they aren't allowed to enter and living from around the world this is a vote for fundamental change to the way the police operation in the united states . this is al-jazeera. the time is 1500 hours g.m.t. hello i'm come out santamaria welcome to the news hour on al-jazeera. to say about 1.414. 140000000. which isn't that kind of. a strenuous defense from india's ruling party has coded 900 spreads unabated seen yet

b j p politician tells our agency or his government is not indifferent to the plight of india's people but while the government talks up its handling of the pandemic we found the stories of people who aren't waiting for things to change and are doing whatever it takes to ease the suffering. also in the news the search for the missing in mexico's capital after an overpass collapsed sending a metro train plunging to the ground 23 people are dead and last minute maneuvers as the deadline for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to build a coalition government is all set to expire. just image of all your sports news cricket indian premier league has been suspended indefinitely after a fall franchise reports coronavirus cases in its camp bring you more on that later this news or. another 350000 plus cases another 3 and a half 1000 deaths there is

a frightening repetition to the covert numbers coming out of india each day and yet a senior member of the governing party has told al jazeera this tuesday the government can't be blamed for the current surge we're going to hear part of that interview in a moment 1st here are the numbers as they stand right now from johns hopkins university starting on the left hand side of your screen the new cases as i said 357000 of them the new deaths almost 3 and a half 1000 in a total of 20000000 upwards of 20000000 confirmed cases the other thing to look at is on the right hand side of your screen that number 2.08 that is the percentage of the population vaccinated remembering that india's population is upwards of 1300000000 all these numbers are even more starkly illustrated when we look at the graph on the reuters track you can see the huge increases that's infections on the left and daily deaths on the right just over the past month and when we go further down here there's a lot of information but by every metric india is in trouble here those numbers you

see at the bottom increases of 14.3 percent in infections and 41.2 percent in deaths that is just in the past week so let's start things off this news with this report from elizabeth per annum she's in new delhi. for the past few weeks in the indian capital funeral pyres have been burning day and night and around the country mass cremations have become the norm 105 going to have a raid going to get out. at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies aren't even being cremated properly because there are only 45 police were performing the rituals even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's a still a long queue of ambulances carrying bodies of cord 19 victims outside the crematorium and he is recent surge of the virus has seen the official death toll climb above 200000 though the actual number is thought to be much higher the

government has faced criticism for not preparing for a 2nd wave and allowing large political and religious gatherings to go ahead ignoring the basic precautions and polluting mosques and social distancing and as people die from a lack of hospital beds and oxygen there's anger at the government for continuing its expensive project to build a new parliament and prime minister's residence we're in new delhi where there was a very strict lockdown in place and only essential services are allowed but the construction of the government's multi-billion dollar rebuild of the central city is going ahead despite objections from opposition parties and activists architect. is one of many people who filed petitions against the project last year saying it was unnecessary expensive and violated all environmental regulations. a little. insensitive to.

mention in such a rush you don't want. this i don't think that's actually the plane in development. medical experts say the government's entire focus should be on getting the pandemic under control i've been speaking to some senior policymakers. and many of them have a mental model that this will all turn around. and i have been trying to say that everything goes very well. things will be horrible for the next several weeks. international aid has been arriving in india for nearly a week but 6 states including delhi said they get to receive any of it a children's hospital in the capital of the latest to say it only has a few hours of oxygen left elizabeth prana al-jazeera new delhi. so let's return to that government reaction we had here is. a senior member of india's governing

janata party b j p speaking to pay to be on al-jazeera earlier peter began by asking him if quite simply the government was to blame for this crisis the extent of the mc would not have been. anybody. to world wait because the enormity of the situation. everybody given the fact that india has such a huge population as it is they actually just concerning. everybody recognition but right now. and how it is affecting people exactly something which we are all facing as a nation i think is a study of everybody not going to see when you look at our population which is 1600000000 the solution lurking if you become ok can i just ignore you then for a 2nd so if i made 2 points point number one india has not done everyone when it comes to vaccinating your population that is simply an untruth that you are

