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and experiments in living with covert music sounds dogs at a u.k. music festival they have to test negatives to get it. india has suffered its deadliest day yet of the pandemic almost 3700 people lost their lives there were close to 400000 new cases prime minister narendra modi had tried to keep the country open as he campaigned in regional elections or that policy appears to have costly backfired as his party failed to win power in the key states and the correspondent in his best problem reports now from new delhi. supporters of west bengal's governing trinamool congress party the t.n.c. celebrating victory in the capital kolkata that's despite the election commission banning all celebrations because of n.d.s. high number of carnivorous cases. that supporters said they wanted to mark

a month about a g.'s reelection for 3rd term as chief minister. from a hard we have good wishes from above energy and that is why we are celebrating we already knew that d.m.c. will win because the development has been done by the n.c. not anyone else on the other left was in power but they did not bring. 175000000 people who are eligible to vote in the states off west bengal. and put a cherry politicians including prime minister met in the modi have been criticised for holding large election rallies during a 2nd wave of corona virus the world health organization said such gatherings are one of the reasons for india's surge in cases for candidates a giant in west bengal after contract uncovered 19. 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 id i covered that so i know they passed a political resolution to be chippy saying jamie the prime minister neither what he did and there were all these. just claims about how unity is so strong and you're not like that the best work. on. india is now the line on international aid as it's hospitals are struggling but shortages of beds oxygen equipment and medicines prime minister met in the morning held a meeting with health experts about the sure just not just of beds and supplies but also health care workers that says reports emerge from brutal areas of people dying as a life saving equipment including ventilators and lying under used without the doctors who had 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 hospitals because of the shortage the 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 out to veteran sars a senior journalist on a political analyst he says the government is responsible for the 2nd wave the fact is that the present situation or didn't lot do the kind of response and irresponsibility on display from the indian leadership. even to do. people were lining up shoulder to shoulder cheek by jowl inuit the british for counting of votes in the local bodies election and then what was the necessity of holding these local bodies elections of them in the 1st place in the midst of this

pandemic this baffles everybody but number less so yes then it's a question of the wrong priorities and design set for example being set by the leadership but you preferred large political gatherings and when you turn to. turn a blind eye to shoot religious congregations and the people tend to 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 the 30th that at the moment we've we are in a long long duk tunnel and 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 a frightening prospect a contentious new australian law which threatens jail time for people returning from india is facing a growing backlash from monday anyone who's been in india within 14 days of plan data for 10 will be banned from entering australia as a 1st time australia has made it a potential criminal offense for its own citizens to come home some 1000 australians in india are registered as wanting to return. the situation in india is dive 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 our chief medical offices and their advice is that we need to put in place they secure

images with respect to people coming from india to australia so they temporary they'll be reviewed on the 15th of may but they're designed based on the medical advice to keep a strain site last in america struggling with high demand for covert 19 vaccines but there aren't enough doses 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 suppose a total of 3000000 present i'll bet if a man dies has extended a not tomko few in the capsule by 3 weeks than a swine a how small 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 a v. is coming from russia we've had some of the last percentage were made in india but

having heard you've already 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 to find to subdue that it's about that pressure for as long as he can and waiting for those vaccines to come in. the question as to where the 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 don't agree with the the national government policies of the city government and one of cyrus fighting in the courts against the federal government so that it is also a problems people are then in a position where they can pick and choose which which leader they want to listen to that they listen to their provincial governor or do 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 at least 6 people were killed including a police officer and hundreds of people injured in the past 4 days decay said the bill would be revised to move tax increases on food sales utilities and income the government insists the reform is vital to stabilizing colombia's finances is the issue moment to date on this which is a moment of greatness and of protecting the most vulnerable of inviting the structure told to not hatred and destruction it is a moment for all of us to work together with us the path of

