is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudice pride in hungary. this is al jazeera. and you're watching the al-jazeera news headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes after holding out for a week here as president signs into law a $2.00 trillion dollar coronavirus aid and spending package. india prepares to roll out one of the world's largest vaccination programs carrying out a dry run. also hong kong pro-democracy activists go on trial in mainland china for trying to escape the territory by speedboat. and counting begins

a new west african country in just closer to what could be its 1st ever democratic transition of power. 20 time grand slam tennis champion roger federer has not recovered in time for. the upcoming australian open. welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has finally signed a coronavirus relief bill after refusing to do so for a week now the delay meant unemployment benefits lapsed piling the pressure on millions of americans struggling because of the pandemic roslyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . it really is a disgrace on tuesday u.s. president donald trump released a video calling the $900000000000.00 covert relief bill insufficient suggesting who

wouldn't sign it on sunday with no reporters or cameras covering the event trawled signed the bill for an estimated $14000000.00 people who lost their jobs during the pandemic timing was off their unemployment benefits ran out just before christmas and they'll have to wait until after january 1st before the government can help them. the bill will pay for other things keeping the federal government open through september 30th the distribution of culbut 19 vaccine. housing assistance and in the fiction moratorium financial aid for small businesses and a one time check of $600.00 to most americans $600.00 which is not a lot of money most of them say is far from adequate to meet their needs but it's something if we had not signed the bill they would have been no money. trump had

said he wanted the checks boosted to $2000.00 for american adult something opposition democrats welcomed and something his fellow republicans rejected you don't get everything you want even if you're the president of the united states we have to legislative bodies and democrats control one republican see other look if they were just the freestanding government funding bill i would almost certainly be voting against that but i think that covert relief measures are really really important without hearing from trump himself it's not clear why he acted now well he didn't sign the bill that's the most important thing and he was under enormous pressure from republicans who now want him that it would be very destructive of his legacy and also of the republican majority in the senate if he did not sign the bill donald trump released a statement saying that not only did he want congress to cut some of the spending

from the relief bill but he also wants them to pass a separate piece of legislation this week that would give every american adult $2000.00 to help deal with pandemic related expenses that the big question is whether or not the president's fellow republicans say they're going to go along with this extra spending otherwise it's hard to see how the president will get what he says he wants rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington so look this is a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham in the u.k. and joins me now on the prime good to have you with this comes to me because on the program the president himself would like to see more money being paid to americans us rose mentioned and not story but what's the likelihood of it's actually happening with less than $6.00 days to go before congress actually ends. and then not again let's be very clear the reason why donald trump. almost a week ago as he threatened to veto this bill said raise the payment to $2000.00

per person had very little to do with the bill and coronavirus some government funding it was an attempt to put his ego on top of this so he denounced the rest of the bill is a disgrace but said it overlooks increase the amount of that shocks now the democrats embrace it because all along they have said the payment should be greater but as roslin noted it was republicans who had held out for a much lower figure and those republicans led by the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell are not going to agree to 2000 pounds per person indeed when democrats tried to to adopt this last friday in the lower house the house of representatives the house minority leader kevin mccarthy immediately blocked it so no the bill the $900000000000.00 virus bill is an interim bill it will remain as it is the big question will be how much greater will it be o.b. under the biden administration as they seek a longer term measure well as my next question is

a bill that is incoming does give president biden or a president elect by some breathing space but how much breathing space because the effects of the stimulus bill that's been signed by president tom will end at the end of march i believe so it's been a big question is what happens next. well what happens next is the hope that you get all the adults into the room combination of by ministration congress hopefully with both parties and the u.s. agencies because we're not just talking about after march trying to provide for example unemployment unemployed americans with benefits we're not just trying to provide for those who have suffered economically from the pandemic we're talking about funding from that same distribution funding for schools funding for small businesses through loans funding for cultural programs in other words you're looking at the need for a comprehensive bill to cover the period while the vaccines are being rolled out in the united states and hopefully we see the back of the pandemic say by the autumn

another perhaps part of the ongoing shenanigans you might say on capitol hill that we haven't really heard very much about is trump's legacy on you might say the defense authorization bill hasn't odds with legislators he's vetoed it on several points normally this is a bill that the that doesn't just goes ahead it gets passed it normally it is agreed upon this time the president sort of nit picking on things like the name changes on military bases that would have had confederate names on the men he doesn't want those changing. again it's partly ego trump said he was vetoing the bill because somehow funding of the u.s. military would help china and russia still can't figure out that one and because he said oh social media companies are protected from lawsuits i don't want that to happen you know something that was not really a core part of funding the us armed forces but part of this is ego watch out for

