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information flourished the pandemic takes a growing toll on journalism. and for astronauts emersion their caps your laughter splashing from a months long stint on board the international space station. plans for manchester city could win the english premier league on this sunday at manchester united must avoid defeat against liverpool to keep the title race alive. india's curve of 19 catastrophe has worsened yet again almost 3700 people have died in one single day the highest figure since the pandemic began that's the official record and accounts for the deaths of people who tested positive for corona virus workers at christmas story i'm say the actual number is much higher on sunday 392000 new infections were recorded numbers 4 times higher than it was

a month ago the government is expanding its vaccination program and even though india produces the most vaccines anywhere in the world there aren't enough of them more aid is coming in from overseas but hospital beds medicine and oxygen are still critically short elizabeth purana has the latest now from new delhi. we are outside a hospital in new delhi which tweeted on sunday morning saying they only had enough oxygen to last them just a few hours this hospital is treating pregnant women and children with the 19 the delhi administration has responded by saying that it's sending 5 large oxygen cylinders to the hospital immediately but that aid still hasn't arrived and people are continuing to die and delhi and beyond both because of a shortage of hospital beds but also oxygen on saturday 12 patients died in hospital including one of the hospitals doctors because the oxygen out and the

delivery was late government is saying the shortage here is because the central government still isn't sending the supplies that it needs the delhi high court has asked the central government to do so immediately but there's been this over the past 10 days and that it will be forced to initiate contempt proceedings against the government if it doesn't do so international aid is arriving in food an oxygen supply plane from belgium arrived on sunday but the needs are just so great with cases rising as much as they that people are still dying before that aid can reach them. under way after several states elections in the voting took place during the months of march and april large political rallies in the build up are being blamed for contributing to the severity of india's 2nd wave results is seen as a test of support for the prime minister narendra modi and his b.g.p.

party critics say he's been too focused on the elections instead of making the pandemic his top priority joining us now from new delhi is process called during a political analyst and journalist who's covered national politics in india for more than 30 years now. welcome to the news how do you think this will shape up for the b.g.p. . first and foremost most of this election . never i. think it all. started this coming focus on the fact. that. the congress which is really. something of the last the sense that we took. her out of the 294 i think that didn't happen.

but i think that most of that is decided is going to make it she is going to go to governance rather than campaign well as the egypt the results investment was to come out. because the yes we had hoped to make him a present when he did on some numbers but not enough to come to. this process we'll have to leave it there because of the sound quality on the line to you look we may come back to if we can but in the meantime thank you very much a contentious new law in australia which threatens jail time for people returning from india is facing a growing backlash before it comes into effect on monday anyone who's been in india within 14 days of their planned return date will be banned from entering australia those who disobey could be locked up and find it's the 1st time australia has made it a potential criminal offense for its own people to return home some 1000 australians

in india are registered as wanting to go back. the situation in india is dawoud it's very serious more than 200000 people have died and there are more than 300000 new cases a day when national cabinet made they receive the most up to die pray for from chief medical offices and their advice is that we need to put in place they secure midges with respect to people coming from india to australia so they temporary they'll be reviewed on the 15th of may but they're designed based on the medical advice to keep a strain site. well elaine pearson is the australia director for human rights watch she says safe quarantine methods should be the government's main focus. this is really quite outrageous that the government has pinpointed you know these criminal penalties that have very harsh that are very disproportionate on people coming from india i think what the government really needs to be doing is looking at measures

to ensure that people astray and super 10 can safely quarantine because let's remember under international law the strains do have the right to return to their home country and any restrictions on that right really need to be very sort of carefully thought out they need to be necessary they need caution it and frankly i think criminal penalties just aren't the answer here we need to be looking at safe sillett of course we don't want to see you know the process that's happening in india you know taking place here but the government had already put in place you know very harsh restrictive measures they'd already blocked direct flights travelling from india earlier in the week until may 15th and i think you know instead of focusing so much energy on changing the law to introduce and outrageous and crease it into proposal to send people to prison if they dare to get on a flight to return to their home country instead they should be actually looking at what are the ways that we can ensure that the strain citizens who do return home

