the capital of poppy new guinea is ranked one of the most dangerous cities in the world 101 east investigate the violent gangs easterling fida on the streets on al-jazeera. war yeah. this is al-jazeera. the time is 1500 hours g.m.t. i'm kemal santa maria hello welcome to the news hour from al-jazeera that is india's deadliest day of the pandemic nearly 3700 people killed by cope with 19 as hospitals face shortages of oxygen and even medical staff and the political pressure is mounting on prime minister narendra modi to he came under fire for election campaigning despite the spiralling cases now his

b j p party loses an important state election. but. also in the news 1000000 mark where protesters against the military rule are back on the streets there are reports of 7 people killed after police opened fire. trying to american astronauts aboard a space capsule make a smooth touchdown in the gulf of mexico in space for 167 days. and install thousands of manchester united fans are protesting against the team's american owners many unhappy following the club's recent attempt to join the european super league. every day the numbers out of india are staggering and now this sunday a new unwanted record 3689 deaths in 24 hours the most

india has seen in a day since the pandemic began along with an 11th straight day of new cases in excess of 300000 and those are all just official numbers from the health ministry many experts estimate them to be much higher and still these pictures don't change the hospitals can't cope beds medicine oxygen even staff are in critically short supply in some cases the military's had to be drafted in to assist and with the spiraling numbers india was forced to reverse a policy after 16 years and actually begin accepting international aid. you know they're not here. because brown hired the medical. people around to remember and we want it to be very good. but there's a political element to it all as well many people are blaming these sorts of large election rallies that we saw for fueling the 2nd wave some of the local state votes

were actually held over an 8 week period where prime minister modi led an aggressive election campaign in west bengal bart his b j p party was handed a singing defeat by the incumbent trinamool congress was withdrawn and your correspondent has this report now from new delhi. the supporters of west bengal's governing trinamool congress party the t.n.c. celebrating victory in the capital kolkata that's despite the election commission banning all celebrations because of india's high number of cars on a virus cases. that supporters said they wanted to mark a month about her g.'s reelection for a 3rd term as chief minister. from a hard we have good wishes from above energy and that is why we are celebrating we already knew that d.m.c. will win because the development has been done by the n.c. not anyone else only other left was in power but they did not bring. 175000000 people who are eligible to vote in the states of west bengal. catalog

and put a cherry politicians including prime minister met in the modi have been criticised for holding large election rallies during a 2nd wave of coronavirus the world health organization said such gatherings are one of the reasons for india's surge in cases 4 candidates have died in west bengal after contract uncovered 19. political analysts say the government focused on winning elections instead of preparing for the latest search the central government was caught. on february 21st. not their national exam i covered that so i know they passed a political resolution to be chippy saying jamie the prime minister 9 there were defeated and there were all of these fantastic claims about how unity is so strong and you know it's like the best work we're funded. and so on

india is now the line on international aid as its hospitals are struggling but shortages of beds oxygen equipment and medicines prime minister met in the morning held a meeting with health experts about the shortages not just of beds and supplies but also health care workers that says reports emerged from rural areas of people dying as a life saving equipment including ventilators and lying and used without the doctors who had the expertise to use them and as a prominent al jazeera new delhi. welcome to the news are now job i'm sorry who is a senior journalist and political commentator in india on skype from new delhi today thank you for your time sir it seems odd to almost to be talking about politics when we've also just said that 3700 people have died of curve at 19 today but i mean this is where the 2 intersect does this result in west bengal tell us

what does it tell us do you think about people's feelings towards an arranger modi now even if it's only just one state look at selection is just as much an endorsement of. as it is a critique. or a verdict against the handling against mr modi and his government's handling of the covert crisis people in india are suffering there's lots of pain misery and despair and this was the 1st time they had an opportunity to expression to that anger to give expression to the big day and david appear to have done it in a designing manner in respect what do you think it is the 1st domino to fall it might be a similar scene that we see in other parts of the country similar sentiments at least. look to be fair i respect raul was never the b.g.p. stronghold but devoted a very spirited challenge their launch towards can't be any trickling to overturn an all we're told the incumbent government there they failed spectacularly much

