for mom, so the evening of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those the causes 19 o be the hero world needs right. ah, washer in. ah me. this is al jazeera. ah either. i'm kim vanelle. this is the new law firm coming up in the next 60 minutes . the g 7 to summit opens with host british prime minister barak johnson, declaring they have a huge opportunity to lead the global pandemic recovery. escaping report claims the us and mexico have sent unaccompanied migrant children back to their home country without any protection deforestation. so we're record 67 percent in

brazil's amazon rain force, despite the president pledging to do more to help safety concerns. yet again for help workers administering polio vaccines and pockets of the killing of 2 police officers assigned to protect them. i'm leah harding, and there's just a few hours before kick off and the biggest sporting events and started the pandemic room is getting ready for the start of the delayed european championship with co host italy set the face turkey and the opening match ah covert 19 is dominating the agenda, s g. 7 leaders meet face to face for the 1st time since the pandemic began. as the 1st day of the meeting get on the way the host british prime minister. both johnson told his fellow leaders to learn from the mistakes of the pandemic. and passed

financial crises and ensure an equitable economic recovery you will be going through the most wretched pandemic. our countries have faced for our lifetimes, maybe longer, much longer. and i actually think this is a meeting that genuinely needs to happen, because we need to make sure that we learn the lessons from the pandemic. we may need to make sure that we don't repeat some of the areas that we doubtless made in the course of the last 18 months or so. and we need to make sure that we now allow our economies to recover or one outcome of the pledge to donate a 1000000000 vaccine doses to the countries most of need. but activists say the summit will be a failure if that is the best result that urging the rest of the g 7 to share

vaccine. peyton's with poor nations and climate campaign is also warned. the g 7 commitments do not go far enough. they say to 2050 deadline to become carbon neutral to late despite pages made since the 2015 paris climate agreement, greenhouse gas emissions have gone up. le diplomat diplomatic editor james phases outside trigger council. now i think i've liked him now. so everything 1st in person g 7, summit since the pandemic cove at 19. and coming out of the pandemic, of course, taking center stage. yes, absolutely. remember last year's g g 7 summit didn't take place in person. it was virtual, and it was a great deal of criticism of the g 7 and the wider grouping the t 20 being missing in action, not leading the world at a time of pandemic. so a lot of focus now on what the g 7 is going to do this time reports that they're going to come up with a 1000000000 vaccine doses. but is that enough?

joining me now is the british ambassador, the united states, current pierce, thank you for joining us on al jazeera. first question about what the g 7 is going to do. there is a lot of criticism of these countries. your country included for hogging all of ac c. is that a fair criticism? no, i don't think it's the effect criticism, but i think the g 7 recognize that we need to get on with vaccinating the world. we need to do that by 2022. this will be a back seen summit, and we hope to see a lot of very concrete pledges that will enable us to provide those 1000000000 days . it's to start with more manufacturing to come. you arguably the u. k. most experienced diplomat. you are the un, you'll now the representative in washington. you know how diplomacy works? what difference does it make?

we saw the round table, where all the leaders of meeting as we speak right now. but they can look each other in the i rather than being on a 0 call. i think i'm still finding out about to saying the see to be on this james, but it makes a huge difference. because you can assess each other's motivations. you can assess each other's flexibilities. when you really need to land a deal, you can physically go up to someone invite them to talk to discuss that concerns and then reach a compromise that everyone's happy with. and you can't do that over soon, soon. it's fine if it's very transactional over you, you're at the beginning of a venture like a plan and g 20 has done some great work in that result in that respect, health ministers. but if you really want to learn something, especially something expensive at scale, complicated says no substitute for i to i. obviously the focus is on the g 7, but this is part of the 1st trip by president biden abroad. he's come to the g 7,

