rhona virus appears far wider than anyone. about 1.4. 140000000. which is the kind of. news defense from india's ruling party is covert 900 spreads unabated senior politician tells al-jazeera his 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 situation. of again i'm kemal santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera

a bridge carrying a metro train collapsed onto a road in mexico city killing at least 23 people 6 months since ethiopia's a region became a battleground and tens of thousands of people are still sheltering in neighboring sedan. and francis the parliament is debating a climate change bill right now and even if it passes environmentalists say it's not enough. another 350000 plus cases another 3 and a half 1000 deaths there is a frightening repetition to the covert $900.00 numbers coming out of india each day and yet a senior member of the governing body j.p. party has told al jazeera this tuesday the government can't be blamed for the current surge we will hear part of that interview in a moment 1st this report from others but purana 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 that have to be put at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies aren't even being cremated properly because that only $45.00 police will performing the rituals even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's a still a long queue of ambulances going bodies of cord 19 victims outside the crematorium and he is recent surge of the virus has seen the official death toll climbs 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 including 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. insensitive to. mention in such a rush you know war. for political purposes i don't think that's actually the purpose playing 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 pronto al-jazeera new delhi. so let's return to that government reaction we had here is mikhail a senior member of india's governing party speaking to peter dhabi on al-jazeera peter began by asking him if quite simply the government was to blame for the crisis the extent of the mc would not have been there. anybody. who would wait because the longer give the situation. everybody given the fact that india is such a huge population as it is they actually just concerning. everybody. but

right now the limit of who would and how does affecting people exactly something which we are all facing as a nation i think is a study of everybody not going to see the bill you look at our population which is 1600000000 the solution lurking if you become ok can i just because you then for a 2nd sir 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 why do you think that no hang on stop point to 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 and i don't think there's any concrete which is in that kind of exploration program as a percentage of the population as a percentage of the population so you are not doesn't matter people are not you're simply not at the leading edge of vaccinating a population who like you have no experience to let me finish the point you have not to be you're not nor are you because you are you are running out a bank seems so i don't really want a vaccine because you're going to believe this you want to keep that now our country which that infrastructure has successfully done i didn't fucking with them back solutions and you think that's not it right that's what it accomplished i mean i am i'm missing that what kind of mindset and that you want to find the president i mean india should have been applauded for the fact that why the investor bird has been able to find a 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 the part we have challenges and here's an issue this is this challenge as you said that the prime minister said if you think it's going to was not lifted because yes there was a time bill because look this is a. literary not yet reading an unfamiliar critically there's a lot to say that's a stupid owner in this is that we're. so there's a lot of politics going on out there but we want to take a moment to look beyond that and indeed the trauma of india's coronavirus catastrophe because across the country indians are innovating and fundraising and collaborating anything to keep that compactor it's a live shot of balance as this report has. 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. and every time. i go to see children and adults in different costumes with great messages about global awareness today i had best 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 alive on the outskirts of new delhi seek full and tears 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 it's the one thing everyone needs. 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. very quickly on 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 $4000.00 people in mumbai the military. 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 and saved one of those lives is milk cans mother . of 3 was little shahnawaz has helped me a lot he has already given me 2 cylinders it's thanks to him 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. in midnight where. swan tower has her exams coming up but for her and many others the real test is finding a way to keep their people alive shallop bellus al-jazeera one other coven not to bring you this hour the philippines beginning its rollout of the sputnik vaccine after receiving the 1st batch from russia on saturday for my health workers are the 1st to receive it 15000 doses are being distributed in 4 cities in the capital region the philippines is negotiating the purchase of

a further $20000000.00 doses of sputnik the this year. where are inter the news and an elevated metro line is collapsed in mexico's capital sending a train crashing down onto cars below it's a little after 11 am live pictures here of the crash site where crews are working to clear away that tangled mess which has killed at least $23.00 people the president says there will be a thorough investigation into what went wrong and who's to blame on a regular 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. al-jazeera mexico city. a check on the world weather with jeff in just a moment and then last minute maneuvers as the deadline for israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu to build a coalition government is to expire we'll look at why india's cricket fans will have to wait to see their favorite teams play this in a moment. it's time for the perfect. storm suit point qatar airways oh there they show you where the heaviest rain is falling right now in china it's towards southern areas of the country concerning a bit is while because this is falling the bulk of the moisture falling over the pearl river and this is like a firehose of moisture that we're dealing with across taiwan pushing into japan so some soggy weather on tap there on wednesday for osaka for honshu tokyo 24 degrees but it's a quick moving system so by thursday the bulk of that moisture out toward the

