for centuries to come and so. now we can draw on the. cyc speak our minds in the sand on al-jazeera. a hopeless situation in a wreck or daily death toll with no side of a let up as the coronavirus wave continues to sweep the nation. out of a very unforgiving this is out of 0 alive from though also coming up the u.s. troop withdrawal finally begins but not fast enough for taliban leaders. a day is marked with violence in colombia as protesters take to the streets of the capital

venting anger over tax reform. mission accomplished after 5 months on the international space station 4 astronauts are now on their way back to earth. india's coronavirus crisis continues to spiral out of control a record 3700 people died in the past 24 hours according to indian media and there were 392000 new cases the government is desperate to expand its vaccination program but it's struggling to meet demand people are turning up to get the job only to find there are no doses left elizabeth broderick reports now from new delhi. a group of friends celebrate receiving their coronavirus vaccinations in new delhi they're some of the lucky ones who managed to get an appointment signs that many vaccine centers around the country read they're out of doses despite having

a population of $20000000.00 people india's financial capital mum buy only has $20000.00 for those between the ages of $18.00 to $45.00 but. we were told that it would be a 1st come 1st serve thing here but the vaccination center years deserted 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 manufacturing concept why enough to its people this is one of just a handful of private hospitals in new delhi that were able to procure vaccines to 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 staff at one hospital in new delhi said patients have died including one of their doctors when an oxygen delivery was late. hartman you hear what. we are doing what we can 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 our 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 india has to step up its containment measures these

measures are 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 said they want officials in early march of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus despite that the government didn't impose restrictions and allowed people to gather at large political and religious events elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. is the founder of the helping hand foundation a charity working with the most vulnerable people in the city of hyderabad he says that hospitals everywhere are a breaking point. out of our fight to 6 that it should be more to send in the seed even i live in heaven about these lost because odds on going to before you get back to the day out of managing to get the oxidants up lies from other

states and from you know different sources they're managing to beat the patients in whatever capacity they have by the moment these hospitals are also done and put the boot od in need of oxygen on or getting officers in the form of a developing the symptoms of a b. and b. such a great 'd thing and in the hospital too likely said mark to me and learn but also in but i would toss with the long queue was that a long waiting list people are getting bad and in the process boards who are out of could take the gun dish and. so you're finding people being brought into had too many hospitals every day day in and day out in many households a number of people within the family effect that getting infected so doctors is actually leading to a lot of problems. in all patients in hospitals some people out in the suffering

the toll so they don't have anybody to take care of the lot sites that is a very common back and just see in many households because several people live in one house i think and when somebody dies. of the day don't have anybody to go and do all the formalities that you have and the body and all 3 missions. a 3 week and occupation campaign is underway in syria's region it's the last rebel held area in the country people began getting their covert 19 vaccines after a delivery of nearly 54000 astra zeneca jobs there's been a surge of new infections there more than 640 people have died from covert 19 in the province more than 21000 cases have been reported up with its health care system damaged by war it's not clear how accurate those numbers are. our main goal here in an old western city is to vaccinate 850000 people and the 1st

batch of vaccines we've received is only 53000 doses so in the 1st round when faxon 1000 people working in the health sector and humanitarian sector was there the front line is in fighting the pandemic that pay 1st was the day that u.s. troops were supposed to be out of afghanistan and a deal the trumpet ministration reached with the taliban instead it's become the day the us formally begins its withdrawal on the president by the commander of foreign forces in afghanistan has warned that it would take that would be a mistake for the 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 sport the afghan security forces that would be a mistake taliban spokesman said he'll show he has told out

a 0 that all foreign troops must leave immediately we have not. stopped the. second person that he is. the city so that seriously. and he was not only work for us as well if you are so they are. live very limited degree. and i also very sad. very very not are. very well they have made a commitment. now decision 3 our leadership what very disparate creature as dr will be implemented we are here with. al-jazeera some of them java has been following the ongoing peace negotiations here and. there is little progress on the ground you've seen the