the us i think what compass setting up for is very soon he's going to say i'm running for president in 2024 and each of these stunts over the past few days which have caused damage to unemployed america merits which would cause disruption of the government he'll go to american site you should vote for me 2024 because i want to increase your coronavirus payments and because i was protecting confederate flags and names on bases it will be that type of spectacle that truck wants to keep going even while other people are trying to get down to business in washington and it's the pandemic to keep it i'll the scott lucas in birmingham in the u.k. thanks feel to thank you deborah. india's government is carrying out an early test of its credible respects a nation program it's doing a dry run of the vaccine campaign across all states officials are hoping to run checks on the country's transport arrangements on cold storage facilities india hopes to provide 300000000 vaccine doses in the 1st phase of its immunization

campaign this book from new delhi. precisely because of the scale involved in vaccinating india's population and that is why the states. for there and punjab have begun this 2 day trial run of the 19 vaccine to a number of hospitals community and primary health care centers private facilities rural outreach centers testing everything from the transport arrangements for the vaccine to the cold storage to the deployment of workers the app that's used to register and monitor people who are receiving the vaccines crowd control centers to ensure that their social distancing and what they're doing is around 25 people are coming to each vaccination session they've already been identified they're mostly health health care workers who will be the 1st beneficiaries of the vaccine and tens of thousands of workers have been trained in administering the vaccine now

india already has the world's biggest vaccination program it's called the universal immunization program where more than 50000000 infants and pregnant mothers. every year but health experts say that the cold storage is already in a sorry state that vaccines aren't always stored monitored properly that fridge temperature gauges don't work often rendering vaccines unfit for use and so it is going to be a huge challenge for the government to vaccinate it says it wants to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people. trans prime minister says a temporary ban on the arrivals of all nonresident foreigners is necessary to save lives it's reported more than $28.00 cases of the contain just there into corona virus which was 1st detected in the u.k. now the entry ban that will last until the end of january in japan is struggling to contain a recent surge of infections with more than 221000 cases confirmed so far

south korea has also recorded 3 cases of the highly contained just corona virus variant the infected people travelled home from the u.k. last week before the government announced a temporary ban on all air traffic to and from britain south korea is in the middle of a 3rd wave of infections around a 1000 new cases are being reported every day a chinese citizen journalist has been jailed for 4 years for her live stream reporting of the early days of the coronavirus outbreak shan's yarns videos from were harder widely shared on social media platforms in february she's among at least 8 whistleblowers who are facing punishment for their coverage of the outbreak the chinese government has promoted its success in halting the spread of the virus while suppressing any mention of its early failings in containing the pandemic. turned hong kong pro-democracy protesters are in court or crossed the border in

mainland china another part of a group of 12 who were caught at sea in august while trying to flee from taiwan for taiwan pardon me on a speedboat the accused the youngest of whom is only 16 faces charges of crossing the border illegally 7 o'clock comes more from hong kong. well the trial has just got underway in the last hour and a half or so the lawyer has revealed that he believes that they or the whole group of the 10 of them that are appearing out of the 12 in change again on monday that they will plead guilty if that's the case he believes that we could actually get a verdict on monday on the 1st and only day of that trial now under mainland laws are the penalty for crossing the border illegally is one year in prison for anyone who's organizing the crossing illegally of the border onto the mainland or into the mainland it's 70 years jail if you're involved in a syndicate or you could face life in prison looks like this tight security around that court but we do know that the families of the 10 people in court on monday

have been unable to attend simply because of covert number one the quarantine restrictions they can't access the mainland but they also found out on december 25th christmas day they were were informed that this particular trial would take place today now the detention they haven't seen those 10 of those 12 people appearing for at least $128.00 days because they've been in detention in change and so the families have said publicly that they are hoping the verdict will be made public so they can find out the fight of this group and as we mentioned earlier one of this group is as young as was as young as 16 when he was arrested in august. plenty more ahead here on the news hour including voters in central african republic a praise for defying on 2 groups and going out to vote in sunday's election. plus as iran is to begin a human trials of the locally produced corona virus vaccine we'll hear how u.s. sanctions are making it difficult for tehran to buy vaccines from the west and find out how this player celebrated his 1st n.b.a.

