the big stories of the big events going on but we also tell stories of people who generally don't have a voice i mean one of the child but that's going to be great to have the last question and i think that's what we've done we asked the question people should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. the in. the in the. president joe biden lifts the trump era caps quadrupled the number of refugees allowed into the u.s. . money inside this is al jazeera life and also coming up at least 40000 people have lost their lives in india in the past 2 weeks as a result of the devastating surge in coronavirus case since. colombians continue to protest despite the president's slashing his tax reform plan and the finance

minister resigning. and apple versus epic games is playing out of course in what may be a test case where billions of dollars for small app developers. u.s. president joe biden has raised the tap on refugees entering the country despite an earlier decision to keep the limit imposed by. more than $62000.00 people can now be admitted to the u.s. this year that's up from $15000.00 the bhajan administration faced severe backlash it said it would maintain the previous limit let's go straight to michaela joins us now live from washington d.c. mike this is quite a huge turnaround for the u.s. president why did he change his mind. well it's

a complete turnaround by president biden a massive u. turn a few weeks ago he was insisting the cap would stay at $15000.00 as established by the trumpet ministration but now in a memorandum to the department of state he says that this cap will be lifted to $62.00 and a half 1000 now he says the change of mind came because the $15000.00 figure that he'd agreed to was always an indefinite one and that he was going to take further advice from colleagues and various departments about that particular figure but the major reason in all likelihood is the immense pressure that was brought to bear by members of his own democrat party there was absolute fury at the fact that president biden chose to stick with that 15000 cap but now you've got a cap of 62500 but there's a caveat with that the president says that in all possibility this cap will not be reached by the end of this fiscal year which is october simply because he says

there is not enough staff in departments like homeland security this is says is a consequence of the previous administration's pruning of various departments so although the cap has been increased the president saying that it may not be filled but he then adds there will be an even higher cap in the next fiscal year 2122 and that cap will be over 120000 refugees allowed to enter the united states and in other news mike there's been some good news for some of the family separated in the us mexico border the term presidency. there is indeed 44 families that were separated back in 2017 the department of homeland security has announced that it will be reuniting these families within the next 2 days now the homeland secretary not wanting to give any details because

of privacy concerns but he says that one of the families has a mother from one bird as the other as a mother from mexico these families are being brought together within the next 4 days this is a consequence of the department that the by the ministration established within homeland security called the reunification department now what they do is identify those who were separated during the years of the trumpet ministration and then find ways in which they can bring the family together being very aware of the immense trauma that the family has suffered so here you've got a tangible result of the work of this particular department but once again the caveat involved here the department itself says it has now identified as many as $1000.00 families that are not united that it has got to bring together in coming months this is a major major problem bearing in mind too that in the trump administration years close to $3000.00 children were separated from their families so this is

a massive task for the reunification reunification bureau as it defines itself but the fact that at least 4 families are being brought together would be a great relief to the individuals concerned despite the fact that this is very much just the tip of an iceberg many thanks for that mike hanna there for us in washington d.c. . india is fast approaching 20000000 confirm coronavirus cases also recording a 12 straight day of more than 300000 infections 24 patients have died after yet another hospital ran out of oxygen the devastating surge has led to the deaths of at least 40000 people in just the past 2 weeks medical experts say the real numbers may be up to 10 times higher and those with chronic reports from new delhi. relatives of patients who died when this hospital's oxygen supply ran out overcome

with grief. already. my boy had recovered 75 percent oxygen was available he would have survived but without oxygen last night he died and the. others vent their anger at hospital staff in the state of karnataka one man said his brother called him at midnight asking for help. because a call at midnight that is not getting his oxygen supply he got married just 2 months ago now who look after his family. karnataka is one of india's richest states but also one of the worst affected few places in the country have been spared by the 2nd wave of the virus the capital new delhi set up its 1st oxygen generation plant after more than 50 patients died when their supply ran out . don't depend and will bear to reverse where we really are completely dependent on

supply chains and cylinders then these problems are bound to days it is a great idea to overcome that problem you have created an oxygen generation plant here in simple words it is a kind of oxygen concentrator only with greater capacity. oxygen concentrations continue to arrive along with other international aid trains are being used to transport cryogenic tankers with liquid oxygen to those states hardest hit by the virus the government to expand the vaccination program to include everyone above the age of 18 but there are shortages of doses to. people have been waiting in a line outside the center for hours the vaccines arrived late and the process is taking much longer than expected and that's only leading to more frustration for people standing in queues where proper social distancing isn't possible. gladwin reality like hundreds of others waited for more than 3 hours for his jab i feel in

