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war in afghanistan is formally underway in the leading american troops start leaving. for many businesses big and small struggle with the economic impact of the pandemic one company has just posted record profits. but 1st more than 400 thousands you corona virus infections have been officially recorded for the 1st time in india as a 2nd wave worsens 3523 more people have died according to the official data the country's expanding its vaccination drive from science its cover all adults but several art it states up warns the cutes shortages even though india is the world's biggest producer of covert vaccines it has a limited number of vailable in proportion to its population though in the western state of gujarat so far as

a whole spittles intensive care ward has killed at least 16 covert patients far is being blamed on an oxygen cylinder lekan is the latest in a series of accidents at hoax missiles the us meanwhile has become the latest country to impose restrictions on most travelers from india only u.s. citizens and permanent residents will be allowed in the country starting from cheese state willis about purana has all the latest now from easily. where outside one of just a handful of private hospitals in new delhi which have vaccinated people between the ages of 18 and 45 a deli's leader like many other regional leaders around the country has said that they don't have enough back things to expand the vaccination program from saturday as planned the indian government announced a few weeks ago that from the 1st of may everyone over the age of 18 could be eligible but there just aren't enough doses to online but just ration the 5 also doesn't take into consideration the hundreds of millions of indians who don't have

smartphones who don't have computers with internet connections to register for a back seat now want in a few weeks ago among by the financial capital home by was the worst affected 50 and it only has 20000 doses for people between the ages of 18 to 45 even though it has a population of more than 20000000 and a very young population like all of india. and so the country which is the world's biggest backseat manufacturer which makes 60 percent of all the vaccines in the world doesn't have enough for its own people this is why the russian made sputnik b. is arriving in india on saturday the u.s. is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars of the asking delicate back and also the roman tear is needed for india to manufacture. well judy other fiza correspondent for the digital news platform the prince and she joins us from foreign nasi in india that's the constituency of prime minister narendra modi and one of the worst affected districts it's good to have you where there is human

al-jazeera where we're hearing from our correspondents that the situation in the capital is bad just give us a sense of what things are like in more rural areas and where you are. i'm good i know in the i'm not in the more these consequences which is what i'm seeing and what i'm seeing is one of the most affected districts of the most populous states or states or india or 2 but i have been challenging the roadside for last 2 weeks and things are equally bad in the villages there are mysterious deaths in each and every village i did a story to ledges which but accorded still does and that's in the last 15 days each household has the word gulf pneumonia all cold symptoms but they are not getting access to. basic medical health care such as testing their nation because that there's only one primary health center i don't that block and then i

was it in that the health center it was shut there was nobody so there is absolutely kiosk at the ground level there are no health workers those who i don't do good they are also called positive so there are no health workers there is no one held accountable and there since i am travelling to the villages they don't have access to credit either so there's more islamist calls from the hutto site and they they only know the district hospitals which are right now flu there is no bad there's no accident there is absolutely a kiosk at the ground right now it's quite distressing really ember are showing our viewers pictures of. people begging on the floor for treatment you mentioned their mysterious day much faith do you think we can put in the official numbers that are coming out from india to do they correspond so the reality that you're seeing on

the grains. no there there is there is so much difference on the total number of deaths in the health bulletin and in the criminal aliens i counted deaths at the chemical ali i'm in luck no state capital for treat is all i counted deaths every day in minutes a body would i did what he would and then i looked at the state had well it didn't they would just mention 15 to 20 deaths but the only other i myself did more than 1000 deaths so there's absolutely all their lives there are gaps in the data which is all grim what documents all humans and i hold my solution and also go into hospital. imagine most people would be trying desperately to just get medical care or a mass where the focus is likely to be for most ordinary indians but given that violence

is the prime minister's constituency and the situation there is as you're telling us very very bad indeed are you starting to see any kind of backlash any kind of political backlash from people there are they reacting at all to the failures in the collapse in health care and perhaps a failure of leadership. there is panic among the people that in the false they blamed goal mange they thought it's a fund to get funded to a conspiracy it is happening in other countries and we are spared but this time in even when they're just they're just as fat but then bend the hospital they're flushed gonzo and they're fussed what he is to get a big there's no there's no all the anger against the center leadership which is not in the more his goal make but there is there and there is and that against the bill creates this chick magistrate superintendent of police chief medical officer

at a hospital. dollars nurses so that they're fighting with the local administration not against the center leadership which is this is my observation from the hospital ok of correspondent for the prince thank you so much for joining us here on out to syria and sharing with us what you're seeing on the grounds in india. people arriving in a strangely of form and could face up to 5 years in prison or pay a heavy fines you measures target astray and residents and citizens who have been in india in the past 14 days the restrictions comments effect from monday is the 1st time mr lee has made it a criminal offense for its citizens to return home human rights watch has described the government response as wages this is a very drastic action but it is designed to kape a strain cipher it's temporary it's based on the medical advice and it will be

