out of $21000.00 fans will gather for football's afraid cup final on may the 50 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. this is al-jazeera and these other headlines india has reported more than 300000 you coronavirus infections for a 12th straight day the fischel death toll is now 20900000 but experts say the true figure is likely much higher as was per annum has more from new delhi situation very much critical karnataka the southern state of karnataka is the latest state with 1000 patients and other patients actually who were on oxygen supply have died after the shortage ran out of

a 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 cryogenic 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 indian prime minister narendra modi is hindu nationalist party suffered defeats in a fiercely contested regional election seen as a bill on the surface handling of the crisis in the battleground state of west bank go over whelming lead back the all india trinamool congress over movies the j p party the number of argentina's covert 1000 cases a sniper past 3000000 the government has extended a nighttime curfew in the capital called schools in the a small number of people have been vaccinated the supplies run low. at least $26.00

people have died after 2 boats collided in central bank they say an overcrowded speedboat and a vessel transporting sands hit each other the accident happened on the patman river near the town of ships are 5 people were rescued. colombia's president is withdrawing a controversial tax reform proposal after days of violent protests across the capital at least 6 people were killed as protesters fought security forces the government insists the reform is vital to stabilize in colombia's finances israeli security forces say they are searching for a gunman who opened fire at a major intersection in the occupied west bank 3 officers have been injured in the attack the gunman reportedly escaped in a car with palestinian license plates earlier on sunday israeli soldiers say they shot a palestinian woman who approached them with a knife and those are the headlines stay with us on al-jazeera up front is next. a series of special events is being planned to mark the 100 years since the

creation of northern on but gregg's it has removed old tensions and put i wish we unification back on the agenda al-jazeera will be reporting from both sides of the border in this milestone moment for irish politics. 100 days into the presidency of joe biden are we seeing the beginning of a transformative era or is it business as usual i'll ask one of the country's most outspoken progressive politicians. marc lamont hill also on the show the absolute devastation caused by covert 1000 in india has shocked the world but could it be even worse than it appears i'll talk to a mumbai based investigative journalist who says the government is hiding the real

numbers but 1st it's been 100 days since joe biden took office and the u.s. president is being painted as a progressive hero but is he really a visionary or is he just not donald trump this week headliner former ohio state senator and co-chair bernie sanders 2020 presidential campaign you know turner. need to turn to thank you for joining me on front when president biden ran for office he said that he would be the most progressive president in american history now we're just 100 days in and people are already making comparisons to franklin delano roosevelt f.d.r. and l.b.j. lyndon baines johnson who introduced some of the most sweeping progressive reforms in american history we're talking about who basically was the architect of the crime bill someone who helped put us into iraq someone who bailed out wall street in 2008. is it even possible for someone with bad history to be

mentioned in the conversation among progressive presidents that will say is that this is certainly the beginning process here i will say that by an administration because of the push of the progressive movement we came in sight of the fact that progressive movement all of these things are brought to you by the progressive movement the push in some of the things that we heard last night is because aggressive movement is out there making these demands i think the 1st 100 days are just that we got a long way to go because what you are naming the things that you just numerate those things were put into place by policies policies that he supported and so now he is the president of the united states of america and this provides him a spectacular opportunity through public policy to undo some of that damage and some of that especially on the crime bill had generational impacts so it's a great time to be able to undo some of those things but a pushing for family paid medical leave and leave and medical leave for up to 12

weeks when we had 0 and other industrialized 'd nations our head of us on that is a good thing talking about infrastructure is that all of those things are a good thing but when you are on the path to good you've got to keep going and in some cases we've got to run like our last opinion on it so this is a star process is not in it hence the 1st 100 days we've got many more days to go you mention last night of course you're referencing a time of this interview to president biden's speech before the joint session of the u.s. congress he talked about his agenda one of the things that came up in that was his american families plan he talked about his plan for the economy he took over a lot of stuff as you said some of it as a result of being pushed by the progressive movement but i have we set too low a bar for him are we measuring him against the progressive movement or are we measuring him against trump who left it up fairly low bar to measure against. and you bring up a great point the country or at least part of the country because let us not forget

that mr trump did amass 74000000 votes so let's just say the other half of the country was very pretty but president trump that the world was pretty hot president trump and so i will give president biden credit in terms of his very presence changes that that mimic that we are no longer dealing with a neo fascist to be sure any of fascism had to be dealt with affront but now that we are in this moment that democrats control all the levers of power that they asked for so now is the opportunity for the democratic party to get a better way to go be and this is no time to shrink power must be used it does not last always and so you must use it now you say we got rid of the neo-fascist president many would argue but we have a new liberal president someone who still worships the market someone who still doesn't really believe in the kind of socialized response to it took suffering that

