an international law suit hoping to bring those accountable to justice and force the country to acknowledge its fascist, passed the silence of others. weakness on al jazeera. mm. the and iran back to paramilitary group valves, revenge after its members killed in us that strikes along the rock serial border. ah, good morning everyone. i'm come all santa maria, this is the world news from al jazeera egypt pacific nations. the thing arise and cove at 19 outbreaks driven once again by that more contagious delta variance also warning that civilians in me and mara, taking up weapons and forming antique and malicious risk,

a ferocious response from the army. and they call it the white gold of renewable energy. how argentina is banking on? lithium, beneath the soft, flat power economy. ah, hello, there iran, bank, paramilitary and armed groups in iraq have promised a joint response to the u. s. as strikes targeting them along the syrian border, the u. s. says the facilities that we hit were being used to launch attacks against american troops in iraq. the rocks popping immobilization forces, the p m f. c. j. 4 of the members were killed. us president joe biden ordered those strikes against the same groups. in february, his the pentagon statement, president barton has been clear that he will act to protect us personnel, given the ongoing series of attacks by iran, bank groups talking to us interests in iraq. the president directed further

military action to disrupt and deter such attacks more with him run con in baghdad . enron. it was only a few days ago you and i were talking about the p. m f. they were holding a rally and dollar as, as i recall now by out front and center being targeted. well, it's only the 2nd time actually that they have been targeted by us strikes under president jo biden's rule. now what the us president has said that the us actually attack to very specific military groups can type harder and can type his bullet. he said they, those attacks took place on a drawing manufacturing brace on the al. com border crossing those drones have actually been used in attacks against us targets in iraq over the past year or so. now what we normally say is convoys being attacked by these paramilitary groups? well, it's the same rocket land in baghdad. international airport towards the side where

the american troops are base plus rockets in to the greens and so it's all of this that lead the president to actually go off to these groups in that particular base . however, there is some concern from experts and watches as to how effective these targets, how these drones that are being targeted almost commercial drones. you can actually buy them on the commercial market. they're not military grade drawing for they actually will be able to be resupplied quite easily. however, full of the p. m. f members were killed. they were killed from type, asha harder, who have given a very strong respond saying that they know in an open war against the u. s. and they're going to target us airplanes and anywhere the americans might be. so is this an escalation? that's what everybody is now asking themselves is all down to how the public mobilize ation forces retaliate against this. now remember they all these 2 groups

particularly are backed by iran. there's also plays into the confrontation, certainly in iraq between us and iranian forces. so how that plays out as well remains to be seen, but this is very definitely if you can show how to certainly reason for an escalation, how the escalation takes place. what shape it looks like remains to be seen, but they are by revenge. and as strikes like this, enron us, as strikes are by, i'm going to use a strange term here, but are they allowed? i mean, this is simply and strike it in another country is the relationship between the us and the, and the iraqis allows the sort of thing well, the popular mobiles ation force has come under the command of the prime minister of iraq. so normally they all part of the security forces have so effectively what you're saying, you're right to say this is this an attack on iraq sovereign troops will

effectively yes, that's true. however, a lot of there's a lot of control see over the popular mobile is ation forces as to who they are to, to now the prime minister, as i say, normally controls them. and he was there at the p. m f. pray just a couple of days ago you referred to earlier and saying that these people are part of our forces. so it's unlikely that they would have thought permission from the iraqi said publicly and certainly not in the formal manner. however, the popular mobilization forces have attacked us target. so the u. s. field, it's justified in doing this. very interesting. thank you for that context. am on con, in backed up in while the highly infectious delta variance of covert 19 is breaching defense is across asia, forcing governments to bring back top restrictions are locked on will begin in bangladesh

