that the sky rocket people in power investigates, claims that industrial mines and contracting the precious material needed for cleaner energy, are in fact poisoning the environment. with dire health consequences for those living and their shadow. the cost of coal, both people in power on and just, you know, i riots and looting in south africa were protest over the rest of a former president have amplified anger over spiraling poverty and inequality. the hello barbara sarah. this is al jazeera life from london. also coming up on the program in iraq, grief stricken families, the man dancer as after a fire in a corona virus board, claims more than 90 like the u. s. presentations or

democracy. since the civil war president called moved to restrict the voting rights on a fault on democracy and several republican faith tried to enact and new legislation and attorney to technology to police the border. a controversial trial begins in greece. ah, we begin in south africa where at least 72 people have died in some of the countries worst and rest since the nation became a democracy. more than 1200 people have been arrested, of the protests started after the jailing of former president jacob zoom a. but many believe that south africa's battery economy is driving the unrest. the unemployment rate rose to a new record high of 32.6 percent in the 1st quarter of 2021. cobit 900

restrictions of increased 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, president serial and i'm opposed or has said more than $35000000000.00 was looted from state coffers during zoom as rule which lasted from 2009 to 2018 persistent poverty and inequality remain a problem 27 years after the end of a partake. the world bank says the richest at 20 percent of people control nearly 70 percent of the resources making south africa. one of the most unequal countries in the world. for me, the miller has more from johannesburg. the stay 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 the same. i believe i'm 30 here in this country, but i believe it is in other parts of the halting province. there's also been extensive looting stores at the mall in deep cliff with all 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 latitude. hi, my goodness about my family. because of this came enough that had been paging this place and the police were nowhere to be seen with riots and the disruption of services in the halting and natal provinces. there concerns, people who run out of the many unhappy with the destruction. i don't know where am i going to place? 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 coven 19 locked down for more than a year. worsening unemployment already at city to the since has field anger and resentment as a government that is struggling to cope for me to mila al jazeera hannah's book, a catastrophic fire that ripped through october 19 isolation ward in the iraqi city of the city. a has killed at least 92 people. faulty wiring had 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 its $106500000000.00 budget was allocated to the health ministry. that amounts to

$161.00 per citizen, each year on average, far less than its poorer neighbors, like jordan or lebanon. and that means there's only $1.00 hospital beds per $1000.00 people. and point 283 doctors for the same number of people that the panoramic is pushing a struggling system close to collapse more than 17000 people have died from the corona virus in iraq. and enough syria shopped. relatives are still looking for traces of their loved ones. in what remains of the hussein hospital maxima, the bill where he reports the angry and in morning heroic his betty the loved ones. the victims of the player were mostly receiving treatment for coven maintain. the burned outward relatives arrived to help search for remains under the debris. they say the lack of safety equipment and evacuation

plan made the disaster worse than it normally. 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 the crime 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. i would slide the more most of 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 source, 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 died from both burn and suffocation. this is the 2nd, the blaze at 19 unit in an iraqi hospital in 3 months. in april, a fire killed 82 cove with patients at a 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. ah, to graham fighters say that the seas, the major town,

and the new offensive initiative, their spokesman says the town of riah was taken to federal and them are forces withdrew. it's the most intense fighting scene since they captured the regional capital making the last month. the u and human rights council is passed the resolution expressing deep concern about abuses in t gray. it's called a for a withdrawal, a very trans troops, which it says are making the conflict even worse. if u. p a has rejected the resolution while every tray, which is a member of the council, voted against nearly 2000000 have been displaced since the conflict began. catherine saw his more now from her matter in the northern te gray region. we've been hearing from the degree of leadership from the defense forces who is saying that then now. a in the south and the west which are still disputed and we just to be on calls mostly by forces are seeing dr lines and that's what they want to take

areas like where i am, who married before november, who marah and another town called my condra was. # in control i wasn't being abused by the grand regional force. 5 on friday to may need to grants lead this areas, the areas are being controlled by higher forces. mike hydra, which is about 3020 kilometers from whom airway is a town where some of the wasp atrocities against v as to place in november more than 600 people kim was killed. most of them laborers who have come from different puzzled to have assisted me from funds and mainly belonged to the grand. 2 i'm is. 5 mars he of believe that the grand fighters will those kelly's, many of the grants lead to don. 5 if you speak to them that they blame. # is,

and it's militia also, you know, the whole thing out them out of this region so that the grand for this thing that also heading west. 5 is where we are seeing a lot of. a i'm hiring for interacting. this was the oldest thing that this land belongs to them and they will not go without a fight. us president joe biden has called the fight to over voting rights. the test of our time and the queues republican lawmakers of attempting to subvert the electoral process. this is several republican states consider controversial legislation that would make it more difficult for americans to vote several democratic politicians from texas of actually left the state for washington d. c. they did it in order to deny the legislature, the quorum needed to vote on the bill. they say the proposal will this proportionally affect minorities and people from poor communities, people who would traditionally both democrat by the himself as compared it to

