and understanding how they got their family could be and this is to take pod cast where we bring you the context and the characters behind the stories that matter subscribe and start listening today. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter you're watching the news our live from coming up in the next 60 minutes reeling from covert 19 india has opened up vaccinations to all adults but an acute shortage is hampering the rollout. 19 patients of dies at a hospital in new delhi after grown shorter boxes and sick ones. somalia's lower

house voted to cancel a 2 year term extension it had earlier approved for president behind made up the lie he made in a bid to defuse an arm standoff. also this hour the final phase of the u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan is now under way but there are concerns more attacks by the taliban will make the country unstable again. and sport up to the longest absence from his career le bron james is back in action but his return from injury failed to inspire the los angeles lakers to a victory. to begin where once again more people have tested positive for covert 19 in one single day than any other countries since the start of the pandemic a staggering 400000 new cases in just 24 hours india has expanded its vaccination drive to include all adults but it cannot keep up with the demand in some states

there aren't enough injections to go around even though india is one of the biggest producers anywhere in the world 8 people died. new delhi because of a shortage of oxygen officials at the bucks a hospital say critically ill patients were without oxygen for 80 minutes it's the 2nd time in a week the facility ran out of stock meanwhile the 1st batch of russia's sputnik vaccine has arrived in india with 150000 doses an increasing number of countries are imposing travel bans however the u.s. has become the latest country to put restrictions on most travelers from india only u.s. citizens and permanent residents will be allowed in starting on tuesday elizabeth urana has more now on the expanded vaccination rollout from new delhi. we're outside one of just a handful of private hospitals in new delhi which a vaccination 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 vaccines 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 would be eligible but there just aren't enough doses to online but astray should 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 once in a few weeks ago in mumbai the financial capital home by was the worst affected city 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 taxi 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 be as arriving in india on saturday the u.s.

is sending hundreds of thousands of doses of the astra zeneca vaccine and also the romans here is needed for india to manufacture. well dr recall as chairman of the patrick hospital where 8 people died because the hospital ran out of oxygen earlier he told my colleague. that the situation that does remain critical situation has again been stipulated but in the morning it was terrible well we were told it is only 30 minutes of 45 minutes of oxygen left the hospital has more than 250 patients in the pool we did begin and out of then at least 70 patients equating high pressure oxygen in the i.c.u. and in the. wards and including my wife is also in one of the rooms did and still record shows that it is no city and therefore more than 30 minutes now and all sorts of friends you care for especially the hospital management the oxygen

supply in companies 2 of them which have been supplying for the last 2030 years who went you know on deaf ears because there is no oxygen the problem is that we don't see and if it comes to your hair the bankers to simulate the hospital in time and now the situation is that possibly we have oxygen didn't mind being after that we are not so the hospital it restriction is going on frantic calls for the government to. the supreme court everybody began this is really a very unfortunate and it really desperate situation there transport of oxygen is not possible in the form in which it can be used cylinder. it sounds absolutely hering and i'm i'm very sorry to hear that your wife is among those needing that at that urgent treatment how is it possible to keep the hospital going when you're you're monitoring supplies ira to ira to see if you can get these basic necessities

to you i mean what backup plans are there to treat these patients if you need this oxygen to survive. he basically the league opened his gives him more than enough is weakening. the league arm and says it will get oxygen but did they have their limitations because billy does not produce any oxygen it all comes from the rebooting steeds basically most of the oxygen comes from those industrially as they maharashtra and also you know from south to bangalore and. one of the problem there is how to transport it you know even if you were transported to the airport in in force planes into the thing you just come in tankers the hospital but you know we did some of those years and he has so this is one of those situations which i don't think is appropriate or explain to the fact that number of pieces were going on increasing i think the management go for

was the management of the government what don't we dig in for the right amount of oxygen can be quite right normally i would leave one 3rd of the requirement of the oxygen rich of becoming every day we just get one 3rd of it and that also after you know making all the frantic efforts and all the garments which we get. is a correspondent for the digital news platform the print she describes the situation in rural areas of protests india's most populous state. i'm good right now in the i'm not in the more these consequences which is why i don't see and what i'm saying is one of the most affected districts of the most populous states state of india or to police i have been travelling to the rural side 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 of who we are just which which according to the dozen deaths in last 15 days each household has fewer golf pneumonia all covered symptoms but they are not getting access to the basic medical health care such as testing explanation because there are there's only one primary health center around that block and when i was it in that the health center it was shut there was nobody so there is absolutely at the ground level there are no health workers those who are on duty they are also covered 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 is no s.o.s. calls from the google site and the they only know the district hospitals which are right now full there is no bed there's no oxygen there is absolutely