the center is the main issue because people have been waiting here since morning they were told that this court would open up at 10 o'clock but they have been having. 9 o'clock and now we are getting you know are going to try to get it in some sides vaccinations were delayed because of a lack of health care workers to administer them to ease the pressure on the health care system and the a supreme court has asked the government to consider imposing and nationwide lockdown but not before making arrangements for india's hundreds of millions of daily wage earners who must work every day to survive elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi. dr ravi malik is the managing director of radix health which is a hospital in new delhi is also the former general section of the indian medical association he explains how overwhelmed hospitals decide who gets assistance when beds discuss which i disagree and the patients in 2 to get a good number one can get that he is not requiring

a new york season and there will be unnecessary. interest divided the patients into these segments one segment is requiring work season and the other segment is requiring locks easily and critical carrington secured treatment so. who are requiring the season to get the sick list of the patients you're giving them the conservations they're taking care of pool and yet explaining them the warning signs. they are supposed to belittle being back in hospital in case the iraq situation decreases the checking by the spirit meter so they are checking regularly in. oxygen is. decreasing or temperature is running high or they are getting some blueness on their lips or meal so we tell them certain warning signs when they are rushed to the hospital otherwise we are taking

care of them and pull the other segment of the patients those who are needing roxy's and these were critically sick only those patients are being admitted right now. colombia's finance minister has resigned after days of protests against proposed tax increases left at least 17 people dead there been calls for more mass demonstrations this week despite present even decay withdrawing the plan was heavily criticized for punishing the middle classes at a time of economic crisis. yes more from bogota. protesters of a thing 2 major victories since the start of the protests 6 days ago yet those victories of not been enough to quell people's anger on the streets so much so that the leaders of the national strike have announced another major day of demonstrations on a wednesday across the country saying that they have a long list of demands in now is time to continue putting pressure on the

government unfortunately it has also now been confirmed that at least 17 people have died since when the stay 16 protesters in one policeman and that the real death toll might be even higher the human rights organizations here in colombian internationally are accusing the police for much of this violence saying that the police has been illegally using firearms and accusing them also of illegal detentions in a long list of abuses on the other hand the government and in particular the minister of defense on monday said that it wasn't simple protesters that were responsible for some of the looting and the destruction of public properties that we've seen in past days but that instead this was a coordinated plan by illegal armed groups operating in the country so this was

bonded it is lose they. should have developed premeditated organized financed by dissident groups through the. group who seek to destabilize some regions particularly the defense minister cited the intelligence information but didn't offer any further evidence and these comments will most likely further anger protesters on the streets in a protest that has gone well beyond anger against tax hikes and has become a national outcry against rising unemployment poverty and inequality that was sparked by the coronavirus and the government's response to it. still ahead on al-jazeera has fans continue to mourn arjen time football legend don a report reveals new details about his death. 500 years since the spanish

conquest of mexico to stop using their own symbolic invasion across the atlantic. for the perfect jenny. sponsored point qatar airways we are starting to see increasingly wet weather making its way across southern and central parts of china at the moment big area cloud coming through here easing over towards the eastern side of the country ahead of that go high pressure so it's been fluffy into good parts of japan recently that's about to change to make the most of tuesday japan fine in fly warm sunshine some lovely weather coming through here but here comes the problems as we go on through the next couple days some heavy rain coming in across the korean peninsula spilling out of the east china sea through that eastern side of china and some very heavy bursts of right all the way down towards the

southwest could cause further for flooding problems here then as we go through the next day or so and it continues to drift further research getting dragged further east which across southern parts of japan through good parts of honshu q shoe as we go through wednesday ahead of that those temperatures deliver around 26 degrees celsius will cool off for the 2nd half of the week further south we've got the usual showers there across the southeast asia sunshine and showers some heavier downpours there into northern parts of borneo more them areas of some are also seeing some heavy showers in the show's joining up with a wet weather we have courses in parts of india and some very heavy rain continuing for bangladesh. qatar airways. around one percent of. the is consumed by data centers many of which provide for most storage facilities what is also known as the cloud i'm in no way to see how one center is harnessing the energy of these fields to stow our digital information

without a heavy cop in footprint i'm going to beautiful north coast of the u.k. where the global green energy revolution is taking on new element. drawing is on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories this hour u.s. president joe biden has raised the camp on refugees and saying the country despite an earlier decision to keep the limit imposed by donald trump told the 62000 people can now be admitted this year not solved from 15000. and is fast approaching 20000000 confirmed coronavirus cases after recording

