female leader. takes power after the death of john lee. also warnings of a covert 19 tornadoes new guinea the island is seeing a dramatic increase in infections prompting a lockdown. in sport russian track and field athletes are given the green light to compete under a neutral plag at the olympics and while that has changed. here's organizers not to rush the decision on whether to allow overseas funds. into the news are a meeting between the united states and china aimed at reducing tensions as got under way with confrontational remarks what was supposed to be a short introduction at the start of the talks lasted for more than an hour china has warned the. u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs while the americans told the chinese beijing is threatening the international order our diplomatic editor james bays reports now from anchorage. this is a meeting that will shape future relations between the world's 2 biggest powers relations that are currently at a low point good afternoon. and welcome normally opening remarks at events like these a brief and polite but the u.s. side went on to list their specific concerns and sions wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states economic coercion toward our allies the chinese response was long and just as frank the foreign minister wang ye said you don't welcome guests with sanctions a reference to the blacklisting of 24 chinese and hong kong officials in the hours before the meeting his senior colleague politburo member yang jiechi was clearly unhappy. well i think we thought too well of the united states we thought the u.s. side would follow the necessary diplomatic protocols he went on to complain about regime change in the middle east and the us is only human rights record and yet the challenges facing the us and human rights are deep seated they did not emerge over the past 4 years the slaughter of black people the problem existed for a long time to start the word slaughter was not translated into english for those in the room by the chinese delegations interpreter on one second please journalists were about to be ushered out when the secretary of state made it clear his delegation wanted to speak again i just made my 1st trip as i noted to panick south korea. i have to tell you what i'm hearing is very different from what you describe. i'm hearing deep satisfaction that the united states is back they were reengaged with our allies and partners i'm also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking a confident country is able to look hard at its own shortcomings and constantly seek to improve and that is the secret sauce of america alaska is a midway point just over 6000 kilometers to beijing just under 6000 kilometers to washington d.c. this was a meeting that was supposed to build bridges what we seen here could be a welcome clearing of the air or perhaps the beginning of a deepening of the division it all depends on the crucial talks which now continue behind closed doors. al-jazeera and courage. on china's reaction from beijing. china's foreign ministry spoke this afternoon laying the blame for this tense atmosphere solely at the foot of washington china's foreign ministry spokesperson john lee jen said china was invited and then promptly the u.s. open the meeting by starting with what he described as unfounded attacks on the chinese side he said it was impolite and the chinese officials had no choice but to fire back he also acknowledged the atmosphere in the room and said that it was dramatic and that there was a court smell of gunpowder in the air is what he said now i think the key thing to remember is one of the whole months of chinese president xi jinping has leadership here is really trying to come from a position of strength has made this promise to the chinese people since he's been in power that china will no longer be looked down on by the west and i think this was a very much the point of strength that chinese officials wanted to convey during the opening statement that they made during this alaska encounter just as us were playing to their own audience china was playing to their is the 1400000000 population who are becoming increasingly nationalistic and it seems to have worked over the last few hours you've been monitoring chinese social media and they have been a lot of nods of approval and applauds for the chinese official's comments saying that they made their point known and they came across as strong but as jolly gen chinese foreign minister. china's foreign ministry spokesperson said this afternoon that opening meeting was the appetizer and we're still waiting on the main course so we're going to be watching closely to see if any progress can be made. china's 1st trial of 2 canadians charged with espionage has ended with no verdict businessman michaels appeared in court in the south eastern city of done on friday and 18 diplomats were denied access to the proceedings spite of all former diplomats like all were arrested 2 years ago it was a move widely seen as retaliation for canada's detention of war way executive bang one joe appalled the request of the united states. were unable to have access to to the courtroom we were also are not able to have access to michael schiavo himself before the trial. but nevertheless the trial has now concluded. there has been no there's been no pronouncement of a verdict. so that leaves it unclear what has transpired in the courtroom. and we're remain frustrated about that but then nonetheless we will continue to work diligently for the immediate release of michael strahan and michael cole very whose hearing will be on monday. thomson is a visiting senior research fellow at the leak or new school of public policy is also a former u.s. defense department official he says the detention of the man has hurt china's public image. it's difficult to know what the timing intentions are because again trying to system is so opaque and this isn't being driven by a regular legal process but more about political directives from above so it's tempting to think that this decision