is capital darker on thursday. huge numbers of people are scrambling to get out of the city before it takes effect. there are record breaking infection counts in indonesia as well, but also those in chicago and elsewhere if and setting up tens outside to treat. the overflow of patients and thailand has tightened restrictions in the capital bank, all kind of the provinces to tackle it's worth outbreak. so far and we are across all of those locations right across asia. tony chang is in bangkok. we've also got jessica washington in jakarta. sit tight. both of you will be with you in a moment after 10, via chandra. first of all, at a ferry terminal. i believe it is near darker. yes, i've been telling my mom, it's about 40 mile. i've got a dhaka. now right here yesterday you saw tens of thousands of people gather the air to go to that hometown. show that there's not as much crowd. partly because all the public transport are shut out from today, you know, it's a partial lockdown,

but we saw on the way it coming here. a lot of people are walking, even renting ambulance, whatever they called drugs. you will scroll down to get in here. this is one of the many ready time and i was like cross dock are where they can go to solve them part of their country to go to the northern part, you basically go to the south bend south to cross the credit and flag started. but recall dealt barry and sometime around the middle of april and they've got in turns by maybe there was a limited restrictions on it. now they backed off those the stick that borders in the just yes or the 19 cases of that were $5000.00 infection . so the one that i'm pick him up now. okay, 10 very i'm going to have to interrupt. you don't if you could still hear me,

but unfortunately the line is really poor and we can't hear you. but tommy chandry, as he says, at a ferry terminal near the dock. there is we look at some of those pictures, the extraordinary lot of people trying to look after themselves as covered 19 spreads there. let's move to jakarta indonesia, jessica washington. tell us about where you are. welcome, all i'm here in north dakota at raw towns cemetery, and this cemetery is really representative of just how far this crisis has firewalls in. it means that in recent weeks, this is one of the new cemeteries, and it was required because of a cemetery, have reached capacity and have no room for jacoby, has coven victims? it's not just the cemeteries that are having capacity issues. but as you mentioned earlier, hospitals as well, some hospitals in jakarta and west java are at 100 percent capacity and have been forced to turn away critically ill patients. now the positivity rate in jakarta is

40 percent. so transmission is high. the health ministry says they anticipated the 3rd as part of the post aid celebrations. they did expect an increase in transmission, but doctors warned that if more isn't done to stop transmission, if more restrictions on to introduce that, the situation will spiral out of control. and the health care system will collapse extraordinary to hospital flowing and even cemeteries as well. unable to co thank you. jessica washington, the injured casa. and now tony chang in bangkok, tony check us, take us to the situation in thailand, in the timing of restrictions that we're seeing rising infections, 5400 today, which are a big change in this time last year were tenants a very effectively cut back infection we're seeing very few deaths in sight last

year in the whole of 2020. so any 61 covert related deaths yesterday alone, they recorded 51. so that's a real concern. these new restrictions not a complete lockdown, but they are going to stop things like people dining and restrooms. construction sites have been closed down large gatherings of people. and it's a real concern for people on the streets who are out in china 10 little earlier talking traders who said that this is really the final blow they've been struggling so much. during the covert crisis, they had a little bit of government aid in the early months, but there's nothing until now and they say, this is going to be the hammer blow suffered. but they're going to be opening the door to the new barons. and that could be very dangerous. yeah. always risky. okay, thank you. tony chang, rounding out our coverage is covered 19 across asia. thank you. rival palestinian groups have been fighting after the death of an outspoken critic of the palestinian authority. have been days of demonstration since news out of and died in the

custody of security forces last week for the 5 to gas and stun grenades in bethlehem. with some protesters with throwing stones and other projectiles at offices. and they were similar things elsewhere in the occupied west bank. stephanie deck, in our reports, the chaos on the streets of it, among the group of pro government supporters march down to where around a 100 the testers had gathered peacefully chanting slogans against the palestinian authority. protesters were beaten and members of the media were aggressive. the targeted many say had been a concert campaign against the cam. records were forcibly removed and taken, a colleague had his camera smashed. we were surrounded by thugs who forced us to bring down the satellite antenna on our old hosting truck. there are security members, you know, but with the civil clause, the related to different security groups,

