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a border conflict between. we look at russia's influence. and the wait to see where the debris from a space rocket lands on earth china says we shouldn't be worried. and support a senior official says nothing can stop the tokyo games going ahead that's despite a state of emergency being extended in the city due to the pandemic. so there's a threat of retaliation after more than $200.00 palestinians were injured in a night of violence at the mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem the democratic front for the liberation of palestine is warning israel that its rifles and rockets are on standby this comes after a call for restraint from the united nations the united states and from european leaders for tor again this is from.

chaos and confrontation inside the compound as israeli police try a stun grenades to disperse muslim worshipping. i don't know how many people. and you would believe. that more supportive board if you want to book an i pad in the washer i think you do because i know i got it but you know not one. of them. was the police also use stun grenades inside a clinic treating in japan askin ians. fide tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters police say they responded to stones bottles and fireworks with right at that.

i could stay so now it is jerusalem day goes on the last friday of the fasting month of ramadan the annual event is a protest against israel's rule of jerusalem. they saw there was an attempt not only to apply time division at al aqsa mosque but also to divide a looks most physically should not be done we must work to prevent it from the vigilantes are defending the mosque on behalf of the arab nation and the islamic nation. earlier on friday thousands of muslim was schippers it answered the call from the islamic lacked the trust they don't break the compound under the authority of jordan to pray in and around. the compound is a constant point of contention in the palestinian israeli conflict but tensions in occupied east jerusalem have increased in recent weeks as palestinians have

protested against israeli restrictions on access to parts of the city during ramadan and there's been a rest day for an israeli court to evict palestinian families in the shaikh ciaran neighborhood demonstrators tried to end. to the neighborhood on friday the soldiers use sound bombs against the crowd and closed all entrances to the area the united nations has warned the forced evictions could amount to war crimes this is a particularly sensitive moment and it was it was predictable and especially when israeli forces are using such violent tactics. that seeing you know that are disproportionate firey. russian grenades and rubber bullets at unarmed protesters don't want. the u.s. says it's deeply concerned about the heightened tensions and called on all sides to what to deescalate them regional countries such as turkey and capital have

condemned friday's actions by israeli security forces as an attack on human rights victoria gate and be al-jazeera. what is happening now from the go heidi who's founder and chairman of the palestinian i could make society for the study of international affairs and he says israel's military presence in the mosque compound is inciting violence. 4 hours for the 1st starring in jerusalem day u.s. a spontaneous independent individual reaction to his ideas coalition they are clashing with the army once these young people. generally the military establishment their national pride their eyes are here and there were 2 generals there who are no longer an aspect now and they don't care the day after where is the clashes taking place is it taking clear see this iraq is it doing this it was you know is it take us into settlement the clashes are taking you know are already signed into law school or people who are praying are gathering together after

another going 1st thing back to accepting this in our own houses in the our city will is there any visitors and if we don't to our military is there a deeper sense that our audience in our houses now are out of this is not clashes there is no confrontation but the good of the occasion on daily basis comes around the reason establishment and i want people all the time from the stomach of council and from this it was a sign of the organization from going over the faction in the largest city of jerusalem and we don't want to confront when there is there it is not going to stay however from our houses they are already are you buying this if you go have cameras all over. different establishment everywhere in the whole city and the most important thing when people are praying look what happened even yesterday before they went to the doctor clears let me use the radio military presence. well a people are criticizing social media platforms for taking down content about these

recent demonstrations let's cross the sore heart nick can fight anyone posting content this week on social media on what's been happening not quite is true some shift iraq neighborhood may have found some story highlights deleted and been replaced with this message this is what's been happening is the story is no longer available on instagram is accused of censoring pictures and videos of the hashtag save shift in both english and arabic since may the 2nd and that's when israel orders 6 palestinian families to leave their homes to make way for jewish settlers now this video here that you're about to see they go palace it was posted by palestinian activist simon were called on who said it widely on instagram facebook and twitter and it shows 22 year old palestinian confronting a jewish settler in her family home in iraq and this was taken down for many. your uncle you know this is not you would have yes but if i call you don't go over this one well you know you. do but do so if you have to go with me you all of our

feelings my her and if i don't feel sort of no no no. i don't dispute that. but the thing is it didn't stop there because another hashtag sorts of being hidden from people's fears on friday and that's al aqsa now some including journalists have their accounts they said disabled for post the on the al aqsa mosque protests in occupied east jerusalem on friday nights where more as you heard earlier more than 200 palestinians were injured after israeli police stormed the compound using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse muslim wash business starts of course protesting in support of share gerakan now social media on other activism stories also disappeared on wednesday and thursday in fact grogan instagram uses revealed instagram removed posts on protest they said against tax reforms and police repression but also on red dress day now that's what raises awareness on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in canada they have also had their

