to reduce the impact of the 2nd, a wave of infections at a time when the countries in the south of latin america, or answering the colder months that they're very worried about arrival of winter there, but at a time, when is increasingly difficult to impose these restrictions in countries that have suffered greatly economically due to the pandemic. one example here in columbia where we are, there have been, as we have reported widespread and take government protests for a month now due to the consequences or in part due to the consequences. the economy of depend damage which has made these restrictions practically on enforceable which is mand here, that the peak of this 3rd wave of infection has been expanded and will probably continue until the end of the month to very, very complicated situations with government trying to deal with these residual, or with the continuation of the peak of infections of koby. 19, the messaging on vaccines has been very mixed in places, but particularly in brazil from the president childhood center. and it seems people are suffering the consequences from that. but

of emphasizing trade income operation rather than military force. next on reel america, a 1944 film reflecting that policy, "the bridge." documenting the economic and political importance of south -- latin america to the united states, the film highlights mineral and agricultural riches of the region and details the problems of poverty and inadequate transportation. "the bridge" is part of the national film preservation foundation's online screening room. ♪ >> the sun is rising over a battlefield. over the atlantic ocean. beyond the horizon lie other battlefields, europe and asia. the sun moves west, toward the two americas. mountain and lake and plain, it lies 1000 miles further east than new york. lies closer to europe in the northeast than to the united states in the northwest. it is not one place, it is 1000 places. light strikes the palms of natal. morning begins over a continent. ♪ it is not one place, it is 1000 places. the sun flashes down the harbor of rio de janeiro. the continent of south america, not mountain and jungle alone, but great cities. buenos aires, the third largest city in the western hemisphere. 2000 miles to the northwest, the sun glints across the mighty amazon

south america. -- latin america. >>ight now one out ofevery 100 vaccinesroduced are going to a developing world. meanwhile, the lobbying groups that rresent the pharmaceutical industry are doing everything they can to fight this request. they he hireover 100 lobbyists to pressurat the biden administration, pressure congress to not support this proposal. amy: we will speak to the intercept's lee fang. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the covid-19 crisis continues to ravage india, the world's second most populous nation, which now accounts for one in every three new cases reported. on saturday, india reported over 400 thousand daily infections for first time while a record 3700 deaths were reported suay alone. on saturday, a fire at a covid-19 hospital ward in western india killed 18 patients. health workers are rushing to ramp up inoculation's. so far, fewer than 2% of the population of india's 1.4 billion people have been fully vaccinated. this is a new delh

and the result is unique, as all these parties of the us, china, new, russia, latin america, south africa, and others, were able to unite behind principles under the linda to find him to the 1st principal was a clear commitment to multilateralism. that is, rejecting export limits and vaccine nationalism international. this was secondly, by a clear commitment to what we call one health one. that is, that we've understood that a loss of biodiversity and climate change contributed to the spread of the pandemic board. and that, that means that people have expanded into wilderness areas under the ice diminished as light in. and thirdly, a clear commitment to getting better at fair distribution of vaccines around the world instead of h for time. and that was that the commission president, to speaking earlier, alexandra, did they share also a concrete timeline? when can people in africa and latin america expect the extra vaccines to arrive? well actually that is what i our schools are not funded lion as well, but she didn't provide us with those specific timeline. she just once again reiterated

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of the world. including south america and latin america. we need be you'll be paying attention to make sure that we have a good understanding of what's going on. and the impact and seriously were at that position we're in a disadvantage. >> my will have a bit of time, well i want you to make sure that you are all really paying attention, and i know the problems all over the world understand that, but i don't want to wake up one day and realize that they really have a strong presence in latin america, in our backyard. remember what happened when we saw the -- -- . otherwise thank you so much. >> thank you madam chair i yield back. >> thank you, now mr. rogers in and mr. kilmer. can >> chair, there are several big-time players on this topic that we're discussing this morning. let me set the stage for perhaps the conflict. the various agencies involved, we have the regular air force, we have nasa, we have now the new space force, as well as the commercial or private enterprises and all of them dealing with a piece of space and help us de-confli

