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jerusalem injuring dozens of palestinian worshippers. more indian states go into lockdown as the country struggles to contain the world's worst over 1000 surge. and scotland's nationalist parties vow to push for an independence referendum after winning a parliamentary majority in elections. and have all the sport 7 time world champion lewis hamilton clinton call it extending hundreds of position of his formula one korea. welcome to the news hour dozens of people have been killed after multiple blasts in the afghan capital it happened near a school in the area of dusty barred she and western kabul children were leaving the compound at the time of the explosions. president gone he blames the taliban

but the armed groups as i saw was behind the attack feel your controversial read has more from the afghan capital. the incident happened 530 local kabul time that's the time when the afternoon shift of foss cools is ending the students are finishing their classes and that was a girls' school and there is no school buses here to take them home so at that time the streets outside of school are packed with students going home that's when i witnesses say 3 explosions happened almost back to back and after that point according to eyewitnesses there were there was panic there were students who were trying to run away crying and calling for their mothers there's some extremely graphic footage that has been coming out from the area of the attack with bodies lying next to each other with bodies being put one of almost on top of another in an area that could be either part of building or part of

a hospital and dozens have been transferred in hospitals across kabul the taliban has. condemned the attack and it has blamed eisel for it and we have to remember that this attack happened in western kabul in dust which is an area that is predominantly has predominantly shia and in recent years there have been many attacks in that area schools have been targeted gyms have been targeted and most of the times it has been i so that has claimed an attack this story is still developing but i can tell you is that was driving through kabul the entire city tonight is numb after this attack. well there has been widespread condemnation after israeli forces stormed the compound and occupied east jerusalem more than 200 palestinian worshippers were injured

palestinian groups are calling for protests later on saturday and here are looking at the live pictures from tonight's let's bring in harry foss and he's joining us from damascus gate that's in the vicinity of the mosque in occupied east jerusalem harry tell us what's what's going on behind you and what you've been seeing. yes so far things are relatively quiet here at damascus gates on this saturday night but it's not just any saturday night we're in the last few days of ramadan and this is the night known as laid out which is that the holiest night of the month of ramadan which attracts usually thousands of extra people to the al aqsa mosque for nightly prayers so there is the prospect of a potential follow on from what we saw of those extremely violent scenes from friday nights already we have seen some confrontations on the road outside

jerusalem the main highway number one bringing people down from the north towards jerusalem for this very holy night some buses were stopped there was a huge traffic jam as some people got off those buses and decided they were going to march all the way here to 2 occupied east jerusalem the police is saying that they were trying to intervene to target specific individuals that they thought were coming to try to cause trouble inside the mosque compound but the suspicion more why do is that they were trying to minimize the numbers certainly those sorts of videos are being shared here by people on the steps behind me so it all adds to the sense that there could be another night of tension coming up and harry i know you're speaking to us from from the a damascus gate as you've been saying but we're also hearing reports of people marching towards the chefs out of our neighborhood of course that is where the the evictions are taking place of palestinian families and israeli police are blocking

people's way over there. well yes i mean this is really extraordinary confluence of many things since the beginning of ramadan really we've seen a ramping up of tensions the steps behind us here they were in the 1st days of ramadan totally barricaded off just allowing access in and out through this gate that caused a great deal of protest and confrontations eventually those were dismantled that added to the sense around the shake your own neighborhood that you talk about where there are 4 families under imminent threat of eviction with their court case the appeal to the supreme court to be heard at a hearing on monday monday is also the day it's israeli jews know as jerusalem day when you see far right religious nationalist israelis marching through the muslim quarters quarter waving flags chanting and so all of this is

coming together and there is a real fear that that things could continue to spiral as you say shakes your itself has seen many nights of confrontations between jewish settlers and palestinian protesters and the police as well so there are multiple fronts that that we need to keep aware of as things progress ok thank you so much terry fosset from my reporting from occupied east jerusalem let's talk about all these fronts of my one decider he is al jazeera senior political analyst he's joining us from the heart by ron thanks for your time let's start with the latest news 1st and that is that the arab league is due to hold an emergency meeting on monday to discuss the situation in jerusalem what do you think is going to happen there what can come out of it. well not much you know aside from statements and we've heard statements before unless the arab league does take some serious initiative including but think some of those states that normalized relations with israel on notice on this some of

