the context and the curators behind the stories that matter subscribe and start listening to may. be the hero the world needs. washing. the. the. the. an escalating death toll in india calls for a national lockdown grow louder but the government insists corona virus infections are slowing. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up dozens die when a metro overpass collapses in mexico officials are accused of ignoring the warning signs a deepening refugee crisis in ethiopia city gree region 6 months after the government

began its offensive and france passes a new climate bill some say it's a bold step in the right direction others say it doesn't go far enough. thank you for joining us we begin the program in india where even asked coronavirus cases continue to rise the government says there are signs that infections are slowing on wednesday though 350000 new cases were confirmed then the opposition says the only way out of the crisis is for a national lockdown to be imposed and while hospitals face severe shortages of oxygen and ventilators the government is facing a backlash over its decision to push ahead with a controversial infrastructure project elizabeth purana has this report from 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 for 5 going to have a raid going to give out that. have to be put at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies on the would be implemented properly because there are only $45.00 police who are performing the rituals even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's a still a long queue of ambulances guarding bodies of over 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 of treating mosques and social distancing and as people die from a lack of hospital beds and oxygen there is 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 bought 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 local political purposes i don't think that's actually the purpose playing a 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 say they get to receive any of it a children's hospital in the capital is the latest to say it only has a few hours of oxygen left and it's about brandon al-jazeera new delhi. so oxygen obviously a problem in india and some states say that they've run out of vaccine same cannot keep up with a plan to inoculate india's population the chief executive of the country's largest vaccine manufacturers says the shortage will last until at least july and speaking to al jazeera earlier a senior leader of the governing b j p denied that this was the case so really not a vaccine because you go to believe this you want to keep back now our country

which the infrastructure has successfully done will begin 40000000 vaccinations and you think that's something that's sort of accomplishment i mean i am amazed that what they do might signal that you would find the president i mean india should have been applauded for the fact that while the rest of the world has been able to fight on the solutions we were also i don't want them to fight over the old solution so the. one like senators from great britain mean. these vaccinations lights east this morning exactly mung this all crucial but only good look on people like these parameters but that's the part we have challenges and. this is this challenge as you said that the prime minister said everything is going to was not looking because yes there was a time because look this is

a dummy drastically declining not yet pretty and unfamiliar to decrease there's been a lot this is a stupid owner in this is that. well dr lancelot pinto is a pulmonologist an epidemiologist based in mumbai he joins us now via skype sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we were just hearing the views there of a senior leader of the governing b j p party speaking to us a little bit earlier about vaccination effectively lording is one of the best in the world certainly by number if not percentage of the population then on the other hand we have the chief executive of the country's largest vaccine manufacturing saying the shortage will last for several months so who's right so i think we have had challenges with the vaccination program over the past few weeks i believe all the people who wanted to get vaccines on a particular day at some point of we had to have not got it on the day of their choice of not got it in the day of the schedule. to

a certain extent years right that it's it is it is a huge endeavor to vaccinate the country as big as it with a population that it has but i think most of those feel that we are until we have been picked up at the best that we should have right now. again in the sudan shua macao from the b j p was saying that india had at least by numbers one of the best vaccine campaigns in the world i'm speaking to you from the u.k. which is usually lauded as one of the countries that's also had a very very good vaccine campaign but that went hand in hand with a lockdown that lasted for months and is still kind of ongoing now so do you think that india can try to stop this wave that we're seeing without more serious lock downs. so i think we need to be true didn't about the way we do things forward i think we let our guard down in the past i think we've had gatherings of individuals where the danger should be the vegas had

a chance to spend more efficiently and rapidly coupled with the fact that we had also the healing with the mutant which seems to be a lot more infectious than the earlier strain of the legless so i think these combinations of letting our guard down coupled with really. than to just say this is what it's probably got as yet and i think we need to be late really cautious about how we think things fall but well tell us a little bit about the situation that you are living through in mumbai is the situation as bad as what we're seeing in delhi for example so the situation in mumbai fortunately doesn't seem to as back be as bad as some of the wages that being a sales a number are seeing from the rest of the country have had our challenges had moments of anxiety and we've wondered whether we would run out of oxygen the different points of fame but fortunately it hasn't happened fortunately we haven't had to meet any clinical decisions which have jeopardized the health of our patients and we haven't had to ration oxygen at any point of time the most cause