many people would advocate for on your side of the aisle if that's the case is biden the person to lead a progressive movement can he do that. well it's not about him leading aggressive movie i mean he is who years where he has shown best our administration that they are listening and capturing the pulse somewhat a congress right now they've got to do what they need to do on the inside and then we need that outside leader to continue to push and have the courage to ask the more that's the key we haven't yet had occurred as more and you can also say if somebody is moving in the right direction those things are not mutually exclusive we're going to something and then have to ask for more one place i'm wondering is are we moving in the right direction on immigration biden is continuing mass deportations at the u.s. border by continuing the trump era title $42.00 policy one of the most restrictive

immigration policies ever implemented it's now being used to expel hundreds of thousands of immigrants at the border including families and children now the democrats have called it racist and shortsighted but now the biden administration is using it to deport people what a mess particularly people from haiti for example there were $100000.00 expulsions in march and you compare apples to apples month to month that's just as much if not more than trump during that time how can democrats in general not just democrats in general claim any high ground on this issue now you know well we can't at this moment on that. i can't miss words there now we can't and our haitian sisters and brothers in particular if other of our sisters and brothers from the black diaspora are not treated the same there are many immigration reports and studies that show that there is a racial lies and a tap blackness if you will when it comes to the immigration of our black sisters and brothers from the diaspora and particularly haiti and that is

a problem it must be fixed so again democrats have a tremendous responsibility and an incredible opportunity to make things right and in that particular area we are not doing that is not being done in this moment but that doesn't mean that the way that it is right now is the way that it has to continue to be so we must push on that as well but let's move to another issue that president biden probably doesn't in fact certainly doesn't see eye to eye with you and many other programs on and that's the define the police movement he has again just like with medicare for our just like with every new deal president biden said i don't support the defund the police movement you have been very vocal in support of it given that how optimistic are hopeful are you that this can actually be a plan that we put in place there is no doubt. that we must address the white supremacy the and top blackness and the caste

system not just within policing in america but it every single basket of american society and what we see happening there in law enforcement right now with the killing and shootings of an armed people particularly unarmed black me is a reckoning and finished business in the united states of america so the department of justice it investigates police related shootings period that should be better be but the powers that should be the weight of that ministration are not connecting and putting demands on any funding that goes to police departments or law enforcement agencies in the united states of america so that those are some things that happen on the federal level and less demilitarize balasaheb them members who

are in in law enforcement or have been in law course and so i do understand this from multiple lenses i get i will say this finally on this point there is good tremendous good in human nature and there's also tremendous evil in human nature so we would be naive to say that we don't need police we do meet police but people are asking for particularly the black community is to be treated with dignity and respect and for police officers not to be the judge jury and executioner that must happen and those types of policies have to be pushed not just on the federal level but also on the state level as a and also the local levels of government as well let me push you and i just for a 2nd so if we can reimagine the system why can't we reimagine abolition. i mean i'm not saying that we cannot really imagine that yet let's have the conversation but on the other end of that we do have to admit that there are some people in society where police are necessary you know what i think about babies who are being

killed by drive by as you know my heart breaks with that you know i saw it as a cleveland city councilwoman and there was a situation where a skirmish happened at a park and the people part of that took it to the streets where kids were run bicycles and do and have scotch and shot through a house and shot 2 young children under the age of 6 so for me to be naive and to say that there is not some need to have policing that's not it but it is the way that police are socialized in this country that is the problem and also the total disregard and disrespect but black labs that was built into the system from the beginning the other day during his address to the joint session of congress president biden said that the middle class built this country what say you. working poor build this country but i'm not going to separate the middle class and the working poor i'm not sure what he means by the middle class but what i will say

is that could welcome people built this country and i want to go even further than that historically we know who truly built this country they had to manage nature of this country came on the backs of chattel slavery that is real and we must deal with that as we progressed as a nation working class people built this country and you know that middle class people work i mean we separate i don't like the separation let's just go ahead and put the working people together somebody in the middle of that that yes is somebody at the top of that yes or somebody at the bottom but it is working every day people are getting a raw deal let's increase the minimum wage let's make sure that we have universal health care in this country that would give relief to middle everybody in this country and we also help our businesses there are lots of big and bold policies that we can do as at that as a hedge of my nation in and we must do it but only be quickly you were the national campaign co-chair for bernie sanders who pointed out that 2 years after obama took

office republicans quote did phenomenally well the same was true after 2 years under clinton he says it's because democrats fail to use their power to benefit working families but the biden understands this you're running for congress this year hoping to represent the 11th district in ohio a state that donald trump comfortably won do you think biden has done enough for working families enough that democrats could pick up congressional seats based on his record. well we lost a seat because of the census you know that's happening right now in ohio some 2022 we will have one less seat and so what i am running to do is to keep this movement going in the congress because i do have the courage to ask for more one in every 3 children in my district are living in poverty many families are living in poverty this is a district that has extraordinary wealth of one ear and extreme poverty on the other and so for the working side of my district the poorest people in this