to hold the trial around the same times as the us china talks in alaska taking place that somehow there's there's causation i'm not entirely convinced of that but it is possible that that will make it much more squarely on the agenda so the fact that they've been under under arrest for over 2 years without any evidence being produced or any progress so far does indicate however highly political position of the 2 cases now what's not particularly good course is that china just violated 'd their bilateral consular treaty with canada which grants the ambassador or the consular officials access to their citizens including in a case like this of a trial so those are both some of the more disturbing aspects of this but there could be a softer lining and there is the potential that china recognizes that the detention of these 2 these 2 people is really been quite a disaster for china's public image hostage diplomacy has completely failed 'd in getting candidate to release. one joe and it's turned off the entire it's least raise concerns amongst the international business community about the risks of. detention a completely arbitrary detention so they may be looking to cut their losses find that you can aliens guilty and then deport them immediately afterwards and in the back to their families. thompson has its 1st female president of some saloon has been sworn in during a sort of the in the city of donna salaam it comes 2 days after she announced the death of president john mica fairly at the age of 61 a spring of katherine sawyer by roby who swelling of a source and katherine let's just begin for all of us about who this lady is and perhaps what direction the government might take in terms of the current policies. well immediately after being sworn in her 1st order of business was chairing her fast cabinet meeting on saturday she's going to be meeting with officials all happening to call party the ruling theon party where they're going to start the process of choosing a vice president who ventile is going to be vetted and approved by parliament about have been asking people about politics and how polices because as vice president we didn't know much about how just because her predecessor the late president will fully was such a huge force and a lot of people in tanzania have been saying that her leadership style is very different from the late president she is more calm under pressure she listens to counsel more more she's not a want to make unilateral decisions she's also i think very well known internationally because the union member the late president lee of a traveled outside of tanzania for international events so he would send her to prison the country and i think international partners will be comfortable to walk with her but that said she's also very guided by the policies and the agenda of the rule of the ruling party so it's going to be. we just seem to have lost catherine that we're trying to touch or in a moment let's cross over to our guest to expand on this that's marc room a is the president of the tanganyika law society joins me now from nairobi via skype good to be with the service cream of the program i think it was give us a sense really of what hurdles and what issues the new president has. i mean 10 year was tainted with allegations of cracking down on dissent and could tailing personal freedoms. sometimes lauded for his anti corruption stance so what are we to believe at the moment in terms of what is the current state of play in tanzania . i think the most important thing that has come out of. the president said we as. you know gratian today was her statement that she would like to bring the country together again she fact of the opposition for the condolences messages that were sent to her by the opposition and she has really cold for unification of a country i think that is extremely important because she has taken cognisance of the divisive nature of the previous administration and she would like to bring this country back together again you talk about unification and that's an interesting word considering the the late president tried everything and did everything in his power to make sure opposition opposition voices weren't heard in parliament and dissent was stifled where does this leave the opposition even though they've made the right overtures joining this period of mourning for the country. you know a country is not unified by cracking down on dissent or cracking down on the legal opposition of that country in fact what we have seen is you create. within the society because the opposition do have considerable support we know that because in the last elections in 2015 these were the last free and fair elections president mughal fully won by a 57 percent margin therefore you can see that the country is one that has a considerable amount of interest or support their people who have support for the opposition. so it really is important that the opposition a brought into play and they are considered and we move forward with a united country and an acceptance that the job of the opposition is actually to oppose and and not to necessarily support government policy well of course she might get some pushback munchie from sort of you might say senior leaders within the party and within part of it because the current president now president assad is some of the semi autonomous zones of our region. and the rest of parliament you might say in the cabinet are very much under micah foodies control from the mainland were how much leeway could she have within cabinet to change policy slightly to change direction some leading to the issues of a covert 19 policy which is confounded the international community. we have in tanzania what we refer to as an inherent president. which means that she is completely responsible for whatever policy that she wants to put in place some direct and subject only to the party manifesto what we saw during the fully era was a complete disregard of the party manifesto and the. system policy and it was basically a one man show so it will be interesting to see what she