60 percent or $12400000.00 syrians don't have regular access to enough food despite the battlefield being largely quiet for a year aid agencies say the daily suffering of syrians is worse than it has been a nearly any point throughout the conflict and the hardship has not stopped at syria's borders. i'm maryam namazie you're watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. at least 59 injured in clashes between palestinian worshippers and israeli police in occupied east jerusalem. warnings of a major covert crisis in nepal as over the border in india pressure grows on the

prime minister to impose a nationwide lockdown. the protests in brazil off to 25 people are killed in a deadly police raid in rio de janeiro. and china dismisses concerns that devry from one of its rockets could crash on to in an uninhabited area. i'm devon ash with the sports european football's governing body your way for punishes the teams involved in the ill fated super league attempt at a play for chelsea and manchester city fans as the u.k. government tells them not to travel to turkey for the champions league final. hello welcome to the news our top story have been violent scenes in occupied east jerusalem at least 53 palestinians and 6 police officers have been injured in clashes between palestinian worshippers and israeli police at the al aqsa mosque

compound and elsewhere in the city tens of thousands of muslim wash up as had packed the site for the last friday prayers of the holy month of ramadan but many stayed on to protest over the threat to evict palestinian families from their homes on land claimed by jewish settlers chazz rocks and shoes were thrown at security forces who responded with stun grenades and rubber bullets will have also been clashes elsewhere in occupied east jerusalem in protest over those plans were mentioning to evict palestinian families from their homes demonstrators again tried to enter. from the shake jar a neighborhood but soldiers used sound bombs against the crowd and closed all entrances to the area the united states has said that it's deeply concerned about heightened tensions and has called on all sides to work to try and deescalate what is happening on the ground there well following developments for us. who is in

ramallah in occupied in the occupied west bank i mean as we were saying tensions have been running high because of these massive action evictions in the occupied east jerusalem neighborhood of chef jarrah tell us more about what prompted today's protests. so today is the last friday of the holy month of strong want to on you join the many worshippers from across that will occupy it west bank and those living in jerusalem or elsewhere in israel go to day out someone else sure prayers today to numbers when molests we've seen 25 percent of the huge numbers of worshippers who you to go to attend the prayers over the last friday in the past few years now in general the situation in jerusalem has been volatile since the beginning of the month it started when the israeli police started putting up very cade's near damascus gate save the old city of jerusalem and they said that this is

part of preventing gatherings because of covert but of course palestinians were saying that this is an attempt to decrease the places or the amount of gatherings in solidarity with what's going on in jerusalem and they've protested and managed to push and pressure the israelis to remove these barricades now of course there's also the growing tension in regards to the shift to a neighborhood where palestinians are expected to be evicted from their houses in that neighborhood in which many palestinians with 10 you that if they lose one of the shifts one fact at all to one house in the sense that it's already one too many and. we are it's. even there there on monday there is a day that jewish israelis cooled to jerusalem day in which they march all over the city and for palestinians it's seen as a provocation for them and their right to carry. so. they believe that

what happened tonight at the. end to it pick them because on monday it also coincides with what palestinians and muslims call new that's all of it which is a very holy night specifically it's the holiest in the dawn so they want they are saying that the israelis want to pick them from the compound in preparation for allowing israeli settlers inside someone else now we are. talking to medics and they're telling us that they are establishing a field hospital inside the old city to accommodate the growing number of injuries as we heard from palestinians who are sharing videos on social media of course it depends on the electricity in the internet connection over there but they are saying that the situation now is calming down after dozens and hundreds of

palestinians were trapped inside the lock some 4 israeli police opened up the gates and allowed people to move right and i guess we're saying we're going to saying just the remnants of those events around today with israeli and he's obviously still in the area we had live pictures earlier on we're just seeing some more images now ned and you know israeli police deploying large numbers of offices to the city of jerusalem but particularly in that old bit of any old city and as you say they closed off surrounding streets going into the mosque and so everything you might say security was stepped up. because with barriers and various things because . today's events were anticipated because of those previous tensions around the evictions. it's also the last friday of ramadan and then later that a very significant holy night coming up in a couple of days' time on monday so we can perhaps expect these tensions and these