posts removed the reason why this is such an issue is because there's a continued genocide against indigenous people but specifically in canada in 2019 a report found that over a 1000 indigenous women girls and 2 spirit folks have gone missing in canada but indigenous communities know that the numbers much closer to 5000 a magic 5000 women girls and 2 spirit folks that just disappeared by instagram or moving our post there doing the same thing silencing us in a race in the continued genocide against our people so i ask you why. she asked why well inscribe has in the last few hours issued an apology saying it was a bug which deleted posts and it wasn't deliberate now its head was sorry also wrote on twitter people around the world are from colombia is jerusalem use our pot phone

to share what's happening he also went on to say we apologize to all those who felt they could not bring attention to these incredibly important causes and many others around the world well that set back to nic thanks very much indeed for that's a pretty comprehensive stuff let's take this on we can speak to george broad crudes a journalist and former managing editor of the times joins us via skype from london welcome to the program so instagram so it was a bug. exploration do you think that's feasible well it's certainly possible i frankly think it's a bit unlikely the social net social networks are in a terrible terrible muddle about what they do about this kind of thing that the subject laws all over the world they different from country to country and they need to they need to obey them usually try and they certainly try to do but they're also subject to political pressures and it could be that they made a simple mistake or there was a technical mistake and then they thought about it because people do turn our attention and they change what they're doing it's certainly not the 1st time

they've done that kind of thing and i'm pretty sure it won't be the last. global or global social media organization but with local representation i suppose that you have to ask that question this question of independence how independent social media companies are in their operations in handling content sensitivities like those in question here. well we don't really know because they are they are not public utilities they're not public goods they are private companies all of the biggest ones are based in one place the united states and we don't know exactly how they make these decisions we can sometimes get some clues you get mark zuckerberg dragged in front of senate committees in washington occasionally but as you're probably seen if you have a watch those sessions you don't learn a great deal about what he's doing so one of the problems is that private companies deciding these things occasionally they end up in the courts of law and the court and it's like that in the courts but that doesn't happen all that often either and

it's not very surprising that they are the subject of covert and overt political pressures that say you shouldn't be doing this you shouldn't be doing that they're not really law government organizations and in these sort of furor as far as palestinians concerned about this particular case they are they're also highlighting how uses data which has been released have led to hundreds of palestinians being arrested. and again you're dealing with a company based in a not you know headquarters in an entirely different part of the world. everybody uses these or very very large numbers of people use these means of communication but it is extremely difficult to discover why they are doing what they are doing has a local has another government has the israeli government asked them to do one of one or 2 of these things we know it's on the record that there have been lots and lots of dialogues between the israeli government and facebook and so on but we do

know we never know the detail because there are no ways to bring it out into the open it's quite likely that that being led on by all sorts of people governments probably not the only ones living on the right other have any options or people who think their posts have been unfairly deleted to get their content back up. well my my only advice to a user who thought that a particular platform whether it was instagram or anything else has been unfair to them is is a rather brutal one which is to take themselves off that network altogether if you can't trust what our social platform is doing with your material trying to find a better one there is there isn't much choice but there is some joyous thing as whether a post is posted or not depending on what it is but it can be an incredibly powerful tool called it oh there's no question that social media is extremely powerful or not and of course there is a cost if you take yourself off a network but if you can't discover why

a network is doing something that you don't like and you can't persuade them to undo it or change it unfortunately that's probably the only choice you've got you've just got to try to exercise your influence via something else george what great to get your perspective on this really appreciate that thanks very much indeed i just bought the from the university of london thank you but more still ahead on news hour including exposing the war into the right and if you have been orthodox needed goes on the record to accuse the government of genocide. the u.k. and the e.u. take different paths when it comes to trouble as the world struggles to reopen. its ports english supporter groups call for the location of the champions league final to be far it will be here with that story. of the.

