al jazeera. and. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes more than 20000000 covert infections and 220000 it's india's latest official figures paint a tragic vastly underestimated picture of the pandemic. a railway overpass

has collapsed in mexico city causing a train to plunge on the road and cars below but at least 23 people have been killed. 6 months since ethiopians to agree region became a battleground tens of thousands of people are still living in limbo in neighboring sudan will have a live update. and later a right wing politician who's against covert prescriptions looks set to win a key election in the spanish capital it could change the country's political landscape. sports news cricket's indian premier league has been suspended indefinitely for franchise reports coronavirus cases in its camp we'll bring you more on that later this news hour. india has now confirmed 20000000 cases of cope with 19 since the pandemic began 10 months ago half of those cases were in just the past 4 months but the numbers are

likely to be higher because of a lack of testing the worst hit state is maharashtra followed by delhi pradesh the government says cases are plateau ing but the rates of testing has dropped in the past few days almost 3 quarters of the people who died in a period of 24 hours this week came from 10 states one is bihar where there's only one doctor for every 28000 people about 300 tons of aid and supplies have. coming in from other countries but a handful of states say they haven't received any of it and airports and medical workers in new delhi say the aid shipments are just sitting in the airport mohammed vall begins our coverage. this scene in india's southern state of come attack is not the traditional hindu cremation ceremony with the usual rituals and attended by all the family friends and neighbors india is getting rid of its covert 1000 victims in a heartbeat and in mosques with more than $350000.00 new infections and 3 and

a half 1000 dead each day the country is facing aerial challenge india's tally of more than $20000000.00 cases so far makes it the 2nd most infected country after the united states and its fear of the actual figure could be much higher with many cases going on a reported. the surge in infections began in february and has been blamed on more contagious variants of the virus as well as government decisions to allow people to gather in large crowds for him to religious festivals and political rallies the head of state elections have been speaking to some senior policymakers in india and many of them still have a mental model that this will all turn around in the next. and i had been trying to say that it's everything goes very well. things will be horrible for the next several weeks into says it has been vaccinated got least 2000000 people a day but vaccines are hard to come by their shows short of the vaccine they're

short of the vaccine for the. people who are offered the fabulous that they are about to get thus far so there he was confusing though you had all the program where we've got the vaccine and hundreds of millions of indians don't have the technology to complete the online registration process needed for those aged between 18 and 45 to get their jobs in a country of nearly 1400000000 and with a new violence of cope with 1000 emerging the situation continues to nuclear extremely bleak ramadan our desire. reporting from india's capital al-jazeera is elizabeth has more details now of a construction project attracting more condemnation for the government. we are 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 monte $1000000000.00 project off in that interim already and his government to completely redesign one of india's most historic areas for kilometer stretch of road that goes from behind me to the presidential palace on the other side and houses i on the 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 it's 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 and the stakes. as

the reason for this project but critics say that many of the world's most iconic buildings including government houses and that's not a reason to tear them now and not at such a time moving on an elevated metro line has collapsed in the mexican capital sending a train crashing into the cars below at least 23 people were killed rescue crews have been pulling people from the wreckage of the carriage use which are hanging precariously over the road but 70 injured people have been taken to hospitals around the city. i mean. i have a friend who came from work at 1015 her mother lost contact with her by phone i thought time she's 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 and tell us to wait i have been on the answering machine for 20 minutes and they don't say anything but imagine if they're not meant or not said 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. in mexico city with more. let me bring you in to what the scene actually looks like a minute give you more than just a sense this is the actual scene. that we're seeing here in mexico city these are 2 metro cars that have collapsed underneath this the structure that then collapsed on top of an overpass hitting at least one car underneath and what we know is what we've seen here. at the scene of the accident and what we've seen from that surveillance footage that that captured the moment where that that elevated metro

rail line collapsed over those cars sending a plume of dust and debris into the sky and now at the moment authorities sort of section this area off they're not allowing anybody to come through that isn't a member of the army national guard or authorities or 1st responders and they've actually taken a pause from much of the rescue work in the emergency work out of fears that there could be further structural damage that could be potential for another collapse you can see the state of those 2 cars are just hanging very precariously over over the freeway that the police and the authorities here have sectioned off an entire secure perimeter not allowing any of the residents to come anywhere anywhere close to the scene. plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour including many in brazil who had their 1st dose of the covert 19 bank scene didn't show up for the 2nd one. an opportunity for chad's opposition but it's a long way away from stability we'll tell you why. and manchester city have the