a kiosk at the ground right now. the di a situation in india has prompted australia to take drastic measures it says people arriving from india could face up to 5 years in prison or pay heavy fines the new rules target australian residents and citizens have been in india for the past 14 days the restrictions come into effect on monday it's the 1st time australia has made it a criminal offense for people to return home and human rights watch has described the government's response as quote outrageous this is a very drastic action but it is designed to keep a strain save it's temporary it's based on the medical advice and it will be reviewed on the 5th day in may. brazil has seen a record number of coronavirus deaths for the 2nd straight month as it struggles with a 2nd wave april was its worst month for the pandemic with more than 82000 deaths activists say the government must do more to stop the spread monica has more. rio

de janeiro's iconic copacabana beach covered with hundreds of body bags a tribute to the 400000 brazilians who washed 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. until a new commons blames president jalal so natural for downplaying the virus and delaying the vaccine rollout. plan up on the media will people were dying and starving he was writing a jet ski and participating in the 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 cities. health minister myself made an appeal during a world health organization if we feel good on friday. 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 variants result of the 2nd country in the world to have reached the grim milestone of 400000 deaths by covert 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. well they most of the country is in their thousands more lonely unmarried you're my boy you beat me beat

up on me. countries like rule well or. you know you're a war i and diana are reporting a brahmana big rise in infections and their 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 on jazeera rio de janeiro a 3 week inoculation campaigns underway in syria's region it's the last rebel held area people began getting their covert 19 vaccines after a delivery of 54000 astra zeneca germs the campaign comes amid a surge of new infections more than 640 people have died from cope with 19 related complications in italy and more than 21000 cases have been reported with his health care system damaged by the war it's not clear how accurate those numbers might be. in cambodia the army has started to vaccinate people living in the most infected

areas makeshift hospitals were set up in the cities of mom pen and. the government declared parts of the red zones recently following a spike in cases tight a lockdown measures were also imposed across the area and new delhi recorded nearly 400 cases was reported on saturday. kenya's president is easing lock down measures as cases good yachters says bars and restaurants religious services and schools will reopen after closing last month cases have fallen from last month's peak but it's still among the top 5 nations in africa reporting new infections and deaths. plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour including thousands of people are being forced from their homes by a cross border battle between kyrgyzstan and g q stan. and a lack of funds is affecting iraq's national museum and its efforts to preserve manuscripts dating back to the 12th century. and in sport one of the world's top golfers gets by with the full help from her friend horace here with that story.

somalia's lower house of parliament has unanimously voted to end the term extension for the president a reversal the minute anger and violence president mohammed up to lie he mohamad has directed the prime minister to prepare for elections which have been delayed parliament approved a 2 year term extension last month but that sparked protests and clashes in the capital mohammed's term ended in february but he stayed on because of a disagreement over the electoral process malcolm webb is following the story from nairobi for us from our bureau in neighboring kenya malcolm this seems a particularly complex story just unpack it for us and give us a sense of what the feeling is in the region as to which way it's going to go.

well this move today on the part of parliament is certainly expected to deescalate the tension that we've seen recently in somalia's capital mogadishu just a week ago different factions of the security forces were fighting each other those who support the president known widely by his nickname farmer joe were fighting with other factions that support the opposition now the opposition had objected to parliament voting to extend his term by 2 years they said that was illegal another followed the failure to hold those elections that were meant to happen in february there are still some fairly major hurdles in in the weeks ahead from september last year up until february the central government and the governments of the 5 semi autonomous states couldn't agree on the terms for this election to go ahead that's why it didn't happen but agreement still needs to be reached now if it is to happen and it's also important to understand that the election that's planned isn't one in

which everyone gets to vote rather community leaders will get to choose members of parliament and members of parliament will get to elect the president and there's a lot of mistrust from the opposition in farmer joe's government and the. self wants to stay in power a lot of the opposition think that he won't agree to the terms of any election that doesn't favor him so there are certainly some major challenges still to be resolved in the weeks ahead if indeed that tension is to be deescalated in the fears of violence that we saw last week was a lot of people thought could if we didn't go well end up with the country returning to a state of civil war malcolm many things malcolm were reporting live from nairobi there's also no talk to me an associate professor of security studies a cattle university is also the author of understanding the somali conflagration he joins us on skype from doha professor welcome to the news or is this shaping up to

