a few years of blood costs also this hour south korea says its batting arms exports to myanmar as a jew day is accused of torturing and persecuted and tied to protesters and shit break is working in unsafe conditions in bangladesh when the right to sue british owners in london for deaths or injuries. i'm going to get your score with the sports african football has a new man in charge just south african billionaire patrice months epic takes over the presidency of its governing body can. gunmen in northwest nigeria have raided a school and taken a number of students hostage the armed who targeted a forestry college of iran 300 students late on thursday officials say 180 students were rescued in the early hours on friday but 30 students remain unaccounted for this comes just days after nearly $300.00 girls were abducted and then released in a neighboring stay. wait kidnapping is a tactic commonly used by armed groups and criminal gangs in nigeria amnesty international says it's been escalating since january 2 mass abductions of school children took place within 10 days in february of vishal say they are carried out by a band is loosely formed on gangs that rob and kidnap for money i geria denies paying ransoms but many believe regional instability in north western states has allowed kidnapping to become a lucrative source of income some believe book or rams well publicized kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls in the town of chibok in 2014 prompted more armed groups to turn to mass abductions of children let's speak to fidel is in a butcher for some on this story quite significant this time fidel is set older students were targeted in this kidnapping what more you hearing about the circumstances. well those states and he couldn't a state government has come up with a statement saying yes thank you mentioned in 180 of them have been rescued and fenty students are still on accounted for and witnesses had a n.-d. day said that most of the those taking we have female students and this is the 1st time that a high is titian of lending is being targeted by the packets in mass abduction previous abductions have been in secondary school where you where the 2 with them so young and then at some point something they were rescued eventually will governments and the ransom. money changed hands before they were released but in this case no group has claimed responsibility for the kidnap and state governments efforts or be made to trace the whereabouts of the more 30. bandits to go along with them and expand schooling really awesome right not a week goes by now fidelis without a case of kidnapping of school children in nigeria what is showing this tell us more about the reasons and what the government doing to stop it. this is a trend that is really disturbing trend for many nigerians because the case of insecurity nigeria prompted calls for a change in the christian. program off the military at the picture which resulted in the president changing the said his chiefs in january so with the appointment of a new scent his chips for the military formations made us had expected that the issue of kidnapping be a thing of the past or will be at least contained to a minimum level but right now since december kidnappings have been happening almost on the lead basis apart from school up the options who have been taking a major highways commercial buses from the homes and the misfits sometimes some of them play around some and some of them being killed. the government has said that if what's a been made to contain the security of the country which is actually escalating because right now we have the military in about 130 of these 20 of the 36 states of the country now containing one security problem but the issue of banditry specially kidnapping for ransom is more prevalent in the muck western region of the country which is actually one of the most populated regions of the country today ali thank you very much for that fidelis live for us an average. italy is flying to impose another nationwide lockdown over easter weekend in april the government is trying to contain a new surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations italians will be ordered to stay home from april 3rd to april 5th except for emergency reasons our work other restrictions will start coming into pace as soon as monday restaurants and bars will close in no risk yellow areas and movement between towns will be severely limited now the world health organization says there is no reason to stop using the coronavirus vaccine manufactured by astra zeneca thailand is a latest country to delay its rollout on thursday denmark norway and iceland suspended use of the vaccine after several reported cases of blood clotting including one death victory gave him the reports. thailand's prime minister and members of the cabinet was supposed to receive the astra zeneca vaccine on friday but instead health officials announced a delay to the vaccine rollout after a number of reports of blood clotting in europe then. there was one patient in denmark who died in the other patients with blood clots denmark's government announced a suspension because they were not sure this is not to say it's related to the vaccine but when such cases occur for safety we have to postpone the destruction of the injections to allow for the investigation to take place. on thursday the danish health ministry said it hadn't established any link between the clothes and the vaccine but would stop using the astra zeneca job for 2 weeks so it could investigate austria said it wouldn't use shots from one batch of the vaccine after a woman died soon after being inoculated dystonia luxembourg and latvia also stoke jabs from the same batch and italy withdrew another batch of the vaccine after 2 men died in sicily although no link has been established between the vaccine and their deaths in terms of the different situation. there. to their education. of risk and so. on but at this stage there is no real evidence to suggest that the astra zeneca that it is the cause of any might decide that but but nowhere does it make me doubt it. several countries have said they'll continue using the astra zeneca vaccine france and canada say the benefits outweigh the risks and they see no reason to suspend injections mexico has expressed confidence and australia says it's monitoring reports of side effects but it's see no evidence to suggest the astra zeneca vaccine causes blood clots i would say that the ones that have been developed in. private the madonna back then occurred jan jay back. to turning his back they'd