[000:00:00;00] ah, when ever you ah, all the news the panoramic continues to overshadow the olympic games as japan registers a 6 month time infection before the opening ceremony. that's as a new current virus way grips the world from the u. s. to south africa to indonesia . ah, hello, darren, jordan, this is out of their life and also coming up 1000 struggle in central china to cope

with the worst flooding in decades. will have an update from one of the worst hit areas at least 20 to a dad out to fighting between rival gangs at 2 prisons in ecuador, the president of declared a state of emergency. and the doors open to space tourism the u. s. congress discusses the issue of space junk settling the planet. ah, we begin with the tokyo olympics up to a year long delay. they're set to officially open later on friday. but the pandemic is still overshadowing the games. cases are spiking in tokyo with 2000 infections reported in the past day. and dozens of people involved a 1000000 pix, including athletes, officials, and journalists. i've also tested positive for covert 19. well, despite this, officials have been adamant about continuing the event usually given by millions around the world. but the richardson is all correspondent covering the games he's been taking

a look at why organizes so determined to push ahead. athletes will have to get used to the sound of their own efforts in tokyo. these olympic have already cost the host nation, at least $15000000000.00. much of the money spent on venue, the fans, and now bound from attending you to rise in cases of covey. 19, the cost is being shouldered for the great part by the people and not really by the government. and so people are really getting sick and tired of having to make so much sacrifice. so you really do have, you know, very sort of well divided society and maybe i honestly united opposition against the olympics. this is about as close to the sporting action as tokyo residents will get in a city where cove at 19 infection levels hitting heights. not seen since january, dan animal, united coma to hear about it. i don't know what to say considering how much the

virus is. fried athletes have been training so hard for this. i would feel sorry for them if it doesn't happen any longer. so i wouldn't who wanted to take the risk of watching it in the stadium. it's enough for me to see the games on tv. while last ticket revenue is sent to cost, the hosts hundreds of millions of dollars. a made for tv events does make financial sense for the international olympic committee. the, i see makes approximately 75 percent of its income from selling broadcast rights to the games and around full $1000000000.00 could have been lost if the olympics had been cancelled. and the legal, small print will tell you, it was always the see here, the final say as to whether or not these olympics went ahead, organizes will be hoping the public mood shifts in their favor. once the games are up and running, we'll have like a very, a negative agenda across like different media outlets before the games. and as soon as the games are going to how like,

fair me. like the mind at one like congress tends to be like more positive and focus more on the stories that are taking place within stages. in support of the games can be found with the host. now, banking on sporting dramas, rather than medical. rubbing the headlines in the days ahead and richardson al jazeera tokyo for the seller has more from tokyo people here and i've been waiting for you since 2013 when it was announced as the whole city for the limbic 2020. so people who were very anxious to see the limbic and their city about the, as you can see behind me, this is an event that without being attended by thousands, now there is only a dozens of people. and most of them are relatives of the body or the people who are going to hold you know, they think raising

a number of the picture of coffee infection. and people are what it could be a credit for the virus, not money and book you in japan. but also in the world we just, yesterday it was 957 cases. that's the highest and 6 month people also are worried about the increase of somebody and once it's no effect, 70 percent of the infection. so people are really hoping that this would be held in a secured and safe way, but the still locked off the caution and lots of questions about that possibility to do that. well, it's not just toko, that seeing a surgeon cove at 19 cases, the numbers also arising around the world as a more infectious delta, very takes hold. in the united states, the number of daily new cove at 900 infections has nearly tripled in the past 2 weeks. crucially, nearly all patients and hospital unvaccinated south africa is also struggling with

a 3rd. but it's that's nation. drive it finally, picking up a reco quarter of a 1000000 people got the job in a single day. this week, indonesia has become the global epicenter with a most cases in the world last week. elsewhere in asia, thailand and south korea both posted the highest daily cases. but john nichols is from the university of hong kong. he says, some countries in southeast asia have become complacent. what we're seeing now is that when this pandemic star last year number 9, this is just a medical problem, but increasingly it's medical, economic and ethical. so what we're seeing is that because the nation's relatively well in 2020, those, this big sense of complacency. and so people let them, they've got and so we've seen the lack of oxygen, low test levels, the low vaccination rate, anybody, 6 percent populations been vaccinations, they hadn't using them on it. that seems it's been the political leaders to slowly