but, with the world in the grips of this new wave of covert transition, driven by deteriorating conditions in south asia and across latin americawant to focus today, primarily on the first two objectives and how we will try to bring to get control of the virus itself through our vaccination efforts and through our life-saving clinical and public health interventions. on the vaccine front, we know that the vaccines is the best tool available to bring the pandemic under control. see the urgency of doing so. as was said a week ago, now that the u.s. has made tremendous strides on vaccinations at home, we are in a stronger position to vaccinate the world at large, that's why the president said the u.s. will become the arsenal of vaccines, just as we were the arsenal in earlier generations. we see priorities for delivering on that. we want to approach this in a way that leads with our values and leads with science. so in accelerating global access to vaccines, we are going to demonstrate the innovation and ingenuity of people and taking a science driven approach to tackling vaccine availability and expanding vaccine availability. so

but, with the world in the grips of this new wave of covert transition, driven by deteriorating conditions in south asia and across latin americawant to focus today, primarily on the first two objectives and how we will try to bring to get control of the virus itself through our vaccination efforts and through our life-saving clinical and public health interventions. on the vaccine front, we know that the vaccines is the best tool available to bring the pandemic under control. see the urgency of doing so. as was said a week ago, now that the u.s. has made tremendous strides on vaccinations at home, we are in a stronger position to vaccinate the world at large, that's why the president said the u.s. will become the arsenal of vaccines, just as we were the arsenal in earlier generations. we see priorities for delivering on that. we want to approach this in a way that leads with our values and leads with science. so in accelerating global access to vaccines, we are going to demonstrate the innovation and ingenuity of people and taking a science driven approach to tackling vaccine availability and expanding vaccine availability. so

us and sending it and you know it also is a similarity to the end of the spanish empire when they ruled the we in the latin america south america region and just plundered the gold and the same thing happened there whereby spanish themselves ended up not having to work and they just brought in french people to fill their farms and do things like that and that's where i mean we've already had the exploiting of all our manufacturing jobs and that as we say all the time is innovation and growth and progress happens on that on the factory floor we don't have that anymore but now we don't even have people working in a mcdonald's and figuring out you know customer service or something like there's this is the next level this is like the end of the spanish empire days this is what happened there and it could be what's happening now right so. the end of the spanish empire the end of the british empire the end of the roman empire and you have some similarities some differences but the 3 cities trap we talk about the rise of one nation in this case china and the fall of the ruling at the time this case the united states we've got

of health in a broader sense in the pandemic at a state and government leader level. and the result is unique as all these parties, the us, china, new, russia, latin america, south africa, and others, were able to unite behind principles unrelated to find into the 1st principal was a clear commitment to multilateralism. that is, rejecting export limits and of vaccine nationalism saga international. this was secondly, a clear commitment to what we call one health one. that is, that we've understood that a loss of biodiversity and climate change contributed to the spread of the pandemic near board. and what that means that people have expanded into wilderness areas under the ice diminished as light in. and thirdly, a clear commitment to getting better and fair distribution of vaccines around the world of innovation for time. and that was that the commission president, to speaking earlier, alexandra, did they share also a concrete timeline? when can people in africa and latin america expect the, the extra vaccines to arrive? well, actually that is what i our schools and our funded lion as well. but she didn't provide us with a specific timeline. she just once again reiter

and the result is unique, as all these parties of the us, china, new, russia, latin america, south africa, and others, were able to unite behind principles unable to find into the 1st principle. was it clear commitment to multilateralism? that is, rejecting export limits and vaccine nationalism international. this was secondly, a clear commitment to what we call one health one. that is, that we've understood that a loss of biodiversity and climate change contributed to the spread of the pandemic near board. and what that means that people have expanded into wilderness areas under the ice diminished as light in. and thirdly, a clear commitment to getting better at fair distribution of vaccines around the world. we had him stuff in the h for time and that was that the commission president to speaking earlier, alexandra, did they share also a concrete timeline? when can people in africa and latin america expect these extra vaccines to arrive? well actually that is what i ask will do not fund a lion as well, but she didn't provide us with a specific timeline. she just once again reiterated th