a 12 straight day of more than 300000 infections 24 patients have died off and yes another hospital run out of. colombia's finance minister has resigned after days of protest against proposed tax increases left at least 17 people that have been calls for more mass demonstrations this week despite president even detect withdrawing a plan. 2 of the world's top philanthropists all splitting up bill and melinda gates say they have made the decision to end their marriage after 27 years in that time they've given billions of dollars to charity the 2 say they'll keep working together the bill and melinda gates foundation which is the largest private charitable organization in the world it's committed $1750000000.00 to it's a fight against aids 19 let's get more on this we can speak to ben saul skiffs is a senior research associate at the urban institute sent to a nonprofits and philanthropy is also

a grantee if the gates foundation joining us now live from washington d.c. many thanks for speaking to us on al jazeera what was your reaction when you had the nice what kind of impact is this likely to have on the philanthropic welt well my 1st reaction is and when i can actually say on the air i was quite surprised but i think. in terms of the longer term consequences i think it's yet to be determined it's enormously consequential in it in that it is. directly impacts the most important one private foundation in the world and bill and melinda gates are probably the most public the most prominent when it took us in the world so it's it's an enormously consequential event i don't think we get know what those consequences will be what is it about the gates philanthropy

that is so unique. so the gates foundation really is the high water mark of a kind of technocratic data driven approach that's the fine philanthropy really for the last 2 decades. you know it's strikes us as being almost the norm but for quite a while. the last half century there really was not a big tradition of engaged living donors who utilize there are there are 10 business competencies and interim door intramural. talents and channel them towards philanthropy and bill gates was a real innovator in that respect and he created a massive bureaucracy you know close to 2000 staff members all over the world directed towards global health and domestic in the u.s. here education and so it really was this incredibly powerful philanthropic

instrument that they created and in many respects created together the gates foundation became a kind of. representation of their marriage a lot of money and power concentrated in the hands of the privates organization private individual they all of us assess a tip of that. of course i mean i think we all are noting the kind of discomfort we feel by the way in which a private relationship has assumed you know global consequences but in a sense it's just a kind of more obvious version of the ways in which private individuals now have enormous power that is you know concentrated in their hands and to philanthropic purpose the fact that there is a kind of that you know marriage and relationships are private is you know kind of highlights the extent to which these private and public identities have about

and merged in this new gauged living donor phenomenon giving while no longer loving i think that's how you put it many thanks for speaking to us when she was a senior research associate at the urban institute center on nonprofits and philanthropy thank you to you tech giants are facing off in course in a case that could reshape the digital marketplace the apple versus epic game showdown centers around the dominance of the app store the only place epics wildly popular a fortnight game can be downloaded apple charges developers 30 percent commission something epic says amounts to monopoly and again like other ports. it's being billed as one of the most important legal cases in apple's history at stake is the company's control of how games an absent downloaded within their ecosystem when epic the makers of fortnight tried to go it alone by making the game available

outside the app store apple remove them move violated apple's rules and cut the i phone makers off from lucrative commissions epic says the app store a cornerstone of apple's income amounts to a monopoly the company's abusing. absolutely. and this is something they're not taking away well you know who is really to come back aggressively. and be in terms of those who are kids as well as all the testimony that comes out while i think games may be the 1st to take apple to court the company is being criticized in the past for its dominance in the developer world during a congressional hearing in april both apple and google face questions over domination and lack of competition in just the 1st 3 months of this year users are estimated to have spent 20 $1000000000.00 on apps from apple's app store and around $11000000000.00 on apps from google's clay store but there are billions not

millions and that's 40 percent higher than last year this is a huge business and it's growing and it's growing fast there's nothing wrong with that but what's wrong is if we don't have competition the central question in this case will be if apple is a monopoly is it abusing its power the ruling made by a lone judge could have consequences for the entire digital market the trial is expected to last 3 weeks and gallica al-jazeera. the u.k. is hosting the 1st meeting of g 7 foreign ministers in 2 years persons foreign secretaries bringing together counterparts from 7 countries including the us canada japan and germany u.s. sexiest stace antony blinken has health sideline talks with his british counterpart singled out russia and china for breaking international norms. it is not our purpose to try to contain china or to hold china down what we are trying to do is

to uphold the international rules based order. and when any country. china or otherwise takes actions that challenge or undermine or seek to erode that rules based order and not make good on the commitments that they've made. to that order we will we will stand up and defend the water what's got to change is russia's behavior again as a p 5 member of the security council against the basic norms of international law whether it's the brinkmanship in the saber rattling on the border with ukraine whether it's the cyber attack the attacks on the misinformation or indeed the poisoning of alexina valmy which was not just a human rights abuse but a chemical use of chemical weapons weapons on russian soil. libya's new interim government has called on techie to withdraw its foreign troops and must embrace the