repeating that you said hang on stop point you took that point number 2 point number 2 when it comes to mr modi the prime minister. mid to late april he goes on national television he says it is under control he says normality is just around the corner but was never ever going to be the case trust me you said that. about 1.4. 140000000 vaccinations. which is the decade of exploration program as a percentage of the population as a percentage of the population so you are not this is my pet peeve is not you are simply not at the leading edge of vaccinating a population like you have not to be understood let me finish the point you have not to be you're not nor are you because you are you are running out of back seems so who don't really want a vaccine because you want to believe this you want. that now our country which

that infrastructure has successfully done will i didn't fucking will give back solutions and you think that's something that's not an accomplishment i mean i am amazed that what kind of mindset that you want to find the president i mean india should have been applauded for the fact that why the investor word has it it will. favor the solution what also i don't want them to fight over north a little. bit. one likes interest from. these vaccinations right this morning exactly mung this operationally but only does not count given mice these parameters but that's that part we have challenges and here's an issue i think this is this challenge as you said that the prime minister say if you think it's going to was not lifted because yes there was a time where we could look this is a drastic decree not yet creating an unfair military there's a lot to see that's

a stupid winner in this is that we're. so that's the defense from the indian government we need to take a moment though to look beyond the politics and even the trauma of india's coronavirus catastrophe because across the country indians are innovating they are fundraising they are collaborating to keep they can patricks a live shot bella says this report. actual kermie works for a pharmaceutical company in mumbai but it's on the streets where he thinks he can save more lives he's been working since he was the same age as many of these children he wants to help them right now that means handing out masks. i never knew that. i go to see children and adults in different costumes with great messages about global awareness today i have breast of a joke or a joke for happiness but we live in such times. as covert 19 chokes india

it is the humanity of indians often strange is keeping its people in life on the outskirts of new delhi seek volunteers have set up this free oxygen camp a new patient arrives every 20 minutes. we believe that no one should die just a lack of oxygen it's a small thing but nowadays is the one thing everyone needs the situation is such that if it was made available to the code in 1000 patients they would survive. in every city village street corner the healthy news the sick in popo mohammed can witness children carrying their parents on the backs to hospital so he sold his wife's jewelry and turned his rickshaw into an ambulance. a critically ill patient cannot be brought to the hospital without oxygen support so i thought why not turn my 3 wheeler into an ambulance it's not a space uses an ambulance but it can surely save lives. shahnawaz shaikh gave up

his vehicle selling it to buy oxygen for strangers in the last year he supported more than 4000 people in mumbai for merely very regularly i decided to sell my car to raise funds to buy oxygen cylinders and provide oxygen to people who are unable to find hospital beds so their lives come saved with the help of. one of those law. conn's mother. on a tree was a direct shahnawaz has helped me a lot has already given me 2 cylinders it's thanks to heaven that my mother is able to stay home and breathe with the aid of oxygen. yet in a country of nearly 1400000000 it's people are increasingly working as one unified in the fight to collective survival uncuffed is an organization of dozens of teenage is trying to fill india's gets in health care crowdsourcing medical supplies through social media networks now 11 o'clock in the morning we've.

made night the red white swan tower has her exams coming up but for her and many others the real taste is finding a way to keep their people alive shallop bellus al-jazeera. wonderful wonderful stories and important that we bring you those as well let's take you around the world australia where the prime minister is talking down the likelihood that anyone will be heavily fined or even jailed for returning from india the government's imposing a strict travel ban including australian citizens and residents that provoked outrage from critics who say the move sets a dangerous precedent. we will constantly review those it's implies to the 15th of march that's what the by security 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 have to start soon after the 15th of my 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 the last flights that we saw coming we had one and i one and i of those who arrived had had calvin. to tanzania with a new president. following through with her promise to drastically change the government's covert 900 response a mandatory 14 day quarantine will be required for travelers coming from countries with new variance also have to present negative tests for the points this is a significant shift from the late president john fully openly discourage the use of face masks and described vaccines as a western conspiracy malcolm web following this one for us from neighboring kenya the rules that a statement from the ministry of health say that they are intended to prevent the importation of new variants and new strains today apply to incoming travelers foreigners quarantined in 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. president john magaw this time a year ago he was saying that tanzania had defeated with prayer at that time we were seeing leaked video secret burials happening at night with people wearing protective suits. dead bodies no data was published since. advocated using herbal concoctions and steam inhalation now since he died 2 months ago we do seem to be seeing a steady change in direction from tanzania new leader president samir salue who. in the philippines that of the sputnik vaccine after receiving the 1st batch from russia on saturday frontline health workers are the 1st to receive 15000 doses

