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i'm come all santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera on my. own . and me and my protesters against the military rolled on back on the streets there are reports of 7 people killed off the police opened fire. 100 years ago was the birth of all the oil and to some he said genially is a cause for celebration but not here in dublin the capital of the obvious republic they see it as a disaster i'm andrew symonds and i'll be explaining why. well the numbers out of india every day are staggering but this sunday we have a new unwanted record that is 3689 deaths. in 24 hours the most

india has seen in a day during this pandemic also there was an 11th straight day of new cases that exceeded 300000 and those are just the official numbers from the health ministry many experts estimate them to be actually much higher and still hospitals cannot cope beds medicine oxygen staff all in critically short supply in some cases the military has been drafted in to assist and with the spiraling numbers india was forced to reverse a policy of 16 years and actually begin accepting international aid. you. know. you. need medical. world to remember. that there is. and there's a political element to all of this is well many are blaming these large election rallies for fuelling the 2nd wave of some local votes held over an 8 week period.

prime minister modi led an aggressive election campaign in west bengal but his b j p party was handed a stinging defeat by the incumbent the trinamool congress congress india correspondent elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. and 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 a g.'s reelection for a 3rd term as chief minister. from our hearts we have good wishes from above energy and that is why of us celebrating we already knew that the mc would have been because the development has been done by d.n.c. not anyone else on the other left was impossible but they did not think. 175000000 people were eligible to vote in the states off west bengal.

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 corona virus 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 90. political analysts say the government focused on winning elections instead of preparing for the latest search the central government was wholly unprepared. on february 21st. not their national exam i covered that so i know they passed a political resolution to be chippy saying meaning the prime minister and i know what he did and there were all these fantastic claims about unity is so strong you know it's like the best word.

india is now the line on international aid. as its hospitals are struggling but shortages of beds oxygen equipment and meds sense 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 sense 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 elizabeth purana al jazeera new delhi. some thoughts from java and sorry now a senior journalist has covered elections for 3 decades in a political analyst as well he says the modi government has to take much of the blame for this 2nd wave the fact is that this the present situation or did a lot to the kind of irresponsibly irresponsibility on display from the indian leadership free speech even today people were lining up shoulder to shoulder cheek

by jowl for counting of votes in the local bodies election of a what was the necessity of holding these local bodies elections of the in the 1st place in the midst of this pandemic this baffles everybody but number less so yes. it's a question of the wrong priorities and the wrong set for example being set by the leadership when you preferred large political gatherings and when you turned a. down a blind eye to sure religious congregations and the people there have become 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 lifes. now extension of the situation in india is that malaysia has detected the 1st case of a highly infectious variant identified in india health officials say it was found in a person who traveled from india during airport screening they didn't say when the case was detected but are urging the public to remain calm malaysia bound flights

to and from india on wetten state you've got pakistan which has received a 1000000 vaccine doses from china on sunday sport a total of 17000000 doses from 3 chinese companies to supplement the astra zeneca vaccine it's getting through the kovacs program pakistan has inoculated just over 2000000 people in its population of 220000000 to other news at least 8 protesters have been killed by security forces in may in ma happened during some of the biggest demonstrations against military rule in days hundreds of people have been killed by security forces since the military coup began in february and the protests in may and mar being coordinated with others around the world hundreds of people from taiwan's me and community marched through taipei movement involves 41 cities in 18 countries taiwan itself is home to around $40000.00 migrants from me and mine. excuse me spoke to.

a little bit earlier human rights defenders says while the regional group is demanding an end to the crisis it's failing in its approach. while people up in mar we recognize. well what dates political will or whether it will that will benefit us. to keep the region a stable. to make myanmar return to the path of democracy the horror of their protests that still is principally wrong fail to invite the end u.g.c. a national unity government to the temple. which they legally resents the people of myanmar see government 2nd us and want to solve this issue of myanmar with dialogue and and reconciliation and people of myanmar is demanding justice and make the military accountable to the crimes and atrocities that take place and you

may have part that this is the military that has been killing in the at the at the next for many decades and and this is the military that has killed many thousands of people back in 20122017 you can't have justice receipt with a dialogue and reconciliation it's a matter of ending impunity and people who want to do it to the. accountability process and make them make them all accountable for the crimes that they have committed. now kurdistan says a ceasefire with its neighbor tajikistan is holding after a week of intense border financing 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 fighting in years turkey stands accusing its neighbor of war crimes charles stratford has the details now from us in turkistan. 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 they're 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 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. in the news ahead how journalism and reporters have been targeted even more during this pandemic. and the electric bikes in rule somebody we're setting women on a pastoral skirt. we've 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 be getting up to 37 celsius here in doha touch woman 4 q i backed $37.00 there in baghdad turkey last he tries to go through monday the showers and

mainly affecting northern parts of iran pushing over towards afghanistan and there similar places we go on through to 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 nice to still a few showers just around the southern end of the red say joining up with 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.