several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the corona virus outbreak under control india is the 3rd country after the united states and brazil to record more than $4000.00 deaths in a single day and has just recorded another 400000 infections experts say the actual number is much higher with all reports now from new delhi. the news that we're getting today is actually a bit of a welcome news coming in from the health ministry which is that patients and we know patients are scrambling to get beds and oxygen they do not need a positive test result to be admitted in a hospital or a care facility dedicated to covert patients this is a revision of an earlier policy which mandated this test result and of course now this means that if you or your family members suspect a suspicious of being a covert positive you would be admitted in a suspect ward this is again welcome because as we have been reporting the medical

system has been pushed to the brink which includes the testing system you know tests are hard to come by and the results are taking a while so now people who need care without the test result could actually go ahead and be admitted today coming out of the state which is one of the hardest hit has announced a 2 week lockdown starting me 10 because it recorded a record case rise of around 26000 fresh cases on friday so only essential services will be allowed for the next 2 weeks starting sunday we've seen states like karnataka and go are announcing similar strict lock downs because cases have simply spiraled out of control in karnataka as we reported bengaluru has emerged as a big hot spot with you know the city which is the hardest hit so bengaluru today has more cases than what delhi had or even moved by had at their peak. more than a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine has arrived in pakistan it's been

supplied for free through the un bank's kovacs scheme pakistan is trying to curb the spread of perfect 19 by imposing a countrywide lockdown for 10 days it is concerned about a surge in cases where the muslim holiday comodo has more now from. the national command operation center which is dealing with a cold wave 19 pandemic here in pakistan has announced a strict lockdown across pakistan from today all business today to cross the country will be closed shops will be closed people will not be allowed to go into the markets to do their shopping for eat because the last time the government decided to age restrictions at a spike in the number of corporate 19 infections the fear is that pakistan will not be able to cope because of a lack of rain delay tears and oxygen if the situation should see the like which

india is confronting and therefore the authorities are what it warning that people that day much take that seriously although there is complacency when it comes to the people at large who are not following the. north wearing their marks and also congregating a large number linda markets stands 3rd wave age dangerous and i government of course did what it because i lived the situation escalates it will not be able to deal with this problem. e.u. leaders are urging the u.s. to lift restrictions on vaccine exports the global vaccine shortage was one of the main items on the agenda during the 1st in person some of the e.u. council president shell michelle says the white house proposal to suspend patients on vaccines would not be a magic bullet let's cross over to need. only at the summit to tell us more about what's been happening. well nick as you said

michelle has been giving his opinion but it's one of a range of views on whether the european union should officially follow the united states and its move in the last few days to say it would support moves that the world trade organization to waive patents on vaccines so infects 2 to intervene in intellectual property rights jummy sells he said said that it says not a magic bullet in the short term but he did stress ahead of saturday's talks in porto. the use ready to engage on that matter soon as a concrete proposal is put forward with that might happen fairly soon but that proposed that prospect worries some countries in the you know tbilisi germany chancellor angela merkel not attending on saturday she's she's involved in the talks remotely as will be the indian prime minister later on with the u. leaders but germany quite skeptical about the idea of the french president and many

well mcconnell sit somewhere perhaps in the middle in the last couple of hours he said that the peyton's issue is not the priority right now there's other work which needs to be done sooner. nude of on clay they ask a successful. we should work towards the vaccine becoming a global public product what does that mean firstly producing more that's why i'm calling directly on the united states to end the export ban on the vaccines but also on the components of these vaccines which is preventing production so clearly mark or saying that more needs to be done in terms of allowing exports he was rather on the defensive in the press conference asked about the e.u. reaction and the vaccine rollout for example where he said if the block was slow last year to start it serve exene rollout or to get procurement that was because it was so generous he says that half of the 400000000 doses of vaccines produced in

the e.u. have been exported outside the block and he's saying that it's time for the u.s. and the united kingdom to take similar steps he's also talked about technology transfer but interestingly he did compare the situation now with covered 19 to how the world reacted to be hiv crisis making sure that poorer countries could access vital drugs and there he did accept that the solution did involve getting involved in intellectual property so he's not closing the door on the idea of waiving peyton's altogether that impacts that in london well the world health organization has approved the chinese made sign a farm just for emergency use it is the 6th vaccine to get the agency stamp of approval it can now be added to the u.n. back kovacs skiing which distributes coronavirus vaccines to low and middle income countries health experts say adding chinese jobs to the list could be

a game changer with poorer nations desperate for covert 90 jobs. well the number of recorded infections in brazil since the start of the pandemic has topped 15000000 almost 79000 cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours in the country that has the 2nd highest death toll in the world brazil's top court approved a criminal investigation in president diabolos in ours handling of the pandemic it could lead to his impeachment families in peru are being forced to consider burying their loved ones at home cemeteries of around april has been its deadliest month since the start of the pandemic with one person dying every 4 minutes experts believe the actual death toll between march and april may have been more than $60000.00 fewer than 2 percent of the population has been vaccinated. kurdistan entergy christan have agreed to use soviet era maps to end a decades long border dispute at least 50 people were killed during fighting last month the ceasefire brokered by russia is now in place but moscow's role as chief

