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but this is me and my protesters against military rule out on the streets there are reports of people killed after police opening fire. and the electric bikes in rules that are setting women on a path to prosperity. and this 4 to manchester united's premier league match against liverpool has been postponed it follows that thousands of united fans protested against the team's american owners many are unhappy about the club's recent attempt to draw any european super league. with a number one that is 3689 the number of deaths in 24 hours in india its highest number of daily 19 deaths along with don't forget nearly 400000 new infections they

are staggering numbers and are only the official numbers from the health ministry with many experts systemizing the real number could be much higher than that and still nothing changes the hospitals can't cope beds medicine oxygen stuff they are in critically short supply in some cases they drafted in the military to assist and with the spiraling numbers india was forced to reverse its policy of 16 years and begin accepting international aid. you. know there's. your friend dire need medical. people around to remember and we want it to be very powerful. and then there's the political side to all of this as well with many blaming scenes like this the large election rallies that we've seen in india for fueling the 2nd wave you know some of the local votes which have happened were held over an 8 week period. well prime minister modi did

lead in aggressive election campaign in west bengal for example but his b j p party was handed a stinging defeat by the incumbent trinamool congress already correspondent elizabeth purana reports now from new delhi. the supporters of west bengal's governing trinamool congress party the t.n.c. celebrate victory in the capital kolkata that's despite the election commission banning all celebrations because of india's high number of carnival iris cases. but supporters said they wanted to mark a month about a g.'s reelection for a 3rd term as chief minister. from a hard 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 the n.t. mark and he went out on the other left wasn't bottle 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 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 in car that 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 lives i covered that so i know they passed a political resolution to be chippy saying meaning the prime minister knowing their well. 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. and to national aid as its hospitals are struggling but shortages of beds oxygen equipment and meds since 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 emerge from rural areas of people dying as a life saving equipment including ventilators and lying under without the doctors who have the expertise to use them elizabeth purana al jazeera new delhi. so we got some comment on this from java the. senior journalist and political analyst in india who says the government has to take responsibility 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 free speech even today people were lining up shoulder to shoulder cheek by jowl into the

british for counting of votes in the local bodies election of the what was the new . yorker bodies elections in the in the 1st place and the bits of this bundaberg this baffles everybody but number less so yes bad it's a question after all and there's all set for example being said by the leadership but you preferred large political gatherings and when you. turn 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 lives 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 this mystery comes to an end soon or just but you know my head tells me that that at the moment we are in a long long dark tunnel. and as i speak there is no light at the end of it i mean

why me even an explorer 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 is of frightening prospect now an extension of the india story is that malaysia has detected the 1st case of the highly infectious variant identified in india health officials say it was found in a person who travelled from india during airport screening in say when the case was detected but are urging the public to stay calm malaysia banned flights to and from india on weapons day pakistan has received a 1000000 vaccine doses from china on sunday it purchased a total of 17000000 doses from 3 chinese companies to supplement the astra zeneca vaccine it's getting through the kovacs program pakistans inoculated just over 2000000 people it does have a population of 220000000 however in australia there's

a contentious new law which threatens jail time for people returning from india and is facing a growing backlash before taking effect on monday anyone who's been in india within 14 days of their planned date of return will be banned from entering australia and those who disobey could be locked up and find it's the 1st time a study has made it a potential criminal offense for its own citizens to come home there are some 9000 australians in india registered as wanting to come. the situation in india is dry 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 date briefing 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 stray inside saudi arabia says it is ready to allow its citizens to travel abroad saudis have received 2 shots of the vaccine as well as those who've recovered from the virus and people under 18 will be allowed to leave the kingdom seen a steady decrease in infections to an average of a 1000 a day. and then is latin america struggling with high demand for vaccines but there just aren't enough to go around in argentina only a small number of people have received the job the country recorded 16000 new cases on saturday and will soon subparts a total of $3000000.00 president alberto fernandez is warning of difficult weeks ahead with limited space in intensive care units he's also extended a nighttime curfew in the capital by 3 weeks we've got daniel in buenos aires to take us through this and other news out of latin america daniel mentioned that

