police are trying very hard to push rent to scenario that happened last week and thousands were rioting in cities across the night. 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.

i'm kemal santamaria here and with that story on the rest of the world news from al-jazeera countries in latin america are struggling to keep up with the demand for vaccines as a 2nd wave of covert 19 then takes home it's also a cease fire holds at the kurds tajik border but there are accusations of war crimes. and a splash landing for american astronauts aboard a space x. capsule that makes a smooth touchdown in the gulf of mexico after $167.00 days in space. the numbers that come out of india every day are staggering and now this sunday there's another new unwanted record $3689.00 deaths in 24 hours the most india is seen in a day in this pandemic along with an 11th consecutive day of new cases in excess of 300000 well in excess and those are just the official numbers as well from the

health ministry many experts estimate it will be much higher and still the hospitals just cannot cope it is the basics it's beds it's meds and it's accidents even start that are critically short in supply in some cases the military has been drafted in to assist and with the spiraling numbers india was forced to reverse its policy of 16 years and actually begin accepting some international aid. you know they're not here let. their brand tires be ridiculed. and the world around to remember it and we want it to be very powerful. and then you've got a political element to it all as well many people blaming these sorts of things these election rallies which have been held blaming them for fueling the 2nd wave with some local votes held actually over an 8 week period or prime minister modi led an aggressive election campaign in west bengal for example but his big j.p.

party was and of the stinging defeat by be incumbent trinamool congress was with prom as a report now from new delhi. 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 n.d.s. high number of cars on a virus cases. that supporters said they wanted to mark a month about a g.'s reelection for 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 nothing. 175000000 people were eligible to vote in the states off west bengal. canada and put a cherry tree 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 for candidates a giant west bengal after contract uncovered 90. political analysts say the government focused on winning elections instead of preparing for the latest search the central government. as wholly unprepared in certain on february 21st. meeting of the national executive i covered the so i know they passed a political resolution to be chippy saying meaning the prime minister neither were the defeated and there were all these fantastic claims about how indian unity is so strong and you're not like that the 1st 2 words were under bush who pandemics and so on india is now the line on international aid as its hospitals are struggling but shortages of beds oxygen equipment and met since prime minister met in the

morning held a meeting with health experts about the shorter just not just of beds and supplies but also health care workers that says reports emerge from rural areas of people dying as a life saving equipment including ventilators and lying under use without the doctors who have the expertise to use them and as a prominent al jazeera new delhi. on the news and we spoke to jump at the end and sorry a senior journalist has covered elections for 3 decades in india he says the government is responsible for the 2nd way the fact is that this the present situation or didn't lot do the kind of a response of irresponsibility on display from the indian leadership as free speech even today people were lining up shoulder to shoulder cheek by jowl for counting of votes in the local bodies election of what has been is still told it does no good

bodies elections of the in the 1st place in the midst of this pandemic this baffles everybody but number last so yes. it's a question of the wrong priorities and the wrong set for example being set by the leadership when you prefer large political gatherings and when you turn to. join a blind eye to sure religious congregations. and the people have begun 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 life's more covert news malaysia 1st of all which has detected the 1st case of the highly infectious variant identified in india health officials say it was found during airport screening in a person who had traveled from india in say when the case was detected is banned flights to and from india of weapons today like india latin america struggling with high demand for covert vaccines but there just aren't enough to go around in

argentina only a small number of people have received the jab and the country recorded 16000 new cases on saturday and will soon surpass a total of 3000000 person alberta finance is warning of difficult weeks ahead with limited space in the intensive care units he's extended a nighttime curfew in the capital by 3 weeks as well here in point of sars when we say a small number of the population or a small proportion of the population has been. vaccinated daniel how small are we talking. far too small for most people's liking i mean less than 2 percent of the $42000000.00 inhabitants of argentina have had their 2nd surround 1112 percent have had their 1st vaccination but it is proving difficult just to get enough vaccines some of being coming in from russia the sputnik be is coming from russia we've had some of the us for seneca made in india but having heard the robot you just heard about the problems india is having