can safely quarantine and that is where i think we're seeing a failure are probably straightly in government pakistan's expected to receive $1000000.00 vaccine doses from china on sunday as purchased a total of $17000000.00 doses from 3 chinese companies will supplement the astra zeneca vaccine being delivered through the kovacs program pakistan has inoculated just over 2000000 people out of its population of 220000000 come on the has more now from one hospital in the outskirts of islamabad. by august on has received another 1000000 doses of the globe or 19 rackin from china most of the vaccines that have come in so far are donation or a gift from the chinese government budgets done however is also for chasing $17000000.00 goal weight 19 vaccinations from china which are likely to arrive next month and it's also going to be producing a vaccine which i need help and pakistan the positivity rate stands at 10 percent

which alarming progress on its concern that it made here by the likes of which india and already encountering and there are of course fear that the oxygen supply is going to run out because we are told that over 5000 patients are right now in our kitchen which is 57 percent right since last june there will of course be a cautious approach because pakistan is also planning to curb international flights into the country up to the tune of 80 percent and there will be restrictions within the provinces as far as travel is concerned and possibly a lockdown starting on the 8th of may going all the way up to the 5th game. ok let's wrap up some of the top stories for you one person has been shot dead by iraqi security forces after protesters stormed the government building in baghdad for members of the iran backed popular mobilisation forces gathered outside the ministry of finance. correspondent reporting live from here for the news just walk

us through what happened here. well we're getting unconfirmed reports that there were several injuries and potentially one fatality when protesters laid siege to the ministry of finance in baghdad earlier today but we have not been able to independently confirm those reports at this time now these kind of protests have been taking place in the capital but that for a few days now and the crowds mostly consist of members of the popular mobilization forces which is this umbrella group of paramilitaries that was formed to fight i saw in 2014 and these people are demanding to be hired or rehired by p.m.s. and this request comes just a few weeks after the iraqi parliament passed its 2021 budget in which to increase the budget chair of the p.m.s. by over 20 percent so now there is

a discussion going on within the ranks of the pm of how that money should be used some advocates that the salaries of existing fire should be increased where others say that not or should be new people hired and included in the organization now what is particularly interesting is that this is a budget increase 4 to p.m.s. happened despite the country going through a prolonged financial crisis this year's budget features a record deficit of over 20 percent but nevertheless the p.m.s. got a fairly large budget chair and what this episode also highlights is to what extent these groups as. well as their related parties in parliament depend on the budget to really fuel their networks of patroness to really hire and pay the fighters who support of course of course cast their vote for them and what it also highlight is this in terms of the visions of that when the pm have about how the the budget

should actually be used now we understand that the speech at the ministry of finance is largely over and what remains to be seen is whether these unrest will continue in the next few days and also how the security forces will respond similar thanks very much some of the folds in the reporting from baghdad meanwhile as national unity government in exile says it's investigating allegations the military has committed acts of sexual violence against protesters and senses receive many reports of abuse torture and sexual assault carried out by troops in 20000000 teen and united nations fact finding mission accuse the army of widespread and systematic gender based violence against ethnic communities the national unity government but says it's working to restore democracy in me and now is demanding the judge order a stop to all forms of sexual violence. meanwhile hundreds of entry protesters have been marching through me in mars because city gone they're marking what they call

the global mean more spring revolution along with ex-pat routes around the world protesters want to return to democracy and the release of political prisoners the military has not been able to stop demonstrations despite its use of force more than 750 people have been killed since the military coup on february the 1st. hundreds of people from taiwan's meanwhile community marched through taipei the movement involves 41 cities in 18 countries taiwan has home to around 40000 migrants and immigrants from me and mom. a large fire in the northwest of iran has caused extensive damage in an industrial town broke out in a chemical factory near the city of qom that's known as a factory hub crews stop the fire from reaching tanks where industrial alcohol stored in the best a geisha into the course has been launched there are no initial reports of any casualties. still to come here on the news a. 100 years ago was the birth of northern ireland for some timorese

