6. was. india's embattled government looks at ways to produce more desperately needed oxygen a school with 1000 infections and deaths and. i know that i'm how my kids eat and this is al jazeera life from doha also coming up

argentina's president and i says tougher restrictions to try to get on top of the 2nd wave don't just though say it's still not enough. no sales no exports and fears of even harder times to come the space people in church are struggling after years of conflicts. celebration and commiseration 100 years since the creation of northern ireland's. india has reported more than 300000 new coronavirus infections for a 12th straight day taking its overall recorded caseload to just under 20000000 according to the health ministry figures almost 24000 people have died from coal that 19 in the past week with hospitals overwhelmed and medical oxygen supplies so critically short's the government is scrambling to respond to anything through the

prime minister's office occurrence never enter moody's said skin centering the requirements of medical amidst the covert 1902 ation the government of india is exploring the feasibility of the conversion of existing nitrogen plants to produce oxygen well more this international is partially suffer defeat in a fiercely contested regional election since a brahma survey of his handling of the crisis forces in the battleground states of west bengal overwhelmingly back the all india trinamool congress moody's b j p party b j p also filter went into southern states. and kerala there were 5 regional elections overall. are not going to be very covert 1000 will be my 1st priority i was working and will keep working to improve the pandemic situation across the state our officials are already working in this direction the swearing

in will be a low key event because of the cove in $1000.00 situation although we had a landslide victory. well i'll speak live now to elizabeth piron and he joins us from new delhi as the situation in india remains critical what is the government doing to get the country out of this crisis. hello situation rary much critical karnataka the southern state of karnataka is the latest state that 19 patients and other patients actually who were on oxygen supply have died after the shortage ran out so the shortage of oxygen that we're seeing is not just limited to the surrounding states it is a nationwide problem international aid is arriving the government is using it the indian air force to airlift cryo genic tankers from germany bring them here deliver them around the country but the cases are going up so much so fast that it is a mammoth task and it is not reaching people in time to save many lives now we are

outside a vaccination center and when it comes to vaccinations which india is also seeing a massive shortage of the government has very much left states to fend for themselves after announcing that all adults will be eligible for vaccines from saturday they're told states to make their own arrangements vaccine manufacturers and what's that what that's resulted in is not only could most states expand the program on saturday but incredibly long lines with hundreds of people outside the vaccination centers when the deliveries haven't even haven't even been made to get so. the program is supposed to be expanded but there are a lot of difficulties in the process is not smooth asshole. let's talk about the politics of all of this because we're speaking to you just after the election results came through in west gold the government b j p is suffering electoral defeats i would you say the pandemic is affecting

the the prime minister's party nationwide. so the prime minister not in the movie and he has government have been criticized a lot for allowing these elections and the very large rallies and gatherings that went along with these elections to go ahead despite warnings from scientists that the government itself appointed told the government an early march that there are new more contagious variants of the virus the government didn't take any precautions and allowed elections and large gatherings to go ahead they did that because winning these elections is so important to the b j p which is popular in what's known as the hindi heartland northern and central india but not in any of these states 5 states which went to the polls was so important for the b j p 2 when especially in west bengal where they've never been in power they put everything into this election and despite that they suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of 2 time lead a month advantage even with in many ways the anti b j p. candidate she is fiercely secular the

b j p tried to polarize the electorate along religious lines she always speaks of india as i spend all day in a state in the country for all religions and what people are saying is that. the government doesn't just facing criticism over its handling but that it's west bengal today and it's india tomorrow or in the future. ok elizabeth. life for a new delhi thank you very much indeed for that update well let's stay with this now we can talk to a doctor or vendor sawing he's chairman and chief surgeon at madame's a liver transplant institute's also a lead investigator in medications to treat covert patients good of you to join us from particular in such a critical situation your country and your medical institute is going why do you think the situation is as bad as it is in india what kind of help are you getting

from the government to turn this runs. as you know the situation in india is pretty grim with a massive 2nd recorded sections and we of course reeling under the oxygen shortage nationally but especially in the delhi that's we got but it was beaten. to address that the government the central government and the state government got coordinating efforts to make more oxygen available. the arctic stepping all international have all oxygen cylinders and blount's they've already some have come through from singapore from france they're more coming through from germany and other countries we also the government is trying to redistribute the oxygen supply to cities are not spittles that need it more so they have basically rejigging the oxygen good and facilitating supply chain and transport of oxygen when it's needed most that also urgently commissioning all pending oxygen plants which already to

goal they're trying to convert nitrogen oxygen plants they're diverting and thus their losses and for medical use they're also setting up temporary hospitals nelson plans so that the logistics so transport are reduced and on the demand side the the doctors are trying to conserve oxygen trying to and got to hold cancel my patients so that they don't rush to hospitals and drug up the beds especially oxygen beds and be and god is in all the physicians in hospitals to try and keep the oxygen side today still 909192 and not beyond so that saves us some oxygen so all these firefighting efforts that are on both on the health care from the central and the state governments and they certainly will see the end of this nightmare so i will have one to think it will take for these measures to take effect because we've been reporting on this on a good goodness knows for over a week now the fact that said desperate clamor for 7 days suddenly seems we never