being distributed in 4 cities in the capital region the philippines is negotiating the purchase of a further $20000000.00 sputnik the doses. now brazil is facing a new challenge in its battle against covert 19 it appears that many have had the 1st dose of the banks and haven't shown up for the 2nd one or those who did well they soon found out there were none available monica you know has that story from rio de janeiro. brazil ians had to wait much longer than expected to get their vaccines the mass an occupation 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 6 percent of those lucky ones never showed up for the 2nd shot. to be believing 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 vaccine one of the 2 most used in brazil many showed up for their 2nd dose only to be told there were none it would have or should have a 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 and one of the will for the problem. is here is your program the health ministry instructed mayors and governors to use all their supplies to speed up the . a livery a 1st goes instead of telling them to see a part of the stock to go into the 2nd dose the government was hoping more faxes 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 finds or 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 potts will 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 meinecke an i.q. al-jazeera rio de janeiro. coming up 18 minutes past the news hour here is what is coming out 6 months since ethiopia's 2 great region became a battleground of fighting that atrocities are ongoing even refugees about their experience so us climate experts reveal a new normal often looking to take from the past 30 years we speak to scientists about the findings and manchester city with the advantage against p.s.g. as they look to book their place in the champions league final for the 1st time people have been a little bit later. on elevated to metro line is collapsed in mexico's capital sending a train crashing down on to cars below a live pictures from mexico city at about 20 past 10 in the morning of the crash site where crews are working to clear out that tangled mess at least 23 people were

killed yesterday she is being opened into exactly what went on and who's to blame. as the. 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 brothers still under the rubble imagine how many times they have to move that's what we want to know what's going on there. 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 see 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 worried that the structure itself could still collapse further . mexico city mayor claudia sheen has promised a thorough investigation into what went wrong. al-jazeera mexico city. it has been 6 months since the conflict started in ethiopia has taken a region refugees continue to flee bringing with them allegations of atrocities the violence broke out last november between the national army and the to crane people's liberation front the l.f. which dominated ethiopians politics and military for nearly 30 years that was until

prime minister abu ahmed took power 3 years ago the t.p.a. left says its leaders were unfairly targeted ips government says the t. palest provoked the conflict by attacking army bases integrate opposition parties and say 50000 people have died in the fighting and nearly 62000 have fled to neighboring sudan in january the un reported a high number of rapes particularly in today soldiers are accused of sexually assaulting internally displaced people in exchange for basic commodities like food that have become scarce but a surgeon who fled the violence in today has been speaking of the atrocities he witnessed firsthand. to whether it's fair to cross the border into a remote corner of sudan since the violence particularly against women is getting worse it's getting more worse in the beginning it was the shelling and more so the killing subsequently the torture sweater giving more rapes there are women who've been raped some of them have come and some of them were brave enough to come and

report so this accounts of rapes are very very huge particularly in a place that we were in the same in or to gray the killing is continuing his habit morgan in sudan just across the border from the take very region. hey you've been reporting on this story for a long time now it was an acute crisis for a long time it was in our headlines all the time it's not so much anymore but then you get these stories and you realize it's still very much happening. yes indeed come on we've been meeting refugees today and yesterday and over the past few weeks we've been speaking to them as well and there's been no shortage of the horrors they witnessed refugees still continue to arrive to sudan despite the numbers being less than what they were when the conflict 1st started but we still see people arriving and they still talk about the atrocities they witness we've heard from children who say that they were separated from their parents as they

fled for safety integrate some of them crossing the border into sudan and some of them remaining back into grey and so those who are here who we speak to say that they're not sure if the ones they left behind are still alive we've also spoken to parents who've left their children and loved ones behind we've spoken to mothers to husbands to wives who say that their partners were separated and that they were not sure what has happened to them since they were separated sometimes for months so lots of horror stories but the most horrifying allegations that we hear come from women who say that they were sexually abused by the degree and now but by the troops as well as their korean troops they say that they have simply survived. atrocities of sexual violence and and rapes which have been used as a weapon of war better report but also came from the united nations and from various human rights groups who say that the era tree and troops are involved in this conflict fighting alongside alongside me here in troops are involved the various across the committed against civilians now the prime minister has described