does in future will she go back to the party money sesto will she then make this part of the policy or will she. go out on a limb and come up with her own policies or will she continue the model for the policies i hope to see a more independent somebody has more whole i hope to see after me has to go back to the foundations of how party and because that is predict what we need at the moment times and yet it's predict that we shall see what happens certainly as she takes office as it's been weeks and months for the moment but to my crewmates thanks so much for joining us from nairobi thank you thank you my pleasure. still ahead here on the al-jazeera news about the challenges facing health workers in guinea as they tackle a recent poll an outbreak also look at why diplomatic ties between north korea and malaysia are getting worse and in sports james harden shines again for the brooklyn nets the best of the n.b.a. action coming up. at least 8 protesters have been killed in me about during the latest rallies against the military coup. crowds faced off with security forces in several cities the military and police have used increasingly violent tactics to suppress the protest movement a local rights group says that more than 220 people have been killed since the coup in early february. the indonesian president joker were due to house call for an urgent meeting of r.c.m. nations to discuss the crisis he says democracy must be restored. to indonesia urges the immediate end to the use of violence and more so that no more victims will fall in the safety and prosperity of the people must become the top priority indonesia also urges dialogue and that reconciliation must be done in order to restore democracy peace and stability in myanmar let's speak to scott hyla who joins me now from bangkok in neighboring thailand with an update reconciliation is what jericho we do know is talking about doesn't seem like that more protests on the streets and more deaths in other parts of the country scott. there are so hill yes and on bond that's where we saw most deaths today at least 8 and what it sounds like it happened is you know we've been seeing a lot of tactics similar tactics at the protest movements where the protesters are kind of face to face with the defense forces security forces and what they do is they build makeshift barriers makeshift barricades and that has been kind of a point of contention because once they're built then the police will come and take them down and that sounds to be the situation where that turned deadly today in this central me and mar city of bonn it seems of the police came to remove the barricades they fired some tear gas and it sounds as though the protesters didn't like that either they they went up to the barricade to stop that from happening and that's when live fire rang out and at least 8 people died there we know that there are some other protests as well around the country we know that yangon there were some but very small people on the ground in yangon telling us that it's pretty quiet so far today so hell and that's something you know we've seen this is really kind of a crackdown by the security forces in the cities across myanmar particularly in yangon in specifically in those outer areas where there is industrial zones that we've seen a lot of tension and a lot of violence over the last several days today it sounds like that is so far quiet and going to the indonesian president's comments one thing that needs to really be focused on is it's interesting when you look at these 10 members of the block here and they have been trying they've met a couple of times virtually to try and deal with the situation in myanmar that traditionally has unsaid rule that they won't interfere with each other's internal issues as they put it but obviously what's happening in myanmar is becoming very external a lot of international bodies countries are focused on that so indonesia is coming out trying to take a lead on that one thing that needs to be said there are other countries particularly here in thailand who have a much different perspective on what's going on because they're right next to me and more so they have different relationships but will be interesting to see if what he said moves forward and they do have this high level meeting that he called for to do thanks for the up that's called hard to force the time of the. now several european countries are resuming orks at astra zeneca vaccinations after suspending the jobs because of safety concerns when it comes after europe struggle watchdog said on thursday that the x.e. is safe there's no evidence linking it to serious blood clots the agency said its benefits outweigh any risks but it could not rule out a link to a rare clotting disorder we've barkha his monitoring events for us from the british capital london and they joins me now i mean this resumption of the astra zeneca vaccine will continue now across the e.u. but where is it starting off. well he's starting in europe's largest economies france germany and italy have me very quickly to make sure they answered astra zeneca job is out of reach isn't in people's homes but we gather that portugal italy portugal the netherlands and spain will also begin things next week but spraying will not give the job to certain categories island has said that it will restart so they using the jap within the coming hours sweden though says it won't make a decision for several days despite the fact that astra zeneca is paul british and part swedish oh and that has been some concern raised from. that the delay may well have cost thousands of lives and an acceptance perhaps by some european officials that it may well be something of an uphill struggle to restore public confidence in this vaccine which is why the likes of junk us tax the french prime minister has opted to have the oxford astra zeneca job later on today and no guess is what the british prime minister boris johnson is having later on on friday as well indeed is it only this the german foreign the german health minister. has suggested that. even