the u.s. banks the plan to give poor countries more access to corona virus vaccines by waving peyton protections. so horribly watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up the u.k. sends to naval vessels to monitor a protest in waters around jersey's main course amid a fishing rights with france. we traveled hours from the moment to place the

bronze on the front. to the border fence new jersey also the military takes control of 2 provinces in eastern democratic republic of congo after months of escalating violence and we visit a tajik territory inside kurdistan where people are hoping to rebuild their homes destroyed in last month's border conflict. hello welcome to the program the e.u. chief says that she's willing to discuss a proposal to suspend intellectual property rights for covert 19 vaccines until now the e.u. which is home to large pharmaceutical companies has opposed the waiver at the w t o but there's renewed pressure to allow the move after it got the backing of president biden it would help millions of people in poor nations get inoculated by allowing more manufacturers to produce the jobs might have the reports now from washington d.c.

. president biden had back to back seen waiver jaring the 2020 presidential campaign and in recent weeks his team has held a series of discussions with representatives from the pharmaceutical sector. it was the u.s. trade representative catherine time who formally made the announcement these 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 anyway but off 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 to vaccines is a humanitarian any diplomatic it weakens their credentials for the good of 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 the 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 pandemic 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. al-jazeera washington. has been pushing for the waiver on boxing patients. from a vaccination center in new delhi this is very good news for so many middle income countries who can't afford to buy the intellectual property rights the patients for these vaccines india has been pushing leading the push at the world trade organization to remove the patients on this vaccines so that other low and middle income countries can produce them at cheaper costs so that they can. increase their production and more of their people and also inoculate others india is the world's largest that's the manufacturer makes 60 percent of all the vaccines in the world

and it submitted a proposal in september of last year asking for the world trade organization to remove the patents on the astra zeneca and also on the pfizer vaccine just for the duration of the pandemic it was supported by $100.00 other middle and low income countries strongly opposed by the largest economies by the u.s. by the e.u. and by big pharmaceutical companies and so now this is good news but the world trade organization has to reach a consensus and even if and when that is achieved india and other countries will have to set up the technology used to manufacture some of these vaccines like pfizer for instance uses more advanced technology the messenger r.n.a. technology and this is why people here say that this news would have been more welcome last year when india 1st pushed for it before the situation became so out of control here allowing more new and more contagious variants. the u.k. has sent 2 naval patrol vessels to the island of jersey as

a round intensifies over post fishing rights french fishermen say they're being prevented from operating in the area due to new licensing rules dozens of french boats of south jersey to protest the u.k. skins blockade the island's main port a french minister has also threatened to cut off the electricity supply to the island natasha butler center says updates from a french fishing boat off the ports to tell you in just a. week travel oh hours from the moment to make the rounds on this thread. the board is saying. just you can see right there on. the move on to the exhausts because they say you know it seems. to me you can't handle all the women seem. to. think that. that's nor is it really the more police are trying to open to.

the fact that. they just wanted. some random bone marrow thing away because what they say is not i don't know don't go to some degree but represent. only come from. the authorities now do you think of all the facts and probably one of. the major said. i would just like the more i want to say. the democratic republic of congo's military has to take control of 2 eastern provinces for months on friday the president declared a state of siege in north kivu and dettori the government says it's to control escalating violence between armed groups that's killed more than $300.00 people since january but critics worry it would lead to abuses of power catherine so he's monitoring developments for us from nairobi she says the law will be reassessed at

the end of the month but there's no guarantee how long this will last. so fast time but these no is being used since the post the world war constitution was 1st passed in 2001 and in his address to the nation president phillips just a kennedy on sunday basically gave the military immense powers basically granting them a military rule in these 2 areas he said that they are going to grant the administrative duties of these 2 provinces already 2 generals have been appointed as governors this concern about that as well because he's a former rebels one of them has been accused of abuses when he was an assistant police commissioner in the capital kinshasa the military will have powers to arrest suspects people suspected of being collaborating and supporting armed groups who will have power to enter the suspect homes without warrant the immunity of

law called members of parliament and other elected officials has been lifted so that means that they can also be arrested on suspicion of being collaborators of armed groups some civil liberties will be waived for example the right to protest that's going to be a problem as well the military is going to be in charge of the court system as well so there's a lot of uncertainty about the mind it exactly people are worried that this power is could be a huge by the military they have seen it before so a lot of people just waiting to see how everything is going to play out and really this is going to make a difference. if europe is replacing the interim leader of the northern 2 gray region following a performance review when a nigga been in the role since november. breakout between government troops and regional forces the conflict has killed thousands of people displaced more than a 1000000 others have

