a case as seen as politically motivated retaliation. i'm jasmine ash with the sporting creating an exciting match up in the champions league title how does a bind me to join together paris fashion line the cortez and her pain of last season's final. the 2nd and final day of u.s. china talks are underway in anchorage alaska the 1st session that after a fiery start on thursday sitting across the table from each other in the u.s. state of alaska the 2 sides traded barbs in a pointed display of how tense relations remain diplomatic editor james bays reports from on courage. 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 black listing 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 police are 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 there were reengage 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. well james bays is joining us from anchorage in alaska there was tough talk at the start james but is there any indication of whether or not that's had had any impact on the talking that's been going on behind closed doors. it depends who you listen to the talks are back under way here in anchorage just under an hour ago we saw the chinese delegation walk down this corridor back into the room which was the same room where you saw those exchanges taking place 24 hours ago and were greeted by the national security adviser and secretary of state of the united states now the u.s. officials are saying that behind closed doors these talks have been more constructive i have to tell you that from the chinese side of briefing in beijing by the chinese foreign ministry they say the chinese delegation when they arrived their hearts would chilled by the gut by king cold and the reception of their american hosts so certainly in beijing they still of putting the narrative out there that they were offended by the way that they were treated here clearly we don't know what's going on behind closed doors there are so many important issues when you get the 2 most powerful countries on earth in the same room at the same time and whatever their relationship and they're trying to work out the controls of the relationship they have to have a relationship these are 2 permanent members of the u.n. security council they have the ability to vote themselves in so many issues climate change for example a global issue but important regional issues as well the u.s. looking for peace talks in afghanistan china is the neighbor that the u.s. and much of the rest of the world so deeply concerned about the. china is a neighbor and the regional power there so these talks are very very important and i think we're only going to find out by the end how they are of god and even then we're going to get. a chinese response and the u.s. response no joint statement will have to work out i think from the 2 sides in the way they brief their respective reporters how things have gone james thanks very much indeed obviously the talks are ongoing we're going to be checking in with you as they progress but for now james bays in anchorage thank you for speaking to reporters outside the white house president biden says he's proud of his secretary of state he was also asked about relations with russia very very. often after. 3 or 4 different things. that. are not your words. your brother. michael o'hanlon is a senior fellow at the brookings institution he's joining us live by skype from bethesda in maryland it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera let's talk about the the atmosphere at these talks in alaska 1st of all the listening the tone of the comments that began them how much do you think this is about both sides essentially just setting out their stalls publicly. well it's a good question and i think we should bear in mind that even when u.s. china relations were much better let's say in the 19 eighties nineties to thousands there was usually some kind of rough start whether it was tiananmen square whether it was the e.p. 3 episode under george w. bush bill clinton's comments about so-called butchers of beijing in response to tiananmen a few years later so it's not unusual for there to be some rather you know rough sledding but i think everybody was hoping that with president trunk gone and president biden in the white house things would feel smoother if nothing else and here i think the timing of recent developments probably just put people in a bad mood it's hard to think that sometimes human emotion actually can be responsible for some of the atmosphere or x. or the results of a summit but in this case i believe that may have been exactly what happened the chinese do seem to have been somewhat taken off guard and maybe even a little personally insulted that sanctions were applied just before the summit began i think they may be expected that there would be elements of top american policy but perhaps with a more collegial kind of overall approach a more you know a more businesslike kind of timing now that secretary blinken is a very mild mannered and and yet forceful individual but he's very controlled and disciplined however the timing of the sanctions announcements and other recent u.s. pushback against china may have just created a little bit of a tense mood again i don't take it too seriously because sometimes we see this as almost necessary in the 1st few months of a new american president and that was true even when relations were easier but it still is a little striking i didn't really expect the tone to be quite as acrimonious critics of the biden administration had previously said that they were concerned the administration was going to be softer on russia and softer on china than the trunk administration had to being do you think that this might be an attempt by the biden administration to demonstrate that that is not the case. yeah i think that's part of it with china i'm not sure i agree with your point about russia i think that of course trump is the one who is seen as being too friendly to vladimir putin and president biden has just used some very tough