the world's most populated region, the an untold story across asia and the pacific. to discover the current events with diverse coaches. and conflicting politics, ah, 11 east. on out there, a leading the vaccine race to the pandemic. g 7 lead is expected to sign a health declaration at best thomas in the u. k. ah times, sammy said, dan, this is jesse are alive from dell hall. so coming up prominent hong kong activists, agnes chow is released after serving a jail sentence for the 2000. and 19 protests algerians vote in parliamentary

elections following anti government protests and activists say it won't change the system. and thousands protested knowledge in tina to demand vaccines. and jobs, the country fairly faced. his health and economic crises, ah, global vaccine access and panoramic recovery are set to dominate talks on the 2nd day of the g. 7 summit leaders meeting in the u. k. are expected to sign the cobb and bay declaration on health, promising the devastation brought by covey 19 won't be repeated. well, so far they've pledged a 1000000000 vaccines for low income countries, but the u. n says more action is needed. john hall reports from cornwall. the white sands of carpet bay it delicate powers setting for a meeting of the group of 7 described as the world's most advanced democracy. they

are also leading the vaccine race to exit the pandemic. and while socially distance still there face to face, at least, and promising a combined effort to help the world emerge from crisis. 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 the headline pledge on this opening day. of the g 7 is the donation of a 1000000000 vaccine doses to lower and middle income countries over the next 12 months with the us offering half of that amount. campaigners say it's nowhere near enough and know when near fast enough. i think a 1000000000 dose is, it's

a good thing. i mean, you can't say it's a bad thing, but we need 11000000000 dollars and we need to move away from the idea of charity crumbs from the rich countries. and let developing countries like south africa or india produce their own vaccines. and the only way to do that is to share the vaccine recipe and break through the monopolies of these big pharma corporations. and, boris jones really doesn't want to do that. so he wants to talk about donations and the large yes of the richest nations. when in fact, they're big, hugely selfish and putting profit over people. but now the age of consumerism, fossil fuel addiction, things use of why protest is being kept well away from the some of the venue. but for once the issues they raise are actually being discussed. there's pressure to wave peyton, so the poorer countries can develop vaccines for themselves. the u. s. and france are in favor with others yet to follow climate and inequality or among the worlds crises that will talk the agenda on sunday. i call it the g 7,

but really there's no doubt who the 2 leading figures are here for is johnson the u . k. prime minister and host key to show his country off as a global power play, a post breaks it, and joe biden goes to the us president on his 1st foreign visit. both men came to be seen at the helm of efforts to rid the world of climate change and depend demik . what emerges from this meeting, a post trump consensus alliance, his reinvigorated meaningful promises of action, will determine whether this wealthy club of nations can make a real difference. john hall now joins us from cornwall. so joanna, what else can we expect to say in the health declaration? well from friday, as you saw there spent talking about vaccine delivery across the next 12 months, saturday will be devoted to looking back across the past 18 months. learning lessons from the pandemic. these leaders, the g 7, will commit their national resources to a sort of collective effort to prevent

a repeat of the devastation caused by the code when they unveil a plan of action to remind you 3700000 deaths so far and counting economies toward a pot, billions of people who are still waiting and have a very long wait before they see anything like a vaccine in their arms. this declaration, the copies bay declaration, it will be cold when it's unveiled, we'll have 3 parts. it will look 1st. it vaccine production, trying to tighten the time scales in future to under a 100 days before they'd be able to produce new vaccines for new viruses in future . the 2nd part will look at genome sequencing surveillance techniques within countries to be able to better and more quickly identify the nature of any future outbreak. and they'll be looking at reinforcing and strengthening the mandate of the world health organization to give it greater freedom to go into countries. when outbreaks happen, investigate the source would be able to act more efficiently. and that, of course, an allusion to the experience of dealing with china during the course of this