start since signing a big money contract extension that's coming out with peter principle. a number of african countries held a presidential elections this year some were marred by violence voter intimidation and electoral malpractise ivory coast president or ouattara changed the constitution in order to run for a 3rd term whiling getting security forces crackdown on protests following alpha condo's decision to also run for a 3rd term over in ethiopia the region held regional elections but they'd been banned by the government which sent in troops around a 1000000 people not been displaced by the conflict there have also been rebel attacks in the run up to sunday's vote in central african republic over malawi the top quarter knoll the results of the presidential elections citing irregularities

after widespread public pressure and the seychelles saw its 1st opposition victory in 44 years with an anglican priest winning the presidency in the 1st round. counting has also begun after an election that could lead to new jazz 1st peaceful transition of power since its independence from france 60 years ago about 7 and a half 1000000 people cast ballots to choose a successor to president mohamed do we'll speak to him editor shortly but 1st his report from the capital niamey news year president mohammad yousuf who votes not to stay in power but to elect a successor. he chose to step aside at the end of his 2nd term and a time some west african leaders tweak their country's constitution to remain in office the significance of this day is not lost on the 69 the or president. as of today is a special day for us it is also and most of all a special day phoenicia which will experience for the 1st time in its history

a democratic change over and i hope that this change will be the 1st step towards other changes in order to solidify our democratic process i hope this 1st change over will enable it to solidify its reputation as a democratic country in africa and in the world and this is the man he designated a successor former minister of interior and 40 affairs it was a momentous challenge by 29 other candidates among them 2 former heads of state and a former prime minister. who senior them says he has voted in every election since independence and easy again to choose a leader for. wind every time i do this is a duty to my country but also expecting our leaders will fix our problems by force immutable worker it's the thrill of voting for the 1st time oh my god i'm what i can i can tell you it's exciting it's like no other i lack casting their ballot the elections were held and meet safety concerns after an uptick in violence killed

more than 50 people this month among them members of new forces many voters list security and poverty as their main concerns now attacks by armed groups near the border with nigeria mali and the kenya fossil have killed hundreds of soldiers and civilians in recent years the local economies also been beat on by covered 94 in the prices of its main export your reign as well as a long term closure of the nigerian border that many essential goods are imported of course. sale the elections as a success for the most. part. 2 there are a few places where the elections cannot be held by many others we were able to organize voting despite security threats results of the elections as predicted to be announced within 5 days and ratified by the constitutional court in 2 weeks we know will need 50 percent of the vote plus one to avoid

a runoff otherwise the top 2 candidates will head to a 2nd round in february next year. joins me now from naming and i am of the course while the votes are being counted really the question is all about stability in the country what is the situation right like like right now after people have managed to take in the fact that they have been able to vote peacefully . the counting process this has been going on in this building behind me since last night went way overboard being tallied from. ballot boxes to regional areas where these ballots were cast but in an update to the situation the election commission announced that there was an attack yesterday during the election process and that election will hold today in areas where they couldn't hold yesterday so

far most officials are saying that it's been great such as it's been widely at some accepted or even anticipated that violence will break out during this election but so far the number of attacks or the number of incidents recorded during this election has been minimal so they believe that it's a tremendous success when you hear a country sandwiched between violent groups in the north in the in the west and the south of the country from mali became a fossil and nigeria have been several attacks in the past for example in this this month december there been more than 50 people killed including security forces because of these attacks by armed groups in neighboring countries of mali nigerian but can a plus or so hell thank you in naming for us thank you. meanwhile the government in central african republic has praised people who came out to vote in defiance of armed groups trying to disrupt the poll the election or thought there was a good turn or despise what it called minus security concerns in some areas

catherine soy has this update from bungie. both. statements. smoothed the. problem of the country. people wanted the. huge presence of rebels we've been hearing this report says while those disruptions . people. in the bush is afraid to come out to vote because all groups and. we're being told you know getting into polling stations. in some of these places the u.n. say that they. would. because of the security situation and so on and also in some areas pools.