the war as fires and said that it he wants it to end and has promise that if you are trained troops are involved in this conflict fighting alongside the ethiopian troops will withdraw but that is something that the united nations says is yet to happen despite repeated allegations of crimes the return troops are committing into agree. important stories that we must hear. with paper morgan thank you. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu mandate to form a government is set to expire at the end of tuesday that's in yahoo's been meeting opposition party leaders to secure enough votes to form a coalition if he fails then power reverts to the president riven rivlin who will decide what to do next israel's gone through this 4 times now for inconclusive elections in the past 2 years salary forces in west jerusalem deja vu all over again are there any signs that it might be different this time.

well i mean no signs so far that netanyahu is going to succeed in this unlikely and multi-pronged effort to try to get a coalition one stage of course he was trying to promote himself as the leader of that right wing coalition the 1st prime minister if it had to come to a rotation deal with somebody else in recent days he's apparently been offering a wide variety of people the chance to go 1st as prime minister if it meant that he would be part of that coalition government and retain some kind of status within it it seems that those efforts have failed there are all sorts of other things still going on the right wing groups of parties in the israeli knesset have been trying to accelerate while they have control of the the relevant committee in the parliament a raft of right wing legislation that is seen in some quarters as an attempt to try

to. sideline or at least put one of the the right wing party leaders in the corner to try and keep him within the right wing block essentially what looks likely to happen is that it will go back to the president ruben rivlin who will then have to decide whether to give it to the the centrist opposition leader yeah paid or a right wing leader with only 7 seats in the knesset naftali bennett the indications being reported are that he will give it to appeal and then we see if he can form a coalition netanyahu is the great survivor is ready politics we know that but how serious would you say is the threat at this point for his ability to stay in office . well i think it's the most serious it's been in this ongoing saga of 2 years and 4 elections he has been really flailing around trying to do all sorts of things one thing i forgot to mention just then is one report that he is going to say that he has the the numbers to form

a coalition which by all counts he doesn't just try to get an extra week out of the president and so it does seem that this is an increasingly desperate bid however it doesn't mean that it's over yet even if we enter a phase where. peter or natalee bennett these 2 potential other 1st prime ministers more likely than a natale bennett will go 1st even if it's a change bloc as it's known coalition that tries to be formed even then netanyahu can still try to put the spammers in the works of that process try to convince people to come across to him that the last time a unity government was formed he didn't have a mandate at that stage so there is that option still open to him there is also the option of trying to founder these efforts to try to get it through to a 5th of action because that would mean that he would remain in office through that entire period and there after so it's not over yet and even if he goes into opposition with the prospect of a pretty shaky coalition of those arrayed against him and that it might not last

all that long there's still at the chance of a comeback even if he is forced out of office so nobody made much money by betting on the imminent departure of benjamin netanyahu from politics but it is looking more serious than it has even these last pretty crazy 2 years a 5th the election can you imagine venti harry force that in west jerusalem. in the news ahead 50 days of hunger strike supporters of a detained type protest leader now fear for his health. i'm natasha are popular in the west and from the french president says he's a climate change leader but his critics say he's new green mole is a disappointment. and shows a marine yours is no longer unemployed and find out which club the portuguese manager is joining now.

oh there we had some wild weather roar across areas of oman it was all because of this cloud deck here and we got just the right shift in wind producing these serious storms in moscow on monday in those winds whipping around we had to brief lying across the road here too thankfully that driver was ok so here's a picture as it looks on wednesday might see an outbreak of some of that severe weather toward the border of oman and the united arab emirates elsewhere across the middle east unsettled through the border of turkey and iran and precipitation wet weather in store for northern areas of afghanistan for central africa looks like this this organized moisture just offshore from kenya it doesn't look like it's pushing on shore just yet some heavier downpours of rain through the democratic republic of the congo rate in to grab on that will be the story on wednesday for

the western cape are seeing a pretty good push of moisture for cape town on wednesday this trend will continue as well a lot of rain we're seen in angola in store for wednesday as well ok here's a picture on thursday because still wet weather will be plaguing cape town 21 degrees the high and those unsettled conditions persist. from the north of africa they crossed the mediterranean and made you don't hold. building new future in a secular line. in the line to france's 2021 contentious so-called separatism that as we look back at the history of muslim immigration to the country into 3 parts. muslims are from this episode to onal jersey.