a cause for celebration but not here in dublin the capital of the republic they see it is a disaster i'm andrew symonds about explaining why. a cease fire holds on the border but there are accusations of criminality and war crimes. in sport fans were back at one of horse racing's most famous events to witness a record breaking wind. ok let's go back to that conversation we were having just a few moments ago counting well underway after several state elections in india voting took place over march and april big political rallies in the build up of being blamed for contributing to the verity of the latest spread places figures as well world records for all the wrong reasons when it comes to the spread of covert 19 joining us from new delhi is process could doria political analyst and journalist he's covered national politics in india for 3 decades i guess process we

have established about a son connection to you thank you for bearing with us now if we look back over the past couple of weeks as to these states elections there was a lot of political hype saying the b.g.p. could do well is it looking like it's actually going to do quite badly. well if you look in the number. 100. 2. does that mean that when it comes to crucial regions and states like bengal west

bengal like us we're talking about here but as far as the b.g.p. when it comes to political ambitions for 2024 wanted to use the state elections as a springboard into being in a strong position for a national election campaign. action the last time around. actually has done well in the last election but they wanted. 'd to. because that's. what i think. the land of the national election.

should be underway. do you agree with some of the other analysts from india that we've been talking to on al-jazeera who say mr modi has clearly been more interested in politics than saving lives. well you are going to go to the one that won't be able to. 'd open it can be to be. a political party that it can't be i don't think the movie. being. allowed in all election don't make the guard busy down even for a minute that had been the little political opening that. gratian the political rally you had to use a cricketing element. in the part of the country or the other with world government all of the big board well surely right now we are back in the numbers and on the road we think that we own the whole planet but with

a very young process. talk to thank you very much ready. international organization of migration says is concerned more people will try the dangerous crossing of the mediterranean from libya as better summer weather approaches as off saturday the libyan coast guard rescued 334 refugees migrants they were on board for small boats heading for europe crewmembers on board another rescue ship the sea watch for serious olivia's coast guard violently detaining people and taking them back against their will. northern island turns 100 on monday that's unlikely to be acknowledged south of the border a former irish president has told al-jazeera that partition in 1921 was a tragedy that continues to have consequences today simmons has more. there is some frustration in the politan community over the cancellation or postponement of

a series of events to mark this centenary as because of covert restrictions however the have been marching bands on the streets over the weekend despite the covert regulations police of warned these people that they should really pack up and go home but they've carried on nevertheless and the parades commission is allowed most of these events to take place there are plans for street parties on monday and also other events and the government the u.k. government is spending $4000000.00 on promotion campaigns for northern ireland and live events when the conditions allow with covert now there may be effectively a celebration going on in parts of this community but over the piece war in the republican and nationalist areas norman whatsoever and really a resentment about the situation also in the republic of ireland the situation is

much the same we traveled across the border south to assess the mood. 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 a family forced to move out as 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 consult them 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 bricks at the puts an e.u. trade bill 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 bring. 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 with cheating and i think that the planning and preparation for a should be because immediately to mitigate some of the damaging impacts of brigs it particularly and what we've seen with solar political leaders at 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. and this weekend there's been an opinion poll released by the irish independent newspaper in dublin and in northern ireland 33 percent want a united ireland but 44 percent are against now interestingly one in 5 is not sure what to do with these people regard themselves as neither you missed or republican nationalists all loyalists these people really are in the center of things now could this sector grow that's the interesting point other motivations may draw them towards a united ireland or not so it is unclear but there is an issue of a united ireland being on the agenda north korea has warned the u.s. of facing what it calls a grave situation following president joe biden's speech last week where he called

