al jazeera will be looking into both sides of the border in this one story for irish politics 'd. india suffers its deadliest day yet from the coronavirus pandemic the health care system in the crematorium continued to be overwhelmed. by money this is al jazeera live from coming up colombia's president withdraws his tax reform plan after days of protests. a cease fire holes at the kurds tajik

border but there are accusations of new crimes. only for those testing negative for covert 90 music fans were able to dance next to each other at a music festival in liverpool. and it has suffered its deadliest day yet of the pandemic almost 3700 people lost their lives there were close to 400000 new cases the prime minister there and a modi had tried to keep the country open as he campaigned in regional elections will that policy appears to have partially backfired india correspondent elizabeth problem explains from new delhi. supporters of west bengal's governing trinamool congress party the t.n.c. celebrate a victory in the capital kolkata that's despite the election commission banning all

celebrations because of n.d.s. high number of cars on a virus cases. but supporters said they wanted to mark a month about a g.'s reelection for a 3rd term as chief minister. from our hearts we have good wishes from above energy and that is why of us celebrating we already knew that the mc would have been because the development has been done by the n.c. 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 on that in the modi have been criticised for holding large election rallies during a 2nd wave of coronavirus the world health organization said such gatherings are one of the reasons for india's surge in cases for candidates died in west bengal after contracting a 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. got their national id i covered it so i know all they passed a political resolution to be chippy saying meaning the prime minister and i know what he did and there were all these claims of. 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 international aid as it's hospitals a struggling but shortages of beds oxygen equipment and medicines prime minister not 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 brutal areas of people dying as lifesaving equipment and moving ventilators on lying under use without the doctors who have the expertise to use them elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi.

hospitals have buckled on the pressure of numbers desperately needed oxygen is beginning to arrive from countries including the u.k. and france but it's still not enough many people have died at home and in hospital because of the shortage nearly 10 indian states and territories of impose restrictions of movement in response to the surge but the government has yet to order a national looked well now there are warnings that africa could face a similar emergency if cases like india there's a lack of hospital beds oxygen and ventilators in many countries doctor may soon to have is the call called co director of the sudan coded 19 research group she says the situation in africa is grave. for a long 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 a wide 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 speaks of daily professions daily daily prison processions appearance 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 for a 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 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 from ovid for or other illnesses but the hospitals are overwhelmed and they're not able to get care for. you know 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. last in america struggling with heights a month ago of annoyance in back scenes there aren't enough days is to go around in argentina only a small number of people have received the job the country courted 16000 new cases on saturday and will soon see the pass a total of 3000000 president fernando is has extended a nighttime curfew in the capital by 3 weeks. has the latest from buenos aires. less than 2 percent of the 42000000 inhabitants of argentina have had their 2nd dose around 1112 percent have had their 1st vaccination but it is proving difficult

just to get enough vaccines some are being coming in from russia the sputnik be is coming from russia we've had some of the last percentage made in india but having heard you could go if you just heard about the problems india is having some of that distribution has dried up or dwindled quite significantly and obviously and vaccines coming in from china as well but they're coming in in dribs and drabs we have a flight coming in one day 2 or 3 days later another flight might come in carrying 6 or 700000 doses simply not enough hence this 3 week lockdown to try to reduce the pressure on hospital beds something like approaching 80 percent occupancy in the hospitals in and around one of cyrus for about a 3rd of the argentine population lives the president is really just fine to subdue that it's about the pressure for as long as he can and waiting for those vaccines to come in. the question as to whether people aren't daring to be or respecting the

lock down probably less than they did during the 1st wave and you also have a problem where there's a national government policy and some of the provinces the provincial governments sometimes agree with the national government policies of the city government of one of cyrus fighting in the courts against the federal government so that it is also a problems people are then in the position where they can pick and choose which which leader they want to listen to they listen to their provincial governor or they listen to the national governments so you have mixed messages which obviously doesn't help the situation. colombia's president even decay has withdrawn proposed tax hikes after nationwide protests and at least 6 people were killed including a police officer and hundreds of people have been injured in the past 4 days due kay said the bail would be revised to remove tax increases on food sales utilities and income the government insists the reform is vital to stabilizing colombia's finances. yet he was live for us in the capital bogus

so what is the reaction been from people there is this what they wanted to hear yes a 1000000 just minutes after president do came made his announcement. last started in a number of neighborhoods in baghdad this is a traditional way of protesting celebrating hitting pots and pans and then more people started to gather. on the streets and what they're saying is that they're obviously happy that the approach is to have in the me or convince president ducat to change his mind about this very unpopular and controversial tax reform but they also said that they want to continue protesting that they believe that while this has been the main driver of the protest