scenes to. go along in this last week and ramadan. yes the nerium let's not forget that jerusalem has only is a very important issue in the palestinian israeli conflict and bastin and president has spoken about this just a few hours ago a few minutes ago on the palestinian t.v. he said that. the u.n. should intervene hold an urgent set the. session to protect the people because he said the truce and it is the eternal capital of the palestinian state now palestinians have been saying that east jerusalem should be their capital and they believe that israeli actions will drowned on a daily basis to make them from the city to make life so impossible for them that they have to leave it imagine if you are a palestinian president of jerusalem you do not even have permanent status in the

city you have an idea and this is just that terrorists so all an older situation when it comes to palestinians living in these jews convince mary very difficult that when it comes to situations like that palestinians feel they have to defend their presence they have to defend their boundaries and baby needs that by raising their voices by protesting against israeli who are talented but this is one way for them to maintain their presence and quiet for their right to stay in the city and that's what they call it was really attempts to make it more jewish and evict indigenous palestinians from their land. right and so we've been a lot of the focus recently has been on. which is in occupied east jerusalem and that was can you tell us more about the protests that were happening before

today because there has been this this court ordered eviction notice to well essentially well to evict 40 palestinians from their homes. near or a lot of legal issues when it comes to the palestinians who are living in these areas of change now the settlers are saying that the israeli settlers are saying that they have had ownership over these properties since the 19th century but palestinians would tell you that they've been living there since the 1948 after 948 of the creation of the state israel and that they've been refugees who had to leave their villages and their cities and to come to these houses but the issue here is not just legality it's not idealistic dispute as many would try to frame it this is part of that is really attempts to do a dies and make this city more jewish so palestinians in east jerusalem or also in

new york you hide less bank have been tracing different maneuvers from the israelis to try and push them away from their land citing that fred new guinea and a league in that say. weights and measures so for them this is not just about legality this is a very poor did need were headed in jerusalem and it is surrounded with in this way and 2nd and for many palestinians they would tell you that this aims to take over the city to connect the seconds with each other and assure their push house the unions away from their homes and we've seen residents very steadfast saying that they're not. we're going to be needing and we've also seen many palestinians in solidarity with them going there attending to which is the meal that breaks the fast in the holy month of ramadan and there has been some clashes in the area a very prominent or known griped wing politician has came in and established

opposed to call it his office really are sure there is a skillet in detention on the ground he needed to remove did but this is all scene that's part of the contention part of the 2 sides it's all her decision it which to me and say it's going to always be there capital through the u.n. through the many european organizations and the e.u. who was also talked about this and said that this is an eviction of palestinians from their homes all right now to find out thank you very much. speaking to us there from from the west bank and ramallah thank you very much. so you're seen as a middle east analyst and senior consulting research fellow at chatham house he joins me now from london and so you'll see his speaking today about the developments in

and alex which was expected the last friday of ramadan thousands of wash up as gathering for pres but also. coming off the back of these tensions around in east jerusalem and listening to what neda was saying there about the legal battles that are playing out over these evictions i suppose essentially this is all going to exacerbate the the conflict around east jerusalem and in terms of israel finding new ways of cementing its grip over the territory. dealing with. the city's violence in the city they're supposed to symbolize space but school existence in jerusalem is of on the very thing the knee and demanded something happens you see how volatile is this is jewish and the previous to kill is this. for political reasons some of the right wing unis some of these small

movements are using illegal legal victim palestinians if you look at the photo you're full of 3 they claim is this jewish all nodes of this on the 1948 who wants to go to war and what we saw going to 48 is an ins a very shaky ground and you basically extend the height of the fall of palestinians . claim all this what is the political you know of years later you know often taken by a. politician politicians and as a result of we see this also the legal system almost probably lives in 2 into a political battle over the jews and what do you and i mean this is much more than a legal battle obviously but what will you what do you anticipate likely to happen then on monday because it's a significant day in the muslim holy month of ramadan. it likely to be

a day where people do perhaps mobilize but it's also when the supremes court considers the legality of this eviction notice. i thinks some cooler heads should look consider what happens yes it's the latter but it's also we have a few days. and no so little. jew was alone when you see this coming so now all of this coming together and what you see in the last few hours and even before over the last few weeks actually is the mounting changes clashes the tensions in the city i think this is cause for william mentions a meeting of course between the palestinian leadership and these are alluded to see any fits needed intervention from the outside maybe it's time for the security council before we get out of hand because we know it's just when things like this

