rubber bullets and stun grenades. dozens of people are injured after a second night of violent clashes between israeli police and palestinians. plus, after days of nervous anticipation a crash landing and a sigh of relief. china says their rocket debris has landed in the indian ocean. also, with a total count for coronavirus cases passing 22 million, states across india are now preparing for a lockdown. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm robyn curnow.

we begin with a second straight night of clashes between israeli police and plntd plnts as tensions boil over in jerusalem. the palestinian red crescent says nearly 100 palestinians were injured by stun grenades and rubber bullets fired by police on saturday. police say they were trying to disperse crowds of people who were throwing stones and fireworks. well, jerusalem has seen weeks of unrest over the possible eviction of palestinian families from their homes. i want to go straight now to jerusalem. hadas gold joins me live. ha hadas, hi. what's the situation right now? >> reporter: well, robyn, i'm standing in frchbtont of damasc gate. this is one of the main entrances into jerusalem, the one most important for muslims as they enter the old city of jerusalem. this was the scene of some of those clashes we saw last night across several locations across

east jerusalem including in sheikh jarra which is that neighborhood where you mentioned those palestinian families are facing possible eviction. that has really contributed to a lot of the tension we're seeing in the city. but as you noted, there have been weeks now of just boiling tension in the city. it really came to a head on friday night when we saw more than 200 palestinians injured at clashes at the al aqsa compound, also known as the temple mount. on that night also police say that 17 of their officers were injured. last night was a little calmer and there was a concern that last night would be potentially worse because it was the al qadr holiday, the holiest night of ramadan. we did still see quite a bit of action last night and we're seeing increased reactions and condemnation from around the world. the u.s. state department has expressed concern. we're seeing more and more members of congress also expressing concerns, especially around those families in the sheikh jara neighborhood that are facing a possible eviction. and there is increasing concern that actually tomorrow would be -- is going to be another

potential flash-point because tomorrow is what's known as jerusalem day. it's a day that israel marks when it got control of the western wall. it is also a day that we sometimes see marches of jewish marchers going through jerusalem waving flags. there's concern they may try to march through the muslim parts of the old city of jerusalem stoking even further the tensions. tomorrow is also the day that we may see a decision from the israeli supreme court on those evictions in the sheikh jarrah neighborhood. as a lot of the newspapers have been calling it they're saying jerusalem is sort of on the edge of explosion. we've seen weeks of tensions now. there's concern it's only going to get worse. also concerns of how the action in jerusalem will be seen by hamas in gaza. we saw one rocket fired from gaza. and there's increasing concern as we've seen in previous weeks the tension could spread further south, into gaza that would cause some reaction from hamas there and they will just make the situation here even worse.

robyn? >> hadas gold in jerusalem. thank you very much for keeping us posted on what's happening right now. so afghan officials now say more than 50 people were killed in explosions near a girls' high school on saturday. n more than 100 people were wounded. authorities say the blasts were caused by a car bomb and two improvised explosive devices. the taliban has denied involvement, but the attack raises concerns about afghanistan's -- about afghanistan when troops leave from the u.s. so nick paton-walsh has more on that. nick. >> reporter: this horrifying attack occurring in the west of kabul outside the saeed al shahuda school. it appears from accounts on the scene that many of the victims were in fact schoolgirls, leaving at the end of their school-day. aftermath pictures showing a vehicle heavily damaged. it was -- those at the scene picking at the school bags and school books of the victims there. dozens injured, dozens having

lost their lives. a blast that occurred on the holiest day of the muslim holy month ever ramadan and in an area of kabul predominantly populated by the shia minority. they've often been targeted in the past by extremists and they could be two possible reasons why this particular target was chosen. firstly, the many extremists find the idea of girls going to school to be abhorrent. it is not permitted in some parts of afghanistan where the afghan government does not have reach and insurgents have control. and also two, the shia minority are considered a target by some of the more extreme groups, specifically the branch of isis that functions in afghanistan and pakistan. the taliban insurgency clearly said they were not involved in this attack, but their one tweet does not necessarily speak for the many different branches of the insurgency. some increasingly hard-line and extremist. but this attack does speak to the growing security vacuum many fear will get worse as the u.s.