but overall. we have been talking to. who are can. the. people. vote. how many people. would. sort of. vote it's credible. to the spokesman would say that. he's going to be. voted out but he hopes. that this is going. to be. the low. into. political risk consultant to the african center for economic transformation a pan african think tank joins me from london. i mean

a huge continent twitt huge political uncertainty and problems with the economy or political stability both sort of intrinsically into twined. yes thanks to hell i mean so i think making we think about when it comes to democracy in africa is that we should avoid these sweeping generalizations we see very moment sometimes 20 but a kind of question the democratic process i think we mentioned that president mentioned in the present context but then we can still at least good stories that we thank you malawi as you mentioned in your introduction we can't pass it is also one that has managed to hold an incredibly credible election in the face of rising business violence in the south up seychelles a transition to the opposition the 1st time since independence and that also means there we are looking as if we're having the 1st democratic transition in the country says that these are important points there are important points but yet

again it's always is the instability that creates that problem for the person looking in on into africa about how a conflict in the east or the central part of the continent can affect the whole continent instability for example in northern ethiopia we've seen it recently over spilling into sudan and eritrea so as just one example of how difficult it is for any sovereign african nation to control internal affairs as it sees it it does spill and moves across ethnic and tribal borders and it's one that's very difficult to negotiate through peace talks we could look at other ones as well rwanda uganda somalia kenya have problems at the moment nigeria chart a new share they're all hot spots all day for the moment of 20202021. no incredibly you're entirely right and just the length of the lives that you described that is merely a drop in the ocean of the kind of issues that we are looking at i think we take center that republic for example this issue of contagion is

a very real and we've seen president bush go i'm going to send troops and in order to try and stabilize the presidency make sure that the electoral process takes place this kind of issue is having its top of the minds of we look at the act it's one of them a things of this issue of contagion we've seen this in the silos a real issue that kind of this is guaranteed to be spreading towards the coastal nations we saw earlier this year in jerusalem attack on the border with people who are indicating that insecurity could be moving towards the coast and this is kind of the thing that is preying on the minds back in government institutions companies operating in these areas as well it's a very real issue looking ahead to presidential elections on the continent in the coming 2021 we have the congo in march we have the gambia december somalia in february south sudan in august which one would you advise us to keep

a very close eye on. i think i think actually one of the above i think the ones that we should be looking for most people really are you gander january so that's the kind of next election that will be taking next 14 january and that is where the president was many will leave a kind of secure his presidency for life as the likes to call it and we've already seen obviously today it will be winds bodyguard has been murdered by police and the kind of level of political and civil rights repression that is happening in uganda makes it a very important one for us to be looking at as a kind of whole mark of elections and 2021 and then again you look at all going to be an election president and the longer who is running for we assume is running for . a couple markets watches in particular we're looking at we think about a couple belts and security of supply of copper which is obviously fundamental to the. carbon kind of a carbon neutral feature and electric vehicles and particular going to go good to

have a few despite my very long list of presidential elections here it's good to have you on al-jazeera and thanks very much for your time thanks again. for whether there's evidence. hello there we've got more snowy weather in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days or a cold just a week or 2 bad we've seen some very heavy snowfall coming in things quieten down but we have more cloud rain sleet and snow sinking further south which as we go on through the next couple of days as that snowfall spinning across the north of china through the yellow sea across the korean peninsula making its way into hokkaido take the temperature in so 3 days celsius on tuesday we're straight down to minus 7 as a top temperature if a sole as we go on into way to stand that snow as you can see coming down across much of a good part of honshu also seeing a good covering that could cause widespread disruption as we go through the next few days but clearer weather that comes back in behind across china to the south of

that is the usual active showers across a good part of southeast asia will gradually see some wetter weather coming back into central and southern parts of vietnam as we go on into the next couple of days that could cause a little bit of localized flooding here heavy showers to into western lanka pushing down into the far south of india but for much of india it looks fine and dry over the next couple of days we have still got the fog small problems up towards the north that's also causing problems in pakistan. well still ahead on al-jazeera new details about the man suspected in a bombing in the u.s. city of nashville but may have been behind the attack also. play wonderwoman sequel spalls big at the u.s. box office offering some hope to a film industry hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and its fall cristiana ronaldo adds another trophy to his vast collection peter what happened story in sport.

