more than 28000000 covert infections and 220000 deaths india's latest official figures page a tragic yet vastly underestimated picture of the pandemic. of them how to hit him and this is al jazeera life and those are also coming up at least 20 are killed after a real overpass collapses in mexico city sending

a train plunging into roads and cars below. president joe biden raises the number of refugees allowed into the u.s. after being criticized for keeping truck era limits. and tanzania's president overhauls the government's covert 1000 response turn the page by its predecessor. india's official kinds of coronavirus infection since the start of the pandemic has surpassed 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths a staggering as those numbers are the true figures are almost certain to be much higher people have been seen dying outside the overwhelmed hospitals while funeral pyres burn in the streets surging infections have been blamed on government mismanagement more contagious covert 1000 variants where hard hit sing but see as a critical care doctor based in new delhi he says the working conditions have become traumatic and painful. the thing is now. still

now we are not able to think about it so we are just in the world of patients out of this because there is still much bishan lord you want if we want to think about it we have don't have the time that is almost like i have never managed so many critical patients out of 4 to a moment of time in my lifetime means at any moment of time i am managing almost there until 12 and critically ill patients when we i have to decide which type of coffee don't we have to give oxygen in the sense if with rich if able for instrument whether we have to put them on a ventilator to hold the bottom of it belittled it is still much life and better to see dance in every 2nd that we are just into the service all for humanity but i am i am what it is there how long can we continue with this and what will be the future and i am also ready what it very painful means we have lost one of our senior doctors one of the senior doctors in now but the hospital docs in new delhi

and will be lost him because the oxygen supply of the hospital and certainly so when we look vietti losing over colleagues we are losing about patients and we are seeing them bang because of lack of oxygen level for essential equipment sand so these things were very painful and it causes like i can see us my personal experience that it is very traumatic and sometimes we feel that for serving so much when there is still much ignored and so on the ground by the garment and still be are not seeing any commitment still we are not seeing any panic more than. a means on to the garment and they will still look for a left so it is very dramatic and very being. and reporting from india's capital al-jazeera is elizabeth purana has steals about a construction project that's raising more questions about government priorities. we're in the center of new delhi where there was

a very strict lockdown in place with only essential services allowed construction are only allowed if the workers are living on site and yes laborers are being bussed in from other parts of delhi to work on this project here behind me this massive multi $1000000000.00 project off in that interim already and his government to completely redesign one of india's most historic areas a 4 kilometer stretch of road that goes from india gate behind me to the presidential palace on the other side and houses iconic buildings like the presidential house but also parliament now the government has set a very strict deadline for this project which includes the building of a new residence for the prime minister by the end of next year this project is facing a lot of criticism not just because its environmental clearances were rushed through without proper consultation not just because of the cost but because it is happening at a time when india is facing one of its worst crises when people are dying because

of a lack of hospital beds because of oxygen because of medicines and because of equipment now the government has cited the age of the buildings of the state that they're in . as the reason for this project but critics say that many of the world's most iconic buildings including government houses are old and that's modern reason to tear them now and not at such a time. an elevated metro line has collapsed in mexico's capital sending a train crashing down on to cars below at least 23 people have been killed rescue crews have been pulling people from the wreckage of the carriages which are hanging precariously over the roads around 70 people have been injured and have been taken to hospitals. around the city. i have a friend who came from work at 1050 her mother lost contact with her by phone at the time she is a dentist we don't know anything about her i talked to her what she left work she

was in contact my messages we have been friends for 15 years she is 6 months pregnant the police and paramedics don't tell us anything they tell us to call the hospitals because of the pandemic the only answer at the last to wait i have been on the answering machine for 20 minutes and they don't say anything but imagine if their momentum now said can at this point we still have not identified those who are trapped but rest assured that the secretary of the navy and all his team and the civilian protection team as well as firefighters of course are doing everything they can to see if they can identify any more people. at least 30 people have been killed by gunman in eastern burkina faso the government says the village of onto kuta was surrounded in the attackers went house to house shooting people setting homes on fire. president joe biden has raised the cap on refugees allowed into the u.s. after being criticized for trump era limits wooden 62000 people cannot be admitted