continue their withdrawal from afghanistan. they said it started on may the 1st. it's already under way. and it will be done by september the 11th if not significantly beforehand. but that leaves the afghan government facing military pressure from the insurgency on many different fronts. and while the capital of kabul will likely be secure for the months ahead it is of course vulnerable to attacks like this. devastating attacks that have over the past years been sadly common inside kabul and other parts of afghanistan too. but think may now perhaps be receiving greater attention from the outside international community because of how it's possibly perceived as a consequence of the power vacuum of the u.s. and nato leaving. but shocking frankly scenes that the u.s. charges da fare to afghanistan ross wilson called in a tweet the future of afghanistan could be attacked in what he referred to as thun forgivable attack. really horrifying scenes of exactly what kind of extremism could be trying to have its

ideology seen more frequently inside afghanistan and the insecurity of the months ahead. nick paton-walsh, cnn, london. >> michael kuehlman is the deputy director of the asia program and joins me now from washington, d.c. he's also the south asia senior associate at the wilson center. thank you very much for joining us. this attack is devastating, particularly because of the target, which seems to be a girls' school. >> absolutely. and the unfortunate thing is this is not the first time that a girls' school has been targeted in afghanistan. it's happened so many times before. and also the community that was targeted. the hazara shia community in afghanistan has been targeted in a number of attacks in the past as well. so unfortunately, as horrific as this attack was, it really was not very surprising. just because both the people targeted and the facility, the school that was targeted, these are targets that have been hit a

number of times before in afghanistan. >> what is this attack signaling? >> i think it signals the security situation in afghanistan, which has been deteriorating for a number of years now as the insurgency intensifies and as terror groups in the country become stronger, you know, this is going to -- only going to become worse. as bad as it's been now, u.s. forces are on their way out of the country. and even with u.s. boots on the ground in recent years there have been record level -- a record number of civilian fatalities in afghanistan. and yet with u.s. troops on their way out that means that afghan security forces will not be getting the training, the advising and the various types of assistance including counterterrorism assistance that u.s. forces have provided. so this suggests that a country that is already suffering from significant levels of destabilization, terrorism, violence, it could very well get

worse. in the absence of a peace process that is right now very, very fragile. >> as you say, this attack is taking place with u.s. boots on the ground. it's another round of violence after ten -- two decades. despite all of these efforts, would the biden administration argue that this attack while tragic and unsurprising is another reminder there will always be a reason to stay in afghanistan and that leaving really is a case of now or never perhaps? >> yeah, i think the biden administration has made very clear that the reason that he's decided to leave afghanistan is not the fact you have all this instability in the country but it's more so that according to the biden administration the threat of international terrorism and particularly terrorism that could reach and affect u.s. targets and interests beyond afghanistan is not sufficiently strong to

warrant u.s. troops staying in the country. it really sounds heartless to say, but from the perspective of cold hard interests as perceived by the biden administration, the simple fact of instability and the horrific attacks that we see playing out in afghanistan every day, that in and of itself is not enough to keep u.s. troops in the country. and obviously, that's no consolation to the afghan people who have been suffering from these attacks for so long and have been really immersed in a war for more than 40 years. it's no consolation to them. but the biden administration i think has made up its mind. it is leaving. it will have all its troops out by september. and it's going to be focusing on other priorities. >> so what next, then? >> well, the u.s. withdrawal is now under way. it's begun in recent days. it's supposed to be done. it's supposed to be completed by september. and the biden administration has indicated that it will figure out a way to maintain a counterterrorism capacity in afghanistan even without boots

on the ground in afghanistan. that's going to be very difficult to do in the sense that the administration will need to find countries, preferably countries close to afghanistan, that will be willing to host u.s. troops, that would be in a position to maintain a u.s. counterterrorism capacity in afghanistan. but that will be very difficult. countries like pakistan, uzbe uzbekistan, tajikistan, there are a lot of complications and challenges for the u.s. in trying to work out arrangements with these countries to base troops there. so i think it's going to be very difficult for the u.s. to be able to maintain any type of counterterrorism capacity once all of its troops have left the country. >> michael kugelman, thank you very much for joining us and giving us your expertise. thank you. >> thank you. now, the voyage of that out-of-control chinese rocket is over. we're hearing that pieces of it have landed in just the past few hours just west of the maldives in the indian ocean. now, that's according to chinese officials. u.s. space command has confirmed