will depend on how do you opposition in. the opposition's ability to get its act together in other states mr modi still demands. it on his party has an absolute majority in parliament so there is no threat to his government and national elections are 3 and a half years from now but that they left for the 1st time the broad contours of an emerging challenge can. begin to appear in davos and the bigger challenge of course is covert 19 at the moment so much criticism of the way that the b j p in the renderer modi have handled this and it keeps going on i mean only a few days ago he was still telling people to get out there and vote and exercise their democratic right despite all these new cases upwards of 300000 new cases a day of me it just it's it has an air of irresponsibility about it but absolutely there you are just the elephant in the room the fact is that this the

present situation or did a lot to the kind of irresponsibly irresponsibility on display charm the indian leadership as we speak even today. people were lining up shoulder to shoulder cheek by jowl in the british for counting of votes in the local bodies election i mean what was the necessity of holding these local bodies elections in the in the 1st place in the midst of this pandemic this baffles everybody but nonetheless so yes bend it's a question of the wrong priorities and the wrong set for example being set by the leadership when you preferred a large political gatherings and when you turn up. turn a blind eye to should religious congregations and the people who can talk because now to pay a price for that all these things have a consequence and the consequence is that people are now busy counting the dead they are being a place where their lives do you feel at all optimistic that india can start to

turn the corner here i keep hearing about how india is the world's largest vaccine maker and yet what one percent of the population has been vaccinated there are still so many cases every day there's not enough oxygen there's not enough beds i mean this is going to take a while. general as somebody who's been holed up in his apartment for the 3 weeks and you know there's not a family there's not a person i know who hasn't lost family friend colleague or or an associate i pray to god that dismisses it comes to an end soon or just but general my head tells me that the 30th that at the moment we've are we are in a long long dark tunnel and and as i speak there is no light at the end of it i mean why me even an exploded group set up by this by the government has predicted that the worst is yet to come the worst will come 15 days from now and the number of those infected could go up to 500000 that there's

a frightening prospect extraordinary isn't a java m i'm sorry thank you for your time today and to stay safe. so let's move on to other news malaysia detecting the 1st case of the highly infectious variant that was identified in india health officials say it was found in a person who traveled from india during an airport screening they didn't say when the case was detected but are urging the public to remain calm and banned flights to and from india on weapons day pakistan has received a 1000000 vaccine doses from china on sunday purchased a total of 17000000 doses from 3 chinese companies to supplement the astra zeneca vaccine which has been delivered to the kovacs program pakistan as an ocular to just over 2000000 people out of a population of 220000000 come on harder now with more from a hospital on the outskirts of islam about.

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a travel it can turn and. starting on the 8th of may going all the way up to the 50 . and now straight to you were a contentious new law which threatens jail time for people returning from india is facing a growing backlash before it takes effect on monday anyone who's been to india within 14 days of their planned date of return will be banned from entering australia those who disobey could be locked up and find this is the 1st time a stray has made it a potential criminal offense for its own citizens to come home some 9000 australians in india are registered as wanting to return. the situation in india is die it's very serious more than 200000 people have died and there were more than 300000 new cases a day when national cabinet made they receive the most up to date briefing from our 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 let's hear from elaine pearson the australia director for human rights watch she says safe quarantine methods should be the government's 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 through return 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 solidities 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 creased 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 struggling government on to argentina and the capital buenos aires which continues to be under a nighttime curfew after the president extended it for 3 weeks the country recorded 16000 new coven cases 1000 cases on saturday and is soon to surpass a total of 3000000 cases president alberto fernandez has warned of difficult weeks ahead with limited space in intensive care units and he wants to give the state

governors greater power to enforce their restrictions so let's bring in dan your correspondent and point to sars the sunday hi daniel sort things getting worse and the president telling people well prepare for words. exactly i mean this 2nd wave has hit or we're seeing a 2nd wave here in latin america has hit these countries particularly hard we're seeing no let up in the number of infections and in deaths the occupancy rate of i.c.u. hospitals in the around one osiris is 0 is coming up to 80 percent so the president really trying to release a relieve pressure on those i.c.u. beds in and around the capital where the majority of argentinean argentina's population lives the nighttime curfew yes it's in place difficult to say how well people are abiding by that and he is giving more scope for the provincial governors

to act on their own behalf to act as autonomously as possible because the situation very different right across the country and there is some conflict for instance between the national government of president albert often on this and the city government a conservative city government often at odds with their national counterparts here they're calling on people to stay in school there have been demonstrations with parents saying that school should continue whereas the national government is saying schools should be closed that actually reached the court a few days ago to try to resolve that issue so yes a difficult problem still waiting for more vaccines to arrive only about one percent of the population has had its 2 vaccines there arriving in dribs and drabs mostly from russia and china but really people desperate very impatient for those those vaccine that vaccine program to roll out more effectively than it has done so far can you tell us about brazil as well don't you i'm just thinking you know we've had obviously so much of our global focus on india recently but i'm remembering