a mortgage report from. them in saddam's got every state. became a refugee 6 months ago and has been yearning for his old life ever since he was a tailor in ethiopia stingray region but fled at the start of the conflict now settled in a refugee camp in sudan's state he's recently been able to rent a sewing machine and start working again. i heard the shelling go to my hometown and saw dead bodies on the streets during the 1st days of the conflict there was so many people getting killed i couldn't stay i left my sewing machine behind i don't know what happened to it now i have this machine which helps me to add to what i received from aid organizations. began as a camp for 10000 refugees but now hosts double that all have arrived after the government offensive against the people's liberation front more than 63000 people fled to sudan aid organizations say they are almost 5000000 in need of aid large

parts of the region have been cut off from phone and internet access. from loved ones they've left behind as they cross the border. others say they were able to establish connections on the deaths all arrests of family members and relatives and after 6 months. some hope of returning home anytime soon. declared victory over the take rate people's liberation front in november and in march said. fighting alongside ethiopian forces are withdrawing from the united states which has described what's happening as ethnic cleansing says that's not the case the biden administration has tasked u.s. senator chris coons to look into how the conflict can be ended there are still eritrean troops. and other places in ethiopia it is clear conflict is continuing to grow it is not over and. there still needs to be

accountability for human rights violations a cease fire removal of foreign. troops are trained troops in particular from tikrit and a path towards a resolution of this country. have set up offices to provide services to refugees but camp officials say with the rainy season starting in the dot if they're concerned about the coming weeks to define me i'm in a mass of him while many refugees live in tents and straw huts during the rainy season the witness can blow away the tents and the huts won't be able to stand the wall to the ground to be able to support the shelters during the rains are working to relocate the refugees again to higher grounds having to minimize any potential rain damage though it remains hopeful he doesn't mind moving his shelter but doesn't want to lose his new workplace after all he's lost at home this little space provides him with something to look forward to each morning morgan al-jazeera camp of out of state. well still ahead here on al-jazeera china suspends an

economic agreement with australia the latest setback in the strained relations. the child i'll talk to you that went on i went on to become a ruthless rebel commander and i see it's to you to sentence dominic on when for war crimes. hello let me show you where the heaviest rain will be in southeast asia as we head toward friday so we'll see concentrated rain over borneo heavy pockets of rain forests to the ways as well let me take you to the philippines now in particular to the south of the country war that though is in store for heavy rounds of rain throughout the day on friday ok off we go to australia where we've seen some what days for perth but conditions are drying out with

a high of 22 degrees and we've also seen a lot of rain and strong winds into new south wales for. sydney those showers will continue in and around sydney on friday off to new zealand where we're going to disrupt the weather pattern as we watch this disturbance come across the tasman sea so we've had a period of a lot of sun temperatures above average but this is now saturday as system slams into the western portion of the south island temperatures still high though christ church at 22 to 20 degrees how should say let me show you the picture by sunday because really most of the south island will be plagued with this weather system but temperatures look at this christ church 25 degrees that is a good 10 degrees above average and the north island will get into some of this what weather by sunday. but. in 19054 young anti-apartheid activists were murdered by south african security

forces if you can't solve the problem by the moving the guy then you could get 36 years on the family's quest for justice reveals systemic resistance to prosecution they must all be convicted put are far away from me and exposes the influence the former apartheid establishment still wielded in the new south africa my father died for this the people in power investigation on al jazeera. welcome back you're watching all observe with me said holroyd the reminder of our top stories u.s. president joe biden has backed a proposal that would temporarily lift intellectual property rights for covert 90

vaccines it would allow more manufacturers to make the generous and help millions of people importations to get an ocular get. the u.k. and sent to naval vessels to the island of jersey as a route intensifies over post briggs it fishing rights project fishermen so they're being prevented from operating in the area due to new licensing rules and the democratic republic of congo's military is due to take control of 2 eastern provinces for a month on friday the president declared a state of siege in north kivu a detour in violence between armed groups and has killed more than 300 people since january. australia says china's decision to suspend bilateral trade talks is disappointing beijing suspended economic dialogue indefinitely accusing camber of a cold war mindset relations of plunged to a multi decade low since beijing blocked imports of australian goods over the past year well china is australia's largest trading partner of katrina