then he's going to nato, then he's going to the you is part of an overall foreign policy of binding his allies together after the trump era, and then confronting problems together. one of those problems you've got to confront in geneva is vladimir putin. tell me what discussions they'll be here about russia and china. it's primarily a g 770, about the economic recovery. and the things that go with it have been foreign policy meetings. and the foreign secretary will chair another foreign policy meeting of his opposite numbers later on this year. so rather than trying to run dominant themes, but one other thing from the summit is open societies, open markets. what can the democracies do to push back on the autocracy. and you don't get more autocratic than russia, so they will be worried about what we see from president putin and russia. very worried about the diversion of the playing to bad of us. very worried about what happened with nevada ne, debbie,

worried about the big cyber attack that certain governments, obscene. so i think it will come up, but it's not the main issue of the summit, but we'll have to wait for the communique. do you think it, having this, this sequence of meeting strengthens present biden's hand when he does what it's going to be very difficult meeting with like me. i think it does stents in his hand because one of the russian narratives is that the west is finished and g 20 is much better than g 7 because it's, it's bigger. and there's a logic to that. but the point is the west isn't finished. i'm president biden will be able to go and see president putin with the backing of his western partners. having come out of a number of summits that will be affirmed, democratic values and open societies, will show you that the allies are determined to work together, even if we have disagreements on individual policy issues. fundamentally, we're going in the direction of open societies. i'm president putin isn't and that's a very powerful thing for miss devising to take with him to geneva about the car

and piss the u. k. i'm back to the, to the u. s. thank you very much for joining us here on our to 0. the g 7 meetings are continuing, the leaders are still in the close plenary sessions. so the camera shots from the beginning and the comments from the u. k. prime minister. well, the important stuff is done in private and it's happening right now. and we will be checking back in with you, no doubt that the medic edited the james base. let's take a closer look at the g 7 vaccine and how it actually stacks up against what the world really needs. 85 percent of all doses administered so far have been in high and upper middle income countries. just 3 point, a sorry point 3 percent have been administered in nations classified as low income africa has the slowest vaccination rate of any continent. and at base 10 countries on the one percent of the population has received a single dose of us. so the mechanic republic of congo, and beneath, or the bottom of the list. we'll have more on that

a little later in the program with a report from molly. but let's go now to gandy. he is a coven. 19 vaccine access coordinator at uni seth supply division. he joined the phones got from new york. thank you very much for your time. first off, what do you make of this plan to donate 1000000000 vaccine doses? well, i think it's a start. i mean, the 1st thing we need is that she concrete numbers and timing for each of these doses that are going to be available. what we need right now is to really fill a whole that's really emerged in the last month the by the end of this month, we'll, per cobit vaccine access facility that we support back around 190000000 doses and where we hope to be and of course, by the end of this year, we had been planning to get to around 2000000000 doses, to vaccinate those highest rescue across all of the countries participating in the facility and including those low and middle income countries. and we're going to be

behind on the, unless the dosage match very soon. and in concrete terms, with waiving patients, even just for a short time, something that the us has actually supported or helping both the, the manufacturing of vaccines perhaps be more effective. i know you went through some of the numbers there, but even a 1000000000 doses, if we're going to get out of this pandemic as a global community, as being described as a drop of the ocean. yes, certainly, i mean the, that the goal really, of course, in the 1st instance is to vaccinate those, those highest risk. but ultimately, the fastest way out the pandemic is, of course, that the everyone is vaccinated everywhere. and i think the critical issue here is that the, what we've seen today is it's very much a kind of country by country approach, particularly for from hiring come countries, vaccinating their populations and then turning to the needs of, of their neighbors,

particularly in the global south them and africa in particular. and of course, i think what we need to do is recognize that we need to be vaccinating everywhere at the same time. and you know, us f u k has, has them commission some work where they're affinity, a market research provider that demonstrates that it is possible for countries to donate doses today and still achieve their own domestic goes this year while ensuring that the likes of kovacs can can achieve that goes over the mid. 1 term issue, have we not already have we not already missed the boat, the vaccine alliance, the head of the vaccine. a line we spoke to earlier today said look, they should have been done a year ago. yeah, absolutely. and i think, you know, to your question on, on payton's, you know, the, i think it's, it's, we, we do certainly need to look at this in the short, medium, and long term as to where we are certainly should have been done a long time ago. would have been helpful, but where we are today though,