a time not long ago when brazil felt like the epicenter of things. well i think brazil still is still very much it some of the images we're seeing from brazil are very similar to those images that we're seeing out of india as well hospitals overrun people running out of oxygen the symmetry is working overtime and extra graves being dug to try to dispose of the bodies in an inadequate fashion and the numbers shooting up there are approaching 14000000 people infected 300 or coming up 240-0000 tallaght is so a very serious situation but at the same time we have a president in some ways similar to what we were just hearing from india enjoyable xanadu all who doesn't seem to have given the epidemic of the pandemic the seriousness that the experts are saying he should be giving it saying it's nothing worse than a little flu and he also has had protesters or supporters out in large numbers on

saturday around brazil demonstrating protesting in favor of the president and his measures while all these numbers go up while the hospitals are overrun and the medical experts are saying we need to impose tighter measures to try to bring this pandemic under control so a very conflicting confusing situation with those numbers still going up some really difficult to see which way brazil is going to go into that conflict deepening in many ways. with the curve of news from across latin america thank you daniel. we are 18 minutes past this news on what's coming up a cease fire holds up the teargas tunji border but there are accusations of war crimes it's. 100 years ago it was the birth of northern ireland for some timorese a cause for celebration but not dublin the capital of the republic they see it is a disaster and i'm andrew symonds and i'll be explaining war. and sports fans back

at one of horse racing's most famous events to witness a record breaking with. on to other news and at least 7 protesters have reportedly been killed by security forces in may and ma it happened during some of the biggest demonstrations against military rule in days hundreds of people have been killed by security forces since the military to began back in february these protests in may in ma also being coordinated with others around the world hundreds of people from taiwan's community marched through taipei the movement involves 41 cities in 18 countries taiwan itself home to around 40000 migrants from mean. we've got more with us now human rights defend. to talk through some of this i mean we are 90

days i think now it has been since the start of this coup and people are still coming out and then numbers and still risking their lives. where is this longevity coming from i guess the fact that people are not backing down. thank you for having me 1st of all. today we mark like on me $790.00 days of military coup in myanmar with the continued a brutal a t including killing and the rest of the civilian protesting peacefully across the country and since you mentioned earlier that 7 people alone has been killed today and over 8 minutes number has change it's 9 people across the country. who has been charged to debt and many got arrested. as people came together to today to mark 90 days to protest with the slogan of the showing with the slogan showing the world

with the voice of young people. across the world so this clearly shows the courage of the people of myanmar despite it has been costing the people of myanmar their lives livelihood even some are having difficulties to lead the fire that's when there is a big danger for the hunger and things like that and it's also a signal that people are you know maher neutral mind to fight the hunt to put the country in the part of democracy and they jump to the will pay the price back for the brutality that they're causing well you talk about the courage of the people courage like that needs to be matched with the political will doesn't it and i guess i'm talking more about a group like assay on a regional group which is supposed to try to help diffuse the situation and hasn't succeeded so far do you think that political group can achieve anything. well while people up in mar we recognize. well are they explode it will or

whether it will that will benefit us. to keep the stubble. there to make known my return to the part of democracy the horror that they approach that has to is principally wrong. to invite their there and eugene a national unity government to the temple. which the legally rubra sent to the people of myanmar see government 2nd us and want to solve this issue. with dialogue and reconciliation some people of myanmar is demanding justice and make the military accountable to the crimes and atrocities that they took place and you may have tarred lets this is the military that has been killing in the at the at the knicks for many decades and this is the military that has killed many times and people back in 20122017 you can't have justice

with a dialogue and reconciliation it's natural ending impunity and people can talk to that to do it to be. accountability process and make them make them whole accountable for the crimes that they have committed just remind me and i'll do you is actually the sort of status of the national unity government are there any countries players groups that have recognized this and and are trying to support us . i think quite a lot of allies and nations should cross the world that support and you would see are over and you has just been from with a lot of a struggle and i think it will take some time to create again international legitimacy and we expect the international community support. to it today and you did that's truly represent the people of myanmar. more talking about the situation