there is obviously a rush on vaccines but not enough to go around what sort of numbers have actually been an ocular in argentina. well come out not nearly enough i mean something like 11 percent of the $42000000.00 population have had one dose of the value of the vaccine but less than 2 percent of had both doses of the vaccine is always greeted with great fanfare when a ship or even a flight arrives and they had their offloading the either the sputnik v. from russia or the sign of vaccines from china but they come every 3 or 4 days it's never enough so and president of the fernandez has said he's on the phone regularly to world leaders health organize ations to the pharmaceutical companies trying to find out when the next shipment might be able to be delivered but of course many of the vaccines work coming from india were being manufactured in india and as we've

heard india is now trying to vaccinate its own people so that has affected the rollout of vaccines across latin america which was hoping to benefit from the kovacs scheme the world health organization scheme which was designed to benefit the less wealthy countries of the world they have been coming in but governments have been complaining simply not enough so all of the only option really open to the governments in not in argentina and elsewhere is to impose further further lockdowns as this 2nd wave really begins to bite very hard as you mentioned 3 weeks of nighttime curfew schools are being closed in argentina but not everyone's in agreement people are tired they're frustrated as we've had protests we've had provincial governments individuals parents out trying to keep the schools open i hope positions of the government saying look we need another lockdown we're going to keep the pressure off of these hospital beds which is now at about or protein 80 percent certainly here in one of cyrus and the very densely populated surrounding

areas yes keeping an eye on the airport for those those planes to arrive but again not really seeing an end in sight as the numbers. of inventions and desk going up you mentioned earlier daniel the disconnect indeed conflict sometimes i would say between federal governments and local governments in argentina i remember the situation very vividly in brazil as well as that's still the case there is the situation still is bad in brazil as it was i think it's particularly severe in brazil simply by the nature of the politics of president cardoso noddle downplaying the impact of the corona virus pandemic when you're accusing him of not really taking it seriously there is now a full into investigation judicial investigation into his handling of the pandemic people blaming him for the high total of infections approaching 14000000 nearly

400000 people dead their oxygen is in short supply criminal tory and cemeteries are working overtime working through the night to dispose of the bodies and the hospitals and hospital staff at breaking point in many parts of the country you had individual states in brazil governments of individual states going their own way ignoring or being in direct conflict with the federal government to try to find their own vaccines to try to find their own oxygen but then you're in a situation here in argentina and brazil where people can pick and choose which government they're going to follow their provincial government or their national government depending on their own politics so you've had the federal policies imposed yet at the local governments not implementing and not prosecuting people for breaking the law so people just carrying on as normal as the other say we see the numbers of deaths and infections continue to rise for a very difficult situation really writes it right across the continent thank you

daniel schwimmer the updates on covert across latin america. 13 minutes past the hour here's what's coming up u.s. president joe biden speaks on the 10th anniversary of the raid that killed osama bin laden. also a cease fire holds at the border but there are accusations of war crimes and sports fan in its way back to one of horse racing's most famous events and they got to witness a record breaking wind. and a look at some other news may in which we should not lose sight of at least 8 protesters reportedly killed by security forces there on a day when we saw 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 the protests are being coordinated with others around the world

it's here we've got hundreds of people from taiwan's community marching through taipei movement involve 41 cities in 18 countries taiwan itself home to around 40000 migrants from me and ma. here is mom who we spoke to earlier a human rights defender said while the regional group demanding an end to the crisis it's still failing in its approach. while people up in mar we recognize. well what dates political will or whether it will that will benefit us and to keep the region a stable. to make myanmar return to the path of democracy the horror of their protests that asean has still is principally wrong trust us in failed in bytes there there and you g 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. with dialogue and and reconciliation and people of myanmar is demanding justice and make the military accountable to the crimes and atrocities that take took place and you may have part that this is the military that has been killing india at the at the knicks for many decades and and this is the military that has killed many thousands of people back in 20122017 you can't have justice proceed with the dialogue and reconciliation it's a matter of ending impunity and people who want to do it to their. accountability process and make them and make them all accountable for the crimes that they have committed. still with me amar and the national unity government the one in exile says it is investigating allegations the military committed acts of sexual violence against protesters it says it received many reports of abuse torture and sexual

