thousands of kilometers from laws to pick areas. to tie workers with exploitation in the forests way to want to waste investigates on al-jazeera. ready. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes and the escalating death toll in india calls for a national lockdown grow louder but the government insists corona virus infections are slowing from manning oxygen camps to funding rickshaw ambulances the volunteers

donating their time and money to save lives in india seeking refuge in sudan 6 months after the ethiopian offensive to gray and refugees share stories of fear and the torture doesn't stop i want to measure overpass collapses in mexico officials are accused of ignoring the warning signs and france passes a new climate bill some say it's a bold step in the right direction and others say it doesn't go far enough. i'm devon asked with the sports manchester city or into the champions league final for the us time to goals from red morris will then be. 341 on aggregates. the official coronavirus caseload in india has shot past 20000000 because of another day of 350000 plus infections as the numbers become increasingly

dizzying it must be remembered we're not talking numbers we're talking people and across the length and breadth of india real people are falling victim to cove it 90 in india administered kashmir families are bearing the day at a graveyard on the outskirts of a stream a guard on monday night 23 people in jammu and kashmir died after contracting the virus in gaza about in the can. as a region of delhi a sikh place of worship being used by patients struggling to breathe they are given oxygen and comforted by relatives under a tent erected on the roadside roadside meanwhile in new delhi the smoke from the burning pyres serves as a never ending reminder of the growing number of people dying cremations have had to be held around the clock to cope with the bodies of the victims elizabeth purana reports. 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 it all. performing the ritual even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's still a long queue of ambulances guarding bodies of over 19 victims outside the crematorium and 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 of looting 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. rush you know. political purposes i don't think that there should be a. medical expert so the government's entire focus should be on getting the pandemic under control. so senior policy makers in india and many of them have a mental model that this will all turn around the next. and i have been trying to

say that it's 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 elizabeth branom al-jazeera new delhi. while some states say that they've run out of vaccines and cannot keep up with a plan to inoculate india's population the chief executive of the country's largest vaccine manufacturers says the shortage well last until at least july and speaking to al-jazeera earlier a senior leader of the governing the j.p. denied that this was the case so we're going to look at really not a vaccine because you know to believe this you want to burn the stokely back now apparently which the infrastructure has successfully done i didn't 40000000

vaccinations and you think that's not it right that sort of accomplishment i mean i am amazed that what they the mindset of a victory would find the president i mean india should have been applauded for the fact that while the investment world has been able to fight in the solution we were also i don't want them to fight over north. one of. these vaccinations lights east this morning exactly monk this. but only good looking people might see spittle meters but that's the part we have challenges and. this is this challenge as you said that the prime minister said if you think it's going to it's normal to because yes there was a time where we could look this is a dummy drastically different you know you know pretty of unfamiliar typically is

there a lot b.c. that's a super don't know if this is. earlier i spoke to dr lancelot pinto a poem and although just an epidemiologist that individual hospital in mumbai i asked him if the reports of vaccine shortages are correct we have had challenges with the vaccination program over the past few weeks i do know that people who wanted to get vaccines on a particular day at some point have to have had to wait have not got it on the day of their choice and not got it in the day of the schedule it is it is a huge endeavor to vaccinate a country as big as it with the population that it has but i think most of us feel that we are until we have been picked up at the best that we should have by now. again sudan shua macao from the b j p was saying that india had these 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 bios had a chance to spread more efficiently and rapidly coupled with the fact that we had also the killing with the mutant which seems to be a lot more infectious than the earlier strain of the like this 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 that lead 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 and number are seen from the rest of the country of the have had our challenges we've 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 we must cause lean judiciously 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 to what was going 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 a patient who was in his or her life are not getting the care that he or she does of 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 ahead get in just truck has been 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 so yes the 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 are 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 office in general 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 3rd of peace being pushed through which are. 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 if 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 feeding to a black market in which the drugs are possibly being sold at higher prices than what they should be. well a 2nd moment now to look beyond the politics and coronavirus catastrophe and across

the country indians are innovating fund raising and collaborating to keep their compatriots alive charlotte ballasts explains. rational 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 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 it's the one thing everyone needs. in every city village street corner the healthy news the sick in popal of 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 and i wouldn't but it can surely saves 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 the military were given over 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 one of those lives is mel