this year from 15000 my canner has more from washington d.c. . heard the complete turnaround by president biden the massive u. turn a few weeks ago he was insisting the cap would stay at 15000 as a stop list 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 democratic 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 he says is a consequence of the previous administration's pruning of various departments so although the cap as 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. covert 900 that scenes are trickling into water in yemen through the corporate sharing initiative but there is widespread hesitancy among people to get vaccinated bella 6 planes why. yemenis in the southern city of tire is move with purpose not pausing for fear they're on one of the front lines in the country 6 year war or for fear of a global pandemic they march on well versed in surviving alone there is bad news

for these nurses it off our hospital there are no queues for the vaccine despite a spike in fictions last month a mon norrish population and a whole health system. is yemen's 3rd largest city and has 4 ventilators grandpa got him and. i was surprised when i came to the medical center and found a motor now that i got vaccinated along with my whole family and we were entirely convinced because the pandemic is widespread and symptoms are more intense. human was given 360000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine 5 weeks ago through the global kovacs vaccine sharing scheme 70000 were delivered to tire. the number then at that year. we started on april 21st but the donald has been very low one reason is a religious belief that many people have taking

a shot in the more than fast it's wrong but that has led many people not to come that includes many health workers. in human streets masks a rear room is a not muzzle and i'm glad. there is still a lot of uncertainty about the vaccine maybe it'll succeed or maybe it will fail. got. a good effect by coronavirus i took natural herb's and spices that's what our ancestors used are recovered one of us dies only when his time has come those red izzy's is only affect the rich where not among them. that scene fears are spreading on social media people are more scared of the vaccine than the virus a link to man of the sea society needs more awareness and more education that this vaccine is not as dangerous and does not cause blood clots as it's been circulated . yemen

a country of nearly $30000000.00 people will receive $1900000.00 doses through the kovacs skiing this year but at this rate maybe there will be a surplus shallot bellus al-jazeera. tanzania's new president some years ago who has son is following through with her promise to drastically change the government's covert 1000 response a mandatory 14 day quarantine will be required for travelers coming from countries with new variants they'll also have to present negative tests at the border it marks a significant shift from late president john michael fully he opened they discourage the use of face masks and described vaccines as a western conspiracy well let's get more now from markham where he joins us from nairobi and neighboring kenya markham it seems is a complete 180 degree turn and sirens of covert policy there just outline for us the main differences we're seeing.

the new rules in a statement from the ministry of health say that they are intended to prevent the importation of new variants a new strain so they apply to incoming travelers tanzania foreigners as you mentioned and also requirement to provide a negative test we're not yet seeing rules regarding to prevent transmission domestically but this is indeed a significant change to what we saw on. president john magaw foodie this time a year ago he was saying that tanzania had defeated with prayer at that time we were seeing leaked videos of secret burials happening at night with people wearing protective suits burying dead bodies that no data was published since about a year ago. advocated using herbal concoctions and inhalation now since he died 2 months ago we do seem to as you said indeed be seeing

a slow but steady change in direction from tanzania's new leader president samir salue who has and what kind of impact these new policies have moving from being for covert to actually taking concrete action. we don't know yet the government of tanzania hasn't published data since. maybe that's something that will change soon but over the last year been other indications that there was a fairly severe pandemic happening in tanzania the u.s. embassy there a couple of occasions released statements saying that they had evidence that the virus was spreading very rapidly in urban areas is anecdotal evidence of spikes in burials cemeteries quite recently and also scientists in angola recently discovered travelers arriving from tanzania who were carrying strains that had more variants

in the covert virus than any other strain that's been detected so far in the world but on the rule of president john mica throughly of course it was very difficult for anyone to do any of this kind of research in tanzania but we should if indeed the government continues to change direction this is things that we may learn more about in the weeks or months ahead if there is data collected and data published from tanzania itself ok malcolm webb there reporting live from nairobi malcolm thank you. still ahead here on al-jazeera fear and insecurity grips parts of afghanistan as american forces leave the country in the poor place came under attack just last week and a leaked report reveals new details about the tax dodging time football legend diego wanted to.