assault carried out by troops in 2019 there was a u.n. fact finding mission which accused the army then of widespread systematic gender based violence against ethnic communities a national unity government which says it's working to restore democracy and me in law is demanding the student to order a stop to all forms of sexual violence on this subject we spoke to north saw who is the minister for women youth and children's affairs in that unity government she says the reports of sexual abuse by the military have been commonplace since the coup in february. we got a lot all company and also in the social media. in the news. a lot all of my concepts of small and why i went to the detain them because i'm glad you're. on the can even met face to face who is at the

gym as a viper so that we can affirm that this means the same military said see you have dan that said sure why nancy i think india was 5060 years ago in korea and in kitchen in jan in the kind of 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 a little guy a 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 your kind people including really just women so not again 2001 in supreme revolution so the are doing and keep on doing to the women and to doing women and just yesterday i got the information and complained that not just the teaching women he 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. colombia's president even withdrawn proposed tax hikes after nationwide protests at least 6 people were killed including a police officer and hundreds of people have been injured in the last 4 days due

care said the bill would be revised to remove tax increases on food sales utilities and income correspond he will be with us shortly from bogota for reactions to this rollback by president bush u.k. . to the united states where president joe biden's paid tribute to the service men who carried out the raid on osama bin laden's compound 10 years ago sunday marks the anniversary of bin laden's death after a team of u.s. navy seals stormed the al qaeda leader's base in pakistan biden says american efforts to fight al qaeda have left the group greatly degraded as u.s. troops prepare they were drawn from afghanistan right now here is john hendren to talk about this when washington 1st or 10 years ago can't quite believe that what else is joe biden had to say today. well biden having gone from vice president to president in those 10 years issued a statement saying it was

a moment i will never forget he said we followed bin laden to the gates of hell and we got him and then he added that comment that you mentioned that he felt that it was degrade degraded of course very important because the u.s. is planning on making a complete pullout from afghanistan we have learned a lot in the 10 years about exactly what happened there there's an article in politico which interviews a number of people in the administration at that time this decision was made when few if any americans had ever heard of a bottle which was where this the cia located a complex where they thought osama bin laden might be staying and they did that by tracking 2 couriers who would go as far as 90 miles away in order to make cell phone calls in order to carry out bin laden's wishes this was so closely held in the white house that it was really just a small team in the white house and at the cia that carried this out and there was

talk after that happened that biden was actually not a supporter of that raid but he has said since then that he never opposed that raid and it was carried out in such incredible secrecy that president obama did not alter his regular schedule and that included appearing at a white house correspondents dinner i happened to have been there at the time and recall how he was making fun of donald trump the guy who would be the next president because trump had made these birth the risk claims about obama and obama seemed to be in rare form in high spirits and now 10 years later we're just learning the details of that and president joe biden is taking credit for that as he moves on u.s. policy in afghanistan john hendren head washington d.c. thank you for that. now there's been violence in iraq's capital baghdad between protesters and security forces former members of the iran backed popular

mobilization forces stormed the ministry of finance earlier today they fought during the war against eisel between 2014 and 19 now they're demanding they be rehired so wonderful team has more from baghdad. these kind of protests have been taking place in the capital baghdad for a few days now and the crowd mostly composed 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 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 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 roles of course cast their vote for them and what it also highlighted is the internal divisions 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. cornerstone says a ceasefire with neighboring tajikistan is holding after a week of intense border fighting both countries claim an area around a water supply facility in a dispute that actually dates back decades but as the official death toll mounts in this worst fighting there seen in years kyrgyzstan's accusing its neighbor of war crimes child stratford has more details now from in kurdistan the kurdish ministry of internal affairs has announced that 25 bodies have been found in the town of goal over there reporting that these people were killed in a mortar attack by the military on april the 29th they've also released some statistics on the kind of structural damage damage to homes. during these attacks they're saying that 70 to 78 houses have been burned to schools 3 border posts and 10 petrol stations now the press office for the president so there is your power of