advantage against p.s.g. as they look to book a place in the champions league final for the 1st time peaceable have more on that in sport in about 30 minutes. ok turning our attention to the u.k. now where g 7 foreign ministers are meeting in person for the 1st time since the pandemic began they're expected to discuss 19 tensions with russia and china and climate change the british prime minister boris johnson has invited ministers from australia india south africa and south korea to the summit as guests al-jazeera psni barker joins us live from london so need there is bulging here. it is voting but i think you can get a general sense of what's going on here let's not forget the g 7 foreign ministers meeting really sets the tone for the leaders' meeting which is going to taking place in cornwall in south east southeast of west england rather in june the over

our king theme as it were is about protecting the interests of like minded democracies or. blink in the u.s. secretary of state said restoring a sense of the rule based on all of the things they saw in the wake of the trumpet ministration where things were done very very differently and also in the face of a new assertive somewhat aggressive russia and china on top of that though there are other pressing issues as well to do with climate change to do with the distribution of vaccines for those parts of the world that needs them most but on this search the 1st day of their ministers meeting they began by talking about myanmar they were played a video by the unity government there and have discussed the possibility of putting more pressure on the junk government this afternoon. we will. turn their attention to everything from from syria to the sun hail from

ethiopia to eastern ukraine and libya as well real concerns about what russia's international foreign policy goals are when it comes to their power build up of troops on the border of ukraine ahead if they smita don't rob the british foreign secretary even talks about the setting up of some sort of rapid rebuttal mechanism to be able to tackle russian propaganda and to some formation these are the kind of issues that are really the most pressing for these likeminded somewhat over political comparatively open democracies whether or not they'll be able to come to any conclusions over the next couple of days is unclear this is about setting the scene about establishing a working list or pressing topics to really start looking down on ok need many things need barkha there reporting live from london. it's been 6

months since the conflict started in ethiopia's 2 grey region refugees continue to flee the area bringing with them stories of atrocities the violence broke out last november between the national army and the to gray and people's liberation front the dominate ethiopia's politics and military for nearly 30 years until the prime minister took power 3 years ago the. leaders were unfairly targeted because government says the provoked the conflict by attacking army bases in t. great degree opposition parties say 50000 died in the fighting and nearly 62002 fled to neighboring sudan in january the un reported a high number of rapes and degree soldiers are accused of sexually assaulting internally displaced people in exchange for basic commodities like food that has become scarce ever morgan as our correspondent in got off in sudan just across the border here just tell us the kind of stories that these people are bringing with

them and what kind of situation of the living in. well we've spoken to many refugees over the last 6 months from the day they started arriving here and a lot of stay state as well as custom estates and up until yesterday when we met up with some of them and they all speak of the horrors they witnessed integral region which forced them to flee to sudan the most traumatized group of people we've spoken to are mostly children who say they have been separated from their parents as they tried to run away seeking refuge in sudan and in parts of to agree as well we've also spoken to parents who say that they've witnessed their children as well as their husbands being killed and we've spoken to refugees who say that they were imprisoned simply for being of the to great ethnicity so lots of horror stories we've heard from refugees saying that that's why they could not stay integrate and were forced to flee the most prominent stories we hear from the refugees comes from

people who say that they're witnessed it. korean forces being involved in the conflict and committing atrocities many of them say that they're witnessing return forces committing rapes committing murders and they say that this is unacceptable for them because they were trans are not if the offense and should not be involved in this conflict now more many of them live in tents here and got out of state as well as the neighboring casillas and it's already the rainy season coming up. and i think we lost to have a morgan but we did have enough time with you but to get a sense of how bad the situation is that we will go back to unsure if we can well amnesty international has just published a new report which says the lack of international response to the crisis and to agree has led to a number of human rights violations let's speak to the knesset to cya she's a horn of africa campaigner with amnesty she joins us on skype from london but also welcome back to the news give us a sense of how bad it's got over the past 6 months and how bad do you think it