so they can perhaps what i call slight inroads into different parts of the world including south america latin america. we need to be paying attention as a nation to make sure that we have a good understanding what's going on and the impact so it doesn't happen just insidiously and we are in a position where we are at a disadvantage. >> i forgot all about of time so i will yield back, but i want you to make sure y'all really pay attention -- and others problems all over the world. i understand that but it just don't want to wake up one day to realize that you really have a strong presence in latin america and our backyard. so just remember happened in the 1980s when we woke up and we saw the russians in nicaragua. otherwise, thank you so much for all three of y'all on your service. thank you. thank you, madam chair. i yield back. >> thank you, mr. cuellar. mr. rogers. >> madam chair, there are several big-time players in this topic that we discussing this morning. let me set the stage to perhaps deconflict the various agencies that are involved from each other. we have the regular air force. w

south asian region overall. it declined by a quarter and in sub saharan africa by more than a 10th latin america to saw significant drop. the decline of the middle classes is an especially big concern for large multinational. after all this demographic, the tends to buy cars, electronics, goods, and higher and fashion goods that a smaller section of people in developing nations can now afford. the w correspondent, joy doreen beer joins me by phone from nairobi. joy, good to have you on the show. let's talk about africans, middle class, who is it and what businesses are dependent on it. thanks steve. the africa development bank and consider as or defines africa, middle class as those ironing high income relative to average. and those are individuals with an annual income exceeding about $4000.00 us dollars in purchasing power. and the strongest countries that have robust and growing private sector as those that tend to have the higher number of middle class individuals and to nice in north africa has the highest concentration of middle class in north africa. and they are also very susceptible to economic shocks. and so the reason why b

south asian region overall. it declined by a quarter and in sub saharan africa, by more than a 10th latin america to saw significant drop. the decline of the middle classes is an especially big concern for large multinational. after all this demographic, the tends to buy cars, electronics, goods, and higher and fashion goods that a smaller section of people in developing nations can now afford. the w correspondent, joy doreen beer, joins me by phone from nairobi. joy, good to have you on the show. let's talk about african middle class. who is it and what businesses are dependent on it. thanks, steve. the africa development bank considers or defines africa, middle class as those ironing high income relative to average. and those are individuals with an annual income exceeding about $4000.00 us dollars in purchasing power. and the strongest countries that have robust and growing private sector as those that tend to have the higher number of middle class individuals and to nice in north africa has the highest concentration of middle class in north africa. and they are also very susceptible to economic shocks. and so the reason why busines

influence in areas and so what i would call slight inroads into different parts of the world including south america, latin america and we need to pay attention to, as a nation, to make sure that we, we have to understand what is going on in the impact so it does not happen in sensuouslyan when we are in a position when we are disadvantaged smack. >> i have a little time so i will yield back but i want you to make sure you all pay attention to and i know there are problems all over the world and i understand that but i just don't want to wake up one of these days and realize that you have a strong presence in latin america so just remember what happened in the 1980s when we saw the russians [inaudible] otherwise, thank you so much for all three of you. thank you. >> mr. rogers. >> there are several big-time players in this topic that we are discussing this morning. let me set the stage to perhaps the various agencies that are involved with each other and we have regular air force and we have nasa and we have now the new space force as well as the commercial or private heenterprises. all of them dealing wit