pandemic. and we will see at, during the course of the day, the likes of world health organization director, dr. tedra sca braces. he's joining those talks, as well as un secretary general antonio, cherish on jonah. let's talk about the cloud hanging over this for bars. johnson, namely, briggs, it well bars. johnson that has been desperate from this not, not to let breaks it anywhere near the summit and overshadow the general summit agenda. if that's going to happen at all, it's going to happen on this day. the u. k. looking and the prime minister looking increasingly isolated in terms of this dispute with the you of a trading arrangements post breaks it trading arrangements in northern ireland, the u. k. says border checks and rules of being over harshly applied in terms of that arrangement which is affecting the internal market. the you side has said all along and he's reiterating now look, this is a deal you signed up to,

you've got to honor it. the u. s. president joe biden appears to be in the camp. he with his irish roots, is very keen to see that nothing destabilizes the good friday peace agreement in ireland. and your lead is a preparing for bilateral meetings with boys johnson on saturday when the subject is very likely to come up. indeed, it already has in the last hour or so with the manual macro on the french president meeting. johnson, he came out saying, look, that needs to be reset in relations between france and britain, but that's not going to happen until or unless the u. k. side honors it's commitments. so a lot of pressure here on bar is johnson. it's pressure. he absolutely didn't want at this g 7 summit and joe hall watching that some it for us. thanks for last. and as g 7 leaders meet in the u. k. one of the issues that likely discuss is the growing assertiveness of china, especially in the asia pacific region. the rapid growth of china's military is helping fuel the regional arms race is from a bribe. explains for

a naval trade show in the south korean port, city of san the opening of an international exhibition putting on display the latest in naval weaponry that's increasingly made in south korea. decades of maintaining military readiness, only divided peninsula have gradually transformed the country into an important manufacturer. so huge a little when upon the reason we've come to realize the importance of developing our own weapons for defense. and we're now able to produce weapons just as powerful as those made by other countries, which is a recent agreement with its ally. the united states now allows south korea to develop longer range missiles with heavy payloads. and it follows the unveiling of a new home grown jet fighter prototype, chargeable family. we have opened a new era of self defense and have also established

a historic milestone in the advancement of the asian industry. it comes as south career and most asian neighbors are looking to spend more on new weapons driven in part by china's ballooning defense spending. and its expansion is portion the region with the breakaway island of taiwan, once again becoming a potential flashpoint. it means asia pacific is increasingly b arena for global rivalry to play out one camp the united states. in this i live confronting and ever more assertive china and russia starting to feel like a new type of cold war. and let's not forget, of course the north korea factor. the failure of the last few years of the nuclear . isaiah talked with north korea as raised fears of a regional arms race going nuclear. if we failed, great north korea and then you'll be growing voice for the nuclear station in south korea. then that will trigger for nuclear forces in japan,

even time one will be in the pushing for that idea. debt would be the really night, mary. she scenario as relations between asian neighbors become more strained. so the rhetoric between them builds in anger, giving all of them ever more reason to arm up, just in case public ride al jazeera boost on south korea. on of hong kong. as prominent pro democracy activists has been released from prison, agnes child more than 6 months in jail, for her role in anti government protest in 2019 the 24 year old was convicted along with activists. joshua wong and ivan lamb for an unauthorized rally in the police headquarters. both agnes chow and joshua wong face all the charges on the pages national security law. and that means things remain uncertain fact ms. chow, despite her release, adrian brown explains from hong kong. she was arrested back in august under that

national security law, along with a 100 other activists now. she has not yet been charged, but it's possible in the coming weeks or months that she will be or perhaps will be also charged under national security is joshua long and other well known, prominent activists. like jimmy, like the media tycoon. we have been seeing in the last few months, a real intensification of china's campaign against descent here. and on saturday, the man who's basically china's point man here in hong kong knew who named said that the people who were the real enemies of hong kong were those calling for an end to one party rule. now the reason why he was speaking today is because it's just a few weeks before china marks the 100 anniversary of the chinese communist coffee . a very important time for china's leaders. and that's why i don't think you'll