some of that distribution that has dried up or dwindled quite significantly and obviously and vaccines coming in from china as well but they're coming in in dribs and drabs we have a flight coming in one day 2 or 3 days later another flight might come in carrying 6 or 700000 doses simply not enough hence this 3 week lockdown to try to reduce the pressure on hospital beds something like approaching 80 percent occupancy in the hospitals in and around one of cyrus for about a 3rd of the argentine population lives the president fernando is really just trying to subdue that it's about that pressure for as long as he can waiting for those those vaccines to come in. the question as to whether people aren't daring to the or respecting the lockdown probably less than they did during the 1st wave there are reports of people holding large gatherings of people travelling when they don't need to be so that message is difficult to get through through to people and

you also have the problem where there's a national government policy and some of the provinces the provincial governments sometimes don't agree with the national government policy or the city governments of one of cyrus fighting in the courts against the federal government so that is also a problem people are then in a position where they can pick and choose which which leader they want to listen to they listen to their provincial governor or they listen to the national governments mixed messages which obviously doesn't help the situation sounds very similar to what we see in brazil as well didn't they the fight between federal and local governments what is the situation in brazil like at the moment as it improved at all. the simple answer that is no it continues to be severe the images we're seeing from brazil are very similar to some of the images we're seeing out of india with a shortage of oxygen hospitals overrun cemetery is. working overnight

to try to deal with the number of bodies coming in yet at the same time we had on saturday demonstrations across brazil in all the major cities of brazil in support of president job also nado who has as we've mentioned many times doesn't seem to take the pandemic seriously has often talked about it as a little flu has been seen in public not wearing a mask encouraging his supporters out there there were several 1000 people out on saturday expressing their support for him at the same time we have health experts we have counted demonstrations people of in mourning across the country in what on earth is going on in a how can we. dear to these government policies these national government policies when the numbers of death and infections continues to rise across brazil so again mixed messages across the whole latin american region really with national

governments often not in agreement with their regional government isn't it thank you daniel schlyter with that update across latin america for us. kurdistan says a ceasefire with neighboring turkey stan is holding after a week of intense border fighting both nations claim an area around a water supply facility in a dispute that dates back decades as the official death toll mounts in the wake of this worst finding in years kurdistan however is accusing its neighbor of war crimes charles stratford has the latest now from in kyrgyzstan. the current is 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 some statistics on the kind of structural damage damage to homes. during these attacks they saying that 70 to 78 houses have been burned to schools sri border posts and

10 petrol stations now the press office for the president some other of your power off there saying that the situation is in their words relatively stable in that area we are 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 base can 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 violence has broken out between protesters and security forces in iraq's capital baghdad former members of the iran backed popular mobilization forces stormed the ministry of finance earlier on

sunday they fought during the war against eisel between 2014 and 19 and are now demanding maybe re hyatt's simona 14 is monitoring developments from back. these kind of protests have been taking place in the capital baghdad for a few days now and the crowd to mostly composed of members of the popular mobilization forces which is this umbrella group of paramilitaries that was formed to fight i was called 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 pm aest 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 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 a budget increase 4 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 budget to really fuel their networks of patronage to really hire and pay the fighters the support of also of course cast their vote for them and what it also highlighted is this interim vision says that when the pm aest 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 the security forces will respond. for a check of world weather in a moment and then a new law in australia which threatens people with jail time if they return from india and meanwhile the government in exile says it's investigating allegations of sexual violence against women by the military isn't. it time for the perfect gentlemen who went sponsored point qatar airways we got some very heavy rain pushing back into central and eastern parts of china over the next day or so not see bad at the moment see this area cloud just rolling across central pass ahead of that we've seen a lot of active system just pushing across japan that's pulling out of the way high pressure coming in behind over the next day or so so it should be last you find

that warm and pleasant sunshine coming through want to see showers and all the home she into hokkaido but the really wet weather coming down across central parts of china making its way further east which is we go through chews day the possibility of some disruptive rain coming through here we've already seen damaging winds and flooding into parts of eastern china i'm afraid there is more where that came from ahead of that is not too bad for japan at least through choose day around $25.00 celsius in the sunshine fam out of sunshine say it to southeast asia the philippines is fine and dry southern parts will catch a shop shout since the usual rush of showers 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 have been gold 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 dry.

