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sent patrol vessels to the channel island of jersey as their dispute over a post brags that fishing rights escalates. on the world's top court sentences a ugandan child soldier turned rebel commander to 25 years in jail for crimes against humanity. germany's chancellor angela merkel is pushing back against growing demands to suspend patents for covert 19 vaccines the u.s. canada and spain the rung the countries supporting the plan the utopian union is expected to discuss the issue at a summit on friday but germany which is home to vaccine produce a violent excess supply problems are down to production capacity limits and not paid in protections and that's a concern echoed by some of the drug companies. india's government says it welcomes

increasing support for the page and waiver 'd as covert infections spread from cities to rural areas their hopes that the country's 2nd wave was picking have been dashed as the surge continues to shatter records wide and state so the highest number of new infections in deaths with more than 412000 cases and nearly 4000 fatalities the country still doesn't have enough supplies of oxygen another 11 people died at a hospital in the south of the country when oxygen pressure suddenly dropped tons of medical supplies have been flown in from around the world but the indian government is being criticized for distributing it too slowly elizabeth put on 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 we had to really struggle for it because i tried it last

night it did not happen because of the time. and because everything was booked then i managed to get 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 and 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 $2000000.00 exactly one month later now there are signs at the center 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 patents so it can boost vaccine production and on thursday the government welcomes the news the us is

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 about 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 even. 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 a long time to prove it because we don't really get that and. even i don't we. don't.

think. 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 but scientists morning vaccines will have to be updated to remain effective elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi fares are rising in nepal that a surge in corona virus outbreak will mimic the one in neighboring india nepal is facing $5057.00 times more cases than a month ago it's reporting about 20 new infections a day for every 100000 people that's roughly equal to india 2 weeks ago a lockdown has been extended in the capital katmandu and nearly 3500 fatalities of being recorded. meanwhile indonesia has banned domestic travel for 12 days to restrict to move during the heat holiday over $9000.00 cases have been falling

but authorities are staying cautious after each celebrations caused a spike in deaths last year more than 46000 people have died in indonesia making it the worst hit country in southeast asia. a large police raid targeting drug traffickers in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro has ended with the deaths of at least $25.00 people including one officer police say those killed included leaders of the city's biggest criminal gang shootouts between security forces and drug traffickers are common but this was one of the state's most lethal police operations human rights activists are calling for a thought a investigation into the killings kitty on a feeling as an independent journalist in brazil she's joining us from rio de janeiro by skype it's good to have you with us on how it official is explaining the number of deaths in this operation well there are there actually is no explanation and they've simply said to be drug traffickers and they were going

after after what that doesn't exactly explain why 2 larger police would invade a community of 60000 people at 6 am in the morning when people are leaving their houses in when they're you know getting on public transportation so there has actually been no explanation is there any indication how these 25 deaths that we know about so far a broken down of the all from the members of this alleged gang or are there any civilians or police officers that are being caught up in those. you know that's that is a very logical question and way these police operations in which by seeing people die are actually very common result in mostly what happens is that police officers or the police and you know we just say they were all drug traffickers we won't it's very rare that will we see names very rare that bottles will be published of who who actually passed away so you know the only difference in this situation happened

today was that there were 25 people you know these these things happening pretty much 2 or 3 times a year in the area rio de janeiro in odyssey this is a. human rights that this is still happening i understand that there were some restrictions that were brought in because of the spread of coronavirus in areas like this one in the rio de janeiro has that had any impact on the the number or the size of the operations that have been held at say over the course of the last year. that's actually a great question well just to give you a little bit of info you know the rio de janeiro police are probably one of the deadliest police forces in the world. presently 2000 people diving into the rio de janeiro a cheater and women coronavirus people at a stand or houses insult human rights activists and community leaders went to the supreme court to say hey this makes no sense how we have to stand our houses but we still have police invading our communities in killing innocent people and so the

pursuit brain court actually rule no operations that there will be no operations jury dependent and we still have a very horrible pandemic going on in brazil right now when absolutely that ruling did not have any effect today but it did have a temporary effect last year when murders in general although real decrease significantly but they've been increasing in the last 2 months. if i had to sort of correctly and please correct me if i'm wrong this is quite a not a common thing for gangs a gang members to to embed themselves essentially within a community one would imagine again correct me if i'm wrong that to try to give them some level of protection from the people in that community is there any sense if that is the case that the people in these communities are getting fed up with this that they are being targeted in the they are part of the fallout of this battle that's going on between the security forces and the drug gangs. well that's

an excellent question i mean it probably don't have enough time to explain is what you have to think about it this way it's not a matter of drug traffickers imbedding themselves in the community this is their community this is where they grew up this is where they were there their mothers they have their kids' lives it's the same way that a drug trafficker from a rich part of rio they're going to live where they grew up and where they're from the only difference is the bible is that takes place directly in the community of bell communities where you know there are majority black people in that difference these are impoverished communities and the police feel that they have the power to actually introduced me to these and you know pretty much shoot at will we're got most of who is in the community kitty out of food along we appreciate you joining us on al-jazeera thank you very much indeed for your time you're welcome