south america. she discovered she loved latin america. she tried to promote relations between the two continents. and promote geographic education and try to connect us better. she wrote a guide book on south america. more of a commercial book for businessmen. i went up to the area to see the mountain. i trekked up it a bit. i could look up and see through the clouds, all these huge glaciers. thinking about how she did this. i was with my husband. i'm traveling with a man in this era, where it's more acceptable for women to travel. i can wear pants. she was traveling in long dresses, as a single woman, trying to find her way in a country. today, it is not as -- less -- back then, it was a true adventure for her. she would come by c. she came over the black mountains. i took a bus up to the top of the ridge of the black mountains and trekked down. she would have trekked over from the sea using donkeys. i would see those differences. thinking, the landscape is probably very similar. maybe even some of the indigenous people, it is similar to where -- when she was there. i wanted to see her grave in providence. i went to see the last apartment complex that she lived in in new york city. i also talk about in my

say it critically needed to gear up the production level of vaccines for the global south as the pandemic rapidly spreads in india, latin america, and other areas where few vaccines are available. in a statement, u.s. trade representative katherine tai said -- "this is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures." she went on to say -- "the administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for covid-19 vaccines." while the biden administration has publicly backed a waiver, an agreement still needs to be negotiated at the world trade organization, which is run by consensus. the european union and several other countries including japan and brazil, have also opposed opening the negotiations. the world health organization praised the decision. the biden administration is facing some criticism for not supporting a waiver on intellectual property rights for coronavirus therapeutics or diagnostics. james love said -- "vaccines and foreign markets protect us. the

latin america. hello once again welcome to the look at the international forecast we have seen some violent storms pushing across the deep south of the u.s. louisiana mississippi alabama all the way across into georgia saying some very very heavy rain one or 2 tornadoes large hail tucked in and some very strong winds as well the winds been tumbling in from the rockies cold enough to some snow over the high ground for a time as that cool air continues to drive its way further southward bumping into the warmer air just around the gulf of mexico that's where the violent storms have brewed up more of the same as we go on 3 way to stay all the way of its wars the mid atlantic states further north it's fine and dry temp just touching 1900 new york and also in ottawa i want to show is just around the mountain states meanwhile it was that western side of canada for western parts of the u.s. brisk winds coming through here elevated fire risk as a result of that it does stay dry with more sunshine dry weather coming back into where texas as we go on through thursday but notice just around the panhandle we could see some lively showers just

south america, especially latin america still under siege. argentina's president announced they will enter another lockdown at midnight. matt rivers reports from mexico city. >> reporter: two big coronavirus stories out ofntry is set to impose new restrictions as soon as this weekend after several recent days of new records set for infections in a single day. earlier in this pandemic argentina imposed some of the harshest lockdowns in all of south america. over in brazil for the first time a coronavirus variant first detected in india has now been detected in brazil. after six crew members of a ship traveling from south africa arrived in that country. amidst all of this there continues to be a very slow rollout of vaccines all across this region. we heard earlier this week from the pan american health organization who said that in all of latin america just 3% of the people in this part of the world have been fully vaccinated. christine, laura. >> matt rivers, thank you. >>> in japan the vaccine rollout is still moving at a snail's pace while questions mount about holding the summer olympics there. blake essig is live in tokyo. blake, the games are two months away so what is the plan to give people confi

of south washing. tina reimpose is locked down as cave at 19 infection, sol. more than a 1000000 people have now died from current, a virus across latin america. the 30th between when find out who's taken home top honors at the eurovision song contest. ah, welcome to the program, the full extent of israel's 11 day bombardment on guards are now coming to light. as humanitarian aid begin to enter the besieged strip, the united nation says 800000 people, no longer regular access to clean water. after half of the pipes were damaged and as strikes, thousands have been left homeless by the bombardment palestinians were already suffering for more than a decade of a crippling israeli blockade. well, some of those injured in the israeli asteroids have been told their family members died in the same attacks. there is harry full citizen garza. i met one family battling with personal tragedy. so tongue mastery was wounded in the 1st minutes of his conflict. his pain has barely begun. he spent 5 days in a coma and is now had 4 major operations on life changing injuries. but so tom isn't yet fully awake to how much his world has changed. his family is keepi