resistance locked down mass gathering. so, i mean, this is where india, indonesia where india was 4 months ago. and so basically, you know, and not learning. and so this business, grace, hence this and then it's a t i'm so it was a math confusing mess. just a read one session who says have been punished for not wearing a mask when johnson loan, when the government's last family visits. so it is a real factors and unfortunately not just medical, which is, well, we were trying to more the political and the need to get school issues, as you also mentioned about the shortage of the vaccines. and so they developed countries that sort of kept most of them and the less well off countries have had problems with getting enough faxing. and so it's, it's a big challenge. but as you mentioned,

us cases of almost tripled vaccines are widely available and much of the us. but many people are refusing to take them. white house correspondent, kimberly health care reform. renewed warnings from the white house urging all americans to get vaccinated. as cases of coven continue to spike up 35 percent from last week and death up 26 percent. the delta barrier is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strain. it is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses mellow and i have seen in my 20 year career. the us centers for disease control says 83 percent of all new u. s. cobit cases are linked to the highly transmissible delta variant. for now, the white house math policy has not changed. currently only unvaccinated people need to wear a mask, but officials are discussing whether to change that. so if you're an area that has

a high rate and low rate, the vaccination where delta cases are rising, you should certainly be wearing a mask if you are on vaccinated. the white house is also continuing to work with social media companies to tamp down. and what it calls, vaccine misinformation there remains skepticism in the us, particularly among conservatives, about masked effectiveness, and whether covert vaccines are even safe. if people have questions about it. let's answer the questions. let's not say, oh, you can't put any information out. i think what would really have people have greater trust, provide all the science provide all the information with 97 percent of all covered deaths in the u. s. among the unvaccinated. the biden administration is boosting investments in coven testing. in areas where vaccination rates remain low,

1600000000 has been allocated for testing in high risk settings like prisons and homeless shelters. 398000000 has also been added to help small rural hospitals reduce infection. but already the spike in covered cases is being felt economically. the number of americans falling jobless claims hit a 2 month high last week. 490000 americans filing for benefits as the delta various threatens president biden's promise of a swift economic recovery. kimberly health hit al jazeera, the white house rescued people in china, say they spend 3 days with no food, water, or electricity. after being trapped by historic flooding, the military has been deployed to her non province to help search efforts. at least 33 people have been killed. 800008 displaced katrina you has more from the epicenter, the floods, the city of young joe waters are starting to recede. enjoy city,

but it's still far from life as normal. if you look just behind me, because one of the main tunnels in the city is so deeply submerged in water, you can only imagine how difficult and dangerous that would have been to any cause of pedestrians trapped during the torrential rain earlier this week and fall below us is a wait line. 5 were 12 people, tragically lost their lives during flash flooding on tuesday, the 500 people were trapped in carriages some to school. how was wasting neck deep in water and struggling to breathe. and as the days go on, getting more information about the harrowing experiences. now today on friday, the subway still remain close and throughout the city. infrastructure is still heavily impacted. many people are still without running water still without gas. and it's still extremely difficult to get in and around the city. time for a short break here and to 0. when we come back, the french president emanuel macro calls an urgent national security meeting, to discuss investigations into israel, pegasus spyware. and in the land of capital and beef,

why small farmers are turning to vegetables and green agriculture. more in that stable ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello from jo. her thank you for tuning in things across the middle east. are pretty much as you would expect, high heats him for that we find it around the gulf q weight 50 degrees. got a bit of a sham all going on. so that's a breeze out of the northward, still we see it. i got steam to about 45 kilometers per hour on sunday in your temperatures will come down a bit as a result. okay, next step we're going to look at some of the rain falling across yemen. really becoming widespread, pushing into the he jazz mountains in saudi arabia. and now i want to show you the story in pakistan because toward the north we've had some rain related death and the rain is continuing. as we head toward the hor, on friday,