might be for the african community and before the international community really engages with what's going on there. i mean i think when you look at situation and figure out you it's the you know a place that's been cut off from the rest of the world in the beginning of the conflict it was completely inaccessible to human care organizations rights organizations are honest and with time we got a better idea of how severe the situation is despite these restrictions we've been able to document her rhetoric she writes atrocities from all sides of the conflict we went to a situation has gone from bad to worse. accessibility to the region for humanitarian organizations might improve but situation right now is catastrophic on but i think this situation is partly. a result of parties of the conflict acting with a sense that the impunity and the lack of access or you might have are going to be censored document and to hold captives accountable is providing the sense that they're going to get away with what they're doing and it's just allowing them to continue to talk radio which will continue as long as there's not adequate pressure

on all parts of the conflict and there by inches of international markets is there any pressure will upon me for interrupting you there is there any pressure or a real momentum of pressure coming from anyone either in the region or outside the region to kind of diffuse the tension that are still clearly still there to make sure that there can be a little bit of a pause and people control press and maybe step back from this. well we're calling for the protection of civilians in the situation so that despite some relationships or the situation between the parties of the conflict what needs to be fundamental is the protection of the variance particularly young people young children women and girls who have been you know extra victim my friend situation into guy and as of right now there is an adequate pressure on the parties to do so on which the lack of an inadequate response from back in union it took over 4 months before the security council braced the public statement on the issue we're

waiting repression with you might council to bring this up as an urgent question and if it to. start ups told let's investigation to what's happening well so as of right now no there hasn't been and that's why we're on 6 months on the road on the rest of this conflict for calling for an increased pressure on all parts of the conflict we were just talking to our correspondent david morgan across the border in sudan at that was showing some drone shots as you were talking to us by the way of that huge camp just across the border inside sudan it's got the beginnings of looking like one of those refugee camps that becomes permanent is that the worry so how do the aid agencies sustain looking after the people who are there and how do they stop it becoming a permanent installation. i mean the wonderfully complex started i think it only took a few months before the prime minister about but said that mexicans are very welcome to come back to the guy but there is how will people return to homes that have been destroyed and to a situation that continues to be volatile and continues to be insecure and the

company can get guys on going that's something that is the key to me reminded by the different stories that it was mentioning but also by documentation by organizations like us that also they were going to say since my turn or what they said the jewish and the guys i'm going and it will continue to be ongoing a lot of talk at a good pressure that's put on the for the protection of the civilians of course and until that happens the capsule down will continue to grow in size and unfortunately seem to look like a permanent fixture of course that it's not ideal and that's not something that we think or hope will happen but it's considering secor unfortunately something that we weren't welcome to the knesset to cya thank you very much for joining us here on the news out. chance military rulers have appointed 2 members of the opposition to the new transitional government there's no promise of national dialogue but as a matter dress reports in the capital and to many the country is far from stable.

the crack in charge the united opposition is widening there are no more and to government demonstrations on the streets and on to belittle rhetoric has been torn down and opposition candidate in the last presidential election has been appointed a strand's additional prime minister and is currently selling the idea of dialogue and unity to others who are opposed to military takeover. we need to come together for the nation's interest everyone is their own to play for the peace of the country we need to do that too it is doing democracy where from now on power will come from the bonded books. it's a call that resonated with some physicians leaders. and. we almost agree with the process what is more important to these national accounts at the moment i can say we are united in the greed on a peaceful transition and the organisation of

a national dialogue conference. opposition leaders are now in the cabinet that's also made up of the late president idriss deby is ministers and loyalists a move described by analysts as significant. the parliament which is suspended along with the constitution is back in business an indication that the military rulers are desperate to win as many civilian as they can despite the progress made politically the situation in charge remains volatile in the north of the country rebels remain a significant threat so to the armed groups. the military leadership here hopes that the appointment of a respected former foreign minister to head national dialogue will persuade some rebels to go in. the african union has strongly condemned the military's crackdown on protesters that resulted in a number of deaths it's now urging caution i say events unfold. in the bus a possibility of what we shouldn't rush we are gathering data that's will allow the

council to take the best decision we have to weigh the pros and cons to decide on whether to ban or suspend chad is easy but will that help the country that is facing the most difficult period. chad's allies including former colonial power friends fear that if the country descends into chaos the entire chart in cell regions will see a rise in attacks by armed groups that they say is why they supported the military take over for now the country's military leaders may have bought them serve some time but analysts say how they utilize that time and organize proper elections within 18 months will be critical degrees al-jazeera jemima. u.s. president joe biden has raised the cap on refugees allowed into the u.s. after being criticized for trump era limits more than 60000 people can be admitted this year because up from 15000 mike hanna has more from washington. well it's

