now all jews or. what ever. india's embattled government looks at ways to produce more desperately record oxygen and school with $1000.00 infections and deaths continue to climb. about how marketing and this is al jazeera life from doha also coming up she's fought for press freedom in the philippines and now investors have journalist and rappler c.e.o. maria ressa on a major international prize for her work. celebration and commiseration 100 years

since the creation of northern ireland's. new sales no exports and fears of even harder times to come we speak to people in china struggling after years of conflicts. we begin in india almost 24000 people have died of covert 19 in the past week for 12 straight days there have been more than 300000 cases a staggering total the experts say has been driven up by political rallies elections and religious festivals the surge is overwhelming hospitals and those who aren't who are dying aren't just people with covert 191 jobs it's all down to syria other patients are losing their lives because resources are being diverted to this crisis or many countries have rushed aid to india but it will take a while before she will make an impact in the meantime the delhi has opened its 1st

oxygen plant. shortage there is a shortage of oxygen in delhi and when we are completely dependent on supply chains insulin does then these problems are bound to our rice it is a great idea to overcome that problem we have created an oxygen generation plant here in simple words it is a kind of oxygen concentrator only with greater capacity we can give oxygen to about 18 to 20 patients at any given time with its help more people are getting vaccinated but the rule it's has been messy in some cases the queues are long and when someone shows up for their appointments they want any vaccines left our correspondent elizabeth purana has more from a vaccination center in new delhi. we are in one of delhi 76 public schools which are being used as vaccination centers i am getting my vaccine after trying for days to make an appointment all adults everyone over the age of 18 was eligible for

a vaccine from saturday but delhi like most other states doesn't have enough i have had to wait for more than 3 hours in a line like hundreds of other people to get this dose and via is seeing children it is not just of vaccines but of life saving equipment of oxygen international aid is continuing to arrive the indian air force is using is airlifting cryogenic oxygen tank is from germany delivering it around the country but people are still dying because of these shortages the southern state of karnataka is the latest place where 24 car than 1000 and other patients died after their oxygen ran out the shortages the pressure on the health care system is why india supreme court is asking the government to consider imposing a nationwide lockdown but not before making the arrangements for hundreds of millions of daily wage earners people who have to work every single day to survive

so that it won't. impact them like the nationwide lockdown that the government imposed last year. we'll talk to our vendor saw him as chairman and chief surgeon at madame's a liver transplant institute sees a also a lead investigator medications to treat covert 1000 patients he says he hopes the situation will be under control in the next week or so. i think to an extent the scale wasn't anticipated and it wasn't talked you know in december or january that we will have such a 2nd. but example of my hospital which is a 1000 bed courteney care hospital indoor ground daily we normally use about 3 to 3.5 metric tons of oxygen every day of me and i'll be getting to use 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 within the hospital we have to reduce the number of oxygen beds that can be available for cold 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 so certainly non-code can is suffering the elective going to stand be in cases among the non-kosher diseases are being was full of b.s. people are not being admitted however we are getting on with life saving what grandstands we are just not doing maybe 20 or 30 percent of them which don't need immediate surgery but the rest of the liver transplant us and carry on but this is at the country's premier hospital it may not be the case everywhere pakistan is closing its land borders with iran and afghanistan to curb the imports of any of the virus the restrictions come into effect from cheese day nights it's also cussing international flights we can get more now from kemal hyder who joins us

from islamabad columbus border closures suggest the government is extremely concerned about the coronavirus situation home or can you tell us. well indeed the government a 2nd and fact a very show and then the southern port city of karachi is carried that day had found the bridge ellie and the south african gradient of the y. race and the southern port city of karachi which of course raised alarm bells not to mention the situation that they were going across the border and india and so buggered son has decided to close its land border where double understand their relative around the country's border with afghanistan is about 2600 kilometer long with several border crossings and had over 900 kilometers of border with iran now what really happened is that because did heavy pay dextrin traffic particularly

