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18 against the coronavirus but there just aren't enough vaccines to meet the demand and accused of forcing developers to use its own payment system apple face is being fined $27000000000.00 by european regulators. amounts on a how much now have all the sports leading sports in the united kingdom have began a 4 day social media boycott an effort to fight back against online discrimination . and welcome to the news hour our top story afghanistan's interior ministry saying that 21 people have been killed and 91 wounded in a truck bomb attack in the east of the country this comes just a day before the u.s. and nato. start withdrawing that remaining troops from afghanistan and now the

explosion happened in a city which is the capital of logan province it lies south of the capital kabul of the no claims of responsibility for this attack which could be one of the deadliest in the country in recent months for their country furry is in kabul and says the timing is significant these are extremely tense kinds here in afghanistan just because foreign troops have actually began there was girls from afghanistan and amber 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 than they've pack has happened and it is expected to rise further there is efforts underway with the being 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 guards the provincial council there was a minit truck that drove in that area where the dormitories the hospital where the people on the truck said that they were coming to distribute food for its start looking mention of the holy month of ramadan and then the explosion happened buildings collapsed and again according to the head of a low guard provincial council in the dormitory. there were a lot of students who were there ready could take their university entrance exam and according to game by police don't want 4 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 are the emergency hospital and downtown kabul enough we speak there's dozens of people gathered outside the hospital trying to find out what's going on with their loved one the government in

a statement openly blames the taliban for their such attacks. so far no one has claimed responsibility well securing peace in afghanistan is at the center of talks and doha the u.s. russia china and pakistan a meeting with taliban representatives as the u.s. begins a gradual drawdown of its remaining troops in afghanistan some of binge of aid is in doha. this is the biggest concern that all parties have who are engaged in these talks that the violence is going to increase in of gonna 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 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 what 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. now in our other top story this hour calls are growing for a public inquiry an israel of the country's largest gathering since the pandemic and that in tragedy at least $45.00 people were killed in a stampede a religious festival at mount meron 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 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 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 of the. 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 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 if 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 at al-jazeera meron northern israel. much more still to tell you about on the news our body bags signify brazil's growing death toll from the chrono virus we'll have to have the latest from there a stark warning from the united nations southern madagascar is facing famine after droughts sandstorms and the pandemic. and in sport new doubts about whether fans will be allowed to attend the tokyo lympics we'll have those details of a shortened program. well the 1st shipment of medical supplies from the u.s. has arrived in india but it's not likely to slow the country's deepening 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 to all adults but several states have said they are running else of doses elizabeth purana reports now from new delhi. 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 very much for the reporting today about the powerful principle that we're going to have a very good except right now but if you need spending the rest of our cities are right i apologize for the person there. but. india's underfunded 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 this tension here as people wait in the hope of getting oxygen for this

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 bearing fruit of the vaccination gambit restarted mcguckin. rainbows and so for now i would help get about there's a doctor's exhibit. these records an asian gambit 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 really hard to get along. to see what us up and to the rest of the world in terms of how the 2nd day works 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 $1.00 money because his 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 piron of al-jazeera new delhi or u.s. trade officials say they're working with the world trade organization to discuss a fair way of sharing out vaccines while wide but they've stopped short of committing to a temporary suspension of patents which would free more drugs companies to produce the vaccines now the doubly tayo is missing in geneva and it's not going to favor

a patent waiver by the main manufacturers medinah fison astra zeneca it says it will speed up distribution to poor nations but there have been major objections from the u.s. chamber of commerce. joined from the united states by to her i mean he's the co-founder of imax a team of lawyers scientists and health experts who campaign for equal access to drugs and vaccines would you say the pressure then is growing on wealthy nations like the united states the e.u. the u.k. and japan to support a waiver on intellectual property that protects the pharmaceutical companies yes absolutely i think the pressure is growing and with the band started emerged in india i think they're going to continue to grow. how soon before we might see some sort of change because the conversations are taking place stephanie on the double gender. the consensus isn't. now the consensus is not there because the wealthy