language in depicting the character of a lot of your putin and the nature of his regime but in regard to china i do think that there was perhaps you know and tony blinken made this clear in his confirmation hearings i desire to be emphatic that this is ministration also will be reasonably firm and that there's no going back to the china policy that we had under obama or for that matter either bush or clinton that we're in a new era and it's going to require some tougher medicine and i think the the framing that we are partly competitors partly rivals or even adversarial in some ways and then partly you need a cooperation so that framing we've heard a lot from the biden team and i think they're trying to show the world that they mean it and that there will be issues where we're competitive and of the issues where we're even tougher than just being competitive where we're closer to being adversarial so yes i think you're right to interpret the symbolism and the initial message of the comment in those terms it's interesting though isn't it because the dynamic between china and the u.s. now i was very different in many ways to it certainly economically compared to the way that the circumstances in which meetings have been held in the pasta china regards in self as not stronger with far greater influence in the world do you think therefore that the emphasis is actually all the pressure is actually on the biden ministration on the u.s. to be more accommodating rather than china. no i don't see it that way i think both sides have so much at stake that either one would be foolish to put the primary responsibility on the other shoulders and it is interesting that president biden even though he doesn't really like all of the terrorists that president trump lied to economic interaction with china that he has not taken those off just yet that i think some of the economic restrictions will remain the limits on chinese acquisitions of american high tech companies for example put on even on tariffs where i don't expect the terrorists remain biden has felt no particular need to try to immediately say to china that we're here to be friendly he is he is concerned about china and even on something where he believes trump was mistaken he's going to take a little time to figure out how to remove that your it's so whether united states should feel responsible to make the 1st move i don't think that the biden team does feel that way and i don't think they should feel that way it's really good to get your thoughts on this michael o'hanlon we appreciate it thank you very much indeed thank you kindly tony more ahead on the news hour including tanzania swears in its 1st female president some years so new haasan takes power off of the death of john did not go fully. challenging times for to late the military his helping enforce alongside off a resurgent covert 19 cases. if you are upset about this problem then you're part of it complaints about any quality between female and male basco ball players and the biggest college tournament in the u.s. that's coming up in the sports. finland has suspended use of the astra zeneca vaccine as it investigates 2 cases of blood clots the decision comes as other european countries resume using that vaccine on thursday europe's drugs watchdog confirm the job is safe and there's no evidence linking it to an increased risk of blood clots if parker reports. out of storage and into people's arms the french prime minister was amongst those receiving the oxford astra zeneca vaccine on friday in an effort to restore national confidence in its use although the french helpful thought only recommending it for people aged 55 and over. from the beginning i always thought that the vaccine was safe so maybe the people are in a panic but there are always side effects and germany and italy have also restarted their rollout of the oxford vaccine the netherlands in portugal will follow next week so too will spain although certain groups will be excluded so eden and denmark said they needed a few more days to decide but germany's health minister will move back seems alone won't be enough to prevent a 3rd wave of the virus many e.u. countries are extending restrictions introducing new ones. germany says it's currently in talks with russia to secure supplies of its sputnik vaccine pending its approval by the e.u. starting fights. rising case numbers may mean that we cannot take care of our opening steps in the weeks to come on the country we may even have to take steps backwards in from 16 regions along with paris to going into a month long lock down from this evening schools will remain open but non-essential shops will close and travel will be restricted in the french capital more people are in intensive care now than joining the 2nd wave in november new covert variants of force president to manual mccrum to change his strategy to virulent strain 1st found in the u.k. now accounts for 75 percent of french cases more than $25000000.00 britons have had at least one dose of a vaccine so far in hospitals doctors surgeries and special vaccine hubs like this one the government says it's on target to give every adult in the country at least one dose by the end of july last despite a 4000000 doses short for from a factory in india it is an enviable progress and the european union knows it with the oxford astra zeneca job now reapproved the e.u. must move quickly to make up for lost time the falcao jazeera london scientists behind the pfizer buying tag vaccine have been awarded germany's highest civilian honor a married couple do not talk to or islam to it she and a doctor or something worked for decades on immunotherapy for cancer patients recovered 19 was identified they quickly realized their research could be used in the fight against the virus al-jazeera spoke to dr psion c.e.o. of biotech. it was a great risk from the village beginning so we knew that we have the technology and we have to come to tends to develop a vaccine but we knew only a little about the stylus and we even