happen and it can end. in an engine was a. cop selects the conflict in its entirety but. because of the tensions the religious tension the national attention this sort of 2 existence and yours and can break them to quickly so that's real bones the leadership on both sides and the international community must intervene and it was the social relations. all right thank you appreciate it yes and michael by joining us. you're watching news out lie from london still ahead on the program the former multi-verse president mohamed nasheed is in a critical condition after a bomb blast outside his home. safe but still suffering we speak to one of the hundreds of women traumatized by sexual violence and his take right region and rafael nadal has won a trade open more times than any other player and he might be taking the trophy on

the set. well now cova does cutting a swathe through south asia as well as the huge number of daily cases we're seeing in india nepal is now being swarmed by and factions as well and there are serious fears that it's heading in the same direction as its neighbor nationally 47 percent of tests being carried out in apollo are turning positive it's even higher in some parts of the country doctors have warned of a major crisis with hospitals already running out of oxygen and beds india's prime minister meanwhile the renderer modi is under growing pressure to impose a nationwide lockdown another 414000 cases recorded on thursday and nearly 4000 deaths over in japan the government has extended its state of emergency in tokyo and other cities but this is just less than 3 months from its olympics and the world health organization has granted emergency approval for the vaccine made by

a chinese company sign a farm this is the 1st vaccine made by a non western country to receive the backing and means it can be used in the global kovacs program this afternoon the blue 2 gave emergency use listing to sign off on. 19 vaccine. the 6 vaccine to receive the blue to really do shoe for safety if you can see and quality this expands the list of vaccines that kovach combine and gives countries confidence to expedite their own regulatory approval and to import. a vaccine well as you say nepal is emerging as a worrying coronavirus hotspot daily cases there hitting a record high on thursday with more than 9000 new infections recorded compared to

just 300 last month limbaugh reports on this now 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 because i'm hearing. 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 are 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 cotman do 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 to worry i'm very lucky to be able to take a flight on the last day of them operating when 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 industry used 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 they could face a worsening humanitarian catastrophe at the little 0. india's outbreak is also continuing to get worse with the prime minister still refusing to consider a national lockdown hospitals in the biggest cities are turning patients away and there are fears that the situation in rural areas is about to get worse as well elizabeth prana reports now from new delhi. a doctor lies a car that 19 patient on her stomach so she can breathe more easily and helps her clear her chest others try to comfort a man who's in pain the patients in this hospital an author they might be suffering but in a state with only 125 beds for every 100000 people they're fortunate to be there less than 100 kilometers away from india's capital new delhi residents of one

village in uttar pradesh tell our jazeera 40 people have died in the past 3 weeks that includes the village pharmacist who was refused admission to the nearest hospital 90 minutes drive away his son explains what happened was because. medically you know if you do get well and there were no beds available for him at that hospital we tried other hospitals in the city but they refused to we took him to a nearby hospital in the district as his condition became worse but they would know when to leave as available and the doctor said that he had died my father was a fit and strong person he was just 45 years old if he had treatment on oxygen then perhaps he would have been alive. all those who the father couldn't find medical care he was tested for covert 19 a test obvious in the village haven't been able to get what they called the little heart over. you know people are getting a free will for

a few days and suddenly they are dying almost every home has a member who's ill here over testing is happening people are aware of the disease but don't have the means to get themselves tested to do or test they need to travel far and that isn't happening when people are dying without a test there's not best so difficult i. that i'm a short thing who also lives in a village says that's how his 80 year old mother of a pea died. she had fever 2 days earlier and when she heard that my brother had passed away in an accident she fell further the fever became worse we couldn't take her to the city hospital we didn't have time to even try and give her some treatment. this is the health care center in child drabble but it's closed 65 percent of india's population lives in rural areas villages like where there are a few a public hospitals than in the cities but india is facing

a shortage not just of hospital beds and medical supplies but health care workers too we can't create 400 or 500 i.c.u. beds like that within a few days or within a few weeks for that you need trained staff trained medical personnel trained technicians and a lot of equipment that cannot be created within days and weeks. there is only one doctor for every 20000 people in there but the hospitals in india's richest cities including here in the capital new delhi have been completely overwhelmed by the surge in cases but it's widely believed that the situation is even worse in rural areas where most cases am death under reported the possible contesting elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. now tunisia is introducing a coronavirus lockdown from sunday to try to contain what the prime minister called the worst health crisis in its history. 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. says the health care system is at risk of collapse with around 100 people a day dying of coated we're now moving to our other top story a former president of the maldives is in a critical condition after being injured in a bomb attack outside his home doctors say mohamed nasheed who is the current speaker of parliament has had multiple operations police now investigating what they call an act of terrorism and the president has branded an attack on democracy and she was the maldives 1st democratically elected president in 2008 ending 30 years of autocratic rule but he was ousted in a coup in 2012 and prevented from running again in 2018 because of criminal charges iraq donor is deputy speaker of the maltese parliament and says machine was likely targeted by one of the armed groups he's been highly critical of. i firmly believe

