this. ready. 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 on the program an uneasy calm in jerusalem but anger prevails after israeli security

forces stormed the unlocks a mosque and dozens of palestinian worshippers were injured in an overwhelming victory for probably dependents parties in scotland fueling the push towards a 2nd referendum. and the $23.00 ton section of rocket which will reenter the earth's atmosphere in the coming hours but scientists can't say where it will come down. hello welcome to the program we begin in afghanistan where at least 55 people have been killed in an attack on a girls' school in west kabul there were several explosions just as pupils were leaving costs at the end of the day many of the dead were children between the ages of 11 and 15 years old more than 150 people have been injured or at the blast

targeted the said to show a school in the predominantly shiite dashed of bargee neighbor that this is the same area in which $25.00 people were killed including newborn babies mothers a nurse says when the maternity ward of the local hospital was attacked last year this year has our community has long suffered persecution and discrimination in afghanistan though they've been increasingly targeted by ice still in recent months and vera fears about intensifying violence and insecurity in the country as the united states withdraws its troops for a new controversy has more now from the afghan capital. the incident happened 530 local kabul time that's the time when the afternoon shift of schools 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 paddick 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 sold 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. christopher nam and he is the afghanistan country director for save the children joins us by skype now from kabul of his sleeve spent a great deal of time in the country you know about what's just happened and west in kabul why do you think this specific school in this particular neighborhood was was targeted in this attack. thanks a lot miriam for having me on your program i think this is an outrageous attack that is happening again targeting children mostly cures this is not your miriam this is the religion of life in afghanistan we see time in a being that are being targeted in this morning do we live in

a school and. we are planning it's appalling that this is happening and schools should be safe havens for children not zones of war. and your thoughts in terms of the perpetrators. i think we all of the perpetrators and parties to this conflict that they should do everything to protect children especially in schools and i think it's easy the schools declared mission is good guidelines one more on how you know this can be done in accordance with international humanitarian law including of we didn't use even schools. infrastructure for all. the the the the district that we're talking about at this moment is

a district that has suffered a lot of and in the past as you have as you have seen reported. but again this is a school that is a commodity grows. and it's not you. have to lend you money interviewers. but in afghanistan already we see that last year. over 30 percent victims of the conflict in afghanistan which you are doing and this is said and on the right i mean i read what you say about the need to protect civilian infrastructure but i sill and other groups other parties of conflict have shown that they cannot thing for. what you describe civilian life or indeed for preserving the rights of people to be able to go to school so what can be done then to help civilians because there is

a fear that we are likely to see more strife intensifying attacks the country to have a security vacuum in the in the absence of foreign troops and you worry that we're likely likely to see more of this. we awarded humanitarian workers and humanitarian organizations are weren't what this. but i think i think that the the the world has to remember that this is the the challenge of day to day life in afghanistan and the government of afghanistan needs to do more to ensure that children can be safe and oh i i talked to the u.n. and other international organizations in afghanistan want to develop this is about what can be done i talk to organizations that are dealing with international humanitarian law i think you know. we could do

we could. have been used explosions are not happening at public places yes finally these families right now as i'm talking to you they need assistance and we call upon the organizations as well as the government to provide that kind of assistance that they would need to recover from this tragedy or thank you very much chris if any of monday from save the children there in afghanistan thank you for joining us . thank you maria. now large numbers of people are heading for the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem a day after israeli forces stormed the compound palestinian groups have called for protests after friday's events watching all of this high for set in west jerusalem an area what is it or is amid the atmosphere like there now. for us on our show here in occupied east jerusalem damascus gate it had been

relatively calm here until about 5 or 10 minutes ago a few chants started a military the last minute or so whistles chanting and bottles being thrown at israeli security forces in the area surrounding the sort of amphitheater here at damascus gate all of the camera pans around to show you where that was and as it was happening so far the israeli security forces although they look like they're preparing for some kind of confrontation they have not yet responded the the head of the police in jerusalem israeli police said that they were getting ready for potential further confrontations after what was on friday night one of the most violent nights for many years in jerusalem you can hear the sound like a stun grenade in the background as you say there are many worshippers who've gone to the alexa mosque tonight because it is as particularly significant to come back into the shot now that is of particular significance nights so i'll just stay out

