his external affairs spoke, 1st of the government as follow in due process and the case and that authorities act against violation of law. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, and barbara sarah. this is the al jazeera news, our live from london. thank you for joining us. coming up in the next 60 minutes, riots and looting in south africa were process over the rest of a former president have amplified anger, over spiraling poverty and inequality. in iraq, grief stricken families demand answer is after a fire in a corona, virus ward claims more than 90 lives. we're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. the us president calls moved to restrict the

voting rights on the fault on democracy as federal republican faith. try to enact legislation and turning to technology to police. the border a controversial trial begins in greece, ends for roger federer has pulled out of the po. carolyn picks the 13 year old says a knee injury will prevent him from competing in japan. ah, we begin the news that we're in south africa where at least a 72 people have died and saw the countries worse than rest since the nation became a democracy. more than 1200 people have been arrested. the protest started after the jailing of former president jacob juma, but many believe that south africa has battered the economy,

is driving the rest. the unemployment rate rose to a new record high of 32.6 percent in the 1st quarter of 2021. cobit 19 restrictions of increase joblessness, but the economy was already in recession before the country recorded its 1st case. south africa leader has admitted the country has been plagued by corruption presidency with serious. i'm opposed that has said more than $35000000000.00 was looted from state coffers during zoom as a rule from 2009 to 2018. persistent poverty and inequality remain a problem 27 years after the end of a part 8. the world bank says the richest 20 percent of people control nearly 70 percent of the resources making south africa, one of the most unequal countries in the world. well, much of the violence is happening in 2 provinces. how paying is the most populous province and includes the largest city johannesburg. at least 10 people died in

a stampede in a shopping mall in waco, in alexandra township, and elsewhere along the outskirts of the johannesburg area. crowds have been looting businesses. the violence started last week in quasi luna pal, which is jacob zoom as home province. state and provincial officials say that 26 people have died in unrest there, mostly during stumping for me to miller has more now from johannesburg. on this day of looting and riots, grip alexandra township in the north of johannesburg. police struggle to keep people away, but those temporarily peered by rubber coated, put us in guests, returned within minutes. hours later, soldiers are deployed. the apprehended group of men, they suspect of shooting at them, searching for guns and other weapons. with the army on the street, these business owners say they feel safe to return to see what they've lost. they

find their stores gutted by looting and fires. this time i'm believe i'm 30 here in this country, but i believe we do that in other parts of the halting province. there's also been extensive looting tools at this small in deep cliff where so have been entirely ransacked. there's nothing left and soldiers that police have been deployed to places just like this to try and protect whatever little is left and also keep looters away. but preventing the looting in many areas in johannesburg has proven difficult and appears to be impossible to stop here. grocery stores a butcher shop, banks and atm completely destroyed. security guards say they try to keep looters away as they waited for the police. but it was too late, smart, shabby, worked at this food outlet. now i'm english because where,

what am i supposed to do for now? where am i going to get paid? where's most likely going to come from? because this is my love would. hi, my goodness about my family because of this and what and i came enough that have been paging this place and the police were nowhere to be seen with riots and the disruption of services in the halting and quote natal provinces. there concerns, people who run out of the many unhappy with the destruction. i don't know where my going to fives. and i don't know as you can see that this bed and there is the situation. people are not waking, but this is not the solution. ah, the protests that began after the jailing of former president jacob zoom, i have no escalated to riots linked to increasing poverty and inequality. south

africa has been on the bearing stage of the close at 90 lockdown for more than a year. worsening unemployment already at $0.52 has field anger and resentment as a government that is struggling to cope for media. miller, al jazeera johannesburg, timmery. he is from the institute for justice and reconciliation. he says, no one could predict the scale of the rest. that has really reveals the multi layered nature of the crisis very complex situation and so he'll, it could make disparities and social exclusion that goes back to the apartheid legacy in south africa. combined with years of ms. ro, paradoxically, by, by mr. jacobs, do the between 20092018. so i think this is a deep, socio economic crisis. western by a political system and political governance that has in fact, misjudged the,

the temperature, the social temperature in the country. but the irony inspect is that between the 20092018, as i mentioned under jacobs numerous rule, there was widespread looting of state coffers estimated in the order of half a trillion south africa ran close to $500000000000.00 us dollars. and if that looting hadn't happened, then that said, resources were adequately deployed, particularly to social economic programs, to help educate asian housing. we may not be seeing what we are witnessing right now. this is continuous uprising. it is a pressure cooker situation that has been building up over time and it is, it is a statement that something needs to be corrected rather urgent thing with in south africa. and if the political leaders missed this boat again, unfortunately, we will be few job ravings in, in south africa,