pyongyang a security threat the foreign ministry released a statement calling biden's speech intolerable and a big blunder north korea accused the u.s. president of pursuing a hostile policy and as one washington of provocation. time for weather forecasts his everton. however we've got some very heavy rain pushing back into central and eastern parts of china over the next day or so not cheap but at the moment you see this area cloud just rolling across central parts ahead of that we've seen well racks of system just pushing across japan last pulling out of the way high pressure coming in behind over the next day or so so should be lost if i'm warm and pleasant sunshine coming through want to see showers and all the home she into her car there but the really wet weather coming down across central parts of china making its way further east which is we go through choose day the possibility of some disruptive rain coming through here we've already seen damaging winds and flooding into parts of eastern chad i'm afraid there is more where that came from

ahead of that is not too bad for japan at least through choose day at around $25.00 celsius in the sunshine femara sunshine so it's a southeast asia the philippines is 5 and dry southern house will catch a shop show at 70 years or i should show i was there across much of southeast asia some of those heaviest showers there into northern parts of borneo pushing across towards the smarter and on into the bay of bengal so we'll see some what's the weather just making its way over towards us for lanka as we go through the next day or so southern parts of india also seeing some showers but somewhat draw for the north for astronauts of splash stan back to earth on board nurses 1st 9 time ocean landing in more than 50 years old say they are feeling well after traveling 114000000 kilometers during this didn't orbit the harding picks up the story. space x. copies per his 1st punch down after more than 5 months in space for astronauts on

board the dragon spacecraft splash down in the gulf of mexico off the coast of florida. after a 6 and a half hour journey back from the international space station or i assess they landed safely becoming the 1st crew to return from orbit in a space x. mission in partnership with nasa. the nighttime splashdown was nasa's 1st since 1968 when apollo 8 the 1st mission to send astronauts around the moon returned to earth i think this is a remarkable achievement of a church of a life time for many of us and something to be proud of americans michael hopkins victor glover and shannon walker along with soichi noguchi of japan were the 4 astronauts on board this was glover's 1st time in space he's also the 1st black nasa astronaut to be a member of an i s s crew after medical checks they were taken ashore and flown to houston texas today it went very well overall i would say almost flawlessly dragon

did great you know it was great to hear the crew when they woke up the 1st thing my cup considered is as you know what's the weather going to be like we told them hey maybe a 2 not to win a one foot wave and he was very excited from the very beginning by. the crew took off in november onboard a falcon 9 rocket. the mission is the 1st step in space x. owner planned to commercialize space travel and continue to be nominal space x. . a looking to go straight to miles without without stopping elsewhere in the middle not. looking at using the mill you know as a test that in some ways this is baby steps on the ground that ground program that front and elements like data. expanding shimon space flight once again but i think it's still a significant step making their way over to while the astronauts recover the

capsule will be taken back to the launch site at cape canaveral florida and refurbished for another trip to space harding al-jazeera. screen and stage legend olympia dukakis has died at the age of 89 former costars of praised her as a supremely talented performer who was a joy to work with the oscar winners most celebrated films including moonstruck and steel magnolias in recent years the carcass reprise to a character in a reboot of the groundbreaking american t.v. series tales of the city. much more still to come here on the news hour for you including how journalism and reporters have been even more on good time during the pandemic. electric bikes in rural zimbabwe the setting women on a path to prosperity. and in sport when a basketball biggest stars get used to being back on track andy will tell you more when we come back. it's.