the ongoing situation in me and my thank you for your time so we appreciate it. now the national unity government that we were talking about says it is investigating allegations that the military has committed acts of sexual violence against protesters and says it's received many reports of abuse torture and sexual assault carried out by troops in 2019 a united nations fact finding mission accuse the army of widespread and systematic gender based violence against ethnic communities the national unity government says it is working to restore democracy in maine ma and is demanding is going to order a stop to all forms of sexual violence and also how so is the minister for women youth and children the fares in that national unity government in exile she told reports of sexual abuse by the military are rampant ever since the coup back in february. we got a lot all of our company and also all in the social media. in the

news. a lot all of my concepts of small and why meant to the detainee center i'm glad you're. on the can even the met face to face is that the dems are the survivor so that we can affirm that this happening the same military said see have dan that said sure why nancy i think india was 5060 years ago in korea and it changes in jan in the kind of 2 states said we got a lot off of the plots and information night for example in 2000 and. 3 god a report on one thing to wring my eye into the little guy so on jan women action network they have interviews modest success jungleland. chance

dates and then it's different it's a record systematic goalie and then they also mention their name up to 5 a tree and they're good telly and their number so this is a very strong evidence that the military is doing such a thing for a long time to their ethnic area again in 2017 in rakhine state they committed these these outbreaks of violence to the young kind people including really just women so not again 2001 in supreme revolution so they are doing and keep on dreaming to the women and to doing women and just yesterday i got the information and complained that not just the teaching women the also doing the sexual violence to the women in source who are on the we to their full on are on the very go on them up motorcycle that they make so many bad things to the

girls and women right now. still ahead for you on this news hour how journalism and reporters have been under attack even more during the pandemic. electric bikes in rules and bob wait there are certain women on the path to prosperity and supporters want to basketball the biggest stars gets his team back on track and he will be here with that little let's. see. how we got more showers in the full cost across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple days not the truth benign but there are some there nevertheless lots of hazy sunshine me getting up to 37 celsius here in doha touch woman for q.e. back to $37.00 there in baghdad turkey large she tries to go through monday the

showers and mainly affecting northern parts of iran pushing over towards afghanistan and they're similar places we go on through choose day by choose day we will see some wetter weather just coming back into where western and northern parts of turkey at this stage the levant stays warm dry and sunny much of the raven plants that warm dry and sunny just know to still a few showers just around the southern end of the red sea joining up those showers that we have on the other side of the waters there into the ethiopian highlands so we'll see some showers just running across into northern parts of somalia will see wanted to showers there into work on your wrist welsh i was just around uganda the showers stretching all the way across into the gulf of guinea some heavy seasonal rights of course as one would expect at this time of the of iran all the way down across northern parts of big some showers they're few and far between but they're nevertheless into madagascar it's hot and dry to south africa down to 30.

frank assessments there are a lot of poison but the government is the one what exactly happened and what measure they're taking for a situation like i'm not to believe you could ever get informed opinions is the us with thinking the military positioning of the middle east wasn't just a simple act of reorganizing ministry assets this is a massive through the router that the united states is rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines inside story on al-jazeera . talk to al-jazeera we are can you tell me what the government you represent is now illegitimate and we listen we did not sell the fence material any country the conflict in yemen we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on

al-jazeera. oh. oh oh. you're on the news hour here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories india recording its highest number of daily deaths from covert 19 nearly 3700 people died in the past 24 hours and there were 392000 new infections which was actually downside they from saturday also early results show india's ruling egypt the parties failed to make any gains in 4 state elections and could in west bengal large rallies in the states have been blamed for adding to the coronavirus surge

and security forces in me in march killed 7 protesters the demonstrations incorporated with others around the world to mark an international day of solidarity against the. congress stand says a cease fire with neighboring to danny's holding after a week of intense border fighting both nations claim an area around a water supply facility in a dispute that actually dates back decades as the official death toll mounts in the wake of the worst fighting there in years kurdistan is accusing its neighbor of war crimes as well child stratford has the latest now from in kurdistan. the kurdish ministry of internal affairs has announced that 25 bodies have been found in the town of goal over the noise they're reporting that these people were killed in a mortar attack by the tragic military on april 29th they've also released some statistics on the kind of structural damage damage to homes. during these attacks they're saying that 778 houses have been burned to schools sri border posts and 10

