the biggest stories of the week delivered to your inbox. analysis and opinions of the world. subscribe of the conversation. afghanistan on high alert as withdrawal deadline trump agreed with the taliban pos as with foreign forces still in the country. i know i'm mary m i z in london you're watching algis there also coming up on the program hospital fires and oxygen shortages add to the death toll in india which is just recorded more than 400000 new covert cases in one day. somalia's lower

house of parliament cancels its controversial 2 year extension of the president's time. demonstrators scuffle with police in paris as thousands joined may day protests across france. it's may the fast the day u.s. troops were supposed to be out of afghanistan in a deal the trunk administration reached with the taliban instead it's become the day the u.s. formally begins its withdrawal under president itan and the commander of foreign forces in afghanistan has warned it would be a mistake for on groups to attack the troops who are still there. a return to violence would be one senseless and tragic but make no mistake we have the military means to respond forcefully to any type of attacks against the coalition and the

military means support the afghan security forces that would be a mistake. the taliban's $0.05 a house shane tells al jazeera all foreign troops must withdraw now as the agreement they reached was that the united states had not just its president we had not. struck the. second person that the government and the state so that state thing here and he was not only what food needed but if you are so they are legally and make it to that degree where and also the fact. that they did not to. tell you what they had make the commitment about the food supply. or violence against afghans has been escalating in recent

months with security forces and many professionals targeted on friday a powerful car bomb killed at least 24 people in the eastern logar province of the no claims of responsibility for conjure free reports now from kabul. for afghanistan it's a cycle with nowhere and body after body lying next to each other this time the victims of a powerful truck bomb many were high school students staying in a dormitory nearby several buildings collapsed in the blast trapping dozens of people. are treated my own family members wounded in the incident and we spent the night to my neighbor's house i don't know when this country will be peaceful i beg everyone for the sake of god to please stop it. a hospital was severely damaged several of those injured were transferred to kabul and recalled what happened. was

at 1st i heard a blast and right after the blast all the windows shattered and i don't know what happened next such actions don't exist. violence is increasing across the country fighting between the taliban and government forces is fierce according to the un more than $500.00 civilians many of them children have been killed in the 1st 3 months of this year. car bomb attack comes at a tense moment for ghana stand the foreign troop withdrawal is underway and will be completed well after the may 1st deadline stipulated in the doha deal that was signed between the united states and the taliban last here. this the taliban has warned that if foreign troops stay past that date it will resume attacks against them the pentagon and nato are releasing few details about their departure and with america's war coming to an end and a stalled peace process afghans are facing a new. and uncertain future for the contra free al-jazeera kabul.

boy india has become the 1st country in the wall to report more than 400000 new kovan 1000 infections in a single day more than 3 and a half 1000 people were confirmed to have died in that period 12 people also died in a new delhi hospital after critically ill patients were left without oxygen until supply tankers arrived and then a fire in a covert hospital ward in the state killed a number 18 patients on average nearly 2 and a half 1000000 vaccines are being given daily in india or a foe all of those over the age of 18 are now eligible to be vaccinated but several states say they don't have enough doses and as with problem reports now from delhi . a group of friends celebrate receiving the coronavirus vaccinations in

new delhi this some of the lucky ones who managed to get an appointment signs at many vaccine centers around the country read they're out of doses despite having a population of 20000000 people india's financial capital mum by only has 20000 doses for those between the ages of 18 to 45. we were told that it would be a 1st come 1st serve thing year but the vaccination center years dysart it we will see what we're going to do whether we'll get it or not. the government said everyone above the age of 18 would be eligible for a vaccine from saturday but most regional leaders say they don't have enough doses to expand the program the sign reads welcome to the world's largest vaccination drive but despite india being the world's largest vaccine manufacturer it concept law enough doses to its people. this is one of just

a handful of private hospitals in new delhi that were able to procure vaccines to inoculate people between the ages of 18 to 45 on saturday. the online registration also isn't accessible for the hundreds of millions of indians who don't own computers. and don't have an internet connection india is also oxygen despite international aid arriving. on saturday stop at one hospital in new delhi said patients have died including one of their doctors when an oxygen delivery was late. well you are doing what we are but we can't think about what we can't control god see please try to organize oxygen for us there was a gap of 45 minutes when we didn't have oxygen we did everything we could we used all our cylinders but despite that we couldn't save 6 of i.c.u.