mediator is being questioned charles traffic reports now from bishkek in the aftermath of the worst fighting between kyrgyzstan and tells you could stand since the border dispute started 30 years ago one question is being asked louder than others how did you could stand launch what analysts say was a well planned military operation while on the same day this was happening in the capital to john by a russian defense minister sergei sure go meeting his tactic and keurig is counterparts at a meeting of the collective security organization that's led by russia that seems to say something either about complicity of russia or relative remove of russia from what's going on in central asia or maybe some other sinister interests being played out in moscow and that's the $1000000.00 question a statue of lenin in the queue to get capital bishkek. the soviet union is no more

but russia remains both kyrgyzstan and tajikistan's number one ally and rewards them if they do what moscow wants kyrgyzstan's relationship with russia has suffered in recent years analysts say the moscow is unhappy with a decade and a half of political instability including 3 revolutions and some say the kremlin is concerned about the new president leaning too much towards its rival china president so there is a part of has for many killed is finch who conciliator it towards to stand after at least 34 of the estimated 50 people killed in the fighting were courteous but he needs russia's support to deescalate the situation and help find a lasting solution russia has called for calm and negotiations but some analysts say it's relatively weak response maybe because of what's happening in another of

tajikistan's neighbors afghanistan. nato pulling out of afghanistan means the importance of stand for russia is growing as you can stand as russia's 1st line of defense both kyrgyzstan to stand hosting russian military bases between one until you can stand as one port and because russia understands that have to stand explodes because of spillover from afghanistan then the whole region could follow this doesn't mean that as you can stand has the right to conduct what was a planned military operation on the characters borders and russia will not outright condemn it the curious flag flies over bishkek but many are wondering how kyrgyzstan until you can stand it can reach a lasting solution to their border dispute and whether their mutual ally can or indeed wants to help chance trafford al-jazeera bishkek all right let's get the weather now. big building again for the miller's a weekend and here they are it's not surprising it is spring in it's in the us and

we always bring it gulf air against the residual winter cobra still sits in the rockies and still exists in the midwest so you've got big shout developing with potential for tonight is more likely is going to be heavy rain with flash flooding for example in missouri down through kentucky down towards texas and right down to the gulf coast nashville has a very wet sunday as a result of thundery one with temperatures dropping as things improve by monday more likely choose day i think and there's the picture for monday the showers going south the thunderstorms are going south we still got a big potential contrast but it's docx tree mccullum midwest and you just frosty barnard not for a vote of 11 degrees or you get in chicago and 12 in toronto that is an improvement on recent days after saying the still the potential for brief flash flooding in jamaica and cuba since a big show recently and this mass that came in through the eastern caribbean is

still with this big shower seemed likely in northern mexico as well and just recently in rio harf a month's worth of rain in less than 24 hours. still ahead here on al-jazeera taiwan's once high flying tech industry is being drained by the worst drought in almost half a century. and the votes are being counted in scotland's parliamentary election in the future the u.k. may hang in the balance. and in spore we'll hear from the world heavyweight champion ahead of a big night for boxing in the united states. killing the debate you don't see this action on the 5 voice you're only human narrative the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world when we humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just

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how do you watch out there are much of our top stories this hour and palestinian groups are calling for protests after is ready security forces told the al aksa mosque in occupied east jerusalem more than $200.00 palestinian worshippers were injured the democratic front for the liberation of palestine is warning israel that its rifles and rockets are on standby. several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the corona virus outbreak under control india is the 3rd country after the united states and brazil to record more than $4000.00 deaths in a day. he usually does a reggie in the u.s. to live frustrations on covert 900 vaccine exports the global vaccine shortage was one of the main items on the agenda during the 1st in person summit of the e.u. council president bush on the shelf says the white house proposal to suspend patients on vaccines would not be a magic bullet. the united nations is warning aid convoys to the to

growing region in ethiopia are being blocked leaving thousands without humanitarian relief and hundreds malnourished now after 6 months of conflicts one of the country's top religious leaders has spoken out against what he describes as genocide. then he has more. the ethiopian government has been fighting the tigre a people's liberation front since november the conflict in the northern region has killed thousands of people and displaced more than a 1000000. and now rare public criticism from inside the capital against if you look as prime minister i'll be on. the ground here i am not sure what's the to great people did wrong what's their crimes i am not clear why they wanted to clear genocide and the people have to agree i do not know why they want to why the people have to agree from the surface of the earth the whole world should know this. the video of the beauty mathias a tigre