military intelligence and the which called the, the president gods. also this is part of that. most of them, you know, they are not civilians security. it's the 4th day of protests following the death of palestinian authority. critic, these are burnett, according to his family, who was beaten in the middle of the night, detained by members of the palestinian security forces. last thursday. anger at the government here is rising. 84 percent of the palestinian people say impulse that the palestinian authority is corrupt. so that's the 1st issue. the 2nd issue is that the p a has become an authoritarian regime. they are arresting activists. they are beating people in the streets. and last but not least, the palestinian people want to struggle for freedom wants to struggle for justice. the supplements are expanding and we see the p a and the p as role has been assisting the occupations preventing the post. and the struggle seemed like this

rarely seen here. a large number of security forces were stationed not far from this and did nothing we reached out to various members of the government. no one has so far given us to response the level of intimidation over the media over the last couple of days has been immense. female journalists have been beaten with sticks. we were severely intimidated, not to film to bring down our live capabilities. and they continue to watch us to the point where we couldn't even take out our mobile phones. and all this prompted by a protest of only around 100 or so people. stephanie decor, ultra 0, my law in the occupied west back more head few. and i'll just 0, we've already looked at current of virus and a share and well next, how the delta. cobit 19 is hitting africa as well. bringing more restrictions there . in the death toll from the collapse of that florida apartment tower rises, rescue was not giving up. ah

hello, nice a few. we may have had another tornado tear through europe this time in east london . it's tough to tell with this video of that funnel cloud did actually touch the ground, but this is what the u. k met office will now investigate. it is all part of a disturbing spinning around the bay of escape, throwing a lot of rain toward northern areas of spain, a huge swath of france for the southern portions of the united kingdom into the low countries. and we also got to talk about where we could see storms flare up toward northern areas of ukraine into bella. ruth and western rush. actually pretty much on that border with russia and bella. ruth, on monday. then it's all about the heat. has free coach of the mediterranean and the levant temperatures are building a leper. we've got you in for 40 degrees and check out some of these temperatures across turkey on tale of 40 and on cyprus. nickos. see, we're going to lock your temperature into the low fourties for the next few days,

and you should be about $35.00 degrees off to africa, and it's been particularly white as we head toward abby john, you've scooped up $63.00 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours and that's where we will expect our heavy spouts of wet weather to be on monday. the southern areas of new nigeria rate through southern areas have gone out into the ivory coast . once again, i'll be john 27 degrees. the for some robot is a mechanical or even that self driving train of the apple. but androids today can be clearly humanoid robots, like me, will be everywhere. al jazeera documentaries. next lead on the weird and wonderful world of robot that learn, think, feel, and even trust. i feel like i'm alive, but i know i am a machine origins of this species. on our 20 o

a top stories for you on al jazeera. this is our iran back paramilitary, and i'm groups in iraq vowing a joint response to us as strikes which targeted them along the syrian border. the u. s. as the facility hits were being used to launch attacks against american troops in iraq. findings broken out between rival palestinian groups over the death of an outspoken critic of the palestinian authority. there have been days of demonstrations ever since his own binocs died in the custody of security for the last week. and the delta variance is spreading fast through bangladesh,

which has reported at the highest number of daily covert debts and the pandemic began. tens of thousands of people are scrambling to leave the capital ahead of a nationwide lockdown on thursday. that delta varied, also raising alarm in africa with south africa becoming the latest country to be swept by the 3rd wave. president cyril around the address to the nation on sunday and announced 2 weeks of tough new lockdown measures. all schools will close on wednesday night time curfew has been extended and ban on all gatherings as well as the sale of alcohol. we are in the grid or for devastating wave that by all indications seems like it would be worse than those that have preceded it. the peak of this 3rd wave looks set to be higher than the previous 2 waves. the 1st wave.

