the problem by removing the guy then you could keep 36 years on a family's quest for justice reveals systemic resistance to prosecution in musselburgh conflict for taking my father away from me and exposes the influence the former apartheid system bushman still wielded in the new south africa my father died for this the people in power investigation on al-jazeera. india's deadliest week yet criticism mounts of a prime minister moody's handling of the covert 19 catastrophe that's spreading across the country. hello i'm adrian forgive this is al jazeera live from doha also coming.

controversial tax reforms shelved after days of protests in colombia. a severe drought across somalia is forcing thousands of families to flee and. that experiment in clubbing under covert time to the u.k. music festival the entry fee a negative coronavirus test. bindiya has once again reported well in excess of 350000 new corona virus infections in a 24 hour period that's according to indian media this past week has been india's worst so far with more than 2600000 infections and 23000 fatalities electioneering has been partially blamed for the surge on sunday results of 5

regional elections were declared prime minister rudd remotest party fail to win power in a key states elizabeth brown of reports now from new delhi. supporters of west bengal's governing trinamool congress party. great victory in the capital kolkata that's despite the election commission banning because of india's high number of cases. that supporters said they wanted to mark reelection 1st chief minister. we have. good wishes from above energy and that is why we are celebrating we already knew that the mc would have been because the development has been done by the mc 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 tree politicians including prime minister met in the modi have been criticized

for holding large election rallies during a 2nd wave of corona virus the world health organization said such gatherings are one of the reasons for india's surge in cases 4 candidates died 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 for. on february 21st. got their national id i covered that so i know they passed a political resolution the. same jamie the prime minister and i know what he did and then all these claims about how we get unity is so strong you know it's like the best word we're going to. india is now the line on international aid as it's hospitals are struggling but shortages of beds oxygen

equipment and meds since prime minister met in the morning held a meeting with health experts about the shortage just not just of beds and supplies but also health care workers that says reports emerge from rural areas of people dying as a lifesaving equipment including ventilators on lying and used without the doctors who had the expertise to use them as a pull on al-jazeera new delhi. hospitals a buckle due to the number of patients needing urgent care desperately needed oxygen is now beginning to arrive from countries into. in the u.k. and france but it's still not enough many people have died at home and in hospital due to the shortage nearly 10 indian states and territories of imposed restrictions on movement in response to the surge in cases but the government has yet to water a national lockdown malaysia has detected its 1st case of the highly infectious coated 19 variant identified in india health officials say that it was found in

a person who traveled from india during airport screening they didn't say when that case was detected but the public to remain calm lazy a band flights to and from india all witness today. pakistan received 1000000 vaccine doses from china on sunday it purchased a total of 17000000. from 3 chinese companies they'll supplement the astra zeneca vaccine that's being delivered through the kodaks program pakistan is an occupation of just over 2000000 people of its population of 228000000. there are warnings that africa could face a similar emergency if the number of cases grows like india there's a lack of hospital beds oxygen and ventilates in many countries stop to may soon is the co-director of the sudan covert 19 research group she says the situation there is grave. 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 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 production processions of puna rolls 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 for obit but for for other illnesses but the hospitals are overwhelmed and they are 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 some of what we feel is going on in sudan and perhaps elsewhere. latin america is struggling with a high demand for covert 19 vaccines in argentina only a small number of people have received the job the country is now surpassed 3000000 cases president founder's as extended a nighttime curfew in the capital by 3 weeks danielle schwedler reports from one of . the numbers keep rising argentina like the rest of latin america is suffering a 2nd wave of covered nineteen's infections and deaths the government has imposed

a further 3 weeks of new tougher lockdown restrictions a nighttime curfew and schools returning to online classes the authorities say their main aim is to relieve the strain on hospitals or you don't say that you're not know nor today the house system can cope with another patient not one more we've reached our limit the number of contaminated patients even if it doesn't go up has reached a breaking point it's overflowing we can keep extending measures every 15 days or 2 more years but what we've got to do is test and vaccinate. the arrival of vaccines has been slow to sporadic the argentinian government says it's doing all it can to find new supplies but so far any a small percentage of people have had both jabs the elderly and those with already serious health conditions in the meantime the only other option is to keep asking these people to be patient and cooperate. people need to be more

aware and realise that our hospitals are full that the health workers are exhausted and we only to understand what we citizens need to do to fight this. there have been demonstrations against the government measures the argentine economy already facing severe difficulties before the pandemic has been hit hard is it the mustn't get out we're trapped in a situation which we understand is for our own good but we've got no help from anyone to help us fight through the nomic. the constant requests to pack up early stay indoors keep your distance have become for many an annoying drone in the background even though they understand that it could be a matter of life or death 3000000 infections is a grim statistic in a horror story that also includes growing unemployment homelessness some poverty figures that will only keep rising until the coronavirus is brought on the role. primarily to 01 osiris. colombia's president is withdrawing