that this is act by. firing to extremist religious extremist groups and i think that's very g.'s and the public at least so. given the history of threats against president the sheep i don't think it would be i don't think it would be too much to say that it's this is by violent extremists. president. has the president or she. not many people in the country have the courage to take on religious extremists i would say perhaps president bush is the only strong voice in the country on religious extremism in the country now the united nations says more than 500 cases of sexual violence have been reported in ethiopia's 10 grey province into the start of the conflict there 6 months ago victims are struggling to cope with the psychological effect of that al-jazeera has had but morgan spoke to one survivor who fled across the border to sudan's state. when fighting began

in a few b.s. degree region last november this woman who we are calling but it's a crime 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 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 gray but it took and now lives in a camp in sudan's god of 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. who are carrying out the 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 phreaking 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. reporting is everywhere and you know there is many there is affecting bees like care.

and. we are facing now is to funding we do our best and we want to reach every woman. she feels 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 i 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 will take people. out of state. you know the news hour life from london still ahead on the program has we all know when the taliban would take over the government so what will happen to our lives. risked it all to work for american forces in afghanistan but thousands of afghans fear

they'll be left behind as the u.s. withdraws. high hopes from mali and mother and her 9 babies doctors say the. babies are in good health. and louis allison sets the pace and goes for a record extending $100.00 pole position that's coming up in sport with gemma. that spring remains an illusion for many countries in europe particularly in the north the cloud still piling in from the atlantic and that's taking rain with it and that's quite a spearhead a way that we're run through most countries eastern europe that's point one and then there's this thing doesn't look like spring to you that will like an autumn storm to make and that's on its way through the british isles it's the 2nd weekend

where this is happen is done is bad because last weekend when we do as windy or as went but it will be both now ahead of it it's quite warm in france borders up to about 30 and i think spain and portugal feel nice but it won't but the rain will eventually get here as well the lock temperatures back you'll do the same for france at the same time much of central eastern europe certainly appears underneath this warm blooming spring sunshine and that'll have an effect that will warm things up quite considerably by 10 degrees or more for example in berkeley in europe but 25 even 27 by the end the weekend by monday the average is $99.00 and it's been going up and down which is this is the right side to be and that warms does go across the cold towards the southern baltic stockholm reaches about 18 degrees by monday then 22 by tuesday you're of just 14 and for the last few days you'll be well below average for a pleasant change. cultivating

food is the foundation of human civilization but food today is a global commodity if the industry did not make money how many people would be and how it's cultivated a contentious debate public interest in the public safety is definitely not taking an in-depth examination into our great business and the conflicting interests that play industry doesn't want any regulation interest want to put their products on the market the price of progress on al-jazeera the latest news as it breaks off of the cold wind by separatists is relabeled as russian coal transport is to markets in asia and europe with detailed coverage of 4 inch old withdrawal is underway and will be completed after the may 1st deadline from the around the world these demonstrates that the british government that any new tools to sign sick a tail people's right of assembly damage the country's democracy.

back a look at the main stories now the palestinian red crescent says that 163 people have been wounded in clashes with israeli forces worshipers gathered in the compound for the last friday prayers of the month of ramadan and then stayed on to protest over threats to evict palestinians from their homes in occupied east jerusalem. and all the headlines doctors in apollo warning of a major covert crisis nearly half of the test carried out of the country are coming back positive. and then this is business as neighboring india recorded another 414000 cases in just one day i minister continues to resist calls for

a strict nationwide lockdown. and we go now to brazil a supremes court justice has called for the country's top prosecutor to investigate one of rio de janeiro's deadliest police raids. the. demonstrators took to the streets in rio demanding an investigation into the raid on the neighborhood which led to the deaths of 25 people one of them a police officer days operation has drawn condemnation from human rights groups and local activists as well as the united nations which is now calling for an independent investigation so it appears. to. you know they're not succeeding in stopping these kind of really disturbing over the top legal operations. something clearly is wrong. as i mentioned the. supreme court has been involved in him in the issue and issues

