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tens of thousands rally against the government in colombia and demand an end to police violence and a record breaking surprise a man and woman gives birth to 9 healthy babies in a hospital in morocco. u.s. president joe biden has backed a proposal that would temporarily lifts intellectual property rights fork over 1000 vaccines it will help millions of people in poor nations get inoculated by allowing more manufacturers to produce jobs mike hanna reports from washington. president biden has backed a vaccine waiver jaring the 2020 presidential campaign and in recent weeks his team has held a series of discussions with representatives from the pharmaceutical sector the as it was u.s. trade representative catherine time who formally made the announcement. these are

extraordinary times and circumstances of call for emergency measures she tweeted the u.s. supports the waiver of protection on covert 1000 back scenes to help in the pandemic and will actively participate in w t o negotiations to make that happen in the past the u.s. and other countries had opposed any wave of intellectual property rights the white house press secretary explaining the change in position clearly is these decisions are weighed we take intellectual property incredibly seriously and we also though are in the midst of a historic global pandemic which requires a range of creative solutions and we're looking at it through that prism while the pharmaceutical industry had argued strongly against the waiver there were many in president biden's own party who insisted that he uphold his campaign promise blocking access 'd to vaccines as any humanitarian any diplomatic and it weakens

their credentials for the girls on the global stage and while the biden administration continues to step up efforts to vaccinate as many americans as possible the potential impact of its decision on the global stage cannot be understated i think it's an incredible moment in american history where president biden has essentially said to the world is this is a moment for the global community to come together to form a global response to this tender me it is unprecedented it is historic and i have to say that it is one that is going to change the course of this pandemic the message too from the biden administration that while the pandemic continues to rage in countries like india americans cannot consider themselves safe. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well the head of the world health organization has

called the move a monumental moment in the fight against the virus and that's because called in 1900 to being an equally distributed between richer and poorer countries latest figures show 62 percent of israelis have received at least one vaccine bills and in the united states nearly half of all americans have had at least one job now compare that to brazil the 3rd worst affected country in the world only 14 percent of its population has been vaccinated and india which is still struggling to control a 2nd wave while that country is trailing further behind only 9 percent of its population has received at least one dose julie fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at the georgetown university medical center she says intellectual property rights are just one of many hurdles to achieving fairer vaccine distribution. i think there's no question that we must do something to address the tremendous vaccine inequity right now by an administration

is pushing to have 70 percent of adults in the u.s. vaccinated by the 4th of july and at the current rates with the distribution of vaccines it's going to take most of the poorer countries in the world 2 years to get to that level of having most adults vaccinated so we definitely need to address this the question is whether the waiving of the intellectual property rights would address this as quickly as everyone would like to see it's more than just the right to manufacture the vaccine the countries that acquired the ability to do so would have to have the right manufacturing facilities they would have to have the access to the raw materials and most importantly they would have to have access to the know how and expertise to make those facilities officiant and able to manufacture vaccine safely in a short time and that just can take months even a a year to ramp up that kind of production in the longer term this kind of waiver could help provide an incentive to develop

a broader manufacturing base for vaccines worldwide but in the short term we would still be facing all of those constraints the manufacturing constraints on the supply bottlenecks and there is the very real concern that the pharmaceutical industry when faced with this kind of lifting of intellectual property that protects their competition that protects their competitiveness and their investment might hesitate more in the future to be all in when innovation is necessary in response to a crisis the world health organization says nearly half of the world's coronavirus infections during the past week have been in india hospitals they're seeing shortages not just of beds in oxygen but of health care workers it is a random reports from new delhi. when rowan otherwise. decided to be a doctor he didn't expect to have to choose who lives and who dies a year before completing his medical training at the age of 26 he's in charge of an

emergency room in a new delhi hospital on the night shifts with a shortage of beds oxygen and ventilators he has to make heart breaking decisions for though we understand is. this the desired record in the resealed the more these you've been hear more from it but that we are still in the. dark at this point of being here and being forced to do this. patients are continuing to die in india because of a lack of critical care facilities 5 died in the state of iraq and when their oxygen supply ran out on wednesday and is air force and navy transported oxygen and other aid while the army has joined the efforts to create more facilities. this is one of india's biggest public hospitals where that mommy is setting up an oxygen plant based on technology developed for its fighter jets it says it will set up 500 similar plots all over the country within 3 months the plant can generate 1000

liters of oxygen every minute. this will operate continuously so such plants will be stored in those hospitals will not have to depend on suppliers anymore these plants are capable of transmitting oxygen to patients directly. but health experts say there is also a shortage of medical workers with the expertise to administer the aid. these are unprecedented times we have never seen a pandemic of this size and scale and definitely a pandemic that. stresses the infrastructure not only in terms of basics but in terms of manpower. and other valve takes a brief break to have his lunch but says the intensive care unit i.c.u. is never far from his mind that some of these companies you know even break yes you think that the the the the the that there is going to be noise be you tonight