parts of the rocket re-entered over the arabian peninsula but hasn't confirmed the impact site. here's a look as it flew over parts of describe. a mere dot in the sky here. but the long march 5-b rocket was roughly the height of a ten-story building and weighed 22 tons. now, china's national space agency says most of the devices it carried were destroyed during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere. we are waiting, as i said, final confirmation on the landing but so far no reports of damage or casualties. let's go straight to will ripley. will ripley joins me from hong kong. and you've been monitoring the trajectory of this for i don't know, the last few hours. the last week i think, will. what do you make of these last moments and what we know? >> so we know, robyn, from the time that we first started talking about this on the air mid-week that it was most likely to come down over water. but the fact that it possibly came down so close to the

maldives just southwest of sri lanka, of india, the fact that it passed over at a relatively low altitude other populated areas and the fact we didn't know frankly until a couple of hours beforehand where it might likely go down, the uncertainty is really unacceptable. according to more advanced western space agencies including nasa. in fact, nasa administrator senator bill nelson put out a statement saying that china is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris. now, it's not to say other countries in the earlier decades of their space programs didn't have similar incidents. back in 1979 sky lab, the american space station, fell out of orbit and made an uncontrolled re-entry, scattering debris over western australia. in fact, michael holmes, our cnn intrepid anchor and correspondent, might have been about 5 years old he says covering that in one of his first reporting assignments. this is something that has happened before. there have never been any zengts

of serious injury as a result of this. but this is the largest piece of space debris to fall in an uncontrolled manner in this way in a long time. and according to those who are look at china, which is trying to accelerate its space program, they have ten more launches planned to build their space station. this was just the first module of their space station. some of those launches involved the same long march 5b rocket. there are growing calls now for more responsibility on the part of china saying that this was simply reckless to design a rocket so big that can make an uncontrolled re-entry and really just wagering that the odds would go in their favor, that it would fall into the ocean, which covers 70% of the earth. but what if it hadn't, robyn? what if it had hit an area with people or god forbid a densely populated area? we could be calling for something much different right now than calls for responsibility. >> thanks for that. live there in hong kong, will ripley. stay with us. a little bit later on this hour

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for the fourth straight day india is reporting more than 400,000 new covid cases. that rate of infection is unheard of. these latest figures i want to show you have pushed the total number of cases past 22 million since the start of the pandemic. and for the second day in a row the daily death toll is now past 4,000 people. numerous states across india are about to impose strict new lockdowns, curfews or other restrictions as the crisis deepens. yet the central government has resisted calls for a nationwide lockdown. and then in hard-hit delhi the chief minister is actually begging for more vaccines. he says the available supply

will run out in less than a week. paula hancocks is monitoring the situation from seoul. paula, hi. it certainly seems like every day gets more and more horrifying in terms of the infections and deaths in india. >> it does, robyn. and at this point with numbers not appearing to be puttering or evening out it's really uncertain at this point when the peak is going to be reached. we did see something fairly unusual as well in that the medical journal "the lancet" has criticized prime minister modi's government for the way that it has handled this outbreak. they say that there has been complacency. they say that early success that we saw in india in dealing with the pandemic has been squandered. it's not unprecedented for a medical journal like this to criticize a government's handling of a pandemic but it's certainly unusual. and it was particularly strong in its criticism saying that

sometimes the government seemed far more concerned with silencing critics on twitter than actually trying to get a handle on the outbreak. saying that the way they have handled it is simply inexcusable. there was also quite a worrying projection within the lancet saying that they may see at 1 million deaths by august. now, we're at a quarter of that at this point. less than a quarter. so clearly that is a worrying projection. if that is the case the lancet said that prime minister modi and his government would be responsible for presiding over a self-inflicted national catastrophe. now, in keeping with criticism of the modi government and taking some of the responsibilities away from them, we have also seen the supreme court ruling that there should be a task force set up to try to organize the distribution of oxygen. this has been one of the main concerns of hospitals in delhi and in other states around

