a desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of evolution across 5 known for deity state's health experts and bob maginnis has been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on dogs because the 19. the is. more than 20000000 covert infections and 220000 deaths in this latest official figures paint a tragic yet vastly underestimated picture of the pandemic. hello there i'm hello 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 cars below please 23 people have been killed

6 months since ethiopia's 2 gray region became a battleground stands of thousands of people are still living in limbo in neighboring sudan. and tanzania as president over holds the government's covert 19 response turning the page on her late sprayed assessor. well india now has confirmed 20000000 cases of covert 19 since the pandemic began 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 states is maharashtra forward by delhi and water pradesh the government says cases are plateau weighing but the rate of testing has dropped in the past few days almost 3 courses of the people who died in a 24 people tried for periods this week came from. 10 states one of which is bihar

where there's only one doctor for every 28000 people around 300 tons of aid and supplies of come 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 airports mohammed film begins our coverage. this scene in india's southern state of cum a taco 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 hurry and in mass 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 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 policy makers in india and many of them have a mental model that this will all turn around. and i have been trying to say that it's everything goes very well things will be horrible for the next several weeks india says it has been vaccinated got least 2000000 people a day but vaccines are hard to come by there there shortage of acting there heart of it for the. people who are. about to get before so there he who is confusing though you hold all the program but where we've got the vaccine and hundreds of millions of in. the technology to complete the online registration

process needed for those aged between 18 and 45 to get jobs in a country of nearly 1400000000 and with the new violence of cope with 19 emerging the situation continues to nuclear extremely bleak or does your own reporting from india's capital al-jazeera solicitors purana has more details of reconstruction projects attracting more condemnation of 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 work has a 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 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 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 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 not a reason to tear them now and not at such a time. tanzania's new president some in

a saloon who has sadness following through with her promise to drastically change the government's call with 1000 response a mandatory 14 day quarantine will be required for travelers coming from countries with new variants will also have to present negative tests for the points that marks a significant shift from lates president john michael fully he openly discourage the use of face masks and described vaccines as a western conspiracy aka weber's following the story from neighboring kenya. the heroes in a statement from the ministry of health say that they are intended to prevent the importation of new variant the new strain that they apply to incoming travelers tanzania and on 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 to what we saw on the previous s.f.

president john magaw throughly this time of year ago he was saying that tanzania had defeated coded 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 really will so advocated using herbal concoctions and the inhalation now since he died 2 months ago we do seem in the beating a slow but steady change in direction from tanzania new leader president samir salut who has on. 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 teams are trying to find survivors amid the rubble and a republic reports from mexico city. a chaotic scene in the mexican capital emergency crews responding to an accident involving

a metro rail train on an overpass friends and family of possible victims searched frantically for their loved ones. my brother is still under the rubble imagine how many tons they have to move that's what we want to know what's going on the. surveillance footage captured the harrowing moments as the structure supporting the train cars collapsed above a busy freeway filling the air with dust and debris. when we arrived at the scene people were crying out for help a vehicle was crushed under the subway car with 2 people inside the driver looked fine but the others were trapped. local residents say this rail line has faced structural problems in the past and had reported their fears of a possible collapse to authorities it's been several hours since the accident and emergency workers are still here trying to clear the scene you can clearly see those 2 train cars hanging precariously over the freeway authorities are asking

people to stay back worry that the structure itself could still collapse further. mexico city mayor claudia sheen has promised a thorough investigation into what went wrong man who ended up a low al-jazeera mexico city. it's been 6 months since the conflict started in ethiopia seagoing region refugees continue to flee the region bringing with them stories of atrocities the violence broke out last november between the national army and the to grind people's liberation front it's the p.l.f. had dominated ethiopia's politics and military for nearly 30 years until prime minister ahmed took power 3 years ago that c.p.l. have says its leaders were unfairly targeted his government says the p.l.f. provoked the conflict by sacking army bases in gray opposition parties say 50000 people have died in the fighting and in the 6200s have fled to neighboring sudan in january the un reported

a high number of rapes in soldiers are accused of sexually assaulting internally displaced people in exchange for basic commodities like foods that have become scarce lemme see international has just published a report which says the lack of international. response to the situation in t. gray has led seen a number of human rights violations knesset so he is the horn of africa campaign or at the say she says human rights violations will keep happening if those responsible are not tell the kinds of home i mean i think when you look at situation and the guy you see you know a place that's been cut off from the rest of the world at the beginning of the conflict it was completely inaccessible to humanitarian organizations he rights organizations are honest and with time we got a better idea of how the bad situation is. despite these restrictions we've been able to document her reticule rights atrocities from all sides of the conflict the mentor situation has gone from bad to worse. accessibility to the region or

