india's dentist weak in its criticism mounds of a prime minister modi his handling of the covert 19 catastrophe that's spreading across the country. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from though also coming up. controversial tax reforms are shelved off the days of violent protests in colombia . the celebrations are held to mark the foundation of the overall of the century

all deep divisions remain. deep. and an experiment in clubbing on the curve in time to done so the u.k. music festival the entry fee and negative coronavirus test. india 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 wust so far with more than 2600000 infections and 23000 fatalities electioneering has been partly blamed for the on sunday the results of 5 regional elections were declared promised on the renderer modi's policy failed to wind power in a key states elizabeth pro-ana reports now. 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 carnival iris cases. but supporters said they wanted to mark a month about a g.'s reelection for a 3rd term as chief minister. from a hard we have good wishes from above energy and that is why of us celebrating we already knew would that be a mess he would have been because the development has been done by d.n.c. and he went out on the other left wasn't bottle but they did not think. 175000000 people were eligible to vote in the states off west bengal. and put a cherry politicians including prime minister met in the modi have been criticised for holding large election rallies during a 2nd wave of coronavirus the world health organization said such gatherings are one of the reasons for india's surge in cases for candidates to die 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 in said on february 21st. got their national exam i covered that so i know they passed a political resolution to be chippy saying jamie the prime minister and i know what he did and there were all these fantastic claims that go to 0 in 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 international aid as it's hospitals are struggling but shortages of beds oxygen equipment and medicines prime minister met in their morning held a meeting with health experts about the shortages not just of beds and supplies.

also health care workers that says reports emerge from rural areas of people dying as lifesaving equipment including ventilators i'm lying on. the doctors who have the expertise to use them and pull on al-jazeera. hospitals are struggling to cope fears of the sheer number of patients needing urgent desperately needed oxygen is now 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 due to the shortage nearly 10 indian states and territories and imposed restrictions on movement in response to the surge in cases but the government has you have toward a national lockdown well lazio has detected its 1st case of the highly infectious covert 19 variant identified in india health officials say that it was found in a person who traveled from india during an airport screening they didn't say when the case was detected but the public to remain calm well as you have bound flights

to and from india all witness today pakistan receives 1000000 vaccine doses from china on sunday that purchased a total of 17000000000 shots from 3 chinese companies will supplement the astra zeneca vaccine that's being delivered through the kovacs program like a stand as an occupation just over 2000000 people out of a population of 220000000 there are warnings that africa could face a similar age and see if the number of cases grows like india there's a lack of hospital beds oxygen and ventilators in many countries dr may soon the hobbit is the co-director of the sudan covert 19 research group she says the situation is grave. from one period of time before colbert 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 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 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 seen care not just for old but go for or 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 high demand for covert 19 vaccines in argentina only a small number of people have received the job the country is now 3000000 cases president fernando has extended a nighttime curfew in the capital by 3 weeks danielle schreiber reports from us. 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 health 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 as 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 night. the constant requests to pack up early stay indoors keep your distance have become for many an annoying drood 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 and poverty figures that will only keep rising until the coronavirus is brought under control. one or al-jazeera one of cyrus. colombia's president of a new k. is withdrawing a controversial tax reform proposal after days of violent protests across the capital at least 6 people 5 protesters at

a police officer were killed or something of m.p.'s he reports from bogota. after 4 days of intensifying protests and widespread opposition from lawmakers president given ducat 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 a white financial uncertainty the reform is not reform is a necessity to withdraw it or not was not the discussion the real discussion is to be able to get into the continued team of social programs that if automation is. celebratory consider lassus beating on pots and pans could be heard in the capitol building just minutes after the announcement was friday ducat 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 i am protestors hailed the end now it's meant as a victory but they still have a long list of grievances and say that the protests will continue i mean if a letter from a lower level for happens there's also labor reform pension and health reform the issue of corruption increasing violence against community leaders 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 you had listened and consulted with public opinion but they decided just by everything to

go ahead and introduce the reform in spite of their knowledge that it was deep you know popular some parts of. that we throw shows just how isolated president is 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 i listen to them i'll just say you know what. the weather next here on out 0 then how journalism and reporters have been under increasing pressure during the pandemic plus. a cease fire holds up the current is tajik border there are accusations of war crimes and.

it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored plan qatar airways we've got more showers in the forecast across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple days not the truth benign but there are some there nevertheless lots of hazy sunshine me getting up to $37.00 celsius here in doha touch woman for kuwait back to $37.00 there in baghdad turkey large she tries to go through monday the showers and mainly affecting northern parts of iran pushing over towards afghanistan and they're similar places we go on through choose day by choose day we will see some wetter weather just coming back into where western and northern parts of turkey at this stage the levant stays warm dry and sunny much of the raven plants that warm dry and sunny just know to still a few showers just around the southern end of the red sea joining up with the showers that we have on the other side of the waters there into the ethiopian highlands so we'll see some showers just running across into northern parts of somalia will see wanted to showers there into work on your wrist welsh i was just

around uganda the showers stretching all the way across into the gulf of guinea some heavy seasonal rights of course as one would expect at this time of the year iran all the way down across the northern parts of big some showers they're few and far between but they're nevertheless into madagascar it's hot and dry to south africa 10 to 30. sports of paul qatar airways a weekly critique of the stories hitting the headlines the news media have been left to sort through mixed messages on a quite complex story from mainstream to street journalism d.n.a. objective is to get ricci to send it to the wall to change what's going on exposing real world threats to objectivity often of on they were turned to moscow 11000 people where arrested the listening post covers the way the news is covered on a jersey it on.