those countries use their leverage whether it's diplomatic or other with israel i think we would see simply more statements statements that are. perhaps loud in the non stations and. condemn nation but very short or no on actionable leverage in terms of forcing israel or its our allies not to the united states to act in order to stop that oppression is a lot of cities in jerusalem and harry was just reporting from from damascus gate at the end aqsa mosque compound saying that people have been walking on foot to get to the mosque tonight so one of the holiest nights in islam do you expect any confrontations this evening. you know whether it happens this evening or anything in the future that's all it is a number that jerusalem is today the real fault line between the israeli

occupation and the occupied palestinian because in the rest of the west bank. president a bus has kept the palestinians quite depressed in his so-called security coordination with israel if he would allow the situation to be free for the seniors in the west bank to express themselves we will see a major upheaval endorsed bank like we see in jerusalem but a doc sickly. because jerusalem is not under a palestinian authority control but that and that direct israeli control we see that kind of signal more capable of expressing themselves and that's really the paradox of this question now a days where the a scene or thought of itself is oppressing the palestinians preventing them from rising up to the occasion which is what responding to continuous israeli at

a question on confiscation of their rights because what's happening just the day israelis frame it as some sort of a real estate dispute over certain number of houses or all different neighborhoods within within the city as that the palestinians and as the international community knows this is not that again a state issue this is an issue that has to do with confiscating and pay out of nation and entire state and by a whole amount of the palestinians because if the israelis are going to claim that this is all about the deeds well the palestinians can show deeds for all on or most most of israel today meaning most of what israel is today is in the city and then that was confiscated or taken over through violence and. well let's all remember the beginning of the 20th century some 98 percent of what is

believed was only an instant right anything this issue for the whole century has been an ongoing continuous gates no longer israeli signers. but let me ask you this this is not the 1st time that israeli settlers have tried to evict palestinians from their homes why do you think that. particular has become such a rallying cry it's been embraced by people from east jerusalem to palestinians in east jerusalem to arabs in israel these cities to the gaza strip and let's not forget all the solidarity that's been witnessed online as well. what actually you know some of you know we in the media we tend to have a bit of a short memory but in fact jerusalem interrupted a number of occasions on a number of years for a number of neighborhoods that were taken over by the israelis yes you are right the shutter has

a specific state of importance it is really in the heart of part of jerusalem it's right there outside the gates of jerusalem and it's really where a few palestinians are left between the various jewish heavy neighborhoods that were developed. by israel and by the municipality so that in order to give the city its products that. is to think you can locate did well by now if this is emptied of its spread of. inhabitants it would enable the israelis to create more and more jewish community continue working in the city believe it or not the rain when we say or an ally some of the stuff out there in the world and western societies people think this is a bit of and and i'm to submit the thing while in fact it's a very israeli government ology israel uses the word jew dice jew dies meaning to

render something jewish and israeli policy since the 1950 s. it continued after the 967 war and the west bank and and jerusalem are say to create jewish realities witnessing us live to effect and to replace them with jews this has been going on now for decades in jerusalem it continues today and the palestinians feel that perhaps this is their last battle just to hold on to whatever is left in jerusalem because as i said this jerusalem is the fault line between occupation and occupied between zionism and. nationalism and i think it is where this might be the trigger as it was in. previous upheavals were jerusalem would be a trigger for murder. confrontations you know the 1st intifada

one is to get like the 2nd intifada if you remember when the shah wrong one visit to our right just to get in jerusalem so we should all be careful that this might be a trigger for another people unless israel or for that much of the united states restrain israel and stops plonker for their confiscation. and that's a live picture right now from occupied east jerusalem i want to thank you so much for joining us plenty more ahead on the news hour including e.u. leaders pushed back on the u.s. is trying to wave coronavirus patents why they say the move doesn't go far enough. we'll look at russia's influence in the border conflict between kurdistan and tajikistan by moscow's role as a mediator is being questioned. a senior olympic official says nothing can stop the tokyo games going ahead we'll have that story coming up in sports.

