back and then events at the border would be investigated. this is al jazeera. but i'm not clark this is a news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes and a lympics city that's as busy as ever but extending coronavirus emergency measures 2 and a half months out from the games. warnings of a catastrophe hospitals are overwhelmed nepal after an alarming rise in the rate of cave in $1000.00 infections. you see sexual violence is weapons of war the survivor from the conflict integrate tells how she's struggling with the psychological effects. and the forecast of worse to come this flooding already forces tens of

thousands of people from their homes in burundi. so coronavirus frustrations have been extended in japan's capital that is just 77 days before the start of the olympics a state of emergency was jus to end in 4 days in turkey but cases still surging robin wright has this report. the restrictions were due to be lifted next week but with japan still grappling with a 4th wave of the pandemic this announcement had been widely expected full prefectures including tokyo and osaka will have the state of emergency extended to the end of the month while 2 more will be given emergency powers. about the holding of the games there are concerns raised by the people of japan

which i know 1st the current expansion of new cases has to be curtailed above or to cure limpid games the most important thing is preventative measures for the athletes and their teams and to protect japanese nationals. the restrictions were introduced to curb the spread before an important annual holiday period at the end of april while the government says there's been a reduction in the amount of people travelling infections have continued to rise and the normally bustling downtown district of tokyo has been as busy as ever with people seeming to ignore the public warnings telling them to stay indoors it raises more questions about how japan can safely welcome in thousands of a limb pick athletes and officials with new coronavirus variance rapidly developing and spreading globally your own or not every other marine i don't think we should

go ahead with the games if we do it will cause the numbers to go up sharply. the kind of interest spawns hasn't been affected i'm deeply skeptical of the government having. the government shouldn't host the games just because it feels it has to the olympics should have the support of the people. an online petition calling for the games to be cancelled has attracted more than 200000 signatures a recent call for 500 nurses to volunteer their time to help with the games when medical resources are already so stretched as also proved unpopular. we don't have enough hospital beds and the biggest problem is our lack of a paid for tackling the pandemic i am absolutely opposed to hosting the olympics under these circumstances. and all of this comes against a sluggish rollout of vaccines compared with other developed nations with barely 2 percent. of the population receiving even

a single jab so far rob mcbride al jazeera. well i think it's all we can speak now it's a rice a attacker has she who's a national correspondent for the japan times joins us by skype from tokyo mr takashi at this extension of the state of emergency what do you think the implications are for the games well there are many implications for the games. one of the 1st example that comes to mind here is the tentative visit the president of the international olympic committee thomas barr that was slated for later this month however earlier today. the president of the tokyo 2020 organizing committee said will ask him up and said that as it may be difficult. and like what was said just now in your segment there seems to be mounting frustration and public opposition to hosting the games out of

fear and frustration and you can see that in the public polls which show that in many cases more than 70 percent of the public believes that the games can't be held stately should be postponed again or canceled altogether and and the decision that went into that wave of public opinion do you think that will be enough to encourage the government and perhaps even the i.o.c. to to get back on their decision and that she say the game should be cancelled well it's difficult to answer public sentiment towards the talk you know games that sort of didn't flow into a scrum of ours cases through and felt specially over the last 17 to 18 months in japan but they seem to have reached a high point in japan and i think what happens over the next few weeks especially are very important to watch you mean in terms of the numbers of cases.

right. just in terms of the new cases. and not just with i.o.c. the president bartz a visit later this month but there are lots of questions and decisions that haven't been made yet. what preparations does japan or interbank capable of making it say the tokyo games becomes a super spreader that. will japan be able to contain the forests ongoing wave that's leading to an abrupt surge in new cases and also tokyo chilled all. killed of prefectures as we speak. and how much of the general population will be inoculated by the opening ceremony in july right there's a lot 'd of questions to be answered on that how much of a blow would it be if the games were canceled now i mean as

you know the postponement of the tokyo games last march was or. the tokyo games are the only well and big and paralympic games to ever be postponed during peace time. and so if they are canceled. japan would make history for a very bad reason once again. the economic impact i think would be massive and most of that would ball on the japanese economy and domestic sponsors and most of the sponsorships with the i.o.c. or the i.o.c. and mostly united states television broadcasters are insured. so the stakes are very high for japan. well to 11 weeks ago i say appreciate your point of view thanks very much and thank you. and the toast relay in the prefecture has been cancelled and we'll have more on that later in sports segment. ok the crate of our

surge that has ravaged india for weeks is now spreading to nepal where there are fears the crisis will be just as bad or perhaps even worse the poll has $57.00 times more cases than a month ago and it's reporting about 28 new infections a day for every 100000 people that is roughly what the situation was in india 2 weeks ago a lot down has been extended in the capital katmandu and the government has tried to ready the hospital system but critics fear it's just too little too late across the border in india nearly 3 people are dying of covert 1000 every minute the country is facing the toughest battle against the virus in the world reporting another recall daily rise of more than 410000 cases on friday or to limbo as the latest now from katmandu. at the moment we are seeing. workers returning from colvin been stricken indian cities or states like my russia or not. the british which nepal borders i mean back home in huge crowds. and.