india, the lack of oxygen for patients that need it. and what they say is they will have a task force of government officials, of academics, of senior health officials and they will decide exactly where the need is greatest and make sure that they are able to distribute the oxygen to where it's needed. we have seen in recent days and weeks in fact there has been a tremendous amount of support from the international community. a lot of oxygen cylinders coming in. oxygen-generating plant components from germany being flown in as well. and so what this task force will try to do is to give a more overall picture of exactly where it is needed and crucially to make sure it's distributed. robyn? >> thanks for that update there. paula hancocks. so people who have been vaccinated may worry that they won't be protected against the new variant showing up in india

and elsewhere but one of u.s. president joe biden's top advisers says on covid that he's optimistic the current vaccines will keep everyone safe. here's what he told cnn a little bit earlier. >> it looks like we're going to get very good levels of protection from our current vaccines. i think we'll see that confirmed over the coming week. but americans should expect that if they're not vaccinated they're going to be more exposed. if they are vaccinated i think they can look at these variants and there's going to be very good levels of protection so far. >> that's some good news. in the u.s. a troubling sign, though, that the demand for vaccinations is falling after reaching a peak. i want you to take a look at this. the seven-day average of daily doses just dropped below 2 million for the first time since early march. declining demand could hinder president biden's goal for 70% of adults to receive at least one dose by july the 4th. that figure currently stands at about 58%. now, despite dips in vaccination rates, daily infections keep on decreasing. california plans to fully reopen

next month, and restaurants are already allowed to expand capacity in los angeles. but they're facing a problem they didn't see coming. as paul vercammen now reports. paul. >> reporter: restaurant owners throughout southern california are telling us they need to rehire or hire more employees. here at aoc, a los angeles landmark, they can't even open up one of their dining rooms because they do not have enough workers. and the owner here wants to open up some other restaurants. so in all they need more than 100 workers. >> i think in total we need to hire about 250 people. and i know that we're not alone in this. other restaurateurs are having this issue. a lot of job sectors are seeing this. but ours is being hit particularly bad. >> reporter: and this restaurant, aoc, l.a. icon, pretty good-paying jobs. i know you had a manager that was getting paid $75,000 a year. but the pandemic hit and tell us what happened to that manager as a consequence of not having a job. >> oh, yeah. it's so expensive to live here in l.a. that she and her husband and their 1-year-old son, they decided to move to bend, oregon

where they could afford to live with this uncertainty about their financial future and they had family there. and this is a story that we have across the board with so many employees who have left. they've just left the state. it's too expensive. and without a job and without prospects they just had to take off. >> reporter: now, while some restaurant owners in southern california have been very critical of governor newsom and all of his social distancing and lockdown policies, stein is not. she says california would not be where it is now in terms of its low positivity rate if it wasn't for a serious lockdown. she just says now they need to look forward, try to get people back to work. if they can put the restaurant workers back on the job, then that in turn will spark the rest of the economy. reporting if los angeles, i'm paul vercammen. now back to you. >> thanks, paul, for that. so coming up on cnn, parts of an uncontrolled chinese rocket crashed back to earth just a few hours ago. why some say it's time for china to get real about safety in

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i hope you're ready. 'cause we are. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. thanks so much for joining me. i'm robyn curnow. it is 29 minutes past the hour. so the voyage of that out-of-control chinese rocket is over. chinese officials say pieces of it land a little while ago just west of the maldives in the indian ocean. and while u.s. space command confirms part of the rocket

re-entered the atmosphere over the arabian peninsula, it has not yet confirmed the impact site. the rocket, though, was vivsibl. see fudge see it here as a dot in the sky over saudi arabia. but the long march 5b rocket was roughly the height of a 10-story building and weighed 22 tons. china's national space agency says most of the devices it carried were destroyed during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere. we are waiting. as i said, final confirmation on the landing. but so far no reports of damage or casualties. associate professor at the university of texas at austin and joins me now. great to have you on the show. thanks for coming, sir. so how irresponsible has this whole process been? no matter where it landed. what does this tell you about the chinese space program and its relationship with space, earth, the planets? >> yeah. look, i mean, i think the main