get to see a less up in their policies towards hong kong. how julians voting in the 1st parliament re election since mass protest forced the president to step down 2 years ago. they had arc pro democracy movement is urging support, as the boy called the vote after the 7 of its leaders were arrested on thursday. tasha when aim has more algerians have been promised a new algeria by president. i bill majid to boone, but for many the 1st legislative elections since protesters pushed out his predecessor in 2019, are heading for the same outcome, preserving the political status quo in their country. they 1000000000, and they will have. it turns out that jury ends up confirmed that for them, elections have never been a solution, and that's why they cut them on a dean and the elections are being held just after president boone dissolved the parliament. some members still had

a year left on their terms. the government says it inactive reforms designed to fight systemic corruption and create more opportunities for women and young people . more than half the candidates are running as independence. providing voters with an alternative to the old guard political parties who i'm going to vote because i see that they are candidates who will bring change to the country. knowing that the previous ones were more focused on their personal affairs and they forgot about people. critic say these elections are an attempt by the government to provide a year of legitimacy to a young, frustrated population that continues to protest. that meant that the between the dissolution lies into them. craddick transition. it also allows you to dialogue around the table in order to solve the crisis and the crisis will not be solved by elections. but unfortunately, the toward the still insists on their old practice of organizing elections. there

has been a crackdown on protesters and journals. now there are calls for a boycott which could give muslim parties a boost the miss, but i do not give a voting card. and in any case, even if i had one, i would not vote if last november's constitutional referendum is any guide voter. turnout could be low back then. only about one in 7 eligible algerians voted. natasha game al jazeera will still ahead. on al jazeera iran. the presidential hopefuls heading into the final debate will be live and to her on and the us justice department investigating efforts by the trump administration of these communication daughter of members of congress. ah

hello, we got some very heavy rain pushing towards vietnam at the moment. we got a tropical depression, which is now making its way we close to high 9 to the south of high that we saw 152 millimeters of frame here in space of only 24 hours. is that circulation? there's a very wet weather which will coming in across northern parts of vietnam as we go on through sunday. so the possibility of some flooding as a result of that, a heavy rain will stay in place here as we move into the early part of next week, petty is showers across malaysia penny a showers there into indonesia. not quite. his intensity happened recently, but they are still there in the heat of the day. never less so some afternoon. damp was always likely. please say the down pause has started to ease away from that southeast corner of australia could still see that lation just around the the best rate. they're just pulling away from victoria pulling away from tasmania, but still a legacy of some wet weather coming through here. still some rather brisk winds,

which just rattled way through tasmania running on towards new zealand, where it will tread increasingly wet and windy as we go through sunday. and on into monday dry weather comes back in behind. over towards the west, the cloud and rain is gathering. there will be some wet weather for southern parts with snow, straight. the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity, we can make it work for you and your business. ah

ah, welcome back here watching, i'll just hear a time to recap our headlines, global vaccine access and pandemic recovery is set to dominate talks on the 2nd day of the g 7 summit leaders meeting in the u. k. of pledge, the 1000000000 vaccine. so low income countries, but the u. n says more action is needed. agnes ciao, one of hong kong, most prominent activists, has been released from prison. she served more than 6 months in jail for her role on authorized anti government protest in 2019 algerian, the voting in their 1st parliamentary elections. since the president resigned to week 2 years ago,

the head of the pro democracy movement is urging supporters to boycott the vote after its leaders were rested. in iran, the 3rd and final presidential election debate will be held live on state television later on saturday. the theme is people's concerns as radians, prepared to vote. next week's pole and candidates had a heated discussion in the last televised debate accuse each other treason and lacking in education from all this spring in dosage of our joins us now. live from toronto. what can we expect in today's debate? well, we can expect more of the same sammy, as these debates have been called a similar to a game show formats where the moderator from state tv really does not seem to have very much control over how their format is played out. a lot of the candidates spent most of their a lot of times instead of answering the questions that they're asked, attacking each other and their policies and their background. so there is