a catastrophic fire that ripped through a coven, $99.00 solution warden. the iraqi city of nasiriyah has killed at least 92 people. faulty wiring have sparked an explosion in an oxygen tank. another tragic accident in medical system that was once the envy of the middle east. but iraq now spends only a fraction of its money on health in 2019 only 2.5 percent of the $106500000000.00 budget was actually allocated to the health ministry. that amounts to $161.00 per citizen, each year on average, far less than its poor neighbors, like jordan and lebanon. well, that means is only $1.00 hospital beds per $1000.00 people. and point $83.00 doctor is for the same amount. now the pandemic is pushing a struggling system close to collapse more than 17000 people have died from corona

virus in iraq. and in nasiriyah shock, relatives are still looking for traces of their loved ones. and what remains of the l. hussein hospital. behold a bill where he reports the angry and in morning heroic is betty. they love the wombs. the victims of the planet were mostly receiving treatment for covert maintain. the burned out word relatives arrived to help search for remains under the debris. they say the lack of safety equipment and an evacuation plan made the disaster worse. comb advised, then this is the result of come up, provide james if it hadn't been for these young volunteers, him many more people would have died were holding the government in the health director of the pulpit responsible for this crime. tillman. forensic doctors say 5 members of one family or among the victims with many of the dead too badly burned

to be identifiable by a relative outside. the more most of the waited with others hoping for news about his mother. he says he couldn't identify her among other victims. i've been searching for her since yesterday. where shall i go now? when the fire broke out, we tried to break the door down to rescue her and the other patient. but it was too late. according to medical sources, the fire started when an oxygen tank used for treating cool patients. 6 secluded lay mobile materials used in the construction of the walls of this center, including foam, help fuel the fire. the victims die from both burns and suffocation. this is the 2nd, the blaze at 19 unit in an iraqi hospital in 3 months. in april fire killed 82 cove with patients at the hospital in baghdad. the health

sector in iraq has been hit by years of case and mismanagement. it seems there is little hope of the situation improving anytime soon, and it's the patients who are paying the price that we're had l g 0 in the city, a city, southern iraq coming up on al jazeera, this news, our cuba restrict access to social media, has anti government protests that sweep the country. one of the world's richest countries cuts aid to some of the worlds, the poorest people will tell you why. most importantly, also for the chinese people, japanese people and olympic president, thomas soc slipped off in tokyo morals that import. ah,

to gray and fighters say to they've seen the major town in new offensive in ethiopia. there's folks when says the town of was taken after federal and m r a forces withdrew. it's the most intense fighting scene since they captured the regional capital making the last month. well the, you and human rights council meanwhile, has passed the resolution expressing deep concern about the abuses in t dry. it's cooling for a withdrawal of very tray and troops, which it says are making the conflict even worse. if you p a has rejected the resolution while every tray, which is actually a member of the council, voted against it. nearly 2000000 have been displaced since the conflict began. catherine sawyer has won from whom era in the northern t drive region. the hearing from the grand leadership from the defense forces was saying that then now. a in the south and the west which are still disputed and we will still be on calls mostly by forces are saying that's

a land and that's what they want to take areas like where i am, you know, whomever of before november, who marah and another town called my condra was. # in control i wasn't being administered by the grand regional 4th. 5 street may need to grants lead this areas. the areas are being controlled by higher forces. unlike hydra, which is about 3020 kilometers from whom airway is a town where some of the west atrocities against b, as in november, more than 600 people came, was killed. both of them laborers who have come from different possible to have assisted me from funds and mainly belongs to the grand. 2 5 mars he of believe that the grand fight to those killings maybe the 2 grants lead to don. 5

if you speak to them then they blame. # does, and it's militia of also, you know, forcing them out of this region so that the grand thing that also having west. 5 is where we are in a lot of and. a i'm hiring for being interacting with the old saying that this belongs to them and it will not go without a fight. though missouri is the you in refugee agencies assistant high commissioner . he's been visiting refugee camps across the border and sudan with tens of thousands of people are seeking shelter to the people who need help in the, in the c o. p. right. now it is access. it is that the authorities which control the area provide, provide access. i am now in come to me and in the to refugee comes that we have here today. but we do have, we do have access to, to, to,