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the or. this is al jazeera quite right of the top stories for you know india's official count of corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic has surpassed 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths a surgeon infections has been blamed on governments mismanagement and contagious covert 90 variants an elevated metro line has collapsed in mexico's capital sending a train crashing down into cars below at least 23 people have been killed and 70 injured people have been taken to hospitals around the city. and president joe biden has raised the cap on refugees allowed into the u.s. has been criticized for travel era limits was 62000 people can i be admitted this

year up from 15000. 5 people including a politician and police defectors have been killed in a bomb explosion in myanmar that happens in the town of p.r.a. on monday local media say the victims have been hiding in the village since the military seize power 3 months ago and suggests a protesters are continuing across the country the g. 7 summit in london the us secretary of state and the u.k. foreign minister have demanded an end to violence against those protesters before a story is monitoring events for us from call them pushy joints be nice foreigners more explosions more fighting it really does seem that violence is checking upwards again in myanmar. absolutely on tuesday morning we also know that there was 3 explosions in. a region

where the hospital hospital was targeted as well as a government office now this is according to local media but there were no injuries we also know that protests have been taking place as they have been happening since the 1st week of february. there was at least one protest in the 2nd largest city in mandalay where there were calls for people to boycott schools and universities when they reopen in june and then on top of that there was a report of clashes between an ethnic armed organization and the myanmar military now this latest one happened in chin stayed there was a statement by the chilean defense force which is a very newly formed ethnic armed organization it was formed in the in april it put out a statement on social media saying that its forces have killed at least 4 army soldiers and wounded 10 in clashes overnight so it seems that. violence is taking up but also that ethnic armed groups seem to be stepping up their opposition to the june

so very much there is still the lot of anger against them against myanmar military rule now of course engaging the myanmar military on several fronts by different ethnic armed groups will mean that the myanmar military could be strategically weakened but it could also mean that myanmar will plunge into civil war and that seems to be a concern for countries around the world we heard the u.n. the chinese ambassador to the u.n. saying that greater diplomatic efforts have to be made to resolve the crisis in myanmar but also he reiterated china's stand that it's against sanctions on myanmar now that's a very different stance. compared to western democracies foreign ministers of the g 7 countries are meeting in london where they're expected to discuss not only the crisis in the end but also whether or not to impose new sanctions on entities and individuals connected to the myanmar military. ok florence there reporting live

from kuala lumpur thank you very much indeed florence taliban fighters of attacks an army outpost in far a province in southwest afghanistan killing at least 7 soldiers and capturing another a bomb also exploded near a school in the same province one in 21 people many of them students afghanistan has been fearing move violence since may 1st the previously agreed deadline for all foreign troops to leave the country without fears especially palpable in the afghan province of lagardere a car bomb left 24 people dead last week after syria's failure contre fully traveled to the city of the island. the roads in afghanistan have become too dangerous even for the one hour drive from kabul to low gar from the air the southeastern province looks peaceful but on the ground the devastation caused by a powerful truck bomb days ago is a reminder of how volatile the area is. short. the

hospital is totally destroyed all the employees are trying to clean the place the broken glass in the rooms the staff are trying to rebuild a hospital from nothing in just a few days because the government is not helping us. a few meters away members of a peace movement set up a tent they're demanding a ceasefire and want their voices heard to guest house next to the tent where dozens of high school students were waiting to take their university entrance exams has been levelled the taliban has been active in logar for years and the government has blamed it for those devastating car bomb attack but the group has yet to respond to the accusations the local our governor says they have evidence the taliban carried out the attack he believes despite the foreign troop withdrawal the afghan defense forces can continue to fight the group and he says he's more