did not know. where the vaccine the at all we didn't know that i.v. verby in time developing vaccine but be felt that that if if someone is able to make a vaccine then then it could be us and it was very clear that we don't have time time to spend because the shot a spec seen development before in the history of medicine was about 5. development time and when you would that 5 years were not we need a vaccine in one year it is an honor for our team it is an honor for for science for the scientific community we should not forget that our is based on the work of other scientists so if i if i put everything to get out what was important to achieve that then then i would say at least 5000 different scientists amount of earth had contributed that by doing science in the past by solving problems by developing technologies and we benefited that and deford this is a victory of science and it shows that in such a dramatic situation where men can't really need solutions that science can bring the solutions. papa new guinea is going to close schools will restrict movement on make mosques mandatory as part about the government's calling aggressive interventions after coronavirus infections hit record highs this week alexey o'brien reports. a new temporary hospital ward for papa new guinea's capital port. the city seen a spike in corona virus cases in recent weeks even some health workers warning of what they call a covert tornado heading towards the country's fragile medical facilities there are only 2 public hospitals in the capital one is shut down the other is said to have 70 percent of its staff work or isolating that hospital's chief executive told local media he thought they were prepared until the most recent surge what we are concerned about is just how. the emergency department in the hospital. had to crazy or not ward private patients in addition. to that apartment so we're told it's just for private patients and it's very difficult so that its actions. the island nation managed to miss the worst of the pandemic last year but hundreds of new cases have been reported in recent weeks it's forced the government to take action announcing that for next week schools will close mask wearing will be enforced and demand scatterings will be banned. gatherings like this one just last friday a state funeral for former prime minister michael somare a man often called the father of papa new guinea. somehow think spirits say they watched these scenes in horror describing it as a super spreader event with potential for disaster the escalating outbreak seem kompany guinea's neighbors chippin new zealand says it will send more protective equipment to the frontline health workers while australia is pledging 8000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine and calling for 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 pumping you get it we'll do our bit by the frightened 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 a desperate need of receiving those bags but with only $55000.00 tastes conducted out of a population of almost $9000000.00 it's the what the true rates of infection a much higher those on the ground say a rapid response is needed before the outbreak gets out of control and exam brian al-jazeera. brazilian president jacques both or not it was asking the supreme court to reverse coronavirus restrictions imposed by state governors this is despite continues soaring infection rates in the country around 90000 a day with 3000 daily deaths well let's get more on this from monica you now care for in rio de janeiro that the president's opposition to restrictions and call that 19 is well known but why is it decided to take this step not monica. well because and now exactly there are more and more states more and more cities that are taking measures on their own to close down parts of the city's cards of the states rio de janeiro for example which has been pretty open until now and not in such a bad situation as some follow or in southern states of brazil has just decided that it's going to yet again close the beaches now closing the beach which you're seeing here behind me is not just not letting people sunbathers swam which are open their activities but it does if it keeps people from taking buses on the weekends crowded buses from other parts of the city that don't that are not right next to the beach and they come here and it's been very hot 31 degree centigrade right now and so that's just up to go operations because the infections are rising and there's another problem that's happening in many intensive care units besides the fact that there's there are few beds is that they're lacking sedative agents and for into beijing very thoughtful some of them say that they will always last another 20 days now on the other hand the government has signed contracts to buy the pfizer vaccine and the jensen vaccines so they're hoping that the vaccine rollout would be moving faster. money is there any indication that the states may well try to push by can prevent the president from taking this action given that from what you're saying the seems to have been a positive response but the action that the states are taking. yes there is and good spirits not so much in among the people but not people are not always very happy and yeah real we've just talked to many people who say well we can't live we have to work many people work off the beach for example but really we're talking about the future other states of the base closed down other parts of the economy but also not a speaks to the people and says the governors want to kill you because they're going to make you starve to death you must remember that result in emergency aid program until january so now at this moment nobody's getting anybody for anything so if you don't work the basics are you can't feed yourself also inflation has by so staple food prices have gone up and that means that donations have gone down so it's like a perfect storm and you hear people from both sides people saying you know it's already