but 1st several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control it's the 3rd country after the u.s. on brazil to record more than $4000.00 deaths in a single day. reports from new delhi many are desperate to get their hands on life saving medical supplies. rajkumar patiently waits for his next ride his passenger has a family members of a covert patient admitted to a new delhi hospital and there waiting to be taken home. is one of many drivers in india's capital who are using the auto rickshaws as ambulances and ferrying patients and their families for free and that is the most boring obviously one is scared but if everyone's children will stay inside their homes then who will go out and fight at the borders so all of us will have to come out of our homes and

the common people by any possible means be that money we all will have to help each other. in the state of mind to predation javac khan sold his wife's jewelry to buy medical equipment and personal protective equipment people for people in need. i saw such as what. people look out in their loved ones to hospitals on their shoulders or on on a carcass and some are so unfortunate. i thought that by not i come forward in the name of humanity and do something. and here in chennai patients waiting for a hospital bed are given help from this bus it's fitted with oxygen sit in does and concentrate by people who want to have the schools are all closed so we from the schools taken by. 6 cylinders in each bus and. make.

6 buses 6. persons. and later when it's a language say. because it's. a small step but with india accounting for nearly half the world's reported coronavirus infections nost and a quarter of the deaths anything anyone can do to help is now significant as people struggle in the face of a 2nd wave the health ministry is now saying patients no longer need a positive test before being admitted to a covert care facility. your leaders are urging the u.s. to lift restrictions on covert 1000 vaccine exports the global vaccine shortage was one of the main items on the agenda during their 1st in person summit of the year you council president charles michelle's says the white house proposal to suspend patents on vaccines would not be

a magic bullet. following the summit from london and has this update. shalmi show 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 shall we sell said that it says not a magic bullet in the short term but he did stress ahead of saturday's talks in porto that the use ready to engage on that matter is soon as a concrete proposal is put forward with that might happen fairly soon but that proposed that prospect worries some countries in the u. the french president and many will mark or 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 is other work which needs to be done sooner you'd have on clear they ask

a successful i'm going to be 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 its a vaccine rollout or to get procurement that was because it was so generous he says that heart of 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. more than a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine have arrived in pakistan it's been

supplied for free through the un back over x. game pakistan's trying to curb the spread of cover 19 by imposing a countrywide lockdown for 10 days it's concerned about a surge in cases during the muslim holiday has more from islamabad the national command operations center which is dealing with a cold wave 19 pandemic here in pakistan has announced a strict lockdown across pakistan from today all business 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 restrict saw a spike in the number of 19 in fiction the fear is there to. be a very good call because of a lack of rain delay there not if the situation cured he like which india

is confronting and therefore the authorities are what it warning the people that they're much take that seriously although there is a template when it comes to the people at large who are not for letting the. north wearing their mark and also congregating a large number linda market. 3rd wave a dangerous and a government of course and what it regardless of the situation escalates it really not be able to deal with this problem thousands of people in ethiopia a region aren't getting much needed aid the u.n. says that's because convoys of supplies are being blocked leaving many suffering from malnutrition and now after 6 months of conflicts one of the country's top religious leaders has spoken out against what he describes as genocide samus ravi has more. the ethiopian government has been fighting the tigre a people's liberation front since november the conflict in the north integrate 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. the guy who i am not sure what the to great people did wrong what's their crimes i am not clear why they wanted to clear genocide on the people of to great i do not know why they want to wipe the people of to great from the surface of the earth the whole world should know this. is the video of a beauty mathias a tigre a native and patriarch of ethiopia has orthodox church was filmed last month and smuggled out of other suburb. he accuses the government of creating carnage wanting to destroy the northern to great region and censoring his earlier attempts to speak out. and my other message to the people of to great 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 as 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 19th tends to shape the narrative of how the conflict and its hold in these kinds of contradictory statements challenge the government. which for example is denying the presence of eritrean troops who are months before only confirming the present very trying troops when they need to go. prime minister ahmed 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. al-jazeera police and have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of people protesting against the transitional military council's rule they ignored a ban on demonstrations and gathered in the capital military has named a new government and promised elections within 18 months but leading opposition figures reject the appointment saying most were ministers under late president idriss deby he was killed last month while fighting against rebels 6 a master as a charity and member of the opposition and the president of the transformers political party he says repression is on the rise. our county has been the most subjected to a dinner stick kind of military coup that the confiscated power and we did people