khan's mother. i think it was the right 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 braith with the aid of oxygen. yet in a country of nearly 1400000000 its people are increasingly working as one unified in their fight for collective survival uncut is an organization of dozens of teenage is trying to fill india's gets in health care crowdsourcing medical supplies through social media you have worked on 11 o'clock in the morning with your guy in midnight red white swan tar 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. the e.u.'s drug regulator has started a review of china's sin of a coronavirus vaccine to assess its effectiveness and safety it's the 1st step

needed to get approval for use in the european block well the european medicines agency is also reviewing the german it kiran back american novak's and the russian sputnik v their announcement of a review comes just that they after the world health organization said that they'd be making a ruling on whether to approve sale of ak and another chinese vaccine next week. meanwhile the us president joe biden says he hopes 70 percent of all adults will have received at least one dose of the corona virus vaccine by the 4th of july biden said he hopes independence day could mark the moment where the united states goes back to norm and as we stand here today almost 150000000 americans have gotten least one shot over 105000000 americans are fully vaccinated and among the most vulnerable population seniors remarried 85 percent of those who got their 1st

shot 70 percent of the seniors are now fully vaccinated it's a dramatic turnaround from where we were in january. coming off on al-jazeera at this news hour defiant protesters in thailand again demand the release of their jailed leader. political permutations in israel benjamin is in the hour for his last minute deals in a bid to hold on to power and cricket's indian premier league has been suspended indefinitely after more coronavirus cases within. the uk. it's been 6 months since ethiopia's government began an offensive in the northern region more than 60000 refugees have fled to neighboring sudan al jazeera morgan reports from one diet state near the border with.

semite it remembers the evening when she used to prepare coffees for her family in her hometown of ethiopia's to great region she says when the conflicts reached she and her family sought refuge nearby but 2 months ago she left to seek refuge in sudan's cassella state. we left office which is also in te grey but when the new administration started issuing a temporary dentity cards it didn't bear our identity as a gray and i became uncomfortable the card identified as which we're not i felt they were raising our identity so when i got mine i used it to move to the border and then fled to come here with my unborn child leaving the rest of my family behind that new administration was put in place a month after the to great conflict began in early november between the ethiopian government and the regional to great people's liberation front or t.p. l.f. more than $20000.00 refugees are now here at this reception center in castle estate more than 63000 have arrived in sudan since the start of the conflict many say they

feared for their lives despite the government declaring victory over the t.p.a. left in late november. was a sunday schoolteacher in his town of buffett integrate he says he witnessed if the european forces arresting people simply because they were to grants. their own minnesota resting more than 60 people at once as someone who works for the church i went to the prison to talk to them and found more than a 100 others arrested some were beaten some were badly hurt and it was clear they had been tortured i heard the soldiers accuse the prisoners of being spies and some saying they've arrested them because of their ethnicity when a friend told me they may come from a runaway from too great. since the start of their arrival many have reported witnessing people killed and say many have been targeted because of their ethnicity their fear to ground refugees arriving in sudan each day than when the conflict began but the stories of the horrors there witnessed continue as the scribes what's

happening in parts of the grid as ethnic cleansing a charge to my but if the government says it's willing to work with international experts to investigate any claims of human rights violations some refugees have been relocated from this camp to neighboring states but authorities say not all are willing to leave here. some say they won't go to the new camps despite dwindling services here they're holding on to the hope that the conflict and soon they can return home but we're protein the rainy season and this place is going to be cut off to providing them with aid will get more and more difficult summer it says even if the conflict ends she'll wait to see all those who've been identified as recognised as the grants again she says if not she'd rather her child live as a refugee in sudan but with his real ethnicity recognised. hyundai aid from the sudan ethiopia border. 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 night's accident the crash has raised safety questions questions about one of the world's busiest metro systems mexico's president and the rest when the when the pezzo better though it has promised a swift investigation and that nothing should be hidden from the public. while many white rapper low is monitoring events from mexico city oh well 1st of all man well what is the latest there at the scene. the latest that we can report is that the final death toll will the death toll until now is confirmed 24 people unfortunately with dozens of others who have been injured many who are main in critical condition but what i want to do is i want to bring you a little bit closer and to have a look at what we have behind us which you can actually i'm hoping that what you could see is the point where the where the bridge itself collapsed with the train on top of it with 2 train cars directly on top of it on top of that busy freeway in

