the u.s. is always of unsafe to people all right while people feel tense and to walk with on here and i'll do that is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. shouldering the boxing crisis requires that we pull out all the stops the world health organization approves china's cinna farm vaccine the move will open the door to a far wider distribution around the world. my . daughter al-jazeera live from a headquarters in delphi and there you know again tells of coming up warnings of a major crisis and a pall as it registers a massive spike in clover 19 infections with hospitals running out of beds and

oxygen. giving the green light for overseas travel the u.k. unveils a list of countries its citizens can visit without mandatory quarantine on their return. and an attack on democracy the maldives president to bounce is a bombing that seriously injured his predecessor. my. bottom to the program another coven 1000 vaccine available will soon will soon be available to help in the fight against the virus the world health organization has approved the chinese made since farm making it the 6th to receive the agency's stamp of approval for emergency use this means it can now be added to the u.n. back kovacs scheme which distributes coronavirus vaccines to poor nations an expert

panel has recommended 2 doses of the job for people who are 18 years old and above this afternoon the blue jewel gave emergency use listing to sign off on beijing's 19 vaccine making it the 6 vaccine to receive the valued issue for safety if you can see and quality. this expands the list of vaccine stock kovach come by and gives countries confidence to expedite their own regulatory approval and to import. a vaccine nepal is one recipient of vaccines from that kovacs scheme but only around one percent of the population has been inoculated so far doctors there are warning of a major crisis as daily cases hit a record high with hospitals running out of oxygen for me out on the reports from

katmandu. capital of katmandu is in lockdown and it's hospitals are struggling to cope with the surge in people infected by corona virus in. our emergency room had 5 beds but now we have 25 beds we have added 20 beds in our emergency room until now we have not returned anyone from here without providing them with oxygen but the situation is getting complicated near the border with india more workers from nepal arriving home from indian cities stricken by call that 19 and that's adding to the health crisis. staff in hospitals are forced to turn away patients as beds and medical supplies are in short supply. and many cremation sites are filling up as families say goodbye to their loved ones from a distance. northeast of cuts one to an increasing number of climbers arriving for the spring climbing season on everest are testing positive and being evacuated.

so we try not to mingle we used to have a lot of fun the base camp and would sing and dance but we're not doing any of that now and we're only speaking to those in our teams. with the corona virus outbreak in neighboring india growing the palace suspending international flights and travelers like. are rushing to leave. as a last 2 way i'm very lucky to be able to take a flight on the last day of them operating i'm so glad i'll be able to leave nepal workover 1000 is getting really bad domestic flights were also halted earlier this week and the government has announced other measures to curb the call that crisis they include finding more space to store the bodies of cord patients who've died and i voting oxygen cylinders from industrial use to hospitals funds are also being allocated to build oxygen plants and lockdowns in and around london are being extended by a week but health experts say all this has come too late and the red cross is

warning that there could face a worsening humanitarian catastrophe at the lead to 0. across the border and the crisis is showing no signs of slowing. more from the. the government has been receiving a lot of criticism about you know where the aid is really going be seen images of aid coming in but states have said that they haven't been receiving aid for a wise 70 data force saying that because of bureaucracy aid 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 notes that the delhi high court has wrapped the sentence asked the center to not just in short distribution of is to the states but also to n.g.o.s and good lot of us who've 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 been the top 5 statement comes to covert cases maharashtra still remains number 11 of the 1st us it cities i've been getting a lot of caseload is bengaluru which is india as i t. have nearly haaf the cases of karnataka the the 2nd most hit states right now is coming from that area the other state that's really wiring is the state of the provision of this is one of it does largest also want to in just most populous states but also want to see india as least medically self state so this is one of the most whining states right now england's government has unveiled a green list of countries where citizens can visit without quarantining on their return the new rules will be based on a so-called traffic light system the states are ranked green amber or red based on their coronavirus risk they'll come into effect on may 17th the british transport secretary hopes this can help reunite families this summer for more paul brown and

