in shootings against people of color there's growing demand to hold to account those will sworn to serve and protect from hostile to hostile hotel 6 plumes geopolitical conflicts from the perspective of iconic hotels on the frontline and former south african president jacob zuma goes on trial for corruption may on al-jazeera. germany pushes back against a proposal to waive peyton's for covert 19 vaccines warning it will complicate production. i know about this and this is all to see a live from doha also coming up 25 people dead in

a massive police raid in rio de janeiro targeting drug traffickers. former maldives president parliament speaker mohamed nasheed is being treated for wounds after a blast outsiders all. back in comma waters british and french patrol ships returned to port after a dispute over a post brags that fishing rights. germany's chancellor angela merkel is pushing back against growing demands to suspend patents for covert 19 vaccines be u.s. canada and spain room on the countries supporting the plan the european union is expected to discuss the issue at a summit on friday but germany which is home to vaccine produce a biotech says supply problems are down to production capacity limits and not patient protections and that's a concern echoed by some of the drug companies. meanwhile india's government says

it welcomes increasing support for the patient waiver as covert infection spread from cities to rural areas there are hopes that the country's 2nd wave was peaking have been dashed as the search continues to shatter records widens day 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 are being flown in from around the world but the indian government is being criticized for distributing it too slowly elizabeth put on a reports from new delhi. long lines outside vaccination centers have become an increasingly common sight in india those who manage 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 then i managed to go and i tried again to be in the morning from the hall 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 $2000000.00 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 india 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. and that might not happen soon we're really talking at the us position as it relates to the w t o process right and that process will take a series of months and requires a unanimous point of view to move forward you. know that are. 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. if they leave the country is this a good time to do it. and. even if it does i don't really and there's.

india and south africa 1st approached the world trade organization in september and 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. corona virus in nepal is surging and there are fears case numbers could reach the same level as neighboring india nepal has $57.00 times more cases than it had 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 3 and a half 1000 people have died meanwhile indonesia's bombs domestic travel for 12 days to restrict movement during the holiday over $1000.00 cases have been falling but authorities are staying cautious after each celebrations caused

a spike in deaths last year more than $46000.00 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 a $25.00 people including one police officer police say those killed including leaders of the city's biggest criminal gang the human rights activists are calling for a thorough investigation there is a border ports. it was the deadliest operation in rio de janeiro in years the police entered the 5. allegedly to fight the recruitment of children and teenagers by a criminal organization suspects try to escape across rooftops as police entered the slum in our more vehicles and helicopters flew over the area the intense fire fight left at least 25 people dead among them up at his office or rio has suffered for years from drug related violence and attempts by different administrations have

failed to control a. police agent any senior was one of the bases of. the most powerful drug trafficking group in the country. they say among the dead were leaders of the gang that dominated life in the slum at least 10 suspects were arrested but human rights groups say the operation was mounted to avenge the deaths of 4 police officers a few days earlier the supreme court has banned security operations in rio slums because of the abuses in killings denounced by residents in the city's poorest areas the institute of public security says almost 500 people have been killed so far this year at the hands of the police. some of the rest of them ziran mori they say the police committed a massacre and are demanding an investigation joy reset is a human rights lawyer in rio. and to do the same dynamic to 5 or 6 houses houses destroyed shootings executions there was an execution one man died

sitting on a chair from a chair nobody shoot. barbaric this has no solution. senor is one of the poorest communities in rio most residents here are caught in the middle of a conflict between criminal organizations and the police. and. police in the moldings say the former president has been injured in an explosion near his home mohamed nasheed is the cousin speaker of parliament is in hospital with shrapnel wounds from the blasts in the capital mali he was the country's 1st democratically elected president and served until $2121.00 for them tourists has also been reportedly injured moldings president says an investigation is being launched and the government is seeking support from international partners well let's bring in michael coleman he's deputy director and senior associate for south asia at the wilson center he's joining us by skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us on. the details of failed stove fairly sketchy about

what's been happening but assuming that this was a deliberate explosion and it does seem in the early stages that that is the case who do you think might have carried out well as you say there's still a lot of details that i mean to be determined certainly it could be some type of political motivation political rivalry that's always a possibility but there is really. a modest history islamised militancy in mali there have been several attacks over the last few years including one or 2 that have been claimed by the isis organization these are not been mass casualty or major attacks but there have been some isolated incidents nothing like this where someone as prominent as machine is targeted but you know we can't rule that out as well the fact that there could have been some type of terrorist international terrorist that they mention incidents but at this point

