huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close. extrapolate that across the country. and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. ah, our goal is to give the palestinian people, including those guys. a renewed sense of competence. us extra site anthony blinking vows to help rebuilding garza relations with palestinian during a trip to shore up to see the org and i want money. is there a life coming up airline stick play

a fellow route and you work up new sanctions off the rest of the journalists to fly to the land. another powerful bike loan best down on india, sending hundreds of thousands of ground emergency shelves from denounces. what it's calling a coup with an acoustic off the money and can take control of the west african country again. ah, the u. s. sexual stage has outlines how the biden administration plans to men ties with palestinians during a trip to bolts for the cease fire with israel antony blink and announced the reopen a diplomatic outreach office and pledge millions of dollars in new age. but he also said he didn't show none of that money would go to hum us diplomatic. as i said, james bass ports from ramallah and the occupied west bank arriving intel of

the us secretary of state on a trip with a narrow aim, keeping things calm after the ccr. his 1st stop an audience with israel's prime minister pledging the u. s. is continuing commitment to israel, the fence, but adding this, we believe that palestinians and israelis equally deserved to live safely and securely, to enjoy equal measures of freedom opportunity, and democracy to be treated with dignity. that echoed by the israeli leader. his words, perhaps unconvincing to some of the leading and 11 de bombardment of garza. we discussed also how to improve the lives in the conditions of the palestinians. humanitarian conditions in ramallah. the 1st visit by a secretary of state to the president of the palestinian authority for over 3 years old contact was stopped when the trumpet ministration announced it was moving the u

. s. embassy to jerusalem. there was a cordial tone, but it was clear, one of the presidents, central de bonds was not on the u. s. agenda one at the monday. and we hope that the future will be full of diplomatic activities in order to reach a comprehensive solution. and to put an end to recent events, president bass was told though that the u. s. would reopen its consulate general in east jerusalem. a diplomatic representation specifically for palestinians, which was close by president trump. there was a commitment to help in the rebuilding of garza, after the 11 day war and the new package of funding for the un and the palestinian authority. what was most telling in his meetings was what secretary lincoln didn't say. no mention of pushing towards the 2 state solution, no mention of a piece process. it's clear that the biden administration wants to put

a lid on this conflict, but for now doesn't want to attempt to actually solve it. james bay's al jazeera ramallah newly released security camera video shows the moments after palestinian girl was shot in the back by israeli security forces. the 16 year old was wounded by a rubber coated steel bullet. last week she'd been starving outside a home in the occupied east jerusalem neighbourhood. a shake at our offices then fired a stone grenade into the house. the incident happened during protest against the forced expulsions of palestinians from the neighbourhood. airlines are changing caused to avoid bela ruth as international outrage mound, serve a jet that was forced to land in minsk and a dissident journalist on board who was arrested a fine too plain, a score to the jet line off to what turned out to be a false bomb threats, showing the whole has the story. a little bit of the video shows, journalist and blogger, roman protest,

savage saying that he's cooperating with the bellows authorities. and he's being treated according to the law. but look closer, according to those who know him well, there are signs, he's been beaten, his nose looks different, possibly broken, that appears to be bruising and may come. powder unconscious of his face and muscles. many world leaders have condemned. what happened on sunday, after a run, a plane from athens to vilnius, was intercepted by a bell russian make fighter jet, and forced to land in minsk potter savage and his russian girlfriend sophia, so peggy were taken into custody. pretties prime minister boris johnson is the latest joining us president joe biden. and the leaders of the european union, johnson said the video of protest savage was deeply distressing and warned that barrows will face consequences. and those consequences are beginning to crystallize . targeted economic sanctions promised by the e u. the bella,

russian national airline, bella, we are banned from e u airport, a host of international airlines avoiding bella, russian s. space depriving the regime of valuable revenue for over fly rights. nato has stepped into the fray. secretary general jen stilton burg described sunday's incident as state hijacking. the united nations office for human rights likened it to extraordinary rendition, abuse of state power against the journalists for exercising functions that are protected under international law is receiving and deserves. the strongest condemnation came to galvanize global outrage and speaking from exile in lithuania, opposition, figures, svetlana, take an op sky called for concerted international action will function in the us and really it will

be one for june. she's asked that her group be allowed to meet g 7 leaders at their summit in the u. k. next month, french president emmanuel macro, and says he supports that idea. as mainly western opprobrium continues to build aimed at the 27 year long rule of alexander lucas shanker. jonah, how al jazeera and valerie has released the video of the detain journalists, russian girlfriend as with roman protests, of which it could have been recorded on the us. 23 year old student sophia peg can be seen describing herself as the editor of the social media channel, which disclose personal information about elevation officials. earlier, lawyer said peg, it has been jail to 2 months while investigation is carried out. the meanwhile pro democracy activists in the city of morgan chanted bella roost will be