despite. the availability of these vaccines vaccines alone may not be enough to stop a 3rd wave of coronavirus which is why multiple countries are now moving to tighten restrictions or introduced new ones yet we talk about those types of restrictions as well need because various lock downs are restrictions going on across europe especially in fronts. yeah that's right from surrey is going to be introducing a new total lockdown in 16 different regions starting from midnight and that includes paris as well where the number of people in intensive care is actually higher now than it was during the 2nd wave in november as a result of coronavirus it michael micron is essentially being forced to rethink a strategy he faced an awful lot of criticism from health officials in january when the numbers started to go in the wrong direction for not doing enough to introduce restrictions when they felt they were when needed the prevalence of new variants of the virus growing in the country the u.k. variant now accounts for roughly 75 percent of cases which is why if you lock down into the french government needs to be introduced schools will remain open non-essential shops though will close a real hurdle for a french people who were hoping to get back to normal today thanks for the update leave part of the force in london pump when you can it isn't to close schools restrict movement and make masks mandatory it's part of what the government's calling aggressive interventions after infections hit record highs this week there are fears the nation's fragile health system is on the brink of collapse 70 percent of staff at the capital's main hospital isolating or off work while a 2nd hospital is closed while new zealand descending protective equipment to pump when you get in australia says it's working with its partners in the so-called quad group japan india and the u.s. to provide emergency vaccines prime minister scott morrison wants the european union to step up as well. it's not right. for the bates countries in europe to deny the supply of vaccines to developing countries who need it desperately like company get it we'll do our bit we'll pay the price as we are and and for the product so i won't be out of pocket but i will be helping a country that is in desperate need of receiving those vaccinations and we look forward also to going for the support from everyone partners to deliver on the commitment we recently. that canada is the chief executive of said john's ambulance him papa new guinea joins me now from port laws be good to have you with us mr coming on the program a worrying escalation in infections what seems to sort of brought this on considering the country initially escape you might say the ravages of cave at 19. you're absolutely right we were doing quite well for all of 2020 we had a spot in in will be a slushy a memory storage a crease in case. we were doing quite well in there i mean i've reported cases in make calls be engendering and we start seeing small increase 220 cases in court in february but we've seen skyrocketing number of cases in the last month in the last 7 days which same almost 30 percent of cases reported is any connection between the death of the recent death and a gatherings of people over that the prime minister there were a lot of people so you might say congregating could that be a possible. 00 point target point for where all this began. look that was only just last friday that but we had the funeral will the late ted grant chase the michael somare who is a 1st prime minister a puppy beginning and harold with the independent so puppy gaining weight i can send it in the next few weeks with such logic mass gatherings taking place that we could be seeing and even now we're seeing situation than what we have right now so tell me why there is real concern that front line workers seems to be affected so much despite the fact that p.p. is available. look right now what most me is you as you mentioned has only 2 public hospitals and one of those has had to close the other one which is the general hospital or the national rivera hospital up mckinney has around 10 percent of its we're also testing positive in march that that's been in the last few weeks and it is becoming a crisis point things i'm not meaning to foster mom. but what we are concerned about is just how flowing the emergency department in the whole hospital will be as they have had to create another ward that patients in addition to a lot may have they eventually departments are told is just really for patients and it is very difficult to isolate so they stations from other people right now where we're going in with the support 'd of the astronomy and government is is helping to establish a military grade tent hospital system in the cock of the port moresby general hospital much of that was set up plus not and we're also helping to establish a $120.00 mission $120.00 bed field hospital model cases the capability to scale that to 300 beds which are around 20 will be intensive care but we really at this point if the cases continue to rely on talking not on having a foreign medical assistance. and date of it and that's a 6 month because in syria we're seeing the u.s. for example said that it's available spare vaccines to mexico and canada an example of sort of helping your neighbors australia or new zealand now doing it the path put new get the how important is it not just the gesture but to get the message out that on an international level that it's not just about self-preservation it's about helping and they neighbors too because if you help them you helping yourself . absolutely strayer up and getting out of a very close relationship but when he was there with the territory mr allen became an independent country or at 19 that's 76 and that relationship between australia needs the closest neighbor to australia and that sort of support and sleep important and it's really appreciated it is genuine probably. that covered from st john's ambulance in port moresby thanks so much for joining us on al-jazeera thank you. well still ahead here