a complete turnaround by president biden the massive u. turn a few weeks ago he was insisting the cap would stay at 15000 as a stablish 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 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 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. the french parliament is expected to approve a climate change bill on tuesday the president among all michael is trying to slash greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a deadline in 2030 bucks an essential reports environmental groups say it does not go far enough. the high speed train from paris to the western french city of non takes 2 and a half hours people can also fly between the 2 cities but that is set to change under french president emanuel macros new climate law some short internal flights

will be banned to help lower carbon emissions so this is one of 5 intercity journeys in france which will now only be possible by road or train. the climate law aims to reduce carbon emissions in france by 40 percent by 2030 with measures targeting industry food and housing it will also encourage grassroots projects like this wind farm located an hour from now and it's financed and code by nearly $400.00 local residents and a renewable energy company and the traditional will change everything but at least we consider it as a good 1st step towards a model where we have more and more course we want to take on the energy transition and invest in that kind of things micron has made tackling climate change a presidential priority some scientists say that parts of coastal frogs could be submerged by rising water levels by the end of the century throughout his

presidency emanuel mark carreau has projected an image of himself as a nida in the fight against climate change for his supporters the new know is proof of his ambition but others say that it fails to respond to the climate emergency reputation for innovative environmental policy the deputy mayor says michael snow's disappointing because it doesn't do enough to cut carbon emissions the urgency to repeat here we have 10 years to really radically change things and now we're just continuing to take little steps forward that in fact will move us backwards where you more called was part of a citizen's council set up by microsoft to come up with proposals for the climate law he says the govern. to ignored many of the council suggestions because of pressure from industrial noby groups we should not lose hope about climate action but definitely what happened here is the missed opportunity to do something big

green parties are on the rise in france and climate change is expected to be a key issue in next year's presidential election the sense among many environmental campaigners though is the mackerel this missed a chance to win their support natasha al-jazeera western fronts still to come here on al-jazeera. the u.k. goes to the polls in local elections on thursday it's the 1st big vote here since covert struggle on rory chalons in heart of gold investigating whether labor's support in the so-called former red bull continues to crumble. also had nuns in argentina are on trial over section abuse to schools to deaf children. and in the n.b.a. russell westbrook produces another special performance piece a lot more later in school. 6.

hello there we've got pope disturbance impacting northeast portions of europe look what it did to london highest wind gust over the last little while record it was 83 kilometers per hour these blustery conditions will continue so let me show you where this disturbance is right now it's impacting the low countries into scandinavia and we've also got an organized band of rain across central france now let me show wednesday where that rain is we see it pivot into austria the czech republic and poland and as for that potent weather maker it is still centered over scandinavia pushing into the baltic states we've got high wind and usually cool temperatures and. snow in the higher elevations so stockholm your temperature on wednesday is 7 when it should be 16 for the his time of the year take you to north africa right now and we've introduced some cloud and rain in some morocco and

algeria so that is keeping the temperature down but had a bit further east into egypt look at this cairo 41 that's a temperature that you should be seen for june and the heat will continue on wednesday as well cairo 41 degrees and this is a good 10 degrees above average plenty of sun in the forecast. frank assessments. of the government needs to watch what exactly happened and what may have now taking foot a situation might not be good ever again informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing ministry us if this is a massive to the region the united states is rethinking its military posture in depth analysis of the day school ople headlines inside story.

well the tourist terraces of the football ultras where club loyalty come in violent confrontations when i was young when there was a football match we were crying because the fans got to go crazy but in indonesia one group of revolutionary supporters has taken a stand against male aggression with a carnival miska display of peace and unity the fans who make for poor old truism angels on al-jazeera. be watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour india's official count of coronavirus infection since the start of the pandemic has now surpassed 20000000 with more than