played. in december 2019 the 1st coronavirus case was reported in china within months and local outbreak became a global pandemic one year on week sam and the devastation caused by covert 1000. with more than a 1000000 fatalities and economies crippled vaccines now offer hope of protection from the virus but how long will it take for the world to recover the corona virus and then a special coverage on a. 3 jobs and now i only have one but i'm soo providing for my family. the 1st time i was admitted to hospital i didn't show any signs of and this. a lot but at about my opinion the women have become very positive and stop thinking about the negative sides of families and get on al-jazeera while

he is living with an anarchist in egypt. the off. book about to the news hour with me so ron a reminder of our top 2 stories u.s. president donald trump assigned a coronavirus relief bill after initially refusing to approve it but will congress amended sections on pandemic aid and spending the delay meant millions of americans temporarily lost unemployment benefits also india's government is carrying out an early test of its coronavirus vaccination program it's doing a 2 day drive run of the vaccine campaign across 4 states officials are hoping to

run checks on the country's transport arrangements and cold storage facilities. and turn hong kong pro-democracy protesters are in court across the border in mainland china part of a group of 12 who were caught at sea while trying to flee to taiwan they have no access to their own lawyers or families. iran is to begin human trials of a locally produced coronavirus vaccine a pharmaceutical company has been registering volunteers following successful tests on animals tehran has struggled to get its hands on other vaccines because of sanctions on its banking sector also jabari has the latest from tehran. it is a race against time for the scientists at a lab near the capital tehran they're working on developing a covert 1000 vaccine a job made more important because of u.s. let sanctions against iran pharmaceutical companies shofar med started registering volunteers for human trials after tests were successfully carried out on animals.

in the 1st stage we have candidates who will get 2 doses of the vaccine. we have 56 people to test on and we'll do it in small groups once we're successful with the 1st dose then we'll carry out the 2nd phase since the beginning with observed all world health organization and us f.d.a. protocols as we deliver our results to the health ministry while the work continues here the head of iran's medical council is urging the world health organization to take measures against u.s. sanctions that have prevented iran from purchasing covert 1000 vaccines doctors after andy says millions of iranians need the vaccine soon. the pandemic is a global issue no country should be isolated when it comes to a pandemic if there isn't a fair distribution of the vaccine and the chain of infection does not break no country will be safe and. president has done rouhani is blaming one man for iran's

shortcomings in fighting this pandemic us president donald trump. and our people should know that for any action we plan to carry out for importing medicine vaccines and equipment we should coast 100 times. iran is the worst affected country in the middle east with more than a 1000000 covered $1000.00 cases and nearly $55000.00 people killed severe restrictions on its banking sector has made it difficult for iran to pay for the vaccine this isn't the 1st time that iran has faced such restrictions in buying medicine from the broad over the years it's become increasingly difficult to find foreign medicine in the country so in local pharmacies you can usually find the reigning version of the medicine you're looking for and officials hope that will soon be the case for the covert $900.00 back scene as a wall. but there is the issue of public trust and health officials we randomly asked 10 people in the city if they would trust an iranian covert 1000 vaccine have

said yes while the other half have their doubts that i want to get the iranian made vaccine because i don't believe in a rainy and made products but. yes sure all use it because it's my domestically and manufactured based on w h o standards i don't think there's a problem while the politicians look to buy foreign coverage 1000 vaccines by circumventing sanctions back in this lab scientists continue to work on producing their own version officials hope by spring they will be able to roll out the rainy uncovered 1000 vaccine to millions of people door such a pari al-jazeera tara dr payments is a professor at the iran and medical science university and is also the iran medical council's representative on the sanctions issue joins me now from the capital via skype good to have you with us dr zaher how encouraged are you that the iranian

made vaccine is now about to embark on human trials hi thank you for having me. as you know. it has created a new index card that has. ranking each day and ranked about $53.00 the contrary is based on their capabilities to tag 19 epidemic and one of their most important and variable is. accessed through the bags. and see that is there. is 15th and i mean that we are on the bottom of the lease why. for example was so we understand so i'm going to i'm going to just jump in so

because we know we understand that there are sanctions. and iran is dealing with it and we will come to that question i really want to ask you about the vaccine itself that is now being produced in iran and is about to be tested on humans what is your understanding about how encouraged are the authorities how encouraged are you as a scientist that iran is able to do this and do you have any doubts. of course you know for having any waxen been need international collaboration for example. that for vaccine there was there was an international collaboration between. 3 different companies for aam janta. and it ends and after a couple of years international collaboration. to produce a vaccine in 202015 how.