free. as they were handed prison sentences in court, they were ordered to spend between 4 and 7 years behind bars, organizing math on red. that's according to radio free europe. the white house in kremlin have confirmed that jo bought and we'll be meeting vladimir putin in geneva next month. the summit comes out of time of growing tension between the 2 countries. budget has described russia as the biggest threat to us security. more for our white house correspondent, kennedy hawkins. the white house denies the upcoming meeting with us president joe biden and russian leader vladimir putin. is a reward for bad behavior on the part of russia, including the interference in the 2016 us election. also boundaries paid allegedly on us soldiers in afghanistan by russia, or even the more recent solar winds cyber hacks of government agencies. instead the

white house press secretary gen saki saying, this is how diplomacy work. this is not a reward, but instead a defense of us interests and that a range of thorny issues will be discussed. we expect they will spend a fair amount of time on strategic stability, where the arms control agenda goes following the extension of new start. obviously, we're both members of the p 5 plus one, as well as those negotiations aren't going. present will also raise ukraine, underscoring america support for ukraine, sovereignty and territorial integrity. and he will also plan to raise bell roofs and conveyor grave concerns as he has now done publicly. well, this will be the 1st face to face conversation between by them and putin is not the 1st conversation. many of the issues that will be raised have already been brought up by president biden on a telephone call with the russian leader. it is expected to be

a contrast to his predecessor, donald trump. many americans. c waiting, still, waiting, in fact, for a confrontation by a us president. after feeling that donald trump missed those opportunities, specifically in helsinki and 2018 when he accepted the explanation of vladimir putin saying that he did not believe that russia had interfered in the 2016 us election in contrast to the conclusion of us intelligence agencies. in fact, joe biden, from day one, has taken a much tougher stance, even referring to the russian leader vladimir putin as a killer. the lower house of russia parliament has approved a bill which effectively bounds allies of opposition lead alexia volney, from running for public office. for legislation prohibits people from being elected if that associated with groups designated as extreme as prosecutors pushing that designation. and of all these anti corruption foundation. he's in prison for

breaking bel conditions while being treated in germany for a near fatal poisoning. us media reporting the new york prosecutors investigating donald trump, his organization, and those close to has have convened a grand jury, but it's unclear who could be in line for indictment. the panel is also hearing several matters unrelated to the former president's case. mike, hannah has the latest from washington. we do not know whether this investigation is going to be sent to don donald trump on the trump organization, or on some entity close to donald trump. so at that stage that is still an open question, but what it does mean is that we now heard from 2 sources that the grand jury has been convened for up to 3 months, sitting 3 days a week. and this indicates an escalation in terms of the 2 separate investigations being conducted into the trump organization. and those connected to it. because now

very clearly criminal charges are being investigated to one of these entities connected to these 2 separate investigations. so this is a major escalation, we heard last week from the attorney general of new york saying that what had been a civil investigation into the comp, organizations, financial details had expanded into a criminal one. she indicated as well that her office was now going to be working together with the new york district attorney to investigate these various cases. now, just to break it down, 2 separate cases effectively being investigated. one, dealing with harsh money being paid to people who accused donald trump of sexual advances and saying that the touch money was taken from campaign funds. the separate case being conducted by new york state involves various financial irregularities or alleged financial irregularities. coming up in a few minutes,

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loss effect bangladesh and me, and mar, due to the low lying areas of land. there is we go into thursday, it does move its way to the north west. it is going to we can, but where the winds do die down that rain is going to persist. and we'd like to see quite a lot of flooding. that's in contrast to northern areas of india, which we had hot and dry conditions here as similar story to northern pakistan, temperature is edging up here for the west or whether it's the south western coast of india that seeing those monsoon rains also impacting the moldings. we're having downpours there, as well as in sure lanka we could see more flooding here. we have had a lot of rain and another area where we could see potential flooding is indo china . we've seen quite a lot of rain across vietnam and cambodia and we could see some flooding where those rains are heaviest. sponsored cut on airways. the roper hotel is the hotels that i've ever stated and the