there is the health system has set up certain checkpoints at the border to test temperatures to some p.c. ours but there's a. great lack of like quarantine centers isolation centers holding centers which are very necessary so we've seen a huge struggle in that department to curb prices the health ministry did warn repeatedly did warn of the government about what would happen health officials have been warning the government but i guess that it's like a similar case in india where there was a lot of you know early and. went and he says but by law still he felt. protected or like you know the south asian immunity was working so the

government hasn't been taking those signs seriously and then of course in nepal there's a political a political wrangling going on the political leadership and more focus has been on this on the corbett crisis. from. the poles had a delegation from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies and he says there will be devastating consequences if the country delays implementing stronger measures. we need to keep filling up the preventive measures 'd as to preventive measures already the volunteers are working along the border as well as coming on board the hot bat of. parts in the park of a situation. you might have seen pictures in certain hospitals they're running out of oxygen of they're running out of ventilators or they're running other trained technicians to to operate drugs and latest so 'd these are also very urgent needs and finally and most importantly vaccination as i said you know less than one

percent of the population have been vaccinated and this variant is very aggressive it's very kind of haters and it's spreading to a wider spectrum of the population including younger people. i think what we are calling for is for the international community to act fast to avoid a human catastrophe and the one final thing with covert 19 that we all talk about is nobody is safe unless everybody is safe let's get more on the situation in india now with the middle who is in new delhi and where for the 3rd wave was inevitable there were at one time anyway but that seems to change as a pub need this government advise is now walking back his concerns about a 3rd wave. yes that's right the principal scientific advisor to the government just a couple of hours ago said that the 3rd wave made on happen anywhere actually in

the country if and that's probably the big if if the preparations are made and of guidelines are followed at the local level and as you said just 2 days ago the same advisor had said that a 3rd wave was inevitable and that vaccine makers have to keep an eye all out on the variance which would be driving the 3rd wave but you know the concerns over the 3rd wave continue to persist for example the supreme court has asked the central government to ensure it has enough medical supplies is specially oxygen to ensure we don't face the situation we're facing now which is lack of hospital beds and lack of oxygen and people dying because of that what's also interesting is that maharashtra which is the hardest hit state in india right now is already preparing for this 3rd wave with an eye on how it is going to impact children because it said that children would be the most affected by this 3rd wave and so it's preparing

a pediatric force and of covert care centers especially for children. in the middle that because of the tragedy vaccination numbers of will double. yes they are the latest figures show the day any vaccination for thursday to be at around 2 points 50000000 doses of the last week the average 7 day average has been around 1800000 doses a day which is nearly hauffe of what we saw in april the week of april 10th we had an average of around $3600000.00 doses was also worrying is the vaccination trend that we're seeing which is the demonic is outstripping supply for example now on may 1st india the government or does well but anybody who is an adult that is 18 and above can get a shot and this is part of the sophie's of the vaccination drive but only 12 states

up to now have it is able to vaccinate people between the age of $18.00 to $44.00 which is the 1st phase many of the states have said that they simply don't have supplies to even on a prior commitments this is a country of around $1.00 people that has only managed to vaccinate a fully vaccinated less than 3 percent of its population and less than 10 percent office for permission has received 1 1 jab. thanks very much indeed for that if you tell the new delhi will straightly is prime minister scott morrison says repatriation flight for its citizens stranded in india will resume in 8 days last week the government imposed a travel ban for citizens and residents with penalties for anyone reaching the rules it's bogus a backlash with critics saying it's a dangerous precedent it was the 1st time a stray made coming home a potential criminal offense for its citizens robbie