a native and patriarch of ethiopia was orthodox church was filmed last month and smuggled out of out this suburb. he accuses the government of creating carnage wanting to destroy the northern tigray region and censoring his earlier attempts to speak out. and other message to the people of to gray who live in the country and out of the country is this may god give you strength may he give you his strength and power everything passes and this might pass away this might pass away don't be demoralized don't be fearful or anxious the government has condemned atrocities in the conflict but has denied claims of ethnic cleansing and the targeting of civilians members of parliament choose the country senior leaders and this 40 percent of its estimated 110000000 people are orthodox christian mathias his message is likely to resonate with voters ahead of parliamentary

elections in june. prime minister ahmed's efforts to achieve peace in the region earned him the nobel prize in 2019 but he's faced multiple crises since. the humanitarian fallout of the tigre a conflict is likely to overshadow upcoming elections which could erode his hold on power and on wednesday the government appointed head of interim government resigned giving no reasons as to why. let's speak now to jason mosley who's a research associate of the african studies center at the university of oxford joins us by skype from oxford now just welcome to the program how significant is it that the head of the orthodox church in ethiopia has said what he has. it is very significant he's quite an influential figure understand these comments were made a few weeks ago and the recording was taken out of the country before it was released. the orthodox church is very influential organization with in ethiopia and

society previously historically it's been very closely allied with the state changed with the overthrow of the imperial system in the seventy's and the relations between the state and the church been much more uncomfortable since then but. as your correspondent noted quite a substantial orthodox christian population in the country and in particular the orthodox church is. very strongly in the tikrit region and our region which are both quite central to the conflict there and to politics in the country right now do you think his words will bring any influence to bear on how events go on to unfold in ethiopia. i think it's there's a sort of. contradictory information coming out one of the key aspects of this crisis has been the way that the government's decision to shut off the internet

connections and really restrict the ability of the media to access and telecommunications to penetrate that region beginning of the conflict. feel the open for a lot of misinformation. from ation coming out and. tends to shape the narrative of how the conflict has unfolded these kinds of contradictory statements challenge the government. which for example was denying the presence of eritrean troops for months before only confirming the presence of eritrean troops when they need to go. that's another you know jump in the international community be very slow to act on this do you think. significant religious leader. to make a difference or to come into the into the. about it. yeah

the the options for the international community are quite constrained given the restrictions on movement and control of the options that the government has left open to the international community short of us for forcible intervention which is very unlikely so this does give more weight you know the united states just appointed a special envoy for the horn of africa who's visiting the region right now and so this would be you know more. in his arsenal of sort of. pressure to bring to bear on the government but it really stirring the pot ahead of the elections next month right it's also complex is a complex melting photos that is you have this is sort connection between the community and the orthodox church and yet the horror of tended to support the government over that. this is a this is a very strange time that the current government are in effect the same the same

personnel many of the same personnel of the party that coalition that govern the country from the early ninety's until abi took power in 2018 and there's been some reshuffling there has been a fresh election under this new party prosperity party and as those the dynamics have been unfolding last 3 years the. political machine has been quite contested between the new the new version of the former ruling party ips prosperity party and other are a nationalist or. be a nationalist political forces in the country. which have tended to support the intervention. as it's a sort of crackdown on the form. there's also territorial aspects of bits western keep right now occupied by amara militia all right but the.

and so you've already seen sort of politicians in exile and other activists suggesting that the orthodox patriarch has been somehow fooled by p.l.f. misinformation by making this statement so you can see that it's already roiling the sort of politics there jason we'll have to leave though do appreciate your expertise in this thanks very much and david gest mostly speaking to us from the university of oxford thank you. to breaking news now and at least 13 people have died after multiple blasts in the afghan capital explosions happened near a school in the area of dust in west in kabul children were leaving at the time of the explosions another 24 people are injured. and group has occupied a market in mindanao in the southern philippines in what could become a standoff with the army the biggest moro islamic freedom fighters open foreign