attacks spiking you've seen the scathing criticism coming from the afghan government and if statements are anything to go by you heard the taliban spokesman there talk about investigating the logar attack which in which civilians were killed and you heard from the afghan president saying that the taliban were responsible so it is going to be a continuation of competing narratives in a very divided space in a gonna stand as u.s. forces prepare to leave their formal the drawl has begun from me the 1st and cording to the u.s. president will be completed by september the 11th and this is this remains to be the sticking point the taliban saying that because they signed an agreement and committed that they will withdraw by may the 1st and the other side saying that the taliban has not really shown enough progress in severing ties building bringing down the level of violence and negotiating in good faith with the afghan government and there's a lot of frustration doing the rounds not just on part of the afghan government but

other officials as well who've been trying to tone down the taliban's rhetoric in saying that you are a party to the conflict in the sun is not going to look like what it did 20 years ago. violence against afghans has escalated in recent months with security forces and many civilians targeted on friday a powerful car bomb killed at least 24 people in the eastern lager province no group has claimed responsibility for your controversial reports from kabul. for afghanistan it's a cycle with no end body after body lying next to each other this time the victims of a powerful tribe bomb many were high school students staying in a dormitory nearby several buildings collapsed in the blast trapping dozens of people but. i treated my own family members wounded in the incident and we spent the night in 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 but such actions don't exist and. violence is increasing across the country fighting between the taliban and government forces is fierce according to the u.n. more than $500.00 civilians many of them children have been killed in the 1st 3 months of this year blog or 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 year. the taliban has warned that a 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 a counter free al-jazeera kabul the latest round of talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal will bring us back to the table appears to have made some progress in vienna but iran's chief the. chief says that sanctions on tehran zoila the banking sector should be lifted based on agreements reached so fall he added that the 2 sides were on the same page on some issues but still a long way to go. the weather next here on al-jazeera then. 100 years ago was the birth of northern ireland for some 17 or is a cause for celebration here but not here in dublin the capital of the irish republic and they see it as

a disaster i'm andrew symonds about explaining why an m.p. is in somalia make a u. turn that could see the tension come down after days of fighting in the heart of the capital. it's time for the perfect gentleman the winter sponsored plan qatar airways more unusual whether it's for widespread but rather raby other 2 areas to watch for it all is still quite warm in the levant as well about where they should be and is rather more rain in particular in yemen than you might expect and cloud that spreads up through amman as well solarz up to humans 30 degrees little bit too early to see much change in the weather there but we might get some thunderstorms for how the sort sets in which is the edge effect of the indian monsoon come got that yet but this is again he's a little bit early but thunderstorms seem likely sunday monday or tuesday and into

to be most likely in somalia and you see the cloud spreading through oman eventually i think we'll find thunderstorms popping off in the mountains here as well with a rather hot 40 in dubai staying in the sunshine elsewhere reprints or it's generally find the showers becoming a bit more extensive through iran that's not a big surprise that's rather more normal this rather not so. nothing really changes except the drying process and tuesday further south we're watching the wind turn essentially quite strong southerly coming out through madagascar close to mozambique and tanzania that's not widespread heavy showers but it's rather continuous damp weather an indication the monsoon is setting up its back to go north. qatar airways. it's the political debate show that's challenging the way you think i want to know where you stand on cancer culture decrease the range of ideas that can be heard

from international politics to the global pandemic and everything in between tech companies are the ones with all the power what do we do with the solution 'd we get organized what are world leaders or governments missing targets in like 2040 or 20 he went. up front with me marc lamont hill on al-jazeera. hello again this is al jazeera the headlines this hour india's coronavirus crisis continues to spiral out of control a record 3700 people died in the past 24 hours according to indian media and there were 392000 new cases. the united states has begun pulling its troops out of

afghanistan the taliban says that on the other reached with the trumpet ministration they should all be gone by now. the latest round of talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal of bringing us back to the table appear to have made some progress in vienna but iran's chief negotiator says the sanctions on tehran toilet banking sectors need to be lifted. northern ireland is sent to markets 100th anniversary on monday but the centenary is unlikely to be celebrated south of the border as i was there as andrew symonds explains from dublin mary mcaleese is unlike any other former irish president she grew up in northern ireland a catholic living in a protestant area in the violent seventy's her family forced to move out and sectarian conflict group. the irish war of independence from britain between 1919 to 921 had led to the partitioning of the country and the birth of northern ireland