on. sanctions i mean the united states sanctions against iranian people we are not able to have such international collaboration so we have. problems for producing new. iranian vaccine so who have you been able to talk to you say that the findings have been shared with the w.h.o. they have obviously be an advisor in iran who have you been able to talk to about developing the theory behind a covert vaccine that could be locally produced in iran. of course you know that the santley could get a license for our or fact for having me lab scenes for our international scenes. about

a couple of days ago or. the president of central bank of iran and aunts that finally we could get our allies dance floor and yeti in your back scenes for our friend pharmaceutical international companies because he annoyed that based on facts previous license we could go to purchase our require man's orally or leave for our our financial resources blocked by south korea and banks and the able to buy our required man's or leave. or memorandum as a call backs so we have a lot of problems because of. our limitations for our financial transactions and mostly because of the us sanctions against iraq well we should see

how it progresses in the coming weeks the moment dr payments on the marty thank you so much for joining us from tehran sir thank you for your time. after identifying a fast spreading cove in 1000 mutations of africa has confirmed its 1000000 for infections and the pandemic began it's the 1st country on the continent to surpass that number doctors are reporting a surge of hospital admissions straining the already overburdened health care system present moment is expected to announce to restrictions to curb the spread of the virus. i would toss this line for us in port elizabeth how do i mean what's reaction to the country passing more than it's worth 1000000 case. well to the africans are worried but it was expected it is the festive season and many people have been moving up and down the country visiting family and friends

and every day the governor has been telling south africans where mas don't attend public gatherings but some people have not been listening they've been posting on social media video videos of the parties they've been attending many of them have not been wearing masks and they are practicing social distancing this is the eastern cape it's one of the provinces where the variant is new variant was identified in south africa and you speak to people here you meet some people who tell you they've got as many as 7 people in one family die there is a village here in the is think a province where problem and person died one day the people in that village or decided to go to the funeral and many people ended up getting shakes so the people here do know and are very aware that they are that this virus is spreading in this particular province and they're trying to take some precautions how do we need the health care system was under strain what health care workers saying about how they're managing to cope. well doctors and nurses

are raising the alarm they're saying in hospitals especially in rural hospitals they saying that they worry there won't be enough oxygen there aren't enough i.c.u. beds in the e.u. there isn't even enough staff they are asking the government to put more restrictive measures in place the measures in place already includes a nighttime curfew all coal companies can be sold on certain days and at certain times are we know that president. called for an urgent emergency meeting with the covert task force team and it was recommended that more restrictive measures be put in place there's speculation or reports he's going to address the nation in the coming days and this peculation implement more restrictive measures which could include border closures and a total ban on the sale of alcohol for the update thank you helmet asked the force importer lizabeth in south africa. of lockdown regulations of south africa's economy and prolong the recession because mint was struggling to reverse before the pandemic hit boutique hotels and high end restaurants of folded bars of people in

our out of work but small township businesses seem to be thriving as people take advantage of long term measures including door to door food delivery operations we hear from one bakery owner in so what are. my name is to fill in the columns 21 years old running a company called the enterprise located way to teach about was always who. has affected most of the business in the township but has also helped out a business is like us the production has doubled and we see because of the manner of the cylinder bridge is a little bit innovative and then we go as far as going through people with each and every idea and we know it depends how we prefer to celebrate people at different into now we have $27.00 people full time employees we have before and structures into the business we have the people who are driving this great from that because it's rude to customers we have their shopping carts people who are in the township in say their bread and then we have been

a shift people who come every 6 pm to 7 am in the morning to produce. and then we have a shift people who produce brady as well and scorns and throws things like that we know what we need to do but in from now moving forward looking at when we when we started making 2060 reproducibly 20 loaves now we're producing things like 1500 loaves a day so now what we're doing here we can do is township which we have 2000000 people around here so we are in this space whereby we need to figure that going to stay here within the township so we can call here to day to day to day and still preach on what people. a society tourism court has sentenced a prominent woman's rights activist to more than 5 and a half years in prison the chain through has been hell since $28.00 enough to being arrested along with at least a dozen other women's rights activists relative say she's been sexually assaulted and tortured while in prison there's been international pressure for her release she's campaigned against

