to be used again on future missions. one of the world's most recognizable landmarks has reopened and it's only the leading 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 alone means to ensure that they maintain social distancing. scrutiny with us hello adrian for the good here in doha the headlines a lot of 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 for autumn has more on the vaccine shortage from new delhi the delis leader like many other regional leaders

around the country has said that they don't have enough vaccines to expand 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 on my magistracy 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 the u.s. is sending hundreds of thousands of doses of the ask them a come back and also the war materials needed to put india to manufacture. the united states has begun pulling its troops out of afghanistan the taliban says that on the an agreement reached with the trumpet ministration they should all be gone by now the commander of foreign forces in afghanistan has warned that it would be a mistake for all groups to attack the troops who are still. the latest round of talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal and bring the u.s.

back to the table appears to have made some progress in vienna but iran's chief negotiator says that sanctions on iran's oil and banking sectors need to be lifted 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 on the rescue ship sea watch for says that it witnessed the coast guard violently pulling the migrants back to libya against their will in colombia may day march has coincided with protests against government tax reform plans continues there even though president has backed down and ordered the proposal to be rewritten. as the headlines with more news for you here on al-jazeera after up front which is next. to 0 is here to report on the people off the

road but. how many other channels can you say will take that extensive fraud into reporting from under reported areas of course we cover major global events but are . making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like the young man. and so many others who go to the make up for we care. 100 days into the presidency of joe biden are we seeing the beginning of a transformative era or is it business as usual i'll ask one of the country's most outspoken progressive politicians. marc lamont hill also on the show the absolute devastation caused by covert 1000 in

india has shocked the world but could it be even worse than it appears i'll talk to a mumbai based investigative journalist who says the government is hiding the real numbers but 1st it's been a 100 days since joe biden took office in the u.s. president is being painted as a progressive hero but is he really a visionary or is he just not donald trump this week headliner former ohio state senator and co-chair bernie sanders 2020 presidential campaign you know turner. need to turn to thank you for joining me on front when president biden ran for office he said that he would be the most progressive president in american history now we're just 100 days in and people are already making comparisons to franklin delano roosevelt f.d.r. and l.b.j. lyndon baines johnson who introduced some of the most sweeping progressive reforms in american history we talk about somebody who basically was the architect of the

crime bill someone who helped put us into iraq someone who bailed out wall street in 2008. is it even possible for someone with bad history to be mentioned in the conversation among progressive presidents that will say is that this is certainly the beginning process here i will say that by an administration because of the push of the progressive movement we came in sight of the fact that the progressive movement all of these things are brought to you by the progressive movement the push in some of the things that we heard last night is because aggressive movement is out there making these demands i think the 1st 100 days are just that we got a long way to go because what you are naming the things that you just numerate those things were put into place by policies policies that he supported and so now he is the president of the united states of america and this provides him a spectacular opportunity through public policy to undo some of that damage and

some of that especially on the crime bill had generational impacts so it's a great time to be able to undo some of those things but a pushing for family paid medical leave and leave and medical leave for up to 12 weeks when we had 0 and other industrialized 'd nations our head of us on that is a good thing talking about infrastructure is that all of those things are a good thing but when you are on the path to good you've got to keep going and in some cases we've got to run like our last opinion on it so this is a star process is not in it hence the 1st 100 days we've got many more days to go you mention last night of course you're referencing a time of this interview to president biden's speech before the joint session of the u.s. congress he talked about his agenda one of the things that came up in that was his american families plan he talked about his plan for the economy he took over a lot of stuff as you said some of it as a result of being pushed by the progressive movement but as we set to lower the bar for him are we measuring him against the progressive movement or are we measuring

him against trump who left it up fairly low bar to measure against. and you bring up a great point the country or at least part of the country because let us not forget that mr trump did amass 74000000 votes so let's just say the other half of the country was very petite by president trump that the world was pretty hot president trump and so i will give president biden credit in terms of his very presence changes that that mimic that we are no longer dealing with a neo fascist to be sure any of fascism had to be dealt with affront but now that we are in this moment that democrats control all the levers of power that they ask for so now is the opportunity for the democratic party to get a better way to go be and this is no time to shrink power must be used it does not last always and so you must use it now you say we got rid of the neo-fascist