latin america editor lucy newman reports from in southern chile. for centuries indigenous map have chased after wild horses here in the b.o.b. your region of south central chile 44 year old a d'andre middle chilcot still does. but he's now preparing to chase something far more elusive. and chile's current constitution denies the very existence of indigenous people it says that chile is a monocultural country so that is our 1st challenge not only to be recognized as a people but to obtain historic recognition of the genocide carried out against the by colonial state that has to chile and eyes the native people to create a how marginalized country at an irreparable cost for our own people romero's father was a revered community long or chief before he died earlier this year he asked his son to take his place as a candidate to fill one of the 7 seats allocated to the in the upcoming constitutional convention. we believe that firstly has to be a historic recognition of what happened to generate justice and reparation and compensation for the damage done to our people just like the german state has done to compensate victims of the holocaust. the ind

of health in a broader sense and the pandemic at a state and government leader level. the result is unique as all these parties, the u.s., china, the eu, russia, latin america, south africa and others were able to unite behind principles. the first principle was a clear commitment to multilateralism, rejecting export limits and vaccine nationalism. second, a clear commitment to what we call one health -- that is that we have understood a loss of biodiversity and climate change contributed to the spread of the pandemic. that means people have expanded into wilderness areas. thirdly, a clear commitment to getting better at fair distribution of vaccines around the world. anchor: that was the commission president speaking earlier. did they show a concrete timeline? when can people in africa and latin america expect these extra vaccines to arrive? guest: that is what i asked. she did not provide us with a specific timeline. she reiterated the doses the european union is pledging to donate will be donated until the end of this year. that is apparently the case with the 1.3 billion doses pharmaceutical companies like ion tech, moderna and johnson & johnson have promised to prod

south africa's medical research council has revealed there have been more than 157000 excess deaths in the past year it's estimated 85 percent of those work coronavirus related. the head of pfizer in latin america has told brazilian politicians the government repeatedly ignored offers last year to buy millions of vaccine doses from the company. who is testifying before a senate commission investigating whether the government was criminally negligent and its handling of the pandemic a contract with the firm for 100000000 doses was only signed in march more than 430000 brazilians have died from covert 19 with the country focused on the pandemic brazil's lower house of congress has approved a controversial environmental bill the legislation would make it easier to issue permits for infrastructure mining and farming projects critics warn it's another step on the path to environmental mass destruction this week the former ministers signed an open letter opposing the bill which now goes to the senate. mexico is marking of the 500th anniversary of the spanish cold quest but many people are choosing to all of those who defended their land and celebrate the ancient city founded 200 years before the euro

of months they have a crisis on just about every continent. they have a open border, a crisis with south and latin america. on ukraine, hacking with russia. it is not a accident these things are happening simultaneously. foreign policy is like "shark tank." if countries, your adversaries if they sense weakness on part of the united states, they will go in, say, this is my time. they look at an american white house. washington is dysfunctional. a president preoccupied. a vice president preoccupied. they're thinking this is my moment. i sense weakness and i'm going to get what i can. you know we'll see more and more crises and more and more tough talk by the biden administration and probably very little tough action. edward: in the last 30 seconds, put your white house hat on, if you were back in the white house, what would you recommend from here? >> i would have gotten on the phone with vladmir putin, vlad, that hacking thing you have to stop that right now. don't tell me you don't know hot people are. they're in your territory. they're not hacking you, harking me. i would hang up the phone. that would sen

latin america. she tried to promote relationships between the two places and promote geographic education and connect us better. she wrote a guide book for south america, also more of the industrial book for a businessman. so then i went up to the area to see the mountain, and i trekked up, i did not climate, i could see through the clouds all these big glaciers. so just thinking about how she did this. on this trip i was with my husband. so traveling with a man in this era was more acceptable. i can wear pants and be comfortable. she was traveling in long dresses as a single woman, trying to find her way in a country that was not -- today, it's not as exploration. back then it was a true adventure for her. so she would come by sea, and she came over the black mountains. i took a bus to the ridge of the black mountains and track down -- trekked down where she would have trekked over from the cd using the donkeys and walking along. i see those differences, and then just thinking, and the landscape is very similar. even some of the indigenous people. it's a very similar scene to when she was there. and then i also went to see her grave, and then i went to see the las

