so that for you on the program major league baseball gets political stripping atlanta and its all star game over new in the state of georgia . and families grieve for the victims of friday's trying crash in taiwan as prosecutor seek an arrest warrant for the owner of the truck that rolled on to the trunk. the weather slushy set fair across much of australia but i'm a fighter to have more wet weather in the forecast for queensland over the next few days a little area 5 pressure down towards new zealand and around a hybrid drew or in the way in the sand from the ocean and that will face some rather heavy showers into eastern parts of queensland as we go on through sunday some heavy rain there just around the sunshine coast brisbane could catch some rather wet weather that could lead to some localized flooding as we go on into monday out west the weather if anything becoming a little more expansive so right along the coastal fringes we are in for some rather wet weather the ground saturated of course from the previous weeks of very heavy races that could cause some localized if not flash

and major league baseball strips atlanta of the all star game as the backlash widens against new voting laws in the state of georgia. so lisa 5 more people have been killed in miramar in the latest crackdown on protesters more than 2 months since the military deposed the civilian leadership security forces shot and killed protesters in 3 different cities on saturday despite that demonstrations are continuing in major cities including young girls and nuns lay at the military has also issued arrest warrants against 18 prominent online critics. and 10. major armed groups representing ethnic minorities are throwing their support behind the anti coup movement through groups . condemning the use of life against protesters and the rebels control large areas mostly along mia most voters speak to tony chaney joins us live now from bangkok in neighboring thailand and he will come on to the group represents the major represents the ethnic minorities in a 2nd because we're just gives it an update situation on what the latest is. was you mention. in the protests are still ongoing they have been pret

president joe biden says he supports major league baseball's decision to strip atlanta of the prestigious all star game and because of a new voting law in the state of georgia critics say the new measures signed off by georgia's republican governor limit access to the ballot box especially for people of color the all star game was originally due to take place at atlanta's jurist park on july 13th but baseball's bosses are now searching for a new venue and this move by baseball has now put pressure on r.g.p. georgia's most famous sporting about the masters golf tournament. the 1st major of the season is due to start on thursday one civil rights golf's governing body the p.g.a. to cancel the event and is calling on players also to boycott it until that voting law is repealed. and that this is al jazeera these are the headlines millions across europe are set to mark easter sunday under a new coronavirus restrictions fronts begins its 3rd national lockdown on saturday and is a return to stricter measures after a surgeon cases the dba has this update for us from london.

president joe biden says he supports major league baseball's decision to strip atlanta off the prestigious all star game it's because if a new voting law in the state of georgia critics say the new measures signed off by georgia's republican governor limited access to the ballot box specially for people of color the all star game was originally due to take place at atlanta's troost park on july 13th but baseball's bosses are now searching for a new avenue and this move by baseball has put pressure on arguably georgia's most famous sporting event that's the masters golf tournament at augusta the 1st major of the season is due to start on thursday one civil rights group one's goals governing body the p.g.a. to cancel the event and is calling on players to boycott it until the voting law is repealed people are demonstrating in the several u.k. cities against a bill that would give police more powers to break up protests. the bill was drafted after the so-called extinction rebellion environmental protest in 2019 it would let police set time and noise limits on rallies even individual demonstra

and atlanta others have rightly been support there demanding justice for all the unarmed black killed by police in recent years kristen salumi was at a rally in new york. where demonstrators have been gathering in the plaza behind me since the verdict was announced this location where i'm at brooklyn in the heart of new york city has been a centerpiece of the black lives matter movement demonstrators have come here often in the last year in fact you may recall that after george lloyd was killed protests in new york city became almost a daily occurrence in all 5 boroughs of the city demonstrators gathering for rallies like this for tox chanting the name of george cloyd and other people who have died at the hands of police new york itself has a long history of tense relations between the minority community and police officers as well so people here gathering expressing their feelings of relief i would say this is being seen as a victory but only a 1st step as we just heard a lot of the people i spoke to tonight not all of them support abolishing the police i've heard views on both sides

patients after it ran out but finding a hospital bed to free has become almost impossible in the city of atlanta. i came here to get my grandfather treated he's suffering from covert 19 they are not letting us in we don't understand anything the security guard is saying there is no doctor available here if there is no doctor need the emergency ward then where will we go his oxygen level is dropping alarmingly. india recorded more than 300000 cases for the day on saturday the situation in india is a device stating reminder of what this virus can do and why we must marshal every tool against it in a comprehensive and integrated approach. countries including the u.k. in china today looking at ways to help india as it sees shortages of beds medicines oxygen and that seals and the u.s. chamber of commerce has called on the biden administration to release millions of doses of the astra zeneca vaccine from storage to shipped to india brazil and other countries had hired by the pandemic it said that no one is safe until everyone the same elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi. the dutch government has de