president many would argue but we have a new liberal president someone who still worships the market someone who still doesn't really believe in the kind of socialized response to to suffering that many people would advocate for on your side of the aisle if that's the case is biden the person to lead a progressive movement can he do that. well it's not about him leading aggressive move me i mean he is who years where he has shown best are his administration that they are listening and capture in the polls somewhere a congress right now they've got to do what they need to do on the inside and then we need that outside leader to continue to push and have the courage to ask the more that's the key we haven't said yet had the courage to ask more and you can also say if somebody is moving in the right direction those things are not mutually exclusive we don't think something and then have to ask for more one place i'm wondering is are we moving in the right direction on immigration biden is

continuing mass deportations at the u.s. border by continuing the trump era title $42.00 policy one of the most restrictive immigration policies ever implemented it's now being used to expel hundreds of thousands of immigrants at the border including families and children now the democrats have called it racist and shortsighted but now the biden is administration is using it to deport people what a mess particularly people from haiti for example there were $100000.00 expulsions in march and you compare apples to apples month to month that's just as much if not more than trump during that time how can democrats in general not just democrats in general claim any high ground on this issue now you know well we can't at this moment on that. i can't miss words there now we can't and our haitian sisters and brothers in particular if other of our sisters and brothers from the black diaspora are not treated the same there are many immigration reports and studies that show

that there is a racial lies and a tap blackness if you will when it comes to the immigration of our black sisters and brothers from the diaspora and particularly haiti and that is a problem it must be fixed so again democrats have a tremendous responsibility and an incredible opportunity to make things right and in that particular area we are not doing that is not being done in this moment but that doesn't mean that the way that it is right now is the way that it has to continue to be so we must push on that as well let's move to another issue that president biden probably doesn't in fact certainly doesn't see eye to eye with you and many other programs on and that's the difference in the police movement he has again just like with medicare for our just like with every new deal a president by that said i don't support the defund the police movement you have been very vocal in support of it given that how optimistic are hopeful are you that

this can actually be a plan that we put in place there is no doubt. that we must address the white supremacy 'd the n. top wackiness and the caste system that just within policing in america but it every single passage of american society and what we see happening there in law enforcement right now with the killing and shootings of an armed people particularly unarmed the lack of me is a reckoning and finished business in the united states of america so the department of justice it investigates police related shootings period that should be better be but the powers that should be the weight of that ministration are not connecting and putting demands on any funding that goes to police departments or law

enforcement agencies in the united states of america so that those are some things that happen on the federal level and as the militarized balance add them the members who are in in law enforcement or have been in law course and so i do understand this from multiple lenses i get i will say this finally on this point there is good tremendous good in human nature and there's also tremendous evil in human nature so we would be naive to say that we don't need police we do meet police but people are asking for particularly the black community is to be treated with dignity and respect and for police officers not to be the judge jury and executioner that must happen and those types of policies have to be pushed not just on the federal level but also on the state level as a and also local levels of government as well let me push you and i just for a 2nd so if we can reimagine the system why can't we reimagine abolition. i mean i'm not saying that we cannot really imagine that you know let's have the

conversation but on the other end of that we do have to admit that there are some people in society where police are necessary you know what i think about babies who are being killed by drug was you know my heart aches with that you know i served as a cleveland city councilwoman and there was a situation where a skirmish happened at a park and the people part of that took it to the streets where kids will run bicycles and do and have scotch and shot through a house and shot 2 young children under the age of 6 so for me to be naive and to say that there is not some need to have policing that's not it but it is the way that police are socialized in this country that is the problem and also the total disregard and disrespect but black labs that was built into the system from the beginning the other day during his address to the joint session of congress president biden said that the middle class built this country what say you.

working poor build this country but i'm not going to separate the middle class and the working poor i'm not sure what he means by the middle class but what i will say is that welcome people built this country and if i were to go into further than that historically we know who truly built this country they had to mine it nature of this country came on the backs of chattel slavery that is real and we must deal with that as we progressed as a nation working class people built this country and you know that middle class people work i mean we separate i don't like the separation let's just go ahead and put the working people together somebody in the middle of that of that yes is somebody at the top of that yes or somebody at the bottom but it is working every day people are getting a raw deal let's increase the minimum wage let's make sure that we have universal health care in this country that would give relief to middle everybody in this country and we also help our businesses there are lots of big and bold policies