the night hours now since then emergency crews have been working they brought in cranes to remove the wreckage from the area to clear this out but this entire area last night after that incident happened had been cleared out by authorities who would ask people to stay back fearing the possibility of a 2nd collapse now while we were here shortly after the accident happened we spoke to eyewitnesses we spoke to neighbors here who actually rushed into the scene before paramedics and emergency crews were able to arrive and they actually were helping to rescue people rescue survivors from that wreckage but again unfortunately that still stands at 24 and we haven't heard from emergency authorities who say that of those 24 deaths a majority are still on identified yeah i mean. just seeing the pictures there of the overpass a pretty horrific listen there had been concerns about the strike a structural integrity of that overpass so how do people there feel that perhaps

their concerns just weren't properly addressed. we've heard from political leaders throughout the course of the day the mexican president the mexican foreign minister who was mayor of the city at the time that this metro line was built we've heard from the current mayor saying that investigation is going to be forthcoming a transparent independent independent investigation but what's interesting today is the amount of of chatter on social media people posting photos from different parts of the city claiming alleging different infrastructure failings in different parts of the city relating to the 12 lines of mexico's metro rail system we also know that since the events of last night of monday evening the unionized metro workers of mexico city we're talking about thousands of metro workers have threatened to go on strike saying that their concerns over the possible short comings and fail infrastructure fairlie's in different parts of the metro rail system in the different parts of the city have not been adequately addressed by by authorities

and the concern is that a strike by metro rail employees again we're talking somewhere around 8000 employees could severely impact the mobility of more than 4000000 people who use the metro rail system every single day this is one of the busiest material systems on the planet mine were up a little with the latest there from mexico city on that dreadful accident and i think you. are going to france now with the parliament has approved a new climate change bill that will prevent airports expansions prohibit open air terrorists heaters and reduce packaging waste president the minimum across this trying to slash greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a deadline in 2030 but is that tasha by 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 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 change things and now we're just continuing to take little steps forward that in fact will move us backwards will 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 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 macro is missed a chance to win their support natasha bottler al-jazeera western france foreign ministers from the group of 7 democracies the g 7 are meeting in london for the 1st time since the pandemic they're discussing global policies to deal with covert 19 global security and human rights and climate change relations with russia china and they ran are also expected to dominate much of the 2 day summit need barker has more from london. the return of face to face release mosque the mosque diplomacy after a 2 year hiatus the g. 7 foreign ministers together with delegations from other countries many from the pacific region had an awful lot of ground to cover they began the day discussing

myanmar and the need to put pressure on the military jump to there before shifting to libya and syria and then eastern europe to russia to ukraine and belarus that seen many many months of anti-government protests against the contested reelection of one of europe's last political strongman alexander look at shanker let's not forget that russia was of course a few years ago in what was then the g 8 until it was kicked out for invading crimea now there are real concerns about a buildup of troops on the border between ukraine and russia the g 7 trying to 2nd guess what moscow's foreign policy plans are in the near future going forward discussions will focus on afghanistan on the global pandemic on climate change the list goes on that gives you a sense of how action parts the g 7 leaders summit will be when that takes place in cornwall in june preliminary results show that people in madrid of overwhelmingly

voted to reelect their regional leader in a vote seen as a referendum on the handling of the pandemic supporters rallied outside the people party headquarters the celebrate conservative leader isabel the as a use his victory she's a lockdown skeptic who us forward to keep the city open this fight heiko bid 19 infection rates are you so hasn't ruled out going into coalition with the far right vox party saying that they understand each other on some fundamental issues. still to come on al-jazeera in this news hour international calls for calm after days of deadly protests in colombia back to the negotiating table lebanon and israel resume talks over their disputed maritime border and just say moving you know is no longer unemployed jim i will tell you which club the portuguese manager is now joining.

how live has been a really lively couple of days across northwestern parts of europe 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 or they weather this is going to continue making its way further east which across the north sea and on into scandinavia bittering in the winds from a northerly direction behind so still staying pretty cool for the 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 a 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 there just

temperatures in moscow picking back up to around 18 celsius that's not so 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 in some of those showers also affecting the fall north of algeria and schnitzer as you go through the next couple of days showers there into the gulf of guinea with some lively ones there for goner. around one percent of. the is consumed by data centers many of which provide for most storage facilities are what is also known as the cloud i'm in no way to see how once into is harnessing the energy of these fields to stow our digital information without a heavy koppen footprints i'm going to be able to north coast of the u.k. where the global green energy revolution is taking on