joining us from london so what more have we learned about this green list. yes from downing street the transport secretary grant shapps is outlined this long awaited traffic light system for people from the u.k. who are actually currently banned from non-essential travel beyond the borders of 'd the united kingdom under this new traffic light system red countries you would have to if returning from a red country you would have to undergo 10 days of hotel quarantine the transport secretary announced that 3 additional countries are being added nepal we just heard a report about the grim situation in the poll will not paul has been added to the u.k.'s red list the mall deaves is also going on the list with impeccable timing turkey which will host the u.a.e. for champions league final involving 2 english football clubs that country is also going on the red list but the good news for travelers for the whole of they makers

here in the u.k. who've been desperate as we are now on the cusp of the european summer to have their day in the sun is that a list of 12 countries has been listed as green countries and although you will have to show a negative coronavirus test to return from those countries you won't have to go into isolation or into hotel quarantine the list of the countries includes for example portugal israel singapore australia new zealand brunei iceland gibraltar and a few other islands like the fulcrum dial ns and some to learn that however it's important to state that many of those countries that are on the green list actually have their own restrictions so for example singapore australia new zealand you can go there on the limited circumstances but you can actually have to quarantine for 14 days when you get there so it's not quite the green light for under strict to travel but it might appear at 1st glance yeah and for those people wishing and wanting to take a summer holiday how does this fit into the european broader picture. yeah the

european situation is a mosaic a patchwork i mean for example czech republic still has a state of emergency in place there is still a travel ban and for example france you can't travel to or from e.u. countries if you're going to or from france other countries though particularly the multitude mediterranean countries whose economies rely very substantially on the summer tourists particularly from northern europe heading south for that war whether they are hoping to have bilateral arrangements are going to say that frat in france spain italy and greece are not on the u.k.'s green less they are on an amber list so if you do choose to go there you would have to spend 10 days in isolation at home if you if you go to those countries but that said there are hopes that a european commission proposed group digital green green certificates can be

introduced pretty quickly to the proposal stage at the moment and that would be a kind of covert passport that would allow people much more free movement ok thank you so ask paul brennan or 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 in tokyo but cases are still surging as rob mcbride reports. 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 for prefect use 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 but you would think the. 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

a particular 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 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 fairly rid of them and i don't think we should go ahead with the games 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 preparedness 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. tennessee is going into lockdown

starting on sunday it's the latest measure to deal with corona virus which the prime minister has described as the worst health crisis in its history and says the health care system is at risk of collapsing mosques markets and non-essential businesses will be closed for a week just as muslims mark the end of the holy fasting month of ramadan. still ahead on al-jazeera a power struggle in south africa after the queen dies leaving a family at odds over who should succeed the throne. and here's in sexual violence as weapons of war a survivor from the conflict integrate tells how she's struggling with the psychological effect yes. a few days ago yemen was hit by an unusual rain caused 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 levant will be a change of type with that wind coming up into northern egypt bringing a dust storm and eventually dropping temperatures not in the immediate future your noses tristrem briefly rises to 36 ahead of it you won't be alone that's true of most cities down the coastline there is the thing swings in terms of drop a bit and the sound 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 has been a 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 go house and it's still raining so there'll be more 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. 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 wealth and continues to do that with no host and no limitations the corporation if it were a human would act like a psychopath part one as your baba and i said well we have to reduce our consumption but we also need economic justice full. studio unscripted on al-jazeera.

now we're going to top stories on al-jazeera the chinese government in vaccines and a farm has become the sec's to receive the world health organization stamp of approval for emergency use this means it can now be added to the u.n. back kovacs. kurt a virus numbers and a pall have shot up as the crisis spills over from neighboring india it has $57.00 times more cases than a month ago a lockdown has been extended in the capital katmandu. coronavirus restrictions have been extended in japan's capital just 77 days before the scheduled start anything dealing takes state of emergency was due to end in 4 days but will now remain in place until the end of the month. the former president of the maldives is in critical condition after being injured when

a bomb went off outside his home dr same hammad as she has undergone multiple surgeries victoria gate b. reports. 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 c. 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 old eve suffered years 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 history a modest history islamised norton see. there have been several attacks over the last few years including one or 2 that have been claimed by the isis organization the multi this 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 vice presidents kamel harris says the u.s. and mexico must work together to fight violence on corruption she's in meeting the mexican president and us when you are lopez obrador virtually to address goals and root causes of migration the number of people fleeing central america to go north is on the rise with record numbers of unaccompanied children being taken into custody. our nations face serious challenges coping being an obvious one economic replications coming from the cause of the pandemic as well as the surge of migrants arriving at our shared border. together we must fight violence we must fight corruption and impunity it is in our country's mutual interest to provide immediate relief to the northern triangle and to address the root causes of migration. sometimes there have been differences among