a city kid is an international humanitarian law and she says she is treading double to spruik its promise to protect its citizens. i hear stories every day speaking to relatives and friends of the paralyzing fear that they are suffering from and of course that includes you know strengthen citizens that are stuck there as well the stories that you hear that aren't making the news would make anyone wait you know they are all in such a precarious dangerous position by they feel imprisoned because they have to stay in a prison and in their accommodation in order to minimize the risks and they are literally frightened for their lives and as i said every day that this. this ban as it's being colloquially called is in place ease increasing the harm for the very citizens that this government has a mandate to protect we should have done the opposite we should have been moving heaven and earth to return our citizens to their place of home and you know the

we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of people out of 8000 citizens that are stuck in india hundreds of people that went to india because they were the only relative that was able to bury their loved one or be with their loved one in their final moments and they went well before the spike so and this ben that might be lifted in 11 days the reality is that it will still take weeks and months to repair these people. but i'm also ahead on the news hour including an attack on democracy the mounties president announces an explosion that injured his predecessor. pakistan's largest city is part of why residents are struggling to afford a very basic necessity. and to make a lot that they might soon be looking for a new job following arsenal's failure to reach the group in the final peter will have more on that later.

that britain's governing conservative party secured an election victory in what was considered an opposition labor stronghold voters in the parliamentary seat of hotly pull in england's industrial northeast selected the conservatives for the 1st time in its history meanwhile ballots are still being tallied in scotland's parliamentary elections the scottish national party says it will seek a 2nd independence referendum if it wins a majority we'll get more reaction from edinburgh way generalist only by for southside the scottish parliament but 1st let's go to chalons who's in. northern england where rory it was well quite a win for the conservatives. absolutely it was a thumping victory for them their candidate jill mortimer secured 15 and a half 1000 votes compared to the labor candidates 7 and a half 1000 votes so it's a whopping election victory for them 8 and

a half 1000 votes for the labor candidate it's a whopping election victory for the for the for the conservatives here in a in a seat that was previously pretty much on thinkable that they would win this is part of the so-called red wallace belt of former industrial constituencies across the north of england in south wales that for most of the last you know sort of at least 5060 years or so has voted consistently labor now the trend away from labor began before the 2016 referendum but it was that brics it votes in 2016 that has really accelerated that shift and labor are now in a position where they are grasping at straws they don't really know what the answer is to build this coalition of voters they that they used to have back together again and that coalition used to comprise all of these kinds of places hard to pull former industrial heartland where working class mostly white and the kind of

more metropolitan young university educated voters of the south and southwest and southeast those are now fractured and labor has to work out what to do to put that back together again for the conservatives though. this is obviously proof the johnson is an election winner for them we understand he has just showing up in the heart of paul right now. that even though his record. has been patchy there are scandals regarding sleaze and cronyism and that the conservative party itself has been in power now for 11 years. all of those. you would think would count against them when people are actually going into the polling stations going costing their votes if they are thinking negatively towards porous trunks and they are still holding their noses and marking their bare cross in a conservative books ari thanks for that the retellings they're in hardly poor

let's cross the border into scotland join a whole is standing by there in the capital edinburgh and join and sometimes the way there i think isn't there before we know what's happened but there's a lot resting on it. yes absolutely there are results beginning slowly to trickle in here 129 seats being contested in the scottish parliament holyrood behind me they're counting only began nick this morning and because a coded restrictions a final picture isn't going to emerge until later on saturday but we should but by the end of the day begin to get an idea of the direction of travel here because a number of constituency seats are due to declare including some that the s.n.p. the scottish national party under nicolas surgeon must win if they are to improve their position going into this election dominant in that parliament but shy of an overall majority that they crave and it is that question of a majority a majority specifically for independence that is the real point of focus here

because nicolas sturgeon has said if she gets that democratic and democratic mandate for independence she will take it to westminster to demand a 2nd referendum from bodies jobs and some of the prime minister has said he will obstruct there was a referendum of course in 2014 as you recall that was lost by the independent side by a 10 point margin what has changed since then well it's bracks it this country voted by a large majority against breaks many people consider that their country has been taken out of the european union against their will and many see the only way back into the e.u. as being an independent scotland applying for membership again and that's what's reinvigorated this independence debate now. it was judging may not win that overall majority there's no guarantee of that she may well be able to create a majority for independence by joining up with the pro independents greens that seems likely the pro-union parties the conservative serious stuff and labor will be

hoping that they've done enough to force her to have to work with one of them but it does seem likely that when that all the counting is done this will have been an election that sets in train a series of events that could come to dominate british politics for years to come including the possibility of a 2nd vote for independence. or agenda thanks for that jenna reporting from edinburgh. to ethiopia now with parliament has agreed to designate that to great people who liberation front a terrorist organization it is a setback for peace talks between the central government and the t.p. l.f. which dominated national politics for 17 years and until recently ruled the northern 2 growing region fighting between the 2 sides broke out 6 months ago thousands of people have died in the conflict and more than a 1000000 have been displaced well the united nations says more than 500 cases of sexual violence have been reported since the start of the conflict into growing most victims are struggling to cope with these psychological effects of their

