frank assessments of the government was one exactly how and one measure of their teaching for the situation might not be ever again and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. hello i'm maryam namazie you're watching the news our live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. celebrations in india as the prime minister's party suffers a setback in state elections partly blamed for the covert crisis in the gulf in his country. after days of violent protests colombia's president says he is withdrawing

his tax reform plan. 3 months after me and miles could protest as a back out in force with reports of at least 8 people killed by the security forces and space x. returns for from international space station in a rare nighttime splashdown. this poor manchester united's premier league match against liverpool has been postponed it follows that thousands of united fans protesting against the team's american owners many are unhappy about the club's recent attempt to join the european super league. welcome to the news hour we begin in india which has suffered its deadliest day yet of the pandemic and prime minister narendra modi appears to be paying the price for prioritizing elections over the. health crisis in his country his party has been

defeated in the state of west bengal one of 4 regional elections partly blamed for fueling the current covert surge well india recorded a new high of 3689 covert deaths in the past day alone more than 215000 people and now confirmed to have died altogether in india a total that's widely accepted as being far below the real number the past day also saw more than 392000 new cases that's a slight dip from the day before but it pushes the total kovac 1000 cases recorded in india to 19 and a half 1000000 people with no end to the crisis in sight right now or nearly 10 indian states and territories of imposed some sort of lockdown or restrictions in response to what's happening now local media says the country's kovan $1000.00 task force is advising a national lockdown something the government seems reluctant to impose also desperately needed oxygen supplies are beginning to arrive from countries including

the u.k. and france many people have died at home and in hospital because of the nationwide shortage of oxygen they really need to do is there's a lack of logistics for handling the covert $900.00 situation across the country an ongoing difficult desperate situation in india a lack of oxygen supply and all of the necessary medical facilities that should be provided to treat people. well as you are saying the electoral setback for india's ruling party follows criticism of neurons or modi for allowing large gatherings to take place despite warnings and surging coronavirus cases elizabeth brought to reports now from new delhi. that supporters of west bengal's governing trinamool congress party unity in fiji celebrating victory in the capital kolkata that's despite the election commission banning all son of patients because it andy is high number of provided biased cases. that supporters said they wanted to mark the back

and reelection for 3rd term as chief minister. from a heart we have good wishes from above energy and that is why be a celebrity we already knew that the mc would have been because the wind has been done by p.m.'s he not and he went out on the other left was a ball but they did not blink. 175000000 people were eligible to vote in the states off west bengal famine not cared enough and put a cherry politicians including prime minister met in the modi had been criticised for holding large election rallies during a 2nd wave of carnivorous the world health organization said such gatherings are one of the reasons why india surgeon cases for candidates died in west bengal after contracting car that mine team the structure hospital political analysts say the government focused on when elections instead of preparing for the latest search the central government was wholly unprepared slaughtered in certain reach on february 21st. not their national lives i covered that so i know they passed

a political resolution to be chippy saying claiming that the prime minister neither what he did and then all these claims about how him getting unity is so strong you know it's like the best word we're. going to make sense on. india is now the line on. national aid has its hospitals are struggling but shortages of beds oxygen equipment and medicines promised in that in the morning held a meeting with health experts about the sure to 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 on lying on use without the doctors who have the expertise to use them and there's a push pull on al-jazeera. who've been to india in the past 2 weeks now banned from

returning to their own country they face up to 5 years in prison and fines under a temporary emergency order this is the 1st time australia has made a criminal offense for its own citizens to return to their country australia's current 7 day rolling average of new covert cases stands at just $23.00 and then pakistan which has also seen a rise in infections has received a 1000000 coronavirus vaccine doses from china a positive 17000000 doses purchased from 3 chinese companies the delivery supplements the astra zeneca vaccines being delivered through the kovacs program for poorer nations like a stone is inoculated just over 2000000 people out of a population of 220000000 while she's there is kemal hyder is at a hospital in islamabad and says pakistan hopes to start domestic vaccine production soon. don has received another $1000000.00 of their goal written 19 record from china most of the right kill their defcon main goal for our donation or