civilians according to witnesses local people say they were only able to flee with the help of the military the rebel group broke off from the large at moro islamic liberation front they entered peace talks with the government. the scottish national party's hope of securing a majority in the country's parliament hangs in the balance several key seats are yet to be declared party leader nicolas doesn't she wants to seek a 2nd referendum on scottish independence if it gets to seats u.k. prime minister boris johnson says a 2nd vote would be irresponsible and reckless as scots rejected independence by a 10 point margin back in 2014 let's wait to join hala correspondent who's done a buy for us in the scottish couple of edinburgh and you know how they're going way where are we with the results. the count to goes on it is still just about possible for the s.n.p. the scottish national party just secure an outright majority even if by only one

seat it is more likely that they will but this election will have returned a majority for independence with the s.n.p. bolstered by the pro independence greens 1st minister s.n.p. leader nicolas sturgeon make comments in the last 24 hours making it abundantly clear what she intends to do with that majority she will govern this country she said through the pandemic in 2 economic recovery and then at some point after that offer the country she said the choice of a brighter future in other words independence from the u.k. the plan seems to be that at some point in the next 2 or 3 years she will use that majority to legislate in the scottish parliament if for a 2nd referendum to take place it will then be for the government of westminster boris johnson to respond either to agree to it which seems highly unlikely or negotiate some sort of settlement short of independence or as he has suggested he might take scotland to the supreme court on the basis that this parliament doesn't have the power to legislate for constitutional change what seems clear in all of

this is that the drive for independence is very much back on track as a result of this election and set to dominate the politics both sides of the border for years to come and join and say well why is it taking so long for the results to come through when are we likely to get a conclusion. by the end of saturday we'll know the results nick it's about coded restrictions counting has been taking place under cover distractions and therefore taking place very slowly in fact over the course of 2 days we're getting pretty close to the end now as you say there is no doubt now that the s.n.p. has won a victory its 4th consecutive victory in the scottish parliament it has an unassailable lead the key question was whether the nicolas surge would get her outright majority to be able to. claim a democratic mandate for independence the s.n.p. has the make clear that they consider any sort of the georgie in the parliament even one in a hook up with the greens as sufficient to claim that democratic mandate and as i

said she's made it very clear that that's precisely what she intends to do or agenda thanks in edinburgh thank you. now england has unveiled a green list of 12 countries where residents can visit without going into quarantine when they return the new rules come into effect in may the 17th and will mean international travel will no longer be illegal australia or new zealand on the list even though they've both close their borders to u.k. tourists the european union plans to allow tourism from countries with known facts writes by mid june virginia messina is the managing director of the world travel and tourism council and she says the measures are too cautious. and we certainly welcome any positive step towards the reopening of international travel but unfortunately we don't believe this is another mean for our sector has been devastated by this pandemic as we know and more than 62000000 jobs have been lost globally still given the advanced and rate of the vaccination roll out here in the

u.k. we were hoping they would take a bit more of a risk based approach and hoping to see more countries particularly and the market within the e.u. and also the u.s. in that green list i mean 2020 the global economy suffered a drop of 3.7 percent in g.d.p. trial and tourism g.d.p. dropped by 49 percent so that's kind of the difference between the impact of your sector i mean this crisis has hit as 18 times harder than the global financial crisis so i mean it's certainly devastating wherever you see it across all of the different industries i mean airlines hotels absolutely and not only that but also that yes it means that are the backbone of this sector and all of the small businesses that are owned by women and other minorities that have been disproportionately affected by this crisis so unless we see very clear and bold

steps towards a reopening of travel in a safe way and all of these devastating hardship is going to continue. space agency say they're uncertain where a large out of control section of a chinese rocket will end up many of the $23.00 tons of the remnants of long march 5 b. are expected to burn are part of reentry into the atmosphere but some pieces could fall anywhere on earth brown reports now from hong kong. china's space program has traveled a long way very quickly as it races to catch up with other nations but as the rockets and what they carry get bigger so to the debris they leave behind. more than a week ago a chinese long march 5 rocket was launched from heinen island carrying part of the country's 1st permanent space station. after its separation from the maggio the rocket began to orbit the earth in an ump planned trajectory as it

slowly lost altitude now a 30 meters section is hurtling towards earth a 29000 kilometers an hour the u.s. military is tracking its progress we don't have a plan to shoot the rocket there were hopeful that that will land then in a place where. or harm anyone awfully in the ocean or someplace like that under international guidelines rockets are supposed to return to earth in a controlled way but that's not happening this time i'm afraid of the remaining pockets of the rocket is right now without control but it has its trajectory and it has its old process of re entering into the atmosphere and hopefully it will lead laterally without causing any damage or injury china makes no secret about its space ambitions over the next 18 months at least 10 more launches