district they need a 15 alan our minimum wage increase we've got to do that and can't blame a parliamentarian let's just go get it get that done they need universal health care but i'm limited to that enough to get those because the argument here is that democrats when they don't serve the working people as with any look to republicans as an alternative have democrats in particular by the ministration done enough now so that they'll look to democrats to pick up these seats as opposed to saying you know what let's try this republican way again but we've got to continue to earn that i mean my state you're right not only did president from winning 2020 creases lead in 2020 we've got to speak the love language of the working class people not just the great state of ohio but all over the country and we can do that because we control 'd all the levers there and there's more work to be done and i'm laying out that work 50 now in our minimum wage universal health care medicare for all and cancelling student debt so that we can get people disposable income in their

pockets we can do it we have the levers of power we cannot waste that power when republicans our power base use it and so i want to see my democratic colleagues and i will be there to join them to continue to have the courage to ask for more to use their power as such a way that we leave no doubt who sat the democratic party is on you know trying to thank you so much for joining me on outfront. thank you perhaps only. a devastating wave of covert 1000 infections overwhelming india hospitals in crematoriums are overflowing with bodies and an untold number of people are scrambling for oxygen cylinders medicines and hospital beds india has become the epicenter of the global pandemic with more than one in 3 new cases in the world now in the country and over 3000 deaths a day but that's just the official count and many believe the real numbers are far higher so what accounts for this devastation and how did india get to this point to

help us answer this we're joined by iran are you an investigative journalist based in mumbai and a global opinions writer for the washington post rana thank you for joining me on you've covered so many things you've covered the devastating impact of anti poor policies on indians you have covered of course religious based riots you've covered extrajudicial killings and of course the 1st wave of cold it 19 in the country and yet despite all of that you write in time magazine last week of the current situation if the apocalypse had an image it would be the hospitals of india what makes this circumstance worse than anything you've seen before. well mark i've been reporting for the last 15 years but i have never and i've seen of course not in the movies only only covenants the carnage in the year 2002 as a relief worker but what he's doing to the country right now when it does it in this devastation it is of like a writer friend said last evening it's

a holocaust. the prime minister has criminally abdicated his responsibility when the 2nd vive of with 19 has been devastating indians has has ravaged the rest of the country and the prime minister is fixated with elections in the country stretching into 8 pieces all over best bengal and assam from barrow we are recording the highest number of cases in the last one or 2 weeks the hospitals resemble a war zone are crippled torrijos are so full that the rich are trying to use their contacts to book book a slot in the crematorium because they're all booked for the next 3 days but it's no good left to light the fires of this only enough wood for the next 2 or 3 days that are more bodies than bored and of course if the devastation the indian government is trying to hide as usual are it

a scam approaching the figures because it believes there will be a backlash and of course it will get a backlash because this year i'll be told the per the country would have been better prepared and specially when they were warnings by my specialist by doctors by epidemiologists that the 2nd rate could be devastating for the country the prime minister paid no heed and he just waved vive you are very odd i have never as a journalist missed devastation at this scale than india well let's talk about some of those numbers because at the beginning of april we were saying $80000.00 cases and less than $500.00 deaths on the. first day of april. now where we see 350000 cases and 3000 deaths a day and of course as you talked about. the germans have documented that the body counts there exceed the death toll which suggests that the numbers simply aren't accurate you know metal grills used to burn bodies have melted down from overuse we

don't even have mines completely wrapped around how big of a crisis we're facing based on the official numbers do you have a sense of just how how big the numbers could be when i wrote this time magazine well b.s. mark 4 days ago i had there was an estimate that the depth of this estimate came from my conversations with john let's head to the shoes doctors across the country and i said the estimated number could be about 10000 in a day in the last 3 days i've been speaking to journalists into a lot of people in who are in india including my own family members my entire ancestral family in oz and by which isn't the largest state of the british the entire families positive my uncle is critical arm on a ventilator and i spoke to a lot of doctors got to go through part come to come to about 20000 deaths in a day i don't listen to me a video. from a pretty tory and he says close to 200 bodies are being could meet did at one thing

the british get out in a small city. one can only imagine what the scale of the devastation across the country it is at least 10 times more beneficial number of this government is i'll tell you many times and more i mean but again we don't have official records there's no official data collection here would you say that the government is invested and keeping the covert death and the members. low for its own political interests. absolutely absolutely the government is invested into and out because the government knows that it has behaved in a mist in a manner which is criminal the indian medical association yesterday called not in the movie the prime minister of india asked the soup was played all of the gliders in the country the metro bus i call it has called the election commission of n b r which allowed not in tune with which was in cahoots but not into modi are the 8 pre-selection as. the high court has said that the election commission should be