getting close to the people most affected by those in power is often the dangerous but it's absolutely vital that the stories to be told about social side in this area we push this fall forward as we can to the frontline now the smell of day is overpowering a lot of the stories that we cover all highly complex so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can do as many people as possible no matter how much they know about a given crisis or issue as al-jazeera correspondents that's what we strive to. do on the news on here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories india's official counts of corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic is now past

20000000 with more than 220000 deaths a surgeon infections has been blamed on government mismanagement and more contagious variants of covert 19 india's governing b.j. people party that was insisting it's not to blame for the crisis a senior members told al jazeera the government couldn't have anticipated the severity of the country's 2nd wave and an elevated metro line has collapsed in mexico city sending a train crashing down on to college alone at least $23.00 people killed the president says there will be a thorough investigation into what went wrong and who is to blame. now the biggest changes to the united states' climate over the past 30 years of being revealed government experts have been reviewing data from 1991 up to 2020 as part of a once in a life once in a decade i should say update to us where the average is now compared with previous 30 year periods they have noted warmer temperatures across the u.s.

although some cooling as well in parts of the central north are the key takeaways how much wetter it is getting a notable increase in rainfall across central and southeastern areas all this information will help shape decisions in the agriculture and electricity sectors as well as the wider economy with us from national north carolina as mike he is the project manager for the national oceanic and atmospheric administration's climate normals 41912220 so great to have you with us i guess this is as i only said once in a lifetime but it always is that big when you take 30 years of data and learn so much i soon learned so much more about what's happening. here says something that we do every 10 years but it's really important. sermon or kind of activity in our careers we're trying to create a dataset there were no people many proper decisions regarding how

a function in the climate that they have now and also gives us the the ruler by which we can measure today's weather and tomorrow's forecast will be above and below normal words. does any of the data surprise you when we talk about warmer temperatures across the u.s. that i mean that's what we've been talking about that's what climate change is all about yes. well the warmth was not a surprise but b. there is a slight surprise in the fact that some of our northern central states such as north and south dakota parts of minnesota and montana have actually cooler temperature normals than they did during the previous 30 year period and that largely due to atmospheric circulation variations and and other factors. kind of give you a different pattern imposed on an overall warming it's interesting cause that's not

so in the united states is a big country and i guess you're talking about a fairly limited area there to see something opposite from the rest of the country . yeah that's a pretty limited area it is kind of going against the grain but for the most part of the us is warming especially in the west and east coast areas let's talk about well rainfall basically i said there the big at the take key takeaway was how much wetter it has been getting i'm thinking of you know they have been obviously massive storms which have come ashore in the last few years or member of houston texas getting absolutely so for you know a really good period of time is that what you're talking about or is that just part of a general trend. that's part of the general trend there is an overall change in average amount of precept the taishan to increase somewhere from 5 to 15 percent in areas

east of the rockies it's also been a little drier of course in the southwest as are ruins from a lawyer with the increasing problems or drought and fire in an area but the individual storms themselves are also increasing in their intensity so there can be longer gaps between precipitation events. yet you still get more rain because the individual storms are heavier so you collect all this data and it is presented to help make decisions make decisions about agriculture and about electricity without getting too political i'm sure you don't want to do that but does it help that you know there is an administration in place now which will listen to this and will actively want to do something about climate change instead of in some cases denying it well there's this administration certainly has an interest in climate that is. a positive

nature from our point of view to listen to science is a good thing and that it's a very good thing mike and i k f for now i thank you so much for your time we do appreciate it thank you. the french parliament is expected to approve a climate change bill in the next hour or so president emanuel or crown is trying to slash greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a deadline in the a 2030 but as natasha button are reports environmental groups say it just doesn't 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 mackerels 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. 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