a sense that these debates will not have very much impact on the general public. and their views, there's not a lot that we hear from the candidates individually about their platforms and what they will do specifically if they are to be the next president. there is a lot of time spent attacking one another. and this is the, one of the main issues people have with these debates. unofficial polls showed that the 2nd debate that was held on tuesday only had about 37 percent of the population watching it on state tv. and there is very little interest from the general public when it comes to this election that is coming up on june 18th. is there any indication of how these debates are shaping or impacting public opinion so far? they encouraging people, energizing people encouraging them to come out and vote. i think they are actually having the opposite effect they are putting on display as the main problem. the

general public has with these candidates. the 7 men who have been vetted by the guardian council to stand in the 13th presidential elections since the revolution of 979. many people have spoken to say that they're not interested in voting because they don't believe there's a broad spectrum of candidates who have been approved. and the ones that are approved and are not candidates that people have very much confidence in, in terms of their background. for example, we have the conservative candidate who is the head of the countries judiciary abraham racy who is believed to be the front runner in these elections. but he, his based support will continue. he was also a candidate in the 2017 election. he received about 16000000 votes, but aside from the people who normally vote, which is the conservative part of the country, the moderates and the reformers really have said that they've had enough of this and they are not interested in voting. and of course, the past 8 years under how sandrani has proven to be very, very difficult. the country's economy is in the worst shape ever. their real has

plummeted, 80 percent lost 80 percent of its value over the past 8 years. and of course we have that nuclear deal in the talks that are ongoing in vienna, on the economic sanctions on the country that i've had a huge impact. so there is a sense that the debates have had very little impact and they will lot likely convince voters to go to the polls on june 18th. but nevertheless, they will continue on tonight's debates, will likely show more of the divisions within the candidates that have been approved to stand. all right, thanks so much dosa jabari. iran has regained its right to vote in the general assembly after paying its minimum dues to the united nations. it says it was able to do so after the us allowed it to use funds frozen in south korea. to her on says it's been unable to access $20000000000.00 worth of oil revenues abroad because of sanctions imposed by former us president donald trump. iran voted in the general

assembly on friday to elect 5 new members of the security council. the you and human rights chief michelle. betcha. a as cold man, mar a human rights catastrophe. she declared the nation's military rulers, all solely responsible men. mazda 3 is targeted and killed. the protest is an opposition group since seizing power in a qu, in february bachelor's condemnation comes as hundreds of people from 2 villages and 7 men. mom took part in the latest protests against the military rulers. some deliberately avoided main roads to avoid confrontation with security forces. marley's transitional government has named a new cabinets with colonel sadie. oh, come on. returning his defense minister. his removal is one of the reasons cited for last month. qu, the military sees power accusing the intern, presidents and prime minister of re shuffling the cabinets without consulting it. first. william laurence is a former us diplomat and regional security officer in west africa. these as molly's

military jones, who could be losing public support. so it was a little bit unexpected for me we have 4 key positions that went to army officials . so in that sense, it's a more military military government following the qu. but we also had 5 positions. go to the m r, p, m 5, opposition ment. and even positions go to for rebels. and so that signal that the government is maybe less concerned about what the international think of it. but it's trying to endear itself to the malia people and respond to some of their demands, at least symbolically by bringing these people into the government. so that was quite interesting. there was a lot of support with the removal of the previous government and previous president last august. but since then there isn't been too much support for the 1st. who are the 2nd? who in the cool leaders there isn't much competing,

is who leaders or are able to do much. and they haven't delivered much other than the actions and including to meet people in the government. they haven't really been able to offer much to promote, to overcome the twin security and economic crisis, which is at the heart of all the protests. so a lot of molly and just have a wait and see attitude to see if this government can deliver anything better than the previous government. and so far they haven't accomplished much thousands of protesters in march. they want cyrus to demand better government support. valentina face is a steep economical health crisis. current virus infections are soaring, the government is extended restrictions and approved. china's casino vaccine for emergency use that as a bo reports from one to 5. this the, they're demanding vaccines salaries and jobs. thousands of protesters converging on central when a fight is on friday. felina worked as