at ways. most people will never know what's beyond these dollars. the deafening silence of 100000 volumes how it feels to touch danger every day. most people will never know what it's like to work with every breath is precious with here is not an option. but when not most people. with al-jazeera these are the top stories india recording the highest number of daily deaths from 19 the health ministry says nearly 3700 people died in the past

24 hours medical supplies including oxygen are starting to come in from other countries latin america still struggling with a high demand for covert vaccines but there aren't enough to go around that includes argentina were not time to a few and when osiris has been extended for 3 weeks it will soon go past 3000000 cases and total and target stands as a ceasefire with neighboring to his holding after a week of intense border firing teargas authorities say they found 25. bodies from the latest attack and is accusing its neighbor of war crimes. more on the pandemic now pakistan is expected to receive a 1000000 a 1000000 vaccine doses from china on sunday it's purchased a total of $17000000.00 from 3 chinese companies to supplement the astra zeneca vaccine which is being delivered to the kovacs program pakistan has an ocular just

over 2000000 people as a population of 220000000 there is a contentious new australian law as well which threatens jail time for people returning from india and it's facing a growing backlash before it takes effect on monday anyone who's been in india within 14 days of their plans date of return will be banned from entering australia and those who disobey could be locked up and find this is the 1st time a strain has made 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 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 diaper reefing from 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. and his alone peers some study director for human rights watch and told us safe quarantine methods those 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 to 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 quarantine facilities 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 traveling from india earlier in the wake until may 15th and i think you know instead of focusing so much energy on changing the law to introduce and outrageous and preset into the 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 strain citizens who do return harm can safely quarantine and that is where i think we're seeing a failure probably struggling government. at least 8 protesters have reportedly been killed by security forces in may in ma it happened during some of the biggest demonstrations against military rule in days because hundreds of people have been killed by security forces since the military coup began in february. national unity government in exile meanwhile says it is investigating allegations of the military into committing acts of sexual violence against protesters it 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 a national unity government that says it is working to restore democracy in maine mara is demanding to order a stop to all forms of sexual violence he is. the minister for women youth and children's affairs in that national unity government and she says reports of sexual abuse by the military are rampant ever since the coup in february. we got a lot all complaints and also all in the social media is in the news. a lot all of my sexual assault and why i went to the detain them because i'm glad you're. on the can even the met face to face is that the terms as

a viper so that we can affirm that this is happening the same military said see have jan 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 to the little guy so on jan women action network they have interviews modest success jungleland. chance dates and then it's different at the it's a record systematic the only and then they also mention their name up to 5 a trader 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 visas picture winds to the your kind people including really just women so not again 2001 in supreme revolution so the arduin and keep on doing to the women and to doing women just yesterday i got the information and complaint that not just the teaching women he also doing that 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. reporters without borders says attacks on the media have increased during the pandemic those findings published in the annual world press freedom index some governments been accusing journalists of false reporting on coronaviruses leaders trying to downplay

the extent of the crisis a latin america episode the scene human looks at that story from santiago. in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about the pull the 19 pandemic sunny figure works from guatemala is independent investigative reporting outed. last year he and a colleague began publishing the porch of a corruption 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 that talk slender i mean it's all generally some 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. . 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 journalist going to go to idea 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 arrest 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 blow bill 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.

for astronauts of splash down to earth in masses 1st not time ocean landing in more than half a century all say they're feeling well after traveling 114000000 kilometers during this stint in what they are being has the story space x. copies are 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 life time for many of us and something to be proud of. americans michael hopkins

victor glover and shannon walker along with gucci 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 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 top 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 nasa. looking at using the movie as a test that in some ways this is baby steps on the ground that ground program that front and elements idea of expanding 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. al-jazeera. the are these are the top stories india has recorded the highest number of daily deaths from covert 19 health ministry says nearly 3700 people died in the past 24 hours medical supplies including oxygen are starting to come in from other countries the same time the party of indian prime minister narendra modi has been

handed to defeat in regional elections in the state of west bengal and criticised for allowing low.