non-tax reputation for innovative environmental policy the deputy mayor says mike ross knows disappointing because it doesn't do enough to cut carbon emissions the urgency to repeat here we have 10 years to really radically. 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 government ignored many of the council suggestions because of pressure from industrial lobby groups we should not lose. about climate action but definitely what happened here is still 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 macro is missed a chance to win their support natasha butler al-jazeera western france. foreign

ministers from the group of 7 western democracies the g. 7 meeting in london for the 1st time since the pandemic and looking at policies to deal with covert $93.00 and climate change relations with russia and china are also expected to dominate much of the 2 day summit millions of voters in the u.k. get their chance to have a say on how politicians have handled this pandemic and brigs it on thursday in regional and local elections the governing conservatives may have been criticised for their handling of covert 19 but their vaccination program has given them a huge boost challenge reports from hartlepool in north east england. the northeast of england has many reminders of the government's record since the coronavirus pandemic began the scandals and the successes the voters might judge them on like barnard castle for example boris johnson's former top advisor dominic cummings infamously broke 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 a really top. fight 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 this feeling of being left behind that is the reason why bricks 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. to punish promptly. just on principle. i suspect conservatives. because that's how the general picture seems to be going across the country especially looking at the last election stolen show we've got that much of the posts i'm

a little bamboozled by all of the $500.00 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 probably people 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 a campaigning looking at how people how effective people get out of 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 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. in spain's capital madrid in a regional election there which is being seen as

a referendum on course the handling of the pandemic a favor for regional president his conservative incumbent isabel diaz she is a lock down skeptic who's fought to keep the city open despite hike over 1000 infection rates. well the main protest leaders in thailand has been on hunger strike now for 50 days it has been detained since february on charges of insulting the monarchy and judges have rejected multiple bail requests dozens of protesters pushing for reform in the government and the monarchy faced similar challenges scott had the reports from bangkok. for the 10th time a request for bail was submitted at bangkok's criminal court and for a 10th time pro reform protesters gathered outside. there there to support a product known as penguin and the movement calling for reform in the government and monarchy she has been detained since february and faces multiple charges of defaming the monarchy or less majesté each count carries

a 15 year prison sentence one of those in the crowd is chief mother. i want to ask the president of the supreme court to direct this in your role or anybody who has power to police i'm saying explain to real reason to dismiss why my son doesn't get bail. the 22 year old has been on hunger strike for 50 days his personal protest against the court rejecting i spoke to a defiant in january just a few weeks before he was arrested he was not concerned about less majesty also known as article 1121 need i think. less about just a is something that is written on a piece of toilet paper nobody still face this law no matter how hard they're trying to enforce this law it won't have suppress criticism of the monarchy. the human rights group amnesty international believes the strict has been weaponized by the authorities nearly 80 people have been recently charged including 6 children.

the reason that they do not get them get because watching it was a tough game just like this was always seen as one of the political tools to illicit. one of the latest complaints filed against she followed this protest in front of a pharmaceutical firm owned by the king she was accusing the royal family of using its influence for the selection and manufacture of coded 1000 vaccines there's a section of society here that strongly supports the monarchy and they see this movement calling for reform within the monarchy as an attack on the foundation of thai culture to know that. even though there have been many role families without a monarchy tolland would no longer be thailand to be a different country and i believe that the law isn't used to bully people who think differently it's based on facts. they're also health concerns for another protest

leader. known as wrong she's been on hunger strike for more than a month after being denied bail 5 times. and what appears to be an attempt to keep protesters off the streets of stories continue to deny bail for the program former leadership i'm not but the move is having the opposite effect giving protesters a reason to gather scotland al-jazeera bangkok. now israel and lebanon have wrapped up the 1st round of talks aimed at ending a decades long maritime border dispute negotiations between this week on trees began in october last month the lebanese caretaker prime minister signed a decree expanding the country's border claims you know the reports from beirut. 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. isn't is really if that is going to stop production by 2022 so the idea was like we claim the maximum we can get through line 20 not we put in danger and that will bring these rabies so we negotiate a deal that is good for never like that 23 is but lori like 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 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 anyone was too ready to compromise i don't see lebanese politics basically is conducive to such important moments 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. sport is coming up next on this news hour with peter as the indian premier league finally comes to the pressure more on that story in a moment. peter