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a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera more than 350000 coronavirus cases and nearly 3 and a half 1000 deaths reported in india the government says cases are beginning to go down but testing has also dropped the opposition is calling on president modi to impose a national lockdown 6 months after the ethiopian government began an offensive in the northern t grave region the humanitarian crisis is deepening more than 60000 refugees have fled to neighboring sudan many say the violence is escalating particularly against women and 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. one of the main pro-reform of protest leaders in thailand has been on hunger strike now for 50 days. been

detained since february on charges of insulting the monarchy and judges have rejected multiple bail requests dozens of protesters face similar charges after pushing for reform in the government and the monarchy scott heiler 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. has been detained since february in 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 explained a video 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 chief 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 far. less much just day 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 help 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 the coast watching it with a tougher working estimate is always seen as one off the political tool to

put. one of the latest complaints filed against 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 in the marquee as an attack on the foundation of thai culture to now to get out while my even though there have been many role families without a monarchy tolland will no longer be thailand to be a different country and i believe that the law isn't used to police people who think differently it's based on facts. they're also health concerns for another protest leader on a seance city. known as rome 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 for

leadership i have but the move is having the opposite effect giving protesters a reason to gather scotland al-jazeera bangkok. the united nations and european union are calling for calm of today's of deadly protests in colombia 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 president even duke it was true the actual tax reforms which included a sales tax on public services and some food and colombia's finance minister resigned on monday alison that empathy is live in a book is so i listen to the finance minister has resigned the tax proposals have we have been withdrawn but you think we could still face fresh protests for another night. well there's

no doubt about that actually groups of protesters already taken to the streets in a number of cities across the country so far they have been peaceful mostly relatively small gatherings in expectations of what will be a massive nationwide day. on wednesday but obviously here there's a lot of worry and fear of what could happen tonight again especially in the city. after what people here are calling the night of terror when hundreds of police and . soldiers took to the streets to lower class neighborhoods. in a major operation to try and break the protests there at the end of the night at least have 5 people have been killed 33 injured we've seen.

shot by local residents showing apparently the police shooting indiscriminately against the protesters human rights organizations here and internationally continue to accuse a security force is the excessive use of force and brutality and as you were saying in your introduction also international sation this is like the united nations the u. and even the white house is now asked to bring back the calm in the country condemning the excessive violence i think that at this point there's no doubt that the security forces in the that are responsible for human rights violations in their response to these protests in the country however president hasn't really said anything about the. condemnation so. for the minister of

defense spoke earlier on tuesday insisting that security forces in colombia respect human rights and that saying that they are up against what they're calling good domestic terrorist they're saying that the protests are infiltrated by criminal gangs and illegal armed groups so we're going to have to see again what will happen tonight hopefully it will not be as violent as night we also know that for the 1st time the government of iran do care so people to talk with some of the leaders of the protests so all of hopefully a dialogue will begin there we'll see how things develop in the next hours for the moment and the life for us in bogota thank you. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as mandate to form a government has expired putting his political future in question as

a now has been meeting opposition party leaders in an attempt to secure enough votes to form a coalition the president riven rivlin will now decide what to do next israel has gone through 4 inconclusive elections in the past 2 years harry foresaid has more from west jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu has spent the last few hours of his mandate the period during which he's officially entitled to try to form a coalition government by making increasingly urgent you might say desperate appeals to fellow right wing party leader enough tally bennett to rule out joining a so-called change bloc in the israeli parliament the knesset that wants to see an alternative government not featuring benjamin netanyahu and commit himself to forming a right wing coalition then you know has already offered bennett the opportunity to go 1st in a rotational prime minister arrangement if he agreed to such a deal however even if that happened there are real doubts that the 2 men could

form a coalition featuring the $61.00 knesset seats required for it to be a functioning stable government equally there are doubts that if bennett joined the change bloc there would be enough seats on that side either so now the next public decision belongs to the president of israel riven rivlin he has 3 days to decide whether to give the next mandate to who is the opposition leader and has the next highest number of seats in the knesset after netanyahu or give it to bennett or simply decide to throw it open to the knesset more generally that would mean a 3 week deadline to form a coalition government and if none resulted from that it would trigger an automatic 5th election all of this leaves that you know in the most endangered position he's been since the start of this 4 election 2 year political crisis however he is far from out of it even without the mandate he could try to maneuver behind the scenes

to try to get a coalition government that favored him he could try to obstruct anyone else from forming one potentially blaming them for leading israel to a 5th of the action and even if he were forced out and into opposition there's no guarantee that a government that would have to be made a very disparate elements would survive all that long so there would still be the prospect of another netanyahu come back. french far right politician marie le pen has been acquitted of breaking hate speech laws 6 years ago when she posted 3 photos of acts of violence by the islamic state on twitter the pen showed the images to make a point of the comparison by a t.v. journalist of her a national rally party to eisele was absurd the charges carried a sentence of up to 3 years in jail or 875000 euro fine the pens defense lawyers a said freedom of expression has been safeguarded chad's military rulers have appointed 2 members of the opposition to the new transitional government bringing