place in the maldives say the former president has been injured in an explosion near his home home in the sheet is the current speaker of parliament is in hospital with shrapnel wounds from the blast in the capital mali it was the country's 1st democratically elected president on served until 2012 on foreign tourists has also been reportedly injured moldings president says an investigation has been launched and the government is seeking support from international partners qatar's foreign minister says no one is above the law following the arrest of the country's finance minister ali mahdi the qatar news agency says its jus to suspected misuse of public money and abuse of power is being removed from his position pending further investigation. yes and. the action taken so far has to do with the finance minister's public office other institutions and companies observe clear and solid policies of governance and they're subject to checks and balances rules and regular

audit therefore they are doing business as usual simply because an office cannot be impacted by the absence of a particular office officials come and go and public institutions are up and running in the same fashion they were originally built to function qatar's foreign ministers also revealed more details about mediation efforts which led to somalia resuming diplomatic relations with kenya while the nation suspended ties in december over what it called political meddling somalia accuse kenya of interfering in the electoral process in one of its semi autonomous states which is close to disputed offshore oil and gas deposits in arcata what each of the 10 very positive steps have been taken 1st is in $1000.00 the prime minister to oversee the election process and related security measures this is welcomed by all the political parties there in addition extensive and inclusive talks were initiated between the envoy rules of provence is the candidates and other political parties if it was centered

on encouraging them to maintain the dialogue and revisit the previous agreements among them like egypt and turkey say they've held frank and in depth talks in cairo on bilateral and regional issues including the conflict in libya where they back competing factions is the 1st high level public discussions for years between the regional rivals. has more from istanbul. these 2 countries 8 years ago after the coup that happened in egypt they relations have been very much strained and all of that much of the fray and disputes now finally they have managed to gather around a table and to try to solve their problems but there is a very long and tough way ahead because the issues are quite delicate in any way if these 2 companies can't cut a deal it's going to include a demarkation dealing is mediterranean settling down the disputes regarding to east mediterranean issues and also increasing the diplomatic representation in cairo and

ankara. ramping up did a trade relations between 2 countries and finally if that works they're going to try to find a common ground how to cooperate in libya so i had an al-jazeera the president of the democratic republic of the republican congress declares a state of scenes but that means for 2 provinces in the east plagued by violence and how much would you spend on a bottle of wine that's been out of this world. hello we've had violent and deadly weather roll across the southern us really anywhere from texas through to georgia it has produced flooding in alabama we've seen hail gusty winds and tornadoes deadly tornadoes the good news is the storm threat here

is starting to ease so here's a picture on friday as we see that system it's now to the far south bringing with it the risk of some showers through my ammi i take you to new england and eastern canada where we're getting a pretty good helping of rain for washington d.c. on friday and look at this cruel pool of air is still dominating canada st john's that's cool for you about half of where you should be toronto not even into double digits on friday for central america now that we've had flooding toward guatemala and still heavy rain in the forecast for here $100.00 s. and southern mexico on friday otherwise we do run the risk of some showers and pop up thunderstorms across cuba for example on friday we do have a disturbance we're tracking in south america toward the south of brazil it's going to pull into rio de janeiro as we head to friday it's just going to skirt paulo and we'll still be dealing with on several conditions for rio on saturday.

frank assessments. but the government needs to watch what exactly happened and what may have never taking for the situation might not be good ever again informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing ministry us and this is a message to the region the united states is rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story.

fortunate is it on the mind of the top stories this hour angela merkel has lent her support to the german pharmaceutical company that developed a covert $1000.00 vaccine along with pfizer afterward to get out of the proposal to suspend intellectual property rights around tech says eason peyton to restrict sions wouldn't boost vaccine stocks around the world anytime soon. at least $25.00 people including one security officer have been killed during a large police operation in rio de janeiro the neighborhoods believed to be controlled by the city's largest drug trafficking gang. police in the maldives say the former president's been injured in an explosion near his home mohamed nasheed who's the current speaker of parliament is in hospital with shrapnel wounds from the blast in the capital mali the u.s. says it will stand with the ukraine in its defense against what it calls a russian aggression secretary of state and the blinken made the pledge during

talks with ukrainian president to me alone selenski link in the says ukraine's battle against russian backed separatists in the east of the country is a high foreign policy priority for president joe biden tensions escalated between the neighboring states when russia started massing troops at the border last month . we look to russia to cease reckless and aggressive actions we'll continue to strengthen our security partnerships and close collaboration with you to make sure that ukraine and to defend itself against against aggression we're aware that russia has withdrawn some porches from the border of ukraine but we also see that significant forces remain remain there significant equipment remains there who are monitoring the situation very very closely. french and british naval ships have left waters near the island of jersey after a major dispute over fishing rights escalated rapidly and it's mostly due to brags