killing the debate sleeveless action and on the 5 year old voice you're only given a certain narrative the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world what was humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing all it's just historical truth and it's this story where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world i cover foreign policy national security is very much a political impounds here's the paul how do we illustrate it are we telling a good story will people get what we're trying to think here they're living outside in makeshift tents this is not the way any family wants to raise their children we're willing a kid in taking you into

a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feel as if you were there. welcome back you're watching the news online from let's update your top stories for you india house right. the highest number of daily deaths from cope with 19 the health ministry says nearly 3700 people died in the last 24 hours and there were 392000 new infections down slightly from saturday. a contentious new australian law which threatens jail time for returning from india is facing a growing backlash before it takes effect on monday anyone who's been in india

within 14 days is with their plan their super term will be banned from entering australia. pakistan is expected to receive 1000000 vaccines from china on sunday has purchased a total of 17000000 doses from 3 chinese companies starting as an ocular exit only slightly more than 2000000 people the lowest number of asia. thousands of people have marched in support of the brazilian president also now rowe denouncing those who criticize his handling of the pandemic the president's supporters agree with him that the outbreak is overblown even though brazil does continue to be ravaged by new infections many were seen with masks so the chances against lock down measures that have closed businesses also narrow who fell ill with cope at 19 last year has consistently downplayed the danger. reporters without borders says attacks on the media have increased during the pandemic it's published the findings in its annual world press freedom index some governments of accuse journalists of

false reporting on coronavirus leaders trying to downplay the extent of the crisis in america doesn't see a new man reports now from santiago. in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about the pulver 19 pandemic sunny figure it all works for guatemala's independent investigative reporting outbox for police last year he and a colleague began publishing the porch of a correction during the pandemic that implicated close friends of the president. that's when the president labeled us the terrible to detain for 21 hours and we're now getting death threats and are being followed constantly. a new study from reporters without borders suggests that with the exception of costa rica and why freedom of news media has diminished across the board since the pandemic began.

authoritarian governments attack slender any solid generalism public then it becomes an online campaign news can quickly spiral into physical attacks again as journalists want to call the brazilian president jaipal to nat'l is consistently labeling the media as a public enemy for its coverage of the pandemic encouraging his supporters to attack journalists both online and in person says column b. richard. a common denominator is the use of social networks to discredit and attack journalists who do not paint a government's handling of the pandemic in a favorable light or how the governor of the venezuelan state of alabama accused journalists in a gordie i.d.'s of being paid to lie in a report about the acute shortage of hospital beds and medicine she tells me she's being investigated under an anti-terrorism financing law. they were yammering that

i won't deny that i'm frightened that i'm always looking over my shoulder that i don't know when this so-called charge against me will result in my erast and in chile a prominent independent journalist who suggested that the health ministry was under reporting the number of coded 1000 infections and deaths was accused of spreading fake news of trying to destroy the government and of being anti patriotic it was a message to the rest of the media to behave if you want to be and if you want to. if you want to show them you wouldn't steal the show that that was the message the reporters without borders report makes the point that in the context of a global sanitary emergency journalism is the primary vaccine against a virus. it's called disinform ation yes there is and our own investigation suggests that the pandemic is actually being used to justify in many cases limiting transparency and freedom of expression you see in human al-jazeera sent out.

ok that's the picture in south america let's look more broadly in the world press freedom index which looks at 180 countries in all issues journalists a partially or completely blocked from doing their jobs and more than 130 nations the worst offenders north korea china bit naam iran and syria several governments have been accused of using the pandemic to silence critics with laws against what they see as fake names christopher sabatini is a senior research fellow for latin america chances in london he joins us on skype christopher 17 welcome to the news on which countries of the west stripping other nations around the globe well in latin america has always had a difficult relationship between especially during rising polarization the rise populist governments but yet and so consequently as a result the report of the forces listed lattimer one of the most dangerous regions

in the world to get up journalism what makes a prickly striking is that these in many cases these are under governments that are nominally elected nominally democratic and so what we've seen is already this these attacks against journalists this polarization in which freedom of expression is caught in the middle between oftentimes legitimate concerns about. information and the need for data 1 as well as the autocratic ambitions of elected leaders and now we have the justification of covert into that and so we're seeing places that your previous report mentioned in chile in guatemala in which journalists are particularly being targeted and reasons that sort of deny the very threat and undermine the ability to address. do presidents prime ministers health ministers around the world in the prism of covert and coronavirus maybe only have themselves to blame here because you know the 1st 36 months of this 1518 months of coronavirus was kind of defined in