to refugees, to the $40000.00. also refugees who have crossed the border. the security situation is unfortunately deteriorating so, so we know that there could be an increase number of people crossing the border. i made reference to the 40000 people who are in to camps. but in addition to that, we have about a 1000 people who are still into trends. it becomes a border there yet, and village it. these are the 2 locations. so as a whole, we have close to 50000 people who are now incident with that number girl. it's possible. would they return if the situation allowed their return? they would of course, he turn, but for the time being what we're doing is to is to be ready for any possible in flux with the partners with which we are working. and then is government which has been very welcoming. cuba has restricted access to social media and messaging apps

amid widespread anti government protests. that's according to a u. k. based monitoring group. thousands of cubans march through have on i and santiago and sunday. the protest against cuba is economy, crisis and handling of the pandemic with many called many calling for an end to communist rule. police have been out enforce after demonstrations with cuba, president accusing the u. s. and cuban americans of spurring on the protests or cuba is a very different country than it was even a few years ago. and its people are better connected to the world. and each other, as i'm chappelle now explains protests in cuba have not been seen like this before . and cubans themselves haven't witnessed them in the past because of a lack of internet access. 10 years ago, cuba had one of the lowest internet penetration rates in the world. just 16 percent of the population was connected even in cafes, access was too expensive for most people. since then the communist government

installed free, why fi hotspots and parks? they expanded 3 g networks and allowed access in homes. now around 70 percent of cubans are in line. more than half the population have a mobile connection and are active on social media. and they've been quick to make their unhappiness known about the health care system and the lack of medicines and the slow roll out of code. 19 vaccines. the economic crisis, which is considered the worst and decades, is hurting many people. and they have been demonstrations around the country. president miguel diaz canal says the protests have been orchestrated by what he calls the cuban american mafia. he's had government own telecom providers, limit access to instagram facebook and telegram. but many say the protests are organic and grassroots, and supported by the huge cuban diaspora community in miami and elsewhere around the world. he was president joe biden has called the fight over voting rights. the test of our time and the accused republican lawmakers of attempting to subvert the

electoral process. this, as several republican states consider controversial legislation that would make it more difficult for americans to vote. will several democratic politicians from texas have left the state for washington, d. c. in order to deny the legislature, the quorum needed to vote on the bill, they say the proposal will disproportionately affect minorities and people from poor communities. people who would traditionally vote democrat by themself as compared it to racial segregation. laws like will, 17 states, most of them republican lead have enacted 28 new laws, restricting access to the vote. that includes 12 states that have made it more difficult to send in their ballots by mail. and at least 8 have introduced laws making it harder to vote in person of those 3 brought in new or harsh requirements for vote or id. and there could be more around 60,

more bills are still in process in 18 state legislatures, while white house corresponding kimberly how kid joins us live now in philadelphia . that is where the u. s. president has been speaking in the past few hours, and joe biden has compared this has any to racial segregation laws. this is clearly an issue that's very close to his heart, isn't it? if the us president says this is going to be our priority of his presidency, that's why he came to philadelphia at the birthplace of american democracy. where in the independence hall behind me, the declaration of independence as well as the us constitution, were both debated and signed the symbolism that he makes the case to the american people. that some of these voting measures that have been put in place by republican lead members are republican, lead legislatures are simply going to hurt not only american voters,

but just proportionately american voters of color. a says, this is not sort of the spirit of america. and in fact, these types of measures who said, are a threat to american democracy is most americans know it. take a listen. fear so free for elections, just as just read. literally. i said before, we're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war has not i personally since the civil war. now the us president says that the reason that these measures are occurring is because republicans were not able to challenge the presidential election in 2020. and even though there were attempts to do so and to prevent the certification of the vote on january 6, when the rise occurred of the us capital. ultimately, it was the supreme court weighing in, including republican appointed judges,

who said that this was one of the most scrutinized and secure elections in us history. and so as a result, the president is working hard to make sure that that boat or election integrity is preserve. that's why he says he's tasking. his vice president couple a harris to oversee, protect valid access to make sure that that is something is entrenched as part of american democracy for generations to come. and kimberly, let's look for a search 2nd of the situation in texas because that's the latest they trying to push through changes and several democrat lawmakers from texas have actually left the state in order to derail the vote on the issue there. and just to show how divisive the whole issue is, there are calls for them now to be a ref that aren't there. yeah, that's right. and what the governor of texas is saying is that when those legislators return for washington, d. c to texas,