be a fully fledged power struggle between the president and the parliament. well not actually between the 2 but the problem here was that the president of the people made a decision that was more or less like a power grab when they tried to extend the term for 2 years that has taken us into dangerous territory where the country basically. almost was close to another round of civil conflict so that basically was a very very very sick today of the people on the. under president accepted the fact that this is not going to work so basically we are back to where we left prior to the extension. have been in a couple weeks ago and. the only promising development in this event today is the prime minister is empowered and given the role to lead the.

liberal to lead the process and i think that that's where we can say that there is a good news in this does that mean that they have got to be fresh elections even if nobody seems to either know or want to accept the election process might be framed. that there is no other way that's the only way out of where we are at the moment so that has to be an election but that election has to be also inclusive and there must be an agreeable the prime minister of presidents and by the way the prime minister will face a number of jobs and. everybody mistrust is the government so he has to earn he has to restore the confidence that was last 2nd he has to actually gauge all of the parties that have issues with this election that are 5 issues by the way the

actual task is very difficult to the problem is that the people do not trust the people do not want to talk to each other because obviously the president on a number of the f.m.s. has had issues with each other and also the opposition groups and the holds the environment has ties it remember that. the. divided this could be forces so now it's the military it's the national army forces that are fighting in these debates of mogadishu and that's really bad so i think the good thing about this perhaps for the president and for the hearts of the people is that they are trying to correct maybe. mistakes and leave a better legacy even if they don't come back for the election. inclusive. free election is the only way

out and it's the good thing for every part of the process but briefly professor you're saying that's a good thing if they get through and that democratic process but for the votes seems at this distance as if they might be facing a situation where they they go to the polls they have free and fair elections and it's with the old put in with the old the same people just go around the block and come back in again. well that is. the fact of the voter is probably got i'm not voting in this election complete kate's thing is so we have all kinds of demands that brought us where i'm going community leaders and somehow the f.m.s. leader at the father i remember is that it is which out of that sort of like i mean regionally there is and also we have the current government which would try to manipulate and bring its own people as well but it would think it is that it's not only one person that number of actors that are trying to. have some sort of an

influence so i for modular not get his way he tried he couldn't because the whole reason why we are here is that the government to wanted to manipulate the election and on and on and do it it could not it just tried to them extension it could not the other groups tried to if not for a module they come not so that will go they have to compromise that is where we are at the moment. i can i can see what you are coming from but the in direct election on so-called has been station is what we have in somalia and maybe in the future. so moderate people will be able to what professor. thank you very much thank you. the final phase of ending the u.s. war in afghanistan is now formally underway the u.s. president joe biden had given orders to begin the troop withdrawal process no let's later than the 1st about 3000 u.s.

and 7000 nato forces remain in the country. they've agreed to be out of afghanistan by a september the 11th that marks 20 years since the attacks that triggered the invasion the withdrawal is part of a deal that follows years of peace talks in the cattery capital in the taliban the u.s. and afghan governments but there are concerns there could be more violence fighters have carried out several attacks on government forces and civilians in afghanistan most recently $24.00 people were killed and 120 were wounded on friday when a car bomb exploded in the province of look. the truck was parked outside a building that offers free accommodation to people in need people had gathered to break their ramadan fast the government is blaming the taliban for the explosion is one of the deadliest in recent months video contre 40 has more now from kabul. this has been a devastating attack that has been sending shock waves all across afghanistan not only because it happened during the holy month of ramadan but also because it's the

ski it's the scale of something that we have not seen here in quite a long time all the victims we're talking about civilians we're talking about high school students and we're talking about 6 people who were inside that hospital that was in the area where the car exploded and there were injured a lot of them were transferred here in kabul and that's one of the big problems of this war here that there are no front lines anything can happen at any time and it's happening during a moment that it's a very uncertain one and a very tense one for afghanistan foreign troops have started withdrawing from the country violence has been rising and there are concerns that there will be even more violence as today's may 1st it's the deadline that according to the doha deal u.s. and foreign forces were supposed to be out of the country the withdrawal will take several months and the taliban have said if they stay past life may 1st they will