that at issue the 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've worked in for generations of bottles been their. night time in the normandy ports of cattle and off to some final preparations cammy like you high and his crew 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 island 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 want particular 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 since you. can use 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 all we've been chatting for more than 4 hours the sun has finally come up and he can see around the french fishing vessel talking all across the noise in the back in the distance is a british naval ship. britain and france both sent to naval ships a sign of the escalating round over jersey a u.k. dependency has frustrations run high some french boats brickley 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 is one major difference is your 1st important to us is that jersey now manages its waters jameel

attended the meeting turning his boat back to france he was visibly disappointed it escape of perfect 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 ok. for these fishermen a trade that they've known all their lives seems to have changed overnight and now they're worried for their future is saying they caught in the middle of a wave of u.k. e.u. bureaucracy that is left them behind. al-jazeera the channel islands. florida has become the latest republican run u.s. state to restrict voting by mail governor on dissenters signed in the law which imposes new ideal rules to live on the right wing fox news channel having barred other media texas politicians or parts of vote on a similar bill and once already been passed in georgia and follows former presidents donald trump's unfounded claims about mail in ballot fraud jitters brown

janice is a voting rights expert and executive director with advancement project national office she says florida's move is yet another effort to prevent minority groups from exercising their right to vote. what governor dissenters and the republican legislature is trying to do is to make it harder for people to vote what we saw in this country in 2020 was record turnout of voter and what has happened is that republicans the best leave the state level has moved to make sure that that doesn't happen again because they don't like the people who actually turned out places like georgia where you had african-americans turning out in record numbers so now there is this effort to make it harder to vote because they saw too many people coming out and because we know that the changing demographics of the united states shows that black and brown people are increasing in numbers and that we will probably see

a cyst in power in this country and so this is being have to slow that they've done is that they they actually with precision look at the laws that affected black voters in particular so for example in texas the they had drive through voting in houston texas where over 127000 voters mostly black and latino voted they want to get rid of them making early voting cutting back on early voting hours that they know black voters used in places like georgia and in florida they want to get rid of that or limit that the international criminal court sentenced former ugandan militia leader dominique on one to 25 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity is guilty of ordering the killings of civilians and abducting children of despite

being taken as a child himself before becoming the commander of the lord's resistance army michael webb reports from nairobi. he was abducted as a child and forced to commit atrocities that's now dominate congo and has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the international criminal court the 61 crimes including murders rapes and sexual enslavement by no means does it only go on one's personal background overshadow its cover of a contact 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 in deciding whether he must be sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes on gwen 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 or 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 group as he was legally responsible for what he did raise leader joseph koni has never been in court in spite of being pursued for more than 30 years across 4 countries by ugandans army with u.s. military support the ugandan military known as you p.d.f. has also been accused of atrocities justice campaigners welcomed on wednesday trial and conviction but say justice for uganda's brutal civil war has been minimal so far and one sided government of uganda in spite or on your merits also and on the

welling evidence of crimes committed by your p.b.s. has failed to conduct effective investigations and when properly created still. justice and the i.c.c. level government has core parenthood all learned about. dominic conway and cain yes i would believe that any attempt to investigate governmental troops would not receive a similar corporation and so i think it's a pragmatic decision by the court in the city of gulu considered the epicenter of the war people watch the proceedings from the calls and everyone here was affected and many say 34 years after the conflict began some justice is better than none malcolm webb al-jazeera. the military and democratic republic of congo has taken control of 2 eastern provinces for the next month the president's to a state of siege in north kivu and into early last week to stop escalating violence

between on the groups which left more than $300.00 people dead but as catherine saw a reports critics worry it could lead to turn abuse of power. soldiers in the democratic republic of congo patrol villages in bend where the armed group allied democratic forces or a.d.f. has killed thousands of congo these in. to provinces have now been placed under military rule north kivu where rebels including the a.d.f. operates and a tory or ethnic militia have been fighting each other killing civilians and displacing many more a state of siege was declared by 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 governess 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 in discipline could exploit this new power how young. we are in uncharted territory. we're going to run into the situation for example the police raid. on the radio what we 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 beni he says there was no help from the government says. they could have protected her husband when he was alive they did not live retard to gort. there have been street protests against the government and the united nations for not

doing enough to keep people safe. hands of thousands of soldiers including un peacekeepers have been deployed over the years there are more than $100.00 armed groups and have had little success would you begun mia we have to protect ourselves i have complained enough to the government president she said he 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 catherine sewing al jazeera 6. how much do you think someone would pay for a bottle of wine even if it really has been out of this world all this bottle patrice 2000 is expected to fetch $1000000.00 at an auction at christie's it's among 12 bottles of french wine that spent more than

a year in the international space station as part of a wider research project the one comes with a regular bottle that never left earth so whoever buys it can find out if they taste differently. truly is a unique bottle of a fantastic bordeaux so it's been tasted and assessed so it's a scientific research and so the reports from the tasting i wasn't lucky enough to be there because it was done in march in porto at least year the reports are that it maturity fantastically well so so that's great news. this is all just the reviews of the top stories mangler merkel has lent her support to the german pharmaceutical company that developed a cover $1000.00 vaccine along with pfizer after it hit out at a proposal to suspend intellectual property rights biotech says easing patent

restrictions wouldn't boost vaccine stocks around the world any time soon.