if we recall last that 15 weeks, the 2nd wave lasted nearly 9 weeks. we don't know how long this one will last, but indications that it could last longer. at least 30 people have died in an attack in central somalia. government officials say ship fight instead of 2 car bombs on sunday, targeting a military base in the town of we still in the semi autonomous state of gamma. those the attack lead to fighting between troops and rebels. 17 soldiers and 13 civilians were reportedly killed. the death toll from the partial collapse of an apartment building in the u. s. is slowly rising 9 and now known to have died. but still, 152 people are unaccounted for on hindrance. as our report from south side, the miami, with a rising death toll in dwindling hopes of finding survivors in the sir side,

building collapse, rescue workers have been battling rain fire and the cloth. as rescuers rummaged through tons of rubble from above and beneath a structural engineer tells al jazeera the collapse seems to started in the buildings foundation and the thinking landfill. it was built on deck might be something to do with the foundation settlement that might be something to do with d is some of the columns that might be deteriorated over time. remember, this building is close to the shoreline. and when you have structures, especially country sectors that are close to shore line there, it's 40, it's forced to salty. see what? that kind of explain. the deterioration of the country. search and rescue teams cut a deep trench through pancake concrete and mangled metal and made a grim discovery. we continued all night to build that, that trench. and as a result of that, we were able to recover for additional bodies in the rubble. as well as additional

human remains, 1st responders say this is still a rescue mission, noting survivors could live on in so called void spaces. so avoid space can be created by pretty much anything if a wall falls and hit your refrigerator. instead of coming down to the floor, maybe a piece of furniture, maybe someone could be in a bath tub with a piece of wall over them and the back of itself is avoid space. so any space that could sustain life, family members or donating dna to identify those last in the champlain towers, south. but the search has been hampered by fire and rain. there is another worry just north of the building. they came down. there is another building called champlain tower north built at the same time with similar materials and residence there are being offered the chance to voluntarily actuate. over the next 30 days, miami dade county officials will be inspecting it and other older high rise

buildings, hoping to avoid another catastrophe on this sinking sands of miami beach. the chances of finding survivors decreased by the hour and by the day that the refills scattered throughout and its compact is extremely compact. so it's a very slow process where we have to sure we have to stabilize the best we can as we're moving through. after the rescue come the forensic engineers gathering samples from the collapse concrete and steel and putting their findings into computer simulation. still try to replicate disputed by different simulations. and based on what you have in your computer environment, simulating the same type of failure. then you will have a better understanding of what factor or factors cause this failure. but 1st rescue workers are toiling around the clock to ensure that anyone who is managed to survive within avoiding the rebel is discovered before time runs out. john

henderson, al jazeera surfside, florida. look at me and me now where there are warnings about civilians. and protesters who are taking out mobs and forming militias to fight them in that region to international crisis group says some of these groups armed with hunting rifles and other sort of makeshift weapons have used the numbers and knowledge of local terrain to inflict serious casualties on me and miles, military security forces responded with indiscriminate attacks on popular areas using artillery and as strikes and helicopter gun ships. tens of thousands of men, women, and children of fled to the forest with the regime blocking relief from reaching them with foreign st. louis in quite a lumper on this one. tell us more about this report. it just seems that cliche thing to say, but a real sort of david and goliath situation. absolutely,

and you know, come all the i, c, j, the international crisis group is really just the latest to warn about escalating violence in myanmar. we've heard it before from the u. n. and now the international crisis group is saying that now the one of the main reasons for this escalation and violence is because of the formation of armed and t g into forces. and these are locals armed with hunting rifles in sometimes quite rudimentary weapons. some of these made and make sure the jungle factories now using that local knowledge of the areas where they live to inflict and to launch attacks on the me, on my military. and they've been able to fix some rather significant casualties on the military known as the commodore. and now the men military has been responding to these attacks with overwhelming force it's launched attacks from populated areas . it's used as strikes helicopter gunship, artillery. now, the un estimates that so far, 230000 people have been displaced by fighting and insecurity so far. and the i, c, g says the international crisis group says the elderly and the young,