reviewed on the 5th day the man. brazil has seen a record number of coronavirus stats for the 2nd straight month as it struggles for the devastating 2nd wave april was the worst month of the pandemic so far with more than 80000 fatalities and activists say the governments must do more to stop the spread want to reports. rio de janeiro's iconic copacabana beach covered with hundreds of body bags a tribute to the 400000 brazilians who watched their lives to cool that 19 nish galambos we cannot accept these dates quietly if we do we will be accomplices of the crimes committed by those who govern us that's why we stage this awareness campaign. and the newcomers blames president jalal so not for downplaying the virus in delaying the vaccine rollout. plan up on the media or people were dying and starving he was writing a jet ski and participating in an empty democratic protests to shut down congress

in the supreme court but he was only able to do this because he still has the support of the many brazilians. every hour the group held a symbolic funeral a reminder that the pandemic in brazil is spreading rapidly and is far from over vaccine shortages have put the knock you lation campaign on hold in many city. brazil's health minister myself i made an appeal during a world health organization if we feel good on friday. they. feel good we're calling again on those who have vaccine surplus to share it with brazil as soon as possible so we can move forward broaden our vaccination campaign contain the pandemic at this critical time and avoid the proliferation of new variant result of the 2nd country in the world have reached the grim milestone of 400000 death by covered 19 but it's not the only country in the region facing difficulties

in latin america as a whole is taking a turn for the worse the region accounts for more than one 3rd of coronavirus deaths in the world but only has 18th of the population today most of the countries in the south i call and the under reagan are going to except on the mission countries like ecuador bali be argentina uruguay i'm diana are reporting a brahmana big rise in actual health services are overwhelmed infections in colombia are also rising in hospitals in big cities like what back in medellin are running out of beds monica and i give all just sirrah we're visionaire 0. the final phase of ends in the u.s. war in afghanistan is formally underway president joe biden had given orders to begin the troop withdrawal process no later than may 1st when 3000 u.s.

and 7000 nato troops remain in the country and all plans a leave in the coming months u.s. presence in afghanistan started its back in 2001 will feel feel contre free and says more from couple. the foreign to withdraw is currently underway and today may 1st is the deadline under which according to the doha agreement all foreign forces should have been gone from afghanistan this is not happening their withdrawal will be taking several more months and the taliban have has warned that after may 1st of foreign troops are still here they will start resuming attacks so there is a big sense of insecurity here and big sense of fear among afghans and if it's any indication as to the situation that has been unfolding here during this very tense time several western embassies recently have been advising their

citizens publicly even on twitter that they should be leaving afghanistan as soon as possible on commercial flights so imagine the afghans listening to all this it's as if there is a very very dark veil of fear of hopelessness of insecurity that has been covering the entire afghanistan as to what will be in store in the coming weeks and months as violent violence has been rising as as everybody has been saying and warning it is expected to rise even more in the coming weeks and months. a truck bombing near a hospital in afghanistan has killed at least 21 people that happened in the pool the city the capital of logar province kabul the truck was parked outside a building that offers free accommodation to people in the people had gathered to break their ramadan fast the government is blaming the taliban for the explosion it's one of the deadliest in recent months so ahead here on al-jazeera frozen some

people are being forced from their homes by a cross border battle between kyrgyzstan and. the philippines baptism on fire as the nation commemorates famous battle we look at how catholicism shaped its past . this present. time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point qatar airways it's going to be a wet day in southern france today the cloud is sort of going in this direction from iberia up towards the northeast of europe but iris and it's these little ripples along this line which is the front of difference between the cold air and the warmer air that produces the rain those ripples are going to run up it's like as i said today the south of france was a particularly wet weather the recent snow from the pyrenees and of course the

morning will be very wet in the northeast of spain and the outskirts covered in very wet snow spring snow northern italy could see some pretty vicious thunderstorms in the rain still for the south of france there's the temperatures the north are all still a low side for early may 10 degrees in copenhagen only 13 in paris and the south 28 nationals that's not as high as we've got but certainly on the warm side perfect take you head to sunday they had what is weather going to be rude moving through poland and that circulation well it's quite stormy as well very much not like spring weather the rain would have eased further south over the alps it was south of france by this time the temps of everything of rising particularly greece to key and also on the island of cyprus nicosia has already been pretty warm we stay in the middle the high thirty's the average being 28. sponsored paul qatar airways a weekly critique of the stories hitting the headlines the news media have been