is here to look at your sport coronavirus finally impacting sport there in india most certainly the case come all that will start with the news that this year's indian premier league cricket tournament has been suspended indefinitely after an increase in positive coronavirus cases at 4 of the 8 franchises in the last few days but she and i supect daily capital sunrisers hyderabad and the kolkata knight riders of the teams with covered $1000.00 cases tournament organizers hoped their moving all remaining matches the mumbai they could salvage this year's event but now the tournament has been brought to a halt in is an additional concern for australian players as they country has suspended flights from india earlier we spoke to cricket commentators who hailed chandhok he says the organizers of the i.p.l. might find it hard to find a window in which to complete this year's tournament. i think it's either september or perhaps then at the end of the so i don't think it's going to be quick enough to

be able to survive this pandemic and the way that case rising and put together the rest of the story and as well so it is a tough task but i think it was the right call to be taken now and i think there is a sense of i'm sure to be at this point but 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 autos are still open borders have sort of a couple of different routes that are possible you he has been shot as well which is a huge port for a lot of indians to travel through 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. massive for the broadcasters massive for everyone involved as well as especially also 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 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 honestly is 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 that was 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 5 and all the other cricket ball it started think about whether teams want to travel for the t 20 world cup later this year too. it hasn't taken longer jersey marina to land on his feet after being sacked by tottenham 2 weeks ago but most of his manager has been snapped up by roma on a 3 year contract starting next season the news comes on the same day the italian club announced their current coach power fonseca would leave the role at the end of the campaign marina returns to italy having previously managed inter milan where he won the city r. and champions league titles in 2010. called on his manchester city side to produce

a perfect performance when they host paris and to man in the 2nd leg of their champions league semifinal later on tuesday city are holding a 21 advantage over the french side but what has worn these players to expect a tough experience compared to the 1st leg in paris last week you know you play with a result the 1st leg you play with the mind here when you're playing the final final final. and you forget what you have to do because when the game you're playing in that way i'm not thinking about much. always experience the 2nd leg in the semifinals not in our club but in all the clubs always is a difficult one. p.s.g. coach tino admits killian and bob could miss the clash because of a cough strain but the french superstar will be given every opportunity to line up against city. has 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 good to see if we need to plan the game. you know not just a team that. can manage a different. way to play. elsewhere tokyo a limb pick marathon course will be tested on wednesday when runners take to the streets in the northern city of sapporo the marathon was moved to support because of concerns over the summer heat in tokyo but was any usual turn up at were fully aware that residents feel uneasy with the current situation and we're carrying out various steps we want to prepare for an event where people can feel even a little bit more at ease it's difficult but we ask for understanding 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 not done it twice the washington

point guard had 21 and 24 assists as the wizards took care of business against the indiana pacers westbrook also added 14 points to a record 178th triple double of these career now just 3 short of the all time record held by the legendary oscar robinson. englishman mark selby wants to reclaim the world number one ranking after winning the world's new could championship for a 4th time the 37 year old defeated compared to a sean murphy 1815 in the best of 35 games final in front of a capacity crowd at the crucible in sheffield so they last won the world title in 2017 any pockets around $700000.00 for the victory. a few years ago really really dot de janeiro and. the toff so obviously all the family and everyone who's close to me will understand obviously what i'm going for so this is going especially when you know. most sports news on the way later come on then keep it in

your sport again in the next news hour at 1800 hours g.m.t. coming up in a couple of minutes another full of news i will see that. young women with a passion for space i used to dream about working in a fiscal company like not sound enough of a small step to science a giant leap for womankind in kind of a start you don't place it inside and at the scheduled time the south like to be sent into space women make science cut a stunt space school on al-jazeera. hero

and humanitarian. for traitor and war criminal. who defended sorry aber against attack by serb forces. year old world looks back at the life of the advantages. oh my god. it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual numbers could be much higher than advertised

researchers say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. about 1.4. 8 which is the. defense from india's ruling party. spreads unabated senior politicians government is not indifferent to the plight of india's people among the government talks up its handling of the pandemic we've got the stories of people who are doing their part to bring a little levity to a horrifying.