from the avalanche side the avalon really not be able to come into pakistan however dollars of land who are living in pakistan want to go back to afghanistan will be allowed to go back into of understand their transit trade of course will continue to drive or the gods will have to go through strict measures go where it can send all that and also the as well and then the pakistanis who are stuck in iran or afghanistan and who are coming here for emergency medical care will be allowed to come through after the necessary border check dates of causes happening at a time when india is seeing a huge spike there is concern in pakistan also because hospitals are running out of beds in some cases the rain delayed there up to 100 percent usage so the gates are not taking any chances but it will be important to see how long they can continue to stem the flow of people from the outside the airlines are called for

a lot sort of strict movement there will be down to just 20 percent and all passengers coming into pakistan will have to have a goal weight negative tested. did going to be mandatory so it will be important if you were to happen within the next few weeks but minute warning that the next few weeks are indeed very critical for pocket don ok is there live for us in islamabad thank you very much indeed for bringing us the latest there come on now monday is world's press freedom day and this year the u.n. wants to highlight the importance of information as a public goods in an era of misinformation reporters without borders and journalism is completely or partially blocked in $132.00 of the $180.00 countries it evaluated china turkmenistan north korea and eritrea are at the bottom the philippines rating has fallen 2 places after

a government backed shut down of the country's largest broadcaster and online harassment of journalists africa continues to be the most violent continent for journalists to work in but burundi sierra leone and mali have seen significant improvements in our school says a majority of female journalists experience harassment threats and abuse on doing their jobs this year as you know school gear more can the world press freedom prize has been awarded to maria ressa an investigative journalist and co-founder of rappler in the philippines she says technology can be used to target reporters like her it can also help solve the problems they face. we were we are we remain facebook's fact checking partner in the philippines we actually have the data of that information system in the philippines so we have the networks we know the recidivist networks that are there i like thinking about them as terrorist networks

that's actually what they do of the attacks against me for example when we actually did run them through an lp 60 percent was tearing down my credibility 40 percent were attacking me in a visceral manner that was meant to. to count me to silence to humanize me so it allows that that i can the networks are very clear unlike say saudi arabia or iran where blocks are you russia the russian this information networks here in the philippines the networks are actually real people or at the very least fake accounts handled by real people and forensics that little forensics can actually narrow it down but 1st of all who have we have to put guardrails on the technology on the social media platforms that are delivering the facts but are in an environment where by design i live laced with anger and hate actually spread

faster and further all the studies have shown that so journalists traditional journalists the mission of journalists we are not going to be able to fight that unless the tech is the guardrails are in place the 2nd is you know there are initiatives globally the international fund for public interest media is going to try to raise a $1000000000.00 a year to help small and medium sized independent newsweek's public interest media to survive you know as i'm an entrepreneur and i'll pick up silicon valley's valley of death we have to get through this valley of death and i think the last part of the coronaviruses you know as we fight the virus in the real world this virus of lies in our information ecosystem we need to treat that with the same care as the virus in the real world because this infection real people the real people's world views changed and it will take years to get a shared reality back i think that's the biggest worry i have right now but without

facts you can't have trust without trust we cannot solve any problems today. one of me and most powerful rebel groups the independence army says it should be done in a military helicopter you know it's done all. in the army and. since intensified since she seized power in february. is monitoring the story from neighboring thailand and has more on the rebel groups claims it's from the kitchen independence army and they're one of the largest most powerful ethnic armed organizations inside myanmar and they have claimed that they shot down this helicopter they're saying it was a most likely a shoulder launched guided missile that brought down this helicopter there claiming we haven't heard anything from the tatmadaw that's the official name for the military in myanmar this is part of this escalation we've seen fighting between armed ethnic organizations they really occupy the borderlands or are surround the

center parts of myanmar there are many different groups but the kitchin independence army is one that has really kind of been engaged in heavier battles more frequent battles with the army since the coup on february 1st so this is i guess kind of the latest round if you will they claim pretty soon after i would say maybe 2 or 3 hours after they said they brought down this helicopter which was 10 am this morning that they did in fact bring it down this again they say is retaliation for air strikes that happened overnight sunday into monday today and then also on monday morning they said they were tabulated because the helicopter involved was attacking position their positions but also they said that earlier in the day there were fighter aircraft doing the same. still ahead. bracing for record numbers of displacement and severe droughts somalia and hollywood hosts the 1st large scale live concert in the u.s. to raise money for vaccines.