humanitarian organizations myname who but situation right now is catastrophic and i think this situation is partly. a result of or parties of the conflict acting with a sense of impunity the lack of access or you might have organizations to document and the whole purpose 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 operate which will continue as long as there's not adequate pressure on all parts of the conflict and they're violators of mart's law and humanitarian law we're going. to london that our g. 7 foreign ministers are meeting in person for the 1st time since the pandemic began they're expected to discuss covert 19 tensions with russia and china and client change british prime minister boris johnson has invited ministers from australia india south korea and south africa to the summits ask guests. voting is underway in spain's capital madrid's in a regional election that's being seen as

a referendum on the handling of the pandemic the favorite for regional presidents as conservative incumbent is about the as are you so she's a locked and skeptic who's fault to keep the city open despite its high covert 19 infection rates. still ahead so on al jazeera on nuns in argentino neutron intersection of peace and school attacks children. by many in brazil who had their 1st dose of the cool vaccine didn't show up for the 2nd one. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored plan qatar airways hello there let me show you where the heaviest rain is falling right now and it's towards southern areas of china bit of a concern because this is where the pearl river is and of course that's where we see our seasonal rains

a few weeks away so this heavy pocket of rain is moving through taiwan through the east china sea pushing into japan so we've got some soggy days a soggy wednesday in the forecast because by thursday this will push out to the pacific northwest unsettled across the western gats we can look at for wednesday seen some pretty powerful storms let me give you a closer look toward west bank all into bangladesh high winds hail certainly a concern with some of these across the middle east right now it's hampshire is still running above average for the love that aleppo 35 degrees this is a good 68 degrees above where you should be and terms of wet weather just through central parts of iran into northern afghanistan that's really where we'll see the bulk of the precipitation on tuesday but let me give you a closer look now around a both sides of the gulf of aden seeing some showers start to crop up into western yemen 25 degrees looking good in doha on wednesday sunshine with

a high of 34. sponsored paul qatar airways frank assessments there are a lot of poison but the government needs to watch what exactly happened and what measures are now taking for a situation like i'm not to believe you could ever get informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing ministry assets this is a message to the region the united states years are rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour india's official count of coronavirus infection since the start of the current demick surpassed 20000000 220000 deaths the surgeon infections has been blamed on government mismanagement and more than 10 contagious covert variants. and elevated metro line has collapsed in mexico's capsule sending a train crashing down on to columns below please 23 people in killed and 70 injured people and taken to hospitals around the city. it's been 6 months since the start of the conflict in ethiopia seagrove region and this international has just published a report says the lack of international response to the situation there cites to a number of human rights violations. this trailer as prime minister is talking down the likelihood that anyone will be heavily fined or jailed for returning from

india the government has imposed on a strict travel ban including the strain citizens and residents has provoked outrage from critics who say the move sets a dangerous precedent we will constantly review this it's implies to the 15th of march that's what the biosecurity order signed by the health minister is and we have made that time that sarah advice to ensure that we can prepare for the repair flights that we had to start soon after the 15th the vibe that will take the health advice on that we are already saying and how this brings the number of confirmed cases starting to come off that's what we want to see over the next couple of weeks the in the last flights that we saw coming in we had one and i one a night of those who arrived had had calvin. brazil is facing a new challenge in its battle against covert 19 it appears that many who've had the 1st dose of the vaccine haven't shown up for the 2nd one or those who did find soon

find out there were none available on again accurate has more 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 a media consortium that 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 gone back because they forgot or simply thought that one shot was enough. being either

lack of information in fake news spread by thoughts who deny the pandemic 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. other or she cannot and 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 eduardo will for the problem. you see as your program of the health ministry instructed mayors and governors to use all their supplies to. the delivery of 1st goes instead of telling them to see a part of the stock to go into the 2nd dose the government was hoping more vaccines would arrive in time that did not but 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 a health catastrophe but brazil has just received the 1st batch of 1000000 fires are 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 abbas 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 meineke an i.q. al-jazeera rio de janeiro libya's interim government has called on turkey to withdraw its foreign troops and mercenaries foreign minister. urged to ankara to comply with un security council resolutions during a visit by her turkish counterparts method of