a sense at those presidential and prime ministerial meetings where ministers and presidents would stand up and say we're going to win we're going to beat it it's going to be ok in 3 months it's going to be 20 in that 2021 and it clearly was never going to be ok and the ecosystem of reporting now is live coverage on international television news channels that's record it is dead easy to spall back 6 months 9 months and say but you said such and such a thing in january 2020 and here we are one year later and nothing's improved. it is precisely it peter the classic case right now is india where modi and india many people thought they had dodged the bullet in being able to avoid a massive infection rate and now we see of course the terrible news coming out of india of death rates shortages and modi has actually asked that the modi government has asked that twitter prohibit any sort of information that contradicts the government in so many of these cases what were once considered a success stories and presidents such as of course approach former president trump

in united states being somewhat cavalier about their ability to dresses are now finding it's much more complicated as a policy issue at the same time as they're sort of getting embarrassed by a media that is confronting them directly and demonstrating and revealing data that embarrasses them and puts them in doubt in terms of their own sort of in the case of modi or tromp or paulson or alow and in mexico the mexican president sort of challenging their own sort of macho attitudes towards containing the virus i guess is a tough call for journalists because parts of the ecosystem of journalism has changed it's people doing their own thing is people doing investigative journalism with no backup no support per se from the editor in the news room those days have either died or they are dying as people posting stuff on facebook in citizen journalism but it's perfectly good journalism and i guess for those individuals they go to take a tough cold here either they go back to basics and carry on doing and asking the

tough questions or they have to leave the country they have to leave their own country because the potential terrorists might be a jail term trumped up charges. yeah that's exactly right 1st of all if you notice a number of these journalists that are being attacked or media sources or independent media we're not talking oftentimes traditional media it's not the old jazeera is the c.n.n. zur or the new york times in many cases and in these countries it's more independent media that is sprung up oftentimes internet based on the 2nd is of course as you say the sort of independent journalists or even citizens posting information but what makes this particularly toxic or threatening to the government is it occurs in a moment when there is that the government is prohibited clear access to data reliable data on infection rates so they're particularly threatened because they are limiting the media's access to information and so they're being caught within a toxic environment for them that then threatens journalists and so we've seen for example the case of guatemala guatemala president has that it needs to put the

needs to put the media on quarantine in other words he wants to basically shut it down and limit its access to information and its ability to report and that is a very troubling christopher this is an important story that does need to be told perhaps again and again told she were a really really compelling conversation because there were 17 in there from chance in house in london. let's just show you some pictures coming to us live of iran because the latest round of talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal and bring the us back to the table appear to have made more progress in vienna but iran's chief negotiator up us iraq she says sanctions on tehran soil and banking sector should be lifted based on a clean sweep so far he hasn't that the 2 science one same page on some issues but there's still a long way to go you simply put us well looking at them and there was a long list of individuals and companies sanctioned by the u.s. negotiations over the list is still going on there has been agreement that the majority of them are removed from the list but they are others that for various

reasons are still on the list and talks on this part are still going on. and as i said live right now iran's supreme leader the ayatollah khamenei is addressing the nation right now our team in tehran monitoring for any significant remarks especially regarding the nuclear talks will monitor what's being said there in tehran and we'll get you right up to speed if there are any significant developments. kyrgyzstan says a cease fire with neighboring to gie christan is holding after a week of intense border fighting both nations claim an area around a water supply facility in a dispute dating back decades as the official death toll mounts in the wake of the worst fighting there in years kyrgyzstan is accusing its neighbors of war crimes charles stratford has the latest now from off in kyrgyzstan. the kurdish ministry of internal affairs has announced that 25 bodies have been found in the town of goal over there reporting that these people were killed in