issue that exists is that the rocket did not do a deorbiting burn, which would have forced it to come in to the atmosphere at a much steeper angle, forcing it to burn up as much as possible, leaving it up to mother nature to take care of it is probably not what we want to continue to do. >> but this is part of the strategic planning of the chinese space program. so are we -- can we expect more of this as the space program develops? >> i believe that unless there's enough pressure from the global community when it comes to space sustainability and space safety then this will become business as usual for sure. >> and how bad do you think it could get? >> well, there is an increased activity of space launches and in fact just two weeks ago we

saw a falcon 9 upper stage actually land and not too far from seattle. and even though it had the propulsion to do a deorbit burn that failed because statistically things don't work all the time. so i think we're going to see a lot more of these warnings being issued out, which is bad news. >> so this is not then in your opinion just about china's space program. is it about as you call it space sustainability in terms of our relationship with what's going on in terms of the space race? >> exactly. i mean, pretty much any given nation state is free to launch as many things as it wants when it wants. and outer space is a finite resource. at least near earth space. and so with an ex-pa nential rise in launches from countries,

united states, china, others to follow these things will just become more prevalent. >> what can be done, then? >> i think we need to have a candid conversation that this is not the way we want to do business in space. clearly we're not going to stop launching satellites because the technology that space affords does have lots of benefits for humanity. but just doing these things without planning and coordination, without some way to holistically manage this resource i think makes no sense. >> whose responsibility is it to have this conversation? because is it legislating from the u.n.? is it about bilateral treaties? how do you actually then try and move this conversation forward? is it about naming and shaming? what is it? >> right. well, so it doesn't come from

asking people pretty please with sugar on top. so i know that. i've tried that and you know, it's not been working. certainly the united nations, the committee on peaceful uses of outer space does a lot of good work in trying to put together guidelines that could lead to long-term sustainability. but these are not legally binding in and of themselves. so i think really what has to happen is that each country that signs up to these guidelines needs to make that space law within their own country and enforce these things and show they're enforcing these space laws and at the same time be able to again come to i guess a global table to plan, coordinate jointly and engage in these sorts of practices that could lead to enhanced sustainability and safety of space as a resource. >> and then do you think it likely that at some point in the

future one of these dead heavy pieces of large machinery that's orbiting can cause damage here on earth? >> absolutely. i think there's certainly a possibility. it's not zero. and the fact it's not zero is already a problem. the likelihood of any given object falling on a populated area, that might be low. but when you -- statistically when you have more of these things being launched more frequently, that has an impact as an aggregated, you know, sense. and so we are putting ourself in harm's way the more frequently we launch these objects and the more these rockets aren't forced to, you know, burn up in the atmosphere to come in at a steep angle when they re-enter. so we're going to just see more of these warnings unfortunately. and yes, there's a high

possibility that there could be casualties at some point. >> moriba jah, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. and for more information on space, environmentalism and sustainability you can check out professor jah's work on eyesonthesky.org. a major u.s. pipeline company says it was the target of a ransomware cyberattack. federal agents are working with colonial pipeline to investigate the security breach. details remain scarce. the company says it learned of the attack on friday, causing it to pause operations. president joe biden was briefed on the incident on saturday. colonial pipeline transports nearly half of all fuel consumed on the u.s. east coast. a white house official says they're working to determine whether supply might become an issue. and new york's times square is one of the most famous tourist spots in the world. well, now the new york police department is looking for a suspect in a shooting there on saturday. it posted this video to its

official twitter feed asking anyone with information of his identity to contact them. cnn's evan santoro has the details. >> reporter: police say a dispute ended in gunfire in times square early saturday evening leaving three innocent bystanders hit including a 4-year-old girl who was shot in the leg. surveillance video shows the moment when busy crowds walking around in broad daylight were stopped by the gunfire. at a press conference the commissioner of the new york city police department said all the victims are in stable condition. but he expressed extreme frustration at what he said are local policies that are leading to more shootings. the police are doing their job, he said, asking the politicians to do theirs. >> how many more kids do we need to be shot before we realize that bad policies have consequences and we need action and we need policies regarding laws to have consequences? >> reporter: this shooting comes at a very important moment for