been in there now they're closing everything down again and there's nothing to to help us in this way but the government is also talking about another aid package for another 4. monica thank you very much indeed monica you not have talking to us from religion at all. robert increase in corona virus infections is forcing chile to put half of its population into an indefinite lockdown america editor lucien human reports 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 lock downs nationwide here in the capital residents 100 lock down can only leave home with special permits and risks to find or even arrest if they don't have them. do deceive us not 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 coated 19 with the highest since last june leaving hospitals on the brink of collapse critics say that excessive relaxation of restrictions during the summer and insufficent of force and of the restrictions that remain is to blame for this 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. it's very sad what's happening many of those in hospital may never see their families again. in brazil where deaths climb to a new high every day members of the very indigenous tribe in amazonas state received their 2nd dose of the cinema back vaccine with a sigh of relief it'll be a political book 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 vaccine for the domestic more. get 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 left 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 chile's catholic university indicates that with 2 doses the center of 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. still ahead on al-jazeera security forces an anti protesters face off across may in march. a u.s. judge refuses delay and change of location bequests in the trial of a police officer accused of killing george floyd and on the way in sports action from the chapman gold cup one of the horse racing's most prestigious events. but. it was hot hot hot in the gulf states on thursday so much so we broke a record in qatar 41.5 degrees 40 was the old record it was very windy and dusty that did all on friday $33.00 degrees and stay that way as the shamar comes in and in fact beyond that there's nothing extraordinary to look at it should be in the low to middle thirty's the most part and it is the sun should be out and it is and there are showers or outbreaks of rain still from the late wintry stuff catching northern to the higher ground of parts of run more especially afghanistan nothing will change dramatically in the next couple days except probably for the fall northern parts of turkey particularly actually istanbul which we have a pretty cold into the weekend with snow not far away but only rain in the city the still some active weather further south a long way south actually in south africa with this southerly breeze coming against what still late summer sun so you get some pretty big thunderstorms potentially port elizabeth on the coast doesn't get sunday i would think just rain for the next couple of days when optically strong always the wrong direction but inland it further in south africa is a line of showers building quite big ones which will keep drifting slowly eastwards . on counting the colts mario draghi save the euro but can he turn around struggling economy. and the oil rich maybe as unified government you know the war told he's done west including the country to central banks and chile rethinks its investment counting the cost on al-jazeera. most clearly. after egypt's revolution. into something much bigger. on al-jazeera world. revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. we want to go to 0 in mind of our top stories this hour the 2nd and final day of u.s. china talks on the way in and courage alaska the 1st session get off to a fiery start on thursday sitting across the table from each other the 2 sides traded barbs and a point to display of how tense relations remain. as a while ago u.s. president joe biden voiced strong confidence in secretary of state and lincoln after his tense diplomatic exchange with chinese officials he also said he'll meet with russian president vladimir putin when the time is right. several european countries are resuming talks for the astra zeneca vaccinations after suspending the jobs because of safety concerns that comes after europe's drugs watchdog said on thursday that the vaccine is safe. china's 1st trial of 2 canadians charged with espionage has ended with no verdict and businessman michael spencer appeared in court in the southeastern city of done on friday night in diplomats were denied access to the proceedings space and former diplomat michael coverage when arrested 2 years ago it was a move widely seen as retaliation for canada's detention of holway executive a man one showed up on the request of the united states. we're unable to have access to to the courtroom we were also on 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 done nonetheless we will continue to work diligently for the immediate release of michael's father and michael whose hearing will be on monday. is co-director of the center for human rights in the guild university he says it's clear there's judicial manipulation in china's trial ahead all the 2 canadians. it does sound as if the authorities are maybe getting that time and making this link this is all the see a very tense moment in chinese u.s. and canadian chinese relations and you know it's clear to a lot of observers that. the detention of the 2 michaels is being very specifically linked to the holloway name one do kate and this is i think of a proof that. none of it of the coincidence that very much and that of the manipulation of the judicial system. for diplomatic purposes and all this even as a bargaining chip. so long as these decisions cannot be reversed it would be embarrassing for the chinese government if there is a judicial decision to then try and come up with a diplomatic resolution that would involve freeing for michael so i think you know maybe only cost us