stove though sharing today is, is the critical issue i think looking at the voluntary licensing, voluntary manufacturing partnerships of the many that we've seen, manufacturers laudable, take on already more of that to expand capacity is, is definitely a medium to measure and, and of course, we see that the voluntary waiving of those patents is one way to get there. and longer term we just need more doses and more manufacturing. and so, and that will require both investment from the g 7 countries and other countries alike to, to lock those doses. alright, hi. thank you very much for your time. they're going to be thanks. plenty morehead, on the news on including how scientists in molly pan to avoid the queue for donated covert 19 vaccine hong kong films, the other latest to face pressure of the basing national security law came into

force cloth. and for 2 of the biggest stars and tennis get ready for a show down in paris. take a look at which one has the edge a little later on the show. ah, 2 occupied east jerusalem, where people gathered to show support for palestinian families facing force displacement. dozens of people gathered in the neighborhood of shank draw. stephanie decker was at the protest earlier. while the protest is dwindling, down winding down there. still they keep moving. a couple of people around, but the group is smaller than it was before. we did have a presence here are members of the message is really palestinians also and member of passive is really parliament. and they gave some features just in front of the entrance of just behind us, particularly that street that has the families that are facing the forest expulsion, basically giving you a message also to the new government,

of course is going to be a new government sworn in here on sunday, if all goes to plan that will be the 1st time and 12 year that doesn't have benjamin netanyahu as its prime minister. but given the message that this needs to change, if the policy needs to change, it's a policy that is backed up by israeli lord, we've been reporting for a long time. the forced expulsion of these families goes back to what they argue. jewish trusts having own flag around 2 years ago, while the palestinians have rice and papers as well, but they're not afforded, you know, the same legal recourse. so, and this is something that, yes, we're talking about it now. the spotlight is back on it now because of the events of the past month. this is something that's been going on for decades, and it's something that will continue. so this is why people who are to keep up with mentions, keep up the international spotlight, let's say on something that is ongoing and has been ongoing for many, many years. and israeli security forces have arrested several palestinian children and occupied east jerusalem. the arrest happened close to the last set of compound

. it's part of as well, so called operation law and order name to cracking down on palestinian protests. elsewhere a 15 year old palestinian boy has died from gunshot injury, sustained during a protest in the occupied westbank. the teenager is one of 3 palestinians wounded by live bullets 5 by israeli soldiers during the demonstration beta south of novice . the soldiers also 5 t, i guess people gathered to denounce the establishment of a new israeli settlement outposts. israeli activists, supplanting a rally and occupied east jerusalem on tuesday. they are expected together near the alex a mosque compound that will go through the muslim quarter. some of our boucher honda is a palestinian israeli member of the connecticut from the joint this party. he says the march is a demonstration of israel's oppression of the palestinians. this leg watch means that they really are coming to celebrate their occupational from other people. to

do such an act, you really need such a sadistic mentality just in order to do that. now the support of all those riley government and there's rarely, rarely courts to allow such marches means that unfortunately we are not dealing just with a small marginal minority of races, jewish communities. unfortunately, we are dealing with an our boss review which is supporting misconduct. i miss the international, says the us and mexico a forcibly returning tens of thousands of unaccompanied children to countries that they fed from and a report. it says the us is denying some unaccompanied. mine is arriving on its southern border. proper screening or protection. amnesty says more than $10000.00 mine is from mexico, has been denied entry since november last year. since president biden took office in january about 50000 unaccompanied migrant children have managed to enter the us of the rest of their families were not allowed to apply for asylum. mexico to has