so far the most popular item they have a long list of grievances and so we can expect to see more protests more demonstrations in the coming days with people saying that they want to see president do clear stepping down now to give us a bit more detail on that i mean how much opposition is there to the president right now and could we see him go as a result. well that's probably unlikely at this point we're less than a year away from new congressional elections in a little over a year away from a new presidential elections what probably this means is that this really is the beginning of is lame duck period only has roughly 6 months to work with congress to try and pass new laws starting with what most economists here think is necessary

which is a new tax reform what's clear is that he's very isolated and very weak considering that this reform which was considered one of the landmark be able to present a legacy bill instead there was almost immediately by widespread opposition including and parties that make up is government coalition including in his own party so he sort of painted himself in a corner it's also dealing with a very angry population that people are increasingly desperate to because the economic situation here. become much worse for many people due to their make their restrictions poverty levels increase their unemployment also is that at an all time high it's a very very difficult situation for

a president even book many thanks for that allison that i'm here to be there for us in bogota kurdistan says a ceasefire with neighboring tajik stan is holding a week of intense border fighting both nations claim an area around a water supply facility in this dating back decades as the official death tolls mounts in the wake of the worst fighting the years kurdistan is accusing its neighbor of war crimes. that has the latest in kurdistan. the carriage is ministry of internal affairs has announced that 25 bodies have been found in the town of goal over there reporting that these people were killed in a mortar attack by the military on april the 29th they've also released some statistics on the kind of structural damage damage to homes. during these attacks they saying that 70 to 78 houses have been burned to schools sri border posts and

10 petrol stations now the press office for the president some other of your power off they're saying that the situation is in their words relatively stable in that area we are hearing reports that the military have withdrawn back across the border we know that there's been a large mobilization of the kirghiz army to that area as you would expect and interestingly some news coming out from the bacon local authorities along those borders they're saying that 58000 people were evacuated from the area 52000 of who they are reporting as being women and children so another indication of just how severe how serious these clashes that being. so had on al jazeera. journalism report. was attacked during the pandemic plus.

american. down off to $67.00 days. however we've got more violent storms pushing across the deep south of the u.s. you can see the thunder has a rumbling away around louisiana mississippi and they're all making their way over towards the eastern seaboard further north quite an active system here just around the northern plains pushing up towards the midwest we'll see some wetter weather coming in as we go through the next couple of days there you go some heavy showers a rumbling away pushing for a swiss temperatures not too bad ahead of that still getting up to around 24 celsius in d.c. 22 for new york notice a much cooler air over towards the the rockies denver around a big drop in temperature here with some snow that will make its way further east

which as we go through tuesday increasingly turning to rain some violent storms a possibility once again just around arkansas pushing across into mississippi down across the deep south behind us there will be some wintry flurries over the rockies and it stays dry and sunny over towards the west coast plenty of water coming through here from out of sunshine say it to the caribbean we have got some showers in the forecast i think the eastern others could catch a shower too particularly around with the wind which as we go on through monday the showers a little more widespread but she was de. frank assessments on. one. and one. taking for the situation might not be you could ever get informed opinion is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just

a simple act of reorganizing ministry asa this is a message to the region that the united states is rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day school ople headlines inside story on. the. it watching al-jazeera mind our top stories this hour india has recorded its deadliest day of the almost 3700 people lost their lives prime minister in there and to modi has tried to keep the country open as he campaigned in the regional elections but his policy before orly in a key state. colombia's president even decay has withdrawn proposed tax hikes after

the nationwide protests and the 6 people killed and hundreds injured the bill is going to be revised to remove tax increases on food sales utilities and income. kurdistan says a ceasefire with neighboring tajik ston is holding off to a week of intense order fighting authorities in kurdistan say they found 25 bodies from the latest attack accusing its neighbor of crimes. u.s. president joe biden has paid tribute to the servicemen 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 and says american efforts to fight al qaeda have left the group greatly degraded as u.s. troops prepare to withdraw from afghanistan well a local doctor who helped pinpoint a summer bed lawton's location is still in

a pakistani jail. afridi was never formally charged for his role in helping the cia to find the al qaeda leader he helped run a fake vaccination program to confirm bin laden's location he's been in pakistani custody since 2011 but according to his lawyer he was denied a fair trial. look he never complained that he has done something for united states that the americans should get him out of here but morally when americans say that he has worked with them they should do something with for him reporters without borders says attacks on the media have increased during the coronavirus pandemic some governments have accused journalists of false reporting on coronaviruses latest trying to downplay the extent of the crisis last in america to say listen human reports 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 i want them all as independent investigative reporting outlets. nash dear he and a colleague began publishing the porch of a production during the pandemic that implicated close friends of the president. that's when the president labeled us the terrible to detain for 21 hours and we're now getting death threats and are being followed constantly. a new study from reporters without borders suggests that with the exception of costa rica and europe why freedom of news media has diminished across the board since the pandemic began . authoritarian governments attack slender any solid generalism public then it becomes an online campaign news can quickly spiral into physical attacks again as journalists want to call their resilient president jaipal to nat'l