pacific northwest ok we've got some heavier spells of rain drenching rain for sumatra getting into some breaks now for central and southern parts of indochina but still seeing some heavier concentrations particularly for northern laos on wednesday where you could see some downpours of rain off to india then and once again the area of concern really west bengal into bangladesh where we could see some severe thunderstorms spark up here on wednesday in the middle east we've got this cloud here and we got just the right wind to whip up and look what it did this severe storm in moscow that on monday and as we head toward wednesday there is a risk of seeing some weather like that as we head toward the border with the united arab emirates. qatar airways. most people will never know what's beyond this store. in the sun 100 pounds informs how it feels to touch danger british.

people live in knowing what it's like to work with every breath just brush. with. the tsunami. but we're not most people. with al-jazeera these are the top stories this hour india's official count of corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic has now passed 28000000 more than 220000 deaths a surge in infections has been blamed on government management and more contagious variants of covenanting meanwhile the governing

b j p party is insisting it's not to blame for the crisis a senior members told al jazeera the government couldn't have anticipated the severity of india's 2nd wave and an elevated metro line has collapsed in mexico's capital sending a train crashing down on to cars below base 23 people were killed president says there will be a thorough investigation. it has been 6 months since the conflict started in ethiopia's to grow a region and refugees continue to flee bringing with them allegations of atrocities the violence broke out last november between the national army and the to green people's liberation front the t p l f which had domination ethiopia's politics and military for nearly 30 years that was until prime minister took power 3 years ago the t.p.m. lives as its leaders were unfairly targeted obvious government says the t.v. provoked the conflict by attacking army bases into great opposition parties say 50000 people have died in the fighting in nearly 62000 and fled to neighboring

sudan and then in january the un reported a high number of rapes very soldiers accused of sexually assaulting internally displaced people in exchange for basic commodities things like food that have become scarce here morgan is in a gathering in sudan just across the border from ethiopia refugees there have been telling her of the horrors they've experienced. 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 in some of them crossing the border into sudan and some of them remaining back into gray 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 a husband or wife who say that their partners were separated and that they were not sure what 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 to gray and about by the european troops as well as were korean troops they say that they have suffered terrible. atrocities of sexual violence and and rapes which have been used as a weapon of war that are reports that also came from the united nations and from various human rights groups who say that the eritrean troops are involved in this conflict fighting alongside alongside the europeans who are involved in various atrocities committed against civilians now the european prime minister has described the word as pirates and said that if he wants it to end and has promised that they feel the eritrean troops are involved in the conflict fighting alongside the ethiopian troops will withdraw but that is something that the united nations

there is yet to happen despite repeated allegations of crimes the return troops are committing integrating. amnesty international has just published a report which says the lack of international response to the situation in taking reigns led to a number of human rights violations vanessa is a horn of africa campaigner of amnesty and says human rights violations will only keep happening if those responsible are not held accountable i mean i think when you look at situation and figure 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 in excess of both the humanitarian organizations who rights organizations are honest and which time we got a better idea of how severe the situation is. despite these are sections we've been able to document to record the rights atrocities from all sides of the conflict the mentor situation has gone from bad to worse. accessibility to the region for humanitarian organizations might him proved 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 regulations 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 by inches of mart's law and humanitarian law to go israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu mandate to form a government is set to expire at the end of tuesday night and now he's been meeting opposition party leader is trying to secure enough votes to form a coalition if he fails power will revert to the president riven refund who then gets to decide what happens next israel has gone through 4 inconclusive elections in the past 2 years more from her forces in west jerusalem. well certainly a lot of moving parts on this last day netanyahu won his policy 130 seats in