of we are marching because we don't want this a kind of deny stick transmission of power from father to son and without the willing of the people and last week and this week we are organized peaceful protests unfortunately more than 700. people were arrested and more than 10 people killed and even today our headquarters our blog about a part of the army and my passport is confiscated and you know they are you know. shooting people so it's means that we are not moving in the right direction and this is the what the people of judge don't want this is a charge for a king it's not a charge for democracy because we don't only the the leader of this military council is supposed to appoint people from the parliament people from the judiciary

power people from the executive power which means that we are no longer a democracy so if you look at this chart then you'll understand that we are not moving on to underwrite that action and what we did people of just how to question is 1st to have a civil president and since the question of security is very important we can appoint a vice president in charge of the security so the people from the c.m.t. which is the military kind of council they can go to disobey his presidency and order now the security of the of the country. still ahead on the news hour the green gold rush why they can license and of marijuana will do little to help rural communities in mexico looking to cash in an answer to starbucks or canelo alvarez sets his sights on winning one gold details coming up in sports.

the last few days a scene that the deflating flash flooding actually in in a good part of a round of to the northeast there are more showers to come which i think it will head to afghanistan now they've left behind increasingly warm weather in iraq and back towards levant the temperature is touching 40 degrees around the dead sea where you'll notice the wind is changing and the sand with it is a possible have certainly got more dust in the air will cool things down a little bit is not runs in through north and south in towards iraq so that and things of cotton down there no more potential floods inland in yemen just a few months and shout that's also true briefly i think in a month and there's the drop in temperature is not severe but we're down to about 30 in jerusalem not $38.00 dramatic weather in western cape of south africa this wrapped around cloud which is slow moving for a day gave record breaking rain or showed this yesterday is again today 7 times the average now record and stressed by which is not quite but almost the southernmost

tip of africa where the rains just about stopped now it is creeping along the south coast towards the eastern cape i think much of the heaviest stuff will go offshore now as you've got a miserable day rather wet and dangerous day but that rain does creep up the coast and eventually hits the south of mozambique. but the tourist terraces of the football ultras where club loyalty come in violent confrontations when i was young when there was a football match we were crying because the fans would go crazy but in indonesia one group of revolutionary supporters has taken a stand against male aggression with a carnival list display of peace and unity the fans who make football ultras in angels on al-jazeera. the world of high frequency share trading

exposed by this engine that was basically trading a could a lost $30000000.00 it was a terrifying experience how artificial intelligence was raised the stakes and risks on the money markets as markets go faster and faster we are opening up the possibility for instability for no. money bonds coming soon on al jazeera. america the top stories on al-jazeera news hour dozens of people have been killed in multiple blasts and i'm gonna start it happened here

a school in western capital president awestruck ghani says the taliban were behind the attack of the armed groups as i saw as to blame. palestinian groups are calling for protests after israeli forces stormed it up some mosque compound that occupied east jerusalem more than 200 palestinian worshippers were injured thousands of muslims had gathered there for the. last friday prayers of ramadan. e.u. leaders are urging the u.s. to lift restrictions on covert $1000.00 vaccine exports the global vaccine shortage was one of the main items on the agenda during their 1st in person summit of the year you council president charles michel says the white house repos all to suspend patents on vaccines would not be a magic bullet. social media platforms have been criticized for a deleting posts about what's happening in occupied east jerusalem and other stories from around the world sarah hire us explains. 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 it says the story is no longer available on instagram is accused of censoring pictures and videos of the hashtag save she $100.00 wrote in both english and arabic since may the 2nd and that's when israel ordered 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 a palestinian activist some of our colleagues are who shared it widely on instagram facebook and twitter and it shows 22 year old accord a palestinian confronting a jewish settler in her family home in iraq and this was taken down for many. europe of you know this is not you would have yes but if i call you don't go over this well you know you. but you know if you have a go at me. really my heard of 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 started being hidden from people's feeds on friday and that's al aqsa now some including journalists have their accounts they said disabled for posts on someone's protest in or east jerusalem on friday nights where more as you heard earlier more than $200.00 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 shia gerano social media on other activism stories also disappeared on wednesday and thursday in fact colombian instagram users revealed instagram removed posts on protests 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