left to sort through mixed messages on a quite complex story from mainstream to street journalism any objective is to get the city to send it to the wall to shoot what's going on exposing real world threats to objectivity often of our neighbors around moscow $11000.00 people where rest in the listening post covers the way the news is covered on and just see it on . this is al jazeera quick reminder of our top stories for you now india has reported more than 400000 see through a virus infections for the 1st time 3523 more people have died according to

official data all adults are now eligible to get a vaccine but several states of want of cute shortages activists in brazil the station a symbol of protest on a beach in legionnaire on what to call the death surpassed for hundreds of thousands still missing a record number to its 2nd straight month as it struggles with a 2nd wave. in the final phase of ending the u.s. war in afghanistan is formally underway as and joe biden ordered the troop withdrawal to start no later than may the 1st round 3000 u.s. and 7 pows natal soldiers remaining in the country once a week in the coming months. a cease fire appears to be holding between kyrgyzstan and tajikistan after the heaviest fighting between the 2 countries decades on thursday dozens of people were killed more than $150.00 injured at the disputed border a sort of hideouts reports. the only thing one can hear is the sound

of wind. empty streets. and locked up homes on a friday morning. but less than 24 hours ago it was far from peaceful in the kirkus village of his bel that. cost border gunfire between cultist on its neighbor to stand on thursday forced more than 10000 people to evacuate their homes the lord has voted in the floor to push a little subdued i have 5 children i already moved them to back and city then i came back to help our men defend our village will talk about i. a border avoids a dispute led to the. heaviest fighting seen in years between the 2 countries just hours after a cease fire agreement each side has been the other for firing 1st off to to decrease starting sorts of ailments cameras or towards reserves that both claim is their right. the governor of this region stated that the cameras from the water

distribution center should be removed by the tajik side of the matter of his fall a city house and listen to the that's what's caused the conflict. i but to jesus' own security committee has accused kircus soldiers of opening fire 1st on its troops at the water distribution point on this far river. to turkey starr says at least 30 people were killed and more than 150 others injured ji casualty numbers are still on clay. some here gunshot wounds 11 people are in need beds who care but their condition is stable also in the icon the shaky cease fire was resumed on friday after the crickets and president spoke on the phone they've agreed to meet next month in an attempt to resolve the long running border dispute. sought a height at al-jazeera. the presidents of the democratic republic of congo has

declared what he's calling a state of siege in 2 provinces is to control escalating violence between armed groups in the mineral rich east and solos the military to take control in north kivu and it today when 300 people have been killed and more than 1500000 displaced since january welcome balin was a volley is an analyst at the center for research on the coworker in shasta he does this latest military action will make a difference. as just clearly pointed out the military is going to take control of the region this is a pretty ludes to what i believe would be military operations in the area and it's worrisome because we have had military operations in the r.c. i mean this is not the 1st time we've had that for the past 2 decades me as a chorus of that in the conflict and they have been the largest peacekeeping forces in the world in of the r.c. they have a $1200000000.00 budget and then about $20000.00 troops who are into the r.c.

so hearing this that the siege taking place you may bring confidence to the population as this is it off in the right direction by the question that must be asked is how 'd is this military action different from previous military actions we know we had military operations in the past such as a manual a oh a cheese piece now there was another one called $1.00 and $2.00 which is about the cleaning up of the rebel groups that at the end of all these military operations congolese westville being killed and that brings us to world patrick comair at st in the in 2008 he's a former u.n. commanders say that the conflict in a congo beyond military pressure may put is actually a political problem until be addressed the political problem any military solution placed on the sea will not address the issue and i'm hoping that we'll get to that . coronavirus lockdowns have left many business owners around the world struggling

to keep going but online retailers are cashing in with amazon and posting record profits revenue jumped 44 percent in the 1st quarter to more than 100 and $8000000000.00 the company expects to match or beat that figure in the 2nd quarter and its retail business isn't the only one thriving during the pandemic and listens cloud computing service grew by a 3rd of sales in its advertising going both by 77 percent but the company faces growing activism within its workforce this week cameras and committed to a pay rise for half a $1000000.00 employees after a failed bid to form a union at one u.s. warehouse robert scott is a senior international economist at the economic policy institute he says the u.s. government's failure to support small businesses as encouraged amazon's or rapid expansion. just gotten incredibly lucky but that's not an accident they have been planning something like this i think for