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. we're halfway through this news hour here's what's coming up journalism and reports have been under attack even more during this pandemic. 100 years ago was the birth of northern ireland for some timorese

a cause for celebration but not here in dublin the capital of the republic they see it is a disaster i'm andrew symonds of i'll be explaining war. and in sport name only a song has a long way for a play for time goes on details but something i'm going to. 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 me getting up to 37 celsius here in doha touch woman for q.e. back to $37.00 there in baghdad turkey claus she tries to go through monday the showers and mainly affecting northern parts of iran pushing over towards afghanistan and there are 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 rayburn plants that warm dry and sunny just know to still a few showers just around the southern end of the red sea joining us 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 show was there in to 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 bake some showers there if you. but than ever the us into madagascar drive to south africa jonathan. freed. from the al-jazeera london bureau cost center $2.00 special guests in

conversation when societies divided when women are divided the only thing that benefits from not this contract itself unprompted spun interrupted for the 1st one scapegoats are those who work or don't work for him or in his satisfaction means well easily and cackle like to think that there's nationalism is not as ugly as someone else's nationalising thought to studio unscripted most people will never know what's beyond these storms. the deafening silence of $100.00 in 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 know most people.

this is the news hour from al-jazeera and these are the top stories india has recorded its highest number of daily deaths from coatbridge 19 nearly 3700 of them in the past 24 hours and it's not to get 392000 new infections which was actually down slightly from saturday security forces in may in ma have killed 7 protesters the demonstrations are being coordinated with others around the world to mark an international day of solidarity against the military. and colombia's president has withdrawn proposed tax hikes after nationwide protests at least 6 people were killed including a police officer and hundreds of people have been injured in the last 4 days of

protests so more on this with allison p.s.e. in the colombian capital bogota a big win for the people then. definitely come out and the truth is that at this point president really didn't have much room left to maneuver after 4 days of massive protests that at times by alliances you were saying in your introductions and also politically he was quite isolated at this point there was widespread opposition to this reform from lawmakers and parties that make up is government coalition and also inside his own party so really i don't think he had a lot of other possibilities except withdrawing finally this reform he had said on friday that the law would be revised to remove some of the most controversial of points that the things the me the people angry including new sales tax on the

utilities gasoline and set on food and basic food items that were so far accent but the government had insisted and look at insisted throughout these 4 days of this that it not be drawn in its. entirety and now announcing this we've drawn he said that it wasn't presented and which is still necessary but there is no doubt that this is a major win sort of protesters in these shows just how weak the government of uganda is at this point thank you for that update on a sound. well keep it in south america reporters without borders says attacks on the media have increased during the pandemic this was the findings from the annual world press freedom index some governments of accuse journalists of false reporting on coronavirus as leaders try to downplay the extent of the crisis latin america is

going to see in him and as this report from santiago. in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about the poll that 19 pandemic sunny figured oh what a mole 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 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 which 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 of alabama accused journalist going to 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 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 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. called this information 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 center. so this world press

freedom index it looks at 180 different countries and shows journalists are partially or completely blocked from doing their jobs and more than 130 of them the worst offenders are north korea china vietnam iran and syria but several governments been accused of using the pandemic to silence critics with laws against what they say is fake news christopher sabatini is a senior research fellow for latin america chatham house who says hostility towards the press has contributed to coronavirus misinformation. what we've seen is already this these attacks against journalists this polarization in which freedom of expression is caught in the middle between oftentimes legitimate concerns about. information and the need for data 3 as well as the autocratic ambitions of elected leaders and now we have the justification of coded into that and so we're seeing places this year in chile in guatemala in with journalists are particularly being

targeted and reasons that sort of deny the very threat of coding and undermine the ability to address the classic case right now is in india where modi and give many people thought they had dodged a bullet in being able to avoid a massive infection rate and now we see of course the terrible news coming out of india of death rates shortages and modi has actually asked that the modi government has asked that twitter prohibit any sort of information that contradicts the government in so many of these cases what were once considered a success stories and presidents such as of course of president former president trump in united states being somewhat cavalier about their ability dresses are now finding it's much more complicated as a policy issue at the same time as they're sort of getting embarrassed by a media that is confronting them directly and demonstrating and revealing data that embarrass them if you notice a number of these journalists that are being attacked media sources independent media we're not talking oftentimes traditional media it's not the old as here is