on al-jazeera why asian americans in the united states are on edge. also revisiting the crimes of colombia's a civil war to have its full power military leaders appear together before a conversational truth commission and. if you are upset about this problem then you're part of the complaints about inequality between female and male basketball players because college tournament in the u.s. that's coming up with joe in sports do stay with us here on the news out. now this is disappointing still all the clouds coming down from the north the north is always cold temperatures are below where they should be for this time the if the most of europe to be honest we're in single figures really from central france all the way to the east along way south as well where it was nice and warm inspiring we got a best 11 in madrid only 13 gibraltar and 11 in london was accompanied by a cold wind now there is more sunshine around admittedly there are outbreaks of rain sleet or snow on their way through eastern parts of europe but the obvious active weather is this blue stuff the rain throughout the mediterranean particularly focusing and we're talking about saturday in italy the southern balkans northern greece and turkey but prague and czech republic shows how cold it is a lot he's breeze because snow on saturday it only gets up to about 5 by monday and the average is about 10 for this time of the year so that is the record light snow on its way through it's rather more persistent in the baltic states mid limits followed by the northerly wind no warming here and here's a disappointment over the balkans for example so the forecast for poor greta on today crow is an overcast one getting colder again the average is 60 and you have 8 . al-jazeera as investigative unit take she won 4 months on the cover of course will be if you had actually victims who had survived torture in detention and saying this was the cause of my arrest. revealing the illegal dealings of the surveillance industry get. all your data these are the nuclear weapons of the 21st century al-jazeera investigations. the latest news judge need to see there will be no closure 100 justice is served as the identities of those behind the list of bombings are revealed with detailed coverage there's something else in the gained about this plot it represents and visible dividing line between the wealthier and the poor from around the world the man who knelt on his neck in his friend the week in a minneapolis court room with a quarter selecting jurors to decide if he should be convicted of murder. what about the al-jazeera do you side with these the whole robin reminder of our top story the 1st us china talks under the bike but a stray she got off to a confrontational start americans have accused china of threatening the international order for beijing hers ward washington to stay out of its internal affairs tanzania has a new president so who has been sworn in as the country's 1st female leader taking office after the death of president john mica foully tens of millions are looking to see as her son will take stronger action to stop the spread of corona virus and several european countries are resuming oxford astra zeneca vaccinations after suspending the jobs because of safety concerns it comes after europe's drug watchdog said on thursday that the vaccine is safe. a rapid increase in corona virus infections is forcing chilling to put half of its population into indefinite blocked more than $6000.00 new cases a record in its latest daily report deaths have reached the highest level since june allots in america disillusioned human has more from santiago. this time they mean business that's the message chile's government aims to send by deploying thousands of soldiers on to the streets to help police enforce new lockdown to nationwide here in the capital resident under lockdown can only leave home with special permits and risks to find or even arrest if they don't have them. do receive a lot done a very harsh measures for the population. and every affected county by county we haven't taken this this is in light. in the last 24 hours infections and deaths from coded 9 team with the highest since last june leaving hospitals on the brink of collapse critics say that excessive relaxation of restrictions during the summer and insufficient of force and other restrictions that remain is to blame for the sanitary crisis now one out of every 3 chileans is under total lockdown and on the weekends 95 percent of the country will have to remain at home the government is also declaring full lock downs for an even larger portion of the country and. it's very sad what's happening many of those in hospital may never see their families again. usual with deaths climb to a new high every day members of the very indigenous tribe in amazonas state received their 2nd dose of the sin of act vaccine with a sigh of relief but all of the ability for the hearts for the village it was very important because it took away the thought the concern that people had that they were going to get sick and die. despite recent doubts about it safety a brazilian laboratory has just finished producing half a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca back seem to the domestic market they should help speed up what has been an extremely slow process of inoculation mexico's government is also receiving 2 and a half 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine from the united states i have back in chile the only exception to the rules for those under lockdown is for people who are going out to get a vaccination a new clinical study by julie's catholic university indicates that with 2 doses the sooner that vaccine provides immunity in 90 percent of cases but until vaccine herd immunity can be established. forcing people to remain home yet again is the only option you see in human al-jazeera sente out or brazilian media say the matter of rio de janeiro is ordering the closure of the city's beaches this weekend to curb the spread of covert 19 that follows a dramatic increase in infections and deaths