadliest in recent months but it comes a day before u.s. and nato.