the c.n.n. zur or the new york times in many cases and in these countries it's more independent media that is sprung up oftentimes internet based on the 2nd is of course as you say the sort of independent journalists or even citizens posting information and so we've seen for example the case of guatemala the guatemalan president has said it needs to put the needs to put the media on quarantine in other words he wants to basically shut it down and limit its access to information and its ability to report and that is a very troubling. now northern ireland turns $100.00 on monday a centenary that is unlikely to be acknowledged south of the border in fact a former irish president has told our desir of the partition $921.00 was a tragedy that continues to have consequences today andrew symonds as a reporter there is some frustration in the protestant community over the cancellation or postponement of a series of events to mark this centenary that's 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 as 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 peace war in the republican and nationalist areas norman whatsoever and really a resentment about the situation also in the republic of ireland the situation is much the same we traveled across the border south to assess the mood mary mcaleese is unlike any other former irish president she grew up in northern ireland

a catholic living in a protestant area in the violent seventy's a family forced to move out as sectarian conflict group. the irish war of independence from britain between 1919 to 921 had led to the partitioning of the country and the birth of northern ireland exactly 100 years ago thousands of civilian lives were lost in the intermittent 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 it 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 brigs it particularly and what we've seen with seoul and political leaders a lot of 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 maybe the biggest obstacle for now on both sides of the divide many feel reconciliation still has some way to go. and this weekend there's been an opinion

poll released by the irish independent newspaper in dublin and in northern ireland 33 percent want a united ireland but 44 percent are against now interestingly one in 5 is not sure what to do with these people regard themselves as neither you missed or republican nationalists all loyalists these people really are in the center of things now could this sector grow that's the interesting point other motivations may draw them towards a united ireland or not so it is unclear but there is an issue of a united ireland being on the agenda the stain screen and stage legend olympia dukakis has died at the age of 89 former costars of praised her as a supreme the talented performer who was a joy to work with the oscar winners most celebrated films include moonstruck and steel magnolias in recent years to caucus reprise to character in

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a full charge for. the bikes made in china and assembled in the capital harare are proving useful in communities with no reliable public transport or tarred roads passengers call or send a whatsapp message to stage or pick up times the drivers say they can make up to $8.00 a day transporting people money that helps make the more financially independent in zimbabwe a country with jobs asking us how to meet us or. with zimbabwe. grab another quick break and then a splash landing for american astronauts aboard a space x. capsule that made a smooth touchdown in the gulf of mexico after $167.00 days in space plus your sports news with saturn anger amongst manchester united fans reaches new levels the details of just. plain.

well if we cannot have palestrina my government was certainly not allow britain to control french palestine would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows 100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east for centuries to come and so. now we can during the. psychs become lines in the sand on al-jazeera. around one percent of. the is consumed by data centers many of which provide for most storage facilities what is also known as the cloud i'm in no way to see how one center is harnessing the energy of these fields to stow our digital information without a heavy cop in footprints i'm not so beautiful north coast of the u.k. where the global green energy revolution is taking on a new element. tries on al-jazeera.

the 4 astronauts of splash down back to earth. first not time ocean landing in more than half century they will feeling pretty well even though they've just traveled 114000000 kilometers during their stint in orbit the heart and has the story space 6 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 life time for many of us and something to be proud about. 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 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

him 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 continues 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 brunt of the elements idea of expanding shimon space flight once again but i think it's still a significant step making their way over to while the astronauts recover the capsule will be taken back to the launch site at cape canaveral florida and refurbished for another trip to space harding al-jazeera.

ok time for sport with son of plenty of action on the field in manchester none of it football not exactly. just if you fans have held a big protest at their home stadium old trafford to protest against the club's american owners or some fans that made it on the pitch ahead of united's premier league game against liverpool that match had to be called also the glazer family has owned the team since 2005 many protesters are unhappy with the club's recent pushed to draw in the ill fated european super league while many more fans were outside the stadium united's co owner told lazar was named the vice chairman of the super league when it was announced last month within 48 hours of joining the competition that the places had apologised to fans in an open letter and pulled out of the project. well joining us now is international football jonathan gavin hamilton govern 1st of all today's dame game was called alpha how much of