a year has more from beijing. but these meetings haven't actually been held since 2017 and this announcement was announced by china's national development reform commission a very important body here in beijing and it essentially is symbolic it tells us what we already know the relationship between china and australia is in a deep freeze and it doesn't look like it's going to improve anytime soon and it follows the decision by canberra to toss out an agreement with the victorian state government one of the states in australia with beijing under china's belt and road initiative and we also know that australia is currently mulling over scrapping the 99 year lease of the chinese guy of a northern port to a chinese company and that lease is worth $318000000.00 and it's now many exporters in australia rely on china's gigantic market so china has responded by blocking many of the exports to china it's raised tariffs it's really significantly

and put extra restrictions on for example strongly in wine beef and bali there had been also are numerous reports of australian pots being stuck at chinese ports just stating that with no formal reason given as to why they're not getting to chinese consumers as well although it is significant to knowledge that china does continue to import australian iron ore which is a resource that it badly needs but this is not the 1st time that china has used its economic might to essentially penalize countries that it's not happy with it's done this with norwegian salmon it's done this with taiwanese pineapples and indeed just this week the g 7 leaders gathering in the u.k. criticize china using what it calls economic coersion on other countries but really has to give it is a research fellow at the school of regulation and global governments of the australian national university joins me now via skype from sydney good to have you with us on the program sir relations between the 2 haven't been great in response

as you just said but why is china doing this right now. it's great if you do you're absolutely right and your cross point is correct as well the relationship has being in freefall for quite some time and there are so many factors at play that beijing cvs camber as a malign after beijing sees a stray with a country that is seeking to hold kind of operator francis seeking to walk chinese investments in australia that is seeking to embarrass china on the world stage by criticizing its human rights record and that is seeking to interfere in china's internal affairs and interfere in china's sovereignty and maritime claims in the south china sea and east china sea so that the you will between beijing and camber is intense but in terms of the very specific cause of this particular decision it's probably a result of 2 key decisions made in camera which as your correspondent pointed out are that move to review the 99 year lease on the port of dollar for the chinese company land bridge and then that decision by the u.s.

trade in federal government to veto the 'd bill to merge in the future agreements between victoria and china and asia and sees these moves as just the latest and quite provocative blues on its various parts to thumb its nose that china and seek to undermine what china sees its core interests ok so australia responds by saying that that disappointed disappointed for how long. i think it's really i will be disappointed for very long because there are very few signs that the relationship at the political level will get back on track so this is just another instance of australia expressing disappointment with what is strangely izzy's as a long string of behavior from china which is adversarial towards a straight move like blocking a straightly the exports into china on a whole range of products moving life seem to what is really quite vicious diplomatic and public relations attacks on the strained government and

a strained foreign policy so there's no prospect of that disappointment going away anytime soon because all the way there's very little prospect of these high level political relations between beijing and hammer getting back on track ok so the political spot can continue benjamin but at the end of the day it's producers of wine meet coal that will have an impact both in the long and short term what do we have to watch out full. i think you're absolutely right on that front that at the political level relations between beijing and camera before moving for a number of years in suck up 201-7288 the real pain for australia now is the fact that so many australian exporters feeling the pinch as a result of these trade restrictions so with respect to a lot of us trade exports whether it be bali or call a story house fire down the alternative markets and middle east at

a low price points there is some economic pain but with respect to some particular exports like certain types of australian wine and raw lobsters which would be it was the chinese market but the pain is really huge and so in a strange communities in certain history i mean an agricultural producers are really suffering right now in terms of next steps when the chinese ambassador was friendly was deeply frustrated with australia back in 2028 for the cold for a public inquiry he telegraphed the possibility of chinese consumers not travel to australia for tourism and also not sending the sugar in there to study in australia so tourism and unsettled occasion achieved huge exports for straitly and the exports there have been kind of rendered moot because of code that borders have been shot where borders really are but you can expect that china will use tourism for has and education flows as a means of prefer the economic pressure to strike and that would really hurt a strain universities really have a strange tourism provide is a really great economy overall be interesting to watch in the next couple of months

after the benjamin has give it chad thanks for joining us from the australian national university thank you thank you very much greatly reduced. now the international criminal court is expected to said since former ugandan militia leader dominic for war crimes on thursday was a commander of the lord's resistance army he was convicted on multiple counts in february a judge said that he ordered the killing of civilians and abducted children but he's the 1st person of the i.c.c. to be found guilty and found to be a victim of the same war crimes let's get more this malcolm where he's been monitoring the transfer nairobi for us and. it's an unusual case as we said you know that was kidnapped as a child sort of became a child soldier and it's committed these crimes over the subsequent years as well. absolutely in the prosecution of pushing for a heavy sentence the maximum sentence the international criminal court would give