have a track record not being safe and i would go that's not a chinese that clean take it i want to go back to work and i want. the us remains the epicenter of cave in 19 with more than 29000000 cases and the world's largest vaccination program for former presidents have americans to get vaccinated as soon as possible this vaccine means for. protect you and those you love from this dangerous deadly disease many other countries is struggling with the virus italy is braced for a 3rd wave and brazil's health care system is close to collapse public health experts are warning the longer people wait to take the vaccines the more likely it is move ariens will emerge victorious al-jazeera. histone year has ended a month long lockdown after aids for capita coronavirus infection rate became the 2nd time in the world the country of 1300000 people has recorded nearly 80000 cases incest out of the pandemic and new measures include the closure of schools nonessential stores and restaurants the fight against corona virus is far from over that's the warning to americans from president joe biden in his 1st primetime address since becoming u.s. leader his age people to get vaccinated to keep social distancing and to continue wearing masks alan fischer reports from washington from the east room in the white house joe biden's 1st national presidential address good t.v. my fellow americans when you don't from the global pandemic being declared the president took time to consider the human cost the growing number of deaths the families torn apart the lives left to be rebuilt we all lost something a collective suffering a collective sacrifice a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. but in the last we saw how much there was to gain an appreciation respect and gratitude biden was somber but also hard to provide hope coming he believes in the form of the american rescue plan the massive 1.9 trillion dollars act he signed into law just hours before the plan to give hope to people struggling to kick start an economy to expand a vaccination program so desperately needed i'm announcing that i would direct all states tribes and territories to make all adults people 18 and over eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1 we do this together by july the 4th there's a good chance you your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate independence day there is overwhelming support across the country for the relief plan even among republican voters but republican politicians think it's not targeted and it's too expensive this isn't a relief bill it's pretty much a payoff for palosi is political allies and it will be the american people paying the bill we can't let our guard down by going appealed for unity for americans to work together we don't want to go back he said and the arch people to wear masks as the man who became the face of the u.s. covert response has lamented how much politics got in the way of doing the right thing we had such divisiveness in our country that even simple common sense public health measures took on a political connotation look forward to seeing the president will feel up to force one and start tuning parts of the country to tell the benefits of his 1st major legislative success it is essentially a victory lap and he hopes the country will start looking more normal by july the 4th more like the america everyone know it's and hasn't seen for a year alan fischer al-jazeera. washington. health officials in brazil are warning hospitals in major cities a nearly for the number of people dying from go over 1000 every day exceeded 2000 for the 2nd day running on thursday intensive care units in more than half of state capitals are reported to be at least 90 percent of their capacity brazil's most populous states has announced suffer a strict meanwhile they include a 2 week overnight curfew and a suspension of religious gatherings and sporting events a nationwide search in cases is being partly blamed on a highly contagious variant of call that 19 1st detected in the amazon city of man hours in indonesia the island of bali one of asia's most popular tourist destination while the pandemic there has forced dozens of hotels of close leaving thousands of people unemployed and with no indication of when tourists might return some say bali needs to diversify its economy jessica washington reports. this is bali's kuta beach once packed with foreign tourists now almost completely empty. nearby many restaurants and stores are closed. hotel owner debbie yet though says she had no choice but to temporarily shut her resort and lay off staff yeah it's a set form there's nothing i can do except it to survive and know that. most of the visitors are gone and the people who call bali home have had to have done it's . called months when he could have been a tour guide for 17 years he's now working in construction. but he tried to survive with what little we have you sold dog and some of our belongings to. he's registered to get vaccinated and is anticipating the return of foreign travelers to bali. but he says authorities should learn from the pandemic. economy when i was in a financial sense it is really bad and painful but this is a lesson for me to be stronger mentally it's also listen forward in the future you shouldn't rely only on one thing what. the indonesian tourism ministry hopes bali can welcome back tourists soon but doesn't know exactly when we're very optimistic . we. short a period of time we would be able to are you open the borders. be a good buy go of tourism going to. around 80 percent of the population in bali work in tourism and many turned to agriculture when they lost their jobs the indonesian government is trying to encourage domestic terrorism and says it is discussing the possibility of trouble corridos with other countries but it will be months before the border can safely reopen and community groups say reverting back to mouth tourism will make the population vulnerable in the future. environmental groups advocate for a more balanced economy with more opportunities in farming fishing and other industries as well as tourism. the intonation form for the environment says mass tourism in bali has resulted in polluted beaches uncontrolled development and water scarcity because of hotel consumption. health experts say bali is still a long way from being ready to reopen its borders before the 6000000 by the well know. many people in bali and now not just hoping for a return to the way things were but have their sights on an even better future jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. still