been reporting children from other central american nations. it expelled about half of the on the company of mine is it took in this year, minute or pallet reports now from mexico city. a major challenge for us and mexico immigration policy has been assert in child migration. and in many cases, these minors are traveling alone during the trump administration in unprecedented, served children and adolescents on the border resulted in policies that according to critics stretched the limits of international law among them, child detention camps and the practice of family separation. whenever let me barely see one of the main consequences of family separation is that it's the state that leaves children and adolescence unprotected. in theory, it then becomes the state's responsibility to provide protection for them. a recent us homeland security report suggest that more than $2100.00 children have yet to be

reunited with their families. o u. s. president joe biden has promised to undo many of the harsh immigration palsy put in place by his predecessor. but is the approach working? the latest statistics are mixed, though illegal crossings have heated 20 year, high child migrant numbers are on the decline. one of the biggest ships in micro demographic data from border officials in recent months has not only been a decline in unaccompanied minors, but an increase in migration from mexico mexican migrants now number more than twice as many guatemalan on durant and salvador migrants put together. policy experts say the ever changing dynamics of migration from the region is a major challenge for both of us and mexico. especially in the case of miners, you know the status needles. neither the governments of the united states or mexico count on a system of protection for child and adolescent migrants that can determine their

best interest in individual cases. for the most part, what authorities will determine is that the best interest is to return them to their country of origin without even trying to contact their parents wherever they might be. the solution is almost always deportation. though the us and mexico affirm that bilateral progress is being made in the processing of children and adolescents, migrant rights activists say there's still a long way to go for both countries to fully meet international human rights standards. manuel up a little al jazeera mexico city. brian griffey is the regional researcher and advisor on north america for the international $610.00 of amnesty international. he joined us on skype from washington. d. c. thank you for your time. so how exactly, how big exactly is this issue? how many children are actually being sent back in this way? i think for having, well, in embassy international, when you report

a pushed into harm's way. what we found was that both the us in the mexican governments were sending back tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children back to their countries of origin without adequate screenings for the harm that they could is there in terms of the exact numbers by country. and since children were exempted from the trump era policy of sending back all the thumb secrets the harm by federal court order in november. and then again, by biden in january, when he came into office to extend that direction to examine all unaccompanied children from for the partition. the by the ministration has nonetheless continued to send back to their countries of origin and almost all mexican unaccompanied miners since november until april. that has been over 10000 more than 95 percent of the unaccompanied mexican children who have been apprehended by the us border patrol has been sent back them to, to mexico, usually within 24 hours. and always within a few days. what. what can you tell me,

what, what exactly? it means for these children to be sent back without proper screening or protection . what exactly does that mean? what that means is that instead of having a child protection specialist in the room to assess what harm a child could face from going back, is border patrol agents themselves. his prime mandate is to expel these, these migrants who are overlooking the require screenings of children for harmony with the victims of traffic in and in many cases, 14 children, to find forms. they don't even understand in order to commit to voluntarily return to mexico and mexican authorities. when we met with them in the border area, told us themselves. and you know, when mexican authorities tell us that the us authorities are sending back to mexico, children who are not safe to be there. we're going to have to go into hiding instead of going home. and for it's part of mexico has been doing the same essential american children. likewise, more than $10000.00,

an unaccompanied central american kid. i'm sent back in 2019 alone. the numbers were lower last year, but again, we're seeing an uptick. as mexican immigration authorities are launching a major campaign in both the north and south of mexico to intercept unaccompanied children and send them back to america. so unless they believe that with adequate political will, mexico and the u. s. can actually protect migrant children in a way that meets human rights obligations. what should that look like and is the the that political will well, we just saw that vice president, commonly harris just returned from mexico city. and one of their pledges in cooperation was to increase international, the coordination of immigration enforcement. and they said to disrupt smuggling, that works what that means in practice. that's a euphemism for intercepting the same channels you're trying to. companies, kids are coming from central america to the u. s. the needs to be medical where will to, to allow children to pursue immigration claims in the us. especially given that the