patients. the death toll later went up to at least 12 health experts are asking the government to impose more restrictions to ease the pressure on the health care system currently i think the media has to step. in measures these measures for to be very aggressive and we should also have localized law down there even necessary to get at least the transmission that is the. scientific advisors appointed by the government say they want officials in early march of a new and more contagious variant of the corona virus despite that the government didn't impose restrictions and allowed people to gather at large political and religious events elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi. when medical help continues to arrive in india from around the world 1st batch of 150000 russian vaccines is reached the southern city of hyderabad india is licensed production of the vaccine from russia and plans to eventually manufacture 850000000 doses

a year france and germany are also flying out medical equipment including ventilators and specialist doctors. well look over vaccine roll out is now on the way in rebel held regions of northern syria in lebanon or than aleppo provinces have received astra zeneca jobs as part of the global kovacs program for poorer nations humanitarian workers are among the 1st to get vaccines there alongside the elderly and people with existing can health conditions the 2 regions home to around 4000000 people and have so far recorded 641 covert 19 deaths but most of. our main goal post on syria is to vote tonight 850 pounds not a little to 1st got here but it seems we've received is only 53. so in the 1st round with rocks and 18 people working in the health sector and human experience it was there before. the president of kenya is announcing the easing of lockdown

measures after a surge in the month of march is the country's 3rd wave peak cases and now going into decline it was a 74 percent drop in infections in the last month bars and restaurants religious services and schools will reopen after closing in april and a curfew will be eased kenya is one of the west affected nations in africa with more than 2700 deaths recorded. a bit by somalia's president to extend his term in office by 2 years as foreign a pause after parliament made a u. turn in the face of public opposition last month m.p.'s approved mohamad up to life our margins decision to remain in power despite his term expiring in february but that led to clashes and fears the country's security forces could split over the issue and piece of instead approve the president's request to organize delayed elections he had stayed on due to disagreements with regional leaders over how to hold the poll now webb is in nairobi in neighboring kenya and says that the stakes

are high. 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 and now that followed the failure to hold those elections that were meant to happen in february now 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 sending semi autonomous states couldn't agree on the terms for this election to go ahead that's why it didn't happen that 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 they. want 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 as a lot of people thought could if we didn't go well end up with the country returning to a state of civil war. you know watching out is there a life from london bush wants to head on the program deep beneath the frontline a mine is of eastern ukraine getting just a fraction of that salary for doing

a dangerous job in a war zone barred windows and barbed wire why rights groups are demanding the closure of this british army barracks used to house refugees and migrants. but. there's some very on the seasonal weather going on in europe at the moment it's a clouds moving to the southwest the northeast along what is really a waving front a difference between tarps as alone this heavy rain in itself is necessary unusually and mounties quite high is already running through the out doing that you're exactly on sunday this swirl it's a proper what looks like a spring storm these things shouldn't exist really such heavy rain strong winds probably sunder as well millions in the hail damaging hail running up through poland now that's left rather nice the weather in his wake the northern side of

this temperature on the low side well below where they should be the south is still relatively good higher than they should be in places but that's about to change so as this thing runs north as it tucks enough cold air to give snow for a listen and then look at this in what way is that spring weather that is really in autumnal storm running through the british isles and the same time the heat in the bottom right time cole is affected turkey in cyprus in particular also greece is leaking away so in athens for example the temperature of 32 were changed down to about 24 ball time to get to wednesday the average being 22 so that unusual weather is going back to normal. from. a small boy and his brother rescued from war in gaza by the red cross i hold it was dark and we were 1st placed on a red cross truck now a world leader in crisis management and

a highly regarded doctor in chicago who still misses her homeland just ones i pass around me thinking of returning to jordan al-jazeera world meets 2 successful arab doctors in north america arabs approach the humanitarian and the healer on al-jazeera. world. welcome back and look at the main stories now head of foreign forces in afghanistan says it would be a mistake for any armed groups to attack as the united states for. the united states formally begins its withdrawal from the country it comes after a truck bomb killed at least $24.00 people in eastern logar province on friday.