. in petrol stations now the press office for the president so there is your power of 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 are reporting as being women and children so another indication of just how severe how serious these clashes have been. there has been violence in iraq's capital baghdad between protesters and security forces former members of the iran

backed popular mobilisation forces stormed the ministry of finance earlier today they fought during the war against i saw between 20142019. in another moment to be rehired some wonderful team of modern developments from back to. these kind of protests have been taking place in the capital baghdad for a few days now and the crowd to mostly consists of members of the popular mobilization forces which is this umbrella group of paramilitaries that was formed to fight isis call in 2014 and these people are demanding to be hired or rehired by b.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 for now there is a discussion going on within the ranks of the p.m.s. how that money should be used some advocates that the salaries of existing fighters

should be increased while others say that in order should be new people hired and included in the organization now what is particularly interesting is that this the budget increase for to p.m.s. happened despite the country going through a prolonging 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 budgets to really fuel their networks of patronage to really hire and pay to fighters to support of also of course cast their vote for them and what it also highlighted is this interim of the visions is that within the p.m.s. about how the budget the budget should actually be used now we understand that the siege of 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 to security forces will respond. north korea has warned the united states 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 accuse the u.s. president of pursuing a hostile policy in his ward washington provocation the international organization of migration says it's concerned more people will attempt the dangerous mediterranean crossing from libya as the better summer weather approaches on saturday the libyan coast guard rescued 334 refugees and migrants on 4 small boats heading for europe crewmembers on board another rescue ship to see what for say they saw libya's coast guard violently detaining people and taking them back against their will. reporters without borders says attacks on the media have

increased during this pandemic it's published the findings in its annual world press freedom index some governments have accused journalists of false reporting on the coronavirus as leaders of trying to downplay the extent of the crisis latin america editor of the c newman reports from santiago. in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about the pulpit 19 pandemic shiny figure to our work from guatemala is independent investigative reporting outrage books for police nastier he and a colleague began publishing the porch of oppression during the pandemic that implicated close friends of the president. that's when the president labeled us the terrible to i was detained 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 europe 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 their resilient 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 about our accused journalists going to gori 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 yelling 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 that it is 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. so this world press freedom index we want to take a wider look at it it takes in 180 countries and shows journalists are partially or completely blocked from doing their jobs and more than 130 of them the worst north korea china vietnam iran and syria several governments have been accused of using the pandemic to silence the critics with laws against what they see as fake news let's hear from christopher sabatini who's a senior research fellow for latin america at chatham house and says some governments are specifically targeting independent journalists if you notice a number of these journalists that are being attacked or media sources independent media we're not talking oftentimes traditional media it's not the old as here is the c.n.n. . 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 the government is prohibiting 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 the guatemalan president has that it needs to put he needs to put the media on poor into you know 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. well an island turns $100.00 on monday a centenary that is unlikely to be knowledge south of the border a former irish president a told of 0 the partition in 1921 was a tragedy that continues to have consequences today and for simmons has this report

there is some frustration in the policy and community over the cancellation or postponement of a series of events to mark this centenary as because of covert restrictions however there 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 violence 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 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 bill in the irish sea separating the u.k. mainland from the island protestants fear alienation the government here in dublin sees ari's 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 with cheating and i think that the planning and preparation for a should be because immediately to mitigate some of the damaging impacts of bragg's it particularly and what we've seen with solar and political leaders

a lot of the time is putting it on the long finger and pointed to some indiscriminate data 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 or loyalist 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 at center since reporting from belfast there

now to a rural district in zimbabwe where a new electric powered motorcycle is changing how women do business by helping poor women earn an income ease the burden of caring for families how to retire so has a report now from. shallots kindness chickens are ready for the market and this 3 wheeler known as which means to go in zimbabwe 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 powered motorcycles she can now sell her goods much further away from a small village i had 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