they will be arrested or at least detained and brought to the texas legislature to force the vote on measures that these democrats don't agree with, that they say will prevent people access to the ballot. the bottom line is, is the democrats are in the minority in that state controlled legislature. republicans know they're going to win. that's why the democrats left to stop the vote. so this couldn't become law. they're getting a lot of support. we now know that they will be meeting with comma le harris, the us vice president, as they continue to make the case and stay away from texas. but ultimately the laws are, is that when they return, they will have to take part in that both. that's why these legislators say that they're going to try and stay in washington d. c. as long as possible to prevent that from happening. what this is become, is yet another flash point in the ongoing debate in a very divided america over voting rights that have really taken center stage in american politics. kimberly how kit with the latest from philadelphia,

kimberly thank you. the british parliament has back the controversial cut to the you case, foreign aid budget, slashing billions of dollars from programs helping some of the world's poorest people. up until january of this year, the u. k. spent point 7 percent of its national income on foreign aid. but the government said the economy needed to recover from the current of virus pandemic and has since cut it down 2.5 percent of economic output, the move and good people from the opposition and the boys. johnson's own party, who said it would lead to hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths in developing nations. jonah, how reports now from london. the under pressure from dissenting m. p. 's in all parties, the government granted parliament to vote on its decision to cut overseas aid treason. opposition was loudest among its own. with a former prime minister leading the charge. we may have promised to report people

in the world. the government is broken that promise. this motion means that comments may be broken for years to come up with deep regret, i will vote against the motion today. a prime minister boris johnson opened the debate, saying this was an argument not about principle, but practicality. the foreign aid cut would be temporary. he said just until britain's finances recovered from the crippling cost of the pandemic. this year, our national debt is climbing towards 100 percent of g d p. the highest finance 6 decades. the house knows that the governor being compelled to take wrenching decisions and the international development that of 2015 expressly provides that fiscal circumstances can allow departure from the point 7 percent target. opponents and rebels within his own party weren't persuaded by the cuts

from north point 7 percent of g d p to north point 5 is already in place for this year. that means more than $5000000000.00 lost in funding for life saving projects across the developing world. and at a time when it's never been needed more in parliament, they were predictions that a 100000 people may die as a result with millions more facing malnutrition, the u. k. has until now been one of the world's leading foreign a donors. the 1st g 7 country to enshrine in law and international commitment to give away no point, 7 percent of gross domestic product. that so distinction many m p. 's were unwilling to give up. and one, they'll now see as a blow to britain's image and its soft power in the world. jonah, how al jazeera london. so to come on al jazeera, this news, our france finds google nearly $600000000.00 for failing to comply with its orders . as it searches for a solution to copyright issues,

angling process in the west bank after issue refuses to let a jail palestinian activists attend her daughter's funeral. and asians football champions, katara ready protest themselves against some unfamiliar opponents. details later in a hello, i'm pleased to say we've got some quite to weather coming into northwest europe over the next couple of days. this little area of low pressure been swirling away across england, 3, monday, brought a months with the brain for and to london. for example, 44 millimeters of frame falling and kew gardens. half of that fell in the space of just one hour. so surprised and very heavy rain into 0 k through tuesday with 31

millimeters of rain coming down in the space of just one hour a has led to flooding here as well behind we've got the sarah high pressure that will not be metal quite and things down ahead of it, another area of high pressure where we still have that heat across eastern parts. if you upset again, those temperatures are paid to the 30s remit. 30 c 3640 back to 31 in vienna on wednesday 28. by the time we come to thursday as the wet weather makes its way to central parts, germany saying the worst of that rain as we go through wednesday, maybe 152200 millimeters to find on the system, could cause some flash flooding here. then and we'll see further spelt of heavy rain as we go through thursday brought guys average of high pressure. quite winds coming in there for london on thursday with some warmer weather. and we got plenty of walk down towards the southeast. this is 5 temperatures here. getting into the mid forties this week, the

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oh, a reminder. now the top stories on al jazeera, at least 72 people have been killed in days of riots and loosing across south africa, and other 800 people have been arrested was started as a rest over the detention a former president. jacob zoom is now turned into protest against poverty and inequality. hundreds of protests those of gathered in iraq. if you have nasiriyah after a fire at a corona virus was killed, 92 people. it's the 2nd time in 3 months that a fire has torn through a hospital in the country. and us president joe biden has called the fight over

voting rights in the past of our time in the queues republican lawmakers of attempting to divert the electoral process. several democratic politicians from texas have left the state to stop a senate folks that could prevent americans from miscellaneous parliament has approved the mass, the tension of migrants that have been to the, to deter the high numbers of people crossing the border from bella. bruce, by grants entering the country, will now be detained for at least 6 months after their arrival. the measures also curved their right to appeal any rejection of asylum status. this way near red cross says the law is a potential human rights violation this way and that you have accused bella.