head of homeland security in the united states. as already noted that over 80 percent of the central american children trying to get to the us already have family members here and over 40 percent of them have their parents and legal guardians here. so to say that it's in their best interest to go home to the interest places far from their families, is contrary to the reality. now we see that same homeland security chief is going back to mexico on monday, or ongoing coordination with mexican authorities. but we want to see is that the us authorities are not instrumental lives in the mexican government to do the dirty work for it. and instead is actually coordinating the determination of the best interest of the children, which is a legal requirement for both the us and the mexican government to patel or i will have to leave it there for time. thank you for your time, brian griffey there from amnesty international deforestation in brazil's amazon rain forest has risen for the 3rd consecutive month in may. brazil's

national space research institute says more than 2 and a half 1000 square kilometers were destroyed. that's about 3 times the size of new york city. so land was used the cattle ranches, farms and lugging its go straight to monica, you know, a care of his line for us from rear diginero, rio de janeiro. excuse me. so monica, how bad is this? well it's bad, it's the worst month of may compared to all the other mays from all the other years since 2016 just up in may alone. 1300 square kilometers of for is, have been destroyed. and this is just the beginning of the dry season in the amazon, which will last until october. there is also a drop in the country, so they're expecting big fires this year. and the last 2 years have been very bad. president j both. so now to i had promised that he would make things better

and it's just not happening. and of course deforestation in the amazon is, you know, impacts the entire planners president both of our had pledged to double funding, i believe, for environmental enforcement. that ventu 8 and reminder also of his position on this well, since he was, since he took office, he has said that the amazon should be exploited. it's not just in a sustainable way. he doesn't emphasize the word sustainable, but he just says it's something that just, you just can't leave the people not doing anything there. and he has the brazil has taken away funds from the, the institutions, the federal institutions that take care of the amazon that protect the fours from illegal mining from illegal logging. so the government has never had

a good position in relationship to the environment. now in april, when he went to the earth summit, he did make a promise that things would get better, but the next day he slashed the environment spending of the federal budget. and this is also because brazil faces are money crisis. it's as it's been, it's the world. it's the country with the 2nd largest death toll by coven, 19. and so nato is having to spend more than he expected in financial emergency aid . they spent a lot last year. they stopped the 1st 3 months of this year, but they had to resume the spending because brazil is now facing the 3rd wave. alright, thank you for that update monica, you know, ok the live for us from rio de janeiro. still ahead on al jazeera addressing the racism again, communities of color holding the police because of all the race to become your top

prosecutor is one of the most diverse and recent times we'll meet the front one. it will take you to let us know generally of what traffic congestion is putting the brakes on the growth. but there was a solution and for the team looking to cause an obsession wrong filled up to you or a 2020 coming up later on in the shop. ah, ah. hello there they'll be a slight break from the intense heat across the middle east. as we go into the we can, temperatures are going to dip down slightly over the gulf states, but they will pick back up. but for now, doe has sitting at 42 re, had coming in at 40, and things are looking rather unsettled. we've got a mile wind blowing down that's kicking up quite a lot of dust,

a sandstorm or 2. and the seas are pretty rough. from among we've got a southwesterly wind blowing and that's keeping things rather cool. they're kept just going to come down on sunday to the mid thirties. but if there is any rain, it's going to be to the western areas of saudi arabia. she was potentially for west and yemen, as we move across to the horn of africa. we've got storms brewing across the e, c o, p, and rift valley. those winds being felt across the coast of somalia, but we've got storms as well across the central african republic. cameroon, seeing some of that wet weather. and as we go into sunday, it will be the western areas of the democratic republic of congo that see those heavy downpours for the south is a pretty fine and dry picture, where there is rain. it is to the east coast of madagascar. we could see some flooding there, but fine and dry in south africa with plenty of sunshine. ah

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oh the ah. so what's going on there? a reminder of pop stories this on for him is prime minister boss johnson has told g 7 lead is the world must learn from the mistakes of the pandemic and never repeat them. well ladies meeting in southwest, england are expected to announce a total of $1000000000.00 doses for poor country. people have gathered occupied east jerusalem to show support for palestinian families, facing forced displacement.