for the perfect gentleman. who went sponsored point qatar airways however the rain clouds already gathering now across central parts of china some big downpours coming through here easing of which will cease the side of the country to go on through the next couple of days ahead of that we've got in there you have high pressure just keeping it settled into southern parts of japan for the time being that will gradually get nudged out of the way by that very heavy rain which makes its way across eastern china through a choose day pushing across into the korean peninsula most of that pleasant spring sunshine tokyo getting up to around 26 celsius on shoes day after day because the cloud in the rain will continue to slide its way in across cuba shoes southern parts of honshu western areas to japan turning increasingly wet as we go into the

2nd half of the week that rain will make its way across the rest of the country dry weather does come back in behind the not so bad but you can see the southern parts of china still some pockets of very heavy rain with the possibility of some localized flooding as a result of that heavy rain continuing to just around bangladesh into the northeast of india can see the same chain of showers out of southwest china into the far north east of india and just hugging the foothills of the himalayas will see some showers coming into good parts of northern pakistan as we go through the next couple of days staying hot. spots of qatar airways. from inside the walls of a west african prison comes home. a chance to create to express emotion and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. or announcing choreography shares his passion for darts inspiring prisoners to perform and to reach beyond the ill

deeds of the past and the confines of their present the dance of the witness documentary on the al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera country and on the top stories this hour india has reported more than 300000 new coronavirus infections for 12th straight day efficient death toll is now around 219000 but experts say the true figure is likely much higher the u.n. is calling for governments to respects the freedom of the press its more than its annual world press freedom prize to maria ressa an investigative journalist and co-founder of rocks in the p s. m one of yeah most most powerful rebel

groups the machine independence army says it shot down a military helicopter near the town of momo fighting the tune on me and you can't groups hasn't 10 suffice since general sees pak february. the progress is unionists are marking 100 years since the creation of northern ireland for nationalists though there's nothing to celebrates they want the entire island unified one irish flag and 2 simmons reports from belfast. the drumbeats of the flutes marked northern islands 100 years of existence and the marches in defiance of coded regulations see 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 or they're made it very well for us it's a pastime as well as a cultural but i think if it was even

a threat of irish unity that it will be focused what we did on the street maybe a lot more. scenes views of i code by fellow band members marching all over this vast you leave this housing estate 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 know them all and it's aimed at the political class is called 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 d u p p have given and year after year on the want to keep on government on.

the need the need there needs to be any structural 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 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 dene feel alienated and others feel empowered the risk of violence still hangs over northern ireland and to simmons' al-jazeera belfast. kyrgyzstan's leader is calling for a cease fire with ted g q stan and einstein on saturday to be respected as displaced people have begun to return home a violent dispute about a reservoir that both countries claim as their own has killed almost 40 people in the last week is the heaviest fighting seen among the border of the former soviet republics that has more from the village of tash this is one of a number of villages along the curators and township border a border that in many areas like this isn't even marked villages up until a couple of days ago had civilian population made up of tactics and kirghiz most of which have been evacuated to the kyrgyz side of the time 6 the tajik side of the

border there is a great sense of unease call yes the ceasefire does seem to be holding although we've heard reports of minor violations in other areas along this along this border area some of the people who were evacuated have begun to return to the destroyed properties we went with one family to see a home that had been completely leveled a very distraught family as you can imagine and one thing they kept saying and as as it has been echoed by other people you speak to in the villages that there was no animosity between the 2 communities before independence before the breakup of the soviet union 30 years ago but it's since independence that we've had this border dispute a border dispute remains unresolved a decade of boko haram attacks a rebellion in the north and the coronavirus pandemic they've all left chants economy and ruins business with its biggest trading partner in the region nigeria

