o the. ready 350000 people now facing famine in ethiopia as t gray region. a un report reveals the scale of the tragedy. ah, hello barbara, sarah, this is, i'll just say we're live from london also coming up in a massive boost to the global vaccine effort. the u. s. by half of 1000000000 doses of the pfizer vaccine to donate solely to low income country peruse, unfinished election claims of the voter fraud are made and fresh efforts are launched to send the conservative candidate cake of which maury, the prison,

and after colbert 19 for 12 months the sanction the corrosion rises on the tri becka film festival. ah, welcome to the program, we begin. a few p a were report by the united nations and other agencies has shown new light on the situation in the northern region of p gray and found 350000 people are facing famine. fighting broke out in t gray in november when e. c, o, p and government forces entered the region to confront local leaders. more than 2000000 people have been displaced and the government has been accused of blocking the passage of life saving aid mohammed the reports now from the sap about it's a good day, foster haggis on the hot sun. they've just received the shell relief food brought

in by the united nations world food program. it's the 1st delivery of aide that received in months, stare and family among millions of years displaced by the conflict integrated region. the families sheltering an abundant construction site. a few kilometers from the village at the port where their home once stood, a set enough family pick up the pieces for you and as they were about 20 armed men, they gathered around my house and thrashed my crops. i constantly have nightmares about how brutal they were burning everything in no way. they kept getting closer burning, all of the harvested crops and straw. they burned my home and everything i had for the past 6 months. the united nations and 8 it is as i've repeatedly called for full humanitarian access, that to get a region in the face of growing fear of a protect the conflict with devastating effects on civilians. so this is

a region that even prior to the conflict has been affected by shocks. in recent years we had the desert lucas this past year. hailstorm, some pockets of the region that are already chronically affected by drought. it means that this is an area that's already a bit on the edge. in a new report, a high level, you and lead committee estimated that about 350000 people in the degraded and facing funding conditions. the war is now in its 7th month and has 100 access to essential services, food, water, and livelihoods in large parts of to greater gym, putting the lives of millions at risk, un stuff into grad continue to report to block movements of aid, as well as the interrogation, assault, and even detention of humanitarian workers at military checkpoints. the philippine government denies responsibility out of sol, money, nice information can be information flowing on the notes because of can

never get to rooms. but because of the vested interest, bad, who'd like to present the situation as features that are 40 meg to so the government they want to display? did they want to the world, the government to do nothing? the war in that degraded genevieve of this place to more than 2000000 people before the economy of the region along with businesses crop. some thousands of civilians supple so being killed or wounded. 8, i just say now is the time to stop. follow those of us having to death. how about the all does it or, or the some of the will, the us ambassador to the un has criticize the security council for not taking the situation in t gray more seriously. it's time for the security council to have a public meeting on this issue. it's time for the counsel to take meaningful action

to address the crisis. and it's time for the ethiopian government to respond responsibly to request for humanitarian access to in the fighting and hold those accountable for the violations that have occurred. it's time for the broader international communities to step up to and prevent another famine. well, earlier i spoke to e, c o, p as in bass, or to the united nations, ty at sca selassie and the who rejects the analysis by the way and, and says the government isn't blocking aid to the region, but that it's been delayed by security checks we've heard it's clear in law this morning, wasn't there? linda has said, we're not party to the meeting, but in general, what we says city that we had. some are trying to play the role of a got a syria. we need to support buzzed on dignity and respect.

ah, the us, the purchasing half a 1000000000 cove in 1900 vaccine doses for lower income countries, vowing that the united states will be the arsenal of vaccines in the fight against corona virus. president joe biden made the announcement while on a visit to the u. k, where he will attend the g 7 summit which starts on friday, or diplomat to get it her james bass report from the site of the summit in the southwest of england. the leaders of 2 countries that often talk of this special relationship president joe biden, the prime minister boris johnston, examined the copy of a document signed by the us and u. k. in the dark days of world war 2, the atlantic charter paved the way for the treaty that created nato. and the late

to charter that now governs the un. the 2 leaders believe as a parallel with present times, the world leading renewed direction. after the pandemic and they offered some fresh support for countries, have been struggling to get doses of vaccine the united states is providing these half 1000000 doses with no strings attached. let me say it again with no strings attached. are vaccine donations, don't include pressure for favors or potential cassette. concessions were doing this to save lives. it was great, great pleasure to welcome you to despite the smiles, there was tension on one from northern ireland president biden's officials who express deep concern about the growing dispute between the e u and the u. k. about trading arrangements put in place after breakfast. they fear it may derail the historic piece,