hello again this is al jazeera the main news this hour india has once again reported one of excess of 350000 new covert 1000 infections in 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 in america is struggling with high demand for covert 19 vaccines but there are enough doses to go around and argentina only a small number of people that receive the country's now reports of a total of 3000000 cases. of colombia's president iraq bouquet has withdrawn the proposed tax hikes off 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. you need this some marking 100 years since the partition of island took effect but for nationalists the creation of more than island remains contentious andrew symonds reports from belfast. the drumbeats of the flutes mark little islands 100 years of existence and the marches in defiance of code that regulations celebrates reinterred a street away though you can see the underlying mood isn't happy many of these protestants feel like outcasts there's a lot of people in the pollo. they're not they're not criminals out there may be. cross it's a pasta as well as a cultural but i think if there was even a threat of that it will be focused what we did on the street maybe

a lot more. scenes views are i code by fellow band members marching all over this vastly this housing estates on the outskirts of us. the police tried to get them to disperse. but they marched on under surveillance from above this isn't only to mock a 100 years since the birth of them all and it's aimed at the political class is the protestant church hierarchy perhaps. it's a call for a return to the sort of hardline thinking of the late reverend ian paisley a firebrand preacher who founded the democratic unionist party that he could be he had kevin and year after year on the want to keep on government on. the need the need there needs to be any structure rappers out of the working class people and tend to step down that's one of the reasons for the ousting of alim foster 1st

minister in d u p leader she may be replaced by evangelist edwin poots sitting beside her here he's a minister who's blamed catholics for spreading cove it. in west belfast republicans have a resentment to the 100 years celebration after the partition of olland and thousands of deaths on both sides that ensued and so more instability ahead on mcbride thinks he lost his wife in a lie or a bombing nearly 28 years ago and has campaigned for unity and i would just. just encourage and just a pain to our politicians to start to get around the table start to govern this place with us with a sense of just wanting to improve life for everybody not just their own particular tribe or particular organization or group or community where they're coming from you have to make it better for everyone as long as people like dene feel alienated

and others feel empowered the risk of violence still hangs over northern ireland and to simmons' al-jazeera belfast. 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 marked 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 local doctor who helped pinpoint bin laden's location is still in a pakistani jail shaquille afridi was never formally charged is role in helping the cia's a 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 looked at he never complained that he has done something for

the united states or that the americans should get him out of it but morally when americans say that he had worked with them then they should do something with william. 3 people are dead after a boat capsized off the california coast it happened near the city of san diego dozens of those pulled from the sea and being treated in hospital reports indicate it's possible that the boat was part of a people smuggling operation. u.s. republican senator former presidential hopeful mitt romney has been booed at a republican convention in his home state of utah. romney was critical of former president donald trump and the only republican senator to vote twice to convict him of his impeachment trials romney was called a communist a traitor when he came on stage to address party delegates so you. have a few folks who don't like me german much and i'm sorry but. i expressed my mind is

the way it was right on my crotch is the. biggest on says that a ceasefire with neighboring to egypt has stopped 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 worst fighting there in years kyrgyzstan is accusing its neighbor of war crimes . strife it has the latest from in cocoa stone. the curators 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 some other of your power

off there 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 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. says that an identified gunman 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 region stay where 137 civilians

were killed in march no group has claimed responsibility but an eyesore faction operates in the area. cherubs military council is named a transitional government following the president's sudden death the military and just davies son took power after he was killed on the front line of fighting rebels last month opposition leader. says that he recognizes the new 40 strong cabinet which includes 2 members of his own party overnight curfew imposed on today because death has now been lifted. israeli security forces say they are searching for a gunman who opened fire as they drove past a major intersection in the occupied west bank injuring 3 offices local media reported the gunmen escaped in a car with palestinian license plates earlier on sunday israeli soldiers say they shot a palestinian woman who'd approached them with a knife calls are growing for an independent commission to investigate a stampede at a religious festival in israel it observed

a day of mourning for the $45.00 men and boys who died during the jewish orthodox event on friday a group of retired police commissioners says that any investigation should have wide ranging powers to question senior politicians saudi arabia says it is ready to allow its citizens to travel abroad saudis who received 2 shots of the covert 19 vaccine those who've recovered from the virus and people under 18 years old will be allowed to leave the kingdom the 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 its a new set of human reports from santiago. in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about the pull the

19 pandemic sunny figure from guatemala is independent investigative reporting outed. last year he and a colleague began publishing the porch of a correction 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 attack slender any solid generalism public then it becomes an online campaign which can quickly spiral into physical attacks again as journalists who want to get out there are resilient president jade 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 free mobile light or how the governor of the venezuelan state about our accused journalists going to gori i.d.'s of being paid to lie in a report about the acute shortage of hospital beds and medicine she tells me she's being investigated under an anti-terrorism financing law. they were yammering that i won't deny that i'm frightened that i'm always looking over my shoulder that i don't know when this so-called charge against me will result in my arrest and in chile a prominent independent journalist who suggested that the health ministry was under reporting the number of coded 1000 infections and deaths was accused of spreading fake news of trying to destroy the government and of being anti patriotic it was

a message to the rest of the media to behave if you want to and if you want to. if you want to show that it is them you wouldn't steal the show that 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 being used to justify in many cases limiting transparency and freedom of expression you see in human al-jazeera sent to. 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 for covert 19 before arriving just

a whole records. imagine a time before mosques 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 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. 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 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 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 carroll 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 jono whole al-jazeera london as but a fairly normal festival experience for thousands of people in the city where the virus 1st emerged well harms 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. it's good to have you with us hello everyone forget here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera india has once again reported well in excess of 350000 new covert 98 infections in a 24 hour period that's according to indian media this past week has been the worst so far with the.