resume attacks so you can imagine how all the millions of afghans to feel in this situation i've been speaking to some of them they're even thinking about taking the kids off of school because they're friday afraid to have them be out in the streets some of them they want to buy some things for their house and there was floating spending any money exactly because of this uncertainty and it's like afghanistan and kabul they've been crowded but there's a very dark veil of uncertainty of darkness of fear about what the next 2 weeks and the next months will bring for this country. a cease fire appears to be holding between kyrgyzstan and to g q stone after the heaviest fighting between the 2 countries in decades on thursday dozens of people were killed more than 150 were injured at a disputed border sort of carry out 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 and the kurds his village of his bell that. cross border gunfire between coldest on and it's neighbor to stand on thursday forced more than 10000 people to evacuate their homes you want to go to the floor put 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 boardroom border dispute led to the heaviest fighting seen in use between the 2 countries just hours after a cease fire agreement each side has been the other for firing 1st after to decrease starting stalled surveillance cameras or towards reserves that both claim as their right. in 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 farm a city hasn't listened and that's what's caused the conflict. but

to jiko songs security committee has accused curtis soldiers of opening fire 1st on its troops at the water distribution point on this farm or river. turkey starr says at least 30 people were killed and more than 150 others injured casualty numbers are still on clay. some hear gunshots one it's 11 people. but the dead condition is stable also in the icon. the shaky cease fire was resumed on friday after the current isn't president spoke on the phone. to greet to meet next month in an attempt to resolve the long running border dispute. sought a height at al-jazeera millions of people have been on the move in china to celebrate the may day holiday tourists are flocking to landmarks like the great wall the transport ministry expects people to make 265000000 journeys by road train

or boat over the next 5 days the return to preplan demick levels but tourist sites are being warned to limit visitor numbers. in many other countries the 1st of may is marked by workers protests in some countries the virtual this year but in indonesia people have demonstrated against job's law the president who were due to sign the bill last november despite violent protests the government says the reforms will attract investment and help create employment but unions say it hurts workers rights and will bring down wages and there's a heavy police presence in the french capital paris big crowds have gathered there and in dozens of other cities despite coronavirus restrictions unions are calling for better funding for the health system and better protection for people who've lost their jobs or income during the pandemic. times he whether his rope. a series of damaging thunderstorms recently away from arkansas back to texas and want to have the states close by but texas is the current focus and more recent

then you look at that sand being blown we've had strong winds and torrential rain and damaging hail and there's more to come the satellite picture reveals us or uk in the cloud and lots of lightning strikes developing a area of low pressure area that's big storms of widespread rain and hail all there throughout the rest of the weekend then late on sunday it'll edge eastwards into what towards mrs mississippi actually always in the gulf coast to missouri you got that same potential and it comes up again what is still winter in the cascades more especially the rocky mountains it's cold enough for some snow it's not as extreme as it was but those 2 areas go fair and humid and the colder come together because in the line of thunderstorms to the east of that currently it's quite warm could say hot 30 in d.c. well that's about to disappear because almost every state in the midwest eastwards he's going to see developing rain or thunderstorms consequent drop in temperature the same time that's where the snow shows it's more in colorado and we develop more

thunderstorms in northern texas arkansas and probably oklahoma. still ahead here on the al-jazeera news well many businesses big and small struggled with the economic impacts of the pandemic one company has just posted record profits. and napoleon's effects are being auctioned including a blood stained cloth is a controversial anniversary approaches. in sports it's in the deep end for olympic organizers as tokyo hosts a crucial test event. around one percent affected city is consumed by data centers many of which provide for med storage facilities or what is also known as the cloud i'm in no way to see how one center is hanna seeing the energy of these fields to stow our digital information

without a heavy carbon footprint and i'm going to be out of the north coast of the u.k. where the global green energy revolution is taking on a new element. tries on al-jazeera vaccines a promising path out of the pandemic but implementing the greatest inoculation in history is testing the global community around the world already a clear gap as the merger between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating their populations from the geopolitics to the pure economics the misinformation and the latest developments what's going on here is very different for a start the faxing comes in the form of a nasal spray special coverage of the corona virus pandemic on a. welcome