being judiciously but of course being prudent in the way we use oxygen we don't treat patients but if we get a chance and see clinical improvement we have switched will have been on by means of oxygen such as concentrate this may have a weekend but i honestly haven't dealt with the situation but i have seen of patient who was in his or her life are not getting the care that he or she deserve because of the lack of oxygen in the family trash and of course it's not just the lack of oxygen that is proving to be a problem in india lack of a lot of other things that beds and crucially health care workers and in many places how do you see that developing as the contagion keeps expanding. so i think it's clear that out health care in just being stretched to its limits i don't think any one of those expected of drug problem of this magnitude and we can only one get enough to deal with this. we thought that the worst was over last year when we had a reasonably large soda system was stretched to its limits but unfortunately this

this is created a new normal or a new magsman limit to which we can be stretched and clearly you know we unprepared and i don't think it's so different from the rest of the world which also wasn't a bit under certain certain circumstances when when the such as it being of this magnitude this year other that that tend to be at the start of the pandemic in most countries but let's focus on another issue that seems to be growing and that's the black markets of both for oxygen of which we know there's a huge demand and also drugs how do you see that potentially becoming even more desperate situation but also some of the problems inherent with getting drugs on the black market so i think that has been a problem for us clinicians as well we do see a lot of therapies being pushed really. which is coming from a sense of desperation which are not necessarily evidence based drugs which are being touted as being game changes busy and life savers busy which we know for

a fact on this is that you haven't necessarily been proven to be that great this is created a kind of an artificial shortage we see messages on social media you see messages everywhere out of desperation trying to look for these drugs and again you know these drugs the demand for these drugs are clearly out matching their supply and that's eating to a black market in which the drugs of possibly being sold at higher prices than what they should be about are you seeing a problem that some of these drugs may not even be what they're claiming to be. i think that's a huge problem so i'm part of an initiative of a collaboration across the world which shows we've tried to formulate a set of simplified guidelines for individuals it's a big site called corbett so let's start or g.e. where you have a simplified set of guidelines debunking a lot of these drugs that have gained a lot of prominence which they shouldn't have and are leading to a lot of desperate pleas from patients and relatives when they see their loved ones in the unfortunate situation of creating an artificial demand for these drugs that

shouldn't really be there dr lancelot pinto pulmonologist stand epidemiologist based in mumbai sir thank you for sharing your expertise and experience with us thank you thank you. international experts are being called to mexico city to investigate the collapse of an overpass which caused the metro train to plunge onto the road below killing at least 24 people cranes have been lowering the carriages after monday's night x. and monday night's accident the crash has raised the safety questions about one of the world's busiest metro systems mexico's president and the best man away in the paizo but a dog has promised a swift investigation and that nothing should be hidden from the public man whether apple of reports from mexico city. ok arctic 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 times 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. but event 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. today what we've seen is emergency crews have been working overnight to remove those 2 train cars and clear that area but until now we know that authorities have confirmed 24 people have died we've heard from the red cross that there are still potentially as many as 6 bodies that are still trapped in part of that wreckage and authorities are still working on identifying those bodies president lopez over the gave his condolences a promise that an investigation would be forthcoming we also heard from mexican foreign minister marcel abroad who was mayor of mexico city at the time that the rail line was built offering his service and input we heard from the current mayor

of mexico city claudio who has also promised an independent transparent or of the investigation would be forthcoming what's interesting that we're seeing today on mexican social media is the number of people who are posting photographs of alleged structural failures of infrastructure problems along the rail line in other parts of mexico city pointing to the fact that neighbors in this where the where this accident took place along this section of rail line had already reported to authorities that there were structural problems and that they were afraid that a collapse could be imminent a surgeon who fled the violence in ethiopia's to grade region has been speaking of the atrocities that he witnessed firsthand what it was the fed as one of thousands displaced by ethnic violence since the beginning of the conflict he's crossed the border into a remote corner of sudan the violence broke out last november between the national army and the grey and people's liberation front and he says the violence

particularly against women is escalating. it's getting more worse in the beginning it was the shelling and was so the killing that subsequently the torture sweated getting more rapes there are women who've been raped some of them have come and some of them were brave enough to come in report so this accounts of rapes are very very huge particularly in the place that we were in the same in or. the killing is continuing. well more than 60000 refugees have fled the 2 neighboring sudan al-jazeera is heba morgan is in get ready for just across the border from ethiopia refugees there have been telling her of the horrors that 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 the gray 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 husbands 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 to gray and about by the european troops as well as were korean troops they say that they have been with her by. 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 across to be committed against civilians now the european prime minister has described the word as pirates and said that he wants it to end and has promised that they feel the eritrean troops who are involved in the 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 integrating. still to come here on al-jazeera international calls for calm after days of deadly protests. and back to the negotiating table lebanon and israel talks over their disputed maritime borders.