still signed in 1998 the good friday agreement. cobit 19 has changed the world since the last g 7 meeting in barrett's in france almost 2 years ago. for this 1st in person, high level meeting since the pandemic started the lead, as also will no longer have to deal with the trump factor, the confrontational manner, and unpredictability of the full president and nerve. the u. s. is closest allies. it's hard to overstate how significant that is, i mean, talk about. so i a deep sigh of relief. i think for 2 reasons. one is that it's a very different american president. it is in one sense, a return to america that want to lead that thinks diplomacy matters, that invests in it, the overall direction president biden's foreign policy is clear. it's the buying close allies and partners, and then with the united position deal with problems. and those countries that don't share the u. s. has values. and that's exactly what he's doing with this trip

meeting the g 7, nato, the e u, and then sitting down, face to face with the russian president vladimir putin. james bays al jazeera cent ives and israeli court has postpone the hearing in the case of 4 palestinian families facing forced expulsion from their homes and sale one neighbourhood unoccupied. east jerusalem earlier is really forces attacked palestinian protestors who were demonstrating outside the court. the case deals with homes in a building claimed by a jewish trust from the pre 948 era. meanwhile, thousands of mourners have filled the streets in the occupied westbank city of janine for the funerals of 2 palestinian intelligence officers that were killed along with another palestinian during a raid by really forces on thursday. palestinian leaders have condemned the deaths . will stephanie decker is near janine in the occupied westbank,

the body of a seed. i saw 33 years old lives in his village, just outside of genie. and he is one of 2 members of the palestinian intelligence that were killed in a shoot out with israeli special forces. overnight the village come out to more than the body. members of the pallet being enforces the other flags. the flag is been shooting in the air and the body is now going to be taken just further up here before it gets buried. when we received the news with sadness and i can say we were desperate a young man like him with his wife, pregnant in her 9th month. imagine the situation for us, his friends, we spend our lives with him, and now we lost him. this is something that we suffers past, indians being arrested, getting killed all these things. thank god, we still have patience. we know that any of us can face

a similar fate. praise at the moment now the body to the cemetery here in the village to be buried. now to tell you that these kinds of things and you don't talk to, they are streaming comments. they happen on a daily basis. what is unusual and promising in exchange fire with each other that there is something and they are tight security cooperation when it come to israel. and usually when you see these kinds of raise, it will not get involved. there's been condemnation from the government 1st and condemning the re quote on the nation community to do more. israel said trying to erect it mean 3 shooting at soldiers at a junction in the west bank just a couple of months ago. so there is an investigation on going, but certainly a lot of anger hear people saying that they don't believe they'll be justice for the is really guards have been shown, assaulting palestinian prisoners at

a jail in the negative security video, released by the horrid newspaper shows 55 prisoners allegedly linked to mass shackled, dragged to the floor and beaten according to the newspaper. only 4 of the 10 guards are being investigated over the incident. the video is from march 2019 that month, palestinian prisoners held protests against the installation of jamming devices to prevent them from using smuggled phones. hundreds of people in bahrain are protesting over the death of a political prisoner who contracted cove with 19, despite being vaccinated. months earlier for testers marched through the streets of the o. on wednesday after hussein, but a cat died early in the day. many could be heard shouting that they hold that king . how might be nice out, leaf are responsible for them. and beth clay me, there had been a lack of care, an interior ministry statement said, but a cat who was 48, had been on

a respirator and died in the hospital sofa come here and al jazeera corona virus concern returns to china. dress the lock down, laws are reinstated as infection. bike plus no clothes, no food, no homes, volcano victims are the waiting for relief. a month after lava destroyed everything . ah hello there. we've seen some really wild weather affecting south eastern areas of australia. and this was the scene in new south wales. we had some unusually heavy snow full thanks to a cold snap. and in victoria we had to wrench rains, really strong winds. and that brought on flooding. we could see more of that because of the next few days we've got that weather system working its way more to

the coast and there will be some sunshine behind that. but for now, the wind is still kicking in. tasmania is likely to see where those really wet and windy conditions are, where things are looking rather fine and dry across central and northern areas to the west. we've got a disturbance that is easy, but we're still seeing storms and showers, affecting per se, but things will dry out in the sunshine will come through. and as we go into saturday, can see that weather system pushing off. that's eventually going to shimmy its way across the tasman, see an effect new zealand, but from now the north island looking rather fine and dry quite a bit of cloud cover. and as we go into saturday, you can see that with wet, wet weather, working its way to the south, we move to southeast asia. it is a very wet picture and there's more wet weather to come. those relentless showers affecting the philippines with 30 degrees in manila. the who's in the gun capital calling

me. i've been, i really maternity clinic killing pregnant women need wives and baby one. or what do you travel to afghanistan where even newborns are targets and l just 0. me be the hero, the world needs right now. i was ah, oh, the me reminder now the top stories on al jazeera,