ahead on the news hour south africa's king the most influential traditional good will is when he dies at the age of $72.00 machines of war innocent children the colombian government is under fire after several miners are killed during a military operation and british cycling finds itself at the center of a doping scandal after one of its former top doctors are guilty of ordering testosterone joe half the story in sports. now for the 1st time the leaders of the u.s. japan australia and india a group known as the quad will hold talks later on 5 day and. timing is significant china is in a trade war with the u.s. it's engaged in a diplomatic war with australia there's been also tensions with india over the last order and in the south china sea their ongoing disputes with several states the quad was formed after the 2004 indian ocean is quake and tsunami that concerns some australia and india over how much to push shina without impacting ties meant it fell apart but in november all 4 nations held military drills china has accused the quad of undermining its legitimate rise as an asian powerhouse australia's prime minister scott morrison says the group benefits all countries in the region this is about and i think if the peace and stability in the indite perceive it can happen if it's a license to be in that city it benefits all the sovereign nations and particular asean partners that with a close friend of theirs for so long this is about ensuring that we can try to move what worries me it's about ensuring that we can do that peacefully that there is freedom of movement within the season and and the other flight of the area to ensure there is the facilitation of tried and movement across our great region and for those for nigel's liberal democracies standing up for a values coming together and suring that we are in a queue for peace and stability in that city as for now it has correspondents not for the view from washington kimberly hockett thank you for being on the news hour kimberly these 4 countries have already been cooperating as we've said on and off for a number of years now what is washington and the biden administration hoping this summit will achieve. well it really comes down to 2 major themes and they both start to see kobe and china. obviously there is still a growing concern about what we're seeing is the disparity when it comes to wealthy nations of poor nations and the veil ability of vaccines and wealthy nations not so much for everyone else and so the united states under increasing pressure to not hold onto a surplus once all americans are vaccinated but instead to make sure that the global nations are also vaccinated so what we expect is coming out of this meeting there may be some sort of announcement potentially on some sort of global vaccine effort even ramping up production in india goals being set of possibly a 1000000000 vaccines by 2022 so we're watching carefully to see if that develops and on the issue of china as you mentioned the timing so significant because of course this meeting coming just in advance of the national security advisor as well as the secretary of state heading to alaska next week where there will be a meeting with their chinese counterparts the united states has identified china as the most important geo political threat and the concern being that china is in fact going to continue to ramp up what the united states sees as assertiveness can be some of these countries already have strategic and economic ties with china so how is the biden administration planning on competing with that. well this is what is being discussed right now and so as a result what we know is that really there are a couple of areas that are being zeroed in on and it comes down to military and economy what the united states believes is that china has increasingly been influencing not just the united states through cyber threats through cyber crimes but also has been threatening the region ever more alarmingly is specially the south asian region pacific given the fact that there has been an increase in military might be displayed so these are the things that are being discussed as again the united states has identified this as a top threat not just to the united states but really to the international community in the global system you have to remember that donald trump what he put in his very aggressive china policies that there was bipartisan support for the end state but not the means of achieving it so this is an example of the biden administration taking a different approach to meet what they see is increasing chinese might kimberly thank you very much for that company how cute is our white house correspondent not only i spoke to happy was an associate professor at the center for international politics organization and disarmament. university he says the quad countries are eager to develop the group. i think that has been their feeling separately. for some time now about that the it's all my time strategy and before and so if we don't want to pick on the walk that has been some concern of the recent boss to other than you have to this if you have a station wait for all the policy followed by trump beside the china water i mean because i think i think the fact that you have. that there are some really important statements coming from washington d.c. all quiet and on the positive even gentle short of it is etc all the enthusiasm in washington that is equal or more involved if it was just that we do believe in the wake of course or even if we stop if you get china in the summer of last year and the chinese assertion the gentry think that he did so i think all of the all of the 4 authors in this overall group big realize the importance for for standing up to china in some way or one way or the other although none of the statements i say. you know or should be given out by these governments have mention of china it is it is portrayed as an inclusive sort of outage meant and i think the suffix is basically it is china but it won't die and china has consistently argued that you know you have to have a binding. economic relationship educator measures or by the summit meeting makes integrated it abundantly clear that you can deal with china economically yet even technology perhaps at the same time you need to look after your own security and strategic interests in the us if we didn't for that you need to have other friendships. russia says it's in favor of afghanistan forming an interim government that includes members of the taliban is said to host a conference on afghanistan next week and says it will not