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you have al-jazeera and these are the top stories this hour india recording its highest number of daily deaths from covert 19 nearly 3700 of them in the past 24 hours as well as 392000 new infections which was downsized from sucked into early results in india also showing the ruling b.j. the parties fail to make gains in 4 state elections including whispering call logs rallies have been blamed for fueling the coronavirus search. and security forces in myanmar of killed 8 protesters the demonstrations are being coordinated with of those around the world to mark an international day of solidarity against them and . 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 forged during the war against i saw going back to 2014 to 2019 now they are demanding they be rehired more on that story that

some of the full team in baghdad. these kind of protests have been taking place in the capital baghdad 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 the pm math 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 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 advocates that the salaries of existing fire should be increased. 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 to fighters to support of roles 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 bad the budget should actually be use 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. the reporters without borders says attacks on the media have

increased during this pandemic it's published those findings in the on your world press freedom index some governments have accused journalists of false reporting on the coronavirus as they just try to downplay the extent of the crisis a latin america editor at the scene human looks at that from santiago. in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about the pull that 19 pandemic sunny figure it all works for guatemala's independent investigative reporting outed. last year he and a colleague began publishing the porch about 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 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. this is. 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 at 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 entering 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 centrality. we're going to take a broader look now at this world press freedom index covers 180 countries and shows journalists are partially or completely blocked from doing their jobs and more than 130 of them the war stone the list north korea china vietnam iran and syria several governments are been accused of using the pandemic to silence critics with laws against what they see as we go to see a talking about fake news is christopher sabatini senior research fellow for latin america at chatham house who 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 jazeera is the c.n.n. center 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 and you know other words he wants to basically shut it down and limit its access to information and its ability 'd to report and that is a very troubling. northern ireland turns $100.00 on monday a centenary that is actually unlikely to be acknowledged anywhere south of the border a former irish president has told our jazzier the partition in 1921 was a tragedy but continues to have consequences today and who simmons has this report

from belfast mary mcaleese is unlike any other former irish president she grew up in northern ireland a catholic living in a protestant area in the violent seventy's her family forced to move out 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 2 far most of the centenary is that we have been through we haven't used those words we've used the word commemoration we've used softer words we've used words that open up to inclusion and that understand that there are some for whom this was a tragedy and not a when some feel it's ironic that the santini comes at a time when irish unity is edging back onto the agenda helped by breck's at the puts an e.u. trade border in the irish sea separating the u.k. mainland from the island protestants fear alienation the government here in dublin sees 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 that 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 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 baby the biggest obstacle for now on both sides of the divide many feel reconciliations still has some way to go under simmons al-jazeera. going to take you to a rural district in zimbabwe now we're a new electric powered motorcycle is changing how women do business it's helping poor women earn an income and ease the burden of caring for families how tasso has this report from. chickens are ready for the markets and this 3 wheeler known as hamba which means to go in zimbabwe is going to help her take the me. the farmer pays any cleveland a $15.00 a month with a group of friends to lease the electric power to motorcycles she can now sell her goods and much further away from a small village adds that. 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 notice that you remain. 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 tested the reman to see if they're 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 30 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 us into what's happening to stage or pick up times the drivers say they can make up to $8.00 a day transporting people money that helps make them more financially independent in zimbabwe a country with jobs asking us how to meet us and al-jazeera with zimbabwe but a sport manchester united fans holding a big protest at their own stadium old trafford to protest against the club's american owners some fans even made it on to the pitch a head of united's premier league game against liverpool forcing the match to be called off the graves a family has owned the team since 2005 many supporters are unhappy with the club's

recent push to join that ill fated european super league. on the 4 astronauts of splash back down to earth and masses 1st night time ocean landing in more than half a century they say they will feeling pretty well after traveling 114000000 kilometers during this stint in all it has the story. space x. copies for 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 cina 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 cop considered is ask you know what's the weather going to be like we told him hey maybe a 2 not to win a one foot wave and he was very excited from the very beginning. 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 if you 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 move 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 hearting al-jazeera. half past the hour and these are the top stories india has recorded its highest number of daily deaths from covert 90 nearly 3700 people.