ordeal and all desire is who morgan spoken to a survivor who fled to sudan's got every state. when fighting began in ethiopia stigma region last november this woman who we are calling but it's a can to protect her identity says she was working in a farm in her hometown of. fearing for her life and that's of her 2 year old son she says she fled in search of safety but she says she and her son ended up in a situation she'd never imagined. 4 military soldiers from the i am here a region got me and took me to a house there 2 of them raped me for a day they refused to give me food or water they beat me whenever i tried to run away i still suffer from back pain i begged them to stop and asked them why they were doing this to me they said it's because i'm from to grey but it took and now lives in a camp in sudan's state along with 20000 other refugees more than 63000 degrees

have crossed the border since the start of the government offensive on the regional to great people's liberation front the conflict has left thousands killed or internally displaced aid agencies say at least 5000000 are in need of relief supplies and the united nations says at least 500 cases of sexual violence have been reported its groups say sexual violence and rape are used as weapons of war in the conflict their government blames the ground forces but survivors say its troops from the neighbor. and. the atrocities in what appeared to be revenge attacks if you will and eritrea leaders have also accused activists from the to group people's liberation front of freaking rape cases as a propaganda tool that's despite evidence of rain from survivors and health workers in the region dozens of cases have been documented in the refugee camps in sudan aid organizations say the real number is likely to be higher. you know and the reporting is everywhere and you know there is many factors affecting bees like

feeling of. being created for. and the major challenge that we are facing now is funding we do our best and we want to reach every woman in the camps everyone. we want to make sure that she feels safe and empowered but it took on says with the memories of the days she was sexually abused constantly haunting her she's finding it hard to move on. sometimes i lose the will to get out of my tent and sometimes i get nightmares and wake up crying before i realize that i'm no longer trapped in that house she says she hopes the day comes when she can put the horrors of the assault behind her but is worried how long fats will take. 0 camp out of state more than 25000 people in burundi have been forced from their homes off the lake tanganyika rose to nearly historic levels flooding multiple western provinces the u.n.

is warning of an unprecedented emergency with heavy rain expected for weeks. they've watched the water rising for months lake tankini harnessed by so many in landlocked burundi as a source of life and livelihoods but grown wild and beyond their control now the lakes turned against its people reaching hundreds of meters inland pushing them out . when we woke up the house was already starting to collapse we couldn't salvage anything tens of thousands of people down the western side of the country have evacuated their homes and food stocks destroyed without any way to earn a living others have stayed put. defiant in submerged houses children learning as waves lap at the school door all this despite the real risk of disease or worse. each time the children try to get to the rest of the house

to see what they can say the crocodiles chased them away crocodiles are hunting everywhere and these waters like the water aid agencies are rushing in the task is monumental burundi is one of the most densely populated and poorest countries in africa the amount of usable land and resources is low. only 15 percent of its humanitarian funding has been met for 2021 there's just one month worth of emergency stocks in the cupboard short term worries me the worst is the fact that the statistics and the experts are saying the rains will continue which means a greater number of people in need emergency assistance and most critical about emergency assistance is the shelter it is safe drinking water it is better hygiene and sanitation services and while tides may change this situation will not

experts blame climate change for new more damaging rainy seasons much of burundi's coastline will have to be permanently abandoned here one of the world's most vulnerable populations is already shouldering the burden of its new normal. alexandra byers al-jazeera or let's move on to the weather his role. a few days ago yemen was hit by unusual rain quite a long way eastwards and this was a result in a place where historic buildings cannot stand it these were mud bricks dried in the sun and easily affected by heavy right now the good news is no more there are thunderstorms in the mountains of yemen and probably some in amman otherwise the trend is for a fairly high temperature including in the event there be a change of type with that wind coming up into northern egypt bringing a dust storm and eventually dropping temperatures but not in the immediate future you'll notice jerusalem briefly rises to $36.00 ahead of it you won't be alone that's true of most cities down the coastline there is the thing swings in temps