exactly 100 years ago thousands of civilian lives were lost in the interim isn't conflict that followed mary mcaleese is calling on protestants not to mark monday's sent tina ri with triumphalism language that is used is so important to be to use language that that doesn't other the people that you share the island with or your share northern ireland with but language that shows that you're sensitive to their concerns one word the right way can you know it can open people up and it can make them a concert and hearts where as one word the wrong way and you can harden hearts some are using the word celebration that is a difficult word and so for very far most of the centenary is that we have been through we haven't used those words we've used the word commemoration we've used softer words we've used words that open up to inclusion and that understand that

there are some for whom this was a tragedy and not a when some feel it's ironic that the santini comes at a time when irish unity is edging back onto the agenda helped by breck's at the puts an e.u. trade border in the irish sea separating the u.k. mainland from the island protestants fear alienation the government here in dublin sees are as unity as a distant prospect officially at least could it happen sooner rather than later well there's a growing body of opinion that it could do you will never solve the problems of northern ireland by violence the good friday peace agreement recognise something that fighting couldn't achieve a referendum on irish unity dependent on catholics becoming a majority that's likely to be confirmed in a new u.k. census then brit. and besides if there is a referendum this is the birthplace of irish democracy and there's another factor

briggs it took northern ireland against its will out of the european union so for a lot of center middle ground people a united ireland is the only route back to the european union and the advantages which they enjoyed as european union citizens and many young people in the south support reunification and what their leaders to put more emphasis on the cheating and i think the planning and preparation for a should be because immediately to mitigate some of the damaging impacts of breaks it particularly and what we've seen with solar political leaders a lot of the time is putting it on the long finger and pointed to some indiscriminate days in the future but irish history with all of its overwhelming violence may be the biggest obstacle for now on both sides of the divide many feel reconciliation still has some way to go under simmons' al-jazeera. the international organization of migration is concerned that more people will try to cross the mediterranean from libya as weather conditions improve on saturday the libyan coast guard rescued 334 migrants they were found on 4 small boats heading

towards europe another rescue ship sea watch for says that it witnessed the coast guard violently pulling the migrants back to libya against their will and more than $200.00 migrants from 15 countries of arrived on the italian island of sicily they were picked up by the rescue ship ocean viking rescue groups of pleading for european countries to open their doors to desperate migrants more than 130 people died last month off the coast of libya. thousands of people have joined may day demonstrations across europe despite. of them on social and economic justice and greater job security the pandemic has crippled many of europe's economies leaving young people concerned about their futures barker reports. tear gas in paris an all too familiar sight france has made a demonstrations traditionally

a show of force by the country's mighty trade unions. a message for the government the power lies not with politicians but with people. this year labor unions who are joined by members of the yellow vest movement that kicked off a wave of anti-government protests 3 years ago. the french president emanuel remains under mounting pressure to abandon economic and social reforms as the country reels from 3 crippling coronavirus lockdowns for some this was about more than workers' rights. it was a show of rage. on may day the historic gathering to has a global context we keep on having protests and then we protest happen for nothing no one is listening to us but i think it's important to keep coming back. in the british capital hundreds gathered in trafalgar square under the banner kill the bill against a proposal that would give police extra powers to curb protests is fear the changes

will have a chilling effect on the rights to demonstrate among the crowds black lives matter supporters and climate change campaigners is still in rebellion he paralyzed parts of london in 2019. under the proposed laws people could face 10 years in prison for defacing monuments and large fines for breaching noise limits. state repression the government saying we don't want you to. didn't enjoy see your concerns against the system all these demonstrators are keen to remind the british government is the protests by their very nature or destructive and that any new laws designed to cattail people's rights of assembly damage the country's democracy . in the german capital berlin a peaceful march by protesters on the eve of mayday demanding affordable homes after the constitutional court overturned a law the set of rent kept on apartments in the city 85 percent of berlin is rent