is consistently labeling the media as a public enemy troops coverage of the pandemic encouraging his supporters to attack journalists both online and in person says column b. this is. a common denominator is the use of social networks to discredit and attack journalists who do not paint a government's handling of the pandemic in a favorable light or how the governor of the venezuelan state of our accused journalists going to go to idea of being paid to lie in a report about the acute shortage of hospital beds and medicine she tells me she's being investigated under an anti-terrorism financing law. they were yelling that i won't deny that i'm frightened that i'm always looking over my shoulder that i don't know when this so-called charge against me will result in my arrest and in chile a prominent independent journalist who suggested that the health ministry was under reporting the number of coded 1000 infections and deaths was accused of spreading

fake news of trying to destroy the government and of being anti patriotic it was a message to the rest of the media to behave if you want to be and if you want to. if you want to show that it is them you wouldn't steal the show that that was the message the reporters without borders report makes the point that in the context of a global sanitary emergency journalism is the primary vaccine against a virus. it's called disinform ation yes there is and our own investigation suggests that the pandemic is actually being used to justify in many cases limiting transparency and freedom of expression you see in human al-jazeera santiago. let's look more broadly at the world press freedom and x. which features 180 countries and shows journalists are partially or completely blocks from doing their jobs in more than 100 countries the worst on north korea

china vietnam iran and syria several governments have been accused of using the pandemic to silence critics with laws against what they see as fake news christopher sabatini is a senior research fellow in america at chatham house he says hostility to as 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 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. at least 8 protesters have reportedly been killed by security forces in myanmar and have been during some of the biggest demonstrations against military role in days hundreds of people have been killed since a military coup began in february well the protests in myanmar are being coordinated with also has around the world hundreds of people from taiwan's myanmar community monts through taipei it was similar events in 41 cities across 18 countries taiwan is home to run 40000 migrants and immigrants from me and. calls a growing for an independent commission to investigate a stampede at a religious festival in israel and observed

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 says any investigation investigation should have wide ranging palace to probe senior politicians for astronauts have splashdown back to. first night time ocean landing in more than half a century all say they're feeling well off to traveling 140000000 kilometers during this stint in orbit has a story. space x. copies per his 1st question after more than 5 months in space for astronauts on board the dragon spacecraft splash down in the gulf of mexico off the coast of florida. after a 6 and a half hour journey back from the international space station or i assess they landed safely becoming the 1st crew to return from orbit in a space x. mission in partnership with nasa the night time splashdown was nasa's 1st since

1968 when apollo 8 the 1st mission to send astronauts around the moon returned to earth i think this is a remarkable achievement. but you it you have a life time for many of us something to be proud of. americans michael hopkins victor glover and shannon walker along with cina gucci of japan are the 4 astronauts on board this was glover's 1st time in space he's also the 1st black nasa astronaut to be a member of an i s s crew after medical checks they were taken to shore and flown to houston texas today it went very well overall i would say almost flawlessly dragon did great you know it was great to hear the crew when they woke up the 1st thing my cop considered is as you know what's the weather going to be like we told them hey maybe a 2 not to win a one foot wave and he was very excited from the very beginning. the crew took off

in november onboard a falcon 9 rocket. the mission is the 1st step in space x. owner musk's plan 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 she even space flight once again but i think it's still a significant step making their way over to while the astronauts recover the capsule will be taken back to the launch site at cape canaveral florida and refurbished for another trip to space harding al-jazeera. a crowd of 5000 music fans have a poll in england one of the 1st live in person called. since the pandemic began

the crowd were able to move around with no distance but only if they test negative that 19 before arriving. reports. imagine a time before masks and social distancing elbow greetings and hand sanitizer. on sunday in the band the blossoms played to a crowd of $5000.00 under a big top tent in liverpool sefton park it was the 1st live gig without restrictions in more than a year part of a series of trials hoping to point the way towards mascot the rings beyond the pandemic the resumption of life as we used to know it. does feel a bit uncomfortable almost but i just feel i just feel so happy that it's going to how it's being precautions tests and making sure that everyone's you know before we even got to the set 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 $3000.00 people partied like it was 2019 does a really exciting opportunity for liverpool to be part of the events 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. carol cup final at wembley hoping the days of canned crowd applause are numbered various test events will culminate at london's wembley stadium again when

a quarter capacity crowd of $21000.00 fans will gather for football's f.a. cup final on may the 15th 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 all pandemic restrictions may be lifted by late june jonah how al-jazeera london. this is al jazeera these are your top stories and it has recorded as deadliest day of the pandemic almost 3700 people have lost their lives prime minister narendra modi have tried to keep the country open as he campaigned in regional elections but his posse performed poorly and a key state last in america.