for now in the month of ramadan later told carter so it has a lot of ology significance. you could even start to go shouting. our lives well as that there were attempts to intervene when buses bringing people from the north of israel. were coming towards jerusalem police stopped they said they were trying to target. it's a certain individuals that they thought might be trying to provoke disturbances within the mosque compound but the effect was to hugely delay people from getting your people got out and started marching on the roads those videos are being shown around here as well so again adding to the sense of tension obviously yesterday was the last friday of the month of ramadan friday prayers always important but the last friday of of this month particularly significant elemental thousands of worship is inside the mosque itself to expect the numbers to be to be similar on

this night it's a little also very important night in the calendar. yes we will with the report we had through is that there were 75000 people which is a significant number not as big as what we have seen on this night in previous years but i think it's not just about what's happening inside the mosque it's what's been happening in jerusalem more generally is from the beginning of ramadan when israeli security forces barricaded the steps where people like to call gate after the nighttime prayers. that triggered protests here which. eventually got those barricades removed there's also the issue of pending evictions for palestinians living in occupied east jerusalem in the neighborhood of shakes gerar the court case which in the supreme court which is to decide whether their appeal can be heard that has been shared jailed for monday which is also the day

that israeli jews call jerusalem day marking the beginning of the night in 67 occupation here and that leads to marches by flag waving religious nationalists through the muslim quarter so all of these things combined with the frustrations of the lack of an election the decision by the palestinian authority to call off elections all of these things are coalescing and really turning up the temperature here in a way that we haven't seen for a long time. thank you very much there before i develop as far as hari force that damascus gate and occupied east jerusalem thank you. now the u.n. is saying that aid convoys to the to grey region in ethiopia are being blocked leaving thousands without humanitarian relief and hundreds malnourished now after 6 months of conflicts on of the country's top religious leaders has spoken out against what he describes as genocide. the ethiopian government has been fighting the tigre a people's liberation front since november the conflict in the northern 2 gray

region has killed thousands of people and displaced more than a 1000000. and now rare public criticism from inside the capital against if you'll be as prime minister of. the guy who i am not sure what the to great people did wrong what their crimes are i am not clear why they wanted to clear genocide and the people have to agree 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 as 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 many 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 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. no it's it tends to shape the narrative of how the conflict has it's told in these kinds of contradictory statements challenge the government. which for example was denying the presence of eritrean troops for months before only confirming the present very trying troops when they needed 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 fall out 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. still ahead for you on the program a new leaders come face to face in a bid to get more covert 1000 vaccines to india. another spring storm you have spring storm is approaching the northwest of europe is already raining in the british isles that's the cold front behind it sure changed

things which are currently quite hot and heavy so in the south of france for example temperatures around about like thirty's for one or 2 places well border goes down to $26.00 as the crowd starts or increase in the rain comes in this is during sunday the same is true for portugal and spain ahead of it all clear skies and a warming sunshine right on the edge of your really beyond is still cold enough to snow in georgia and in the high ground in the northeast of turkey now this rain is it news for this cold front will sort of become stationary against the alps us heavy rain with potential flooding in the south of france with wet snows bring snow for the alps big avalanche risk but the head of it still the sun is out and the breezes from the sides that's a warm direction this whole area is nuts much warmer than is the case even now that we are rising by maybe 10 degrees that berlin should reach 28 but what about the average which you sent 10 to head down towards by the time we get to wednesday so it's not going to last same is true libya couple record breaking days this small

town on the way sis but that's already cooling down as the wind direction is changed it to the eastern libya. hero and humanitarian. poetry and we will criminal. posing an army general who defended sorry able against attack by serb forces. how do you see the world looks back to the life of the loot you find to. show you the money. just. the way. the old.

main stories now have been several explosions in the afghan capital kabul at least 40 people were killed according to a security official another 52 were injured though the casualties are expected to rise. large numbers of people are heading for the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem a day after israeli forces stormed the compound palestinian groups of calls for protests off to friday as events. on out several states in india are all going into lockdown as officials try to bring the corona virus outbreak under control india is the 3rd country after the u.s. in brazil to record more than $4000.00 deaths in a single day and as poverty mattel reports from new delhi many a desperate to get their hands on life saving medical supplies. rajkumar patiently waits for his next ride his passengers a family members of