specific ruling back in 2020 restricted please operations so you're right something's not working or a lot of things are not working and i think the problem needs to be a collective review recipe suggested. you know really a broad program view of what is going wrong or fixing or thursday's police raid was the deadliest in rio de janeiro's history there is a long history of violent protest a police action in brazil in 190321 people were shot dead by police and what became known as the the guard massacre the deaths were a power in revenge for the killings of 4 police officers until thursday rio's most deadly official police operation was in 2007 when 19 people were killed in a raid on the complex a mile community between june last year and march this year nearly 800 people were killed by police in rio de janeiro state 85 percent of them in the city of rio and

its surrounding metropolitan region. manjarrez is a senior america's research treat human rights watch he joins us now from sao paolo as i was saying it's been described as one of the deadliest police shootings in rio's history of you learn any more details about what took place inside this for valor. well that's. you know it's key that we have. from an independent investigation into all happened but their early signs are pretty bad actually i have to say we human rights watch out for received credible abbie that is that bodies of victims were moved from the crime scene that the people were dragged actually and the guy missing was now pretty served and that's very important because you can last. key evidence of what happened there.

so that means that even if there was to be an an independent investigation into what happened it's likely to be impeded or or flawed in some way or at least limited in terms of the available evidence. yeah i mean this you know when you this troy you know the 1st you know our son of the 1st day of the best a geisha in the states that most crucial moment you know when when you have the evidence there you know you have the neighbors there you can interview them you know i had to say police is not doing a good job on that you know the this is something we have seen in many investigations in rio de nato 98 percent of these killings in rio in that without any start of this. new norm. i hope for you that we don't say the same about this one because he's been you know he's obviously are shocking number

of people being killed. you know the force that this investigating the killings is the same force that committed the killings if they see the police so we're all right sorry sorry i don't mean to interrupt. now i was just thinking because we're looking at some images of of the favelas and you know people that like for people that might not be familiar with with the area and so these sort of police raids are actually they happen on a regular basis. but can you explain why the police deployed . in such a heavy presence in this way inside these particular neighborhoods why does this happen. right well in rio there's a nato a sort of the security did politic you need to start that here over your house traditionally been to conduct military style raids into these neighborhoods where there is no police presence inside the neighborhoods you know permanent press and

so the police will kamin into these neighborhoods on you know a very narrow street you know difficult to navigate inside so it's very dangerous for them as well we have one police officer who are killed and they all objective of these operations are usually to apprehend some of us on the no weapons but they go on to the police that they don't stain the neighborhoods right so they can conduct these raids on they in the camp they come out so that criminal organizations that operate there stay there you know if you kill members of their brazen or you know if you'll do more of that will be other people will you will join because there are very limited job opportunities there so these raids they accomplish i have to say nothing they're absolutely counterproductive because they paid the community's aryans that police these communities see the police as a threat to them to themselves and to the truth and i ask you briefly is that

political climate or sun politicians exacerbating this. absolutely you know of precedent and they've also now though has been you know actually effectively encouraging police violence he introduced 2 bills in congress that will make it much harder to hold abusive police officers accountable for or for crimes. you know and. even you know on the sea in this event you know when you have 25 people killed he has said nothing and the vice president retired general said that all those who were killed where criminals so you know without any proof or any investigation so that's their own to do that those kinds of statements. empower abusive police officers thank you very much desired manyas that from

human rights watch thank you. for former us minneapolis police officers have been charged with federal civil rights offenses over the death of george floyd the group of officers includes show then who was convicted of floyd's mudda last month they're all accused of depriving george floyd of his constitutional rights including ignoring his basic medical needs the case last year sparked a global outcry against police brutality in the u.s. meanwhile the in other developments the homeland security secretary says the biden administration's mexican border plan is getting results but more work needs to be done. was speaking on a visit to one of the main processing facilities in the texas border city of donna he says the number of unaccompanied children there has been cut to 334 less than a 10th of the number at its peak at the end of march and children are there for

a day on average before being placed with relatives of spawn says down from 5 days . immigration and including irregular migration is a very dynamic. challenge and therefore the challenge is not entirely behind us. though we have accomplished a great deal and we must maintain the capacity to deal with and address the dynamism so we do not experience to the best of our abilities what we experienced at the end of march and the beginning of april. so let's now speak to my khanna is in washington mike 1st of all what do we know about the situation in order. well it has been something of a turnaround marian because in march there was the greatest influx of refugees across the border within 20 years there were over 3000 and accompanied children being held at what were supposed to be adult detention centers now you hear there