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asked me blinking now 1000000 the new says the u. s. reopening a conflict and occupied and lined to changing course to avoid better grades as in national outrage bound. so the jet, the land and journalist on board the rest it finds the plane. of course, the jet line off what turned out to be a bolt for us media reporting that neo prosecutions investigating donald trump, his organization. and those close to us have can be a grand jury. but it's not clear to be in line. the 2nd psych learned to hit india in 10 days will make landfall on the east coast . on wednesday, nearly $2000000.00 people have been moved to safety firestone, yas, is expected to bring gas of up to 150 kilometers per hour. i'm severe flooding last

week. cycle and hit india's western coast, killing more than 100 people. charles strafford reports tropical cyclone is approaching the coast of ben goal in ne india. fast meteorologist say very warm, see, temperatures will intensify. the storms call the coming hours. they say wind speeds could reach of 250 kilometers an hour. some coastal areas are already flooded by the storm. surge. emergency services are trying to organize evacuations on. i thought, i don't know, leave your homes and property now. civil defense teams are here. chance this man was the families found shelter in schools and government buildings away from the shore. just in these areas near john put there has been a rise in the sea water level from tuesday morning. the water from the sea has entered of illusion. many places and the officials from the disaster management

teams are trying to con channels to remove the sea water. on monday night, more stressed in from the low line areas of the village have been moved to see for locations. the indian meets your logical department, said early tuesday that the storm was approximately 320 kilometers away from the coast of west ben goal and expected to make the landfall on thursday. it was a storm surge could flood coastal areas and disha and cold carter with up to 4 meters of water. indian national disaster response force says it has put on stand by 112 emergency teams to help with evacuations. this will be the 2nd powerful side glue to hit india in the last 10 days or 100 people were killed by a psych loan to hit the state of goes around in north west india. earlier this month. powerful storms, a common during the monsoon season with safety procedures this year are expected to be especially challenging as india suffers

a huge surge encoded 19 functions. cha, stratford, i was just a scalar knife, elizabeth per on em. who's in new delhi for us? elizabeth, what are the parts of the east coast expect to be affected by the cycling and how authorities preparing for its arrival? hello, molly. we're already seeing very strong winds and heavy rain lashing off disha and west and go also seeing the sea level rising in the state of western gold. more than 3000000 people have been evacuated from vulnerable from low lying areas. in these states, 2 people have already died off level struck by lightning on tuesday night. many homes have already been damaged in the north 24 part of the district of westbank, electricity. polls have been damaged, and trees have been operated. now there are 17 armies fight relief teams which have

been deployed. cold caution, a portion west bengal will have suspended operations for the day and many train services on the east coast have been cancelled until saturday. and all of these preparations are in place because psychoanalysis is expected to be a severe storm when it makes land fall in the dishes said carrying when's expected ones of up to 185 kilometers an hour before it moves through west bengal will and may bring john kind of also making pipeline preparations. yeah. also hitting these 2 states exactly one year from which killed 100 people and caused a lot of destruction and devastation that people. many people still haven't recovered from it. of course. the 2nd wave of the corona virus that hasn't ended in india, and the sy clone is going to complicate quote with 19 protocols. west bengal is one of the worst effected states. it's recording some of the highest number of cases.

and many people have been moved to shelters with social justice thing, just as impossible. okay, many thanks for that update. and as with her on that 1st and usually the un security council is planning an emergency meeting to discuss molly on wednesday also of france is describing a qu within a qu, answer, and vice president can see me. goiter who lead last year, she takeover has ousted the transitional president on the prime minister. ordering that arrest will go to insist elections will take place next year planned. there's been international condemnation to this and threats of sanctions. let's get some background to the story because in august of last year, colonel going to overthrew the governments of the then president abraham rubica cater and followed months of protests over worsening security, alleged corruption and economic problems. the next month were todd colonel barton

door was sworn in as into him president and was responsible for leading an 18 month transition to elections. but on monday to military figures, instrumental philosophy as qu replaced in a cabinet re shuffle and within hours door, along with the prime minister in defense minister would obtained and taken to a military base. nicholas has been following developments from neighboring sen ago in downtown, by my co security forces, including the military, are patrolling the streets, dispersing protesters out to denounce what they described as another military coup . we had gather to say yes to republic, no to june, to know to not a coo and no to car up soldiers and the country has been left again in the hands of ill intention. individuals were using the state apparatus, drop power, and the future. we want on national television, a soldier reads a statement from former june to leader and vice president, se me go into announcing the dismissal of both the prime minister and molly's

president, accusing them of sabotaging the transition of power in something. on monday, a government was announced in which 2 leading members of the general had been removed from their position. coffee all creating a new government. the prime minister put together a list agreed with by the president. without consulting the vice president who is in charge of making decisions on defense and security, this is a breach of the charter. the judith sees power from former president de brian book, i signed a cool last august following widespread protest over the states inability to bring peace and security removed from power by the military, june to the put them in power. prime minister are one and by and dow are being detained in the military camp outside the capital. cotton. this tussle for power are the maryan people. millions have been displaced from the north in the center of the country where armed groups affiliated to die in the slumming state. continue to