that we can do as at that as a hedge of my nation in and we must do it but only be quickly you were the national campaign co-chair for bernie sanders who pointed out that 2 years after obama took office republicans quote did phenomenally well the same was true after 2 years under clinton he says it's because democrats fail to use their power to benefit working families but the biden understands this you're running for congress this year hoping to represent the 11th district in ohio a state that donald trump comfortably won do you think biden has done enough for working families enough that democrats could pick up congressional seats based on his record. well we lost a seat because of the census you know that's happening right now in ohio some 2022 we will have one less seat and so what i am running to do is to keep this movement going in the congress because i do have the courage to ask for more one in every 3 children in my district are living in poverty many families are living in poverty

this is a district that has extraordinary wealth of one ear and extreme poverty on the other and so for the working side of my district the poorest people in this district they need a $15.00 an hour minimum wage increase we've got to do that and can't blame a parliamentarian let's just go get it get that done they need universal health care but i'm limited to that enough to get those because the argument here is that democrats when they don't serve the working people and so then they look to republicans as an alternative have the democrats in particular by the ministration done enough now so that they'll look to democrats to pick up these seats as opposed to saying you know what let's try this republican way again but we've got to continue to earn that i mean my state you're right not only did president from winning 2020 creases lead in 2020 we've got to speak the love language of the working class people not just the great state of ohio but all over the country and we can do that because we control 'd all the levers there and there's more work to

be done and i'm laying out that work 50 now in our minimum wage universal health care medicare for all and cancelling student debt so that we can get people dispose what income in their pockets we can do it we have the levers of power we cannot waste that power when republicans are power they use it and so i want to see my democratic colleagues and i will be there to join them to continue to have occurred as more to use that power is such a way that we leave no doubt who sat the democratic party is on you know turn to thank you so much for joining me on outfront. thank you perhaps only. a devastating wave of cold in 1000 infections is overwhelming india hospitals and crematoriums are overflowing with bodies and an untold number of people are scrambling for oxygen cylinders medicines and hospital beds india has become the epicenter of the global pandemic with more than one in 3 new cases in the world now in the country and over 3000 deaths

a day but that's just the official count and many believe the real numbers are far higher so what accounts for this devastation and how did india get to this point to help us answer this we're joined by our own are you an investigative journalist based in mumbai and a global opinions writer for the washington post rana thank you for joining me on you've covered so many things you've covered the devastating impact of anti poor policies on indians you have covered of course religious based riots you've covered extrajudicial killings and of course the 1st wave of cold it 19 in the country and yet despite all of that you write in time magazine last week of the current situation if the apocalypse had an image it would be the hospitals of india what makes this circumstance worse than anything you've seen before. well mark i've been reporting for the last 15 years but i have never and i've seen of course not in the movies only only covenants the carnage in the year 2002 as

a relief worker but what he's doing to the country right now when it isn't in this devastation it is of like a writer friend said last evening it's a holocaust. the prime minister has criminally abdicated his responsibility when the 2nd vive of with 19 has been devastating indians has has ravaged the rest of the country and the prime minister is fixated with elections in the country stretching into 8 pieces all over best bengal and assam from barrow we are recording the highest number of cases in the last one or 2 weeks the hospitals resemble a war zone are crippled torrijos are so poor that the rich are trying to use their contacts to book book a slot in the crematorium because they're all booked for the next 3 days there is no good left to light the fires of this only enough wood for the next 2 or 3 days

that are more bodies than import and of course if the devastation the indian government is trying to hide as usual are it a scam approaching the figures because it believes there will be a backlash and of course they will get a backlash because this year i'll be told the for the country would have been better prepared and specially when they were warnings by my specialist by doctors by epidemiologists that the 2nd be it could be devastating for the country the prime minister paid no heed and he just waved vibe you are very are i have never as a journalist met mr devastation at this scale than india well let's talk about some of those numbers because at the beginning of april we were saying 80000 cases and less than 500 deaths on the. first day of april. now where we see 350000 cases and 3000 deaths a day and of course as you talked about. the germans have documented that the body

counts there exceed the death toll which suggests that the numbers simply aren't accurate you know metal grills used to burn bodies have melted down from overuse we don't even have mines completely wrapped around how big of a crisis we're facing based on the official numbers do you have a sense of just how how big the numbers could be when i wrote this time magazine well b.s. mark 4 days ago i had there was an estimate that the debt think of this estimate came from my conversations with john let's head to the shoes doctors across the country and i said the estimated number could be about 10000 in a day in the last 3 days i've been speaking to journalists into a lot of people in who are india including my own family members my entire ancestral family in oz i'm going because in the largest state of the british the entire family school with positive my uncle is critical arm on a ventilator and i spoke to a lot of doctors got to go through part come to come to about 20000 deaths in

