we'll be given take you into a place that you might not visit otherwise at the earth will you feel that you were there. india welcomes us backing for the removal of covert vaccine patents as infections there spread from cities to villages. and our entire lives is al-jazeera live from london also coming up a record 25 people dead after a shootout during a police raid targeting drug traffickers in rio de janeiro. a ugandan child soldier turned rebel commander is sentenced to 25 years for rape torture abduction and murder. and britain and france send maritime patrol vessels to the channel island of jersey as their dispute of

a post breaks it fishing rights escalates. and it will begin with the push to get covert 19 vaccines to every corner of the globe some of the world's richest countries including the u.s. france and russia have now backed calls to suspend vaccine patents that would help more companies manufacture doses but it won't be easy india and south africa have led the campaign arguing it will help poorer nations vaccinate quicker but pfizer and by on take who developed a code vaccine together say a waiver won't boost global stocks any time soon and it ultimately has to be backed by all 164 members of the world trade organization where only one vote against the move will doom it to failure the european union is expected to discuss the plans on friday here's what france's president had to say. we we obviously have to make this

vaccine the global public good but the priority today is on 2 things the spirit of solidarity and efficiency of all the british countries as europe is doing i hope it will be followed by the british the americans and others is the nation of democracies in the short term that's what will allow us to vaccinate. india's government has welcomed america's support on lifting vaccine peyton's as common infections spread from cities to villages hopes that the country's 2nd wave of coated is peaking have been dashed with a surge continuing to shatter records the past 24 hours saw the highest number of new infections and deaths yet with more than 412000 cases and nearly 4000 deaths the country still doesn't have enough oxygen and over 11 people died at a hospital in the south of the country when oxygen precious suddenly dropped tons of medical supplies have been flown in from around the world but the indian government has been criticized for letting it sit in an airport hangar and

distributing it too slowly and as a base for our reports from new delhi. long lines outside vaccination centers have become an increasingly common sight in india those who managed to make an appointment consider themselves lucky. because i tried it last night it did not happen because of the time. and because everything was booked. and i tried again to be in the morning somehow i got the sense india is the world's largest vaccine manufacturing but it doesn't have enough vaccines for its own people despite the government expanding the vaccination program to include everyone above the age of 18 from the start of may the number of daily inoculations has come down from 4500000 on the 5th of april to less than 2000000 exactly one month later now there are signs that this set. to saying it's one of the biggest in

the world but this is a private facility meaning only those who can pay for a jab or who have the technology to register online get access and dia has been leading the calls for pharmaceutical companies to drop peyton's so it can boost vaccine production and on thursday the government welcomes the news the us has supporting the waiving of intellectual property rights but there needs to be consensus from the other members of the world trade organization the w.t.r. and that might not happen soon we're really talking at the us position as it relates to the w t o part process right and that process will take a series of months and requires a unanimous point of view to move forward. and say i never. bought time is off the essence health experts say the removal of peyton's would save millions of lives not just in india but around the world. really is you

know that's got. to leave the country is this is the going to group good we want to go that. country. because i don't enter the same sort of. india and south africa 1st approached the world trade organization in september since then new more contagious variants of the virus have emerged in india with scientists morning vaccines will have to be updated to remain effective elizabeth parata al-jazeera new delhi thousands of people have rushed to leave nepal ahead of an international flight ban the took effect around 4 hours ago fears are rising that the country's surging corona virus outbreak will mimic the one across its western border in india nepal is facing 57 times more cases than it had

a month ago it's reporting about 20 new infections a day for every 100000 people roughly equal to india 2 weeks ago and 44 percent of tests are returning positive a lockdown has been extended in the capital kathmandu and 83 and a half 1000 fatalities have been recorded overall. meanwhile indonesia has banned domestic travel for 12 days to restrict movement during the holiday police officers have been checking documents and stopping people from leaving cope with 19 cases have been falling but the authorities want to stay cautious after each celebrations last year caused a spike in deaths will $46000.00 people have died in indonesia they hit the worst hit country in southeast asia. at least $25.00 people including a police officer have been killed in a shootout during a raid on

a drug gang in brazil police had entered one of rio de janeiro's largest favelas while suspect reportedly tried to flee across rooftops 3 officers were hit and some bystanders were also injured is the deadliest single police operation in the state . residents have been protesting in the tightly packed neighborhood of 40000 people activists ever accuse the police of unfairly targeting the area's black inhabitants the neighborhood is dominated by rio's largest drug trafficking gang the red command. about 8 o'clock this morning a criminal came into my house since i live in a for valor i had no way to keep him out he had a bullet wound and when the police came and asked with any gang members were in my house i nodded with my head yes because i didn't want to endanger my family so the police came in and killed the kid in my daughter's room. but you can the militia leader who was kidnapped as a child and forced to join