a gift from the chinese government gets done however it also porch waiting 1000000 . recognition from china which are likely to arrive next month and it also going to be producing a vaccine which i need. on the border david. 10 percent richard alarming and it's going to turn that it made by like india already in countering and there are of course. good run out because rear door data will $5000.00 patient die right now an all clear which is 57 percent right june they will of course be a cautious approach because budgets on the local planning to go up international flights into the country up to the tune of 80 percent and there will be restrictions ridden the. travel is going to turn. down starting on the 8th of may going all the way up to the 50. africa's top public health official says the

continent is watching what is happening in india with disbelief john neck and a song from the africa centers for disease control warned that the continent could see the same scenario unfold because of a lack of health and oxygen supplies so let's discuss this now with delta mason who is co-director of the sudan $1000.00 research group and assistant professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine joins us via skype from london so covert desson infections being under reported really all across the what are your concerns specifically about countries in africa and about whether the actual level of infections is being obscured. thank you for having me i think there are different levels of concern as you say there's a widely acknowledged amal's ment of fact that cuts are being under reported i

think locally with a countries like sudan and when the numbers are obscured the level of risk of perception amongst the population can be can be lowered because you feel like well the number the crucial number say there's only x. amount of people and that doesn't really seem like a big concern i think that was probably more of a concern in the 1st since the 2nd wave in sudan whereas in the 3rd way things have become soldiers of all that communities themselves have become their best epidemiologists they don't necessarily need official numbers to know that this is incredibly difficult time for sudan and for the continent at large i think for the international community as numbers are obscured it gives a notion that we have been spared as a continent and sudan as a country from from the ravages of this epidemic and that can try and translate into lesser support this is the time for increased support increased ability to to counter this both from within sudan from outside sudan and without knowing the true

toll of the epidemic and a good knowledge and yet that becomes very difficult how widespread is that perception in the continent i was speaking about what 50 over 50 different countries but this. view that africa has been spared the worst and will continue to be immune for isolated from what is happening elsewhere in the world in some way. i think if you don't live in the communities affected that can be quite widespread. for a long from one period of time before culbut our deaths have been largely invisible except when you're experiencing them they are not invisible to my colleagues in sudan who are part of the wider network of useful tears going out to try to measure the impact of mortality in their communities they tell a very different story my colleague monastic who is 22 year old nurse who lives near summitry and would make a nice car to meet me at the syria speaks of daily processions daily daily

procession processions of funerals of it feeling like this is nothing like she's ever experienced before and sometimes it's hard for her to wonder whether this doesn't almost seem like the end of her world ever at least her world as she knew it so i think it is difficult when you are not living that reality to not believe the official figures but time and time again the official figures have been proven wrong and i think it is time to dismantle this notion that those official figures represent the reality of people on the ground. do you fear that what is happening in india right now collapse of the health care system shortage of doctors and health care workers nurses shortage of oxygen supplies medicines and so forth do you fear that that could easily happen in africa. in places like khartoum and bethany i fear it is happening. we speak daily with friends and colleagues who are moving from hospital to hospital to try to find

hospital beds for loved ones and failing to do so we speak daily with people who are seeking care not just for old but good for our or other illnesses but the hospitals are overwhelmed and they're not able to get care for. kidney disease or cancer or or even for preventable issues so this has an impact far and wide and i think we are really feeling it. i think when i look at india across some of what we feel is going on in sudan and perhaps elsewhere or thank you very much for joining us i appreciate it dr mason hop from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. at any other time a crowd of music fans dancing next to each other and music festival would be normal but a series of test concerts in the british city of liverpool. is actually the 1st one that for more than here the crowd were able to dance without masks and forget about

social distancing but only if they tested negative $900.00 s. again one part of a government pilot to reopen allied events has joined how reports. on sunday pop music echoed round liverpool certain park a crowd of 5000 people enjoyed the 1st live gig in more than a year played and the top 10 list it was part of a series of trials hoping to point the way towards mass gatherings beyond the pandemic the resumption of life as we used to know it is yes. it does feel a bit uncomfortable almost but i just feel i just feel so happy that it's going to have to be in precautions tests and make sure that everyone's you know before we even got to the. people make sure that you test the negative entry required proof of a negative test result with tests provided to be taken during the following week.