back you're watching the al-jazeera news our own peter dhabi your top stories more people in india have now tested positive for covert 19 in one single day than any other country since the start of the pandemic with 400000 new cases reported in just 24 hours it's expanded its vaccination drive to include all adults but is struggling to keep up with demand. 8 people have died at a hospital in new delhi because of an oxygen shortage officials at the hospital so critically ill patients were without oxygen for 18 minutes it's the 2nd time in a week the facility ran out of stock. in other news somalia's lower house of parliament today unanimously voting to end the term extension for the president a reversal on their part in that anger and violence the president mohammed abdul like mohammed has directed the prime minister to prepare for elections which have been delayed. let's get more on our top story india's courbet 19 crisis joining us

now in the news dr krishna or die a coma director of the global health innovation center he joins us on skype from raleigh in the u.s. state of north carolina dr krishna welcome to the news hour could just talk about one of the issues here with the vaccine is the price point at which it is going through the system point of delivery it seems as if there's no clear across the country strategy in india what's going on. yeah we've reached a point now in india where supplies are extremely constrained there is very little if any importation of vaccine so it's only access to what's domestically produced which normally would be a fairly high level right now it's not keeping up with demand and what's happened with this new phase of vaccinations is allowing both state governments as well as the private sector to buy and to make available vaccines to all adults so what it's really done is created more fragmentation extremely high levels of demand without

really increasing supply at all so now i think we will start to see differential pricing we're going to start to see people who can afford it get to the front of the line if done well we really have to think about increasing supply not just channels for getting distribution out his sons let the beginning of a health apartheid system almost. yes the situation all over india is extremely tragic we're now losing. people a day the actual numbers even though the reported numbers are staggering the actual toll is so much higher what we have to remember is that in this acute crisis that's been weeks in the making vaccines are not going to get us out of it in the coming days to weeks we really have to see a huge amount of global assistance come to india's aid for everything from hospital beds oxygen other supplies and then we've got to see the state governments and

a central go put in place some real temporizing measures including lock downs some states have done that but the central government really hasn't done much to be of help here and only then can we buy time for vaccines and vaccinations to make a big difference as the time to come however for somebody very high up be it in the local government structure of the federal government structure in india to say look forget about the costs forget about how much we're going to charge people because we're getting $400000.00 infections per day therefore we need to start fighting this on all fronts and not get bogged down into the minute whether it costs $3.03 rupees or 20 euros. yet in the immediate setting prices really a secondary consideration it's making sure that we can increase the supply as much as possible whether that requires capital investments importation all of the things that are required to make more vaccines and then getting sure that we're distributing them in the most effective an equitable way possible the price is

something we can deal with later but losing lives would be terrible because of that the warnings of the direction of travel and what this would do with the death toll particularly if one views it through the prism you mentioned this already you know the idea that 1360000000 of a population of a lot of those people don't have access to what the rest of the world takes for granted you know cell phone communication wife internet communication the messaging wasn't getting out there so have those people not the tech savvy people not the people in the urban and the rural areas but the people in the country areas have they been failed by their government. i think most of the indian population has been failed by its government right now whether it's in cities or in the countryside this was a predictable and predicted crisis that's been weeks in the making and yet the

government has been callously indifferent we've seen election rallies continue we've seen other large scale events become super spreader we've seen a lack of preparedness for what has come to be. actual reality here so there's absolutely been a failing on multiple fronts at multiple levels of government what we have to do right now is rally to understand how best we can help in the coming hours and days we know that urgency is critical so we don't have time right now to think about it for a couple of weeks before we act we really have to flood india with assistance and make sure that there are temporizing measures so that we can buy time in the weeks and months so that we can get to better interventions like vaccines go to christian . ronnie in the u.s. state of north carolina really good to talk to dr thank you very much thank you. the long conflict between ukraine's army and russian backed separatists is putting

pressure on those working close to the frontline coal mines in the region have powered heavy industry for generations now and the miners say the fighting is making their work more difficult charles traffic reports now from go skier in eastern ukraine. the 8 hour shift starts with a bus ride to the mine before they hit almost one kilometer underground. coal miners in eastern ukraine were relatively well paid and well looked after when the country was part of the soviet union and since independence 30 years ago but that changed when fighting started between russian bank separatists and the ukrainian army in 2014. it's very difficult living and working near the front line it's dangerous because shells could hit the mine and we could be trapped underground and everyone wants to exploit us the mine owners the police everyone all those who should defend us they tried to put their hands in our pockets and rob us instead many of the men at these government own mind have received only 5