something and obviously in the background one suspects there may be some search for a diplomatic compromise but it's going to be very difficult. a judge in the us city of minneapolis has rejected an attempt to postpone the murder trial of the police officer involved in the death of george floyd last week the u.s. city of minneapolis agreed to pay 27 $1000000.00 to floyd's family the defense team argued that the highly publicized settlement jeopardized derek children's chance for a fair trial video shot on kneeling on george floyd's neck sparks global protests last year the name of george floyd became a rallying cry for the black lives matter but went in the u.s. where john hendren is joining us live now from chicago the venue is not going to change and the dates not going to change so how is that going to impact on the case . of peter cahill is a no nonsense judge and he said he wants the case to start where it is and he wants it to start on time so he has denied a motion from the lawyers of derek showing to delay the case and he's done line denied another motion to move the case and that's significant because the jury pool is different if you pick a jury in minneapolis as they have been doing it tends to be more diverse and in fact that is what has happened they've picked 13 jurors 12 plus one alternate ultimately there will be 2 alternates and in that jury pool there have been 7 white jurors 4 black jurors and 2 of mixed race that's important because this is a case of a white police officer who is accused of murdering a black man a racially charged case in which people of color might have a better understanding for what it's like to be in a confrontation with a white police officer so this is what's going this is what the judge has decided to go forward with and he's also told a juror that he's trying to get this done in 4 weeks so we asked the juror if that juror could take 4 weeks off he said i plan on wrapping this up on time a no nonsense judge who wants to get this case done given the level of a publicity that there is about this case john what's likely to be done main argument from children's defense team. yeah the crux of this case is really did derrick chauvin kill george floyd by kneeling on his neck or was it a combination of factors that is what the defense is arguing the defense is arguing that george floyd was on drugs he was on methamphetamine and fenton know according to an autopsy they say that contributed to it they say he had covert 19 that also contributed to his inability to breathe and they also say he had heart condition and that all the combination of those factors according to the defense was more responsible for the death of george floyd than the fact that this officer derek show of a note on his neck for 8 minutes and 45 seconds ignoring his pleas for his life there's one other thing that the judge decided and that is that a prior conviction not a conviction of prior arrest of george floyd will be allowed to be discussed in the courtroom but only as it pertains to his medical condition so the basic crux of this whole case is did that police officer killed george floyd or was it a combination of other factors john thanks very much indeed john hendren talking to us from chicago common in mexico have killed at least 13 policemen in what's been described as the worst attack on offices since 2019 it happened in central mexico on those states the region security minister says the convoy was ambushed by a gang while out patrolling the no that often though has the details from mexico city. federal police say an investigation is currently underway to locate and capture armed gunmen responsible for the deaths of at least 13 law enforcement officers in the state of mexico the state that directly neighbors mexico city now authorities say that on thursday afternoon police in a convoy were ambushed by armed gunmen while police were trying to carry out an operation against armed groups in the municipality of what their big ideas now mexico's national guard has been deployed to participate in a multi agency investigation though at the moment details are still limited as to exactly how many suspects authorities are searching for now this latest attack against law enforcement officials highlights the many dangers and risks that law enforcement officers and security force in mexico take to try to curb violence in the country which has worsened under the code 900 and now nationwide at least 524 police officers were killed in 2020 that number unfortunately stands at 86 police officers that have been killed so far this year with the state of mexico continuing to be considered one of the most violent in the country. yemen's houthi rebels have targeted i'm not i'm koala facility in the saudi capital riyadh an official source in saudi arabia's ministry of energy has told state media the drone attack caused a fire which was brought under control with no injuries they say fuel supplies won't be affected earlier the who thinks that a nun's what they say is a successful operation. now for that. our armed forces have conducted the operation with 6 drones the targeted interim co facility in the saudi capital riyadh and the target has been hit with precision. tanzania's has its 1st female president sent me a salute haasan has been sworn in after the death of president john magaw fully on wednesday across the country many are now watching to see if husain will take a stronger action to stop the spread of coronavirus catherine soy has more. or me me. me. me a saloon who hasn't tanzania's fast female president and a native of the semi autonomous region of zanzibar was solemn as she made her 1st speech as leader she said the circumstances around has swearing in leave little to celebrate. it is time to. show each other love our unity mentor now his humanity and patriotism and fans are now in values president salue who is not new to tanzania's politics but the late president john mccain fully surprised many when he chose her as his running mate in 2015 she remains loyal