racial segregation laws. well, our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit is in philadelphia, kimberly philadelphia courses where president biden was speaking a few hours ago. he used very strong words. he called us and assault on democracy and liberty. obviously an issue that is very personal for him. personal. in fact, he's made it the top priority of his presidency and the symbolism is profound. he's come or came to the city of philadelphia, which is the birthplace of american democracy. behind me you see independence, paul, that is where the forefathers not only debated, but also have signed the declaration of independence as well as the us constitution, which is still adhered to today. so this is joe biden decided to come to make the case to the american public. it a national address that you believe that american democracy is american. know it is

under assault, is so free and fair elections is just such a threat. literally. i've said before, we're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war, as not i personally since the civil war. kimberly joe biden is talking widely there because the issue is happening various parts of the united states. but right now the focus really is on texas. so several democrat lawmakers, they are have actually left texas in order to derail the vote on the issue. they're in our heading or are in washington d. c. why have they gone there? yeah, they went for a number of reasons, but mostly it was to make the national case that what is happening in texas and it's happening all across the united states. they believe disproportionately hurts voters of color. essentially, what we've got here, pure and simple,

is that republicans around the states, the united states in different states that are controlled by republicans and those legislatures have passed measures making it harder to vote. the democrats alleged this disproportionately a fact and democrats and voters of color. they say, be things like making it harder to do a male in ballot or even making access in terms of drop off box harder to get to job. my new speech essentially said what they're trying to do is make it so difficult to vote that you just don't vote at all and know republicans alleged that, what they're doing and all this. and they're saying this and texas is that they're trying to bolster election security because they say that the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud. and so don't live and talked about that. he said that's a big lie. and he says the big lie is a big lie. so the us president has made the case. and texas is the latest example of that, where republicans are pushing back not just on people's right to vote,

but also still disputing. the 2020 election, which joe biden pointed out in his remarks here in philadelphia was challenged in the courts. it was recounted, it was audited even by republican and trump appointed judges, and there was no fraud to be found that was widespread. so he says that he's going to be the top priority of his presidency to protect voting rights back. he says that this is essentially an existential threat to american democracy. kimberly how kit with the latest from philadelphia, kimberly our white house correspondent, thank you. still to come here and al jazeera, one of the world's richest countries, cuts aid to some of the world. forest people will tell you why. and france finds google nearly $600000000.00 for failing to comply with its order as it searches for a solution to copyright issues. ah,

hello. well, it looks pretty good across so much of australia. we have got some blustery showers just rolling through the bite, little area of low pressure, just drifting through here. and that's going to continue making its way further east with as we go through the next couple of days. so there will be somewhat to weather just clipping the coast of south australia, pushing across port ferry, easing across victoria, running up towards the great dividing range, i think sheltered by the mountains. not too bad in sidney, around 19 celsius with some pleasant sunshine. as we go on into west 1st, the rain does make its way through. i can see how that range his head towards new zealand, se the south island and misty turning, pretty wet and windy and wet weather will eventually push across into the north island. we got wet weather making its way towards the korean peninsula at the moment, some very heavy rain spilling out of central and northern parts of china. run across the yellow sea as we go on through wednesday. by thursday. we'll have rain

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me the ah, reminder now the top stories on al jazeera, at least 72 people have been killed in days of riots moving across south africa and other 1200 people has been started as unrest over the attention of former president jacob zoom as turned into protests against poverty and inequality. hundreds of protesters have gathered in iraq. the city after a fire at a corona virus ward killed 90. 2 people. the prime minister is promising accountability. 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 fire who the

voting rights, the pests of our time, and the queues republican lawmakers of attempting to subvert the electoral process . several democratic politicians from texas and left the state to try to stop a senate vote that could prevent americans from casting violence. the cuban interior ministry says one person died, an anti government protest on monday. police have been out in force after the demonstrations began on sunday with cuba president accusing the us and cuban americans of spurring on the protests. a u. k based rights group says cuba has restricted access to social media and messaging apps. there have been protests in the occupied with bank after israel denied a request by jailed palestinian activist the gerard to attend her daughter's funeral. the demonstrators gathered outside of her prison near him and led demanding joe out of release,

who sent in finishes in 2 months, and she was detained in 2019 for alleged membership of a band group. her daughter was $31.00 and died of a sudden heart attack on sunday lunches, and also stand in front of the prison is to express a solidarity with kelly to draw who's going through the tragic death of a daughter and also to demand the immediate release of kalita, this is us putting pressure on israel so our voices can reach the human rights in international institutions to stop this arbitrary arrest. and this injustice which the palestinian people are subjected to. the british parliament has backed a controversial cut to the you case, foreign aid budget slash and 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 corona virus pandemic. and since cut it down 2.5 percent of economic output. the move angered