india has become the 1st country in the world report more than 400000 new covert infections in a single day another 3 and a half 1000 people have also died as the country's outbreak continues to grow and a bid by somalia's president mohammad top to live for my job to extend his term in office by 2 years has fallen apart autumn and has made a u. turn in the face of public opposition and voted to organize elections. and all the stories of following rallies have been taking place across the world to mark may day or international labor day in colombia may day much as a coinciding with protests against government plans for tax reform well there's a lot of anger even though president. has backed down and ordered the proposal to be reversed and at been 4 days of protests by people who say the changes could make them poorer the most violent scenes took place in county where one person was killed almost 100 people and police officers injured so let's go under. live for us

in bogota tell us more about what's been happening at those rallies today. well mary morris you were saying for a 4th straight day people are out on the streets of the capital that the number of cities across colombe out most of the demonstrations are practically all of them have been absolutely peaceful up to this point we haven't seen any of the violent scenes that we've seen and in the past few days and particularly in the city of cali where the mayor now has confirmed that 3 people have died there one shot in the head by the police however the human rights groups say that the real toll of the violence seeing these protests might be much higher they are talking about several days but there have been reports of at least 14 if not more people that

have died in protests in the last $3.00 to $4.00 days much of these need to be confirmed obviously so far the national government has confirmed just one protester has died and another policeman in the city of swatch yesterday consequences of being hurt the 1st day on wednesday in the south in that city of swatches south of bogota but so far today a may day these rallies have all be an extremely peaceful we haven't seen any attacks on property or anything like that that people are there's a lot of anti government feelings here a lot of anger towards president to pay for this tax reform and also for the consequences of the restrictions of the pandemic that have hit the people extremely

hard to here in cologne and it is a vocal crowd there behind you despite the rain i was speaking about opposition to propose. tax reforms in the country but really his price has gone beyond that issue now. yes that's definitely the case precedent to care and now said he is willing to change the text of the reform that he will now withdraw the reform which is what people are asking for in many opposition politicians and many people in the country are asking for but he said he's open to changing the text of it reducing the amount of money that the government this hoping to make through this reform that definitely will not be enough though to stop these protests because people say that they go beyond that people are angry because of the increase in violence because of the many killings of a community their social leaders

a former fark fighters that have signed the peace deal and have been killed in high numbers especially in the last year and also it has to do with with do with the fact that if you talk to people here at these rallies failed to tell you that they feel that this government is this to their needs that many people have lost their jobs unemployment as has gone up greatly since the beginning of the pandemic cording to the latest numbers of the columbia and the government said poverty has increased by 7.7 the. poverty level poverty and inequality has long been an issue of this. would be a rival of the day. and that focuses screen much been lost so people are. now more from the government.

that that's what's really spearheading. this is that i think it's important to say come on. had seen great. rallies in 2019 for many of these reasons but now a lot of them are just a few people coming out and protesting without being organized by unions or other. indeed and the weather isn't dampening their spirits as it thank you very much from bogota colombia yeti. more than 200 protesters have been arrested during the turkish may day marches in violation of a nationwide lockdown. for the. demonstrators clashed with police during demonstrations in istanbul and he said that while some unions have gathered legally others ignored calls to disperse it comes after police were instructed to stop people recording them on phones while on jussi elsewhere windows were smashed in tape gasified as yellow vests protesters joined a trade union made