thought we would see it it seems has taken. a bit too long to recognize the scale of the problem in india itself. yes i think to an extent the skin was an anticipated and it wasn't thought you know in december or january that we will have such a 2nd. for example of my hospital which is a 1000 bed quarter nobody care hospital in going down daily we normally use about 3 to 3.5 metric tons of oxygen every day that now leading to us about 11 metric tons and somehow we are managing to get in about 6 to 7 metric tons every day so we are still falling short by about 4 or 5 and that means we have to cut down the use of oxygen but in the hospital we have reduced the number of oxygen beds that can be available called patients so it is

a very difficult situation how long it'll take is the 1000000 dollar question i wish i knew the answer but we certainly hope it's going to happen in the next week or 10 days is this affecting your ability to provide other types of care here at the very transplant ends to cheat imagine the snow north a lot of transplant work going on just do you worry that people are not being able to to get care for for conditions other than coverts right now what kind of ways are impacted do you imagine this her having on the country. certainly not go with kerry suffering be elected going to be some cases among the non-government 3rd cesar's are being stalled because people are not being that matured however we are carrying on with life saving liver transplants we are just not doing maybe 20 or 30 percent of them which don't need immediate surgery but the rest of the liver transplants are still carry on but this is out of the country's premier hospital at andar may not be the case everywhere well because if someone

has a heart attack for example generally a 1st port of call would be in a needs apartment but people aren't able to get inside hospitals in fact you could argue that people in hospitals are the lucky ones you know that's absolutely true non-corporate care is suffering and like i said we are trying our best to keep the emergency care for non-code patients going but yes it's not ideal a lot of the patients but not go with problems are also going to want them beds a nice 2 beds ok dr ivan the sign a great to get your thoughts thank you so much for taking time out of your exceptionally busy day to talk to us here at al-jazeera we appreciate it well more medical aid say is heading to india 300 times shipments including oxygen canisters and personal protective equipment to say can often cutter countries around the world are sending a message and say supplies the u.s. has promised $100000000.00 worth malaysia has detected its 1st case of the

highly infectious call the 1900 variants identified in india health officials say it was found in a person who traveled from and yet you're an airport screening it in safe when the case was detected but are urging the public to remain calm and they should band flights to and from india on wednesday. coming up after the weather bracing for record numbers of displacement severe droughts hit somalia. controversial tax reforms are shelved after days of fun and protests in colombia. how either the weather certainly not looking too spring like across a good parts of here at the moment because this massive cloud just rolling out of

the czech republic pushing across southern parts of poland in a round of area of low pressure where throwing in a fair old northerly wind for many that's going to cold enough to snow as we go on through the next couple of days that will make its way little further resource through the baltic states will see wetter weather coming through here gradually pushing over tools that western side of russia 18 celsius in moscow not too bad at the moment little is coming in high and we have got some wintry weather across the higher ground of england and scotland as we go on through monday some western weather there for much of the british whiles if the truth be told want to show is there into northern parts of germany pushing back across into poland and then it's slushy dry but on the cool side we're struggling to get into the mid teens for many central areas of here of the want this down towards the southeast still getting into the thirty's there into athens as we go on into tuesday it stays warm enough down in that southeastern corner but a little colder than the flight but look at that drop from moscow the warmer than around 7 celsius on a cool northerly past on the other side of the continent just 10 degrees there in

glasgow the water continues meanwhile across northeastern parts of africa with a few showers for northern areas of tunisia. frank assessments there are a lot of poison but the government used one exactly how and one measure never taking for a situation like i'm not to believe you could ever get informed opinions is the us with thinking the military positioning of the middle east wasn't just a simple act of reorganizing ministry assets this is a message to the region the united states years are rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera quick reminder of the top stories this hour india has reported more than 300000 new coronavirus infections for a 12th straight day and official death toll is now 219000 but experts say the true figure is likely much higher prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist party suffered defeat in a fiercely contested regional election seen as a barometer of his handling of the crisis forces in the battleground state of west bengal overwhelmingly backed the all india trinamool congress the more these b j p party. latin america is struggling with a high demand for covert vaccines only a small number of people have received them in argentina or recorded cases of ny past 3000000 with few other options to respond to the president is really imposing

restrictions and curfew is a stand your shrine that reports some point to sirees. the numbers keep rising argentina like 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 a nighttime curfew and schools returning to online classes the authorities say they made a mystery relieve the strain on hospitals or yes it was a failure not normal nor today the health system concord 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 alive 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 your small percentage of people have had

both. 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 realize 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 and poverty figures that will only keep rising until the coronavirus is brought on the ball. from ground 0 when osiris. at least $26.00 people have died after 2 boats collided in central bangladesh police said the accidents involved an overcrowded speedboats and a vessel voted with sand it happened on the pattern river near the town of ship charge 5 people were rescued. now the a decade of boko haram attacks and a rebellion in the north has left chants economy in ruins business for the trading begins its biggest trading partner in the region like syria is effectively a holds and there are fears of tougher times ahead in the days reports from. these articles and your sweltering 43 degree celsius weather waiting for buyers