from their own new yorkers that this figure has been reduced to just over 300 now this would appear to be largely the work of the by the reunification team this is a body that was set up by the by that administration to seek ways in which to reunite families to bring unaccompanied children back with their parents bearing in mind as well the trauma to which all have been subject the difference of what has happened is that unaccompanied children who come across the border firstly are not being sent back secondly they are being held by the border patrol for a limited period of time before being moved either to foster care or to hotels in the region pending reunification with their families so this is a major shift in terms of how the immigrants are being treated but at the same time there is still pushback from some of biden's own party who insists that he should declare a national emergency at the border but pushed back to from the white house press

secretary who says this is not a crisis rather it is a challenge. why it tell us more about other developments we've had because on the jobs front there hasn't been such good news for the pint in administration they anticipated that a greater jobs would be added to the economy but it looks as though these latest figures for short. yes these latest figures fall very short indeed in terms of government projections but the biden administration is attempting to spin it around and say. it was never intended that the economy was going to be turned around in a short period of time he had pointed to the rescue legislation the trillion dollar relief fund in terms of pandemic relief biden spokespeople saying that this was not intended as a long term fix it was intended as a short term institution but what is necessary they insist is

a building up of the infrastructure providing more funds for the infrastructure that is the whole mark of the biden administration the president himself trying to put as good a lighter note as possible. we came to office we knew we face you know once through the century pandemic in a once in a generation economic research and we knew this wouldn't be a sprint would be a marathon but when we passed the american rescue plan i want to remind everybody was designed to help us over the course of a year not 60 days a year we never thought that after the 1st 50 or 60 days everything would be fine. nonetheless biden's political opponents have seized on these speakers as evidence that he is mishandling the economy and his rescue plan along with this massive infrastructure plan are doing nothing to develop employment within this country

thank you very much mike hanna in washington. meanwhile the united states has started withdrawing its troops from afghanistan but as the soldiers head home they leave behind thousands of afghans who worked with them in his life and now risk their origin washington to prioritize their visa applications to move to the u.s. before it's too late for controversy reports now from kabul. i was you knew she was risking it all when she started working as a contractor for the us government her house has been attacked and she's received any 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's 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 day by the and has we all know what the taliban will

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 decode nice me even though i'm hiding myself but i cannot i cannot guarantee that i was do 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 bizarre approval 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 guess process i'm pretty much sure after the redraw they will be tortured and killed in front of their family. 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 traders 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 the option i have is the only way to die here in this country or get my visa the hof says live in this is. 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. memorial service has been held in south africa for the queen of the zulus the nation's largest ethnic group. queen mother for me died suddenly last week at the age of 65 just a month after being appointed regent she was the most senior wife of the late king who died in march 1 of his other wives had challenged the succession and the family

has been forced to deny women is that the queen was poisoned zulus represent about a 5th of south africa's population of 60000000. now doctors in morocco are saying a mother from mali and her 9 babies are in good health after one of the biggest multiple births of all time. 25 year old helen messes say gave birth to not plates on tuesday 5 girls and 4 boys she'd been flown from mali to morocco where medical facilities are better and is described as being out of danger the 9 babies are expected to spend 2 to 3 months in incubators after being born 10 weeks premature which is not unusual for large multiple births 2 sets of 9 updates have been recorded in the past but none of the baby survived more than a few days we are one hell of lot of the mother is in good health and out of danger there were no you know 3 to influence 5 girls and 4 boys in a condition. on the artificial respiration some of them have been put on. there

what are you going to use from 500 grams to a kilogram. ok so it's time now for us for germans here thank you mariam and we start with some big breaking of football news brazilian forward neymar has agreed to extend his contract with paris by 4 years that's according to french newspaper le keep the deal will be done on saturday and will keep him at the club until 2026 in other news that manchester city and chelsea fans have been dealt a blow after britain's government puts her he on the travel red list ahead of the champions league final in istanbul the way for had hoped to give both clubs a minimum of $4000.00 tickets each for the match on may 29th but now english fans are unlikely to travel there as they would have to quarantine at a government approved hotel for 10 days at their own expense when they return some have suggested the final should be moved to the u k. fans should not travel to turkey the f.a.