the weekend also saw liverpool's club scene rise temporarily from the dead 3000 people partied like it was 2090 is a really exciting opportunity for liverpool to be part of the event's research programme which is the national program evaluating the impact of holding events in this way we're hoping to learn loads from the events that we've got this afternoon from the ones we've had over the last couple of days certainly around transmission of the virus but also around how people move and react within different venues what the airflow in the ventilation looks like within different venues and how you need to organize events to be coped safe in the future other events have included football in front of actual fans the 8000 who were allowed to attend last weekend's . cup final at wembley open in the days of care and crowd applause. various terrorist events will culminate at london's wembley stadium again when a quarter capacity crowd of $21000.00 friends will gather for footballs for

a cup final or maybe 50 that'll be just 2 days before england reopens further with the planned resumption of international travel heading into a summer in which the government hopes for pandemic restrictions may be lifted she told the whole al-jazeera. looking at some other events in europe spain's controversial tradition of bullfighting is back for the 1st time since the pandemic began the last event boring reopened in madrid with some crying of r.'s restrictions still in place spaniards are still divided over it with some calling the event art others though say that it's animal cruelty spectacle has been hit hard since the pandemic began with all the buildings in spain still completely closed. with the news hour live from london still ahead press freedom suffers during the pandemic with latin america's leaders keen to escape scrutiny after the most intense fighting in 3 decades a cease fire between 2 g.

christan and carry a sign it appears to be holding. and in sport fans are back at one of horse racing's most famous events to witness the record breaking away. colombia's president has withdrawn a controversial tax reform plan after 4 days of violent protests in iran to pay ordered the amendment of the proposal on friday but that failed to satisfy protesters who said the changes would make them poorer at least 6 people have died in demonstrations since wednesday 5 protesters and one police officer and hundreds more have been injured following all of this alessandro you who is in bogota what's been the reaction amongst people there to the president backing down of this tax reform proposal particularly those that were protesting.

yes marion well there were immediate celebrations in a number of neighborhoods across with people coming out doing what they call a consider last hour coming out to hit on pots and pans to celebrate this announcement also people have started to gathered in different points of this city to come out and celebrate what they see as a major victory of the protest until today really president had said while he was open to changes to the text of the reform withdrawing it was not an option every day after 4 days of intensifying protests and also facing widespread opposition. lawmakers including its own party here evidently changed its my now presenting or announcing this decision though he said that the reform was not presented on

a whim and that it remains necessary is the moment to dig in on this this is a moment of greatness and of protecting the most vulnerable of involved destructive hatred and destruction it is a moment for all of us to work together with us the path of consensus clear perceptions and well i would say clearly there will not be. services nor will the existing rules be changed. how much frustration or opposition is there to the president right now. well very much very much so. it's clear that it's quite isolated politically this was expected to be a landmark could be a legacy bill that's the way he presented it at the time evidently that's not the case and protesters are saying that this is not the end that while the tax reform

was the main driver to begin these protests now that they have started now that they've seen that they can achieve things they're saying that they want to continue because they have a long list of grievances that has to do obviously with the economic situation in the country poverty has gone up unemployment also consequences of the pandemic the feeling that the government hasn't done enough to help poor people the people most in need to during this pandemic and that's why there is the expectation that these protests will continue now even saying that the reform is necessary is going to try to build consensus in congress for a new reform but the reality is that given the fact that we are less than a year from the next congressional elections in a little over

a year before presidential elections are a reality the political reality both on the streets and in congress will most likely make that impossible for margaret alexandra thank you very much and we now turn to the protests and security forces are reported to open fire killing 8 people is and protesters marched around the country they were marking what i calling a global mean last spring revolution along with ex-pats from around the world protesters are calling for a return to democracy in the release of political prisoners more than 750 protesters have been killed since the military seized power in february but despite long. the use of force the gentiles failed to stop these demonstrations taking place and then hundreds of people took to the streets of the taiwanese capital taipei to demand a free and democratic nation our people there held up and she could post as and wave the flag of me and my similar started solidarity protests also took place in tokyo and seoul not you know much i mean you know it's about human rights our

people our students and representatives are prosecuted by the military government they can be caught for having done nothing and even be killed for having done this is why we're out protesting for their human rights. this year and i really hope there is democracy lula i really hope that unsung suchi under elected elites who are imprisoned will be quickly released i hope that near mars like taiwan where people have to mark this thing. meanwhile the exile civilian government says it's investigating allegations of sexual violence against protesters by the military nor . is the minister for women youth and children's affairs in the national unity government she says there have been many reports of sexual abuse. we got a lot of our complaints and also all in the social media in the news