a ban on women driving and for an end to saudi arabia's male guardianship system. now. the man suspected of setting off a bomb in the u.s. city of nashville died in an explosion according to the f.b.i. now the explosion into 3 people and damaged at least 40 buildings $100.00 hustle from nashville federal investigators say the nashville christmas bomber worked alone and died in the blast that rocked the world country music capital. 2 days after the bombing and one day after federal investigators identified 63 year old anthony quinn warner as a person of interest they declared him the mysterious man who blew up his motor home in several blocks of downtown nashville anthony. warner is the bomber he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished in the

bombing that conclusion was based 'd on d.n.a. evidence gathered in a saturday raid on warner's suburban nashville home and compared with human remains found at the scene there is no indication that any other persons were involved. we reviewed hours of security video. surrounding the recreational vehicle as well and we saw no other people involved around that vehicle property records show warner transferred the deed to his home to a california woman in late november the explosion near an 18000 transmission site knocked out mobile phone and internet service for miles nashville's mayor says that might have been the goal all of us locally feels like there has to be some connection with the a.t.m. t. facility and the side of the bombing it all began when nashville police responded to reports of the shooting then heard

a mysterious warning emanating from the motor home. 3 people were injured but the officers who embraced each other as they reunited in a news conference on monday likely saved lives by clearing the area. running towards the intersection as well. sorry but that's when i got on the radio to make sure wells was ok i couldn't get a response from him but from the class he had some hearing loss eerily one officer recalled the recreational vehicle with shades blocking all of its windows broadcasting songs including the familiar strains of petunia clark's downtown. disney. moments before the blast that not some of them to the ground what i remembered was downtown where the light shines bright the blast damage more than 40 buildings in

nashville's downtown which will take months possibly years to rebuild john hendren al-jazeera nashville. senior egyptian officials have visited libya has come full tripoli for tolls with the u.n. right just recognized government and it's believed that pushing to normalize relations out to backing the government's rivals and yes of conflict really trying to tripoli. it's the 1st time in 6 years that officials at this level have met libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli. the visit of the egyptian delegation to tripoli was carried out by prior coordination between the foreign ministries of the 2 countries the delegation was responsive and positive in the talks based on today's meeting we will witness a development in the diplomatic ties with cairo. the relationship between cairo and the government of national accord was cut in 2014 and around that time president

obvious but has sisi of egypt began supporting or lordly for have to or who held dominance in the east. in april 2019 with the egyptian support have to began a military offensive on tripoli the g.n.a.s. asked turkey for help and with uncurious support g.n.a.t. forces successfully retook western libya in june but not before residential areas a field hospital and an immigrant detention center were shelled the attacks to accusations of war crimes. the visit by the egyptian delegation comes only a day after a visit by the turkish defense minister and senior military officials. has military experts on the ground and are training the g.l.a. forces. yet there are no. it seems there is a political settlement and this visit by the turkish defense minister yesterday was not a coincidence libya is increasingly becoming important recently and internationally

egypt may now feel that they've lost a major partner in tripoli or maybe they now support a political settlement. some believe the visit by the egyptian delegation is a step in the right direction we need to ensure that the international community remains united also key players like egypt and turkey are main messages to the parties that they sponsor and tell them compromise is inclusive reconciliation among libyans rather than launching a new and separate initiatives. the united nations is also working to build trust between western and eastern libya the rival sides agreed to hold elections next year but they have so far failed to reach an agreement on the shape of any new government although there is some anger over the visit by the egyptian delegation many here believe the normalization of ties between tripoli and cairo may help fuel

a political settlement to the years long conflict now traynor al-jazeera tripoli gulf states of held high level talks live video link to lay the groundwork for next week's regional summit that's part of renewed efforts to end the blockade on qatar saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the united arab emirates cut off diplomatic ties and 2017 they accuse cattles government of financing terrorism and ickes ation the government denies talks to resolve the standoff are reported to have made progress in recent weeks ahead of the riyadh summits. now the latest wonder woman film has posted one of the highest earning since the pandemic began that made more than $36000000.00 and as worldwide over the christmas holiday weekend it's a glimmer of hope for an industry that's been largely shut down since the pandemic began millions also watched film streaming platform. while still ahead in sports the charlotte hornets pull off a big surprise the n.b.a.