concerned about foreign fighters that use the 14 kilometer border separating from pakistan the pressure. comes in from logan or than they. have foreign advisers like pakistanis like. people from was recused from. people they're here they're giving the trainings during the making the car bombs for them the recent world saying ok guys we finish the job successfully. and now we are going in they are leaving behind a war which fought for 20 years. all these people trained. lots of things they are living international communities living of honest to go

into chaos. while the government says they keep conducting operations against what it calls terrorist groups near the log our border shopkeepers at the capital's bazaar are trying to rebuild their shops. it will take them days to restart their businesses and the money that no $1.00 will compensate them for 000 level got to be honest security is deteriorating day by day we cannot run our businesses properly working in fear and it's too difficult to have a shop here i insist that we have a stable peace for our country and that peace is the one thing everyone longs for for your country for our dizzy or low guy. libya's interim government has called on turkey to withdraw its foreign troops and mercenaries foreign minister national are among crucial are urged ankara to comply with the un security council resolutions during a visit by her turkish counterpart in a cover song turkey's

a portress to libya after world who never have to launched an offensive against tripoli 2019. or so of the world's top philanthropist spill and melinda gates are entering their 27 year marriage in that time they've given billions of dollars to charity they say they'll keep working together at the bill and melinda gates foundation the largest private charitable organization in the world it's committed $1750000000.00 toward the fight against school with 19 well ben solstice is a grantee of the gates foundation he says the couple has transformed the way charitable organizations work. it's enormously consequential in it in that it is. directly impacts the most important one tropic foundation in the world and bill and melinda gates are probably the most public the most prominent when tipis in the world so it's it's enormously consequential event

i don't think we get know what those consequences will be the gates foundation really is the high water mark of a kind of technocratic data driven approach that's defined philanthropy really for the last 2 decades you know it's it strikes us as being almost the norm but for quite a while last half century there really was not a big tradition of engaged living donors who utilize their. business competencies and interim door intra nouriel. talents and channeled 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 in domestic us 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. an investigation into the death of argentine football legend diego maradona has concluded that his medical team acted recklessly maradona died of heart failure in december 2 weeks after surgery for a blood clots in his brain theories about reports from buenos aires. it's been almost 6 months since the head on a passed away argentina was in mourning as thousands gathered to say goodbye but might have been as death is surrounded in controversy on monday a panel of 20 experts concluded my own i received inadequate medical care and was left to his fate for a prolonged agonizing period before he died down

a show you know going to look at the burdens of him or being investigated with not because they wanted to be the but for the own benefit they were taking money from him but i don't as personal doctor. he psychiatrist and his psychology is demo gathers around their investigation prosecutors will have to decide whether there is enough evidence to charge them 70 page report reveal that they will not i don't i became humorously ill at least 12 hours before he with found dead in his bed it also and not in up with duncan save him behind things 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 in a sort of almost. 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 to a documentary by info by a local media company revealed audio recordings between my own as lawyers doctors and caretakers. be sure how my governess daughters wanted to hospitalize him after his brain surgery but it's alleged he's until raj wanted to take him to a private home so they would lose control over him and the profits he generated rick are going to show another one of those accused insist their innocence and so to. the evidence that was leaked as well as the or your witness testimony the extracts including edited or your own chats involve less than half of the defendants 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. the

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 . this is al jazeera and these are the headlines india's official kinds of corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic has surpassed 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths a surgeon infections has been blamed on government mismanagement and more contagious covert 1000 variants elizabeth purana has more from new delhi the health minister on monday the health ministry rather and they were talking about how cases

in some of the worst affected places maharashtra has been the worst affected throughout this pandemic of the past year but also in delhi and.