there this i lot of my section saw and why man's to the detail. we met face to face with the victims of survivor we affirm get this money to say military dead here you have done that set your mind and i think india in 2017 in rakhine state committed these peace and secure whines to your kind people including women so not again 2001 in supreme revolution so it would be our dream not just the teaching women they also doing the sexual violence to the women who also are under we to their call on our own the very go on the motorcycle they make many bad things to the girls and women right now. and chad the military council has named

a transitional government following the president's shocked death and lifted and i curfew the military and interest of the son took power off he was killed on the front line against rebels last month chad's opposition leader. says he recognizes and you foresee strong cabinet which includes 2 members of his party the country has remained on edge since the president's death several people were killed and then a tree crackdown on protests on tuesday. elsewhere former iraqi fighters have been protesting in the capital baghdad demanding their jobs back former members of the iran backed popular mobilisation forces surrounded the ministry of finance they fought during the war against i still between 20142019 or the now demanding to be rehired a worsening economic situation in the country has contributed to a rise in tensions between iraq's various political and sectarian groups al-jazeera simona fault and is 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 p.m.s. and this request comes just a few weeks after the iraqi parliament passed its 2021 budget in which to increase the budget chair of the p.m.s. by over 20 percent so now there is a discussion going on within the ranks of the pm of how that money should be used advocates that the salaries of existing fire should be increased what other say that notice should be new people hired and included in the organization now what is particularly interesting is that this is a budget increase for d.p.m. as happened despite the country going through a prolonged financial crisis this year's budget features

a record deficit of over 20 percent but nevertheless the p.m.s. got a fairly large budget chair and what this episode also highlights is to what extent these groups as well as their related parties in parliament depend on the budgets to really fuel their networks of patroness to really hire and pay the fighters and support and also of course cast their votes for them and what it also highlighted is this interim divisions of that within the pm have about how the budget should actually be used now we understand that the seat at the ministry of finance is largely over and what remains to be seen is whether these unrest will continue in the next few days and also how the security forces will respond. a large fire in northwest iran has caused extensive damage in an industrial town and broke out in a chemical factory in the city of qom crews stopped the fire from each in tanks way

industrial alcohol is stored an investigation has been launched into what caused it that the no reports of any casualties and then the afghan authorities are investigating whether a massive fuel truck fire and the capital kabul was an accident or sabotage at least 7 people were killed and 14 injured when a fuel tanker caught fire at a petrol station in kabul the flames then quickly spread causing an electricity blackouts in some parts of the city and damaging nearby buildings the city is currently on high alert for possible attacks by the taliban over the continued presence of u.s. and nato troops in the country. called the growing for an independent commission to investigate a deadly stampede to a religious festival in israel the country has held a day of mourning for the $45.00 men and boys killed during the jewish orthodox event on friday a group of retired police commissioners a saying any commission should have wide ranging powers to investigate senior politicians and decision makers critics are angry that the event even took place in the face of repeated warnings about the venue safety of an aussie is. all heart

broken shattered into a 1000000 pieces there's no words to describe the feeling of the entire country it's like the old bailey. said whenever you go whatever part of the country people talk about one topic what happened here miron on the night of the sudden liberation the didn't tell a country where it's full and you have approximately half a 1000000 people coming for the 1st level who celebrated. much more ahead on this new sound a century after it was split into the future of the island of island is back on the discussion. the 3 whales changing how women do business in zimbabwe. and that is a point and a long way from the high court title that is all of the details about.

how either the weather certainly not looking too spring like across a good positive here at the moment because this massive cloud just rolling out of the czech republic pushing across southern parts of poland in the lot of area of low pressure which drawing in a fair old northerly wind for many that's going to be cold enough to snow as we go on through the next couple of days that will make us well little further research through the baltic states will see wetter weather coming through here gradually pushing over to is that western side of a russia 18 celsius in moscow not too bad at the my little is coming high and we have got some wintry weather across the higher ground of england and scotland as we go on through monday some western weather there for much of the british wiles' if the truth be told want to show is the original the parts of germany pushing back across into powder and and then it's slushy dry but on the cool side we're

struggling to get into the mid teens for many central areas of here of the walters down towards the southeast still getting into the thirty's there into athens as we go on into choose day it stays warm enough down in that southeastern corner but a little colder than the flight but look at that drop from moscow and the woman around 7 celsius on a cool northerly past on the other side of the continent just 10 degrees there and glasgow the water continues meanwhile across northeastern parts of africa with a few showers for know in the areas of tunisia. from the al-jazeera london brokaw center 2 special guests in conversation when societies divided when women are divided and the only thing about then if it's wrong this contract itself unprompted uninterrupted says the 1st words good good are those who are who don't work for him or in fact. he like to think that there's nationalism is not as ugly as someone else's nationalists in part 2 of studio b.