countries continue to oppose the waiver this is a waiver that was on the intellectual property not only just a vaccine is what it was submitted in october is also the p.v. equipment it's ventilators so it's for anything that could actually be used to respond to covert and yes we've been dragging our feet at 60 the wealthy countries the last 678 months so it's not just about vaccines this has been on the table for a while and we knew it was coming and the problem is is that this is the system's doing what it was supposed to do it was actually to essentially give all the technological power to the wealthy countries and that's what the troops agree and the duty of was created for us created by pfizer and companies like that and you see these technological clothes i guess their argument would be that waiving patents is not going to be the silver bullet against cove ed it's not going to lead

to a sudden increase in the pace and the volume of manufacturing in transferring knowledge and technology this is a process that will take time. right and do the waiter's not just about patents it has to be we have to be clear this waivers of intellectual property patents alone i'm not going to allow the manufacturers to make the vaccines if the intellectual property of dalton includes trade secrets equals know how and essentially the idea that other manufacturers can't make these vaccines only some of them is actually a myth it's actually a smokescreen those people and the wealthy countries and the pharmaceutical companies keep putting them up we believe and speaking with various producers out there that they could actually get some of their own infrastructure and morning producing these vaccines by at least the end of the year and that means to still be the projections many low income countries who are going to have to wait till 2024 to see that we can still be that projection right because you know when you look at

the the components that go into a vaccine at all the different ingredients the supply is there is a complex process all of this that. would mean that it's not likely to have an immediate effect where the wave is removed. right but i think that the thing is we've already wasted 6 months so if you were to do it if you would have if the the wealthy countries like united states had shown some leadership including the united kingdom have also blocked this they show some leadership and said of actually leading the leadership in the power to the pharmaceutical companies we would have actually be further down the road and we might have added about that seem manufactured instead this is the just drop the whole code thing there's been a lack of leadership and this is why we are in the situation and i still think there's time to get these are the manufacturers appearing remembered as that there are 40 other manufacturers sitting idle in the global south that could actually

start producing and they already produced all the vaccines for unicef and other diseases so why can't we interest them with. what about quality assurance says there are risks and terms of undermining public confidence in vaccines and things like trials human trials and manufacturing and not handled carefully could this backfire. well i think this is again another another mess that has been created and this is this is this myth was perpetuated enjoy its crisis when india put forward that they could make generic h.l.v. drugs now i'm not saying that. the drugs are the same as vaccines but this is what exactly the same kind of smokescreen that p.r. that the pharmaceutical companies put out and we even had obeyed speckling this tooth so again it begs the question that are they really about solving the problem and getting other manufacturers seeing or are they actually just supporting the industry being a mouthpiece for the industry i think safety is not going to be an issue i think

it's people work together we can overcome the safety any safety issues i understand what you say that. this is quite a unique and vast public health crisis that we are facing with the demand for vaccines outstripping supply can you be sure that we would be saying less deaths let's say on the streets of india today was this where we see this this change or are we to see waivers were moved i think it would get as a significant step closer to seeing more dates back scenes in the marketplace to meet the demand that is needed and this whole safety thing of a man have to say that it reeks of scientific racism we've had this before on every level we've had it with hepatitis b. vaccines when shanda biotech in the eighty's actually did their own version and this is a continued thing and the whole the beauty of system is max of this and i think it's time we actually really looked at this both to spend that mic and teach the

limits i mean thank you for joining us thank you. well as india struggles with its crisis it's also been forced to halt its global vaccine exports china is now taking on the responsibility and using it as an opportunity to push for regional influence over its rival adrian brown reports from hong kong. overwhelmed by the covert pandemic it's easy to forget that india's also one of the biggest manufacturers and exporters of vaccines that have been protecting people from the virus elsewhere but as a covert crisis worsens those exports are being curbed creating a void that experts say is now being filled by china india's arch rival that of video conference this week china's foreign minister wang ye told his south asian counterparts that beijing was ready to help in any way it could host spokesman making clear this was

a long term commitment party don't be injured and this includes opening our door for the participation of south asian countries including india we will also make positive efforts to help the relevant regional countries in their fight against the pandemic for the region india though was not represented at the virtual conference a reflection of recent violent border skirmishes between chinese and indian troops john burns wrote a case study for a new book called coronavirus politics and says china's only acting out of self interest it can be dressed up however you want but making the world safe for dictators that's what it's all that's because that's the game absolute and china's playing it well. the danger now is the virus spreads rapidly to nearby countries it is clear from state controlled media that china's leaders are watching developments in india very closely because china shares a border not just with india but also with 3 other countries where infection rates