most of them have been here for weeks with only a few customers stopping by to make inquiries it's the same story of the cattle and camel section just a few 100 meters away traders say poor sellers only got worse recently my views does that there's been little or no export to nigeria because a burka run coming of business with nigeria then coronavirus the rebellion another political uncertainty after the death of the president. 4 years child has exported animals heights and skin traders than buy cheaper goods from countries like cameroon and especially nigeria not any more boko haram attacks have cut of those supply routes. goods destined for nigeria and are being routed through cameroon eating into any profit at this market in germany a truck loads cottons of basle one of the few products people here can afford to buy mohamed musser has been sitting at his shop all day and was unable to sell even

a grain of rice. university and the business for us and stuff transporting goods from also down our libya is too expensive the audrey chaldean cannot afford to pay the extra cost. the discovery of oil in 2003 was hailed by the government as a new dourness cotton production the main export fell behind then oil prices crashed in 2020 due to coverage 19 punching a big hole in government finances last year chard warned that it will have to default on commercial payment it's not only trade that's been crippled many hotels here in the capital like this one are either operating well below their capacity or shut down altogether and that's what's been the unemployment in this landlocked country economists say any recovery will depend on how fast the country and the rebellion the insurgency and achieve political stability create.

a unity government should quickly be put in place and political dialogue must start immediately the army must also quickly tackle insecurity that's how will revive the economy win back investors and restart blish trust among chaldeans charts economic and political crisis made worse by high unemployment figures an estimated 75000 graduates in this country of 16000000 have no work experts warn unless the country find ways to engage the non-state actors hungry for power well some of the greece al-jazeera german or some of these drives is forcing families to leave their homes in search of water and grazing land for cattle it's left a little time for muslims to observe the holy month of ramadan reports. waiting for meals that may never come how 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 is a much waiting for them when they arrive at informal camps like these. it's amazon 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 israeli security forces say they're searching for gunmen who in far it's a major intersection in the occupied west bank 3 offices have been injured in the attack the gunmen reported the floods in a car with palestinian license plates earlier on sunday is there the soldiers say they shot a palestinian woman who approached them with a knife. this really is a calling for an independent commission to investigate stampedes answer diligence festival in israel 45 people died during the jewish orthodox event on friday is a group of retired police commissioners ses any investigation should have wide ranging powers to question senior politicians critics say they have been repeated warnings about it's the venue's safety. pro british unionists are marking

100 years since the creation of northern ireland for nationalists there is nothing to celebrate they want one nation unified under one irish flag a conflict that began in the 1960 s. known as the troubles thousands of deaths on both sides andrew symonds reports from belfast thank. the drumbeats of the flint mark northern islands 100 years of existence and the marches in defiance of coded regulations celebrates reinterment 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 of businesses they're not they're not criminals or they're made out to be and for us it's a past him as well as a cultural but i think if there was even a threat of irish unity 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 vast universe housing estates on the outskirts of belfast the police tried to get them to disperse. them. but they marched on under surveillance we're above this isn't only it's a mark of 100 years since the birth of them all and it's aimed at the political classes 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 you. have given and year after year on the want to keep on government on. the need the need there needs to be an issue after rappers out in the working class people and tend to step down that's one of the reasons for the ousting of arlene foster 1st minister and do

you prefer leader she. he 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 alan 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 over northern ireland

and to simmons' al-jazeera belfast. colombia's president says withdrawing a controversial tax reform proposal after days of violent protests across the capital i've been to the plan was necessary to maintain economic stability at least 6 people were killed as protesters fought security forces in the center amputee reports now from bogota. after 4 days of intensifying protest and widespread opposition from lawmakers president given to couldn'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 wide 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 get into the contributing of 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 duca 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 it's a lot of. 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 stop. table lies colombia's finances in maintain its international debt credit but blame the government for pushing forward the bill

nobody liked 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 despite 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 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 a new election the political reality on the streets and in congress might make it unlikely alison that i'm yet to just you know what. saudi arabia says it's ready to allow its citizens to travel abroad again from may 17th that includes citizens

immunized against kuwait 19 those who for covered from the virus in the past 6 months and people under the age of 18 the kingdom has barred foreign trips from moving a year currently around $1000.00 new infections for quote it daily. and spain's controversial tradition of bow feistiness back for the 1st time since the pandemic began a last sentence bullring reopens in madrid's some coronavirus restrictions still in place the spectacle has been hit hard since the pandemic began with all other borings in spain remaining closed. my. guess is al jazeera and these are the headlines india has reported more than 300000 new coronavirus infections for a 12th straight day the official death toll is now 20900 thousands but experts say

the true figure is likely much higher indian prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist party suffered defeat in a fiercely contested regional election seen as a barometer of his handling of the crisis.