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well for us journalists of splashdown back to earth and nasa is 1st night time ocean landing in more than half a century will say they're feeling well after traveling just the 114000000 kilometers during their stint in orbit the harding has the details space x. copies per his 1st question 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 night time 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 lifetime for many of us and something to be proud of. americans michael hopkins victor glover and shannon walker along with soichi noguchi of japan are 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 to shore 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 cop 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 he continued 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 grant program the front of elements idea of expanding she even 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. with something going on at old trafford this afternoon indeed but it's not football year the game between united and liverpool was due to have kicked off a few minutes ago that is not happening manchester united fans holding a big protest at their home stadium they're unhappy with the club's american owners some fans made it on to the pitch ahead of what should have been

a premier league game against liverpool the kick off for that match has now officially been delayed glazer family live on the team since 2005 supporters not at all happy with the club's recent push to join the ill fated european superbly 7 account side the stadium now that suits aims are yet to travel to the ground the decision still to be made as to whether or not the game will actually take place some more background united's co. glazer he was named vice chairman of the super league when it was announced last month within 48 hours of joining the competition the glazers had apologised to fans in an open letter and pulled out of the project but that apology didn't work. oh manchester city could well be confirmed as probably champions if united go on to actually play and then lose that game on saturday city would see a win against crystal palace 6. the result leesburg audios team on the brink of becoming champions for the 3rd time in 4 seasons audio says he can hardly believe

what his side have achieved. so when you play every 3 days you don't have time to to see the things clearly because no one in trouble in oregon is this one in the team and where in this is the most of your thing in when you play a lot of games always have been in by universe one of the same order again but the difference here is lockdown our life changed completely them before in his in the short period the short time in that makes the season so especially. now when some a lot of just won the italian league for the 1st time in more than a decade in secrets only to know on saturday the women atalanta had space a solid to keep the title race alive that day has just finished $11.00 so insurrection pins and events is run of 9 straight title winds. athletico madrid rode their luck to stay top of the spanish league a last minute penalty miss saw them hold on for a one the winner at let's go aiming to win the spanish title for the 1st time since

2014. defending champions real madrid just a couple of points behind at let's go with 4 games left in the season on saturday before sassoon at suno barcelona 3 points by rail playing valencia a little later this sunday. in the last few minutes lewis hamilton has won the portuguese graun prix the reigning world champion and started 2nd on the grid manage to win there were head of red bulls max the stephanie came 2nd is miss a nice teammate valtteri bottas who is in pole frame came in 3rd hamilton now leads the drivers' championship. i'm a sucker has gone out in the 2nd round of the madrid open the world number 2 was beaten in 3 sets by carolina mature of the czech republic the wait for a clay court startled goes on for the reigning u.s. and australian open champion let's see the match points here we go. slowly.

in the a in the n.b.a. the utah jazz peter and i wrap sister game top spot in the western conference standings utah was boy in a ball down of it scored $34.00 points including $63.00 pointers while really go bare i did 13 more as the rally to beat the raptors want to 6 to white suit this was just the 2nd win in 5 games they leave the phoenix suns by half a game. and 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 his last 17 games the worries going on school thrash the host 11327 golden state boasted of words through to reach the playoffs they are 9th in the west. beverly we just needed we talked during it's very unique. so you go forth and. there's no reason i was that route through.

this journey. and a crowd of more than $50000.00 fans watched medina spirits when a horse racing's kentucky derby events was held without spectators last year not the case this time outs this was the largest crowd of the u.s. sporting events since the coronavirus pandemic began. but a mysterious trained by bob baffert it's his 7th victory. the most of any trainer in the race is 147. ok looking for something in mr richardson finally for you more than a year since we ended the 10 week lockdown the city is actually holding china's largest outdoor music festival since the pandemic thousands of people taking part in the strawberry music festival many without masks the government says we han has almost completely covert 900 free since that locked down 1st city of course to report right back in december of 2019 which was

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and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. or a noun choreographer his passion for dogs inspiring prisoners to perform and to reach beyond the ill deeds of the past and the confines of their present the dance of the us with this documentary on al-jazeera if the political debate show that's challenging the way you think i want to know where you're to stand on cancer culture it is decreasing the range of ideas that can be heard what a world leaders are governments missing when you talk it's but now up front with me while i'm on hill on al-jazeera. the protests start to chipley in front of the x. museum in amsterdam hundreds of protesters gathered to demand the government ease lock down restrictions and lift a curfew the 1st in the country since world war 2 the threat is that we loose our freedoms the protesters who are not funneling social distancing rules who will be to be ordered to disperse by police but police are trying very hard to close

friends a scenario that happened last week and thousands were rioting in cities across the nat'l. after some protesters started throwing stones at letting off fireworks police on horseback moved in to clear the area. india's deadliest day of the pandemic nearly 3700 people killed by covert 19 as hospitals face shortages of oxygen and even medical staff and the political pressure mounts on prime minister modi as well he came under fire for election campaigning despite the spiralling cases now his b j p party loses an important state election.

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