unscripted we know what's happening in our region we know how to get the great feel that others cannot and i wasn't done but only if you're a guy by the party the only purpose how did the iraq have that time and its programming to go live on the embassy to go live to where another story that may not be mainstream is happening in the fires there's still no more normative you can . be let in by. the way that you cal the story is what can make a difference. welcome back to main stories now india has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic with

a new high of almost 3700 deaths in the past day or under modi's party has also been defeated in west bank goal in the state election that which was seen as a referendum on his handling of the pandemic colombia's president has withdrawn a controversial tax reform plan after 4 days of violent protests yvonne duca had previously wanted to amend the proposal but that failed to satisfy protesters. and his auntie could protest continuing me and my 8 people reportedly killed they were mocking what has been described as the global b.m.r. spring revolution along with expatriates around the world. on our press freedom has been another victim of the pandemic across latin america with attacks on the media increasing reports about borders as mark several nations down in its annual world press freedom index it cites governments who have accused journalists a false report saying as leaders try to downplay the extent of the crisis america

at its human reports now from santiago. in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about to pull the 19 pandemic sunny feel good or work for guatemala's independent investigative reporting outed books for police last year he and a colleague began publishing reports 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 at tuck slender any solid generalism public then it becomes an online campaign which can quickly spiral into

physical attacks again as journalists have done all they are 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 going on be. 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 their message to the rest of the media to behave if you want to be and if you want to. if you want to show that it is them you wouldn't steal the show that that was the message the reporters without borders report makes the point that in the context of a global sanitary emergency journalism is the primary vaccine against a virus. it's called disinform ation yet 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.

now to venezuela where the government has increased the monthly minimum wage by 289 percent but it won't make much difference to everyday life the rise is the 2nd this year it's equivalent to just 2 u.s. dollars and 40 cents of the economy in freefall after more than 3 years of hyperinflation and 7 straight years of recession money is only good enough to buy a few basic food items. or fill gunson is a senior analyst at the international crisis group and joins us now from caracas tell us what life is like for many people there and you know how they how they are living how they getting by on just a few dollars a month. or. even a single person much less a family of 5 which is supposed to. pay for it in my last year. or so so people really relied. all their reliable sources.

joe. there's for example. ringback people are. spending. to get subsidized gasoline exchange the gasoline. people simply because many people have voted the latest budget more than 5000000 people have now left them as well because of the deficiency and how is the covert 19 pandemic affected people who are always who have been restrictions on on movement and border in the region. that's right well some people have returns. because things are obviously pretty that is neighboring countries as well but the pandemic hit wonders whether he should be not quite so badly is is another of the region because basically it is a very isolated country very large city. schools there that it is well but now the problem is that with the way that we see of the boy with infections said it is

a very precarious situation essentially where he did out of a version so a complex humanitarian emergency in terms of the health care system and just in terms of food distribution as well does this mean that many people i'm curious who is west affected by this what does it mean for the children for example and how bad it is is now. perhaps even starvation in parts the country. there are literally cases of people starving to death and obviously the children for all the many here are the left behind by working age adults in the countries that say it critical one sign of all is the fact that the government is just the sun would be great if we could go. it's going to come here that it is the issue of our food or the $295.00 thousands injured in the bus that he lied about a 1000000 in the hall so you can start going just how severe the church is among

the youngest only this is a thank you very much phil gunson appreciate you joining us on the news hour from the venezuelan capital caracas. has a cease fire with neighboring tajikistan is holding after a week of intense fighting both nations afford a water supplies for decades as charles traffic fines from care to stun they are now examining the human cost of these latest skirmish as. the curd 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 3 border posts and