a covert patient admitted to a new delhi hospital and they're waiting to be taken home. is one of many drivers in india capital who are using the auto rickshaws as ambulances and ferrying patients and their families for free and that the library 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 children to buy medical equipment and personal protective equipment of people for people in need. such as water and on news channels that people are crowding their loved ones to hospitals on their shoulders or on 100 cards and some are so unfortunate. i

thought that vine or die 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 cylinders and concentrate us by people who want to have the schools are closed so we. from the schools they can bust and picking 6 cylinders in each bus and to. make. 6 buses 6. and. it's of laying outside. because it's. a small step but with india accounting for nearly half the world's reported corona virus infections last week and a quarter of the deaths anything. anyone can do to help is now significant as

people struggle in the face of a 2nd with the hope ministry is now saying patients no longer need a positive test result before being admitted to a covert care facility pardon him at the al-jazeera new delhi. e.u. leaders are urging the u.s. to lift restrictions on covert $1000.00 vaccine exports the global vaccine shortage is one of the main items on the agenda during their 1st in person summit of the year. council president sean michel says the white house proposal to suspend patents on those vaccines would not be a magic bullet and barbour has been following the summit from london well opinions are divided within the e.u. over whether to follow the u.s. which has said that it will welcome the idea of waiving vaccine patents if it's done through the world trade organization show me show the president of the european council spoke before saturday's talks in porto saying that the approach wasn't a magic bullet but that the e.u.

would seriously consider any concrete proposals now germany is known to be one of the major you countries that is more skeptical on the idea and similarly on saturday the french president emmanuel mcconnell said the pay to idea was really a false a red herring it's a false argument right now he said that what really needs to be sped up is the export of vaccines pointing out that within the e.u. 400000000 doses have been produced and of those half have been exported to 90 different countries around the world. you deval don't play they ask a successful i'm going to be more gentle 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 or will the

e.u. leaders also held a virtual meeting with the indian prime minister narendra modi now among the topics of conversation with a restart of trade talks on a free trade agreement with india which are actually suspended back in 2013 now they stalled over things like tariffs and indian workers access to the e.u. jobs market not the sort of underlie the president of the european commission was pushed on what would be discussed he said it's far too early to talk about the details right now but we know that the e.u. and india are also looking at cooperation on the topic of climate change and reducing emissions or artificial artificial intelligence and supercomputers but the key thing that the e.u. wanted to stress on saturday was that member states are right now providing covered 19 assistance to the government in delhi in the form of things like ventilators and

medication to the tune of 100000000 euros. scottish pro independence parties have won a majority in the country's parliamentary elections scottish national party leader nicolas sturgeon now wants to seek a 2nd referendum on independence from the united kingdom jonah how has more on this now 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 ouachita intends to do with it both 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 of a referendum should be decided by a simple majority of 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 and further so right now polling suggests perhaps the slate's slipped in that support for independence in kind of 4849 percent and it's been 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 haven't made 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 with 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 parties 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 how al-jazeera edinburgh. the united states is attempting to resolve the long running dispute of ethiopia's

ground in a sense dam on the river nile u.s. envoy for the horn of africa jeffrey feltman is in sudan's capital hard to him for talks along with the head of the african union sudan and egypt object to ethiopia filling the reservoir created by the dam saying it could disrupt their water supplies further downstream. now all the stories are following a feud over succession plans in the zulu royal family seems to have ended prince misuzu zulu will succeed his mother queen months formby she was named regent following the death of her husband kaine feeney in march but she died unexpectedly last week there was an initially chaos when prince. was named successor and police had to a score to him to safety but family opposition to him and his appointment has since been withdrawn and he has returned to the palace space agencies admit they don't know exactly where a large out of control section of

a chinese space rocket is going to come down most of the remaining $23.00 tons of the long march 5 b. rocket is expected to burn out when it reenters the earth's atmosphere in the next few hours but some pieces could fall almost anywhere on earth including populated areas 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 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 land trajectory as it slowly lost altitude now a 30 meter 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 it will and then in a place where. or harm anyone. or fully 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 part 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 laterally without causing any damage or injury in 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 from call. a quick look at main stories now at least 40 people have been killed in an attack on a girls' school in afghanistan many of the dead were children between the ages of 11 and 15 years old more than 50 people have been injured the blast targeted they said a school in the predominantly shia. neighborhood of west kabul controversy has more

now from kabul.