us however we have a common border that's over 3000 kilometers long and we need to understand one another and avoid fighting. man who has more on the meeting from mexico city. the mexican president was also very keen and has been very keen on speaking to u.s. officials about his strategy for addressing the root causes of migration from central america a plan that he's been promoting since the start of his presidency called him but on the view that we're planting life it consists of creating agriculture jobs in the south of mexico and what he was hoping to do with the meeting that the talks today with vice president camila harris was to propose expanding that plan of creating agriculture jobs into central americas northern triangle countries like honduras guatemala el salvador were majority of central american migrants are making their way toward the united states are originating from there are other topics are of that or of joint interest for both the united states and mexico like the

trafficking of guns the trafficking of drugs but these talks specifically today were designed more toward setting an agenda for upcoming talks with regional leaders that vice president camel harris is going to be conducting in the coming weeks and months mexico is currently under a lot of pressure from the united states to do more to stem the flow of migrants heading north mexico's having to deal with this on both of its borders on the border with the united states and on and southern border with guatemala where there's a pileup of migrants an asylum seekers that are waiting for their turn to cross into mexico a pileup that some officials here some experts here in observers have said is one of the worst in the last 2 decades what we are seeing is is this sort of change to a return to a multilateral approach looking at the root causes of immigration with a sense of urgency that we hadn't seen from administrations in the last few years at least talk some vienna aimed at bringing the u.s.

and iran back to the 2050 nuclear deal have resumed but both sides still appear far from any agreement on iran's leaders face mounting domestic pressure as deadlines approach. as into iran with more. 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 are 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 britain's governing conservative party has secured an election victory in what was considered an opposition labor stronghold voters in the parliamentary seat of hertl pool in england's industrial northeast selected the conservatives for the 1st time in its

history and ballots are still being tallied in scotland's parliamentary elections in the result could have a significant effect on the u.k. the scottish national party says it will seek a 2nd independence referendum if it wins a majority despite the british prime minister boris johnson saying he won't allow it john hall has this update from edinburgh. well 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 in 2014 lost by the pro independent 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 a memorial service has been held for south africa zulu crean queen month. died last week at the age of 65 just a month after being appointed leader of the nation she was the most senior wife of the late king who died in march to take until early is a south african cultural analyst and historian he says there are well established procedures to deal with the succession. it is not actually. not that there's no success on the we would record of that when the queen died a prince. who is the next great aunt and the plane made it out of the xoom asia and

did say that. is no thank you so when the king died then there was a 15 months peter lord where there should be mourning and after the months of mourning and then the successor it would be. announced it when the king died then the regent also wrote. as to who is to succeed. you know it into the king 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 bait as to whether who is going to become the leader of these powerful nation in the whole of africa will anyway it's only you know a nation that defeated to it a pretty generous in the war in $88.00 us have indeed 9

and it could turn so many people and if one 5th of the people there that control all those worlds their land is dead and why it is very you know big and it's got to be. looked after so the preservation of it wasn't not the whole of that area there well that's. the minerals that are in that area within. in a place people either become part of them so they are all that they play is a very significant one. the united nations more than $500.00 cases of sexual violence have been reported since the start of the conflict into grey most victims are struggling to cope with the psychological effects of their ordeal i'll just have a morgan has spoken to a survivor who fled to sudan's gods are of state. when fighting began in ethiopia stickery 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 into 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. now 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 there blames the ground forces but survivors say its troops from the neighbor. and. the atrocities in what appeared to be revenge attacks if you train 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 there is affecting views like care. or being created for. and there are major challenges that we are facing now is funding we do our best and we want to reach every woman in the camps every moment. 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 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 that will take people morgan 0 can get out of state. headlines on al-jazeera the chinese coven 1000 vaccine made by so far has become the 6th to receive the world health organization stamp of approval this means it can now be added to the un back kovacs scheme which distributes coronavirus back.