are rising pakistan afghanistan and nepal and there was a wake up call here in hong kong just a few weeks ago when a flight arrived from new delhi with more than 50 passengers on board who tested positive for cope with 90 china like russia the united states and india has been selling or donating its vaccines to countries around the world giving rise to the term vaccine diplomacy in pakistan china's already taken a leading role in supplying millions of its jobs with more expected this week one of more than 50 countries says china's government who've received their vaccines for free adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong the united nations is warning southern madagascar could soon be suffering a famine after years of drought and sandstorms while food program says about 750000 people don't know where their next meal is coming from and some people are being

forced to locusts and leaves it when a zation senior director is describing horrific images of starving or malnourished families during his visit on thursday. shelley sacral is a spokeswoman for the united nations world food program and says the cove in $1000.00 pandemic has made the situation there even while us. 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've started to build the awareness to to really get the world to take notice operationally even even getting cargo to madagascar is our. 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 the one 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 return resources into food the world is absolutely suffering from post it 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 blanketed harvests they've never heard you know they haven't had a decent rain in years and this will have a massive effect in 2021 on children on mothers and on families in esco says a majority of female journalists experience harrison and threats and abuse while doing their jobs it survey nearly a 1000 female journalists from 125 countries a family 3 quarters of them had experienced online abuse 25 percent said they've

been physically threatened in esco says black indigenous jewish and arab female journalists experience both the highest rates and the most severe impacts of online violence algis areas have been morgan explains the abuse she's received as a black female journalist covering the conflict integration. when the refugees started arriving in november and we started interviewing them and listening to their stories of horror of people being shot in the streets of aerial bombardments those were stories of horrors that they were telling us and when we reflected that i received lots of negative comments on twitter on facebook and sometimes even in my personal e-mail inbox so these are things that you know you get people who are against the degree and in accusing you of being on their side and the attempt is very clear they seem to aim to try to smear you or shake your confidence in yourself and in the way you report and that affects how you interview people how

you talk to them how you listen to their stories and how you portray their stories and to reflect that it tends to affect the self confidence in you and in a person and in the person's work especially as a woman covering conflicts or areas 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. now authorities in russia are targeting a lawyer for the child opposition politician alexina valmy yvonne pavlov was briefly detained after being charged with treason he is well known and he is defending the valley's anticorruption foundation which is accused of disclosing

classified information this is the latest setback for the putin critics but school campaign which was also added to a list of extremist organizations and 3 of them you mean it's a good thing i have just been searched lawyers documents presenting lawyers secrets have been confiscated practically all the documents on the surface of case have been confiscated i was against it. at least a dozen people have been killed after a ceasefire between tajikistan and kerrigan stan fell apart within hours several more people were injured as officials from both countries met to try to end the border skirmish fighting is centered on the remote mountain region of but again with a dispute over water supplies fueling fears of a wider conflict alexey o'brien reports. this is what a ceasefire 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. 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 have 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 got a valley where it was back a stand to 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 militias and border checkpoints on the koga side as say to have been say

on fire thousands of people have fled the fighting and and now sheltering in schools. yet 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 or common. logic. but on the curtis 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've 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 the leaders. fueling the frequent and sometimes vs territorial disputes. brian al-jazeera. so i have for you on this news hour from london i'm joined all of the port of dover where it's a busy day for rescues at sea by the u.k.'s border force of people making the dangerous crossing by small boat from the french coast. are we telling you why these mass i heard as fair an avocado farm could put their way of life at risk and the f one world champion is looking good out of the portuguese crown pray all those details coming up in sports.