foreign minister not. to comply with the un security council resolutions she made the remarks at a joint news conference with the tech us foreign minister medvedev the show you take he deployed troops in syrian mess marines to libya after command launched an offensive interplay back in 2019 and we also stressed the importance of turkey's contribution in stopping the war and consolidating the cease fire and to cooperate together in regard of ending the presence of foreign forces and mercenaries on libyan lands in order to preserve the sovereignty of the libyans. an investigation into the death of the time football legend diego maradona has concluded that his medical team acted in an inappropriate deficient and reckless manner he died of heart failure in december 2 weeks after surgery for a brain bleed he was 60 years old to as a by reports from buenos aires. it's been almost 6 months since the owner passed

away argentina was in mourning as thousands gathered to say goodbye but might have honest death is surrounded in controversy on monday a panel of 20 experts concluded my donor received inadequate medical care and was left to his feet for a prolonged agonizing period before he died down to show you know we're going to get here to more be investigated with not because they wanted to be the but for the own benefit they were taking money from my own us personal doctor. he psychiatrist and his psychology's demo gathers around their investigation prosecutors will have to decide whether there is enough evidence to charge them 70 page report reveals that given what i want to became humorously ill at least 12 hours before he was found dead in his bed it also said that not enough was done to save him the findings of this report could end up with a case of wrongful death with

a prison sentence of up to 15 years if convicted my own i died just weeks after undergoing brain surgery on a blood clot the report also stated my brother and i did not have full use of his mental faculties and stated his treatment was rife with deficiencies and irregularities you know said almost no no we're going to request abandonment of a vulnerable person along with simple negligent homicide in addition to the facilitation of drugs for consumption adulteration of a public document and adulteration of diego signature to it we are going through a documentary by involved. i a local media company revealed audio recordings between my own as lawyers doctors and caretakers they show how might have on his daughters wanted to hospitalize him after his brain surgery but it's alleged he's done to raj wanted to take him to a private home so they would lose control over him and the profits he generated

recover condition over those accused insist their innocence and. the evidence that was leaked as well as the or your witness testimony the extracts including edited or your own chart involved less than half of the defendant isn't that striking it would seem there is an intent to hold a media trial a trial before the courts have done their work and that is not good at all. matter the owner is considered an idol in argentina after helping this country when its 2nd world cup in 1906. he struggled with alcohol and drug abuse all his life. but his family and fans are convinced he was a victim of his caretakers who failed to provide the treatment he needed to survive . one of us a small group of indigenous mexicans are on their way across the atlantic 1st symbolic invasion of spain 7 members of these up artista army of national

liberation are marking 500 years since the spanish conquest of that country was up just as lead an armed rebellion 27 years ago but have since mellowed into a political group bunya republic has a story. it's a voyage that began only a few weeks ago in southern mexico but for 7 members of mexico's supp at the still army of national liberation it's a journey 500 years in the making. after travelling 1000 kilometers over land they prepared a small flotilla of canoes for a transatlantic voyage the delegation is code named squadron for $21.00 and their mission is a symbolic conquest of europe that's going to most of it a moscow must not let us go we want to learn more hail games of the world zone we want to listen we want to share we want to find out how it is so we can login. in the mexican capital supporters of the militant socialist collective known as the sup at the stas gather to wish safe travels to the would be conquerors. is

a trip that has its 1st stop in europe and includes a visit to 30 countries the intention is to also arrive in other continents. after leading a brief armed rebellion in 1994 in southern mexico this up at the stars have often been characterized as a militant separatist group though the collective has since evolved into more of a political organization that places an emphasis on the rights of indigenous people activists say they hope demonstrations like these will dispel rumors about the sup at the star rebel collective and teach more people about the history of mexico's revolutionary movements organizers here in mexico city encouraged demonstrators to build their own paper boats adjuster that both symbolizes the 1st arrival of spanish conquistadores and the return voyage by sup at these the activists now 5 centuries later. that get with it as the 7 member armada of sup at the 2nd keester

doors prepared to set sail for the old world they were cheered on by indigenous activists. in the fight in the resistance and so away we believe a different world is possible. event organizers see beyond the symbolic conquest be hope this action will help inspire a global awareness for environmental and social progress through a more open dialogue between cultures. money will drop below al jazeera mexico city. this is out as there are these are your top stories u.s. president joe biden has raise the cap on refugees and showing the country despite an earlier decision to keep the limit imposed by donald trump all of the 62000 people can now be admitted this year that's up from 15000 mike hanna has more.