is 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 number is much closer to 5000 a magic 5000 women girls and 2 spirit folks that just disappeared by instagram removing our post there doing the same thing silencing us and our race in the continued genocide against our people so i ask you why she also i will and scream has in the last few hours issued an apology saying it was a bug which to lead to posts and it wasn't deliberate now it's heads. also wrote on people around the world from colombia to is jerusalem used 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 let's talk about those some of her hard who is the director of the international journal of the master's program at city the university of london she is joining us from there thanks so much for speaking to us 1st of all what do you make of the response by instagram to the accusation that the company has been censoring and deleting posts. if it was a technical glitch as instagram is basically claiming and saying we really need to address the 2 aspects here that social media platforms agenda to. lacking and falling behind and these 2 things on transparency off that policies insensitive and content on that platforms and accountability for actions such as as the actions that we've seen in the last 24 hours and the last few days and mainly in the relation to social media platforms. with governments asking or putting requests to social media platforms to sense that confidence and users.

of this tend to these government policies and actions. when it comes to information suppression particularly to the palestinian cause a lot of people will say well this has been documented before and this is in fact something that is not new how widespread do you think it is. it's widespread not just for the palestinian human rights activists it's widespread also to human rights activists in other parts of the word and that's that's the point i'm trying to make here is that these social media platforms are. with or has you know an element of confirm a t. when one governments actually pressured them illegally in many you know contacts and many national contacts to sunset users and content without the knowledge of the individual users so i think this is where a social media platform needs to revisit their own actions and that on way of

operating and i think the activists in the cases that you're journalists have just highlighted and that effort was successful in making these social media platform giants you know going back and kind of. stating the fact that we didn't need to do this it was that at technical glitch and a visit to instagram for instance in the last half an hour you can see that the hash tag for instance a lot thought of the hash tag saving. is back to be on the platform and why do you think this kind of censorship is taking place what is the ultimate aim here is it just own to. use a coordination or requests by certain governments like the israeli government. yes it is if we take the case off of the israeli government they have

a special unit that is affiliated to the attorney general's office called the cyber unit and they find that you know it was reported for instance last month that they have gained the green light from the screen court to use what is called between quotation marks targeted enforcement to put requests to the social media platform to censor and to remove a council fuzes from its its platforms basically this was reported after israeli human rights groups actually put a petition to the supreme court asking them to stop this special unit the you know what is called side but units as a gated to the office to have this this poet and sometimes use it in an illegal way to sunset and silence human rights activists ok is a hard thank you so much for speaking to us from london thank you

scotland's election has delivered a parliamentary majority in favor of independence scottish national party leader nicolas sturgeon says she'll use that majority to fight a 2nd referendum despite resistance from the british prime minister boris johnson jonah hold reports from edinburgh it's not the outright majority the scottish national party had hoped for but the election has produced a majority for independence with the s.n.p. bolstered by the greens 1st minister and s.n.p. leader nicolas sturgeon made clear what she intends to do with it with the s.n.p. and the scottish greens stood in a clear commitment to an independence referendum within the next parliamentary tear and both of us be clear that the timing over referendum should be decided by a simple majority of image peas in the scottish parliament. pandemic recovery is the immediate priority after that the plan is for the scottish parliament to

legislate for a referendum to take place within the next 5 years it'll be for the government in london in charge of u.k. constitutional affairs to agree negotiate or challenge it in the supreme court a spectacle that would risk inflaming separatist desire even further so right now polling suggests perhaps the slates in that support for independence in kind of 4849 percent and 50 percent consistently over the last year when thing that makes that would make this referendum different though is that there's not a whole lot of people who are undecided there's not a whole that if you will have it be their mind up on independence so you would have to change their minds rather than rather than in like the people i bring people together so you would have to have to change their entrenched positions which meant that my. prime minister boris johnson has consistently ruled out a 2nd referendum the 1st in 2014 was lost by a 10 point margin something he believes should have put the issue to bed for