i can tell you are in discussions with you a thought already on this we are very open to hosting the final but it is alternately a decision for you a for of course it's worth mention the u.k. has already got a successful track record of football matches with spectators so we're well placed to do it honestly i played wherever it's played i really should have played in istanbul last season so it was not in istanbul it was in portugal than and now again the situation is pretty heavy in turkey at the moment i think anything can change quite rapidly these days so let's be open in the moment we prepare for for travel to turkey. so who is chelsea and manchester city are among the 9 clubs who be punished for trying to form the ill fated super league

those 2 teams along with arsenal tottenham at manchester united at liverpool athletic a madrid ac milan and intimate and will have to give up 5 percent of their you away for revenue for one season those sides fully renounce the breakaway and have committed to the existing european to immense and face fines of one $120000000.00 each if they seek to join an unauthorized competition in the future but barcelona around madrid in the event as of so far refused to reintegrate and europe's governing body will refer them with a disciplinary action manchester united owner and co chairman joe glazes told supporters he's willing to discuss increasing the number of fans with a stake in the club united have been dealing with protests against their american owners following their plans to join the super league those protests led to sunday's premier league match against liverpool being persuaded. jayson radio doesn't start his new job as very mad coach for a few months but excitement is already building ahead of his arrival this mural of him is appeared on a wall in the italian capital is violate cool street artist code harry grip and is

designed to fix the portuguese coach riding a vest with scooter which has the teams of former wolf badge on it and he's wearing a club scoff as well and the bike also has the words special one on it in a nod to marina nickname with just 2 and a half months to go until the lympics is now likely the head of the international olympic committee thomas back to have to cancel a planned trip to the city back was set to visit japan later this month but after 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. do we know that you know i think it's important for president back to come and see the current situation but with the state of a magic in secret standing i think it's very difficult for him to visit as will put a burden on him. we spoke to sportswriter that japan timespan know it so he says the cancellation of the games 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. top seed in 5 time when i refound the dallas out of the madrid open tennis the lot number 2 was beaten by alexander's vera 6464 in the quarter finals the german picking up his 3rd straight win over the

20 ton grandson champion and ending his winless streak on clay against nadal is there ever a face u.s. open champion done in the 70s. definitely one of the biggest wins in my career so far i mean especially on clay against rafa. is the toughest thing to do in our sport and beating him in his house as you said in spain. is incredible 7 time formula one world champion lewis hamilton has set the fastest time in friday's practice ahead of the spanish grand prix the sadie's driver is hoping to convert pace to a record extending 100th pole position on saturday teammate who got us was 2nd quickest but how to ensnare his rival in the driver's standings at max for stop and could only go night fastest british fighter saunders is getting ready to put his unbeaten record on the line against mexican superstars alvarez that he will face off in the super middleweight unification bout in texas on saturday in front of

70000 fans saunders has the chance to become just the 2nd fighter after floyd mayweather to defeat the 4 division world champion why don't. we. you know i don't think your bridge is going to mammals much and determine are huge winners me it's going to be a good point is a great journey. to be honest with you. to try all of these. types if areas in texas to support saunders and he seemed to have a disagreement with undercard fighter frank sanchez and when asked if alvarez is the best pound for pound fighter in the world he gave a typical fury response. the best for you not only. the best and the best bet. everything. well he says he's the best dressed that judging by that he's wearing that's a little bit of a civil humble man yes typical modest tyson fury that thank you very much.

and now china says a different story if you china is saying that debris from its latest rocket launch is highly unlikely to cause any harm even though no one actually knows where or when it's going to land the remains of the long march 8th 5 b. rocket have been cited above the u.s. and what the country's space command is calling an uncontrolled reentry it was launched just over a week ago carrying the 1st part of china's new space station and it's expected to come down to earth at some point over the weekend most likely in the ocean because you would you. just don't provoke if specially designed so many components would disappear and be destroyed during debris entry precess the probability of causing harm to activities in the air and on the ground is extremely low because most departments government who promptly report a situation to me to properly judge writes the news hour but i will be back with a full bulletin for you in a couple of minutes time at 2200 g.m.t. a roundup of the top stories coming up very shortly to stay with al-jazeera.

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the world. at least 163 people injured in clashes between palestinian wash oppose and israeli police in occupied east jerusalem. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program warnings of a major covert crisis and the paul while over the border in india pressure is growing on the prime minister to impose a nationwide lockdown.