220008 surge in infections has been blamed on government mismanagement and more contagious covered 19 variants. and elevated metro line has collapsed in mexico city sending a train crashing down on to the cars below it at least 23 people were killed but 70 were injured they've been taken to hospitals around mexico city it's been 6 months since the start of the conflict in ethiopia stickery region amnesty international has just published a new report which says the lack of international response to the crisis in tikrit has led to a number of human rights violations. tanzania's new president. is following through with her promise to drastically change the government's code with 19 response a mandatory 14 day quarantine will be required for travelers coming from countries with new variants will also have to provide present negative tests at border points it marks a significant shift from the late president john michael fully he openly discourage

the use of face masks and described vaccines as a western conspiracy welcome web is following that story from neighboring kenya. the new rolls in a statement from the ministry of health say that they are intended to prevent the importation of new variants a new strain that they apply to incoming travelers tanzanian than foreigners quarantine and also a requirement to provide a negative test we're not yet seeing rules regarding or to prevent transmission domestically but this is indeed a significant change from what we saw on the previous s.f. president john magaw foully this time a year ago he was saying that tanzania had defeated kobe and with prayer at that time we were seeing league videos of secret burials happening at night with people wearing protective suits burying dead bodies and no data was published since about a year ago maggots who believe also advocated using herbal concoctions and

inhalation now since he died 2 months ago we do seem to be seeing a slow but steady change in direction from tanzania new leader president samir salut who has done. brazil's facing a new challenge in inspiring against cougars 19 it appears that many have heard the 1st dose of the banks seen haven't shown up for the 2nd once all those who did well they soon found out there were none available on an ikea has more now from rio de janeiro. recently and had to wait much longer than expected to get their vaccines the mass inoculation campaign in latin america's largest country got off to a late and rocky start in mid january so far only 15 percent of the population has received the 1st dose according to media consortium at 6 percent of those lucky ones never showed up for the 2nd shot. to be including me

i almost didn't i had to take an inside the pill to make it here for my 2nd shot of astra zeneca i was so scared as were many standing in line with me we were hearing all these stories about blood clots and now i'm glad i came. doctors say that some people have not come back because they forgot or simply thought that one shot was enough. is being either block of information into fake news spread by thoughts who deny the pandemic are part of the problem but we are also facing problems with the 2nd dose because of poor government planning. 16 states have run out of china's corona back vaccine one of the 2 most used in brazil many showed up for their 2nd dose only to be told there were none. have or should have been ok they told me to return another day but will there be any war. it's an embarrassment this is a joke for those bloody politicians. doctors and scientists blame former health

minister and water for the problem. you see as your programme of the health ministry instructed mayors and governors to use all their supplies to speed up the delivery of 1st dose instead of telling them to save hot of the stock to go into the 2nd dose the government was hoping more vaccines would arrive in time that did not happen there have been delays in the delivery of vaccines and of supplies to produce them locally india one of brazil's main suppliers is at the center of the epidemic now in dealing with the health catastrophe. but brazil has just received the 1st batch of 1000000 finds a vaccine doses. the lack of planning will be discussed this week by the senate committee investigating the government's handling of the pandemic former health minister butts will be called to testify on wednesday. he will be asked to explain why brazil took so long to accept pfizer's offer to begin providing millions of

doses last year doses that only just started to arrive monica and al-jazeera rio de janeiro in argentina a 2nd trial has started on the systematic sexual abuse of deaf children a school run by the roman catholic church 2 priests and a gardener have already been sentenced 9 more accused will take the stand including 2 nuns daniel swam the reports from buenos aires. more than 20 former students from the antonio provolone institute in the western province of mendoza have already found the courage to speak out it was their testimonies that helped put 2 priests nicola karate. in prison in 2019 both for more than 40 years. now they'll again have to bring up those painful memories as 9 more accused to put on trial the charges against them

including sexual abuse and corruption of minors that ended with. gamblers who through much of their lives they couldn't communicate because they didn't have sign language school prohibited in a way and so they couldn't describe what has happened to them and then no one believed them. not until a sign language teacher reported it in 2016 the accused this time include 2 nuns 4 former directors of the institute a psychologist and a cook all who deny the charges against them. lawyers for the victims say they have strong evidence and they're confident they'll get convictions. looking. they tell you what no mother father wants to know. that your child has been abused for long time. the argentine pope francis has called child abusers ravenous wharves who must prepare for divine justice but victims and those battling on their

behalf say their case is part of a wider problem in argentina and around the world that the church authorities won't face what they're accused of and they were in the middle of the mass unit in the 1st thing that has to happen is what the united nations said in 2040 and 70 a catholic church must stop systematic cover ups of the evidence i mean because as long as they're doing that yes there will be more victims. to prove the institute has since been closed but many questions about what went on behind those gates still remain what the 9 are accused of what the 2 priests of already being convicted of represents for many a crime even more heinous because the children were deaf because they were perceived to be more vulnerable therefore the exploitation of trust by those responsible for looking after them seems to be even greater. much of the trial will be conducted virtually as the covered $900.00 pandemic continues to devastate