a day i don't listen to me a video. from a pretty tory and he says close to $200.00 bodies are being could meet did add one thing the british get out in a small city over one can only imagine what the scale of the devastation across the country it is at least 10 times more beneficial number of this government is i'll tell you many times and more i mean but again we don't have official records there's no official data collection here would you say that the government is invested and keeping the covert death in the members. low for its own political interests. absolutely absolutely the government is invested into and got because the government knows that it has behaved in a mist in a manner which is criminal the indian medical association yesterday not in the movie the prime minister of india asked the soup was made all of the gliders in the country the metro bus i call it has called the election commission of n b

r which allowed not in tune with which was in cahoots but not in the movie are called the 8 pre-selection as. the high court has said that the election commission should be charged with murder now that's a very very serious remark from what you can but you should be in india and that goes to prove that the cup meant no look that's going to receive a backlash of distrust which is why it's trying to hide the numbers this is the reason why the health minister of this country took a press conference just to tell people that the mortality rate is only 0.2 percent if that is the key is why is the government trying to delete information from social media why has it asked me to delete that speak about the number of deaths like i had the chief minister of the largest state in india you get it not asked for a distinguished people who talk about oxygen shortage of the number of bets on social media this is a pattern oil there is a pattern or that the government does not want to review that the real number is

not on sprints at all how much of this is about direction and dishonesty and descend from asia and how much of this is about poor planning and mismanagement the reason i ask is because i'm thinking back a few months ago when the indian government especially was declaring victory over coal that in february the b.g.p. passed a resolution stating it can be said with pride india defeated covert 19 under the able sensible committed and visionary leadership of prime minister narendra modi in march they said we're in the end game 1. it seems to me that that's partly about political posturing and and preparing oneself to advance a narrative but did they just get this thing wrong too was this. so just poor poor planning and poor measure they think they want to move that actually lost its boat the fact that you know when you have an accordion which are which is surrounded by cycle frantic cycle prince who has including the health minister and all minister who are human when the vaccine will out happened india was creating this spectacle

of prime minister more the being this great world leader who is distributing vaccines to the world and not by men at all to bend into posturing that not interim or the had defeated why did the 2nd wave was actually catching up last year when 19 had brutally exposed the fact that india's health care system i completely collapsed there are not ventilators in place the blood banks are running out of blood one there is absolutely no planning wondered what happened given that in the working 2020 saying you know this came out of the blue and be caught unprepared what about 2021 how could he be forgiving and despite being unprepared the man goes around oil selection rallies and creates this kind of spectacle of this little who was defeated something that was clearly to the indian democracy you had advertisement place in the leading newspapers across the country are declaring will be as the leader who has defeated covered $970.00 spent so much time altering event

is the time planning. before you go i want to ask you about everyday people who seem to be silenced but when they push back against the government's handling of the cove in 1000 crisis the government had twitter removed 15 posts critical of his handling of the pandemic you yourself had 2 tweets deleted facebook temporarily blocked content calling on the prime minister resigned to resign the chief minister of pradesh even asked officials to seize the assets of people who spread what he called rumors and propaganda on social media what does it say to you about india that such a desperate humanitarian issue has been politicized and uses another side of repression it seems i mean we replied also from going into wolf not just to mock received but to beef have come across after some morally depraved country which has not been had its basic principles of humanity in please you know if the if the

world had a semblance of law and order not in them would you should have been tried for crimes against humanity but what you feel right now is the chief minister of the largest state in india which comprises all clued in the i'll bet every day patients i dine off the chance it is devastation and it's only people who aren't used to tell hospitals that you're not getting as a list message for all and i don't know why i put out a message on social media yesterday saying my grandfather is dying i need oxygen there was a there was a police case registered against him what is the sea about indian democracy if there is that we have something in a morally dead nation especially when it comes to our political blogs which has lost all semblance of humanity there are people trying to help each other out you know the s.o.s. calls and the other hand you have done who think by putting videos all of mr movies election rallies that do india they don't reconcile this is what movie has brought us to this place where it is to india at least to india to do not

reconsolidate each other. thanks so much for joining us for. thank you so much. that's our show and that's also it for this season of outfront i want to thank you for joining me marc lamont hill will be sure to see you next season. a tale of 2 presidents. venezuelan military defectives. american muslim reese. and a bizarre yet old dangerous attempt. at regime change in the bolivarian republic of venezuela. people in power the bay of pigs lets out is iraq. killing the debate you don't

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