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. talk about trying to spawn his peter thank you sir 20 time tennis major champion roger federer will miss the upcoming australian open because he has failed to recover from knee surgery the 2021 of the open has been delayed by 3 weeks to allow players enough time to quarantine in australia however that is still not going to be enough time for the swiss to be ready to take part of the 39 year old who has

won the australian open 6 times previously says he has no plans to retire. le bron james helped the los angeles lakers to their 2nd win of the new season on sunday with 812791 victory over the minnesota timberwolves it wasn't all about james though on his 1st start since agreeing a new 3 year contract extension with $14000000.00. school 20 points in the 1st half alone including 3 consecutive 3 pointers james himself contributed 88 points on the night for the defending n.b.a. champions the saw get to where he can operate faster. meanwhile worry is old boy kevin durant's suffered a narrow defeat at the hands of the charlotte hornets golden heyward lead the way with 28 points 7 assists and 6 rebounds as charlotte 11061044 brooklyn's 1st defeat of the new season. christiana rinaldo may have missed out on

the feat the best player award but he's been named player of the century at the globe soccer awards in dubai although the definition of century only covers the period from 2001 until this year he stopped at macey and another barcelona legend ronald denio in the poll which was open to the public you know that when you look. they want to be like you they cut their hair like me don't want skills with skills like me everything i see my son is 10 years old and they want to look like me and i say you have a long way to to do it the real like your father but you know it's a pleasure you know the future is the kids i have for and i want i wish him all the best and when i see the kids around for example now the. big comes around with me and they turn and say. it's make me feel happy because you know they they recognize my for my dedication my hard work. and i'm proud you know when you

see some some stuff like that you make you proud and this is give me motivation to carry on and to continue to do it my job and play football enjoy the people the fans and everyone in munich striker robert levin dogs he won the player of the year award to add to the feat the best player trophy he skipped a week ago he also accepted the award for team of the year for byron. we tried to be the best we try to do in the time and we did it so i know it's out for the next year will be the big challenge for us but i'm glad that we can win this trophy and i can say from of my teammates on my team also staff and president thank you have a think and thank you for all who vote for us liverpool manager you're going club says these players are angry after surrendering a one goal lead to draw one all with west brom in the premier league sodium on a scored early for liverpool who looked to be heading for victory until semi are

jide equalized for west brom in the 82nd minute the poor 3 points ahead of 2nd placed everton who play on monday we lost a game and it's more 'd in between the boys are more angry than anything else so that because they they know that it was not perfect but that's it and now we have of course the play next game it's 3 days and we are not in we don't live in dreamland just when put book it's because we want to win them we have to work for it and have to play for it and we have to finish situations of and we have to pass a bad moment these kinds of things what the boys are able to do so that in the end if you just draw a probably game that can happen actually. got a point against little probably should know what it really short of australia gestured room believe you would today and i think when the 1st goal when she and everybody thought i wonder i'm really going to be today particularly after the not 7 against crystal palace last week but. the players are so good today

it was the same school and at molineux where tottenham drew with wolves and missed the chance to go 3rd tongue he scored after just 57 seconds for spurs but with 4 minutes left wolves equalized through remain safe tottenham up to 4th in the table . former south africa cricket captain faf du placea schoolies 10th test century a south africa steadily build a lead against sri lanka to proceed captained the team from 2016 until relinquish in the duties earlier this year the south africans are 43545 india have the advantage as they head into the 4th day of the 2nd test against australia in melbourne the tourists resumed 277 for 5 but lost a standing captain ajinkya harney early on for 112 ravine drugged ager hit 57 but india were all out for 326 that gave them a 1st innings lead of 131 indian bowlers then share the wickets to pile on the pressure a straight a stumble they way to $133.00 for 6 at the close of play at

a lead of only 2 with cameron green and pat commons at the wicket. and over in mt maunganui pakistan are fighting hard to stay in the 1st test against new zealand resuming on 341 the visitors were in all kinds of trouble as they stopped 80 for 61 of the reasons one hit 71 and for ashraf scored 91 to lead the resistance at the close of play pakistan with 239 all out new zealand lead by 192. baseball hall of fame pitcher phil niekro has died at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer may crow is one of only 24 pitches to have won more than 300 games in his career he was known for his expert use of the knuckleball niekro spent 24 years as a pro that's all sports news for now i'll be here again later with more thanks very much pete and of course have been watching al jazeera news iraq matheson's up next with another 4 half hour of news to tell and from peter i mean on the news out

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