new york. times square is the heart of this city trying to reopen itself to tourists. broadway theaters all around this area just started selling tickets again last week. officials are thhoping to bring tourists back to the city. and incidents like this shooting in the tourist heart of the city could make that a tough sell. evan mcmorris-santoro, cnn, new york. >> nicola sturgeon's party has come out on top in scotland's elections even though it's one seat short of an outright majority it picks up an extra one compared 202016. and together with the scottish greens is now a pro-independence majority. nicola sturgeon is promising another independence referendum and is warning the british prime minister not to stand in the way. and sadiq khan has been re-elected as mayor of london. the labor incumbent defeated his closest rival by more than 200,000 votes after second preferences were taken into account. and just ahead on "cnn

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>> reporter: playing with children. sharing meals. teaching communist party thoughts. these are some of the activities of more than 1 million people sent to live with the families of mostly ethnic uighur minorities in china's xinjiang region. a very public policy beijing says is aimed at promoting ethnic unity and battling religious extremism. by forcing families to host government officials in their homes. >> we're not happy with this. >> reporter: nairoma eliam an ethnic uighur who lives in switzerland says her family has had to pay host to chinese officials. >> a strange sleeping at your home. how can we feel safe about that? >> reporter: the policy has been heavily promoted by state media. cheerful portrayals show outsiders enthusiastically welcomed into the homes ethnic uighurs. strangers sent by the government who teach their hosts how to

wear makeup and even how to wash their hands. >> translator: i brought the concept of modern life into their home so that they can live a better and more civilized life. >> reporter: do you have any choice whether or not to keep these people in your home? >> translator: no, we had no choice. >> reporter: zimrat daout is an ethnic uighur from xinjiang living in the u.s. she says she had to host four chinese officials in her home for ten days every month. if she resisted she says she risked being sent to an internment camp. >> translator: we had to pretend we were happy. if we did not the government would view that as us being against their policy. >> reporter: ryan thumb, an expert in uighur history, says the home stay program has a sinister motive. >> it's a combined indoctrination and monitoring project. >> this is a 2018 memo produced by the government in cash-car

prefecture for officials sent to live with families. and it instructs them how to find problems. spotting red flags that the authorities say could be signs of religious extremism. telling officials, for example, to look for religious objects hanging on the walls and "ask children questions while playing with them because children never lie." thum calls this the ultimate invasion of privacy. >> there's no private space that they can retreat to where they can act in ways that they're comfortable. >> reporter: australian-born mehrein mezensos says her in-laws had no-no choice but toto host a police officer in their house for months in 2018 while her husband languished in an internment camp. and did you ever hear how your family felt about this man living in their house? >> they were like really scared. they just spoke about like how at night they couldn't really sleep properly because it was just like -- just to know there

was this strange man in the other room who was also sleeping. so they were just like pretty much living in constant fear. >> reporter: the chinese government's rosy portrayal of its homestay program challenged by uighurs in exile who claim the hosts are actually hostages. ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. >> thanks to ivan for that piece. still ahead on cnn, dracula's famous castle in transylvania is trying to lure in tourists. don't worry, interior no scary vampires. but some blood might be spilled when nurses there jab you with the covid vaccine. the details next. and plus, the price plummets during elon musk's appearance on a late-night television show. what's driving the sell-off. ♪ it comes from within. it drives you. and it guides you. to shine your brightest. ♪ as you charge ahead.