it's unclear who was behind it but this is very significant not in terms of scale but in terms of target that you have a former president who's still a very prominent political secure a very prominent democratic leader in a region that's now marked by strong men and hardline nationalist so those were prominent figures so it's a pretty big deal it was targeted imo how common are attacks like this in the maldives. well you know there have been there has as i said before there have been some attacks targeted tourists targeted shipping vessels that was an attack some years back some buddhist statues and you do not have a tax law and they have not had attacks like this that target prominent political figures so you know by leaders a relatively stable country these attacks are relatively isolated particularly compared to other countries in the broader region like pakistan afghanistan burma even sri lanka but these are not the types of acts acts are not unheard of in the

sense of the police but the targeting is what's very unusual here and stands out very unusual or as we were talking about one foreign tourist is reported to have been injured in the course tourism is absolutely key to the economy of the moldings particularly at this time in the middle of a pandemic what kind of knock on effect do you think there might be. well you know that presumably you know hopefully this will be an isolated attack and if that's the case it should not have much of an impact on tourism but indeed this is significant for the economy because as you noted multi-verse it's a poor country its g.d.p. is under $9000000000.00 and it's heavily dependent on tourism and the tourism industry continued to flourish even during the pandemic particularly the latter half last year when multi-use unlike many other tourist havens in the region next year worker opened up its borders back to international tourists but indeed i think

that this attack could were really government and others that this is if this is the 1st of several attacks if that were to happen back i think could be problematic for the term is tourism industry but if this is a one off thing i don't think that should have been a major impact on the tourism industry but again the fact that such a prominent prominent political figure was targeted i think that it is something that's fun to raise a lot of concern within the country and presumably within those that may want to go to maltese as tourists as well by hokum we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed for joining us on al-jazeera thank you. qatar as foreign minister says no one is above the law following the arrest of the country's finance minister ali saudi fall the mahdi because our 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 the view to many all the action taken so far has to do with the

finance ministers public office other institutions and companies observed clear and solid policies of governance and they're subject to checks and balances rules and regular order and therefore they are doing business as usual simply because an office cannot be impacted by the absence of a particular office of officials come and go and public institutions are up and running in the same fashion there were originally built to function. because foreign ministers also revealed more details about mediation efforts which led to somalia resuming diplomatic relations with kenya but that issue suspended ties in december over what it called political meddling somalia accused of interfering in the electoral process and 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 walk in. still ahead on al-jazeera why palestinians in one occupied east jerusalem neighborhood will be forced to leave their homes. and how much would someone stand in a bottle of wine that's been out of this world. for the. sponsored plan qatar airways oh they're heavy pockets of rain towards southern areas of china so let me show you right off the bat will pinpoint where this heavy rain is falling in between the yangtze and pearl rivers that we are getting some drenching rain along the pearl river valley hong kong

you're going to stay dry on friday with a high of 31 and same goes for shanghai but we watch this batch of rain move out toward the east china sea i do think it's going to steer out toward the pacific maybe just clip the eastern edge of honshu off to southeast asia on our heaviest rain can be found across borneo sue the way z. and also toward the southern philippines and we're getting a bit of a break from the heavier rain into indochina however bangkok thunderstorms in the picture for you on friday we will talk about the storm risk in india and just one sec but 1st i want to put this on your radar we have some dust storms a threat of dust storms moving across southern areas of pakistan into raja stan as for those storms in india they'll be around carola province into west bengal for your friday across the middle east were dialing up temperatures around the gulf kuwait at $42.00 degrees and we can also find a lot of heat around the eastern mediterranean is stamboul up to $25.00 on friday.

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daughter of a sitter a reminder of our top stories this hour i love michael has lent her support to the german pharmaceutical company that developed a covert 90 vaccine along pfizer after it hit out a proposal to suspend intellectual property rights biotech says easing patent restrictions wouldn't boost vaccine stocks around the world any time soon. at least $25.00 people including one security officer have been killed during a large police operation in rio de janeiro there who is believed to be controlled by the city's largest drug trafficking gang. police in the maldives say the former president has been injured in an explosion near his home the home of nasheed was the current speaker of parliament is in hospital with shrapnel wounds from the blast in the capital lalage. french and british naval ships have left waters near the island of jersey after a dispute over fishing rights and it's mostly due to bragg's it and issue a new licenses that the island which is part of the british isles imposed last week