a march in the french capital paris thousands of demonstrators were denouncing planned government changes to unemployment benefits police made more than 30 arrests 5000 officers were deployed in the french capital with around 300 rallies organized across the country most of the other events hostile peacefully as it was in paris. but to. make tens of thousands of people have been walking across a paris they've been walking from one port to here this is cool customer enough to see behind me if i step out the way people are arriving they've got their balloons they've got their fire over in the middle of this huge square they all gather and this is the end of this process is where we're actually ends now oh on this side so just to move across to the side you can also see rows open east offices thousands of police officers have been deployed across the capital to try and keep it safe

there have been some scuffles between protesters and police a bit earlier we saw the bag being smashed up some bicycles and vehicles being satellite's and at the moment it's a bit of take us behind me because police are trying to actually clear people are to the square tried to encourage them to go home well in terms of these may day protests in terms of why people have actually come out to the street there have been a range of issues and causes everything from climate protests is people who feel that the government hasn't done enough with the covert pandemic we've got trade unions who are calling for better wages better working conditions there's a lot of anti-government sentiment there's a lot of anti president a micro sentiment as well the conflict along ukraine's border with russia is making life even more difficult for coal miners working near the front line for generations they've provided fuel for factories but many mines and now in the hands

of russian backed separatists and mine is a found themselves getting little pay despite the dangers of that job from gore skya. as our. shift starts with a post to the morning before most one kilometer to ground. 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 when you know. 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 underground. much of the mines infrastructure is in a shocking state of neglect some 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 coal 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 mosco spends supporting the separatist controlled territory pushed out of the little with everything has been stolen that's the simple fact these resources belong to the state of ukraine but they're mined in extracted by those working for russia it's outrageous. group of miners here from the dark of the finishing shift some of that to walk up to a kilometer along tunnels to the coal face. of i've worked 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 the sonorous and better working conditions we can't stop the war

they say but we can demand our rights stuff around just 0 sky used in ukraine. refugees and migrants have made the dangerous journey to the u.k. say conditions the government keeps the men are enough to force them back again the red cross is demanding the closure of a former army camp to house them and as john hall reports from folks and human rights groups say just using a military base is psychologically damaging and many people who fled torture. napier barracks in kent has come to symbolize an asylum system increasingly hostile to asylum seekers receiving like us soon as they arrive a serious decline in their mental health and they really just pick their bread they're running away. or they have suicidal ideation we've had several we've seen several suicide attempts already in the last few years a former british army facility long disused it's accommodation is rustic the buildings rundown napier has been condemned as filthy and unsuitable by independent

specters and while residents are free to come and go many see constant reminders in the barbed wire and barred windows of past trauma. me fled religious persecution in iran he communicates with us using a translation app on his phone that pain was. why why. i start a soldier in iraq i stated a military barracks. situation very well the situation is. dire express thanks to. the red cross among others has called for napier to be shot immediately some people might you know torture. and some people might you know have very bad experiences that it is so so living beside. their immediate friends and living behind the

wire is in itself or in forking off reason like when decisions which is contrary to what they would have got to come here to to see yet while 2 similar barack sites have closed napier remains open the government says improvements have been made since napier was closed down temporarily after a big outbreak of coated 1000 in january followed by a fire said to have been started by the residents themselves and you can see the remains of that blaze over there all basic needs are now being met says the government and in fact there are plans to scale back up the numbers of people staying here from around 70 now to more than 300 in the coming weeks. one former resident who now campaigns for its closure believes napier is growing notoriety works as a deterrent to former 'd residents up need here when i were among them they are keen to take

a dangerous journey again and go back to france because the conditions there appearing. war standing very experienced. through their journey so maybe people in the u.k. and wish to thank you jay it mentally means that the people who wants to come to say maybe are pushed back from it. and that may be precisely the point jonah how al-jazeera at napier. barracks in current. the in. the a. recap of the main stories now we had a foreign forces in afghanistan says it would be a mistake for any armed groups to attack the u.s. withdrawal from the country formally begins is warning comes a day after a truck bomb killed at least 24 people in the eastern logar province on friday it's the latest incident in a recent uptick in the number and scale of the attacks u.s.

army general scott miller says he retains the ability to respond forcefully to any attacks on the military.