a solo turkey deploying troops to libya after warlord holly for have launched an offensive against tripoli 2019. chad's military rulers have appointed 2 members of the opposition to the new transitional government is now a promise of national dialogue boxes of interest reports from the capital and jemima the country is far from stable. the crack in charge the united opposition is white me there are no more into government demonstrations on the streets and on to belittle rhetoric has been torn down. an opposition candidate in the last presidential election has been appointed as transitional 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 role to play for the peace of the country we need to do that to restore democracy where from now on power will count from the ballot box it's

a call that resonated with some physicians leaders. and. we almost agree with the process what is more important to us is national accounts at the moment i can't 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 his 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 describe 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 who had 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. judge allies including former colonial power from fear that if the country descends into chaos the entire lake chardin cell regions will see a rise in attacks by armed groups that they say is why they supported the bill to take over for now the country's military leaders we have bought them serve some time but i'd only say how they utilize that time and organize proper elections with

an 18 months will be critical how many degrees al-jazeera jamila at least 30 people have been killed by gunman in eastern became a fast so the government says the village of hunter cooper was surrounded in the attackers went house to house shooting people setting who was on fire. 5 people including a politician and police to fractures have been killed in a bomb explosion in myanmar it happens in the time of day on monday a comedian say the victims been hiding in the village since the military sees par 3 months ago and syngenta protests are continuing across the country at the g 7 summits in london the u.s. secretary of state and the u.k. foreign secretary demands it's an end to violence against protesters. israel and lebanon have resumed talks aimed at ending a decades long maritime border dispute negotiations between the 2 nations began in october last month a lebanese caretaker prime minister signed

a decree expanding the country's border claims so 100 reports very. significant gas fields have been discovered in the mediterranean sea lebanon's prospects are in waters disputed with israel away from the media the long time anime's are back negotiating at a united nations base along the border in direct u.s. mediated talks were called off weeks after they began in october it doesn't start from the us and lebanon was accused of pushing for 1430 square kilometers on top of the already disputed 860 square kilometers registered with the un a position that brought an israeli gas field into disputed territory that is and is it is an israeli air field that is going to start production by 2022 so the idea was like we claim the maximum we can get through life and to not we put in the angel and that will bring these raney's so we negotiate

a deal that is good for lebanon like that 23 is but lori hate there you know unlike others believe lebanese authorities didn't formalize the new claim because the dispute is accord in the gauche asians with the united states when lebanon agreed to talks for the 1st time in 3 decades the trumpet ministration was imposing and threatening sanctions on politicians with ties with the iranian backed hezbollah those politicians are now hoping for better relations with the biden administration or at the least the deescalation of tensions. the resumption of talks was announced days after david hill's visit to lebanon in april the undersecretary of state for political affairs was the 1st official in the new administration to come here on the eve of the visit lebanon's president michel aoun an ally of hezbollah put off signing a decree expanding the maritime claims because he said it would end negotiations but few expect an early breakthrough i don't see and you was too ready to

compromise i don't see the lebanese politics basically is conducive to such important compromise when you have. local tensions and no government so i don't see this is what are conducive for this and the us your intention and the israeli intention also will not help i don't see iran giving. through hezbollah and lebanon if we give them a deal would encourage international companies to invest which would help lebanon's crippling debt but the decision to engage in talks appears motivated by political considerations and maneuvering not just economics editor beirut. in argentina a 2nd trial has started on the systematic sexual abuse of deaf children at a school run by the roman catholic church 2 priests and a gardener have already been sentenced now one more accused will take the stand

including 2 nuns daniel shriner reports from point a siamese. 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 it so they couldn't describe what happened to them 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. they tell you what no medical father wants to know. that your child has been abused a 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 will remember the. mass unit in the 1st thing that has to happen is what the united nations said in 2040 and 70 the catholic church must stop systematic cover ups of the evidence i mean because as long as they're doing that yes there will be murder victims. to prove the law

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 death 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 cove in 1000 pandemic continues to devastate argentina and with nearly 200 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 shrine there are one osiris family 2 of the world's top philanthropists bill and melinda gates are ending 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 its cases $1750000000.00 toward the fights against cove with 19. 0. my. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines india's official kinds of corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic a surpassed 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths a surgeon infections has been blamed on governments mismanagement and more contagious covert 1000 variants tanzania's new president some in a saloon who has son is following through with her promise to drastically change the government's covert 1000 response a mandatory 14 decor unseen will be required for travelers coming in countries with new variants.