french fisherman say the rules make it harder for them to operate and waters they've worked on for generations the tasha buffer reports. nighttime 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's it you can do what 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 charging for more than 4 hours the sun has finally come up and he can see around 60 french fishing vessels dotted all across the modern and the player in the distance is a british naval ship. britain and france both sent 2 naval ships a sign of the escalating rally over jersey and u.k. dependency as frustrations ran high some french boats briefly entered 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. and continue doing but there's one major difference is your 1st important to us is that jersey manages its waters jameel attended the meeting turning his boat back to france he was visibly disappointed it

does keep 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. but 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 has left them behind after butler al-jazeera the channel islands the international criminal court has sentenced former ugandan militia leader dominic on one to 25 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity is guilty of ordering the killings of civilians in abducting children that's despite being taken as a child himself before becoming a commander of the lord's resistance army archerd webb reports from nairobi he was abducted as a child and forced to commit atrocities that's now domini congo and has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the international criminal court 61 crimes

including murders rapes and sexual enslavement 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 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 governmental buganda 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 proper create tents to justice and the i.c.c. led government has corporate it'd all around about that dominic all the way and.

i would believe that any attempt to investigate government 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 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. the u.k. is one of 5 european nations urging israel to stop plans to build more settlements in the west bank and it comes as the country's supreme court considers whether to hear an appeal by 4 palestinian families threatened with eviction from their homes before said reports from occupied east jerusalem. this has become a nightly scene in the east jerusalem neighborhood of shakespeare or. vigils and protests aggressively broken up by israeli security forces at stake the homes of

hundreds of palestinians long subject to an eviction campaign the current tensions were sparked partly by this viral video in which local woman could confront a jewish settler your mother. it was the dollar judgment of just how close minnes family and 3 others are to being forced out they've lodged a final appeal with israel's supreme court which is now saying it will hold another session on monday when his father now bill who's already had one house seized by settlers fears what could happen if the court rules against the man. who will be in the streets because all of us like me we are old people we don't work we don't have incomes and the cheapest rent around here is $2000.00 how can we afford the homes were built for palestinian refugees in an arrangement between the united nations and jordan during the period of jordanian rule after 948 a jewish settler organization says the land was owned by jews before 948 and should

be returned in light of israel's seizure of east jerusalem in 1967 the lawyer representing the palestinian families says their counter claims of ownership have not been properly assessed by the courts we are dealing with a domestic legal. system that. rejects and denies the international humanitarian law and international law. should be applied than is jerusalem. the family's legal battle has been constrained by the limits of israeli law which israel seeks to apply here in occupied east jerusalem but there is another legal argument based on international law and israel's obligations as an occupying power an argument that requires political pressure some house come from campaign groups and diplomats in recent weeks britain's mission to the palestinians tweeting out this video statement the restitution and planning rules here and their implementation. and they breach israel's obligations as an occupying power since

the start of the holy month of ramadan tensions in east jerusalem have been unusually high from gaza hamas is military wing is warning of a high price for israeli actions in shape. the consequences of a massive action here could be felt well beyond the families under threat of losing their homes. i'm. sorry force at al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem the u.s. says it will stand with ukraine in its defense against what it calls russian aggression secretary of state anthony blinken made the pledge during talks with the ukrainian president the law to me as alinsky lincoln says ukraine's battle against a russia 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 growth and aggressive actions we'll continue to

strengthen our security partnership in close cooperation with you to make sure that ukraine can 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 for monitoring the situation very very closely. florida has become the latest republican run u.s. stated to restrict voting by mail governor romney's scientists signed in the law which imposes new idea rules live on the right wing fox news channel i mean barred other media texas politicians are poised to vote on a similar bill and once already been passed in georgia it follows former president donald trump's unfounded claims about mail in ballot for old judges brown indianness 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've got in this country in 2020 was record turnout of voters and what has happened is that republicans the besley at the state level have 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 number 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 number and that we will probably see a shift in power in this country and so this is being have to slow that they have

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 a drive through voting in houston texas where over 127000 voters mostly black and life you know 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. how much do you think someone would pay for a bottle of wine even it really has been out of this world or this bottle of potatoes 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 but one comes with

a regular bottle that never left so whoever buys it can find out if they taste different 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 importer this year the reports are that it mature it fantastically well so so that said great news. this is all just a release of the top stories i'm glad markel has lent her support to the german pharmaceutical company that developed a covert 19 vaccine along with pfizer after its hit out of the proposal to suspend intellectual property rights but on tag says easing patent restrictions wouldn't

boost vaccine stocks around the world any time soon place in the mall the say the former president has been injured in an explosion near a.