gain grounds this despite the presence of the biggest and most expensive un operation. $4000.00 french troops since the military gentle has taken over power. the security situation is deteriorating, due when the african union and the european union have in them what french president, emanuel con, describes as a qu within a qu. he's calling for an urgent un security council meeting, and what appears to be the beginning of another crisis of leadership in molly nicholas hawk al jazeera on ella mater on his head of the hail program of the institute security studies. she says what's happening, molly shows power was never really in the hands of his transitional leaders. since the beginning of the transition, 9 months ago, there are have been quite some strong tensions within the governments. and we've been ruling elite on the one side with the civilians. and with the military forces,

what we're seeing right now, i think, is the results of that the result of these unresolved tensions which the, the pressure that the international community initially puts on, on monday to, to move to was a civilian transition. did not actually address that deeper issue in terms of governance in terms of power sharing in terms of pretty well beyond the prosad. really making sure that the power was resting with you in some right. now we do have the, the proof that it wasn't, we should keep in mind. i think it's the lesson from 9 years ago from 2012 where the previous to who actually created an opportunity for violence, extending groups to take advantage of the confusion created by the coo, within government to make inroads. this is definitely something that remains a balance consensus.

the u. s. president has tweeted out a new milestone in the countries covered 19 inoculation campaign. as of today, this is what he says in the tweet. 50 percent of american adults are fully vaccinated. that's a big deal, folks. what this means is that more than a 129000000 people are protected against coven 19 in the united states. however, the vaccination rates vary greatly with some southern states lagging in the rollouts. meanwhile, the european union hopes to introduce the vaccine passports by next tuesday. you commission president are so voluntary, lay and says the infrastructure. if a digital certificates will be ready by june the 1st and then it'll be up to member states to ensure that able to process them a problem in japanese newspaper, which is also an official partner. the tech here,

lympics has joined calls for the games to be cancelled it an editorial be a saw. he shim button daily argues. it's not worth the risk to public safety and strain on hospitals. during the pandemic, japan's government and the international olympic committee have resisted existing demands for the games postponed last year to be cooled off altogether. the start date is slated for july, the 23rd. iran has announced 7 candidates approved to run in next month presidential election. the list is dominated by ultra conservatives, while several high profile figures were blocked. as i beg reports from tehran, iran the presidential election is less than a month away, and the list of prospective candidates has been released by the veteran body in a surprising and controversial move. larry johnny, the 3 term, former speaker of parliament and adviser to the supreme need to have much qualified

. neither has the current vice president. it's hard to hungary, former to term president mood and then the judge was also stopped from participating. it means the muddrick and reform is blocked in iran. don't have prominent candidates to take part in the election. some believe it's because powerful political forces in iran one. this meant to be the next president ibrahim, right? you see the current head of the judiciary with backed by the countries conservative block in short on the, on these qualifications made today bitter and dark day for democracy and elections in iran. the guardian council decision had several victims on the 1st was the election process. the 2nd victim was the guardian council itself, an entity that must protect the constitution. and the 3rd victim was rising on people and society will believe all this happened to promote him to the presidency . but finally, politicians such as learn johnny john girl, possess keion and i'm a dinner. john became victims as well. this already been concern over

a possible low voter turnout. and with a lack of competition, it means the electorate have little to choose from and vote for my time. he said i, i voted into previous elections, but decided never to vote again because i don't believe in the system anymore. loaded. john, i expect a lot on chinese eat more, how much vice president you get to be qualified, but it didn't happen. i will for these tamar on my man, and he thought i used to vote i voted through harney 4 years ago. but this time around, i will not vote. i would have rachel on the didn't a job, but he's not on the list. but there are voices speaking out against the decision. a member of the guardian, council and brother to learn johnny treated this statement. he said the decision was indefensible, and accused security services of intervening in the vetting process. right. he released the video saying he had been speaking to authorities to show the election of a competitive. but only the supreme leader can issue

a decree to allow bought candidates to stand, but it's uncertain he will intervene. now the margaret who favored the 2050 nuclear deal and engaging with the west, would have to either try and challenge the decision or back at different candidate . the discussion here in iran is moving away from the presidential election to questioning the system itself. but also those that now questioning it, right, right, you see the political forces behind. he's been to become iraq. next president, i thought vague. i was just there are there on a this is al jazeera, these, your top stories, the sex your faces in the middle east. hoping to strengthen the ceasefire between israel and hamis and gaza in an effort to mentor with palestinians. and the blend can announce millions and new a and says the u. s. is reopening a conflict in occupied east jerusalem.