10 petrol stations now the press office for the president so there is your power of they're saying that the situation is in their words relatively stable in that area we're hearing reports that the military have withdrawn back across the border we know that there's been a large mobilization of the curious case of me 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. northern ireland turns $100.00 on monday centenary that's unlikely to be celebrated south of the border a former irish president has told out is there that are titian in 1921 was a tragedy that continues to have consequences today some already started marking

the anniversary belfast as actress and explains. there is some frustration in the policy and community over the cancellation or postponement of a series of events to mark this said teen or e s because of covert restrictions however the have been marching bands on the streets over the weekend despite the covert regulations police of warned these people that they should really pack up and go home but they've carried on nevertheless and the parades commission 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 920 warm had led to the partitioning of the country and the birth of northern ireland exactly 100 years ago thousands of civilian lives were lost in the interim isn't conflict that followed mary mcaleese is calling on protestants not to mark monday's sent tina ri with triumphalism language that is used is so important to be to use language that that doesn't other

the people that you share the island with or your share northern ireland with but language that shows that you're sensitive to their concerns one word the right way can you know it can open people up and it can make them consult and hearts whereas 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 for most of this and tina it is that we have been through we haven't used those words we've used the word commemoration we've used softer words we've used words that open up to inclusion and that understand that there are some for whom this was a tragedy and not a when some feel it's ironic that the santini comes at a time when irish unity is edging back onto the agenda helped by bricks at the puts an e.u. trade border in the irish sea separating the u.k. mainland from the island protestants fear alienation the government here in dublin

sees are as unity as a distant prospect officially at least could it happen sooner rather than later well there's a growing body of opinion that it could do you will never solve the problems of northern ireland bye bye. on the good friday peace agreement recognize 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 britain decides 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 rina for cation on what their leaders to put more emphasis on the cheating and i think that the planning and preparation for

a should be because immediately to mitigate some of the damaging impacts of bragg's it particularly and what we've seen with solar and political leaders a lot of the time is putting it on the long finger and pointed to some indiscriminate 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 when these people regard themselves as neither you missed or republican nationalist or loyalist these people really are in the center of things now could this sect to 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 u.s. republican senator and former presidential candidate mitt romney has been met with a chorus of boos while addressing a republican convention in his home state of utah terrorism 1st. this is what he thinks and i don't hide the fact that i was never asked president there are 2 issues. or the senator was critical of president donald trump and the only republican to vote to impeach him twice romney was labeled a communist and a traitor when he took to the stage to address a crowd of more than 2000 party delegates despite the outcry the convention rejected a motion to censure him over the impeachment votes. still you know to stand it have a few folks who don't like me german much you know i'm sure about that but i expressed my my research will be right over my projects is that right. we now take

you to rural zimbabwe 3 wheels are changing how women do business there a new electric motor cycle is helping poor women and in common ease the burden of caring for their families and as hard task reports from where its cheap but effective. chickens are traded for the markets and is known as hamba which means to go in zimbabwe is going to help her take them the. the farmer pays an equivalent of $15.00 a month with a group of friends to lease the electric powered motorcycle she can now sell her goods and much further away from a small village i had said. before i got this bike i couldn't come this far now i sell my chickens and vegetables at a business center that's 20 kilometers away i can get more customers here and more money even carry more goods. the bikes are being tested by

a local startup that's leasing the motorcycles to women in the community our aim was to bring green mobility solutions to women in communities because you know just literally men. under-rated and they spend most of their time doing the whole sort chars instead of. making money and improving their incomes so we thought that if for the partner to test with 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 intake about 7 or 8 hours to charge a battery so in the community whenever someone has a tree 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 tired roads . passengers call or send a whatsapp message to pick up times the drivers say they can make up to 8 dollars a day transporting people money that helps make the more financially independent in zimbabwe a country with jobs asking us how to meet us are there with zimbabwe. still ahead a long program at a railway to sports news i go along so much just united fans reaches new levels we'll have those details with santa in a couple of minutes. young women with a passion for space i used to dream about working at the our school company like not sound and i'm a small stuff the science that giant leap for womankind encouraged to start new but

don't place it inside and at the scheduled time the satellite would be sent into space women make science just on space school on al-jazeera. news. every morning. or. the on the or.

welcome back 4 astronauts of safely return to earth from the international space station in a new 1st for commercial space travel they became the 1st crew to splash down in the sea aboard a craft made by space x. on nasa's behalf you know harding has mall. space x. cup is praise 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 the 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 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. the crew took off in november onboard a falcon 9 rocket. the mission is the 1st step in space x.

