nice to investigate the violent games instilling fear on the streets on al-jazeera . understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world around us and no matter when you call. in kind of fails that matter to you. india's deadliest week yet criticism ounce of a prime minister modi is handling of the covert 19 catastrophe that spreading across the country. hello i'm adrian for get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a controversial tax reforms are shelved after days of violent protests in colombia

. a severe drought right across somalia is forcing thousands of families to flee and. experiments in clubbing on the cove it times a dancer the u.k. music festival the entry fee a negative coronavirus test. india has once again reported well in excess of 350000 new covered 19 infections in the 24 hour period this past week has been the worst so far with more than 2600000 cases of 23000 deaths electioneering has been partly blamed for the surge on sunday results of 5 regional elections were declared prime minister narendra modi's party failed to win power in

a key states. the hospitals are struggling to cope due to the number of patients needing urgent care 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 of imposed restrictions on movement in response to the surge in cases but the government has yet to order a national lockdown malaysia has detected its 1st case of the highly infectious covert 19 variant identified in india health officials say that it was found of a person who traveled from india during airport screening they didn't say when the case was detected but urging the public to remain calm lazy a band flights to and from india on wednesday pakistan received $1000000.00 vaccine doses from china on sunday it purchased a total of $17000000.00 shots from 3 chinese companies will supplement the astra

zeneca vaccine that's being delivered through the kovacs program or to stand as an ocular aged just over 2000000000 people out of its population of 228000000 there are warnings that africa could face a similar merge and see if the number of cases there grows like india there's a lack of hospital beds oxygen and ventilators in many countries dr mason the hobbit 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'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 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 and argentina only a small number of people have received the job the country has now surpassed 3000000 cases president does as extended a nighttime curfew in the capital by 3 weeks stunning reports from. the numbers keep rising argentina that the rest of latin america is suffering a 2nd wave of cobbett nineteen's infections and deaths the government has imposed a further 3 weeks of new tougher lockdown restrictions on nighttime curfew in 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 support 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 in 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 his 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 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 that one year old to 0 when osiris colombia's president 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 died in the unrest us out of m.p.'s he reports from bogota. after 4 days of intensifying protest and widespread opposition from lawmakers president given ducat didn't have many options left but 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 wide financial uncertainty the reform is not 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.

there's also labor reform pension and health reform the issue of corruption the 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 he 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 the withdrawal shows just how isolated president 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 an election the political reality on the streets and in congress might make it unlikely alison that i'm i'll just have a look at somalia strauss's forcing a record number of families to leave their homes in search of water and grazing land for cattle climate change and covert have made it difficult for muslim families to observe the holy month of ramadan is under subpoena reports. waiting for meals that may never come how ali is finding it more and more difficult to provide for her children on a daily basis her family and many others have been pushed into mogadishu by drought . we live a very complicated life here and we can't go back to where we came from kevin 1000 has complicated the situation even further as we can't work will get any aid

sometimes we can't even get food nearly 3000000 people have been forced to migrate due to climate related disasters and conflict numbers likely to grow now that 80 percent of somalia faces drought forcing livestock and communities to pack up and move but there isn't much waiting for them when they arrive at informal camps like these. it's so much gone now we don't have anything to break off refacing very tough living conditions charities are doing what they can but demand grows along with the population of the camps for aid in limited supply. you know we've provided 2500 families with needed aid but this doesn't cover the need on the ground. drought and flooding pushed thousands of families from rural areas towards the capital each year to escape hunger but compounding crises mean many are left to fend for themselves fasting whether they choose to or not enter schapelle al-jazeera. the weather next here on our syrup then how journalism and reporters

have been under increasing pressure during the pandemic. of celebrations held to mark the foundation of northern ireland a century on deep divisions remain. we've got more showers in the forecast across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days not the truth benign but there are some there nevertheless lots of hazy sunshine me getting up to 37 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 there are similar places we go on through to 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 very place that warm dry and sunny just notice 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 iran all the way down across northern parts of big some schema's they're few and far between but they're nevertheless into madagascar it's hot and dry to south africa down to 30. essentially they were cooled colonialists. 15 years ago and they were now. as immigrants today they are citizens. in the light of france's

2021 contentious so-called separatism laws we'll look back at the history of muslim immigration in france in a 3 part series. muslims affronts episode one. on al-jazeera. again this is al-jazeera the main news this hour india has once again reported well in excess of 350000 new covert 1000 infections in a 24 hour period this past week has been the worst so far with more than 2600000

cases of 223000 deaths. 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 is now recorded a total of 3000000 cases of colombia's president has withdrawn proposed tax hikes to nationwide protests at least 6 people were killed and hundreds injured but there is going to be revised to remove tax increases on food sales utilities and income. unionists a marking 100 years since the partition of island took effect but for nationalists the creation of northern ireland remains contentious andrew simmons reports from belfast. the drumbeats of the flute smart law the island's 100 years of existence and the marches in defiance of coded regulations celebrated we in turn