argentina and with nearly $200.00 witnesses scheduled to testify many of them requiring sign language interpreter it could take up to a year a year exposing deep wounds that some must face and others would rather avoid. daniel schorr on the road to sierra when osiris. let's go back to europe voting is underway in the spanish capital madrid in a regional election is being seen as a referendum on the handling of the pandemic the favorite for regional president is a conservative incumbent isabel diaz are you so she's a lock down skeptic who's fought to keep the city open despite high covert 19 infection rates let's talk now to public calderon martinez he's a system professor in politics and international relations at the northeastern university of new college of the humanities he joins us from london pub martinez looking at her advertising is a very simple message is her face and the word freedom is that winning her

supporters. yes i think it's the reality is that he's winning her supporters it is a very powerful message very simple message a certain extent is a symptom of the times really her whole campaign and the group which is going to make from the last regional election probably has to do we if these positions she gets taken against. in favor of keeping the economy open and these very simple message of freedom and how this is on top of the nice thing we think the federal government the national government imagery and obviously the more sort of traditional for this in spanish politics but yes it's a very simple message message very poignant very direct and as we know a simple message just send to the very well the electorate how is she managing to appeal to potential voters beyond her own party i mean the support she gets in her own party is kind of baked in but she's she's going beyond isn't she. she

is and it's not that surprising i mean traditionally in spain we often forget i mean we've seen a recent poll or i say show. and a scattering of bodies but spain historically has been a very divided country between sort of left them rights and what are your body has always had a broad spectrum frost's sort of right wing politics everything from the very center right room other sensor rights to more sort of extreme views what happened recently is that a lot of these support have been sort of chipped away by new political forces particularly since parties to that most of the censor censor rights and more recently books which is more if there was an extreme right what has happened really here is that's you know that was pretty much ceased to exist as a political force that but you know basically and i you sort of basically taking back those sends the right voters and abandon them to a certain extent in the pre-selection and you know it's going to get support as

well from the more sort of far right party inbox which again has had representation within her party so she's basically managed to do what the popular party traditionally did which is to take pretty much anybody from the center right there where the more bring just the right way and she's managing to appeal to all that's a sector of the electorate and if we're saying she's a dog whistle politician because that's what her critics say of her what does that tell us about federal politics in spain because from what you're saying seems to me that every big election be it a local election a city election or a federal election a general election is going to be viewed through the optics of coded 19 and the preceeding administration or the preceding politicians reaction to it and handling of it. yes doesn't extend that is true the key difference here being that if this appearance of the main competitor basically in the disappearance of

this it isn't supporting the sensor that were traditionally supporting the popular party. politics in spain it's a lot about that national level but also how this interacts with the regional level and traditionally what's happening stay is that either the socialist party that goes over the quality have gone through with the support of regional or particular think that saloon yeah and the basque country recent events in got the loony in particular make it impossible to really form regional parties and got some oh yeah who supported that but for the for the conservatives in the central government with this appearance really of see that i was the political force you really have a brother who are least of left wing parties like we get sent by we're on top of that despite the problems spain has with it and then make the prime minister better sanch is still very well written and still the more popular politician in spain the recent really any of the national leaders that compose the popularity of sanchez

and therefore i still think at the national level the socialist party still has you know ok and these are not exactly regionally but treats may not play out in the national ok one to watch for sure we have to leave it there i'm afraid public calderon monson as many thanks for joining us from london. saying with politics millions of voters new you can get the chance to have a say on how politicians of handle the pandemic and breaks it on thursday in regional and local elections the governing conservatives may have been criticised for their handling of 19 but they vaccination program has given them a huge big rally challenge reports now from home to people in the north east of england. the northeast of england has many reminders of the government's record since the coronavirus pandemic began the scandals and the successes that voters might judge them on like barnard costal for example boris johnson's former top advisor dominic cummings infamously broke lock down to come here on a trip he refused to apologize for but it's also home to

a big medicines facility part of the government's highly effective vaccination program the northeast is a brick in the so-called red wall the belt of former industrial constituencies that until recently historically voted for the labor party in 2019 many switched to the conservatives helping serve boris johnson a landslide victory hardly paul didn't but it might on thursday amidst all england's council in mayoral elections partner paul alone has a byelection for a member of parliament or anyone's guess at the minute as to where it might go 3 time hartlepool mayor stuart drummond's knows the town as well as anyone he cautions against only seeing the byelection as a referendum on how the conservative governments handle cope with 19 i think more than anything is someone who's going to represent the town represent them represent really talk the town or. fight down at westminster. they go to the town you know