will drop a bit and the sand has dispersed that could be a boob will not from the end has jumped south more significant weather this in the southernmost point of africa in a caper go house has been significant dropping of rain here by significant i mean 6 times the average normally recorded for may in this time which is just to the east of cape argo hoss and it's still raining so they'll be both flooding as a result in the western cape all part of a system that it does expand east was this low eventually will move east was so it's got the same potential as it moves to the eastern cape eventually beyond that even to mozambique. still ahead. the royals in turmoil possible succession battle after the tribe loses another traditional leader in just one month. and as u.s. troops pull out of afghanistan thousands who fought alongside them say they fear for their future. coming up to phil mickelson proving that age is no barrier in

american leads on the p.g.a. tour. and the tourist terraces of the football ultras where club loyalty come in violent confrontations when i was young when there was a football match we were. crazy but in indonesia one group of revolutionary supporters has taken a stand against male aggression with a carnivalesque display of peace and unity. to make football as an angels on al-jazeera. vaccines a promising path out of the pandemic but implementing the greatest inoculation in history is testing the global community around the world already a clear gap between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating their populations from the geopolitics to the pure economics the misinformation and the

latest developments what's going on here is very different for a start comes in the form of the nasal spray special coverage of the corona virus pandemic. rules. for. how do you watch al-jazeera are mind about top stories this hour and coronavirus restrictions have been extended in japan's capital just 77 days before the scheduled start of the olympics state of emergency was due to end in 4 days but cases are still searching. there are fears coronavirus numbers in nepal to reach the similar levels to neighboring india has $57.00 more cases in a month ago

a lockdown has been extended in the capital come and. maybe 3 people are dying of coronavirus every minute in india on friday reported another record daily rise of more than 410000 cases. the former president of the maldives is said to be in a critical condition after being injured in a bomb attack outside his home doctors say that mohammed nasheed has undergone undergone multiple surgeries to target me as this. mohammed nasheed had just left home and was about to get into his car when a bomb attached to a motorbike explained it the former president with injured in the blast in the capital mali the sheet he's the current speaker of parliament is being treated in hospital for shrapnel wounds his spokesman says he's in a stable condition this is very significant not terms of scale target that you have a former president still a very prominent political state you're a great prominent democratic leader in a region that's now marked by strong in an arc light nationalist so soon were

prominent figures out a pretty big deal it was target the president of the mole deaves abraham mohammed soulé with seen leaving the hospital after visiting his friend and ally in 2008 that she became the 1st democratically elected president of the mole deaves but he was ousted in a coup in 2012 led by abdullah you mean. the political turmoil and the yemeni he systematically silenced opposition voices including the sheet he was convicted on terrorism charges human rights watch said during it means presidency criminal gangs and what it called religious extremists enjoyed political protection and she'd was granted asylum in the u.k. in 20162 years later so they ran for president promising change and took 2 thirds of the vote an investigation is underway into the blast no group has so far claimed responsibility it could be some type of political motivation political rivalry

that's always a possibility but there is a year history a modest history islamised no one can see. there have been several attacks over the last 2 years including one or 2 that have been claimed by b. isis organization the maldives is heavily dependent on tourism analysts say it's. relatively stable compared to other countries in the region and the hope is this is an isolated incident but for some the explosion on thursday is a violent reminder of the chaos and uncertainty of the past in a country best known for its tranquil beaches it tory gate and be al jazeera a memorial service has been held for south after a zulu queen queen a man from beatlemania do new died last week at the age of 65 just a month after being appointed leader of the nation she was most senior wife of the late king who died in march now the zulu the single largest ethnic group in south

africa making up a 5th of its $60000000.00 people the royal family has significant political influence but no formal government powers its members up hold zulu traditions and play a ceremonial role in south african society each year the market receives a publicly funded salary of nearly $5000000.00 and he controls millions of hectors of land through a 2 decade old trust let's meet now it's a pretty kitten to lee who's a south african cultural analyst and historian joins us via skype from johannesburg welcome to the program good to have you here so we had this this intriguing disagreement currently the role courts have lots of accusations and counter-accusations how much of a problem is this lack of a success for the zulu nation and for south africa or need. he did not actually. know that there was no success on need to record of that when the queen died.