a waiter but lost his job last year. he hasn't been able to find another job since thursday, but i was trying to finish high school even though i'm 33 years old. i tried to do everything from clean windows in the streets, to selling food. i'm worried about the future of my children when the father of 3 says his children have not attended school in the past year. and he can hardly afford to pay for an internet connection. and then he has had a huge impact in latin america in argentina, the economy contract it almost 10 percent last year. there's a storing inflation rates and poverty is affecting around 42 percent of the population. the government is trying to find a balance between preserving health and economic subsistence, but it's a challenge, especially when millions of people are struggling to make ends meet argentine a government has extended pandemic restrictions for 2 more weeks to contain the

spread of the virus. an average of 600 people are dying every day of covert 19, and there are more than 20000 daily infections. you know, so what it though, and even though argentina struggle to get vaccines, president l or the for amanda says the situation has started to improve with vaccines coming from russia, china and the united kingdom. when i don't remember it out, we are no vaccinating at a faster speed, all are efforts to do it even more so, and we will rest in peace. when everyone has a job, the virus exists, the virus mutates and it complicates the life of humanity. now there's a triple mutation that's appeared in india, but in some countries in the region, vaccines i know, guarantee that the number of infections will go down soon. on friday, chileya announced the locked down in the capital santiago and rising colbert cases . even though nearly 60 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated,

the main reason government critic say is loosening of corona virus restrictions to soon unemployment and the economy are the main reasons why lockdown have proven to be unpopular in this part of the world. in for my workers, psych pena and azure cannot afford to stay home, even though the government has increased cash handouts. most people here say it's not enough to be i'm working in a cooperative cleaning parks among other things. i can't afford to stay home. we need jobs, i have an 11 year old son. that's why i'm here today. the pen demik continues to expose the regions inequalities and it's chronic economic troubles. both the major barriers in the fight against over 19. so i will, i'll just see to one of the biden administration is returning more than $2000000000.00 to the pentagon. from a board, a wall fund from a president don trumpet diverted the money for his controversial project.

construction has been suspended though, since joe biden took office the white house as transferring the money away from the defense department was wasteful. funds will now be used as originally intended for military projects in the us and overseas technology firm. apple says they did not provide democratic legislatures e mails to the trumpet administration. the us justice department is launching an investigation into a subpoena to apple in 2018. it was part of an inquiry into leak information. apple says it complied with the older about limited the information provided. top senate democrats have called on former attorneys general jeff sessions and william bound to testify before congress. deborah is under, has more from washington d. c. yeah, it's important to put this in a little bit of context here. this all goes back to around 2018 under president.

then president donald trump and the justice department that he essentially oversaw them. what the allegations are is that the trump white house ordered the justice department. perhaps the allegations are to get phone records and metadata e mails and what have you from political rivals and journalists, as part of the white house's attempt to see who was leaking damaging information about donald trump. but the problem with this is that the justice department is an independent body. it's not supposed to be doing get involved with political things such as this at all, and trumpet whitehouse. no secret had it had always made no secret of the fact that it was using the justice department to do some of the bidding if you will. that's not necessarily a secret has been all sorts of allegations for a long time. but these are just new and democrats right now are outraged on capital

hill. that these new allegations coming to light that perhaps in 2018 to 2019 that the justice department was seeking records e mails, phone call records, and such and alike from to prominent democrats on the house intelligence committee, or 2 democrats that were particularly vocal against donald trump, this just goes completely against the norms and perhaps even breaking laws. and so that is why there is so much outrage about this by democrats right now. the news let's take you through some of the headlines here now. jazeera now global vaccine access and pandemic recovery are set to dominate talks on the 2nd day of that g 7 summit leaders in the u. k. of pledge to 1000000000 vaccines fellow income countries. but the.