across brazil pushing the health system into crisis on thursday the country suffered its worst day of the pandemic with more than 2700 deaths rio's met it is appealing to the federal government for the resumption of financial aid for struggling residents north korea has cut ties with malaysia so what it calls a hostile act and subservience to u.s. pressure that's a response to a court ruling extraditing a north korean citizen to the u.s. on money laundering charges john young says it's politically motivated and warns the united states will pay a price ties between north korea and malaysia have been strained since 2017 when kim jong un's half brother was killed a call on long pause pause for mcbride as a subject from seoul in south korea. north korea of course is suspected of using all sorts of illegal activities overseas in overseas countries to get access to funds or to goods that it's not meant to have as a way of getting around international sanctions it has reacted very angrily to this particular case branding this as an unpardonable crime by malaysia saying that all of these charges are completely trumped up that it is a pure fabrication it's going further though by saying that behind this is the united states that this is a part of some sort of u.s. inspired conspiracy saying that the u.s. itself will pay a price now of course u.s. north korean relations are very much in the news at the moment coming straight after a very high level u.s. mission to northeast asia as the new bided administration formulate its policy on how to deal with north korea as far as malaysia itself is concerned traditionally it has actually enjoyed relatively good relations with north korea one of few countries that has been fairly easy for north koreans to go to malaysia or do business that of course changed in relations with downgraded in 2017 with the notorious poisoning and killing of the north korean leaders half brother kim jong nam at kuala lumpur airport when he was made with a nerve agent apparently a plot inspired and carried out by north korean operatives relations improved somewhat since then but now with this latest round there is according to north korea a complete breakdown in diplomatic relations. dutch prime minister mark return or is a discussion straightforward coalition government after claiming an overwhelming victory in the general election has more from the hague. i this is how the farmer's party made its entrance to the dutch house of parliament it's one of 17 parties elected the largest number since 1980 this shows how the already fragmented political landscape has become even more divided in the campaign we said we will take the rural areas to the hague and like this is the symbol for the rural areas with the hard working farmers all 17 party leaders now have to negotiate to form a new government but with the governing center right party of prime minister marker to clearly winning not many expect the new coalition to be much different than the previous one but of course the main issue of a short table for the next 2 years is how to rebuild the country going forward after the was and this woman will have a much bigger say destroy him around former u.n. diplomats surprisingly manage to make a pro european party the 2nd largest in parliament when i get older and for novel is dealt what i have always believed in is now confirmed is that dutch people and not extremists but moderate people appreciate positivity they count on their own strength and always respect others all. while cac is named as a possible 1st female prime minister in the future analysts say it won't be easy to remove from office. pretty himself jokes about a possible 24th written cabinet out of a possible successor will have to chase him out of his office with force he won't leave easily and not a winner from the 1st election held during the pandemic is the far right anti immigration party forum for democracy at $18.00 seats in parliament so only campaigning. ganske over 1000 down it's. really a normal build. out of the nation was instantly 7 years part of the government because none of the leading causes one to government well that's what they said before the elections but it's a tradition in western countries that everything that established parties promised before the elections is discarded after the elections 4 years ago it took 225 days to form a new government but in the middle of a global pandemic most agree that politicians should set aside their differences and form a new government as soon as possible steps and al-jazeera the hake. u.s. president joe biden is expected to meet asian american community leaders in the state of georgia on friday after a shooting spree killed 8 people 6 of them were of asian descent sticking to the boat as a racially motivated rebels reports of los angeles. the american flags at the white house were lowered in mourning for the 8 women killed in georgia on tuesday 6 of whom were of asian heritage around the country asian american communities are reacting with shock and anger to the rising number of hate incidents i feel scared at all times that you know. sometimes i have to walk on the street at night and. yeah it's scaring me i hate the fact that now my wife my daughter my mom my knees they all have to sort of watch their back just because of the way they asian american studies professor key park says race and gender stereotypes they have d. human eyes the victims in the killers mind they are seen as a passive. or hyper sexualized fill up insect defied or exactly saudis or you chip or 'd even the. some are fighting. back in san francisco an elderly chinese speaking woman was punched in the things then beat her alleged assailant into submission with a piece of wood sending him to the hospital. at a congressional hearing lawmakers of asian descent spoke out this hearing was do address over and made of our community center find solutions and we were not like you take our boys away from us barely 3800. in just a year old mom it was step by the works of former president donald trump and stop to shift blame