but. 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 the 15 southwest to northeast and here it is but the fact it's moving very slowly is. ripples on it means it will produce some pretty heavy rain from this weekend this is it developing in the northeast of spade and then this part of southern france running to switch to the northern italy significant amounts of rains or flooding is what likely significant snow for the alps as you can see here it's also dividing because to the north thames is still the low side northerly wind in 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 from hungary science words and the temperature in the news 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 40 that again is well above where it should be. on counting the cost of china's navy and its maritime militia dominate the south china sea as the u.s. lost control could the pandemic usher in the 4 day work week and environmental racism opposition grows to us by. counting the cost on al-jazeera. i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world we're willing if you didn't take me into a place you might not otherwise feel that you were there a tale of 2 presidents. venezuelan military defectors.

american must. attempt. at regime change. in the bolivarian republic of venezuela. people in power the bay of pigs its own. welcome back from either of the main stories now afghanistan's interior ministry has said 21 people were killed 91 wounded in a truck bomb attack this comes ahead of the u.s.

and nato troop withdrawal and as talks continue in doha. calls are growing for a public inquiry in israel after the country's largest gathering since the pandemic ended in tragedy at least $55.00 people were killed in a stampede a religious festival mount merapi and the 1st shipment of medical supplies from the us has arrived in india global infection records were broken never in the past day with more than 386000 new cases and 3500 deaths. and then in another of the world's worst outbreaks brazil has now recorded 400000 coronavirus deaths activists have protested on the copacabana beach in rio de janeiro burying flags and mock body bags despite the spike in deaths president diable scenario has consistently downplayed the effects of the virus a quarter of those fatalities have been recorded this month alone brazil has the 2nd highest number of deaths in the world after the united states. is on the

copacabana beach in rio. it has been filled with these 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 days only and this person that standing there he's his name is for b.p. he's a lawyer and he's a voluntary with the send you know that is staging this awareness campaign he has been digging a grave every hour a symbolic grave and as you can see the body bags instead of tags they have flags of brazil and 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 protest 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 this is a very grim. milestone yet again a team of volunteers is pushing itself on the cliffs of the english coast an effort to fight the mistreatment of refugees while many people making the channel crossing from france are looking for a better life the u.k. government says it still needs to protect the border it's made a key political it's been made a key political issue and is even resulted in threats against the volunteers trying to ensure the safety of the refugees john holl 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 in. and crossing and being his channel which is one of their busiest shipping lanes in the world it is incredibly dangerous and we are concerned about. as day breaks mobile software shows u.k. border vessels responding to a distress call 10 nautical miles from shore a rescue he's on the way channel rescues mission is to monitor and document as much as they can seeing that 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 them for the 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 to the edge chills is an immigration lawyer who gives much of his time to channel rescue him said she perceives how sad that is she wants to fix a broken immigration system well she was the one that's broken end here id is. you know militarization and if she totally changed people's visual perception of poor people in a military barracks that's 6 militarize the border let's get trains it's talk about warships. and that's that's that's frightening and that's what you know why the

organization started this very very awful rhetoric is something that we don't want to subscribe to and we want to you. 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 with or is refugees all rizzi economic migrants as a political dimension far larger than that joho al-jazeera on the channel coast were a new report here in the u.k. is found that the immigration system is creating undocumented migrants and hostile policies of made the route to a settlement inflexible overly complicated and expensive the joint council for the welfare of immigrants says that 82 percent of the undocumented migrants it surveyed and to the u.k. legally over half of the migrants have lived in the u.k. for more than a decade without being granted the right to remain one major hurdle is cost the

route to securing a secure status in the u.k. cost $20.00 times that of france spain or portugal on documented migrants are also vulnerable to exploitation and abuse the report found that 20 percent of women have experienced domestic violence nearly 3 times the national average 8 out of the 10 most common countries undocumented migrants come from are former british colonies or protectorates where many iran is the campaigns and communications director at the joint council for the welfare of immigrants joins us now from birmingham can you tell us more about the findings of this report and how a person becomes undocumented. yes so our research shows that the majority of migrants who are undocumented in the u.k. are people who at one point in time had come to the u.k. to work or study or to be with family or as asylum seekers and lost their status