a controversial tax reform proposal after days of violent protests across the capital at least 6 people 5 protest us and a police officer died appear to reports from bogota. after 4 days of intensifying protests in widespread opposition from lawmakers president given to kid didn't have many options left but to withdraw his controversial tax reform. i'm asking congress to withdraw the law proposed by the finance ministry and urgently process a new law that is the fruit of consensus in order to avoid financial uncertainty the reform is not of the reform is a necessity to withdraw it or not was not the discussion the real discussion is to be able to guarantee the continued off social programs. celebratory consider lasser's beating on pots and pans could be heard in the capitol building just minutes after the announcement was friday dukie had already promised to make

changes to the law removing the most controversial point like new taxes on food but in the face of a growing death toll looting an accusation of abuses by the police he pulled it all together. protestors hailed the announcement as a victory but they still have a long list of grievances and say that the protests will continue i mean if the letter from a lower level. there's also labor. reform pension and health reform the issue of corruption the increasing violence against community centers the protests will continue and we will not grow tired some analysts in the country consider a tax reform necessary to stabilize colombia's finances in maintain its international debt credit but blame the government for pushing forward the bill nobody liked and the government still could have prevented all the pain and all the suffering that went into the 1st 4 days of protests if it had at least listened to

people if he had listened and consulted with the political parties if he had listened and consulted with public opinion but they decided this by everything to go ahead and introduce the reform in spite of their knowledge that it was deep you know popular some parts of the withdrawal shows just how isolated president ok in a country increasingly on edge while he's hoping to gather support for a revised tax reform with less than a year to go before new elections the political reality on the streets and in congress might make it unlikely alison that i'm just you know what that. the weather next here on our 010 how journalism and reporters have been even under more pressure during the pandemic. plus the cease fire holds over caregivers tajik border but there are 3 sessions of pork rinds.

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 the 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 they go some heavy showers a rumbling away pushing further a swiss temperatures not too bad ahead of that still getting up to around 24 celsius in d.c. 22 there for new york notice a much cooler air over towards the the rockies denver around a celsius 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 dry weather 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 if i'm out of sunshine say it to the caribbean we have got some showers in the forecast i think the eastern allas 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 day. young women with a passion for space i used to dream about working at the school company like nasa and i found that a small step for the science that giant leap for womankind in kurdistan the only place it inside and at the scheduled time the south like to be sent into space

women make science kind of stunt space school on al-jazeera. the. other again this is al-jazeera the main news this hour india has once again reported well in excess of 350000 new covert 19 infections of the 24 hour period that's according to indian media this past week has been the worst so far with more than 2600000 cases of 23000 deaths. last and america is struggling with high demand for covert 19 vaccines but there are enough doses to go

around in argentina only a small number of people have received the jab the country has now recorded a total of $3000000.00 cases of colombia's president yvonne took a house with 4 proposed tax hikes after nationwide protests at least 6 people were killed hundreds were 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 leader's base in pakistan biden says that american efforts to fight al qaeda have left the group greatly degraded as u.s. troops prepare to withdraw from afghanistan where a doctor who helped pinpoint osama bin laden's location is still in a pakistani jail shaquille afridi was never formally charged for his role in

helping the cia to find the al qaeda leader he helped to 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 they get was look like he never complained that he has done something for the united states or that the americans should get him out of here but morally when americans say that he had worked with them then they should do something with the him u.s. republican senator and former presidential hopeful mitt romney has been booed at a republican convention at his home state of utah. romney was critical of former president donald trump and the only republican senators a vote twice to convict him of his impeachment trials. was called a communist a traitor but he came on stage to address party delegates. so you had to stand it

if you folks that don't like me german much you know i'm sorry but that i expressed my mind it was a way it was right on my crotch and says. because stan says that a ceasefire with neighboring to take a stand is holding after a week of intense border fighting both nations claim an area around the water supply facility in a dispute that dates back decades as the official death toll mounts in the wake of the west facing there in years kyrgyzstan is accusing its neighbor of war crimes charles stratford as the latest from auschwitz in kyrgyzstan the kurdish ministry of internal affairs has announced that 25 bodies have been found in the town of goal over there reporting that these people were killed in a mortar attack by the military on april the 29th they've also released some statistics on the kind of structural damage damage to homes. during these attacks they're saying that 70 to 78 houses have been burned to schools 3 border posts and