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 or they're made out to be. for us it's a pasta as well as a cultural think. that it will be focused on the street maybe a lot more. teens views are i code by fellow band members marching all over this vastly this housing estates on the outskirts of belfast the police tried. to get them to disperse. but they march on under surveillance from above this isn't code it's a mock a 100 years since the birth of them all and it's aimed at the political class is hope the protestant church. 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 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 in the working class people and tend to step down that's one of the reasons for the ousting of alim foster 1st minister and leader she may be replaced by evangelist edwin poots sitting beside her here he's a minister who's blamed catholics for spreading kovi. 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 a 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 no particular organization or group or community where they're coming from you have to make it better for everyone. as long as people like dean feel alienated and others feel empowered the risk of violence still hangs there good northern ireland and to simmons' al-jazeera belfast. u.s. president joe biden has paid tribute to the service men who carried out the raid on osama bin laden's compound 10 years ago sunday marked the anniversary of bin laden's death alter 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 from its withdrawal from afghanistan. a local doctor who helped pinpoint bin

laden's location is still in a pakistani jail shaquille afridi was never formally charged for his role in helping the cia's of find the al qaeda leader he helped to run a fake vaccination program to confront back 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 here but morally when americans say that he had worked with them then they should do something with for him at least 25 people have died after 2 boats collided in central banker bash police say an overcrowded speedboat at a vessel transporting sand or in an accident it happened on the purple river near the town of ship channel 5 people were rescued 3 people are dead after a boat capsized off the coast of california the incident happened near the city of

san diego dozens of those pulled from the sea are now being treated in hospital reports indicate that it's possible 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. while he was critical of former president donald trump of the only republican so there's a vote twice to convict him of his impeachment trials romney was called a communist and a traitor but he came on stage to address party delegates. and it's a few folks that don't like me german much and i'm sorry but. i expressed my mind as i believe is right on my conscience is. clear to stand says that a ceasefire with neighboring to chicken stock is holding after a week of intense border fighting both nations claim that an area around the water

supply facility in a dispute dating back decades as the official death toll mounts in the wake of the west facing there and he is focused on is accusing its neighbor of war crimes trial stratford has the latest from in kurdistan. the courage his ministry of internal affairs has announced that 25 bodies have been found in the town of goal over there reporting that these people were killed in a mortar attack by the military on april the 29th they've also released some statistics on the kind of structural damage damage to homes. during these attacks they saying that 70 to 78 houses have been burned to schools 3 border posts and 10 petrol stations now the press office for the president so there is your power of there 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 the sense that unidentified gunmen have killed 16 soldiers and wounded 6 others in the southwest of the country itzhak on an army patrol happened on saturday in the taku or region that stands where 137 civilians were killed in march no group has claimed responsibility but an eyesore faction operates in the area. chad's military council is maybe a transitional government following the president's sudden death the military and

intrastate the son took power after he was killed on the frontline fighting rebels last month chad's opposition leader. says that he recognizes the new 40 strong cabinet which includes 2 members of his party overnight curfew imposed after davey's death has now been lifted israeli security forces say they're searching for gunmen or who opened fire as they drove past a major intersection in the occupied west bank injuring 3 offices local b.d. a report the gunmen escaped in a car with palestinian license plates earlier on sunday israeli soldiers say they shot a palestinian woman who approached them with a life saudi arabia says that it's ready to allow its citizens to travel abroad saudis who received 2 shots at the covert 19 vaccine those who for covered from the virus and people under 18 years old will be allowed to leave the kingdom is seen

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 of accuse journalists of false reporting on the coronavirus as leaves us trying to downplay the extent of the crisis in america as a new said newman reports from santiago how in latin america journalism can be a dangerous profession and now that includes reporting the truth about the pull the 19 pandemic sunny figure works for guatemala's independent investigative reporting outed. last year he and a colleague began publishing the ports 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 in

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. those authoritarian governments attack slander any soul generalism public then it becomes an online companies 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 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 about our accused journalist 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 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 called disinform ation yet there is and our own investigation suggests that

the pandemic is actually being used to justify in many cases limiting transparency and freedom of the. suppression. spain's controversial tradition of bullfighting is back for the 1st time since the pandemic began the last event boring reopened in madrid with some coronavirus restrictions still in place the spectacle has been hit hard since the pandemic began with the ball rings in spain still closed. it was a fairly normal festival experience for thousands of people in the city where the virus 1st emerged through homs strawberry music festival is the largest outdoor concert in china the 2 day event was canceled last year but the government says the city is now almost completely virus free. and 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 in the whole reports. imagine a time before mosques 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. did. you know before we even got to the. people that's 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. 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 $8000.00 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 how al-jazeera london. it is kids everywhere are slow adrian said again here in doha the headlines on out of syria india has once again reported well in excess of 350000 new covert 19 infections in the 24 hour period this past week has been the worst so far with more than 2600000 cases and 23000 deaths electioneering has been partly blamed for the surge elizabeth broderick reports from new delhi international.