rather than having entered that u.k. via the channel which is the narrative presented to us by the government the reason that people find themselves undocumented is because i don't have ways to better men in the u.k. are simply inadequate they are far too long they are too expensive and they're too complex keeping migrants in a in a prolonged period of insecurity which can last year so for many migrants managing their immigration status is a balancing act akin to genger one arrow or difficulty in your life or in the process can eat everything crashing down around you and that chaos is directly caused by policies within the home office and the hostile environment right so from what you're saying they're kept in this insecure kind of temporary status that is reviewed every few years but the longer that goes on for the more something negative could happen that could drive them out of that situation can you give me

an example of a case that you've dealt with yes sure we've the report is full of numerous cases and examples of people stories that at j.c. wy we had a client as an example who had come here to study and suffered a mental health crisis and as a result of that mental health crisis was unable to renew the status for himself and for his family he had a severe mental health crisis which meant that he ended up in hospital one of the reasons that he cites for that mental health crisis was that impending fear of enforcement from the home office and the huge number of fees that application forms and he was asked to pay up to $4000.00 pounds overnight and that led to his entire family falling out. status they were undocumented in the u.k. for 10 years because of his mental health crisis which is simply outrageous and unfair after having engaged with our service after 10 years he is now someone who

has gone back to university his wife is also now studying to be a mental house now this is a situation that could have been avoided had the home office had in place procedures and processes which understood the realities of people's lives and didn't try to bar them from settling in the u.k. in the 1st instance so help us understand more about the reality of life for an undocumented migrant occurs many of them are driven into exploitation. yeah absolutely so for anyone who is undocumented in the u.k. so anyone who falls of that cycle whether it's they're unable to renew their status or there's a breakdown a relationship in their visa has been reliant on a partner they fall into something called the hostile environment now that hostile environment is a set of policies which denies you the right to to public services it denies you the right to health care it denies you the right to any kind of support system whatsoever and pushes you underground now the reality for anyone in the u.k.

or in any country is that you must work in order to provide for yourself and for your family especially if you are unable to access public the public safety net so many of those migrants are pushed into exploitive work or in secure work and are 7 essentially only hired by those who are willing to exploit them the same happens to them in their housing situations where they're only able to access housing with with kind of rogue landlords because there simply isn't any process for them to enter into the system report their exploitation and get the right support services so we see a lot of migrants who are living in really precarious and quite dangerous situations very vulnerable to exploitation very vulnerable to modern slavery and very vulnerable to trafficking and i suppose women are disproportionately affected by that. yes absolutely and also under the hostile environment we've seen

a number of women who have reported incidences over things like domestic or sexual violence and have actually been arrested themselves for coming forward with that information because they don't have the right immigration status that puts women and children in a very precarious situation which is which is really damaging and dangerous for everyone because if there are people in this country who can't rely on a support service they make that service weaker for everyone if you simply can't access it and you aren't able to report abuse and exploitation well thank you very much for sharing the findings of this report with us appreciate it many rahman there from the joint council for welfare if and the grants now a surging demand for avocados could be putting one of africa's traditional ways of life at risk a community of mass i heard in kenya fighting to protect their grazing land and livelihoods from an agricultural company and conservationists fear its plans to

build an avocado farm would be disastrous for elephants and wildlife tourism barkha web reports now from near the town of command. for thousands of years people have been herding 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 guides them when he's not with his cowles his community of messiah herders agreed with the government 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 move from place to another this is so that . we see. different things 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 he's not out of the farm manager jeremiah who's from this area also owns some shares i can see very bright as you can see which was a sign us agricultural land now these are not going to like you have a system that with the activity of other. people how to transform themselves from

their tradition 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 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 accounts of us is might collapse the families in the wrong place because they are disconnected areas where you can do funny without interfering with their land use and environmental tribunals would it kill you have a to stop the farm. says its 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 the chances if

they lose the last of their past years they'll lose everything malcolm webb al-jazeera came on i can yeah. south africa's zulu queen has died just a month after a husband's death led to her being appointed to the role queen months for be. was 65 years old and reportedly been admitted to hospital after a short 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 goodwills widely theme. now it's been called the lungs of the world but the brazilian amazon is no longer soaking up the world's excess emissions in fact a new study has found the rainforest has released the 20 percent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbs that's because more of it has been burned or destroyed than was allowed to grow research in the nature of climate change journal found that there was 4 times as much deforestation