percent of their $600.00 a month salary since the start of the year they blame corruption the conflict and slowing demand for resource that was the driving force of industry under the soviets and for at least a century before then. they turn on their head lamps and climb into the lift that will take them 900 meters on the ground. much of the mines infrastructure is in a shocking state of neglect in disrepair and many of the mines have been damaged by the fighting in 2070 the government imposed an economic blockade on the russian backed separatists controlled territory then separatist leaders seized control of the mines at least 95 of the 150 in ukraine. the vast majority of ukraine's coal mines are in separatist controlled areas the ukrainian government estimates that more than half of the coal mine by separatists is relabeled russian

call and transported to markets in asia and europe and the ukrainian government calls this the. ukraine accuses russia of stealing and selling ukrainian coal in order to offset the estimated $3000000000.00 a year moscow spent supporting the separatist controlled territory push for a lot of the what over everything has been stolen that's the simple fact these resources belong to the state of ukraine but their mind and extracted by those working for russia it's outrageous. group of miners here from the dark of the finishing shift some of had to walk up to a kilometer along tunnels to the coal face. of the mine for 32 years i'd like to quit but if i do i'll die of hunger there is no other work and the pension i receive isn't enough to live on the miners have threatened to go on strike demanding their sonorous and better working conditions we can't stop the war

they say but we can demand our rights strafford al-jazeera go sky or eastern ukraine a group of 6 american oil executives who were jailed in venezuela years ago on charges of corruption have been moved to house arrest is considered as a nod from majority government to the u.s. president joe biden the u.s. administration is looking into its relationship with the souces country including whether to ease sanctions the only executives with change in 2017 after being lured into a meeting in caracas. there's been violence across colombia for a 3rd day as people rally against a controversial tax reform bill the worst of the fighting happened in the city of cali where buses buildings and even police officers were set on fire several people died and more than $100.00 were injured but to see the bill which will lower the threshold for those who have to pay tax is an attack on the middle class. coronavirus lockdowns have left many business owners around the world struggling to

survive but online retailers are cashing in amazon has posted record profits revenue jumped 44 percent in the 1st quarter to more than 108000000000 dollars the company expects to match or beats that figure in the 2nd quarter and its retail business isn't the only one thriving during the pandemic amazon's cloud computing service grew by one 3rd while sales in its advertising when rose by 77 percent but the company faces growing activism within its own workforce this week and committed itself 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 columnist of the economic policy institute he says the u.s. government's failure to support small businesses has encouraged 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 shared former college urban's who's now with the council of economic advisors in the white house estimates that one in 6 small 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 well add it 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 500th anniversary of a battle that changed an indigenous people's history for it was the start of the

evangelical movement the move to christianity now the philippines has the 3rd biggest catholic population in the world after brazil and mexico. reports now from cebu in the central philippines where 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 the rivals. refused. 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 was 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 he knows we are known globally as resilient people while the church teaches justice there is also that sense of compassion but remembering the arrival of christianity here can also be complicated that is because it is also tied up with painful realities of 300 years. the 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 see 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 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.

jamelle arlin duggan al-jazeera province central philippines. the iraq national museum is home to a precious collection of ancient manuscripts some dating back to the 12th century museum officially reopened in 201512 years after it was closed following the u.s. led invasion but it still lacks funds to protect the treasures in its care some of the faults and 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. than 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 episode 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 i then we do it for any catering and there's no electronic index when a research comes here with a manuscript titled 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 simona faultiness jazeera but that article from the wardrobe of the french emperor napoleon bonaparte assets to go to auction to mark the 200th anniversary of his death about $360.00 objects were going on sale including this blood stained cloth used during his autopsy of a highlights include a lock of his hair a pair of his silk stockings and a long sleeved shirt embroidered with the letter m. they all sit there on a v. in my opinion napoleon was the 1st to want to create an a pole in brand even when he was alive he created an image a symbol a look with his hat worn in reverse it was a very ordinary hand an ordinary coat but he was a very good communicator and he created his image. still to come here on the news

of the sports news we'll hear from le bron james as he makes his much anticipated return to action. 0. talk to al jazeera. you tell me what the government you represent is now illegitimate and we listen we did not sell the fence material any country. conflict and yet we meet with the global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on syria. from inside the walls of a west african prison comes home. a chance to create to express emotions and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. or a noun choreographer shares his passion for darkness inspiring prisoners to perform and to reach beyond the ill deeds of the past and the confines of their present to