more vulnerable to violence and displacement. not only that, some of these conflicts and areas which i haven't seen violence in decades. that means local age organizations has now got to set up new supply lines and they've got to set up new operations to reach those areas. come out, tell us in florence about the longer term implications of this sort of violence, the army versus the rebels has been going on for a long time. what will this to that's right, so one law is not a stranger to con sake. you know, it's been fighting civil wars with different ethnic armed organizations in different parts of the country. now, the international crisis group says that these militia groups, because they're quite localized, that they've got, you know, different ones in chin state. and by go now these groups, the ones that do manage to survive because they've been able to form a more,

a longer term structure because they have been able to secure funding. well, these groups will form a new dimension to the conflict in not so the international crisis group and it's report on monday, it's saying that 2 things have to happen. now, the international community has to come together and put more pressure on the june top to stop violating international law. and that is stop arbitrary arrests to stop using disproportionate force to respond to protest is to respond to armed groups. now of course the i c, g also acknowledges that this is easier said than done because it does recognize that western lead sanctions on likely to have much influence on the dentist calculations about the use of force. now the other thing that the report by the international crisis group emphasizes is that there needs to be humanitarian aid. this is urgent and this needs to happen and the job to has to stop if blockades,

2 areas which, which i and conflict. florence lee in quite alone by keeping an eye on things in me enough for thanks, florence now, lithium. this is becoming more of a hot commodity these days around the world as a move to renewable energy counter space. it's used in the battery, the power electric cars and laptops and phones all about tech. argentina wants to supply the world with its large lithium reserves. but as theresa reports, many worry, this will come at to greater cost to the environment. lithium extraction is well under way at the orlando full flats in the province of who, who is in northern argentina. it is referred to as the wire gold of renewable energy. that's what the market says. i didn't need to increase leaf you mix fraction, but also manufacture batteries to add value to the production chain. layer a. we are trying to establish

a small supply chain of lithium batteries. so we can meet with the demand. one area of demand is the transformation of fudge and tina's large public transport system to include electric, but lithium production is a priority for argentina government. it's minister of production says that government has already signed deals with several companies. china is a major player in the business and has been increasing its presence in the region. some of the endo would you see us, we are seeing lots of interest in the possibility of investing in the country. last week we signed a memorandum with a chinese company that is already producing lithium in our container and is hoping to advance into batteries. and we signed with another chinese company to build batteries and cars that you're seeing lots of interest because of our natural resources. industrial history and technology that allows us to plan ahead. lithium, ion batteries, rechargeable and lightweight power. the most used electronic devices on the planet,

from cell phones to laptops. much of that, lithium comes from what is known as a lithium triangle. i didn't penal bolivia until you have a wrong 70 percent of the words. lithium research. the lithium is liquid, ryan reserves no k to install flat. like this when thousands of liters of water are necessary to pump pop the brain research to the surface. there later on, distributed in evaporation pools communities around this area are concerned that unless you extraction could complicate their access to water. people here depend on the small flaps to make a living. dining and lament flores is part of the indigenous communities in the area. on the i to be in which one ancestors have been living here since before the argent time state. and now they want to invade it. we haven't seen any serious studies on what will happen to the water. it is something that worries us that we are concerned about what is being done to other salt flights in the region. they

are broken dirty and we don't want that to happen here. and that's why scientists like victoria flexor, i working to find alto native ways to extract the fume. so we are looking at both disruptive technology. that means technology that need to evaporate water to extract lithium. and we're also looking at where we michael, upgrade to the current of operating technology. and we are looking to try to we gather some of the water that he's currently lost during of operation. it would be an inconsistency to extract least him for a, for a greener world. and for a greener economy if we are contaminating the regions. the locations around the bosses. developing technologies is expensive and will take time. a major challenge for developing nations quite trying to find a balance between conservation and growth clearly. so i will as the theda who we

are in tina ah.