and anger over right programs all want response to the coronavirus he used racial slurs on barbarous georgia law enforcement officials say they're still investigating the suspects motives but indicated he was acting out of sexual guilt feelings rather than racism and yes there was a really bad day for him and this is what he did many asian americans reject that explanation that upsets us and our community is the fact that sheriff's department who basically sort of. was on the side of the perpetrator and the criminal that actually killed 8 people 6 of them being asian woman 2 dismissed that as a sort of like he was having a bad day president joe biden will travel to atlanta on friday to pay his respects and meet with community leaders and elected officials robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. health officials in guinea facing a challenge in tackling a recent break many in remote communities are refusing to get vaccinated because they don't trust the health care system often rely on traditional healers nicholas small. traditional healer to really move this cocktail of natural remedies using plant soil and the mysterious liquid is more efficient than a vaccine made in the lab he says it can fight off even the most contagious and fatal of viruses a bola. truth is real vaccines people have dogs saying it might even hurt them and attract more sickness honestly i'm already backs and aided by traditional medicine after a nurse died of a bull in february the un delivered 36000 a bowl of vaccines to contain an outbreak in guinea's forest region but only $3000.00 doses have been administered so far among those refusing to be vaccinated is shop owner. who says she's more afraid of the vaccine then a bola. i am not going to take the vaccine and while i don't know what's in it why should i trust health workers in 2015 more than 11000 people died and 20000 were infected after the virus spread from guinea's forest region to neighboring sierra leone at the time health workers wearing protective suits were attacked kidnapped or even killed out of fear hospitals were seen as a place where people came to die not to heal getting ministry of health says it's now better prepared but overwhelmed we have a covert 19 epidemic now on top of an outbreak of legals and yellow fever and we need help from our partners to contain the outbreak it's in this. institute in neighboring senegal that scientists detected the virus from blood samples of relatives of the nurse that died from a bullet then put it inside this machine. and multiplied it and thanks to this genetic sequencing scientists made an extraordinary discovery 5 years after the last outbreak the same a bull a strain has reappeared the virus has not jumped from animals to humans as previously thought by scientists but survivors of the virus are carrying a ball of some are or knowingly spreading it into nebraska the wells. we need to keep a close watch on the border survivors with thoughts that because they carry the virus in the body fluids they are to keep population to contain the outbreak the good news here is that we have a vaccine that works. the challenge is not the lack of medicine but the lack of trust in health services and communities where medical providers are too often absent this has now become the main hurdle in bringing and then to the break in getting the gliss hawk al-jazeera. well still ahead here although it is there are one golfer goes to extra lengths to stay dry at a toll but in florida that's coming up with cho in sports. book about 2 former colombian paramilitary leaders appeared for a truth commission it's all part of an effort to bring evidence and accountability to crimes committed during decades of civil war. as more from bachata. for the 1st time 2 of the most feared warlords in colombia civil conflict faced each other in the country's truth commission albeit virtually. on one side the road to go on though not better known bass ilya stephen chain co who led the revolutionary armed forces of colombia were fired in a war against the colombian states they left 260000 people dead until the signing of a peace deal in 2016 and the other salvatore among cruiser who led the right wing death squads then murdered thousands of union members farmers and fark sympathizers he is currently being held in a united states prison and drug trafficking charges. are ordinary go on don't you and i don't mortal enemies in the past is what we are now civilians and we're going to talk without a need to kill each other in a civilized manner to respond to the conclave that prostitutes and barbarity said we commit to. the 2 are promising to confess their crimes in a symbolic and potentially revel the tory series of meetings in asia when you've got we arrived here with the sincere desire to contribute to the truth in a spirit of reconciliation we're not looking for justification or to celebrate the horrors of war. colombia's 2016 peace deal put the victims of the conflict at the center of a process that promised truth reparations and a guarantee of no repetition but a space many her criticism in particular from political military and intrapreneur ial sectors that are trying to avoid facing responsibilities yet the process is moving forward in january a special tribunal set up following the peace deal charged in 7 fellow former foreign leaders with human rights abuses including kidnapping it also revealed that more than 6000 people were murdered by the army and falsely presented as combat kills to executives the rebels numbered 3 times higher than previously the revelations have emboldened victims groups. who ordered the killing the jesuit priests who runs the commission says their role is to reveal the truth and protect the victims. but we cannot let this be a platform for the culprits to glorify themselves as actors of war but to shed light on the all the actors have put the victims. their testimony coming as the country continues to take tentative steps to discover and hopefully overcome the painful reality of its past allison them. failed thank you very much