the forecast in turkey. it looks like this. we've got some showers toward the southern area of the black sea on friday, a temperature of 30 degrees in its stumble. so looking pretty good africa, ethiopia, over the past 24 hours toward the northwest, you scooped up 50 millimeters of rain. i think we can expect much of the same as we look in the forecast on friday, pushing to the central african republic. so, ah, bungie 30 degrees will be the high for you. now, as we go further to the south scenes will begin to dry out south for the eastern cape. and we've got a high of 11 degrees in johannesburg on friday. ah, sponsored pay cut on airways? frank assessments is an argument for suggesting that the martin and ministrations are playing a long game. it's very much of a warm embrace of iran nuclear deal because of us domestic politics informed opinions, schools, and shelters of been reduced to rubble. how do you think this shapes

a generation and the politics then, is that a life has been shaped by vitamin the in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera? ah, ah, the welcome back to mind about top stories here. this i rescued, people in china say to spend 3 days with no food, water, or electricity. after being trapped by historic flooding, 800000 people have been displaced. the average number of daily new infections in the u. s. as many triples in the past 2 weeks, many all current of virus patients in the hospital vaccinated. and tokyo has recorded

a 6 month high of new cove in 1900 cases with the opening ceremony of again, just hours away unserved. it had almost 2000 people tested positive in a single day. the highest since mid january capital has been under a state of emergency almost 2 weeks without increasing cases is causing fears about the games going ahead safely. jos blake off as a former us olympic athlete and the research on the politics of the games, he says, the health of athletes has been compromised. if this is an unprecedented situation, we're looking at here with proven rates, rising both inside the so called olympic bubble and outside it to where we have very little support for these picks from the general public. typically, at this stage, people are out in the st. celebrating that obviously cannot happen right now. and so from an athlete perspective, this must feel very strange, especially when the president of the international olympic committee, thomas bock had said previously that there was,

quote unquote 0 risk for these athletes to transmit corona virus to each other. or anybody else, they must be feeling a little bit uneasy about the situation with the number of cases rising inside of the village. and also because of the fact that many medical officials had said that the standards are not best scientific practices. so it's already hard enough to be an empty and, but add the stress and strain of corona virus. and this is a really tough one for them. i have been saying that we should cancel these lympics for quite a while now, because i listened to the medical professionals who for a long time have been jumping up and down thing. we absolutely need to cancel the optional sporting spectacle for the sake of global public health. also i listen to the population in japan where 80 percent plus do not want the olympics this summer . so i think we do ourselves well to have a little bit of healthy skepticism when the president of a self interested body, like the international committee says everything is going to be just fine. the mantra from the international olympic committee has been safe and secure game,

but we're seeing the olympic bubble has already punctured, you know, the app, the ios see often likes to say that one of their slogans is athletes 1st. but if i'm an athlete right now, sitting in the olympic village with 8 people living in my room for to a bathroom, it sure wouldn't feel like athletes or 1st it would feel like you're among the labs . now thousands of people have rallied in ethiopia capital to show their support for federal troops. fighting in the northern region of to cry, speakers called and a few pins to be unified against a grand forces and accused them of using charles soldiers. the conflict there has widened to include fighters from the neighboring horror and a far regions. catherine saw reports now from these was very much a government trial and organized by the man in id saba. but thousands of people's hand up at moscow square carrying placards that expressed their anger. a t guys, t p, a left leadership. and it's for that many here referred to as june car and support

of prime minister abbey army government at its federal army has often anymore on that for a long time t p l. s. has brought division on the people to we have to begin to forget about them. forget about the past and be united behind a defense force. among us in the out is more on this government has a lot of moral support. they need to take strong action against the june to that steals those who address the crowd, hadn't this to say. and that down, down of hearing to national media weakness, the june test using children for war. they witnessed this but, you know, reported and that shows their interest shows who they are. above all, the intent is to support the june t as a c p. 6 federal troops have withdrawn from t guy, but the soldiers, retrans troop and special forces from neighboring i'm horror. region have been accused by rights, groups of committing crimes against civilians, including killings and rape. those who came to this rally say the boys support the