latin america. when i became president, almost every country in south america was a military dictatorship. colombia, peru, chile, argentina, paraguay, uruguay, brazil and so forth. the institution ofuman rights policy there and our support for it, our condemnation of oppression, i think made it possible for every country in south america to now become a democracy. and they have done it, they did it within five years after i entered office. so i think the practical, the practical results very much pleased me while i was president but still looked upon by some as a weakness than a strength. and to answer your question i think the worst nation worldwide human rights oppression is against women and girls. there's no doubt about that. [ applause ] including -- including in our own country. and not only do we have -- we don't have some of the problems but we have now more slavery than ever existed in the 18th and 19th century in the world. atlanta happens to be the number one trading post in america for slavery. >> really? >> we have more than 200 people every month sold into slavery in atlanta. and the reason for this is it has the largest and most busy airport on earth, and a lot of p

the scheduled time the south like would be sent into space women make science compassed on space school on al-jazeera. on the same time the i didn't come in all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why i'm counting the cost of china's navy and its maritime militia dominate the south china sea coast the us lost control could the pandemic usher in the 4 day work week and environmental racism opposition grows to a u.s. plane by. counting the calls on al-jazeera. oh. you know the news i hear at al-jazeera and these are our top stories india has recorded more than 400000 new coronavirus cases counting for nearly half of the world's infections in the last 24 hours the government's expanding the vaccination drive but is also struggling to meet demand. 12 people have died at a new delhi hospital because of a shortage of oxygen and in good gerardo fire at a hospitals killed 16 patients and workers are rallying across the world to mark may day international labor day calling for improved rights including health care and protection for people who have lost their jobs. kurdistan and tajikistan have agreed

latin america editor lucien newman reports from in southern chile. for centuries indigenous my booty have chased after wild horses here in the b.o.b. a region of southcentral chile 44 year old a d'andre middle chilcot still does. but he's now preparing to chase something far more elusive to. chile's current constitution denies the very existence of indigenous people it says that chile is a monocultural country so that is our 1st challenge not only to be recognized as a people but to obtain historic recognition of the genocide carried out against the mob by colonial state that has to chile and eyes the native people to create a how marginalized country at an irreparable cost for our own people romero's father was a revered community long or chief before he died earlier this year he asked his son to take his place as a candidate to fill one of the 7 seats allocated to the in the upcoming constitutional convention. we believe that firstly has to be a historic recognition of what happened to generate justice and reparation and compensation for the damage done to our people just like the german state has done to compensate victims of the holocaust. the i

of cohosting next month's cover america as the country deals with antigovernment protest they asked the south american football commission to deliver the tournament until november, but they refused. earlier, al jazeera spoke to to align latin american photojournalist about where the matches could be played. --football journalist about where the matches could be played. >> things are always moving. there are so many moving parts. news has been back-and-forth the past 48 hours. honestly, argentina finding that -- obviously, argentina finding themselves back into a phase one lockdown until the end of this month. it is a top proposition if you are looking at it under normal conditions. but domestically, it is anything but. they maintain their position of playing in argentina despite these restrictions. that ends up being a very tough it of water to tread, but there been scenarios such as chile, uruguay, paraguay being options as well. it is rumors about the possibility of going to the united states. that is a little far-fetched, knowing the logistics that are entailed, but still, those are things being talked about. nothing confirmed at all. gemma: the new champions of spain will be decided on saturday, with atletico madrid an

of emphasizing trade income operation rather than military force. next on reel america, a 1944 film reflecting that policy, "the bridge." documenting the economic and political importance of south -- latinrica to the united states, the film highlights mineral and agricultural riches of the region and details the problems of poverty and inadequate transportation. "the bridge" is part of the national film preservation foundation's online screening room.