people from the opposition and voice johnson's own party, who said it would lead to hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths in developing nations. jonah hall report from london. the under pressure from dissenting m. p. 's in all parties, the government granted parliament 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 has broken that promise. this motion means that promise 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 cup would be temporary. he said just until britain's finance is 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 the fiscal circumstances can allow departure from the point 7 percent target. opponents and rebels within his own party weren't persuaded by the cut 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 note 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 lithuanian parliament has approved the mass. the tension of migrants in a bit to deter the high numbers of people crossing the border from bill of roofs 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 than the swaying red cross says the law is a potential human rights violation this way. and you and the you have accused the bela bruce, abusing illegal migrants, is a weapon to force the block to lift sanctions on while greece is also tightening its borders, sending migrants and refugees,

a message that they should stay away. human rights groups say the greek government and they use own border patrol. are we legally pushing back my grants to turkey? the you and refugee agency documented 300 expulsions between january and march by grants, making dangerous c journeys. reports being stopped that gunpoint by the coast guard, and there are reports of even registered asylum seekers being deported. while the greek government denies doing any of this, it would be legal under e, you, law and refugee treaties to deny people the right to apply for asylum. but a refugee crisis in 2015 spurred the e u 2 poor $3700000000.00 into security research. greece says now become a testing ground for artificial intelligence that's being used to prevent refugee crossings. job surplus reports the european border and coast guard or from tech's uses unmarked vehicles to patrol

a heavily sensed section of the greek turkish border. they of the human element among increasingly sophisticated european surveillance technologies being tested here. such as these pillow mounted cameras, capable of penetrating kilometers into turkish territory, day and night. if i were, you know, the scar medicine estimate of a many mesh camera monitoring is automated through a program that processes the images. recognize is what is approaching and sounds the alarm. it mainly distinguishes people in vehicles, which is what concerns us and cross border crime. the crime in question is illegal entry from turkey, including crossings by refugees from the banks of the everest river, which separates the 2 countries. 15 of these cameras will monitor the entire 200 kilometer length of the greek turkish border by the end of the year. they can detect people hiding behind trees and bushes, and there, supplemented by radar, unmanned aerial vehicles and graham sensors. surveillance was stepped up after much last year when turkey reneged on an agreement to hold back refugees from the

european union. instead, it encouraged them to storm the greek border. but security concerns go back much further. in 2010, 36000 people entered greece illegally across the land border with turkey 26000 of them along the 12 kilometer stretch behind me. 2 years later, the greek armed forces erected a double chain link fence, 3 meters tall along these 12 kilometers. and after last year's events, that fence was reinforced with a 5 meter tall steel palisade you see behind me. and there may be more sinister methods being used to deter crossings. refugees captured this video on their mobile phones and september 2018. they say it shows greek border guards, depositing them on the turkish side of the river after they attempted to cross into greece. such push backs are illegal under the geneva convention authorities, as opposed to allow refugees to apply for asylum forensic architecture. an

independent research team at goldsmith university in london used 3 d modeling to identify the precise location of this. and other alleged pushback along the evidence and says, there is a set pattern once illegal entrance are arrested in greece. people are then held there for hours upon end until it gets dark when they are loaded on to military style trucks or vans, again, driven to the banks of the river and loaded onto smaller things until you members agree to share the burden of asylum. greece is obliged to absorb any refugees that come its way and is likely to continue its policy of deterrence. jumps out hopeless al jazeera along the evidence. river. france has fine to peck giant google, nearly $600000000.00. regulations say the company failed to negotiate with news publishers about using their content. the firm now has 2 months to propose how it

will compensate news agencies or face further fines. natasha butler has more from paris. we've actually heard from, from phase digital affairs minister about the citric. oh, he put out for tweet, saying that this fine shows that no company is above international rules. let's give you a bit of a sense of the background. this is basically an ongoing route between french publishers and news agencies and the u. s. take firm google. now a google uses content from these news agencies and from these various newspapers and publication such as a news stories, articles and that kind of thing. it publishes them, of course, on its website on this platform, and it does pay them for it. however, what editors and france are saying is that there is no transparency over how those payments are calculated. google effectively pays what it wants to pay,

rather than having come come to an agreement with editors over the system for the payments. now, under your rules, google was supposed to start it talks negotiations with these licenses and frauds over the payments to try and put in place an agreement on how they should be paid on how the payment should be calculated. however, what frances anti trust watchdog is saying is that that has not been done. google has not begun those talks, and therefore it is decided to impose this very large fine, nearly $600000000.00. italy has banned cruise ships from the venice lagoon in an effort to protect its ecosystem. and heritage. the move comes after unesco threatening to put me on its blacklist for not banning light liners from the world. heritage fight and ship weighing more than 2500000 kilograms will not be allowed to pass through. bennett says judy canal from august,

venice residence have been urging the government to ban large ships from the lagoon for years. worried about pollution and threats to the stability of its buildings and ecosystem. you can find that much more of that story and everything else that we have been covering here and al jazeera on our website. there it is. the address i'll jazeera dot com ah and now the top stories on al jazeera, at least 72 people have been killed in days of riots and loosing across south africa. more than 1200 people have been arrested. what started his violence over the arrest of former president jacob zuba has turned into protests against poverty and inequality. it's some of the worst, the unrest that south africa seen since before, the end of a part tape the military as.