government in the ongoing conflicts. but the situation that is dia fighting is still going on in some parts, drawing in security forces from other reasons that we're not previously involved in the fighting. and the un and other agency saying that they're struggling to get to the most vulnerable people in that region. there has been resent fighting between federal troops and regional forces from our amir, against the grand fight, as in our is bordering t gray and a far region, a world food program. a convoy was attacked on sunday on the only remaining ground humanitarian corridor into the guy. this is devastating to millions of people who desperately need help. shortage of fuel and cash as well as communications blackouts are significantly hindering the resumption of the humanitarian response and preventing and scale up. and joe's and you and agencies are running out of cash and are unable to pay staff or suppliers unless fuel cash supplies and aid workers are able to enter

t gray. in the coming days. some humanitarian programs will not be able to function on these are dangerous times in the field. and all fighting sites are trying to control the narrative. media access into t guy is limited because of multiple national government and regional special forces checkpoints along the road and near space on the open for humanitarian flight cash is going to 0. and the u. n. a flight has landed for the 1st time and in europe is to cry region since renewed violence halted operations last month. it brings desperately needed food, as well as more than 30 humanitarian workers from different organizations. the well food program has been struggling to get access to where it says on the brink of famine. the even says it will fly in twice a week. frances president has held an urgent national security meeting to discuss allegations and israeli firms surveillance technology is being used as spyware to any so groups. pegasus software is at the center of a widening scandal off the list of

a lead. surveillance targets was leaked and follows. report for the money of mac ramos target the phone hacking, by an identified moroccan security service. morocco has denied those reports. correspondent natasha butler has more now from paris. while french president, in my micro, held quite a lengthy cabinet meeting with his ministers to discuss these allegations that had merged earlier in the week. that moroccan intelligent services may have tried to target one of the french presidents mobile phones and not only his mobile phone, but bath of his former prime minister at wal felipe, and also more than a dozen ministers and dozens of journalists in france. now the least they put out a statement after this capital meeting, they say that of course, the lisa in the presence of taking these allegations very seriously indeed. but they are urging caution because they've launched

a full investigation to try and see and verify exactly what the situation is. the present we are told is following this investigation very closely. indeed, the lease. i also think that the president has exchanged and changed his mobile phone numbers and the security has been stepped up. the united states is appointed a special envoy to help coordinate assistance in haiti. daniel foot, korea foreign service officer, will help promote long term peace and free elections. the move follows the assassination of hastened president, governor luis earlier this month. echoes president has declared an emergency in the country's prisons after fighting among rival gangs inside 2 separate prisons. at least 22 people are dead and 80 others injured. it's the 3rd time deadly riots in ecuador, overcrowded jails of erupt it over the past 6 months or zeros. how does your castro reports? the deadly gang violence has again taken hold in ecuador,

over crowded prison system. at 2 of the country's largest penitentiaries. it's taken $450.00 members of the special police unit to bring this latest round of riots under control. i sell a quarter of the la montana we weren't able to reach all the prisoners in a different sales until 4 am local time of the contingency officers managed to bring this situation under control. also with the help of the armed forces that you can see along the perimeter and then at the prison in let the coon gus police recaptured about 80 and made to try to sleep with the death toll still in flux, their family members gathered outside the prison gates on thursday, fearing the worst me but i assume yes, kimmy my son got in touch with me and said inmates in medium security are going up to murder the ones in maximum security. they have rifles and guns. yesterday they went up there. my son is hurt in there, so they have not taken him to the hospital yesterday. so anyway, he's been to hospitals moves and the movie and not giving us

a list of the dead. there are people who are not yet been identified, but not, not in february, at least 79 inmates died at 3 prisons in clash between rival gangs, the country. the jails are built the house $29000.00 inmates, but have $38000.00 experts say guards are out numbered with games effectively in charge, and that without reform, more prisoners will die heidi joe castro al jazeera. now argentina is one of the top food produce is in the world, none for its grains and beef, but movements trying to change how the country produces food and its models becoming more popular every day. theresa bow visited, small farmers outside bizarre access to land is a step towards dignity for many people as his friends or beta. he's a member of the union of land workers in origin. tina an organization created in