a mortar attack by the military on april the 29th they've also released into the tisch fix on the kind of structural damage damage to homes. during these attacks they're saying that 70 to 78 houses have been burned to schools 3 border posts and 10 petrol stations now the press office for the president saw that your power off they're saying that the situation is in their words relatively stable in that area we're hearing reports that the military have withdrawn back across the border we know that there's been a large mobilization of the kirghiz army to that area as you would expect and interestingly some news coming out from the bacon local authorities along those borders they're saying that 58000 people were evacuated from the area 52000 of who they're reporting as being women and children so another indication of just how

severe how serious these clashes have been. israel's observing a day of national mourning after 45 people were killed in a stampede during a jewish religious festival candlelit vigil was held in tel aviv on saturday night to remember the victims the crush of the log bomb or festival in northern israel has shocked the nation around $100000.00 people went along to the event which is popular with the ultra orthodox community the u.s. commander of foreign forces in afghanistan says it would be a mistake for groups to attack departing u.s. forces i mean the 1st deadline for a total withdrawal negotiated by the trumpet ministration has now passed the taliban was angered when president biden pushed the date back to september the 11th a return to violence would be one senseless and tragic but make no mistake we have the murder turning 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 well of some a binge of aid has been following the kosi ations in doha. 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 the grandstand as u.s. forces prepare to leave their formal drawl has begun from me the 1st and the 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 me 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 afghanistan is not going to look like what it did 20 years ago. violence has broken out during made a marches in colombia as people demonstrated for better workers' rights and against proposed tax changes the president even decay has backed down on some of the changes but people say they'll still be worse off. the reports from. this fight rising 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 at a this who lost her job during the pandemic then when you were an area you said quote i still haven't been able to pay my 9 year old son school tuition because last year has been horrible for me and what tired of not having a decent health system over not having institutions that who work in our favor. rising poverty and unemployment following covered in 1000 restrictions of people increasingly venting their anger in the streets openly defying official pleas to stay home when i think it's easy to stay home when you're not hungry but 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 does call them and we're hungry and we need help. isolated looting vandalism and clashes marked the previous days especially in colombia stirred largest city cali 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 was peaceful 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 is force president evo and look at to back pedal 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 the other woman 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 think that when. basically this sort of over station though we need from this moment 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 was in the room. and you electric powered motorcycle is changing how women do business in rural parts of zimbabwe and it's helping families bring in smuggling as harmattan so reports now from. chickens are traded for the markets and this 3 wheeler known as which means to go in some way is going to help her take them there. the farmer pays an equivalent of $15.00 a month with

a group of friends to lease the electric power to motorcycles she can now sell her goods much further away from a small village i'd said. before i got this bike i couldn't come this far now i sell my chickens and vegetables at a business center that's 20 kilometers away i can get more customers here and more money even carry more goods. the bikes are being tested by a local startup that's leasing the motorcycles to women in the community our aim was to bring green mobility solutions to women in communities because you know just literally men. under-rated and they spend most of their time doing the whole sword chars instead of. making money and improving their incomes so we thought that if for the partner to test with the riemann to see if they are going to improve their labeling rules and if our product is your board to be used by many others most of the solar charged lithium ion batteries the bikes used are charged in here this is

the solar charging station 18 batteries can be charged in here at the same time on a good day when there's lots of sunlight if you take about 7 or 8 hours to charge a battery so in the community whenever someone has a flat that they just come in here and swap it for a fully charged one. the bikes made in china and assembled in the capital harare are proving useful in communities with no reliable public transport or tarred roads passengers call or send a whatsapp message to stage or pick up times the drivers say they can make up to $8.00 a day transporting people money that helps make the more financially independent in zimbabwe a country with jobs asking us how to meet us are out there with zimbabwe. coming up next here on news with andy interpol and our insights of the 1st italian league title in the world than a decade. port