israeli parliament the knesset making him the leader of the biggest party in the israeli parliament so that is why he was given the 1st opportunity but try as he might he certainly tried over the last few weeks to try to assemble a coalition he can't get the magic number which is 61 a majority in the 120 seat class at so if that maintains all the way through until midnight tonight local time then riven or even the president will have to decide who to give it to next whether that would be the opposition leader who leads a party with 17 seats the 2nd biggest party in the knesset or potentially to another right wing leader natale bennett who only has 7 seats for his party but for whom there is some right wing support reports even that netanyahu may well try to recommend him to the president and his party to be given the mandate next the other option is for the president simply to give it to the parliament itself for anybody to come forward potentially with

a viable coalition. in the past few minutes the french parliament has approved a controversial climate change bill industry leaders say it's too restrictive environmental asserts go far enough from. 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 coast of france could be submerged by rising water levels by the end of the century throughout his presidency emanuel might call has projected an image of himself as a nida in the fight against climate change for his supporters the new no 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 change things and now

we're just continuing to take lou. steps forward that in fact will move us backwards will you more call it was part of a citizens 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 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 butler al-jazeera western france foreign ministers from the group of 7 western democracies the g 7 meeting in london right now for the 1st time since the pandemic looking at policies to deal with over 19 of course squabbles security climate change as well and relations with russia and

china are also expected to dominate much of that 2 day summit. millions of people in the spanish capital madrid and surrounding region have been voting in a regional election being seen as something as a referendum on the government's handling of the pandemic but it's not in baba reports the campaigns also seen polarization over the role of the far right. riding a wave of popularity off to defying the national government isabel death by you so leader of the right wing popular party or p.p. in the madrid region confident she'll be returned to office the people he's been in charge of madrid sprains wealthiest region for 26 years. but this election is unlike any other taking place as it does during a pandemic have. you so has consistently resisted government pressure to impose covered 19 lockdowns arguing they cause too much economic damage the capitals have some of spain's eleusis restrictions keeping bars and restaurants open despite

infection rates far above the national average even at that the mayor he added you know they told me you have to close down because the minister says so because you have to understand each other because of moderation it's what they always use to get you to back yourself into a corner to shut up to cower and to look for your own well being instead of other case before this vote was called in march after the p.p. abruptly broke off its regional coalition agreement with the center right policy see o'donnell's use of basically take back those voters and abandon them to certain extent election and you know it's going against orders well for the more sort of far right party inbox which again has risen they say within her already. leader of the left wing party they most party resigned as deputy prime minister to stand in the madrid election recently he as well as several government officials received death threats through the post. stereo regional head of the far right vox

party cast doubt on the letters but they most adopted the slogan democracy or fascism notion of what you believe in about them which we cannot be arsed to debate with those who question the threats which are serious i think it's a mistake to normalize the far right when they say these outrageous things. in 2019 the right only retain power here because the socialists of prime minister pedro sanchez who got the most votes couldn't form a coalition. this time the p.p.s. way ahead but it might still need a partner to govern raising the prospect of the far right having a say in running the region of almost 7000000 people they deem barber al-jazeera. the indian premier league cricket tournament has been suspended indefinitely after more players tested positive for corona virus out of 4 of the 8 teams the chennai super kings had already gone into a week of isolation tournament organizers hopes that by moving all the remaining

matches to mumbai they could salvage this year's event on choose a the delhi capitals and sunrisers hyderabad to join chennai and the kolkata knight riders as the teams with 900 cases. who is a cricket commentator in the league organizers might find it hard to secure a window of time for the tournament to have a go ahead. i think it's either september or perhaps then at the end of the don't think it's going to be quick enough to be able to survive this pandemic and the way the 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 and i think there is a sense of i'm sure to be at this point 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.a.e. 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 be massive for the broadcasters massive for everyone involved as well as 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 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 that voice 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 started think about whether teams want to travel

for the t 20 world cup later this year to. france they are here on al-jazeera and these are the top stories india's official count of corona virus infection since the start of the pandemic has now passed 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths experts say the actual think is on much likely to be higher a surgeon infections has been blamed on government mismanagement and more contagious variants of 19 but in his governing party the b j p is insisting it's not to blame for the crisis a senior member has told al jazeera the government couldn't have anticipated the severity of india's 2nd wave the philippine.