2010 in what situs that's now grown across the country. it has more than 16000 members working the land and producing aggregate logical vegetables. and also not only know that yet we used to rent land to work. we had a book, then the idea was to get abandoned land held by the state get credit. so we can have a better and dignified life, produce healthier food without toxic chemicals. the organization is giving farmer families the confidence and power to control their own lives. and bonia sanchez has been living here for 3 years. she now owns one hector of land where she works and lives at the lab. but we make enough to eat and grow vegetables once again. so we can reinvest this piece of land has changed the lives of many of them more than 50 family that have made their life here. that union of land workers negotiate with local authorities to get access to abandon farm land. then they give the land to

unemployed workers and train them in the food production. families were given this piece of land to produce vegetables, but now they're also trying to create in this place what they call a bio factory, to create natural fertilizers and we've penance to dr. insects the way here. for example, they tell us they created a natural fertilizer using base, so that was grown here. finance or beta says they have skilled technicians that are helping them in production. not get em. i live in a blog, i flora. we don't want to eliminate the pounds diseases, we want to drive them away, pesticides kill everything. and that's what we don't want portfolio. and that idea spreading, though now more than 7 agriculture, gall colonies and the number continues to grow. again, tina is known for its vast agricultural production, but it's a model that excludes the countries for his families. and that's why projects like this one are valuable. because access to

a small piece of land helps provide work and the comfort satisfaction and security of owning your own home face, i will, i'll defeat a fire in the u. s. a congressional committee has been convened to discuss the dangers of space daybreak as commercial operators launch numerous satellites into low earth orbit. it's estimated there are well over a 100000000 pieces of orbital space debris shepherd towns the report. expect a object to be moving from work to starboard in front of the vehicle. a tense moment on the international space station in 2012. with the crew, sheltering and spacecraft in case of evacuation mission control tract and approaching piece of space debris, i don't say anything vicious. a good use in the event passed safely by cover the i assess that to use it thrust is at least $26.00 times since 1999 to avoid space debris. not that the space station is escaped. collision is, this is the world's left at a window by a piece of debris, a few thousands of

a millimeter across in 2016 at each collision crates. yet more de brief. it's estimated that there are well over 100000000 pieces of orbital space. dave, re, the remnants of past missions and the funk satellites, and the technology to remove all the space junk is still an early stage, not dimension, a regulatory framework that all space faring countries feel that they can trust. how do you get and satellite out of orbit you use a magnet clamp use, printing it with a harpoon, you get it in a net. ok, and it's into this already crowded, unregulated orbit. and some 46000 new satellites are expected to be launched in the next few years to the 4000 already in space. yet there's no single independent entity governing or regulating all the space traffic. i'm to say that one of the reasons why the rest of the article, in case regulations are eventually imposed. and already there are warnings, for example, that the brightness of mosques, space, x,

or satellites seen here several hours after loans may mean the end of astronomy. such is the light pollution. but other congressional hearing and washington d. c. there was another bleak warning. right now we're on track to have a major collision in lower orbit roughly every 10 years. and that's, that's the problems only getting worse and worse. currently, there's no way to make a private operate a shift. the trajectory of south life is collision seems imminent. in fact, you don't even have to be transparent about where the satellites are any given time, where this is the hearing agree that something needs to be done. if catastrophe is to be avoided and speaker off to speak, it was that the us capitalized on its position. if we don't have united states lead this endeavor, then other individuals or entities will. but it was clear that even as participants spoke with us as a potential benign leadership in space, senate is also so americans, technological dominance, as a key instrument of us power, rejection against other sovereign states. what can satellite industry do to help

make sure that companies trying to not continue to do what they're doing to try to stop communication? as soon as you go, we are in charge where, where the, the lead country in space. you switch everyone else off and you fail to get an agreement on with no geo political trust for now. it's market forces that govern space. she ever time. see al jazeera washington ah, top of the headlines here on knowledge 0. 3 more updates of tested positive cove. at 19 of the tokyo olympics, the city itself is recorded a 6 month high of new cases just a day before the house. the opening ceremony of the games, nearly 2000 and positive tests are recorded over the past 24 hours. the highest since mid january body selim has moved from tokyo. people here and i've been