a consensus clear perceptions and allow us to say clearly there will not be i mean crazy goods and services nor will the existing rules be changed. kurdistan says a cease fire with neighboring tajik stan is holding out a week of intense border fighting but it's nation's claim an area around a water supply facility in a dispute dating back to kate's as the official death toll mounts in the wake of the worst fighting there in years kurdistan is accusing its neighbor of war crimes charles strafford has the latest from osce in kurdistan. the courage his ministry of internal affairs has announced that 25 bodies have been found in the town of goal of their reporting that these people were killed in a mortar attack by the military on april the 29th they've also released some statistics on the kind of structural damage damage to homes. during these attacks

they saying that 70 to 78 houses have been burned to schools sri border posts and 10 petrol stations now the press office for the president some other of your power off they're saying that the situation is in their words relatively stable in that area we are hearing reports that the military have withdrawn back across the border we know that there's been a large mobilization of the kirghiz army to that area as you would expect and interestingly some news coming out from the bacon local authorities along those borders they're saying that 58000 people were evacuated from the area 52000 of who they are reporting as being women and children so another indication of just how severe how serious these clashes have been. still ahead on al-jazeera journalism and reporters have been even more under attack during the pandemic plus

. election by some. women on a call to press there's. time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways we've got some very heavy rain pushing back into central and eastern parts of china over the next day or so not cheap but at the moment you see this area cloud just rolling across central parts ahead of that we've seen the rights of system just pushing across japan just pulling out of the way high pressure coming in behind over the next day or so so it should be last you find the warm and pleasant sunshine coming through want to see showers in all the home she into hokkaido but the really wet weather coming down across central parts of china making its way further east which is we go through

choose day the possibility of some disruptive rain coming through here we've already seen damaging winds and flooding into parts of eastern china i'm afraid there is more where that came from ahead of that is not so bad for japan at least through choose day around $25.00 celsius in the sunshine fam out of sunshine so it's a southeast asia the philippines is fine and dry southern parts will catch a shop show since the usual rushes showers there across much of southeast asia some of those heaviest showers there into northern parts of borneo pushing across towards the smarter and on into the have been gold so we'll see some what's the weather just making its way over towards us for lanka as we go through the next day or so southern parts of india also seeing some showers but somewhat dry. qatar airways the small boy and his brother rescued from war in gaza by the red cross. the 1st time a red cross truck now a world leader in crisis management and the doctor in chicago who still misses her

. one day off without me thinking of returning to jordan al-jazeera world meets 2 successful arab doctors in north america arabs abroad the humanitarian and on al-jazeera. the. welcome back and watching al-jazeera mind top stories this hour india has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic almost 3700 people lost their lives prime minister narendra modi had tried to keep the country open as he campaigned in regional elections but his policy perform poorly in

a key state. a contentious new australian law which threatens jail time for people returning from india is facing a growing backlash as a takes a fax from monday anyone who's been in india within 14 days of their return will be banned from entering australia. colombia's president even decay has withdrawn proposed tax hikes after nationwide protests at least 6 people were killed and hundreds injured the bill is going to be revised to remove tax increases on food sales utilities and income. 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 leaders based in pakistan odan says american efforts to fight al qaeda have left the group greatly degraded as u.s. troops prepare to withdraw from afghanistan

a local doctor who helped pinpoint some of bin laden's location is still in a pakistani jail she kill off really was never formally charged as 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 begins 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 see that he had to. do something with william chards military council has named a transition government following the president's sudden death the military and some took power after he was killed on the frontline fighting rebels last month or child's opposition leaders solich his body oh says he recognizes the need for 2

strong cabinet which includes 2 members of his party an overnight curfew imposed after debbie's death has now been lifted in a rural district in zimbabwe a new electric powered motorcycle is changing how women do business by helping the poor and in income and ease the burden of caring for families. has this report from. shallot continuous chickens are ready for the market and this 3 wheeler known as which means to go in zimbabwe is going to help her take them there. the farmer pays an equivalent of $15.00 a month with a group of friends to lease the electric powered motorcycles she can now sell her goods much further away from a small village i had said. before i got this bike i couldn't come this far now i start my chickens and vegetables at a business center that's 20 kilometers away i can get more customers here and more