how that has been a really lively couple of days across northwestern parts if you're up with this massive cloud just swirling through that area of low pressure brought some very strong and gusty winds across the british isles as we went through bank holiday monday typical bank holiday weather this is going to continue making its way further east was across the north sea and on into scandinavia bittering in the winds from a northerly direction behind so still staying pretty cool pretty role 9 celsius there for glasgow 12 celsius in london should be about 1617 at this time of the year the blustery showers they will make their way across denmark sweden through were norway gradually heading over towards the baltic states see some wetter weather to just coming down across central parts of europe through austria and on towards the house with some snow that will clear through as you go through stay notice temperatures in moscow picking back up to around 18 celsius that's not too bad just 11 celsius in london but it will warm up as we go on through the end of

the weekend small snow there just around the alps noticed some heavy showers there into that western side of the mediterranean and some of those showers also affecting the far north of algeria and chinese or as you go through the next couple of days showers there into the gulf of guinea with some lively ones there for goner . hero and humanitarian. or traitor war criminal. who defended sarajevo against attack by substances. the world looks back at the life of the late you find giving. you the money.

the the world. an awful reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera more than 350000 coronavirus cases and on and on most 3500 deaths have been reported in india the government says cases are beginning to go down but testing is also for the opposition is calling on president to render modi to impose a national. international experts are being called to mexico city to investigate the collapse of an overpass which calls the metro train to plunge into the road below killing at least 24 people cranes have been lowering the carriages after monday night's accident and 6 months after the ethiopian government began an

offensive in the northern tier great region the humanitarian crisis is deepening more than $60000.00 refugees have fled to neighboring so there are many say the violence is escalating particularly against women. the french parliament has approved a new climate change bill that will prevent the airport expansions prohibit open air terrorists heaters and reduce packaging waste president manuel mccrone is trying to slash greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a deadline in 2030 but as the passion but the reports environmental groups say it 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 course we want to take on the energy transition and invest in that kind of things micron has made tackling climate change a presidential priority some scientists say that parts of coastal france 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 in a fit if 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 little steps forward that in fact will move us backwards william o. called was part of a citizens council set up by microsoft to come up with proposals for the climate law he says the governor. ignored many of the council suggestions because of pressure from industrial lobby groups we should not lose hope of a climate action but definitely what happened here is to mr bolton to 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 bottler al-jazeera western france. the united nations and european union are calling for calm after days of deadly protests in colombia the demonstrations began on wednesday over proposed tax reforms and since then more than 20 people have died and hundreds have been injured in violent protests across the country the un has condemned what it calls an excessive use of force by security forces the president even withdrew the tax reforms which included a sales tax on public services and some food and colombia's finance minister resigned on monday. he is live for us in bogota the central we've seen another night of unrest with deaths and the injured in colombia now there is growing international calls for the government to do more to diffuse the situation so what

is the government actually doing to try to do so. well barbara presidency so far as mostly being conspicuous by its absence referring as little as possible to the protest in general when he did say something was mostly focusing on the vandalism the destruction of public ball the public. buildings it said. and what he said mostly was that if you didn't leave these protests need to be. brought under control do you mean militarized the number of cities and his defense minister and the army have done most of the talking on tuesday the defense minister once again insisted that the security forces in colombia respect human rights when they operate and they are up against

what they are calling. terrorist and vandals that are organized by illegal criminal gangs and armed groups in the country this obviously is the opposite of what human rights groups are saying and the videos that we've seen with the police act times shooting indiscriminately against protesters so at times here it really seems like human rights groups and the government live on 2 completely separate planets and now we are seeing increasing calls coming internationally including from the united states for example the u.s. chair of the u.s. house foreign affairs committee the representative gary gary meeks and i quote he said i mixed truly concerned by the brutal response by the police in protest in

colombia and particularly alarmed by developments in the city of cali and he called on president dukie directly for restraint from. everybody said especially from security forces asking the president look at to help the escalate the situation we're going to have to see what happens again tonight and we are expecting again a major protest tomorrow across the country and of course we'll be checking in with you as we get developments for the moment on the summit of the live in bogota thank you. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as mandate to form a government is set to expire at the end of tuesday netanyahu has been meeting with opposition party leaders to secure enough votes to form a coalition if he fails then powell will revert to president rubin rivlin who will then decide what to do kerry foresaid has more from west jerusalem. 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 bloc essentially what looks likely to happen is that it will go back to the president riven rivlin who will then have to decide whether to give it to the the centrist opposition leader yeah he'd 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 my appeal and then we see if he can form a coalition. and now the top stories on al jazeera more than 350000 coronavirus cases and almost 3500 deaths have been reported in india the government says cases are beginning to go down but testing has also dropped the opposition is calling on president that in their modi to impose a national lockdown the government is also facing backlash for pushing on within from.