the un is warning 350000 people are either living in or facing famine in ethiopia as war torn that t gray region, a group say to 1000000 people have been displaced from the fighting and crops and livestock have mostly been looted, destroyed or faltered earlier, we spoke to you, bastard of the united nation is last year who rejects the un analysis and says the government isn't locking aid, but that it's been delayed by security checks ahead of the g 7 summit us president joe vied and has announced the u. s. purchasing half a 1000000000 doses of the pfizer cove it 900 vaccine to donate to the countries most and mean, he says that this will supercharge the global fight against the pandemic. a peruvian prosecutor is asking that presidential hopeful cake of which maury is placed in ca, city for morning, has been charged with corruption,

but her trial would be delayed if she wins the pole. but it's her rival, the socialist pedro castillo, who currently holds a very narrow lead over the conservative candidate for you. maureen has claimed voter fraud alleging that around 500000 ballots were suspicious without providing evidence to support for claims or fears. the recount could lead to weeks of political wrangling. mariana sanchez is more from nima. well, the prosecutor earlier today asked a judge to imprison keiko for he marty. again, it's a legal measure that is commonly used here in federal scope. preventive imprisonment, which is usually used for suspects so they do not fully justice. now she has been in jail 3 times. this would be the 4th time and the, the prosecutor has said that she has a violated the terms of her parole by meeting

members of her party, who are also implicated in the corruption case where she is facing a 30 years in prison. we don't know if the judge will decide to send the arrest order, but of course it will be politically unwise to do in a moment when the country is so full arise. and so divided the election is about to be defined. chinese health officials are on high alert amid an outbreak of new cove in 1900 cases in china as a southern one. don't province, strick travel restrictions have been imposed as mass testing is being ramped up. but many patients there have already received at least one dose of china's vaccine raising questions about its efficacy. katrina, you reports the strict lockdown of infected neighborhoods, travel restrictions, and the mass testing of entire city's chinese authorities have returned to the

pandemic control strategies of last year. as the southern province of gong don't harm to 120000000 battles the country's most serious outbreak in months, it seems social to take the most resolute, the most decisive and district as measures to control gatherings and the travels in high risk areas to block the spread of the damage dozens of tested positive with the delta variant of course, 19 a highly contagious form of virus. first detected in india. 30000000 people in the region have been tested since may police have detained 6 people for breaking virus prevention rules. official said the outbreak has been traced back to a woman living in the provincial capital, jo, food, and entertainment venues. there have been ordered to close doors, wanting to leave, the city must produce negative virus tests. taken within 48 hours, the neighboring cities of sion, gen 4 shot and mal mean are also on high alert. experts say it's the 1st local test

of chinese faxing efficacy concerns raised after port workers who were already vaccinated. caught the virus to go up into the, the virus case evolving. so the older version to the vaccine and maybe not very effective for this new strain. but we are now saying the vaccine is useless against indian strain. none of the infected people became serious ill. the protection isn't perfect, but you can say they are not working in bahrain. a new wave of infections has prompted authorities to author booster shots of the size of vaccine to some who have already received 2 doses of china's sign a farm job vaccines by sign a form and sign back has been approved by the w h or the chinese regulators have given 5 vaccines, the green light locally, children as young as 3 can now receive jobs in emergency circumstances. 800000000 doses have been administered name, wides so far elsewhere in china, it's business as usual except the international problem. china voters remain mostly

close to for aging is under pressure. does that make most of the population and ease restrictions before the beginning of the winter olympics? next february, katrina, you al, jazeera staging, me and maurice, the pose, the civilian leader, uncensored. she has been charged with corruption in a case stick, see her spend up to 15 years in jail suit. she has been accused of misusing land for a charitable foundation, as well as accepting money and the gold. it's the latest in a series of criminal charges that me and mars military is brought against their sins taking power. she and her government were overthrown in a coup in february, called hyde. lar has more as they have these last several months when new charges are brought against her. and as you mentioned, this is yet another corruption charge that's added to the of the charge. the accusation that she accepted $600000.00 in cash and gold. this about misuse of land

for a foundation within the foundation that she overseas she co founded. so that is that the additional corruption charge 15 years could be if she's convicted, she could serve 15 years for those charges. now it's the most serious charge of this litany of charges that have been levied against her by the joint of the reaction from her. our attorney is how very similar it's on brand. what we seen over the last several months when new charges are levied against her because them baseless because i'm trumped up charges against her mainly to keep her in prison. and they have done that. i keep her in detention and they've done that since february, 1st, adding these charges on her. this again, the, the current charges are the most serious. they range all the way to illegal possession of walkie talkies abuse of power. i sorry, it was a securities act that they also levied against a couple of weeks ago that could, could carry a 14 year sentence. so again, these are kind of more charges piled on her. we know that the trial in earnest will