would take it is he who is then acting the agent in the flying minutes of the nation you did say that. is no thank you so when the king died then there was a 3 month period where there should be mourning and after being given months of money then the success it would be in announced it went to keene died then the regent also wrote it legal as to who is to succeed you know it into their kin so that is where it is at in right now that after 3 months or 2 months from now an announcement is going to be debate as to whether who is paid to become the leader of these powerful nation ok this seems to be the best so there's some disagreement within the hierarchy if you like is that always the case as it is always a kind of process of evolving it out and eventually everybody agrees that there

should be this particular person. wherever you are talking about a lot of money there to be a lot of disputes but this dispute is a very false one in a because a person is disputing says that the key managed to head in a civil union which is a kind of a western union and yet there's a nation operating according to custom lottery into addition not of laws that govern would others alumina nation their government is with no say as to whether the succession eased egypt as a tradition that has been happening for centuries that has actually been followed because when a king matter is in a people one of the queen's become this seat of a i've we know that out of this one. a successor is going to be. nominated if that doesn't give it a path to an heir and then it moved to another house that is also being prepared

for 8 and in this particular case the 1st palm sunday of queen month will be an appeal i didn't know them by the king died. and if you died it's that's kind of you know recently people know where the success is going to be and who is going to be the king now to make those up at cleaning acclaiming more opportunistic to right there who look around to tell the tell me put together what kind of role does the zulu monarchy play in the modern age how important is it in within south africa and 2021. mage's bit of it you know because when they do the nation of their very powerful nation if you actually i wish that day in the holy spirit go anyway it's only you know nation that defeated do it a general to say in the admirals who will in 18807 and 9

and it clicked on to so many people to leave one piece of it feel that if one thought all those worlds their land is dead and they will why it is very you know the end it's got to be it looked after so that preservation of that was were not out of the hold of that area they well that's in that they mean that out of that. in that area within that you know please be either become part of them so they are all that they pray is a very significant one right we'll see what happens in the coming weeks thanks very much indeed for a put in the picture the particular speaking to us from johannesburg thank you. now thousands of palestinians from the occupied west bank have been blocked from reaching the al aqsa mosque in the old city jerusalem the compound is a constant point of contention in the palestinian israeli conflict israeli forces set up several roadblocks and checkpoints along the way to the homes and it's brought concern among many who have been wanting to perform the last friday prayer

of the sacred month of ramadan iran's supreme leader says the fight against israel is the fight against oppression and terrorism. i need to address the nation as the country must could stay in solidarity with the palestinian people some demonstrators held a rally against israel's actions in the capital tehran to mount the day. in vienna bringing the u.s. and iran back to the 2050 nuclear deal have resumed both sides still appear far from any agreement and iran's leaders face mounting domestic pressure deadlines approach his latest from. the supreme leader didn't mention anything specifically about the negotiations that have resumed in vienna the talks are now in their 4th round since they began in early april the feeling here is that this is a very crucial stage in those negotiations because this is now well into

the 2nd month of dialogue between iran and the p 4 plus one this is about how the united states will return to the nuclear agreement and what iran will do to return to compliance but the core issue is whether or not the united states is willing to come to terms with what iran is asking for and whether or not to iran is willing to lower its demands in order to you for the united states to return to the nuclear deal there is very 22 very important deadlines approaching for the iranians one is may 21st that is a 3 month that line that iran set for the. remaining signatories of the nuclear deal to return to full compliance otherwise iran will continue to limit its access and cooperation with the international atomic energy agency that the deadline is may 21st the 2nd one is of course the presidential elections here that are going to be held in june 18th this negotiations will have very significant impact there was

a lot of opposition from the conservative camps inside the country trying to derail these negotiations but of course the iranian government is adamant they can reach some kind of an agreement before they have to leave office. has begun its withdrawal of troops from afghanistan the soldiers head home the livelihoods of thousands of afghans who work for the american government or risk their own washington to prioritize their visa applications to move to the united states before it's too late for contra 40 of this report from kabul. as you knew she was risking it all when she started working as a contractor for the u.s. government her house has been attacked and she's received many threats her supervisor suggested she apply for a special immigrant visa for herself and her family to safely move to the u.s. that was in 2017 she still waiting for approval in this country most of the people

are not agony even the woman who worked for afghans the worst thing is that the situation is getting worse the baby and her as we all know with the taliban would take over the government so what will happen to our lives the main thing which i'm concerned is about myself and my family security who would take this responsibility because most of the people can do good nice me even though i'm hiding myself but i cannot guarantee that i was who is one of about 18000 afghans who have worked alongside u.s. troops diplomats and other government personnel and are awaiting decisions on those special immigrant visas the process is long and grueling a report published in airlie april found the program ineffective in addressing the needs of those applying by law the application process should take 9 months but on average it takes 4 years if not since the announcement of the troop withdrawal the

us state department has said it is aware of the risks afghan visa applicants face and that it is committed to the program but it has yet to commit to any concrete reforms to address the backlog or accelerate the. as u.s. troops withdraw pressure from congress and organizations including no one left behind has been mounting if we don't do anything if we do not expect i'd this process i'm pretty much sure after the withdrawal they will be tortured and killed in front of their families and their videos will be uploaded on the social media for other people to not support the u.s. government in the future dozens of afghans who worked with astrology and troops in afghanistan are also pleading to have their protection visa applications processed the taliban considers those afghans who worked with the u.s. and other foreign countries as traitors and has vowed retribution against the.