the dance of the witness documentary on al-jazeera if you want to help save the world. seasoned hero. the on. air time to weather rubbish about you but i'm so sorry time for the sports that's ok that's why i feel the times are in cola ron james has made as much anticipated return to action for the l.a. lakers james is back from the most serious injury of his career but it might seem

a never be 100 percent said again and he richardson reports. the basketball for the 1st time since march the 20th los angeles lakers fans got to see that seems store attraction doing what he does best jerk and i call injury had forced james to miss the previous 20 games the longest absence of his near 2 decade career in the n.b.a. the rule was we have a treatment. and it was a lot more than that i slept so i've been in this over the last 6 weeks that's all i've been doing is have an urgency to get back in play i knew i would you know going back 100 percent said. possible to go over to about 20 percent of my career but you know i felt comfortable i knew i could get on the floor help my team when they just started over the product only james finished this outing against the sacramento kings with 16 points 8 rebounds and 7 assists but the lake is still slipped to defeat it's a 5th loss in 6 games for the reigning n.b.a. champions who struggled without same out in transition easy pass to the lakers by

city but all star on dr drummond house recently joined that scene for that playoff push drug problem or our. free zone injury layoff anthony davis is also back playing alongside james in what i'm hearing from corridor but look really good. you know missed some shots had a couple turnovers but that's he's not just coming back off after being off it too much these days playing with new teammates you know what i mean so. you know but i thought overall he looks very good and it's been a hell of a season obviously and you know everything is also rushed you know and you know you know it's a game every other day or so game you know back to backs and you can have as many 45 games in a week you know so. you know it's been it's it's been a long super quick season so. you know how much can we make out of these 9 games

i'm not sure but time isn't on james's side and his effort so when a 5th n.b.a. championship on the richardson al-jazeera. stay with the n.b.a. in boston celtics jason tatum scored a career high 60 points to lead his team to win against a semitone he was spurs tatum scored 21 points in the 4th quarter and 10 more in the extra period jaylen brown who finished with 16 points kept off the celtics when this effort boston winning 143 to 140. but a crucial test event ahead of the tokyo olympics is underway despite many parts of japan officially being in a state of emergency easier to cope with 19 diving world cup has faces series of delays and was originally meant to have taken place last year or than 200 athletes from 46 countries are competing at the olympic venue with no fence and it's had its international athletes had to take a code test before they set off for japan with additional coronavirus testing upon their arrival in the country those taking part can only leave their hotel rooms for

meals training sessions and the competition itself australia pulled its seem out of the event due to concerns over the rising infection rate in japan of the world's players association is a union for athletes they say international competitors together in japan is a huge challenge. well the integrity of the olympics and have been you know dramatically impacted by but call it 98 into respects. the preparation is very very difficult for many our folks and of course that experience is not plain sinhala. the viruses impact in some countries in a devastating why would results particularly our slow countries lions which is destroying an immediate zealand and brain i will continue to do even some degree of normality but we also have to think about the competition formats at the gatherings there is a very real likelihood that athletes will test positive at with the neck and

actually impact the integrity of the competition in tokyo professional sport did return to ply in 20202021 they were substantial gracious modes of competition changing even away from the duration of the gallons and flexibility was sensual it's going to reach straight really difficult if not impossible to have such flexibility when it's a repeat. of the guns and so they have the preventive measures in relation to me have to be in the highest possible standards manchester city have all but still the english premier league title sergio where open the scoring for city and into no win over crystal palace if liverpool beat 2nd in the table manchester united on sunday than pep guardiola steen will be champions for the 3rd time in 4 seasons. on friday leicester city ger won one with southampton that was despite southampton

playing most of the game with 10 men after an early sending off a star 3rd in the table with a top 4 qualifying for next season's top european champions league. it's another point towards where we want to go before being left to do so to give the final show we're here for since it's a really exciting end to the series of these next numbers that we. hear the beat as i said you look at it to know there's a natural disappointment because we haven't won the bigger picture we're on a fantastic position. and lydia co-produced a stunning shot at the women's world championship in singapore the 2 time major champion finishing her round in style polling an eagle on the 18th green with a bit of help from her playing partners ball after 3 rounds and in zealander is tied for 3rd overall on 10 under par. ok and that is all you sport for now peter back to foreign thank you very much lots more news on the

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india opens vaccinations to all adults but the rollout is going badly as it marks a record 400019 infections. 12 cope with 19 patients have died at all spittle in new delhi alfred ran short of oxygen suppliers plus. hello again i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up.