probably start next week, and then conclude they say, at least at this stage, at the end of july child labor has risen for the 1st time in 20 years. and there are warnings. the corona virus pandemic could push millions more towards the same fate. a joint report from the un children's agency and the international labor organization says an estimate of a 160000000 children have been working globally, even before the coven 19 outbreak. that's an increase of 8400000 in 4 years. and almost half of them are employed in dangerous conditions. thousands of people in the democratic republic of congo are still displaced after a volcanic eruption destroyed their homes. they're living in makeshift camps for agencies say the risk of malaria and cholera is rising fast. priyanka gupta reports when mount you are gone, grew up to last month. veronica ran with her 2 children. she carried

a few port so she could feed them. but food in this meat shock is hard to come by and they have no home to return to lava, destroyed all. they had this small tent here, barely protects them from rain. and in this sun, we live in misery. i don't eat and i have a stomach ache that hurts a lot every day. when i don't know what to eat, sometimes i drink water today. i didn't eat anything. and there are thousands like them scrubbing for food, but no toilets are drinking water level. did you see a lot of diseases linked to the water that is not of good quality, including diary to diseases and often a lot of malaria to receive many or spirit or infections. you have to know that the living conditions are a big part of the situation. around 3500 people lost their homes. when mountaineer

gone were up to last month, the government says they must remain in shelters outside the city of go month, while others whose home still stand afloat returning. don't limit, so those whose houses were burned and destroyed have to stay and wait for the government contingency plan. because we cannot allow them to return to their natural environment that was burned and destroyed by the lava. and as a responsible government, we cannot ask them to rebuild houses. but even in goma, the volcanic eruption has melted, made water pipes and damaged a major reservoir. aided and sees on the government are working to provide emergency water supplies. but for now, life remains precarious for the families here as they tried to survive hunger and disease. and the shadow of one of africa was dangerous. located on to 0, people in sedan have blocked streets with burning tires, to protest against the government's ending of subsidies. for gasoline and diesel,

increasing fuel prices across the country. hundreds of young people gathering cartoon with the goal to disrupt traffic. on 9 street, one of the most prominent streets in the capital protested, chanted against the policy. on tuesday sedans, finance ministry dropped the subsidies, doubling the price of fuel saying it was in line with import costs. the death of a black man shot by us police officers in april has been declared a homicide in a state autopsy report. it found andrew brown, junior, died from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. this confirms the results of a separate also see commissioned by the brown family sheriff's deputies say that they were attempting to serve the 42 year old search and the rest warrants. when he was shot, he died one day after minneapolis police officer derek show. vince was found guilty

of murdering george floyd since april people in north carolina have marched and protested brown's death and are calling for police reform. the new york's tribeca film festival is back all in the us. organizers say they want to bring the same message of hope as the 1st festival 2 decades ago from new york, gabrielle elizondo reports i. it's the hottest ticket in town because it's the 1st ticket in town. tribeca will be the 1st in person film festival to take place in all of north america. since the pandemic began over a year ago, it's also a key milestone the 20th anniversary of the festival. the festival was founded shortly after the 911 attacks on the world trade center. to help revitalize the devastated nearby tray back in neighborhood as well as the rest of new york city. film critic, allison wilmore says that after cobra 1900 hit new york city particularly hard last

year, tri becker's original message of hope rings truer than ever. now the festival is on its 20th anniversary and it's kind of in the wake of a trauma again. and in this case, you really feel that the festival is trying to coax people back outside, you know, back out to the movies, out to outdoor screenings, and out to this kind of general activity in a city that slowly reopening the festival kicked off. fittingly, perhaps with in the heights in new york, that story adapted from lyn manuel miranda's award winning broadway musical. other highlights include the world premier of steven cider berg. no sudden move hand roadrunner a behind the scenes film about the life of the late new york, chef author and tv host anthony ordain, but it's also a festival where new filmmakers are hoping to make their mark like with this tv

docu series incarceration nations about prison systems around the world director and writer bass tracing or says try back is a welcome opportunity. it's amazing to be a part of any in person event, frankly, as a, as a filmmaker, as an artist, as an activist, to be able to interact with audiences again, to do this in person. and it also feels like, you know, not only the eyes of all of new york, but the world is watching. june 19th will be another highlight because that's when the radio city music hall will reopen for the 1st time. after being closed for more than a year, because of the krona virus pandemic, it will host the closing night film of tri becca. all of the audience will be fully vaccinated, and masks will be optional. it will be a landmark event, not only for the festival, but for this city hall, gabriel's condo, just new york,

a sir less fuel phenomenal has been sweeping the northern hemisphere. with the solar eclipse, visible from parts of canada, greenland, and russia. it formed what's called a ring of fire, that's when the moon casts a shadow and earth by blocking sunlight. the upper regions of north america, europe and asia, only enjoyed a partially clips or crescent sun. that's when the sun, moon, and earth are not perfectly lined up. the next total solar eclipse is due to take place in december. ah, and now the top stories on al jazeera, the un is warning 350000 people are either living in.