dozens of afghan interpreters and contractors have already been killed several while waiting for their visas i have no option and the option i have is the only way to die here in this country or get my visa to have safe life in the sense since 2009 when the visa program was established thousands of afghans many with their families have relocated to the united states and our zoo along with thousands of others desperately want to join them before it's too late fully accounted for al-jazeera kabul a drought is affecting pakistan's largest city it means that courage is only getting half the water it needs and analysts say that climate change is partly to blame for the problems but infrastructure is unreliable and much of the water is being stolen or about mentally as this.

this chime brings relief to water hasn't arrived people stream from their homes canister in hand in karachi's around the town 2000000 people live in this network of concrete. but they have long given up expecting water to flow from the taps is no limit i don't understand i have never seen drinking water supplied by the government flowing from this tap this is the water we ever buy from a tanker or a good from charity. garage he is pakistan's largest city and needs about 1200000000 gallons of water a day but only gets half if. we have 50 percent of our water available we can see the shortage everywhere there are certain areas suffering acute shortages like district west this is because of the rapid population growth there. although some analysts point to climate change as a factor many of blaming what they call water maffia local authorities say there

are more than 100 illegal hydrants in the city and some people are siphoning off water and selling it to others some blame government mismanagement and poor infrastructure. we have a number of factors causing scarcity of water one of these is the growing population the other reasons are leakages mismanagement and climate change the indus river and the hub dam supply. but in the hot summer months water levels. and the plan to build a major network of supply lines from kandahar lake has been delayed until 2023. a rowing is residents also by water from private companies they use legal and illegal hydrants across the city yeah give money to this war to last hardly 3 or 4 days then we have to buy from a water tanker at times we don't have the money to buy it my son in law only

doesn't broidery work so it becomes really difficult to survive. too many a daily necessity is becoming impossible to a food store about the al-jazeera. still ahead. this one's a coke or a bottle of wine aged in space will tell you what's expected to fetch at auction. may rethink plans to visit tokyo after a state of emergency is extended peter will have more on that in sport.

let's move across to peter he's got this point thank you so much with just 77 days to go until the tokyo olympics it's now likely the head of the international olympic committee thomas will have to cancel a planned trip to the city but it's a visit japan later this month but off of the state of emergency was extended in tokyo the head of the organizing committee admits it's now unlikely they'll be able to welcome the i.o.c. chief. although i do know that you know i think it's important for president back to come and see the current situation but with the state of emergency extending i think it's very difficult for him to visit as will put a burden on him. while barker is unlikely to versus the head of all that latex sebastian coe is in tokyo right now he met with the 3rd he's governor and they said to attend a major taste event at the olympic stadium on sunday co understands why so many people in japan remain against hosting these games i want to commit to you and to

the people of japan that athletics takes very very seriously that nervousness and we will do everything within our protocols and our adaption to the coded. challenge and also the safety of our athletes is important to us but also the safety of local communities meanwhile the torch relay in the prefecture of coca has been cancelled it's the 1st instance of the whole perfect you're not having any runners participate. earlier we spoke to a sports writer at the japan times dan all the words he says that a cancellation of the games in tokyo remains highly unlikely. not being able to welcome the head of the i.o.c. roughly 2 months before the olympics it is not the best optics it is a difficult situation it's been a difficult situation since the start of the pandemic and i think that it doesn't

look great for everyone involved specially with the state of emergency being extended till the end of the month they have a lot of alternatives that don't involve canceling the games for example severely restricting attendance or closing them to the public entirely and just holding the competition for broadcast something like that would reduce the amount of staff needed it would reduce the amount of people on site and it would let them hold the games even if it's nothing close to what we had expected they would be when tokyo was announced as the host several years ago human club believes manchester united fans were within their rights to protest last sunday at old trafford against the club ownership but the liverpool manager says he doesn't condone the behavior of some supporters i'm happy that people want to tell their opinion that's completely fine but i know that indy's in situations like that it's not doesn't happen too often that nobody gets hurt and that's why i said weeks before i think already when