that's going to be used because you know you know the earth every day may be with hospitals and they work is it breaking point and he is main opposition party the congress is the latest to urge the government to impose a nationwide lockdown elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi well as india grapples with the virus its delegation in london for the g. 7 summit itself isolating after 2 members tested positive and is not part of the group of 7 but was invited as a guest foreign ministers from the world's richest countries have been meeting in person for the 1st time in 2 years they've aka reports. the return of face to face diplomacy after a long hiatus albeit behind masks and shakes swapped for elbow bumps the family photo requiring the widest of wide lenses but despite tight protocols for all attendees including daily tasks for delegates the indian team confirmed 2 of its

diplomats had tested positive for seeing the entire mission including the country's foreign minister superman you enjoy shanker seen here with the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken on monday into self isolation speaking in northern england before arriving at the g. 7 in person later in the day the british prime minister insisted the show must go on i think it's very important to try to continue as much business as you as you can as a government we have a very important relationship with india with our r g 7 partners as i understand it what's happened is that the the individuals concerned there were isolating india isn't a g 7 member but it is increasingly a pivotal ally of the group as a trade partner for the united kingdom especially post breaks it and secondly as a regional security ally in the face of an increasingly aggressive china india meanwhile has been looking for greater international support in tackling the crisis in the gulf in the country with the promise of oxygen concentrator isn't

ventilators from germany the u.k. and others. the virus has been on a long list of topics covered during the summit with the g 7 promising to boost support for the un's kovacs scheme aimed to getting vaccines to some of the world's poorest countries of the $1000000000.00 doses delivered worldwide only one percent of so far gone to low income countries in a final communique ministers are also pledged to support peace efforts in syria to the sahara ethiopia to eastern europe and to restore a rules based international system in the aftermath of the trumpet ministration and russia and china's more aggressive foreign policies we stood up for trade we've agreed a series of concrete tangible mechanisms to promote human rights and democracy around the world and we brought in if you like the scope of the normal g 7 but the in person absence of india from the summit will inevitably force host the u.k.

to rethink covert protocols ahead of the g 7 leaders summit in june a reminder that while many rich western democracies are beginning to emerge from the pandemic others remain in the midst of a deepening crisis and have back out jazeera london. a 2nd form a brazilian health minister has testified at a senate inquiry into whether the government has been negligent in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic now it's on tape shed he resigned after just a month on the job because of pressure from present trade water narrow to give patients the anti-malaria drug or acquaint studies found it was ineffective against covered 1000 and could cause harmful side effects taisha is one of 4 health ministers to serve under both snarled during the pandemic. in other world news colombians have staged mass marches across the country refusing to back down on their long list of demands at least 24 people have died during 8 days of protests against government policies and police violence present iran has called for

a national dialogue but protesters say they don't trust his administration and us and there are reports from bogota. another massive show of force tens of thousands took to the streets in the capital bogota in around the country to mark the 8 day of anti-government protests. the demonstrations have already forced the government to withdraw all the controversial tax reform and are now demanding action against poverty rising inequality and the police rooted response to the protests. at least 2 dozen people have died in a.t.o. reportedly missing the country's human rights i'm with them and blame riot police for a least half of the deaths. and it's not an attack on we are fighting for our dead in our struggle against the government they are killing us we need help this scared to be out in the streets but when marching for change for a better country. pressured by the demonstrations president ducasse

calling for a national dialogue but the leaders of the protests and opposition parties say they will not sit down until the president condemns the excesses by the police in agrees to negotiate with them. but if she on the army is responsible for the violent repression the government needs to condemn the abuses before we talk we also told the government that we don't just want to talk we need to negotiate an emergency list of proposals the ball is in their court in the meantime we will continue in the streets. wednesday's rallies were preceded by another night of clashes 30 civilians in 16 police officers were injured. and a number of neighborhood police posts were set on fire in one case with officers inside. in a video president duquesne repeated government allegations that criminal gangs are behind the vandalism and looting and said more than $550.00 arrests have been made

a bundle is watched the extreme vandalism and urban terrorism that we are observing is financed articulated by drug trafficking mafias as announced by the attorney general to confront them we have designed a joint strategy against vandalism at the national level there's already yielding results. the majority of the protests have been peaceful but the violent incidents that have occurred and the government's refusal to recognize the police deadly response make the possibility of a fruitful dialogue mute while the country braces for more protests and rest i listened to. still ahead on al-jazeera an open ended ruling on the future of donald trump's ban from facebook and l.-y. users of mexico city's met charles say this week's bridge collapse was a disaster waiting to happen.