charged with murder now that's a very very serious remark from what you can but you know you should be in india and that goes to prove that the cup meant no that's going to receive a backlash a distraught which is why it's trying to hide the numbers this is the reason why the health ministry of this country took a press conference just to tell people that the mortality rate is only 0.2 percent if that is the key is why is the government trying to delete information from social media why has it asked me to delete that speak about the number of deaths like i had the chief minister of the largest state in india you get it not asked for a distinguished people who talk about oxygen shortage of the number of deaths on social media this is a pattern oil is the batting order that the government does not want to review that the real number is not on sprints at all how much of this is about direction and dishonesty and descend from asia and how much of this is about poor planning and mismanagement the reason i ask is because i'm thinking back

a few months ago when the indian government especially was declaring victory over coal that in february the b.g.p. passed a resolution stating it can be said with pride india defeated covert 19 under the able sensible committed and visionary leadership of prime minister narendra modi in march they said we're in the end game. it seems to me that that's partly about political posturing and and preparing oneself to advance a narrative but did they just get this thing wrong too was this. so just poor poor planning and poor measure they think they want to move that actually lost its boat the fact that you know when you have an accordion which even which is surrounded by cycle frantic cycle prints who are as including the health minister and all minister are who are human when the vaccine will out happened india was creating this spectacle of prime minister more the being does great world leader who's distributing vaccines to the world are not by men ever want to bend into posturing

that not into more the had defeated why did the 2nd wave was actually catching up last year when 19 had brutally exposed the fact that in the us health care system i completely collapsed there are not ventilators in place the blood banks are running out of blood one there's absolutely no planning wanted of one of them given that interim within 2020 saying you know this came out of the blue and be unprepared what about 2021 how could he be forgiving and despite being unprepared the man goes around and all it's election rallies and create this kind of spectacle of this little who was defeated something that was fit to do that is going to mock recy you had to be has been placed in the leading newspapers across the country are declaring will be as the leader who has defeated covered 9 $170.00 spent so much time altering event is the time planning. before you go i want to ask you about

everyday people who seem to be silenced but when they push back against the government's handling of the cove in 1000 crisis the government had twitter remove 50 posts critical of his handling of the pandemic you yourself had 2 tweets deleted facebook temporarily blocked content calling on the prime minister resign to resign the chief minister of pradesh even asked officials to seize the assets of people who spread what he called rumors and propaganda on social media what does it say to you about india that such a desperate humanitarian issue has been politicized and uses another side of repression it seems i mean he replied i also think going into would not just to mock receive but to brief have come across after some morally depraved country which has not been had its basic principles of humanity in please you know if if the world had a semblance of law and order not in them would you should have been tried for crimes against humanity but what you feel right now is the chief minister of the

largest state in india which comprises all cruel and i'll bet every day patients i dine off the chance it is devastation and it's only people who aren't used to tell hospitals that you're not getting it as a list message for all and i don't know why i put out a message on social media yesterday saying my grandfather is dying i need oxygen there was a there was a police case registered against him what is the sea about indian democracy if there is that we have something in a morally dead nation especially when it comes to our political laws which has lost all semblance of humanity there are people trying to help each other out you know the s.o.s. calls and other hand you have done who think by putting videos all mr movies election rallies that do india they don't reconcile this is what movie has brought us to this place where it is to india at least to india to do not reconsider with each other. thank you so much for joining us for. thank you so much . that's our show and that's also it for this season of outfront i want to thank

you for joining me marc lamont hill will be sure to see you next week. in the midst of war a generation grew up in exile more than 13000000 syrians that tough the pre-war population remain displaced inside and outside the country and as the conflict enters its 2nd decade with no political settlement in sight there could be further displacement home for many has been informal camps like this in neighboring countries in lebanon's bekaa valley life has been one of poverty and uncertainty. and international aid organizations are warning that. deeper into poverty many are jobless and hungry nation says 60 percent or $12400000.00 syrians don't have

regular access to enough food despite the battlefield being largely quiet for a year aid agencies say the daily suffering of syrians is worse than it has been a nearly any point throughout the conflict and the hardship has not stopped at syria's borders. well if we cannot have my government was certainly not allowed britain to control. then we need to find another solution before we come to blows 100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east for centuries to come and so. now we can. sykes become minds in the sand on al-jazeera. in 19054 young angie apartheid activists were murdered by south african security forces if you can't solve the problem by removing the guy then you could kill 36 years on

a family's quest for justice reveals systemic resistance to prosecution and musselburgh conflict to protect can right for the reef and exposes the influence the former apartheid establishment still wielded in the new south africa my father died for this the people in power investigation on al-jazeera. india's embattled government looks at ways to produce more desperately needed oxygen and scored 19 infections and tense moments. with them how to hit in this is al-jazeera my from doha also coming up argentina's president announces tougher restrictions to try to get on top of the 2nd wave doctors though say it's still not enough.