all the pundits were going and asking for pro bro tests and stuff like that that we have to all to be careful and to come down to the right things because to to to tell your opinion to total to tell the world what you think about some things it's completely fine. as long as it's completely peaceful and it was as far as i know not completely peaceful and then. yeah and it's not right anymore. arsenal manager mikel arteta says these players are feeling real pain and he understands the concerns from fans after failing to reach the europa league final a scoreless draw with spanish side of via yellow in their semifinal 2nd leg handed arsenal a $21.00 loss on aggregate and to add further embarrassment it was against former arsenal manager emery the gunners on are likely to miss out on continental competition next season for the 1st time in 25 years for the area although they'll

play in their 1st ever european final wife ellen and he's. at the pain because the moment the club is under my man with everything that's been through in the last. months i had to feel him that we could take the team to the final you could be a great turning point and i felt that responsibility and i was so eager to do. i knew that he could be a defining moment. via radio faces manchester united in the final may 26th in poland man united took care of roma 85 in aggregate but they did lose the 2nd make 32 both of united's goals of schoolboy euro one striker it is some cover me. you're always happy no matter what anyone thinks about me when you get to a final even if you've been praised or criticised whatever it doesn't really matter when you're in a final. you've got a chance to win the competition you're in so it's nothing to do with me personally

i'm so happy for the boys too but they've got something to look forward to today and of the season the exhibition fight between boxing legend floyd mayweather and the internet celebrity logan poll may not live up to the drama that unfolded at their publicist event in miami with a face off inside hard off stadium and after a war of words paul tried to keep a souvenir he was quickly stopped by may when it's on and it led to a scuffle the official bow to shuttle to june 6th 44 year old mayweather retired in 27 scene of the defeating u.f.c. star khana mcgregor big guard strong guy and it's foreigners it's entertaining it's all about entertainment and he's on and of course when he's on social media he's entertaining to people it's on. phil mickelson a surprise the field of the p.g.a. tour event in charlotte by finishing the opening round of the 2 should lead the 50 year old of the $764.00 which included 8 days it's mickelson closed around on to a since june last year after round mickelson spoke about the fun environment

created by playing partners joel darman and lento griffin. i mean i love the banter i think it's funny and it kept the atmosphere in our group really light we laughed we had some fun things to talk about but we were laughing before we teed off. elsewhere in the u.s. the golden state warriors are holding on to the final playoff spot in the n.b.a.'s western conference off beating oklahoma city steph curry top score with 34 against the fund. and japanese star shohei otani is tied for most home runs this season in major league baseball otani is also a starting pitcher for the l.a. angels. home of this campaign but the angels went down to tampa bay $83.00 that's what the sports needs will be again later with another update nick paid a great thanks a lot see later now what would you pay for a bottle of wine that has been quite literally out of this world yes this bottle of

petrus 2000 is among 12 bottles of french wine that orbited the earth for more than a year it was sent to the international space station as part of a wider research project now petrus 2000 normally sells for around $4000.00 and this one is expected to fetch $1000000.00 at auction for that you also get a 2nd bottle which hasn't been all that so if you compare 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 port au. the reports are that it maturity fantastically well so so that's great news great news if you get your hands on that if we use our i'll be back in a couple minutes another half hour of news coming right up to them.

no rains for months now are because once lush vegetable garden has turned to dust she says it's as if the land has given up on her but she has not given up on the land. in this land you can grow not just to biscuits but carrots potatoes onions cauliflower if only we had water. during the rainy season it's another story the land springs to life the state pays in others to plant trees as part of the great green wall project an initiative to stop dessert if occasion from east to west africa. because of rising temperatures and the lack of rainfall most of the trees planted are either dying or already dead and while polluting countries have recently pledged billions of dollars more in funds for those projects people here

say they're throwing money into the desert they say they don't need more trees but more access to water. being comfortable in one's own skin is a birthright or at least it should be a black filmmaker raised by white parents in east berlin in the 1960 s. embarks on a stunning journey of self discovery. a touching tale of family identity lifelong secrecy and reconciliation. becoming black eye witness documentary on out just 0. from the al-jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation the story of the world is that the global size developed the global north and continues to do that with no host and no limitations as a corporation if it were. part one. and. we have to reduce our consumption here but we also need economic justice for all

the. studio be unscripted on al-jazeera. and olympic city this is busy as ever but tokyo is extending coronavirus emergency measures 2 and a half months out from the games. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up warnings of a catastrophe hospitals overwhelmed in nepal after an alarming rise in the rate of covert 900 factions. the world so answering india's.