the head of well that plastic sebastian coe is urging organize the tokyo olympics not to rush the decision on whether to allow overseas fans a final decision is expected on saturday with several reports saying has already been a great that foreign supporters will not be allowed to attend the games but co doesn't think is a call the need to be made right now. i hope it's not made too early because i see no reason why decisions need to be force fed when the world is changing vaccines of being rolled out. and i think that's a decision that doesn't necessarily need to be made at this moment. yes the answer is a simple one is it better to have people in the stadium when you have lives or yeah it is cohen well the athletic sounds that up to 10 russian track and field athletes will be allowed to compete in tokyo under a neutral flag russia has been banned since 2015 because of states both sponsor don't ping and the neutral athletes king was halted last year but it's been reinstated for now provided russia continued to follow their plan for reform. one of the stars heading to tokyo as meghan rypien over the usa women's football team co-captain will look to reclaim the gold medal her team lost in rio rypien or has become a social justice campaign on everything from the pandemic to politics when asked about next year's winter olympics in beijing rypien 0 is against a boycott of the games and says athletes should protest instead to challenge china on human rights. you know it's always a balance of you know boycotting uses versus using the event as an opportunity to continue our protest and some sort of way obviously we have human rights abuses happening all over the world i don't think it's just a fact to china it's always that that sort of. balance of using the platform and can use a platform can't continue to push you know not only countries but organizing bodies and governing bodies to continue to be you know much more progressive when rypien also campaigns for equality to male and female athletes so she should have an opinion about the next story u.s. college basketball teams are competing in a bubble in texas right now but organizes the i have been forced him prefer cities for the women's teams up to several complaints one player from the university of oregon summed up the issue in this social media post i got some to show you so for the n.c. double a march madness the biggest tournaments in college basketball for women this is our weight room let me show you all the men's weight room. now with pictures of our weight room got released versus the men's came out with a statement saying that it wasn't money it was space that was a problem let me show you something else here's our practice score right and then here's that weight room and then here's all this extra space if you are upset about this problem and you're part of it. well these photos were also posted by the stanford team's sports performance coach the quality of food in goodie bags has also been criticised the n.c. double a says it is actively working to enhance existing resources the quarter final draws for the champions league and europa league take place in switzerland shortly the united secured their place in the last 8 of the europa league thanks to paul pogba he scored the winner in their 2nd leg against ac milan in italy sending them through 21 on aggregate tottenham threw away a 2 goal lead from the 1st leg against dinamo zagreb a hat trick from. sent the croatian side into the quarter finals earlier this week zagreb coach resigned after being given a prison sentence for fraud spurs boss chose imran year was unimpressed with his play is we have professional you you must have to do it every day and every minute of every game then more talent less talent. makes a difference between players but what is never negotiable is that it's. attitudes and the beatles on. the beatles on that's it. to cricket now on the t 20 series or team india and england is going to come down to a winner takes all final match india won the 4th game by 8 runs in a read about to square it up 2 wins each and then falling 8 runs short as they chase 186 to wrap up the series this week some final matches on saturday at the same venue. to the n.b.a. and james harden has racked up yet another triple double he let the brooklyn nets a victory over the indiana pacers ending the night with 40 points 15 assists and 10 rebounds that is hardens an 11th triple double of the season one short of the franchise record despite playing only $27.00 game to them since joining in january . le bron james in the los angeles lakers are going strong piece called 1st 7 points lead them to a 4th straight victory this time of the charlotte hornets it puts the defending champions back up to 2nd place in the western conference behind the utah jazz. australian go for jones leads golf's 100 classic in florida after tying the course record on thursday jones shot a bogey free 9 under par $61.00 of p.g.a. national in the opening round of the tournament gives him a 3 shot lead over russell henley an hour and winds. the course also has plenty of water resulting in somewhat encounters for players sebastian kaplan decided his ball could be played but 1st he had to remove one shoe and his shirt to make sure it stayed clean and dry the bare chested dane chips out but missed the part this is probably the last we'll save them to as he sits in a tie $417.00 all right that is all useful for now i have wolfie latest thanks very much and that is the news i follies up next with another full half hour from joe and me thank you time and your company. from the al-jazeera london broke. to people in thoughtful conversation generally whenever you talk about race of races people. with no host and no limitations our society has structural racism built into any season of studio b. unscripted blindspots convenient blind spots you know some aspects of our history and racism and different types of prejudice coming soon on al-jazeera. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a 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