a generation but then brics it happened which scotland voted against by a large margin in 2016 being taken out of the e.u. against their will as many see it as reinvigorated the drive to leave the united kingdom what it all serves to demonstrate this election intervening event since 2040 of the declining influence of unionist party scottish labor in the conservatives is just how divided this country now is split pretty much right down the middle there may well be a pass to a 2nd referendum now but still no way of predicting the outcome if it happens and with its politics said to be defined by antagonism towards westminster and the pursuit of independence from it for years to come jonah edinburgh. kurdistan and have agreed to use soviet era maps in an effort to end a decades long border dispute at least 50 people were killed during fighting last

month a ceasefire brokered by russia is now in place but moscow's role as chief mediator is being questions charles trafford reports from bishkek in the aftermath of the worst fighting between kyrgyzstan in tajikistan since their border dispute started 30 years ago one question is being asked louder than others how did you 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 killed his counterparts at a meeting of the collective security organization that's led by russia that seems to say something either about the 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 cutest 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 leaving too much towards its rival china. president so there was a part of has for many killed is finch who conciliatory towards to stand after at least $34.00 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 last thing 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 because you can stand as russia's 1st line of defense both kyrgyzstan to stand host russian military bases at one until you can stand as well important 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 condemning the curious flag flies over bishkek but many are wondering how kyrgyzstan until you can stand can reach a last thing solution to their border dispute and whether their mutual ally can or indeed wants to help chance trafford al-jazeera bishkek. and out of

control section of a chinese rocket as expected to crash into earth this weekend but space agencies don't know where it will land much of the 23 tons of remnants from the rocket is expected to burn up when it really enters the atmosphere but some pieces could fall anywhere on earth adrian brown reports from hong kong. china's space program has traveled a long way very quickly as it races to catch up with other nations but is 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 hein an 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 a lump land 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 it. won't harm anyone. hopefully 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 pocket of the rocket is right now without control but it has its trajectory and it has its old process re entering into the atmosphere and hopefully it will lead naturally 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. dan polanco is a professor of astrophysics at the university of warrick and he says that scientists really can't say where this will land but it's extremely unlikely to injure anyone there are predictions right now where it's going to. the areas or so large that it really could almost anywhere or truck. 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 use of a booster that doesn't actually attain sufficient the last thing to go into orbit itself so you would launch it in a safe mode 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 tie in just about the 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 on the news hour the sports news and it's a showdown between 2 teams chasing the spanish league title action from the crunch match in a moment. and southern england where 2 farmers turned safari park pioneers of that's their trek tos good mates in the driving seat i was just absolutely astonishing the life that poor back even the very 1st so much and i mean good sophia and sent the i would to live one by layering companies revolutionized the 4th 5th district once an artificial intelligence here inside you have science you have the knowledge of

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mexico marijuana legalization has opened the doors for what could be the world's largest market one community is facing its bets on that as its ticket out of poverty that critics say the reform favors multinational corporations and not small time farmers my new apple are reports from mexico city. that why is a small village in central mexico it's a poor community lacking running water and electricity. villagers have relied on the sale of traditional medicines and more recently honey for their survival but amid drowned in environmental degradation neither industry is viable anymore which is why they are looking to grow marijuana now legal under federal law as well up i know it's a madison ill plan the treats many things so why not we would accept working with associations to use our fertile lands that are free of agro chemicals for cultivation of kind of banal which is medicine. many of you marijuana legalization

as a potential boom for mexico's struggling economy a green gold rush to create jobs in poor areas and a new source of tax revenue for the government. policy experts however say the new reforms are not designed to benefit small communities like last. season so. unfortunately the side of social justice to benefit rural communities who have been among the worst affected by the drug war seems more like fiction these communities will supposedly be given priority to obtain certain licenses for growing but the entry costs are too high for them to afford. critics of the new law see the mexican government has not only falsely promoted the legal marijuana initiative as an economic relief for poor communities but also a benefit to patients who depend on marijuana for medical use. the mother's bed is has been treating her 8 year old son with medicinal cannabis oil for the last 6 years she says it's the only thing that's helped against his chronic epileptic