country but economies say much more needs to happen for the country to get on the road to recovery by the atlanta government in by that the measures need to have a big impact and they need to happen now to help develop the country put an end to be or ocracy i believe the new measures can be implemented and vietnam is an example of what we could become it's a country that has a communist party leading and has one of the fastest growing economies in the world you have to enter the world buckets and reform the economy. people like i will miss her believe only political change can bring about radical reforms and that's why he continues to look for a future outside the island where he believes he'll be able to fulfill the dreams he says he's denied at home. 12 of europe's biggest football clubs say they'll launch a breakaway super league 6 english teams including liverpool chelsea and both manchester sides agreeing to join fellow european giants real madrid barcelona and eventers will also play in the leak the club's owners are being accused of a power grab for more governing bodies fifo new wife have

this latest tragedy coming just weeks after mass shootings in atlanta colorado and south carolina drawing further attention to what's been described as a deep seated epidemic of gun violence kristen salumi al-jazeera after that shooting president joe biden once again urged members of congress to pass gun control legislation every single day every single day there's a mass shooting in the united states if you count all those who are killed out of the streets of our cities and our rural areas it's a national embarrassment and must come to an end i strongly support the universal background checks which i continue to push the congress has to step up and act the senate has to act and i strongly support and continue to never stop supporting the ban on assault weapons and magazines that hold more than $1010.00 bullets the white house now says president joe biden will increase the refugee camp off the changing plans twice he had initially promised to let 65000 people in a year but on friday signed an order to keep it at the trump era level of just 15000 refugees allowed into the u.s. a separate p

president joe biden says he supports major league baseball's decision to strip atlanta of the prestigious all star game is because of new voting laws in the state of georgia critics say the measure is signed off by georgia's republican governor and limit access to the ballot box and target minority and poor a vote is a moving the baseball has put pressure on georgia's most famous sporting event the masses golf tournament battle gusta wear socks on those say one civilized school wants golf's governing body to cancel the tenement and is calling on plays to boycott it until the voting law is repealed. we can let the. you know out flank us out politicize this. you know or we can get in a fight with them and that's what we're doing i mean this is a call to everyone not only in georgia but all across the country to wake him to get in the fight in to help us and not. look as they are coming for you know. i mean what of in what's or are they going after now what event are they going to go after what convention political hand is in washington she reports this goes beyond just the state of georgia.

already a deadly year with $147.00 my shooting across the nation in march alone 8 people were killed in atlanta less than a week later 10 died at a supermarket in colorado. yet the issue of gun control remains as ever deeply divisive. in the run up to his election joe biden promised tough action including buying back weapons banning imported guns and so-called commonsense steps to curtail a uniquely american problem who in god's name needs a weapon that can hold 100 rounds or 40 rounds or 20 rounds is just wrong and i'm not going to give up till it's done as a memorial to the victims of gun violence was installed on the national mall the president announced 6 executive orders including tackling the growing problem of homemade untraceable firearms known as ghost guns and old a gun advocates say will do very little there's no way that you're going to stop this there's nothing you can do about it this is the reality of the world and 3 d. printers are real and i can just go press a button and i'm going to print one of these today i speak to a nation in grief i know there's not a parent in america.

and watching city at the atlanta game as football fans are specified that the main thing is seeing your mates going going to the games and i think this is the start hopefully of it easing off and things getting better and better so yeah we are really excited about how things are going as i say there's a lot more at stake than just the car about cup in this to the future of the european championships which are going to be played here at wembley the semifinals on the final in the couple of the group games as well later on during the summer now this 8000 people are attending to this game today the f.a. cup final on in the middle of may is going to have 121-2000 spectators if this event goes well and by the time the european championships come around the expectation is that they'll be a minimum of 25 percent capacity and that's $22.00 and a half 1000 for this particular state. and i hope that by the time the finals in the fall at the semifinals in the fall come around they'll be able potentially to have up to 50 percent capacity that's really important for a big stadium like this with a 900

now named george floyd square emotions were particularly roll in other cities similar seen marches in atlanta. and. in new york satisfaction at what the black lives matter movement has achieved despite the naysayers all the folks who were nonbelievers for the last 5 years they came out into the streets for what was right and they got a victory we should make no mistake that the protesters we've been hearing from do not agree with the prosecution case we heard that this was not the minneapolis police department on trial what we keep hearing from them is it is the minneapolis police department not only that it's the police departments across the country that were on drugs and this verdict may have brought relief at justice finally served but there was also the recognition that the law would not bring george floyd back she had her town see al-jazeera minneapolis or just as the verdict was being announced police shot and killed a black teenager in ohio police have released bodycount video showing the officers shooting the girl as she appeared to try and stab another person with a knife protesters

this truck is carrying covered 9000 vaccines and hope to nearly 4000000 syrians in atlanta most of whom have repeatedly been displaced during the war now in sin of and here it is the 1st celebrate to syria as part of the un led contacts program which has already sent back seen doses to more than 100 counties and territories worldwide. as a 1st delivery and we received almost 54000 doses for health workers in the 2 provinces of the been the lead we will receive new deliveries soon during the 3rd quarter of 2021 received these doses through a group of n.g.o.s and the w.h.o. . and. we will initially vaccinate the medical personnel and 1st aid workers who will keep receiving the vaccine in phases to be provided to 850000 civilians in the north of syria including health staff and those with chronic diseases above 25 years old and seniors above 60 according to the world health organization a separate 912000 doses have been allocated for a 1st phase of vaccinations in government controlled areas and semi autonomous kurdish regions by the end of 2021 at least. 2 percent of the 17000000 populati