hello once again strong storms severe storms to southern portions of the u.s. it's produced scenes like this flooding in alabama where we did have 2 tornadoes strike the region violent weather the good news is on thursday the storms are really starting to fragment so we're just getting some remains of it but still the risk of flooding after those storms really just swept across the area over the last week and we're fait fairly stagnant the bulk of the activity has pushed further south into florida so miami now starting to get into this wet and stormy weather take you to the new england states into atlantic canada really the maritimes dealing with this heavy bout of rain this is all associated with that same system toward the south in the u.s. blustery conditions 11 degrees and we'll see

a swath of snow spread across the gaspé as we head toward thursday take you to central america right now in about 85 percent of mexico has been dealing with drought conditions we have rain in the forecast heavy is pockets toward water and hunter s. and for mexico when you're dealing with drought conditions this could dairy much produce the risk of flooding because the ground is solid and can absorb all that rain. around one percent of. the is consumed by data sent is many of which provide for their storage facilities what is also known as the cloud i'm in no way to see how once into its hand i think the energy of these people wants to stole our digital information without a heavy help in footprint i'm going to be able to the north coast of the u.k. where the global green energy revolution is taking on

a new element. on which is era. the you. know again you're watching al jazeera live from doha a recap of our top stories u.s. president joe biden has bought a proposal that would temporarily lift intellectual property rights because of 1000 vaccines it would allow more manufacturers to make the jobs and help millions of people in poorer nations get inoculated the world health organization says nearly half of the world's corona virus infections in the past week have been in india hospitals they're seeing shortages of beds oxygen and health care workers and

unions in colombia have held an 8th day of anti-government protests with mass marches across the country anger over tax reforms has turned into a wider movement against inequality enterprising poverty. facebook's oversight board has upheld the company's ban on donald trump's account but says the decision must be reviewed in 6 months the former us president was suspended after being accused of inciting january's attack on the capitol building called the board's decision a total disgrace has more from washington. as his supporters were storming the u.s. capitol than president trump was posting to facebook i knew your pain i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. urging his supporters to go home while calling them special and telling them he loves them for facebook's leadership it was too much facebook and instagram

suspended his account indefinitely twitter permanently banned him as well but facebook wanted a board it's set up to decide if their decision was the right $120.00 experts in the field to free speech their ruling the ban is appropriate but facebook will have to review the decision in 6 months i mean the decision is very clear and so far as you know the board has found that the suspension of former president trump was necessary to keep people safe former president donald trump released a statement calling the decision a total disgrace and an embarrassment adding these corrupt social media companies must pay a political price experts say this move was designed to keep that from happening every bit of criticism that's directed at the oversight board is a bit of criticism that's not being directed at facebook so in many ways i think this really looks like a quite a smart move that mark zuckerberg and facebook you know had the foresight to understand look these are really incredibly difficult issues you're going to be criticized no matter what you do we should create

a quasi independent board but it will do little to blunt the criticism the facebook faces on many fronts lawmakers have been debating for a while about whether or not these tech companies are just simply too big too powerful and need to be broken up this decision will likely move that question to the forefront for many of the former president's allies on capitol hill patty kahane al-jazeera washington. 20 minutes now has 12 year run as israeli prime minister could be over after the president asks his political rival to form a new government yeah let paid who has the centrist a tea party has $28.00 days to form a coalition it's the latest bid to end israel's political deadlock after 4 inconclusive elections in the past 2 years have fostered has more from westerville slim rivlin the president has given the mandate to lockheed the head of the opposition but neither of those people are involved in what is the real battle that seems to be going on here which is between benjamin netanyahu and the leader of

a smaller right wing party young natalee bennett he that's in your who has been absolutely ripping into bennett saying that he's being driven by personal ambition that he's essentially selling out by wanting to years as prime minister in a potential deal with lockheed for a change coalition block in the israeli parliament the knesset that he is going back on various promises he gave jury in the election campaign about not working with a left wing government and that is being driven by his lust for power now set aside what some people are pointing out when they look at benjamin netanyahu accusing someone else of personal political ambition this is a real bid by a try to stop this this coalition building before it's even really got under way he is appealing for both bennett and for other members of his party some of whom have been expressing doubts about entering into this very broad coalition with members

of the israeli left which would probably have to be supported from the outside by palestinian israeli parties this right wing party does appear to be split within itself as to whether this is a good idea despite the fact that bennett has committed to having said that you know failed to form a right wing government to trying to form a national unity government. a court in israel is set to rule on the fate of 4 palestinian families facing eviction in occupied east jerusalem the family's appeal the ruling by another court which ordered them to leave their homes so the area could be developed for jewish families on tuesday's really forces of times palestinians hope to see against evictions in the shift around neighborhood the commander of hamas his military wing has warned israel will pay a heavy price if it doesn't stop the evictions. the ongoing threat of violence in myanmar has international rights groups including amnesty international