a planned to support its space station program here on earth cold war politics means that china can cooperate with other. countries in space that's because the united states continues to bar china from participating in the international space station also backed by other countries who have relations with beijing right now. china wants to become a major space power by 2030 and has demonstrated this in recent years with visits to the moon the launch of a long crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. or professor of astrophysics at the university of work in the u.k. and he says scientists really can't say where this will land but it is extremely unlikely to injure anybody there are predictions right now where. the areas or so large that it really could most anywhere or track. so the

contradictions are somewhere in there using probably a 1000 miles away from new zealand but really that's just an approximate location and it could be anywhere from well from the trade to the water to china itself really don't know because it all depends on the state the atmosphere at that time and and the orientation of the rocket when it hits you atmosphere and things like that so normally when you launch into low earth orbit he's a put a booster that doesn't actually attain sufficient the last thing to go into orbit itself so you would launch it in a safe mer east coast of the u.s. and the rocket would just fall into the atlantic in this case it was launching a large part for the 1st part of the chinese space station and so it had to have to be a big rocket to get that large part into orbit and pull every reason it managed to

attain just about time lost the going to war with itself but the orbit it's reached is a very little shuttle that and so what that means is that it ends up brushing into the atmosphere the part that will bit which slows it down slightly slightly and so consequently the orbiter carries quite quickly. still ahead here around 0 and got sport coming up another pitcher enters baseball's history books for i will be here with that and a lot more. may on al-jazeera. from a 3rd wave to the vaccine rollout the latest developments as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the world. algeciras emmy award winning investigative program is back exploring the front lines in the u.s. as america attempts to tackle police brutality and shootings against people of

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so taiwan is hoping a recent rainfall will finally bring an end to its worst drought in decades changing climates in the west pacific is believed to be the cause it's a phenomenon that has implications for high tech companies worldwide right now explains the water shortage being suffered by this small island off the coast of mainland china could have a global impact. taiwan's reservoirs normally fed by summer rains and typhoons storms like parched producing the worst drought in more than half a century to live this is it last year 2028 was the 1st time in 56 years that we didn't have a typhoon passing through as an island state that's our main source of water the impact is being felt island wide including taiwan's water hungry semiconductor industry like other companies t.s.m. see the world's biggest contract producer of microprocessors is making up the

shortfall by trucking in water but while one tanker carries 20 tons the company needs 200000 tons of water daily. in addition to water trucks there's more recycling in the short term it's not a big problem but it is an uncertainty in the coming quarter. and it's an uncertainty that adds to a global shortage of microchips as companies in taiwan and here in south korea have tried to increase production to meet the demands of changing lifestyles caused by the pandemic and that's led to hold ups in tech hungry industries like car manufacturing back in taiwan president citing when has called for greater efforts to source and conserve water while visiting the hardest hit central part of the island where high tech industries compete with local communities for dwindling supplies that. we will try our best to keep people's lives from being to steps to

much and at the same time to choose the impact on thai chung's industries. but farmers have also come up with their own solution as they look ahead to what should be the bountiful rains of spring and summer. prayers and offerings to the sea god s mazu thought in chinese culture to hold sway over their fortunes robert bright al-jazeera sold. all right let's get into the sport has for nick thank you so much a senior olympic official says nothing can stop the tokyo games going ahead that's despite a state of emergency in the city being extended due to the chrome virus pandemic more than 200000 people in japan have signed a petition calling for the games to be cancelled i.o.c. vice president john cote says says the right paw sions are in place to ensure a safe and secure olympics the games are due to start on july the 23rd the moment the games will go ahead there's no need for us to be hypothetical we. we spent the

1st half of last year i did a final of the worst case scenarios and we sent the spent the next 6 months straight and now looking at the counter measures that and this is very we're implementing those countermeasures you've read the playbook you can you can see that as they have all kind of measures predicated on they being met no vaccine so that situations improved the games are going ahead. sometimes surrounds are happening at olympic venues no oversea pleats were allowed to take part in this gymnastics competition and it was held without spectators on sunday they will be a track and field event at the new one point $4000000000.00 national stadium. the 3 european football clubs a yet withdraw from the ill fated super league say they are being unfairly targeted and a joint statement real madrid barcelona and eventis claim european governing body you a fan made an acceptable threats after the plan was announced the other 19 is pulled