the hope of a national dialogue but the country's new justice minister opposition figure mohamed on the allowable has the announced violence after the military takeover and asked how the government can justify oppressing the sent after they'd receive reports now from the capital and to mena. the crack in charge of the united opposition is widening there are no more into government demonstrations on the streets in un to belittle rhetoric has been torn down and opposition candidate in the last presidential election has been appointed as transitional prime minister and this currently selling the idea of dialogue and unity to others who are opposed to military takeover. we need to come together for the nation's interest everyone is a role to play for the peace of the country we need to do that to his do it democracy where from now on power will come from the ballot box. it's

a call that resonated with some opposition leaders. and. we almost agree with the process what is more important to us is national to constantly ation at the moment i can say we are united in their greed on a peaceful transition and the organization of a national dialogue conference. opposition leaders are now in the cabinet that's also made up of the late president idriss deby his ministers and loyalists a move described by analysts as significant. the parliament which has suspended along with the constitution is back in business an indication that the military rulers are desperate to win as many civilian as they can just watch the progress made politically the situation in charge remains volatile in the north of the country rebels remain a significant threat so to the armed groups. the military leadership here hopes that the appointment of a respected former foreign minister who had national dialogue will persuade some

rebels to go in. the african union has strongly condemned the military's crackdown on protesters that resulted in a number of deaths it's now urging caution i say events unfold. of what we shouldn't rush we are gathering data that's will allow the council to take the best decision we have to weigh the pros and cons to decide on whether to ban or suspend chad is easy but will that help the country that is facing the most difficult period. chad to allies including former colonial power for fear that if the country descends into chaos the entire chart ensoul regions will see a rise in attacks by armed groups that they say is why they supported the military takeover. for now the country's military leaders may have voted themselves some time but only say how they utilize the time and organize proper elections with an 18 months will be critical degrees al-jazeera jamila.

israel and lebanon have resumed the talk saying that ending a decades long maritime border dispute the argument is over an 860 square kilometer parcel of territory in the mediterranean israel which is still technically at war with lebanon claims that's for the stretches to the north of the region lebanon claims its border stretches to the south well talks began last year but stalled when lebanon expanded its claim to 2290 square kilometers saying the original map sent to the united nations was based on wrong calculations then a holder explains 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. is an israeli air field that is going to start production by 2022 so the idea was like we claim the maximum we can get through life and to not we put cottage in the engine and that will bring the israelis to negotiate a deal that is good for lebanon like that $23.00 is but lori you're unlike others believe lebanese authorities didn't formalize the new claim because the dispute is a card in the gauche ations 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 by the administration or at the least the deescalation of tensions the resumption of talks was announced days after david hill's visit to lebanon in april the undersecretary of state for political affairs was the 1st official in the new administration to come here on the eve of the visit lebanon's president michel aoun an ally of hezbollah put off signing a decree expanding the maritime claims because he said it would end negotiations but few expect an early breakthrough i don't see any. i don't see lebanese politics music is conducive to such important months when you have. tensions and the government so i don't see. what they can use it 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 senator beirut. still to come on al-jazeera at this news hour a good samaritan helps so one over on madrid's most experienced players get to london for a big game that's coming up in sport. ok

now it's time for of the sports here's jack thank you barbara manchester city or into the final of the champions league for the 1st time they be. in the 2nd leg of the semifinal thanks to 2 goals of from riyadh tamara's it meant they won the title for one aggregates move play in their 1st european final for 51 years in istanbul at the end of the month and it gives manager pep guardiola the chance to win the trophy for the 3rd time as a manager graham woodridge upright chelsea in the other semifinal on wednesday it looked like they were going to be without one of the most experienced players that was until a good samaritan stepped in to help defend masada had been cooed to man the tree a polling station g.t. for regional elections in the spanish capital and the team couldn't get him excused even for such a big game but the lady agreed to step in for the brazilian even though she didn't know who he was and thus that he was able to join his route team mates to travel to