rather than own their own home 3 countries 3 different struggles but a common thread these are the faces of europe's young students those struggling to find work others looking for security in a fragile labor market was seen. as europe starts to emerge from lockdown a reminder that many old frustrations haven't gone away and in some cases they've deepened leave bar couches era london it was also a may day rally in turkey's largest city istanbul where police clamped down on a gathering held in the finance of coronavirus restrictions that were scuffles between police and protesters in parks and square official say that some unions were permitted to hold commemorations the progressive lawyers association said that more than 200 people have been detained. in colombia may day marches coincided with

protests against the government's tax reform plans anger there continues even though the president has backed down or the proposal. reports. this fight raising coby in 1000 infections in the risk of violence tens of thousands of colombian stick to the streets for a 4th straight day on saturday in but with one group gathered at a national park to continue protesting against a controversial tax reform that they say would raise taxes on the middle class at a time of great economic pain among them 28 year old monique up early this who lost her job during the pandemic dangling me were an area that i still haven't been able to pay my 9 year old son school tuition because last year has been horrible for me of not having a decent health system over not having institutions that who work in our favor. rising poverty and unemployment following car with 1000 restrictions of people increasingly venting their anger in the streets openly defying official pleas to

stay home. it's easy to stay home when you're not hungry poor head of household women don't have that luxury and have to start on the streets to survive that's why we're marching to tell this call them and we are hungry and we need help. isolated looting vandalism and clashes marked the previous days especially in colombia steered largest city carli where at least 3 people have died allegedly shot by the police but human rights organizations say the real death toll could be much higher on saturday most of the day were speaks for until the police stopped a group of demonstrators. the protesters are now trying to recapture the private home of president their band ok which is roughly a couple of blocks up here there's a huge police presence in front of this condominium and as you can see here the police say riot gear is stopping the protesters from moving forward. as

protesters try to move on the police shot tear gas and stun grenades protesters responded herding rocks and burning barricades. the chaos as force president took it to backpedal on the tax reform plans promising to rewrite the bill excluding taxes on basic food items utilities and gasoline that angered protesters but some analysts believe it will not be enough and i think that they were wearing hasn't understood that the political class is not discussing that they think that just we draw in the tax reform is going to be enough to appease the practice but i've been there when. basically this sort of over station now we need from the small and on has to deal with many more issues than the tax reform. once again clashes continued into the evening signaling the protesters will not easily stop i listen them.

in brazil thousands marched on saturday in support of president jaya bhosle our own who's facing much criticism for his handling of a pandemic the president supporters dismissed the outbreak as overblown and a lot of focus on the economy some of them weren't wearing masks present experienced a deadly 2nd wave in april resulting in $100000.00 deaths in a month or so now rose constance's simply downplayed the effects of the virus. somalia's lower house of parliament has unanimously voted to cancel extending the president's term in office president mohamad abdalla he mohamad has directed the prime minister to prepare for elections parliament approved a 2 year term extension last month that sparked protests and fighting in the capital. ended in february but he stayed on as talks on a new election stalled malcolm webb reports now from by rupie. 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 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 570 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 the former 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. 4 astronauts are on their way back to earth from the international space station capsule will splash down in the gulf of mexico off the coast of florida the 1st cruise to be brought back from the space station by space x. as part of its partnership with nasa once it lands the company hopes to refurbish the capsule to be used again on future missions one of the world's most recognizable

landmarks has reopened and it's only the leaning tower of pisa have been closed for nearly 6 months following a 2nd wave of code 19 but number of visitors allowed in the u.s. but a halt with special a loans to ensure that they maintain social distancing. scrutiny with us hello adrian for good here in doha the headlines allowed 0 india's coronavirus crisis continues to spiral out of control a record 3700 people died in the past 24 hours according to indian media but there were 392000 new cases the government is desperate to expand its vaccination program but it struggling to meet demand al-jazeera is elizabeth problem has more on the vaccine shortage from new delhi. like many other regional leaders around the

country has said that they don't have enough vaccines to expand that.