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following the guidance as michael holmes now reports. >> reporter: this was the scene in the pakistani city of lahore this week as thousands of shia muslims took part in an annual religious procession. many people not wearing masks and gathered close together despite the skf contracting covid-19. quite different from what the city lked like a little more th a week ago when the country's military was seen patrolling the steitz enforcing covid restrictions. it's part of the balance between tradition and caution in some of south asia's muslim-majority countries. sometimes that balance tipping towards tradition like these people shopping ahead of the id al fitr festival mark the end of ramadan in a few days. >> translator: half of the people don't even understand covid-19. nor do they consider it a pandemic. if they considered it, we wouldn't be going through this situation. >> reporter: crowded hindu religious festivals are one

factor behind neighboring india's massive second covid wave. and the fear is that the same could happen with the end of ramadan in pakistan and bangladesh. pakistan has issued a number of restrictions such as banning intercity travel and shutting down all but essential markets. >> translator: if we don't act on these instructions, you have the example of india right in front of you. what happened there can happen to us. please stay home and stay safe. >> reporter: there are long lines of people waiting to get the vaccine in crashi and pakistan. many there worried that the crisis in india could be repeated here. both bangladesh and pakistan have so far avoided a massive surge in cases such as seen in india. and bangladesh has actually seen a steady decline over the past few weeks. a doctor in the health ministry tells cnn that's due to a lockdown in effect since early april. but there's concern now that

some shopping malls have opened up again. the lockdown has been a challenge for many during ramadan. in the capital dhaka a group of volunteers were seen out eating the meal iftar the meal muslims eat to break their ramadan fast. they've managed to feed about 1,000 people a day, many of whom have lost their jobs during the pandemic and can't afford food. >> translator: i am fasting. i'll pull my rickshaw under the sun but i make very little arnings and i'm too poor to buy iftar so i have to come here for free food and park my rickshaw by the road." >> reporter: so many reasons to get covid under control. michael holmes, cnn. >> we've seen vaccination sites set up in a lot of unusual places, haven't we? sports stadiums, fairgrounds, even cathedrals. but those all pale in comparison to the one kim brun haifr shows us in eastern europe.

>> reporter: dracula's castle in romania. in folklore the lair of the famous ruler thain spired bram stoker's classic vampire novel. but in modern times and in daylight it's not such a scary place. unless you're afraid of needles. part of this renowned tourist attraction in transylvania is now being used as a covid-19 vaccination center, luring people to this fortress in the carpathian mountains. no, not with hypnotic stares but with billboards and free shots of the pfizer vaccine. >> i was also planning to come to the castle and i just decide td was a two for one special. i could go and see the castle for free and at the same time get vaccinated. it was a dream come true. >> reporter: the only fangs in sight are the stickers on the doctors and nurses administering the shots and to take your mind off a possible sore arm castle staff are offering free entry to the castle's medieval torture exhibit. >> translator: it was a way of

showing those who come to get vaccinated how jabs used to get done 500 to 600 years ago in europe. >> reporter: a way to boost tourism which slumped during the pandemic and a chance to show visitors the only real villain here is the virus. kim brunhuber, cnn, atlanta. after much fanfare and publicity tech billionaire elon musk opened his performance on american late-night tv show "saturday night live" by joking about the crypto currency dogecoin with his mother. take a listen. >> well, break a leg tonight. i love you very much. >> i love you too, mom. [ applause ] >> and i'm excited for my mother's day gift. i just hope it's not dogecoin. >> it is. >> musk is a prominent supporter of dogecoin. and amid this has helped pump up

its value in the leadup to the show but then its value dropped sharply after musk joked about it on "saturday night live." it's unclear what in particular drove the sell-off, if you know what it is in the first place. now, the former president and first lady in the u.s. have announced that their beloved dog bo has died after a battle with cancer. bo became part, you'll remember -- this gorgeous face. part of the obama family shortly after they moved into the white house. the former president promised his daughters a dog in return for time spent on the campaign trail. well, on saturday the obamas shared touching social media posts about their four-legged friend. the former first lady saying she will always be grateful they got to spend so much time together at the end. i'm robyn curnow. you can follow me on twitter and on instagram @robyncurnowcnn. thanks for joining me. i will be back, though, with more in just a moment.

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great to have you along. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm robyn curnow. so just ahead on cnn -- more clashes in jerusalem over the eviction of palestinian families. plus the out-of-control rocket saga is finally over. we'll speak with an aerospace engineer about the heat china is now take over this uncontrolled re-entry. and then india's