a notorious rebel group has been sentenced by the international criminal court dominico when was given 25 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity including rape torture murder and using child soldiers welcome web reports. he was abducted as a child and forced to commit atrocities that's now dominic congo and has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the international criminal court in the 61 crimes including murders rapes and sexual and slave meant by no means does it only go on one's personal background overshadow his culpable conduct and the suffering of the victims it is worth repeating this again. nevertheless the specific of this case of his history of his situation cannot be put aside deciding whether he must be sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes on when was a commander in the rebel lord's resistance army ostensibly it was in

a conflict with uganda's government for about 3 decades but most of the violence was targeted at civilians the n.r.a. was notorious for abducting children and forcing them to become sex slaves and child soldiers when was one of them he was taken from his home when he was about 10 years old the crimes he committed were horrific including skinning other children alive and so we told the i.c.c. that he wasn't responsible for things he was forced to do the judges didn't buy it they said as an adult he could have left the groups as he was legally responsible for what he did the leader joseph coney has never been caught in spite of being pursued for more than 30 years across 4 countries by you can his army with u.s. military support the ugandan military known as you p.d.f. has also been accused of atrocities just as campaigners welcomed on wednesday trial and conviction but say justice for uganda's brutal civil war has been minimal so

far one sided government of uganda in spite or numerous calls and on the welling evidence of crimes committed by you could be and has failed to conduct effective investigations and bring crappier create plans to justice and the i.c.c. led government has corporate did all that and about in their dominico way and. i would believe that any attempt to investigate government troops would not receive a similar corporation and i think it's a pragmatic decision by the court in the city of gulu considered the epicenter of the war people watched proceedings from the court and everyone here was affected and many say 34 years after the conflict began some justice is better than none malcolm webb al-jazeera. police in the maldives say the former president has been

injured in an explosion outside his home by midnight who's the current speaker of parliament is in hospital with shrapnel wounds from the blast in the capital mali one foreign tourist was also reported the injured there's been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack my man now she became the most democratically elected president in 2008 and in 30 years of autocratic rule he was overthrown in a coup in 2012 and wasn't able to run again for office in 2018 after being convicted of criminal charges it have been self-imposed exile in britain before returning home he was elected speaker of the parliament the country's 2nd most powerful position 2 years ago. still to come this half hour the democratic republic of congo's military takes control of 2 eastern provinces to quell escalating violence. and a slice of life but when the tally it was except that pizza on the machine.

hello across most of us straight it's looking fine and dry we do have a bit of instability roll in around parts of western australia but perth is dry and somewhat weather over the last few days and across new south wales where we did get a pretty good push of boisterous for sydney things are improving i'll take it as saturday wall to wall sunshine with a high of 25 degrees and we do have some showers rolling through victoria want to show you this disturbance brewing heading over the tasman sea creeping closer to new zealand put this ahead now to sunday and we can see heavy pockets of rain impacting this southern the south island christ church $25.00 degrees this is very close to a record which that carefully away we go now to china where we do have some heavy rain falling towards southern portions of the country and that stream of moisture

moving over the east china sea but i do think it's going to steer out toward the pacific so japan's not going to be impacted by this tokyo 27 degrees on saturday and a lot of sun into the mix across india we'll get to that storm threat but we do have a dust storm to talk about moving through southern areas of pakistan into rajastan biggest threat for storms will be in southern india. they traveled down thousands of kilometers from the heart to pick berries. to tie workers with exploitation in the forests of sweden when i went east investigates on al-jazeera. morning to. our 20. every.

one of the top stories here on our syria the e.u. says it will discuss plans to suspend patents for covert 19 vaccines after the u.s. backed the move india and south africa argue it would help poorer nations vaccinate quicker but vaccine makers pfizer and biotech say it would boost global stocks any time soon. at least $25.00 people including a police officer have been killed in a gun battle during a raid on a drug gang in brazil suspects tried to flee across rooftops as police entered one of rio de janeiro's largest for venom's. and ugandan militia leader who was

kidnapped as a child and forced to join in a tourist rebel group has been sentenced by the international criminal court dominico when was given 25 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity . french and british naval ships leaving waters near the island of jersey after major dispute over fishing rights escalated rapidly and it's mostly due to. exit at issue on new licenses that the island which is part of the british isles imposed last week french fishermen say the rules make it harder for them to operate in waters they worked in for generations i was on board one of the french fishing boats. nighttime in the normandy ports of cattle and off to some final preparations cammy lake u.k. and his crew to leave the harbor and head to sea not for a fishing trip but to protest. the fishermen on france's northern coast are angry