10 petrol stations now the press office for the president saw 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 kirghiz army to that area as you would expect and interestingly some news coming out from the base can local authorities along those borders they're saying that 58000 people were evacuated from the area 52000 of who they are reporting as being women and children so another indication of just how severe how serious these clashes have been. he says that unidentified gunmen have killed 16 soldiers and wounded 6 others in the southwest of the country the attack

on an army patrol happened on saturday in the takura region and stay aware 137 civilians were killed in march no group has claimed responsibility but an eyesore faction operates in the area israeli security forces say they are searching for gunman who opened fire as they drove past a major intersection in the occupied west bank injuring 3 offices local media reported that the gunman escaped in a car with palestinian license plates earlier on sunday is ready soldiers say they shot a palestinian woman who approached them with a knife calls are growing for an independent commission to investigate a stampede at a religious festival in israel the country observed a day of mourning for the $45.00 men and boys who were killed during the jewish orthodox event on friday a group of retired police commissioners say that any investigation should have wide ranging powers to question senior politicians. heartbroken.

to 1000000 pieces there's no words to describe the feeling. of. the country. what happened here. that the entire country waits for and we have approximately half a 1000000 people coming for the 1st of all to celebrate in saudi arabia says that it's ready to allow its citizens to travel abroad saudis have received 2 shots of the covert 19 banks seen those who for cover from the virus and people under 18 years old will now be allowed to leave the kingdom a scene infections decreased to an average of 1000 a day. reporters without borders says that attacks on the media have increased during the coronavirus pandemic some governments accuse journalists of false reporting on the coronavirus as leaders try to downplay the extent of the crisis in america and it's

a the syrian 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 figure out what from guatemala is independent investigative reporting outed. last year he and a colleague began publishing the porch about corruption during the pandemic that implicated close friends of the president. that's when the president labeled us the terrible to 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 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 news

can quickly spiral into physical attacks against journalists who want to call the brazilian president jay bull tonight or is consistently labeling the media as a public enemy for its coverage of the pandemic encouraging his supporters to attack journalists both online and in person says column b. . 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 free mobile light or how the governor of the venezuelan state about our accused journalists going to go the 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 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. called this information there is and our own investigation suggests that the pandemic is actually justified in many cases limiting transparency and freedom of expression you see in human al-jazeera sent the. u.s. secretary of state out of the blinken has weighed in saying that repressive

governments abuse the pandemic to intensify pressure on the media so let's look more broadly of the world press freedom index which features 180 countries it shows that journalists are partially or completely blocked from doing their jobs in more than $130.00 nations the worst of 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 for latin america chatham house he says that the stability towards the press has contributed to coronavirus misinformation. what we've seen is already this these attacks against journalists this polarization in which freedom of expression is caught in the middle between oftentimes legitimate concerns about . information and the need for data 3 as well as the autocratic ambitions of elected leaders and now we have the justification of coded into that and so we're

seeing places this year in chile in guatemala in with journalists are particularly being targeted and reasons that sort of deny the very threat of coding and undermine the ability to address the classic case right now is in india where modi and give many people thought they had dodged a bullet in being able to avoid a massive infection rate and now we see of course the terrible news coming out of india of death rates shortages and modi has actually asked that the modi government has asked that twitter prohibit any sort of information that contradicts the government and so in many of these cases what were once considered a success stories and presidents such as of course the 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 or media sources or independent media we're not talking oftentimes traditional media it's not the old jazeera is the c.n.n. center or the new york times in many cases 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 side. a crowd of 5000 music fans flocked to liverpool for one of the 1st live in person concerts in the u.k. since the pandemic began the crowd was able to move around with no distancing or mosques but only if they tested negative 19 before arriving a whole 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 be able to see also 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. people make sure that you test the negative entry required proof of a negative test results 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 2019 does 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 $8000.00 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'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 hold al-jazeera london and it was a fairly normal festival experience for thousands of people in the city where the virus 1st emerged hands strawberry music festival is the largest outdoor concert in china the 2 day event was cancelled last year but the government says the city is now almost completely virus free. spain's controversial tradition of bullfighting is back for the 1st time since the pandemic began the last ventas bullring reopened in madrid with some coronavirus restrictions still in place the spectacles been hit hard since the pandemic began with all other ball rings in spain still closed. it's good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera india has once again reported one excess of 350000 new covert 19

infections in a 24 hour period that's according to indian media this past week has been the worst so far with more than 2600000 cases.