and human rights watch calling for action from the un security council on wednesday the country's pro-democracy national unity government announced it was establishing what it's calling a people's defense force to protect its supporters from attacks by the military kristensen army reports. 3 months since the military seize control of me and maher and opposition groups showed no signs of backing down if anything they're gearing up for more violence announcing the formation of a people's defense force to protect themselves from military attacks now a coalition of more than $200.00 non-governmental organizations says the u.n. security council needs to step up to they want an arms embargo against the military they say it is the least the international community can do words will not be enough to win this case by the notary in chief general. the fact that the u.n.

security council allow business and to commit genocide in 2017 against the ringing of population and didn't adopt a single resolution in response is a major contributing factor to the climate of impunity that led directly to this but so far china and russia have resisted calls for stronger action we are not in favor of imposing sanctions and we have to take it and the last the results in. conflict and the reason why we hold to such a position is because of the factor that 1st it will be always ordinary people to suffer from sanctions the security council has held at least 5 meetings on the situation in myanmar since the coup most of them in private formal security council statements have expressed concern and called for an. and to the violence backing regional efforts to mediate the conflict one security council diplomat

tells al-jazeera they share the ngos concerns but that a divided security council will help no one that sentiment was echoed by the u.n. secretary general spokesman where the secretary general supports and will continue to support is for the urgency of a unified international response. and that needs to be done in close cooperation with. with nearly 800 dead and 40000 people displaced and geos say that isn't enough kristen salumi al-jazeera the united nations the u.k. is sending 2 navy patrol vessels to the island of jersey as a raw intensifies of a post rex it fishing right french fishermen say they're being prevented from operating in the area due to a new night in singles they're saving to jersey and plan to hold a protest on thursday the u.k.

is concerned ok to the island's main port a french minister has threatened to cut off the electricity supply to the island's . mexico's president has promised a thorough investigation into the collapse of the metro train overpass on monday and says those responsible will be punished $25.00 people were killed when part of mexico city's newest line fell onto a busy street. reports. emergency officials have finished identifying the bodies of those who died in monday night's metro train accident in the mexican capital. distraught relatives of victims are now demanding to know how such a tragedy could have occurred to put i'm not saying bank that they went this way there were 20 to 30 victims but tomorrow how many more will there be mongers 30 was my dad the only thing my dad used to do was work he only used to go to work from home to work unfortunately yesterday he never came home. the accident occurred when a metro overpass collapsed onto

a busy freeway in southeast mexico city the shocking images of bodies being pulled from the wreckage have rattled the confidence of commuters wasn't enough you know to be honest i think we could see this coming on that metro line because the place that was built on used to be water so it's not stable and there will only as the problems it will be the next semester facilities are no longer in good condition and as you travel the trucks feel different some facilities are not in perfect condition and have not yet been repaired you never forgive myself it's clear this type of transport isn't adequately maintained. some 4300000 people ride the metro every day the 12 rail lines that crisscross the mexican capital are some of the busiest in the world those city and federal authorities have promised a thorough investigation into what caused that deadly accident aboard the metro on monday night outrage is growing over alleged infrastructure problems all over the

city. the accident on monday night was the deadliest metro disaster since october 1975 when 2 trains collided weaving 23 people dead. they were protesting because of corruption impunity lack of care for those of us who live in habit and transit in the periphery justice for the families. metro authorities say rail lines will undergo inspections in the coming days to analyze construction integrity commuters fearful that monday's accident will be the last couple al-jazeera mexico city. the fitness firm peloton is recalling more than $100000.00 of its tread rails in the u.s. over safety concerns have been linked to dozens of injuries and the death of a child who was pulled under a one of its tread class models the company rejected a warning from safety regulators last month but now says it was mistaken for. a 25 year old woman from mali has given birth to 9 babies at once to more than she

had expected the 5 girls and 4 boys were delivered in a specialist care unit in morocco all are doing well now no pets are extremely rare and this appears to be the 1st time on record a woman has given birth to 9 surviving babies at the same time. 90000000 doctors contract month and a half ago to tell us that they had a case of a pregnant woman with 7 twins the medical staff who received here made all the preparations yesterday she had birth pains so the medical staff decided to perform the syrian the result of this operation was 9 babies 5 girls and 4 boys. play again i'm fully battle with the headlines on algis the u.s. president joe biden has backed a proposal that would temporarily lift intellectual property rights so-called 1000 vaccines.