a long time and their marketing strategy been has been based on cannibalizing small businesses and main street shops everywhere and this is been going on a long time with wal-mart helping out and together they have really changed the landscape of retail america it has not only done that is destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs and small businesses my colleague chaired former college urban's who's now with the council of economic advisors in the white house estimates that one in 6 mall businesses as closed doors during the code recession i estimate that's well over 500000 small businesses in the u.s. have gone under these are firms employ 20 people or fewer all added up and that adds up to millions of jobs have been destroyed there's no work for those workers to go back to as a result of this and amazon cam cannibalism. people in the philippines are marking

the $500.00 from the virus or of a battle that changed an indigenous people's history forever it was the start of if i enjoy zation the move to christianity now the philippines is the 3rd largest catholic population in the world after brazil and mexico jimmy the island open reports in the central philippines with the main celebrations have been held. a reenactment of what happened here 500 years ago in 1521 ferdinand magellan a portuguese explorer and his men docked on the shores of the subaru his intention to baptize local chiefs and her followers and to declare them subservient to spain the local chiefs bowed and were baptized but one of their rivals. refused. 7 and there was a battle between his tribe and the new arrivals ferdinand magellan who was in the middle of an epic voyage to circumnavigate the globe with killed by one of poisoned

arrows. to this day magellan's death remains a symbol of indigenous resistance. is considered the 1st from the be no to have repelled european aggression. the battle was won even before the nation was born but it was the arrival of christianity that really changed people's way of life 500 years later more than 80 percent of full of people assuming catholics and the country is the last bastion of catholicism in asia christian faith has somehow strengthen we are asleep you know as we are known globally as resilient people while the church teaches justice there is also that sense of compassion but remembering the our rival of christianity here can also be complicated that is because it is also tied up with painful realities. of 300 years of spanish

occupation many blame christianity and its influence for shaping policies that are too restrictive for example the philippines is the only country in the world where married couples cannot divorce and many also say the predominant catholic narrative has marginalized other religions in the country including islam. but catholic priests have also been at the forefront of the fight for justice and equality particularly against extrajudicial killings and other abuses of power we appropriate that christianity and made our own the faith of the people actually inspired them to be compassionate it's not really about people's faith per se that makes us not progressive but it's really good leadership that spells the difference and the commemoration according to the government is not a celebration of its colonial past but rather an attempt to ignite a sense of nationalism that is relevant to the country's present realities.

jamila in dargon al-jazeera province central philippines. the rug museum is home to a precious collection of ancient manuscripts some days in banks the 12th century the museum officially reopened and 201512 years after it was cools and the aftermath of the u.s. led invasion but it still wants funding to protect the treasures in its care 14 reports from baghdad. the delicate process of restoring ancient manuscripts these technicians at the iraq national museum reconnect the loose pages of books that date back hundreds of years but the head of the department says his team lacks the tools needed for more advanced maintenance and the millennium goal of the of the world with a gun and the other we hope to get a lab that can support complicated and difficult procedures in some instances we postpone maintenance because we don't have specialized experience materials or quit

meant to do our work there are more than 60000 manuscripts stored in iraq's national museum spanning literary religious and scientific texts making this one of the most extensive and important collections about the arab world and we're about to get rare access to the main vault. is in charge of these treasures she shows us one of the oldest dating back to $1229.00 it's one of the few books that survived the mongol invasion of baghdad in the late 13th century which saw the destruction of the vast libraries built up by the dun ruling dynasty the abba seeds that. this manuscript these professional maintenance represents an important period for us baghdad during the opposite time the museum's manuscript collection was largely spared in the widespread looting that followed the 2003 us led invasion of

iraq mainly because it was moved to a different location indeed throughout the decades many of iraq's ancient artifacts have ended up in museums around the world arguably for safekeeping but mona believes iraq is now ready to take care of its own heritage. we'd prefer to provide the environment to save our manuscripts inside the country we realize these manuscripts constitute soft power. utilizing the soft power will require funding for modernization the index is meant taint manually and only a fraction of the tax have been digitalized researchers can't access the museum's vault to see the enchant text but must instead of visit the nearby manuscript house here they laborously search for available titles hand scribbled on index cards are then we do it for any kit or new there's no electronic index went to research or comes here with a manuscript title the last time to search in these boxes or in the index book and

these indices don't contain all the manuscripts it can then take weeks before they receive copies of the text which they must pay for but museum employees complain little of that money is invested back into the maintenance of the manuscripts to preserve iraq's rich heritage seem awful to an al-jazeera but that. this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines india has reported woman for hundreds thousands you grown a virus infections for the 1st time 3523 more people have died according to official data all adults are now eligible to get a vaccine but several states of warned of acute shortages and this was prone on has the latest from new delhi where outside one of just a handful of private hospitals which charge for the vaccine

a handful of private hospitals in delhi which have vaccinating a small number of 18 to 45 year old delhi is laden.