is affectively growing to a halt people are worried that there are tougher times ahead as al jazeera is ahmed to dress reports from gen mina. these animals endure a 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 enquiries it's the same story at the cattle an auction just a few 100 meters away traders say poor sellers only got worse recently. there's been little or no export to nigeria because of boko haram cutting off business with nigeria then coronavirus the rebellion and now the 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 off those supply routes. goods destined for nigeria and being routed through cameroon eating into any profit at this market in germany a truck loads cut and. 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 this stuff. is too expensive the audrey chaldean cannot afford to pay the extra cost. the discovery of oil in 2003 was held by the government as a new dourness cut in 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 charged warned that it will have to default on commercial payment its not only trade that's been crippled many hotels

here in the capital like this $1.00 either operating well below their capacity or shut down altogether and that's what's been the unemployment in this landlocked country economy say any recovery will depend on how fast the country and the rebellion 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 re stablish trust among chaldeans charts economic and political crisis is 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 how many greece. jamaica. somalia is dry as is forcing families to leave the holes in search of

water and grazing land for council that's left little time for muslims to observe the holy month of ramadan is under schapelle 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 amazon now we don't have anything to break up foster with 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. as 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 a u.s. court battle begins later on monday which could have repercussions throughout the ball tech quotes company behind popular video game fortnights is taking on apple even to break the i phone maker is great and it's up store i think games accuses apple of abusing its up store monopoly and charging too much for commissions it's now is this a boost in fortnight from its on my marketplace last year. and this is really the

1st shot across the bow toward our own troops defending their mill they charge developers an abscessed for and they will to all to morally go off of that store and be do it themselves and this is something it's not just about epic it's about the in the sure everyone's watching this closely to see if our poor old like to defend it's moot or if there's an issue or a judgment against it we should have a mass of the ripple impact hollywood stars including jennifer lopez and selena gomez have hosted a concert to raise money to help distribute covert $900.00 francs scenes around the world prince harry also 2 pots in what is called the vax live concert in the sunshine is as secure as president joe biden and 1st lady be joined in on line organizers say it's the 1st large scale music event in the u.s. for a fully vaccinated audience since the pandemic began events will be streamed online

on saturday. i think that's why we're all here we want to come together which is exactly what we want the world we all want to come together for one thing just take each. one finish with a bit of sports news now manchester united fans of storm their own stadium in a protest against the club's american owners many supporters want the going as a family to put united up for sale and accuse them of putting the club in debt for as mill reports. and the anger that's been simmering for the best part of 2 decades boiled over at majesty united states and on sunday was the of. the protest was focused on the club's owners the american placer family. the most recent catalysts for supporter unrest was the glazers and doozie as him to join me ill fated european super league the owners quickly pulled

out of the project and apologised to the fans the distrust remain. the supply the belief that saudi was. angry because they could speak by dr michael places a cash cow for as much she got the fish you can see out and everyone is here today each you know culmination of anger from all those years decade and a half of being shit and i believe like. me silly but still looks silly gamble. malcolm glazer bought united in 2005 and quickly loaded debt on to the club while the glazer family have profited from the range meant the club has a debt of more than $600000000.00 they've got a huge debt still outstanding on the go but they're extracting money out of the cup they're paying themselves personal dividends we're paying so if posted by them since that time the members have taken money from the top and that's money the fans

should be being spent on players. they've ignored fans there were no protests going back to the storm with the club and they don't they very rarely attend matches they stay in america and they're happy to take the profits and unfortunately the way that english football is structured means to them personally talk to us to do that the fans have made their feelings clear but it's unlikely united donors are listening too closely for a smile al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines india has reported one of 300000 new coronavirus infections for 12th straight day the official death toll is now around 219000 but experts say the truth is likely much higher a small jim clancy is up and running inside a covert $1000.00 treatment center in new delhi you can support.