money even carry more goods the bikes are being tested by a local startup that's leasing the motorcycles to women in the community our aim was to bring green mobility solutions to women in communities because you notice that you remain. under rated and they spend most of their time during the whole sordid chars instead of. making money and improving their incomes so we thought that if for the partner to test with the riemann to see if they are going to improve their livelihoods 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 and take about 7 or 8 hours to charge a battery so it became unity whenever someone has

a flat battery they just come in here and swap it for a full charge when. the bikes made in china and assembled in the capital harare are proving useful in communities with no reliable public transport or tard roads. passengers call or send a whatsapp message to schedule pickup times the drivers say they can make up to 8 dollars a day transporting people money that helps make them more financially independent in zimbabwe a country with jobs asking us how to move. with zimbabwe. reporters without borders says attack on the media having craze tearing the crown of ours demick some governments have accused journalists of false reporting on coronaviruses latest trying to downplay the extent of the crisis alas america and us and this in yemen has the support from santiago. in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about the pulver 19

pandemic sunny figure or works for guatemala's independent investigative reporting outlets. last year he and a colleague began publishing the porch about corruption during the pandemic that implicated close friends of the president. that's when the president labeled us the terrible to detain for 21 hours and we're now getting death threats and are being followed constantly. a new study from reporters without borders suggests that with the exception of costa rica and 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 the brazilian 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 call 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 about 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. if you want to be and if you want to. if you want to show the truth is i'm. going to 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. scald dissin from asian 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 sente out. of state and city blinken has also weighed in saying repressive governments have used the pandemic to intensify pressure on the media so let's look more broadly at the world press freedom index which features 180 countries and says janice possibly

or completely blocked from doing their jobs in more than $130.00 countries the west north korea china iran and syria several governments have been accused of using the pandemic to silence critics with laws against what they see as fake news chrysippus up a teeny as a senior research fellow in america chatham house he says he'll still ety 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 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 and so in 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 it 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. well on a more positive note a crowd of 5000 music fans have flocked to live a poll in england for the fust one of the fest live in person concepts in the u.k. since the pandemic began the crowd were able to move around with no distancing or mosques but only if they tested negative to covert 90 before arriving to help reports. imagine a time before masks and social distancing elbow greetings and hand sanitizer. on sunday indie 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 mass gatherings beyond the pandemic a resumption of life as we used to know it is it. does feel a bit uncomfortable almost but i just feel sad to see also happy that it's going to has been for cortin's tests and making 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 $3000.00 people partied like it was 2019 is 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 $8000.00 who were allowed to attend last weekend's calibur 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 will 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. let's bring in julia ponce

he is an epidemiologist and he joins us from south paolo in brazil many thanks speaking to us an artist there it's quite interesting how the u.k. seems to be testing the waters out here carrying out events in one city and then monitoring had guys is that the right way to do it. good evening to all. that is the way that it should be done when we are in the middle of them and then think there are 4 things that we need to look out for which is the duration of time how long a person can be infected the opportunities that the person has to be transmitted to somebody the probability that they will transmitted to somebody and the susceptibility of the population since we are increasing vaccination numbers in the united kingdom is around 50 percent at this time now we are decreasing the susceptibility of the population to being infected by the corona virus so we can

start relaxing some of the measures such as wearing masks or being socially distant but we have to keep an eye out because there could be a breakout of those measures are taken with the necessary caution so testing for people before they go into a concert is a good way of assuring that we are not letting in somebody who could potentially spread to others inside the venue can we learn lessons from previous viruses or epidemics so all we need unique position here when it comes to cohabit. we of course have the. we have the situation before with some viruses such as sars or even h one n one pandemic in 1918 but of course we are now in a situation where the number of social events has increased and we have been to the spend that make for over 14 months now so we can now start seeing what other

countries have done countries that have occurred the expansion of the disease such as australia 'd and new zealand and even china to look for the signs that they have done to make sure that those events can be carried out safely. very good to get your thoughts today upon say speaking to a staff from south. thank you. with . this is al jazeera these are your top stories and there has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic almost 3700 people lost their lives prime minister narendra modi had tried to keep the country open as a campaign and regional elections but it's party performed poorly in a key state a contentious new australian law which.