they say all 40 is on the channel islands of jersey are ignoring the post brags that trade deal and unfairly limiting access to jersey's waters by restricting boat licenses or adding extra rules if you are quick to get me to the cookies are no longer allowed to fish dollars so well in jersey seas even though i've been fishing in these waters since 2009 it happened just like that overnight suddenly i received a letter saying you're not allowed that city. can you says he's lost nearly 40 percent of his business some colleagues much more as day breaks the scale of the protest of jersey's coast is clear oh he's been charging for more than 4 hours the sun has finally come up and he can see around 60 french fishing vessel dotted all across the bison and there's the bear in the distance is the british naval ship. britain and france both sent to naval ships

a sign of the escalating round over jersey a u.k. dependency as frustrations run high some french built into the port of st prompting jersey officials to agree to meet the fisherman although they were unwilling to shift their position fishing in the channel islands is all about continuity so what you did before you can continue doing but there's one major difference is you know 1st important to us it's not just. manages it roger gammill attended the meeting turning his boat back to france he was visibly disappointed in this clip of they say they can't do everything they want that london is behind them london talks of brussels before it's all to them it doesn't look like things will change because of . these fishermen a trade that they've known all their lives seems to have changed overnight and now they're worried for their futures saying they're caught in the middle of a wave of u.k. e.u. bureaucracy that has left them behind natasha butler al-jazeera the channel islands

. they're to being counted across the u.k. after millions of people cast their ballots in local and regional elections we're at chalons joins us live from hot people in northeast england so to tell us what kind of it's been happening. there's been a real mishmash of seats up for grabs across the u.k. today the counting will be going on through the night and then over the suing days as well so i can go through the various votes there are many of them we have had votes for the new national parliaments in both scotland and wales the london assembly is been voted for as well you've got the london mayor that's one of 13 mayoral elections around england you've got $143.00 english councils that are for grabs with about $5000.00 councillor seats in total being decided you also have $39.00 police and crime commissioners around england and wales being decided and

one votes by election for a westminster m.p. that's for the hartlepool constituency where i am and the count is going on behind me in this leisure center here we've had a parade of cars this one just next to me here bringing carlos' filled boots full of papers to be unloaded and taken in and counted now why is all of this important well maybe it's the 1st chance really to take the political temperature of the country since 2019 when the conservative party and boris johnson won thumping landslide victory and now has an 80 seat majority in parliament it's also a chance to have a look at the independence movements in scotland and wales and see whether those are still popular whether they're getting more or less popular for the scottish national party north of the border of where i am it's a chance for the scottish national party to see whether the scandals that the

parties have had over the. the last couple of years of denting or its popularity it's all been it's a chance to have a look at labor the main opposition party certainly in england and see whether under its new leadership of clear starmer it has managed to rehabilitate itself its own after that catastrophic defeat in 29 c. for a chance thank you very much indeed. florida has become the latest republican run us state to restrict voting by mail governor rhonda scientists signed in the law which imposes new id rules live on the right wing fox news channel having barred other media texas lawmakers are poised to vote on a similar bill and one has already been passed by the republican controlled legislature in georgia it follows former president donald trump's unfounded claims about mail in ballot for. cutter's foreign minister says no one is above the law following the arrest of the country's finance minister early shareef. a cut

a news agency says it's due to suspected misuse of public money and abuse of power has been removed from his position pending further investigation. and that. the action taken so far has to do with the finance minister's public office or other institutions and companies observe clearances all of the practices of governance and they are subject to checks and balances rules and regular orders therefore they are doing business as usual simply because an office cannot be impacted by the absence of a particular office or officials come and go and public institutions are up and running in the same fashion they were originally built to function. the democratic republic of congo's military has taken control of 2 eastern provinces for the next month the president declared a state of siege in north korea last week to stop escalating violence between armed groups that's left more than 300 people dead critics worry it could lead to an abuse of power catherine saw

a report. soldiers in the democratic republic of congo patrol villages in beni where the armed group democratic forces or a.d.f. has killed thousands of congolese in recent years 2 provinces have now been placed under military rule north where rebels including the a.t.f. operates and eatery where ethnic militias have been fighting each other killing civilians and displacing many more a state of siege was declared by the president. last week he has put the army and police in charge of administrative court and local policing of baz 2 generals have been appointed as governors replacing those who are elected. some human rights activists say they're worried that civil liberties are now at risk and the forces often accused. of rights violations corruption and indiscipline could exploit this new power how young we are in unchartered territory i mean all forces are we.

