with no host and no limitations as a corporation if it were what acts like a psychopath part one as your barber and i said look 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. and on a clock this is out 0 live from doha also coming up warnings of a catastrophe hospitals overwhelmed in nepal after an alarming rise in the rate of covert $900.00 factions. the world so answering india's call for medical help as it

battles a growing death toll. using sexual violence as weapons of war a survivor from the conflict integrated tells how she's struggling with the psychological. 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 in turkey but cases are still searching for what bride has its 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 a limper 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 shibuya 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 man i don't think we should go

ahead with the game if we do it will cause the numbers to go up sharply. the coded response hasn't been effective i'm deeply skeptical of the government. 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 pedal 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 job so far rob mcbride al-jazeera. earlier we spoke to a sports writer to the japan times donald would say he says that cancellation of the games and take you through 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 camps and 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 need 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 now the current of our surge that has ravaged india for weeks is now spreading to nepal whether if it is the crisis will be just as bad or even worse nepal has 57 times more cases than a month ago and it's reporting about 20 you infections a day for every 100000 people that's roughly what the situation was in india 2 weeks ago were locked down has been extended in the capital katmandu when the government has tried to prepare the hospital system the critics fear it is to control too late across the border in india nearly 3 people are dying a covert 1000 every minute countries facing the toughest battle against a virus in the world reporting another record daily rise of more than 410000 cases on friday right now it's a member who has the latest now from katmandu in nepal. at the moment we are seeing . workers returning from call 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 the crisis the health ministry did warn repeatedly that one of the government about what would happen health officials have been warning the government but i guess and it's like a similar case in india where there was a lot of you know john went and he says but by law so 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 well as well as the polls 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 scaling up the preventive measures 'd as to preventive measures already the volunteers are working along the border as well as conduit the hot baths of of net politics and the power covert 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 these are also very urgent need and finally and most importantly vaccination as i said you know less than one percent of the population

have been vaccinated and this valiant is very aggressive it's very kind of dangerous 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 paid me well the crisis in india shows no sign of slowing poverty would tell has more now from new delhi. the government has been receiving a lot of criticism about where the aid is really going to be seen images of aid coming in but states have said that they haven't been receiving aid for a while. saying that because of bureaucracy a distribution has been delayed but the government has now come out and said that all the aid that has been received until may 5th has been distributed that's also.

that the delhi high court has wrapped the center. the center to not just in short this tradition of is to the states but also to n.g.o.s and really been undertaking a lot of the humanitarian work to help people in need right now 2 of the top 5 states right not the mulatto and carola have the top 5 states when times to covert cases just there remains number 11 of the cities are getting a lot of caseload bengaluru which is. nearly hof the cases of. the 2nd most hit states right now is coming from that area the other state that's really worrying is the state of the predation this is one of the largest also want to in just most populous states but also want to release medically substate this is one of the most worrying states right now australia's prime minister scott morrison says repatriation flights for its citizens stranded in will resume in 8 days last

week the government imposed a travel ban for citizens and residents with penalties for anyone breaching the rules it sparked a backlash with critics say set a dangerous precedent it was the 1st time a stranger made coming home a potential criminal offense for its own citizens already a city case is an international human humanitarian law and she says just training government has broken 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. the former president of the maltese is said to be in a critical condition after being injured in a bomb attack outside his home a doctor say that mohamed nasheed has undergone multiple surgeries to again be houses. mohammed nasheed had just left home and was about to get into his car when

a bomb attached to a motorbike exploded the former president was 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 the president of the moldy abraham hamad soulé with seen leaving the hospital after visiting his friend and ally in 2008 the she became the 1st democratically elected president of the mold leaves but he was ousted in a coup in 2012 led by abdullah you mean. the mold. of political turmoil and do you mean 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 norton see. there have been several attacks over the last 2 years including one or 2 that have been claimed by the 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 victoria gate and be al jazeera still ahead here on al-jazeera votes are being counted in scotland where supporters of

independents say a big win would put new a mentor behind their cause. a bottle of fine wine aged partially in orbit is about to hit the auction block tell you what to expect. the sun's out in japan for the time being the seasonal rain is this line here and these showing itself to be active in the chinese enters a big area of fine weather and within that there is cold enough air to produce some snow from north korea temporarily and that will produce showers across the whole shoe which will just ate with the continued melting of what was a lot of winter snow that's the cherries and the things well that rains of tapers that isn't shirting to dramatic come sunday further south and throughout the lazy

thailand the whole southeast asia brain seems pretty abundant now and big thunderstorms is rather lucky in most indonesia and at least in java does seasonally normal as are these thunderstorms up in the northeast of india and bangladesh these are growing the dangerous ones more reasonable thunderstorms seem likely in carola contact up through go as well and to some degree in addition further north is getting hotter and hotter typically 44 in russia stan and the dust is up as the winds pick up with it but this is a good season the fairly normal. we have recently seen some pretty wet weather in yemen is now reduced to just a few thunderstorms which pretty hot everywhere including the levant. ready for another perspective listen to the tape al-jazeera its flagship news podcast with malaysia bailout or discover hindsight and original docu drama podcast

generated by charles starts the famous and infamous of politics and culture go undercover to hear allegations of corruption by those in power and if you read a hari get your news in turin it's from al-jazeera news updates on home 400. ok what she had to remind of our top stories this hour and a coronavirus restrictions have been extended in japan's capital just 77 days before the scheduled start of the olympics a state of emergency was due to end in 4 days but cases are still surging. there