in 2019 than either of the 2 years before apple faces a fine of running into billions of dollars after a year of pain regulators charged it with being anti competitive over in app payments e.u. officials sided with spotify after it complain the i phone users were stripped of from using streaming services other than apple's own the us firm now has the opportunity to respond to the claim it forces app developers to use its own payment system regulators could impose a fine of up to $27000000000.00 but it rarely goes for the full amount possible nolan is an assistant professor at university of 20 and a technology ethicist he says other tech companies of adopted similar practices to those being looked at here. i think anytime you act as both a platform and as a product seller yourself there's going to be issues with cards the competition and

the obvious advantage apple has to be able to push their own products google has had this problem amazon is of this problem so this isn't apple alone and clearly needs to be determined how to address this question of how you can be both. a marketplace for other products and yourself selling a product i think it's again one of these issues where from apple's perspective you know you don't you don't have to go through them there are other options and spotify is perspective of course the question is well what do people actually do it's not just about what options are available but how people actually go through the app store and how they're going to be directed through there so even if other options do exist it's not really reflective of how users how customers actually relate to the technology that they're related to and that's of course what really has to be driving our ethical and political concerns is what people actually do not

just what exists. it watching al-jazeera news hour live from london much was still ahead including all the latest sports news will find out what english premier league football is a doing to fight back against online discrimination. for

the sport was sunnah. thank you very much mary i'm a football clubs and players in the u.k. have started a 4 day boycott of a social media is part of an effort to fight back against online abuse after

football announces plans last week other sports in the country including cricket rugby and tennis have joined in full force europe in a world governing bodies are also backing the boycott players that want social media companies to do more to stop discriminatory buz being sent or seen or many of those involved have posted this message of english football is coming together with other organizations and sports to boycott social media and demand changes we are asking for significant action to bring it to an end the fire discreditable abuse plays and many others have to endure well we've been speaking to john of the english football association about the global support the campaign has received. it's not that we all say that social media as 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 abuse 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 whom have no involvement or passion or following behind the school and that's because you can stay at home in a completely different part of the world 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 of female players be that racist abuse and semitism homophobia or indeed any other type of discriminate. that stays with you beyond that moment and impacts you family friends and eyes around you and we cannot sit back. allow this to continue to happen and that's why for us as the english governing body and indeed as a collective of. more white 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 next to join us in this and to make your voices heard because this online discriminates must stop. the head of all the excess sebastian coe says doubts remain as to whether fans will be able to attend the tokyo lympics international fans have already been banned from going to the games. and to lie the public isn't being allowed to watch the next 2 legs of the torch relay due to the risk of covert 19 spreading says a heater i have now adapted to competing in empty stadiums. given that there is still a question about whether there will be crowds in the tokyo. stadium but at least they have now got used to the concept of competing and competing at an incredibly high level because there's been no diminution in the quality of the performances but that they have now got psychologically used to competing with out

crowds. f one world champion lewis hamilton was quickest in 2nd practice ahead of the portuguese accompli the mercy the striver currently lease the driver's championship standings after 2 races he's one point ahead of red bulls that match their stop and he was 2nd quickest in the afternoon session where hamilton will be looking to follow up his display at the algo of a circuit from last season he britton winning from pole in october. i think it's very close run i think we look like we're close and. i don't know how max's lap was when i was a perfect so we different got some time to come from the car and some progress to make but i'm sure they have to put it as close as it has been the last couple races so i was excited. it was a ride to start very tricky out here with the time and again to super slippery. i

know it's the same for everyone but it's not really enjoyable to to drive pakistan are in total control of the 1st test against zimbabwe in horror the tourist closed 137-4461 day 2 of the 1st innings lead of 9198 runs for the start with the baddies on 108 not out this is the 1st match of 2 test series. tennis now and now is soccer has advanced to the 2nd round of the madrid open the 2nd seed the one to the old japanese encounter misaki dory on friday osaka yet to reach any further than the quarter finals in madrid sealed the straight sets win 7562 to face carlina much of our next. and also useful for man u. back to merriam in london. thank you very much that wraps up the news hour for you but i'll be back in a couple of minutes with a full bullets in a roundup of the day's top stories coming up at just

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