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for sports we'll be joined by andy thank you so much principal manchester united fans are holding a big protest at the harm stadium all traffic to protest against the club's american owners some fans about she made it onto the pitch out of united's premier league game against liverpool which kicks off in just over an hour's time the glazer family has on the club since 2005 many supporters unhappy with united's recent push to join the ill fated european super league or manchester city

will be confirmed as premier league champions if united lose that game on saturday city we're seeing a win is against crystal palace. 6 where with the open out there the results are leeds pictorials team on the brink of becoming champions for the 3rd time in 4 seasons guardiola says he can hardly believe what his side has a church. when you play with 3 days you don't have time to to see the things clearly because no one in trouble than an organised is one in the team and wherever and this is the most usual thing in when you play a lot of games always happening by universal are the same a lot of good but the difference here is lockdown our life changed completely them before in his in the short period a short time and that makes the season so special last season's title as lot of pull a damn in 67 points adrift of chelsea here in 4th with the top 4 qualifying for next season's champions league their manager rejecting claims that failing to reach europe's top competition will affect his plans to buy some new players. plain

jealousy obviously. is massive from especially a financial point of view for example so it's really important if you go make that that's not good definitely not. but. no i don't think it will change anything because the situation was difficult before the tellingly could also be decided in the next hour in some manner on the brink of a 1st championship in more than a decade they'd be crits only to know on saturday that result means they'll secure the title if at all and fail so when it's a smaller. now that's going to add rode their luck to states up the spanish league a last minute penalty miss all of them hold on for $10.00 win over l.j. at let's go are aiming to win the spanish title for the 1st time since 2040. and he champions real madrid just

a couple of points behind at let's go with all games left in the season and saturday they beat us assume you soon will pass line are 3 points behind by facing fear a little lighter. socket in the n.b.a. the chargers beats runner ups is to regain top spot in the western conference utah's point bob dunn of it scored $34.00 points including $63.00 points is already go bear added 13 more the jazz rally to beat the raptors won 6 to one i'd say this is just a 2nd one in 5 games they lead the phoenix suns by half again. steph curry lead his side the golden state warriors to a big win against the houston rockets he scored 30 points for the 15th time in his last 17 games now the war is going on 1st the house 113th the 87th golden state still of work to do to reach the playoffs they sit 9th in the west. they had a lead and we just needed we talked during it's very amusing. sometimes

you get forced and. there's no reason i was there. just joining us. now dominic team has admitted to feeling empty after winning his 1st grand slam title at last year's u.s. open since then the world number 4 has struggled to recapture his best 4 he's now returning from a mini sabbatical to compete at the madrid arpan. had to do something with with hughes open title you know chasing a ball for such a long time and then finally achieve ing it it took out a lot of my in the body of my head so in the eye with all the euphoria and everything i was playing well the rest of the last year and then in australia some of it it got to me a little bit and then i decided to take a little bit time off to recover and to make smaller research and yeah hope that

i'll pick 100 percent emptiness was there definitely but as i said i was a little while away from tennis away from from everything basically so. definitely i recharged so i'm ready again for everything but at the same time of course a missing mid just missing competing with with the top guys with top players and probably it's going to take a while until i'm back on that level again. in a crowd of more than $50000.00 fans watched medina spirits when horseracing is kentucky derby event was held without spec sights as last year in contrast this was the largest crowd of the u.s. sporting events since the coronavirus and then it began with a mistress who trained by bob baffert it says 7 state trooper most of any trainer and the race is 147 year history. ok looking for

now it's empty thank you very much see you soon no doubt when we come back we'll have 30 minutes of bang up to date al jazeera it will be yours i will see you very soon. from inside the walls of a west african prison comes home. a chance to create to express emotion and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. or a noun choreographer 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. documentary on al-jazeera killing the debate. and the 5 voice only. narrative the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world what was humanize an individual domestic

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while polluting countries have recently pledged billions of dollars more in funds for those projects people here say they're throwing money into the desert they say they don't need more trees but more access to water. india sees another record rise in 19 deaths as more medical aid arrives from. hello again i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from also coming up meanwhile as government in exile says it's investigating allegations that women were subjected to sexual violence by the military john took. a report on how the pandemic is taking a toll on me.