are fears coronavirus numbers in nepal are reaching similar levels to neighboring india it has $57.00 times more cases than a month ago the lockdown has been extended in the capital of kut men do. nearly 3 people are dying of coronavirus every minute in india on friday reported another record daily rise of more than 410000 cases. britain's governing conservative party has secured an election victory in what was considered an opposition labor stronghold voters in the parliamentary seat of hotly paul in england's industrial northeast selected the conservatives for the 1st time in its history vote counting also underway in scotland where parliamentary elections could have a significant effect on the u.k.'s future scottish national party says it will seek a 2nd independence referendum if it wins a majority of prime minister boris johnson says he way to greet as such of the s.n.p. fell just short of a majority in the last election held 5 years ago jonah hill has this update from

edinburgh. a number of constituency seats due to declare on friday include some that the scottish national party nicholas sturgeon's party must win if they are to improve their position in the holyrood parliament behind me shy of an outright majority going in to this election and remember it is that focused on a majority a majority for independence that is really the point of this election the big thing to watch in this election whether the s. and p. wins a democratic mandate for independence that nicolas sturgeon will then use to take to westminster to demand a 2nd independence referendum referendum for boris johnson some of the prime minister has said he will stand in the way of there was a referendum remember 2014 lost by the pro independence side by a 10 point margin since then we've had bricks it something that a majority of scots voted against they see that their country is being taken out of the e.u. essentially against its will and the only way back into the e.u. being as an independent scotland and that has reinvigorated this whole independence

debate florida has become the latest republican run us state to restrict voting by mail the law imposes new rules and identification governor on dissenters signed it live on the fox news channel after barring other media and follows former president donald trump's unfounded claims about mail in ballot fraud or judith brown deanna's says a voting rights expert an executive director with it and votes meant to protect national office as she says florida's move is another effort to prevent people in 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 and 2020 was record turnout of voters and what has happened is that republicans especially 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 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 shift in power in this country and so this is the attempt to slow that they've done is that they they actually with rescission looked 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 127 years mostly black and latino voted they want to get rid of them making early

voting 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 a federal grand jury has charged for former u.s. police officers for violating the civil rights of george floyd new charges come nearly 3 weeks after dark shaven was found guilty of 2nd and 3rd degree murder manslaughter for killing floyd last year 37 was filled niggling on the man's neck for more than 9 minutes during an arrest last may in the office. filleted nation says more than $500.00 cases of sexual violence to be reported since the start of the conflict into grow most victims are struggling to cope with the psychological effects of their ordeal morgan spoken to a survivor who fled to sudan. when fighting began in ethiopia stigler 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 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. for military soldiers from the am her 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'd beat me whenever i tried to run away i still suffer from back pains i begged them to stop and asked them why they were doing this to me they said it's because i'm from to gray. but it took on our lives in a camp in sudan's state along with 20000 other refugees more than 63000 to gran's 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. and rapes are used as weapons of war in the conflict. to ground forces but survivors say its troops from the neighbor. and. atrocities in what appeared to be revenge attacks if you will and eritrea leaders have also accused activists from the 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 views like care. being created for. and the major challenge that we are facing now is to funding we do our best and we want to reach every woman in the camps everyone. 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 crying before i realized 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 that will take. camp out of state. thousands of palestinians from the occupied west bank have been blocked from reaching the al aqsa mosque in the old city of jerusalem the compound was a constant point of contention in the palestinian israeli conflict israeli forces set up several roadblocks and checkpoints along the way to the holy site it's quite a concern among many who've 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. khomeini addressed the nation is the

country could stay in solidarity with the palestinian people some demonstrators held a rally against israel's actions in the capital tehran to the day talks in vienna are aimed at bringing the u.s. and iran back to the 2050 nuclear deal have resumed both sides still appear far from any agreement at iran's leaders face mounting domestic pressure is deadlines approach for such a power has the latest from tehran. 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 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. me about

a military spokesman says the judge will not permit itself these days and avoid 2 visits until the country is stable and r.c.m. envoy was supposed to travel to the country as part of a 5 point consensus agreed between leaders of the association of southeast asian nations last month froze louis has more. the response by myanmar's military giunta in not allowing an ozzie an envoy to visit the country until the security and stability in a way shows just how impervious nonmember the travelers are to international pressure seen in general mina lang had attended a special meeting by the association of southeast asian nations in jakarta last month but friday's announcement in a way shows myanmar military rulers will continue to do as they please and many in the international community including a group of more than $200.00 global organizations are urging a tougher stance earlier this week they host the un security council to impose an arms embargo on myanmar meanwhile anti coupe protests continue to take place across

the country and clashes in ethnic army controlled areas are intensifying the latest reports we're hearing is that ethnic iran fighters burned down a military outpost on friday morning now and this could lead to retaliate 3 strikes by the myanmar military which in turn could lead to people being displaced or trying to flee into neighboring thailand now myanmar has seen and still is seeing several long running conflicts between the military and ethnic armed groups but these have intensified since the coup in february and one of the reasons is because several of these ethnic armed groups have thrown their support behind anti crew protesters earlier this week the shadow government formed by opponents of the coup the have said that it will establish a people's defense force a sort of precursor to

a federal union army and it said the purpose of this is to protect people from attacks by the myanmar military but analysts have said that this in a way could lead to a more protracted and long running conflict that could spread to more parts of the country. so what would you pay for a bottle of wine that has been quite literally out of this world 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 a petrus 2000 normally sells for around $4000.00 this one is expected to fetch one of a $1000000.00 at auction for that your secure a 2nd bottle which hasn't been norbit so you can 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

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