there's inequalities in health in the economy. poverty local issues loom large here cuts during the last decade have stripped the hospital of his accident and emergency unit other services have disappeared too many observers say it's this feeling of being left behind that is the reason why brics it was so popular in the post industrial north the labor party now struggles to convince voters here that it's not just the voice of the remaining metropolitan south a generational shift in voting has swept through other northern communities is it heart liberals turn to full to the tories. from place to be just on paper. i suspect conservatives. because that's how the general picture seems to be going across the country especially looking at the last election. much of the posts. by all of the candidates that's going to

be. also a bit bamboozled is tom brooks the law and government professor says coded 19 has made it hard to predict where many of the country's myriad local elections are going i do think partly pool will be likely to stay labor in the end but i think it is difficult because the normal rules that political analysts would have as to how things will turn out looking at campaigning looking at how people how effective people get out on the stop reactions to messages on those in the street when it's hard to find people on the street you can't really get too close barnard castle's walls started crumbling in the 1500s labor will be hoping its own period of decline is shorter and that its political walls can be rebuilt. al-jazeera the northeast of england. 2 of the world's top philanthropist bill and melinda gates ending a 27 year marriage and the time they've given billions of dollars to charity they say they'll keep working together at the bill and melinda gates foundation the

biggest private charitable organization in the world that's committed $1750000000.00 to the fight against covert 19 ben soskice is a grantee of the gates foundation he says the couple have transformed the way charitable organizations operate. it's enormously consequential in in that it is. directly impacts the most important one profit foundation in the world and bill and melinda gates are probably the most public the most prominent glentress in the world so 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 to find philanthropy really for the last 2 decades. you know it's 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 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. we are 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 still ahead here on the news for you the sport is next as the indian premier league finally succumbed to the

pressure more with peter when we come back.

time for sport is peter peter thank you very much we start with news that this year's indian premier league cricket tournament has been suspended indefinitely of an increase in positive coronavirus cases at 4 of the 8 franchises in the last few days the chennai super kings had already gone into a week of isolation and terminal organizers hope by moving all remaining matches to moon by they could salvage this year's event on tuesday the daily capitals and

sunrisers hyderabad joined chennai and the kolkata knight riders as teams with covert 1000 cases and now the tournament has been brought to a halt we're joined now by cricket commentator sue hale chanda from mumbai thank you for your time what are the chances the tournament will be completed this year thanks peter yeah i think the big statement from the b.c.c. i when they did announce that they told me just postpone this i would do everything in its power to make sure there's a safe passage for all the players to get back and i think that's a sign that it's not going to complete anytime soon and now it begs the question what's next window because there's a world championship final then there's india still doing it as well so the small window there and i don't see the coronavirus pandemic getting any better by then then you're looking at the next window where india. the world t 20 so i think it's either september or perhaps then at the end of the year so i

don't think it's going to be quick enough to be able to survive this the way that case that rising and put together the rest of this tournament as well so it is a tough task but i think it was the right call to be taken now how much of a bloom is this to the organizers having to suspend one of the sport's flagship events is a huge blow i mean let's remember that this extravaganza that is the i.p.l. is about a 300000000 pound event for the. massive monetary implications massive for the b.c.s. massive for the broadcasters massive for everyone involved as well especially also the employment opportunities that come with it so it's a huge blow to a massive industry and to a huge part of what india considers the big picture in the annual calendar of events so i think from that aspect it's a huge stumbling block in what's happened over the last few months but when you look at the way the case of risen when you've got now things hitting home close and

you've got friends coworkers family members lying in hospital i.c.u. i think the reality is starting to get on well and therefore it was a call that had to be taken whether it was reactive what should have been done proactively that's a different question but i think given the massive scale of events and given what's going on at the moment in india it still had to be made given them on dream vacation as well. i mean immediate concern for everyone involved in the i.p.l. is how will they get home and safely who will take care of that responsibility. that is a big question and to $1000000.00 question as well because you've got the governments involved you've got the broadcasters you've got the you've got cricket boards as well and i was talking to some friends of mine on the commentary found out from the cricketers themselves and i think there is a sense of i'm sure to be at this point and i think that's going to be the 1st and the biggest task over the next week is how to get players back safely both as a shock to australia and new zealand borders are still open borders have sort of a couple of different routes that are possible u.e.s. been shocked as well which is a huge port for