but economy say much more needs to happen for the country to get on the road to recovery by the atlanta government but that the measures need to have a big impact and they need to happen now to help develop the country put an end to be or ocracy i believe the new measures can be implemented and vietnam is an example of what we could become it's a country that has a communist party leading and has one of the fastest growing economies in the world you have to enter the world buckets and reform the economy. people like i will miss her believe only political change can bring about radical reforms and that's why he continues to look for a future outside the island where he believes he'll be able to fulfill the dreams he says he's denied at home. and. plays in brazil have voted illegal parties and sell polo as the country sees record daily cover 19 deaths and a new dangerous strain on the offices close down venues and detained party goers was part of a special task force to enforce a social distancing in the past while the sub par the police have been cracking down on hundreds of secret parti

but economy say much more needs to happen for the country to get on the road to recovery by the atlanta government in by that the measures need to have a big impact and they need to happen now to help develop the country put an end to be or ocracy i believe the new measures can be implemented and vietnam is an example of what we could become it's a country that has a communist party leading and has one of the fastest growing economies in the world you have to enter the world markets are going to form the economy. where people like i will miss her believe only political change can bring about radical reforms and that's why he continues to look for a future outside the island where he believes he'll be able to fulfill the dreams he says he's denied at home. getting an education can be difficult in afghanistan but it's especially tough for young people with disabilities school struggle because of a lack of support and awareness but one school is ensuring that their children get an opportunity to learn in your country reports on this now from kabul. in the uk the words here are silent but t

ago as well so that's above and there's certainly a bloom with a showing by this red throughout iraq atlanta was q 8 and then the into quarter of society doha misses out young sure which is a humid one here but those temperatures up to 4142 they last for a couple of days yet the breeze is enough i think to come together and produce showers in southern side of the yemenis map yemeni mountains the temperatures in the coast for example in lebanon they're down to where it should be even a bit below but interesting with an unusual weather is a bit further south off the coast of tanzania this indeed is a tropical cyclone job or what's unusual about it one is position basically you don't expect to see them here and this is how unusual it is we've seen 2 previous landfalling cyclers proper winds in to do damage as far as we can tell one in 872 and one in 952 if this maintains its strength heading towards dar es salaam that will be the 3rd and we don't want that. qatar airways argentina's war life is being jeopardized by industrialised agriculture and uncontrolled cattle grazing to resemble takes you

past year last month 8 people were killed including 6 asian women by a government asian parlors in atlanta still ahead of al jazeera a race against time in the search for missing in division submarine that's funding low on oxygen. and violence flares between palestinians and israelis in occupied east jerusalem during the month of ramadan. the perfect jenin. sponsored point qatar airways. you might think of the middle east as always being hot and cold often is hotter than average with these temperatures on 1st sites you think well that's about right this time of year is cool down levant but actually on closer inspection terror on a $32.00 is above where it should be the focus for terror on does take the temperature down a little bit but this is the average it's $21.00 this time of the year the record is that he's $3.00 so we know that far away from the average and it's not the only faces hotter than the norm there's a little red blob here over iraq and down towards q 8 again 4142 you might think it doesn't look extraordinary it's 6 or 7 degrees above the average all the same for the rest of

named george floyd square emotions were particularly roll in other cities similar scenes maters in atlanta. and. in new york satisfaction at what the black lives not a movement has achieved despite the naysayers all the folks who were nonbelievers for the last 5 years they came out into the streets for what was right and they got a victory we should make no mistake with the protest as we've been hearing from do not agree with the prosecution case 3 heard that this was not the minneapolis police department on trial what we keep on hearing from them is it is the minneapolis police department not only that it's the police departments across the country that were on trial and this verdict may have brought relief at justice finally served but there was also the recognition that the law would not bring george floyd back she had. but. that rally in new york. well demonstrators have been gathering in the plaza behind me since the verdict was announced this location where i'm at brooklyn in the heart of new york city has been a centerpiece of the black lives matter movement demonstrators have come

actually tapping into a warm gulf a warm push of gulf air here so look at some of these temperatures atlanta 29 on wednesday washington d.c. up to 30 but look just a bit behind it 19 degrees and that the 1st chicago and that's because a cold front is swinging across so new york the next 3 days we're getting pretty close to record temperatures here certainly above average temperatures but then that cold front slices across that will drop the temperature triggers a showers and there is where we track the cold front on thursday potential for some strong storms as we head to arkansas and tennessee take you to central america right now and dry conditions persist for mexico we do have some drought conditions across that country so the dry conditions certainly not helping some scattered showers for his for nola and also puerto rico on wednesday for south america we've been dealing with heavy rains toward parts of venezuela into guyana and french guy on his watch 137 millimeters of rain in 24 hours more showers on deck for french guyana on wednesday. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of how the