owner planned to commercialize space travel and he continued to be nominal space x. . a looking to go straight to miles without without stopping elsewhere and in the middle nasa. looking at using the mill you know to test that in some ways they say as baby steps on the ground that ground program that ground to the elements like data of expanding schiemann space flight once again but i think it's still a significant step making their way 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 sport now with santa. thank you very much marian more majesty united fans have held a big protest at their home stadium old trafford to protest against the club's american owners some fans and made it onto the pitch ahead of united's premier

league game against liverpool much had to be called off the glazer family has owned the team since 2005 many supporters are unhappy with the club's recent push to join the ill fated european super league while many more fans were outside the stadium at united's. was and named a vice chairman of the super league when it was an announced last month within 48 hours of joining the competition of the glazes had apologised to fans in an open letter pulled out of the project well we've been speaking to international football journalist gavin hamilton he says fan frustration at united runs much deeper than just the super league debacle. well i think the glazes purchase of matches you know he was extremely controversial at the time they used the leveraged buyout to buy manchester united they didn't buy them out right they bought the shares and they used to loan you the options using

a loan and then used the profits from the club to repay the interest so they still repaying the debt they got a huge debt still outstanding on the gov but they're extracting money out of the club they're paying themselves personal dividends they're paying so of personal harm since family members have taken money from the club and that's money the fans should be being spent on players basically we're just united all losing out to the actual liverpool they want you to play today liverpool the reigning champions i know and also by americans the americans who have invested heavily in players joining their time in show they've ignored fans they've know protests going back to the storm they bought the club and they don't they very rarely attend matches they stay in america that happens to take the profits and unfortunately the way that english football is structured it means to them personally talk to us to do that so as long as i just you know if he continues to make the money they will continue to bring the profits and use that profit. 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 will take it because they are investors for the time being i think they'll stay put because they're making a lot of money of average students and have enough as i said abating at the club's 1st syria title since 2010 supporters gathered in the last iconic piazza de almost on sunday and to see how this could that oh thanks to atalanta's failure to be. it means antonio contant conti's aside to have an unsaleable leave at the top of the table. on display the title being decided the race for champions league places is still on you ventus boosted their chances are by beating who denies it to one away thanks to 2 late goals by christian or not all this when moving you've a up to 3rd in spain barcelona avoided the slip up as they chased the league a title 2 goals from the n.l. mess in one from antoine grisman help them from behind to beat violence yes 32

there are now 2 points behind leaders atletico formula one now lewis hamilton has won the portuguese the reigning world champion had started the 2nd on the grid but managed to win ahead of red bulls max there stop and in 2nd a messy disagreement valtteri bottas and 3rd how to nice the drivers' championship by 8 points after 3 races. and it was such a tough race. physically and mentally just keeping everything together is very windy out there overseas so it's very easy to separate it from rome. i think overall we just like the level of praise compared to them in the race all that we knew last year really were not particularly strong here. i think this region is going to live a better but still not good enough. tennis now now moussaka has been knocked out in the 2nd round of the madrid open the world number 2 is beating in 3 sets by

carolina of the czech republic the wait for clay court title goes on for the reigning u.s. and australian open champion. a crowd of more than $50000.00 fans that watch medina spirit when a horse racing's a kentucky derby the event was held without spectators last year in contrast this was the largest crowd at u.s. sporting event since the coronavirus pandemic began and in a spirit is trained by a barber fair it's his 7th victory the most of any train and the race is 147 year history. and also sport for me we'll have more for you later on but for now it's back to marion in london lovely santa thanks very much that's it for the news hour i'll be back with

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lost control could the pandemic usher in the 4 day work week and environmental racism opposition grows to a us plight for. counting the cost on al-jazeera. said his on it change because. people believe in a post that is bigger than their. value our way to make a political the my city around the promise they represented they put themselves to make the changes something that we. should have taken this long they're going to name is condemnation learned we have a discotheque to slosh war to create new areas we have to change this culture i am one of the fortunate ones who can lead and if that is my love but all the people and on that majority of these legal research talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to

refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to me and mark. celebrations in india as the prime minister's party solve as a setback in state elections held this fight the covert crisis in gulf in his country. and oh i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program after days of violent protests colombia's president says he's withdrawing his tax reform plan.