is there 3 years the defense is saying for that very reason he should be sentenced likely asking for a sentence of about 10 years and indeed he was abducted by the lord's resistance army when he was between 9 and 13 years old and what the lord's resistance army typically did was brutalized those children in this case once he tried to run away and he was reportedly forced to skin another child alive as a punishment for trying to escape in this kind of brutal treatment with typical which is why very few children or many of those children were absolutely terrified to run away and grew up in this extremely brutal environment and that's why the defense say that he's themselves actually a victim he didn't really have any choice in committing all these terrible atrocities over the many years that followed but that's not the only complex ethical question surrounding this trial another one is the fact that the leader of the lord's resistance army is widely seen to be responsible for this terrible treatment of children in the communities that they were turned against joseph coney

he's still at large and in spite of ugandan army searching for him for 3 decades across 3. countries in spite of having support from the u.s. better forces in spite of knowing where he was on so many occasions the fact that he still hasn't been caught the mastermind of these atrocities certainly leaves a lot of people in northern uganda asking questions and another thing that that certainly casts questions over the i.c.c. is authentic justice is the fact that only people from one side in this conflict were ever actually investigated by the i.c.c. and lot of people in northern uganda feel that firstly uganda military was responsible for atrocities no one's ever looked at that and also that the ugandan military was grossly responsible for the glick thing the people who were in forced into these squalid camps that the l r a attacked again and again over those decades of that terrible conflict of course welcome thanks very much for your political sir but watching your pictures from the

court and as the judges address the accused will monitor events there from a student thank you. kidnappers in nigeria have released 29 students taken from their college in the 2 months ago police say students will be received by government officials and could do in a state and also get medical assistance a total of 39 students were abducted on march the 11th but 10 were released shortly afterwards kidnapping is on the rise in northwestern nigeria. of course in israel. or has such a thirsty deadline for palestinian families facing eviction in occupied east jerusalem the aim is to reach an agreement with the israeli settlers who are trying to take over their homes israeli police have been attacking kind of student protesters against the evictions in this neighborhood there see force to be detaining people and trying to test as on the ground the commander of hamas is military wing has warned israel that they will pay a heavy price if it doesn't stop the evictions. kyrgyzstan's president is promising

compensation to families whose homes were destroyed during recent fighting along the country's disputed border with neighboring turkey christan more than 50 people worked. building 60000 foals to leave charles stratford reports from. stone. this far a river looking south towards the primary ally mountains the road winds through a mountain landscape that kyrgyzstan until you can stand have repeatedly for water over because borders here are indistinct the burnt out military and civilian vehicles evidence of the most recent fighting what started as an argument between curators and villages about control of a water pump escalated into a battle between 2 armies houses and schools were destroyed at least 50 people were killed and tens of thousands fled their homes. i was in the house when i heard shooting in the village when the tajik soldiers came i left close by 20 kilometers

inside to kyrgyzstan is a part of tajikistan this is the border post for the toxic territory of iraq it is home to around 30000 statics and the area is completely surrounded by cuties territory and it has become the flashpoint for border disputes that has its roots in the soviet past. is one of 2 tragic exclave inside kilgour stan borders a complicated because soviet mapmakers drew lines between republics of the u.s.s.r. and when the soviet union collapsed they became the blueprint for boundaries of independent states through which waterways and farmland crossed. 30 years later only around half the 1000 kilometer from terre between cuba star and stone is demarcated as local populations have grown so has the competition for land and water villagers are worried a fighting could start again. my family were evacuated i don't know whether to

bring them back it seems like our neighbors consider us the enemy we face unexpected attacks in a nearby village is almost deserted with each side blaming the other for the violence all. in one side of the villages killing gays the other is to the shooting started in the middle of the night the cure to gays started it by throwing stones at our soldiers tried to flee but it was too dangerous analysts say it will take more than political will to resolve the issue the situation is very dangerous and we saw what. an intensity the conflict can take at the end. or at the end of april it takes a lot of. very principled and very. clever diplomatic work by both governments to prevent another escalation reminders of how lethal this border dispute can be litter the mountainside. communities more distrustful and

divided than before chance trafford al-jazeera x.i.i. southern kyrgyzstan. is there with me so rob a reminder of our top stories u.s. president joe biden has backed a proposal that would temporarily lift intellectual property rights to covert $900.00 vaccines it would allow manufacturers to make the jobs and help millions of people in poor nations get inoculated well india has been pushing for the waiver all vaccine patents and lots of parana pasmore from a vaccination center in new delhi this is good news but the world trade organization has to reach a consensus and even if that is achieved india and other countries will have to set up the technology used to manufacture some of these vaccines like pfizer for instance uses more advanced technology.