a victory was that for the protestors well a victory of sorts because they've they've gained attention for their protests but this is something that's been going on for a long long time this is not saying it's just been sparked by the european super league 2 weeks ago the state's back decades really they've been protests against the glazers since they bought the club in 2005 and the greys are really quite fortunate in that there haven't been fans allowed in the stadium this season so they've been very few possibilities for protests and this was the 1st time that the fans were able to gather outside the stadium at home going since the european super league was announced so these protests have been around for a long time and this was just the latest stage in it so it's a victory of sorts but i'm not sure the glazers will he take much to take that much attention to it haven't you said yourself that it's not about the super league what are they angry about exactly what the blazes family. well i think the glazers

purchase of matches you know he was extremely controversial at the time they used to leverage buyout to buy manchester united they didn't buy them. the the the the club out right they bought the shares and then used to loan you the boxes using a loan and then used the profits from the club to repay the interest so they're still repaying the debt they've got a huge debt still outstanding on the cup but they're extracting money out of the cup they're paying themselves 'd personal divisions they're paying so personal bonuses family members have taken money from the club and that's money the fans should be being spent on players but simply we're just united while losing out to the actual liverpool they were due to play today liverpool the reigning champions and also by americans the americans who have invested heavily in players during their time each of you think the glazes are likely to sell the club anytime soon.

but i don't think so i mean they they think ignored fans there were no protests going back to the storm they bought the club and they don't they very rarely attend matches they stay in america they're happy to take the profits and unfortunately the way that english football is structured means to them personally titles to do that so as long as much as you know that it continues to make the money they will continue to bang the profits and use that profits. for their own personal guy they will become some point where someone comes out if someone comes along and offer them offers them a huge return on their investment they may well take it because they are investors but for the time being i think they'll stay put because they're making a lot of money of adam i just you know it's a given in your opinion should fans have a voice in how their favorite club is run how feasible would that be. well this is the big debate that we're having in england at the moment we look enviously towards germany in a system where nobody can know more than 50 percent of the 50 plus one who applies

unfortunately that doesn't apply in england and don't think it will we're certainly seeing more calls for fans to be involved in clubs and that might be a way for the likes of the glazers and starting cranky and other american are not arsenal to placate the fans by giving them a voice on the board but i don't think fans will be given any power in any decision making at clubs at any point in the near future international football john has given hamilton thank you very much for them all inter milan fans are celebrating the club's 1st syria title since 2010 supporters gathered in milan's iconic at piazza to normal on a sunday and to still screw their 2 thanks to atalanta's failure to be its a solo means antonio qantas side that haven't unsaleable leave the at the top of the table. for one hour lewis hamilton has won the portuguese okon

pretty reigning a world champion had started 2nd on the grid but managed to win as head of red bulls macspeech stop an in 2nd and r.c. this team a devoted he brought us in 3rd hamilton leads the drivers' championship by 8 points after 3 races. and 10 you know it's such a tough race. physically and mentally just keeping everything together is very windy out there overseas so it's very easy to put a from rome. now mazurka has been knocked out in the 2nd round of the madrid open the world number 2 was beating in 3 sets by carolina whichever of the czech republic the eve of the wait for a clay court title goes on for the reigning u.s. and australian open champion. i know the eat a crowd of more than $50000.00 fans what medina spirit when the horse races kentucky

derby event was held without spectators last year in contrast this was the largest crowd at a u.s. sporting event since the current virus pandemic began it in a spirit is trained by bob baffert it's his 7th victory most of any trainer in the race is 147 year history. and that's the hand you back to come out son of thank you so much for that's finally spain's controversial tradition of bullfighting back for the 1st time since the pandemic began a lot spent on bull ring reopened in madrid with some coronavirus restrictions still in place. spaniard still divided over the practice some calling it an arts has caught just cruelty the spectacle has been hit hard since the pandemic began with all other bull rings in spain still completely closed. that's the news out

from the team here in doha thank you for joining us maryanne demasi on the team in london will be with you in just a few moments on canal santa maria to see concern. from inside the walls of a west african prison comes home. a chance to create to express emotion and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. a renowned choreographer his passion for dogs inspiring prisoners to perform and to reach beyond the ill deeds of the

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