out of the breakaway competition after criticism from fans players and politicians . supporter groups are set to meet with you a friend an effort to move the champions league final out of turkey chelsea and manchester city are due to play in istanbul at the end of the month english fans have been told not to travel to the game due to new coronavirus restrictions if the government has put turkey on a so-called red list of countries that shouldn't be visited except in the most extreme circumstances but honestly i played wherever it's played. should have played in istanbul last season so it was not in istanbul it was in part to go then 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 the treble to turkey. chelsea and man city face each other in

the premier league later this saturday a win for city will ensure they win the title for the 3rd time in 4 years on friday last serve suffered a setback in their bid to qualify for next season's champions league they were beaten 42 by newcastle us or are 3rd in the table the top 4 go through to europe's top competition. which. was the post you have to fight for everything which will close to work as we want to be. a group position still today it's a disappointment of course for everyone. but this is a stage of the season we're going to win games. and the world's most expensive player neymar has extended his contract with paris and sharan brazilian's new deal runs until 2025 emerge for $217000000.00 from barcelona 40 years ago. well james back on the injured list the l.a.

lakers have hit more problems spite anthony davis' effort of 36 points the lakers were beaten by the portland trailblazers a loss that leaves the reigning n.b.a. champions 7 in the western conference if they stay in that position the lakers face having to play extra games to reach the playoffs. and the new orleans pelicans will be without key man zion williamson in their push to make the playoffs williamson has a fractured finger the balcones vice president claims officials haven't done enough to protect the 20 year old he's injured now because of the open season that there's been on zion williamson in the paper he has been absolutely mauled in the piece on a regular basis to the point that other players have said to him i'm going to keep doing this to you because they don't call it 70000 fans are set to watch mexican superstar sol canelo alvarez defend his world titles in texas it will be

the biggest ever crowd in an indoor boxing venue in the u.s. unbeaten british fighter billy joe saunders is alvarez's latest opponent saunders has a chance to come just the 2nd fighter after floyd mayweather to defeat for division champion. wasn't coming to light i don't know coming so you know i don't think over is the mom as much oh and determined to win as me is going to be a good point he's a great champion but to be honest with you. to try all of these souls in time. that world heavyweight champion tyson fury is in taxes to support saunders when asked if alvarez is the best pound for pound fighter in the world i gave this response i don't know but a pound for pound on the best point i suddenly have the most pound for pound the best the best the best price best everything. baseball now and wade miley has

thrown the 4th no hitter of the major league season this is about the reds pitcher entered the history books on friday with 9 no hit innings against the cleveland indians the most no hitters thrown in the modern era is happened with this season well on track to pass that mark i did learn to praise fans can get a little extra at the concession stand this weekend the braves are providing free cope with 1000 vaccinations at their stadium each person who gets vaccinated can pick up some free take it to watch future games race fans may not be too keen to rush back after this 12 to 2 loss against the philadelphia phillies. ok matt is all your sport for now and thank you very much and thank you to now belgians beer taps flowing again for the 1st time in almost 7 months since coronavirus restrictions these bars and restaurants were shot in october to cap a spike in infections they can now serve customers outside under strict guidelines on group sizes and closing time. all right that's it for this is i'll be back in

a couple minutes with nothing from leeds we shall see you there. in 19054 young anti-apartheid activists were murdered by south african security forces if you gone solve the problem by the moving the guy then you could keep 36 years on a family's quest for justice reveals systemic resistance to prosecution and musselburgh conflict for can our father already and exposes the influence the former apartheid establishment still wielded in the new south africa my father died for this people in our investigation on al-jazeera being comfortable in one's own skin is a birthright or at least it should be a black filmmaker raised by white parents in east berlin in the 1960 s.

embarks on a stunning journey of self discovery. a touching tale of family identity lifelong secrecy and reconciliation. becoming black eye witness documentary on al-jazeera the state of a man sits at the mouth of their arabian gulf at the eastern end of the arab peninsula if you look at the arabian peninsula as a whole the ascension to ancient culture is to the east. and to the west yet. it's sometimes known as the switzerland of the gulf because of the important regional role it plays in the gulf cooperation council the g.c.c. . but hormones long history is not well known outside the gulf region before oil was discovered in 1962 and fishing and crude diving words main sources of income.

in this film we go back over the last 500 years of all 90 history of tribes wars rebellion and colonization and explore how and why oman still plays an important regional role today. condemnation of that call for protests after israeli security forces stormed the al aqsa mosque injuring dozens of palestinian worshipers. at 1 o'clock this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the leaders hold their 1st face to face meeting of the air with the pandemic and vaccines at the top of their agenda.