seizures but the reform still makes it illegal to give minors products derived from cannabis little sample in the hand the white and the law leaves us out so we are left with no choice but to make this medical treatment for him and for many other children in mexico illegally and also cultivate illegally in order to obtain the oil extracts at home. the legal cannabis in mexico means recreational use will be decriminalized not everyone is pleased with the final outcome of the reform law in law hopes are still high the growing legal marijuana could lift the town out of poverty unfortunately the law itself may not be entirely on their side. as it up a low al-jazeera mexico city. time for sports news with sun up thank you very much a daring all 7 time world champion lewis hamilton has clinton a record extending hundreds a pole position of his f one career at the spanish accompli the mersey this

a driver barely edged out where the bulls max for stepan who's just point 03 seconds behind on hamilton's teammate of i'll tell you protests will race from 3rd hamilton nice to championship standings by 8 points over stop and going into the 4th race of the season. i can't believe 100 and i release it's down to the men and women that are back at the factory and continuously raising the bar and i just never giving up the support that i have it's been a dream for me to work with these guys and the journey that we've been immense. manchester city blew a chance to seal the english premier league title early and a win over chelsea would have guaranteed the championship but the blues spoiled the party for them city paid the price for where was missed penalty in the 1st half which would have put them at 2 nil up as it was that they ended up losing 2 on the it's a high stadium the sides will face off again in the champions league final. and there

was a massive game in the league title race tickle my did it played out a goal a stroll with barcelona means athletico remain top 2 points ahead of bossa both have 3 games to go. so there's real madrid can go level on points with that let it go on sunday they have a tough test against 4th place severe los blancos to go into the game having been knocked out of the champions league in the semifinals earlier in the week to make you feel that it's a different team is a different match and a different league but it's a team that will compete for sure it's a good team it has proven that since the beginning of the season to date and it's a team that's also fighting to win the league so we know our arrival and we know what kind of game we need to play if we want to win in germany by munich have sealed the 9th bundesliga title and saturday they thrashed the brucia washing 6

nil but the title was already sealed off to 2nd place our beloved 6 lost against dortmund and their mom has extended his contract with the pacers omar until 2025 the news comes ahead of a crucial match for p.s.g. in the league title race they face then on sunday training leaders need by 4 points . but spend i with ali smashed an unbeaten double 100 to help pakistan take control of the 2nd test against zimbabwe opener carried his bat and her score in 215 runs it with partisan declaring on 5148 in responses in by closed on 52 for 4 and trailed by 458 going into day 3 pakistan lead the 2 match series one to nothing . a senior lympics official says nothing can stop the tokyo games going ahead despite the state of the mergence in the city being extended due to the corner of

us pandemic more than 200000 people in japan have signed the petition calling for the games to be counseled i.o.c. vice president says the right precautions are in place to ensure a safe and secure lympics the games are just to start on july the 23rd at the moment of games of go ahead there's no need for us to be hypothetical we. we spent the 1st half of last year i did a final the worst case scenario is we sent the spent the next 6 months straight and now looking at the counter measures and there's a sorry we're implementing those counties you've read the playbook you can you can see that as they have all been countermeasures predicated on they being met no vaccine so that situations improved and the games are going ahead hall some test events are happening at olympic venues you know all the city's athletes who are allowed to take part in this gymnastics competition and it was held without

spectators on sunday there will be a track and field event at the new one point $4000000000.00 national stadium. $70000.00 fans are set to watch mexican superstar says defend his walled super middleweight title in texas it will be the biggest ever crowd at an indoor boxing venue in the u.s. on beach and british fighter benito saunders a wool champion himself is kanellos the latest opponent saunders has the chance to become just the 2nd fighter off to floyd mayweather jr to defeat the 30 year old. i don't come in to lie young coming to wait. you know dumping all races is fine as the man is much oh and determination to win as many is going to be a good point he's a great champion but to be honest with you coming to china only zones in time.

and that's all for me will have i'm all for you later on but for now hand you back to that in thank you so much sun and thanks for watching of a news hour that's it from my software from sun and the team here into how we handed over to our teams in london. more news in a moment. a weekly critique of the stories hitting the headlines the news media have been left to sort through mixed messages on a quite complex story from main street to street journalism the listening post covers the way the news is covered just. talked to al jazeera.

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explosions at a girls' school in western kabul dozens killed and injured many of them children as they were leaving class at the end of the day. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up in the program an uneasy calm in jerusalem but anger prevails after israeli security forces stormed the unlock some mosque and dozens of callista.