a lot of indians who travel through so i think how they go through it how the quarantine measures are taken whether it's a 3 day quarantine in some places where there's a 14 day candy challenge via new zealand for the ones in australia and there's a lot of unanswered questions and i think over the next 4 to 5 days we're going to start to see this ironed out and it's a big big question on the on the top of everyone's mind because i think families back home as well are concerned seeing images or not their television screens finally last year the tournament was postponed and then it was held in the u.a.e. later in the year why didn't the organizers follow that same plan again this year given india's coronavirus numbers. look i think it's a tricky one given the scale of the event but also given that the numbers weren't as knowledge in terms of the pandemic coming into the tournament i can understand why they went ahead with it i was part of the india's tour of the england tour of india just a call this is well and that was sort of seen as a dress rehearsal and that also you know a secure environment the i.p.l. was next in line and we did pull it off i know as you said in the u.a.e.

just a few months ago but i think it was a question of saying look if we're going to do it let's do it in india because we've been able to pull off the england thought of india and i don't think it's a question of whether it should have happened in india all that you eat it's a question of whether it should have happened at all because if you had all these players playing in the u.a.e. it back the same question are we insensitive other players not even understanding what's going on in the country and i think a lot of these questions still would have been raised but i think the bigger question therefore is how the t 20 world cup is going to feature at the end of this year as well because that is going to be a mega event and now there's already a contingency plan for the u.a.e. later this year so i think the next few months are going to sort of shape the way that the b.c.c. i and all the other cricket board start to think about whether teams want to travel for the t 20 world cup later this year all right so joining us live there from mumbai thank you very much for your time thanks peter. called on his manchester city side to produce a perfect performance when they host para sanjay manny in the 2nd leg of their

champions league semifinal so he holding a 21 advantage over the french side but what he has warned his players to expect a tougher experience than the 1st leg in paris you know you plea with the result the 1st leg you play with the mind here when you're playing the final final final and sometimes you forget what you have to do because when the game you're playing and that's why i'm not thinking about much much and doesn't always experience a 2nd leg in the semifinals not you know a clump in all the clubs are always the difficult ones. p.s.g. coach merritt tino. could miss the clash because the cough strain but the french superstar will be given every opportunity to line up projects you know has urged his team to be aggressive and most importantly clinical when goal scoring chances arrive. we need to do the reason we need to be brave we need to be going to see if we need to plan the game. you know knowing that much is the city's

a team that. can manage a different. way to play. for only the 3rd time in n.b.a. history a player has recorded at least 20 rebounds and 20 assists in a single game incredibly russell westbrook has now developed twice the washington point god had 21 boards and 24 assists as the wizards took care of business against the indiana pacers westbrook also added 14 points to record his 178th triple double of this career now just 3 short of the all time record held by the legendary oscar robinson pretty much superhuman at times might be probably shoot better there might be probably can do a certain things better but there's nobody in the history of the game that can do what he does. and that's all the sports news for now more on the way later peter

peter thanks very much trial is here from 11 june we'll have another news for you at 13 g. we'll see you very soon for the moment but i think. well if we cannot have palestina my government was suddenly not allowed britain to control french palestine would be an outrage but 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 a century to come and so. now we can draw on the. psych

speak of lines in the sand on al-jazeera. young women with a passion for space i used to dream about working at their school company like nasa and i found that a small stuff the science a giant leap for womankind encouraged to start new but only place it inside and as a scheduled time the south like would be sent into space women make science kurdistan space school on al-jazeera. joggers in new delhi take advantage of the relatively clean air after weeks of toxic small stopped people from venturing outside institutions intruding harvard say air pollution is leading to more severe cases of the coronavirus and more deaths from it and nowhere in india is the situation worse than in daddy the number of cases auto drug called where

a desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 north indian states health experts and environmentalists and been wanting for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on the list because of the 19. the air. more than 20000000 covert infections and 228000 deaths in this latest official figures paint a tragic yet vastly underestimated picture of the pandemic. hello there i'm hala my head c.n.n. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a real way overpass collapses in mexico city causing a train to plunge on to the roads and call.