to him but some in the country say her leadership style is different where you could appear impulsive and combative she is believed to be more thoughtful and likely to listen to advice many are hopeful she'll continue with model foolish development and social projects and his 0 tolerance for corruption but also change where he fell behind i hope to see independent. who i hope to see us and we will go back to the foundations of party. because that is. what we need. is a predict. bush inherits a country that has been on the mend economically analysts say she faces a difficult task of restoring democracy in peoples' rights which the late president was accused of eroding she also needs to gain the confidence of tanzania and many are watching to see if she'll change the strategy of how the government has been handling the coronavirus pandemic last year controversially declared the disease had been eliminated his government refused to put in place proper protective measures and has rejected a global vaccination rollout for now will the focus is the burial of john mark foley a man who leaves behind a checkered and divisive legacy he'll be buried next thursday in chattel his rural home in northwestern tanzania katherine saw you. at least 8 protesters have been killed in me a margin in the latest rallies against the military coup. crowds faced off against security forces in several cities the military and police of using increasingly violent tactics to suppress the protest movement a local rights group says more than $220.00 people have been killed since the coup and in february scott hi-lo has more from bangkok in neighboring thailand. we saw a bit of a standoff with protesters and police and security forces what had happened is we've been seeing a lot more around the country particular where there are bigger cities the protesters are building these barricades and that's where the kind of usually have a face off with the security forces tear gas is fired and then it escalates usually to live rounds and that's what we saw in this central command mar city of on what happened is that it seems as though while the police were trying to take down the barricades the protesters approached and then that's when this violence took place and at least 8 people there were killed there were some smaller protests again around me and mar as well we know at least in one case in the northwest one person was killed when there's a confrontation with security forces as well indonesian president has called for a high level meeting of the aussie on this is the bloc in southeast asia 10 nations to discuss what's been going on in myanmar and when you look at it it's very interesting they've kind of indonesia has taken a leadership role if you will in the region in trying to get reach some kind of political political solution to what's going on to me and mark but it's a very tall order to tall task because normally see on don't really interfere with each other's internal matters as they say but indonesia is trying to break that tradition one thing needs to be said the nations that neighbor and have a lot of relations close relationship closer than internees or they find it it's going to be a little bit more difficult to have these kind of discussions particularly nations like thailand was a lot of trade and a long border with me and more so that's me interesting to see how those discussions if those high level discussions actually take place a journalist with the b.b.c. is burr means language service is fears missing in an online statement the broadcaster says a reporter always thought it was taken away by unidentified men in min mosque capitol hill more than 30 journalists have been arrested since the military coup in early february. house officials and guinea say they're facing a challenge as they tackle the recent a bola outbreak many people in remote communities are refusing to get vaccinated they don't trust the health care system and the prefer traditional healers nicholas reports. traditional healer to move this cocktail of natural remedies using plants 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 vaccinated 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'm not going to take the vaccine 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 these rules 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 ball out there then. put it inside this machine the 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 and some are are knowingly spreading it into the rest of the wells. we need to keep a close watch on the border survivors with thoughts. 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 dickless hawk al-jazeera. still ahead on all just 0 of the deadly shootings in atlanta have exposed fear in the asian american community as police struggle to establish their lives killers motives. and it's turning out to be a week to the member for the south african qualifier at the divide tennis championships gemma's going to be here with all the action sports. it's time for the sports here's gemma. thank you rob hold as a bind munich have been drawn against paris and the champions league quarter finals it's a repeat of last year's final which by and 11 will p.s.g. have a new coach now in. and he can have a much tougher task than facing byan he won 6 trophies last season. it's true that we're now facing the strongest sorry to buy into the most recent european champions but we have to approach it with other some ism and hope that we can compete we beat barcelona so why would it not be realistic come bishan to beat on munich. the winner of that time gone to face either man justices' tait dortmund in the semifinals the other standout clash in the last $813.00 time when is around would it take on 6 time champions liverpool former p.s.g. kasia thomas to go is now at chelsea and they face porto we also know the draw very fully a quarter finals as well manchester united will be up against spanish side granada in the last 8 but either i.x. or waiting in the semi's take on study of prague at