going to do the situation for example with the police the raid the. radio what we're also hoping to have a good relationship with them. the security problem here has persisted for many as with all fighting forces accused of atrocities this is the result of the latest in a spate of killings as a barrel of a prominent cleric sheikh ali was opposed to the a.d.f. and its interpretation of islamic law was killed by gunmen during evening prayers in his readers says there was no help from the government still in the room they could have protected her husband when he was alive they did not are living told to gort. there have been street protests against the government and the united nations for not doing enough to keep people safe tens of thousands of soldiers including un peacekeepers have been deployed over the years but there are more than 100 armed

groups and i've had little success. we have to protect ourselves i have complained enough to the government president she said katie says his decision to impose a state of siege was prompted by the suffering of those living in the 2 provinces people here say they'll wait to see if it makes a difference but they're also wary that without checks and balances the security forces could easily abuse their mandate cathy zoi al jazeera. if parliament has designated the former ruling party of the northern region a terrorist organization it deals a blow to the prospect of peace talks with the people's liberation front 6 months after fighting broke out the conflict between the central government and the p.l.f. is believed to have killed thousands and displaced a 1000000 people the u.s. based center for information and communication says the designation could lead to

mass arrests and provide cover for persecution of the minority group. demonstrators in me and mark have torn up and set fire to textbooks to denounce an education system they say should be scrapped schools are due to reopen as soon as coronavirus restrictions are eased protesters say they don't want the military jointer to use the reopening as a way to claim normality is returning more than $750.00 people have been killed since the government was ousted in a coup 3 months ago taiwan's indigenous communities are about to find out if they won a court battle involving one of the last remaining traditions hunting for years they've lobbied against restrictions they say are discriminatory and unconstitutional so hire at report. guided by moonlight put on tribe head into the mountains as most of tejan city sleeps. hundreds of them are taking part in the

mother who died in festival issue ting ceremony an annual celebration honoring both hunter and wild game. for centuries their own sisters hunted for food. they no longer need to vote is desperate to keep what's left of their traditions and culture alive or mature has is that we used to live high up in the mountains and needed to hunt to survive but the government over time moved us down out of the mountains with because that's what our ancestors have been doing all along. while hunting is no longer for survival the indigenous people of taiwan are battling against government imposed hunting limitations including only being allowed to use homemade guns and the need for prior hunting approvals. on friday taiwan's constitutional court will decide if these limitations are discriminatory and unconstitutional. we hope the courts will finally legalize hunting rifles which are safer than forcing us to use antique homemade muskets it's not the animals that

will get hurt it's us the aboriginal hunters. in 2013 tell me tell who was jailed for 3 and a half years on weapon and poaching charges the sentence and get his put on tribe one of 16 official recognize indigenous groups in taiwan. for thousands of years they hunted and fished with little interference but colonialism and modernization pushed them off their lands today there are little over hoffer 1000000 indigenous people in taiwan and that's 2 percent of the items mostly ethnic han chinese population in 2016 president saying when formally apologize to the indigenous groups for centuries as pain and mistreatment. and unprecedented move as a self-governing territory which is claimed by china because its own identity away from the mainland despite that economic and social marginalization created an indigenous rights movement especially among the youth which in. all my grandfather

and father taught me what i know i watched and learned they taught me knowledge and wisdom but i fear many of those will not be passed on and will disappear oh. activists say the courts are common how gun control and wildlife conservation should be balanced could have major implications for indigenous rights in taiwan. they say they hope game hunting will be recognised as a culture and not a crime it's out of sight out of his era. climate change is causing a rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from melting polar ice sheets a stark warning from scientists who say the ice loss could be irreversible study says emissions need to be reduced swiftly to meet the paris climate agreement a failure could cause an abrupt jump in the pace of ice loss by 2060 but in coastal cities in danger down larry as a glaciologist it g.n.a.s.

science in new zealand he says decisions made now will be crucial to slowing scene ever rises erkki questions about antarctic ice shelf stability and so a lot of models conflict on on when that point of no return can happen but what is important is that it is driven by ocean processes when the ocean heats in these ice shelves and they can no longer hold back that land based ice and we can't get the heat out of the ocean so really the decisions we make today are really important for all of those downline affects keeping our a shelf stable and keeping that ice on where it should be. now is an invention set to cause controversy it rome has a new vending machine which produces freshly cooked pizzas in just 3 minutes by is using the flaming red mist to go pizza machine can trace from 4 different kinds of pizzas costing between $5.00 and $7.00 a machine needs and tops the dough and customers can watch the pizza cook through

a small glass window reviews by customers ranged from acceptable if you're in a hurry to outright horror. they're terrible really hates a need to be asian hot straight away to me this doesn't work they see my true pizza is made from the would of an i wouldn't even take into consideration eating a pizza from a machine. from one of the top stories are now jazeera the e.u. says it will discuss plans to suspend patents for 19 vaccines.