london just in time the 2 sides are tied to one rule from the 1st leg while for morale and chelsea boss gerry's a merino already has a new job after being sacked by tottenham just over 2 weeks ago the portuguese manager has been snapped up by ramo on a 3 year contract starting next season the news comes on the same day the italian club announced that current coach paolo fonseca would leave the row at the end of the campaign read it returns to its me having previously managed into the lab where he won the syriac and champions league titles in 2010. teams hit by cave in 1000 cases or mandatory quarantine at your age 2020 can have their games to spend 5 to 48 hours to get new players in applies to those with fewer than 13 players that's one of the actual rules european football's governing body you a 5 brought in to help teams cope amid the pandemic countries will also be allowed a $26.00 man squads that's 3 more players than usual although only $23.00 can be

named on the match sheet for each individual fixture. africa's world cup qualifiers have been thrown into crisis after a number stadiums across the continent were banned from hosting matches caf which is the sport's governing body in africa is cracking down on poor infrastructure around the continent and a means of course of the 40 teams competing for places in next year's tournament in cats are all without a venue that includes senegal who played at the last world cup in russia in 2018 the 1st set of matches begin on june 5th this is indian premier league cricket told him and has been suspended indefinitely after an increase in positive coronavirus cases at 4 of the 8 franchises in the last few days the chennai super kings delhi capital's sunrisers hyderabad and the kolkata knight riders at the team's affected organizers hope that by moving all remaining matches to mumbai they could salvage the event but for now is being brought to hopes the postponement is left australian

players in limbo unclear about how they'll get home after the australian government made it illegal for citizens to travel back from india until at least mid may david warner and pak cummings are among those and now looking at travelling into the motives until they can return home so how is a cricket commentator and he says the league's organizers might find it hard to secure a window of time for the tournament to resume. i think it's either september or perhaps then at the end of the i don't think june july is going to be quick enough to be able to survive this pandemic and the way the case rising and put together the rest of the storm does 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 and i think that's going to be the 1st and the biggest task over the next week is how to get players back safely both as a shock to australia and new zealand borders are still open borders have sort of a couple of different routes that are possible u.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 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 of me as 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's 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 board start to think about whether teams want to travel for the t 20 world cup later this year too. formula one fans have been given the green light to attend the monaco grand prix in just over 2 weeks last year's race was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic that's the 1st time it's been absent from the f one calendar since 1954 organizers say the grandstands will be at 40 percent capacity with up to 7 to the half 1000 ticket holders a day this fall is hoping it's a gradually a welcome back more spectators and later in the year the american course will be tested on wednesday when runners take to the streets in the northern city of sopore event was moved there because of concerns over the summer heat in tokyo when sony local usually were fully aware that residents feel uneasy with the current situation and were 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. and while the worlds of travelers because of the pandemic a group of skateboarders have taken advantage they felt the empty terminal at new orleans louis armstrong airport with ramps to perform tricks and it may look familiar to some because it was inspired by levels in the tony hawk video games in the ninety's and in the aussie and i was a game i did used to play on my console when i was a teenager so i thought i don't recognise any of what they're doing that it was a wallet i now must i felt that long ago. no comment gemma thank you so much. and that is it for this news hour remember you can get the latest on everything that we have been covering on our website there it is al jazeera dot com and you can see here our top story there calls growing for a lockdown in india as the covert crisis there worsens we'll have the more of that

in just a few minutes stay with us thanks for watching by. they traveled thousands of kilometers from lawyer to pick berries. to tie workers risk exploitation in the forests of suede and when i went east to west again it's on al-jazeera. talked to al just. tell me what the government you represent is now illegitimate and we listen we did not

sell the fence material for any country the conflict in yemen we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera blue face mosques a common sight in city centers around britain but as lockdowns allusive people will still be wearing mosques for months or even years to come and i'm going nightmare for the environment this video shows stauffer to wildlife hospital helping a bird that's been caught up in discarded litter it's a face mosque made of plastic now a recent survey found 70 percent of people using disposable boss didn't realize they were using single use prosthetics research is at university college london so you've every person in the u.k. used one disposable mosque every day for a year it would create $124000.00 tons of waste which would be on we saw a clip of this factory there trying to provide an alternative for an antiviral code to unlike other such mosques can be washed and produced a design that we've come up with is ethical sustainable and entirely made in the

u.k. it looks like a place mostly because of many people's lawyers at least in the short term whatever kind they where they're being urged to consider where it comes from and where it'll end up. an escalating death toll in india calls for a national lockdown grow louder but the government insists corona virus infections are slowing from manning oxygen camps to funding rickshaw ambulances the volunteers donating their time and money to save lives in india. lower barbara starr you're watching out 0 life in london also coming up seeking.