its very al against dean of a zagreb the drawings manchester united and arsenal could play each other in the final in poland on may 26th speaking of manchester united and they've announced a new shirt sponsor starting next season the german technology company team view is replacing a car giant's chevrolet it will on the club around $60000000.00 a year which is 20 percent less than the previous 2 but it reflects the challenge of generating revenue generating the pandemic team view as a blue and white like it will be modified to just white on the shirts because of united's rivalry with their blue neighbors manchester city. the president of the terri carolyn pic organizing committee says a decision on whether they allow overseas fans needs to be made soon we're expecting that decision to made at a big meeting on saturday involving the organizers japanese government and international and then pick committee there have been several reports that it's already been agreed that foreign supporters will not be allowed in when the games start in july tokyo 20 twentieth's president has previously said she wants the issue resolved by the start of the torch relay on thursday. we need to come to a conclusion quickly there are people who want to know so they can plan accordingly the i.o.c. makes all the final decisions but on the matter of foreigners entering japan then it's up to the japanese government one of the stars having to tell you is meghan mccain and the usa women's football team co-captain will look to reclaim the gold medal has a team lost in rio ferdinand has become a social justice campaign on everything from the pandemic to politics but when asked about next year's winter olympics in beijing repeal is against a boycott of the games and says athlete should instead of protest to challenge china human rights. you know it's always a balance of you know boycott versus using the event as an opportunity to continue our protest in some sort of way obviously we have human rights abuses happening all over the world i don't think it's specific to china it's always that sort of. balance of using the platform and can use a platform to tell you to push you know not only countries but organizing bodies and governing bodies to continue to be you know much more progressive u.s. college basketball teams are competing in texas right now but organizers the n.c.a.a. have been forced to pray facilities for the women's teams off just 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 menswear room. now with pictures of our weight room got released versus the men's incidentally 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. also i said by the stanford team's a sports performance coach the quality of food and goody bags has also been criticized at the end as actively working to end hans existing results is. former team sky and british cycling dr richard freeman has been permanently struck off at the medical register freeman was found guilty of ordering a testosterone knowing it was for an athlete's who prefer foreman's medical tribe you know concluded that his behavior is fundamentally incompatible with continued registration south african a qualifier lloyd harris is having a dream week at the dubai tennis championships he's now through to the final earlier in the week harris in a native usa he champion a top seeded domenici and on friday in the semifinals he took out counted as a dentist shapovalov 34 year old winning in 3 sets in saturday's final he'll face as one carets effort to reach the australian open final last month. arland rugby player c.j. standard has been preparing for his final international appearance he was training with his team mates for the last time before saturday's 6 nations match against england the south african born back row is retiring from rugby at the end of the season will start the game in dublin to on his 51st and final cap and finally the horse racing's a challenge festival web another in day one the show you piece of and the gold cup and a jockey a jack kennedy and banana and don't want to buy one and a quarter legs from after you saw to make it a one to you of irish train at henry brown head the favorites albion ferry so finished in 3rd place missing out on a 3rd successive victory in the race but was an incredible week for the drumhead who also had what is in the 2 main races of that's the champion hurdle and champion chase is the 1st time this is happened at the same festival that is what you'll sport for me for now i'll be back with more later. now u.s. president joe biden's in georgia where is expected to meet asian american community to on friday after 8 people were shot dead 6 of the victims were women of asian descent attacks targeting asian americans have been on the rise rob reynolds reports from 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 then yeah it's scaring me and 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 the asian american studies professor ki a young park says race and gender stereotypes they have d. human eyes the victims in the killers mind they are seen as reality past events that missive or hypersexuality i feel objectified or exactly sour used or you don chipp or even the a bale of some are fighting back in san francisco an elderly chinese speaking woman was punched in the face 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 the one dressed over and made of our community center find solutions and we were not like you take our boys away from us barely 3800 taxation a crime in just a year old mom it was step by the words of former president donald trump. stopped a ship in anger over a. response to the. influence of racial slurs from. 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. i was going to be here at a couple of minutes with more on all these stores by about. to say just say that it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think on asking the questions now is the new host of the next season of the show that's got no space 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