counting the cost on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. times the whole raman you're watching the al-jazeera news hour live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a powerful earthquake hits croatia bringing down buildings in the capital zagreb also the global race to roll out vaccines or climbing covert cases prompts calls to speed up the distribution but challenges remain in rich and poor count countries like. also turbulent times for aviation we look at how the pandemics wiped out decades of growth and what it needs to take off in the years ahead also a teenager pro-democracy activist is sentenced to 4 months in prison in hong kong for desecrating

a chinese flag. and i'm sort of hired with all the day's board india have leveled their cricket series against australia with victory in this contest in melbourne. welcome to the news hour we begin with breaking news coming out of croatia which has just been hit by a strong $6.00 magnitude earthquake local media is reporting the town of patricia is at the epicenter that's around 50 kilometers from the capital desire grat widespread damage to buildings is being reported but as yet no casualties have been confirmed now the earthquake was felt in neighboring bosnia herzegovina as well as serbia and neighboring slovenia has also shut down a nuclear power plant as a precaution let's get the very latest from our london news center and the team barbara who's monitoring events these are very sketchy details coming in at the

moment the d. on one of europe's very rare seismic fault lines. that's right it is a region which does which is no stranger to earthquakes now our colleagues our al-jazeera colleagues locally have filmed dramatic pictures in the town of petunia it's a town of around $20000.00 inhabitants and in the video you can hear church bells ringing you can see what seems to be smoke in the air as they pan around the town it's the dust and the material from the day breed of mainly old properties which have been damaged or destroyed in this earthquake on tuesday now as you are saying its magnitude 6.4 it's strong but it was registered by the u.s. geological survey having a depth of 10 kilometers which will mitigate how much damage it can do luckily but the mayor has confirmed that there has been one death so far and in the footage you

can see rescuers or people dragging out a man and a boy from a car which was underneath rubble which came from one of those old properties now just on monday there was another earthquake which also had its epicenter near the town of picher india and was felt in the capital of croatia as well and that's the same in this latest quake it was also felt 50 kilometers away in zagreb now just in march of this year an earthquake hit zagreb itself causing one fatality and $27.00 injuries so a reminder that this is a region which is prone to tremors like this the the residents in right now are reporting that communications and the electricity supply have been disrupted but of course their main concern is finding out whether in fact anybody else has been

either left under the rubble or injured somewhere of course we will come back to you for updates throughout the bulletin for the moment thank you. nor the top story the world health organization says many countries are still not prepared to deal with the 2nd and 3rd waves of coronavirus despite the limited rollout of vaccines a group of health experts in the u.k. says the british government needs to double its target of vaccinating a 1000000 people in a week about 200000 people every week are currently getting those injections well israel says it's already given the vaccine to more than half a 1000000 people and it wants to increase that number 515-0000 every day rising infections have forced the country into its 3rd nationwide lockdown meanwhile over in south korea it's announced it's fast tracking its national vaccination program

it signed a deal to secure doses for an additional $10000000.00 people after it detected the 1st cases of a more easily transmitted variant from the u.k. well let's get more those developments 1st let's bring in that irene nasr who's in west jerusalem in israel and irene one wonders really how israel who only got its vaccination inoculation. from the companies themselves what just over a week ago they've managed to inoculate so many people. yeah they have and it seems like they're reaching their goals because i've just seen some numbers that the vaccinations not actually now stand at 650000 and this is really going to bolster netanyahu ahead of an election that's coming up here and march on saturday he said that he's hoping that $2500000.00 israelis will be fully vaccinated within a month of this rollout now in terms of how they're doing it israel does have

a pretty big health care system it is public but it is kind of it's not centralized so there are many branches of it working simultaneously at the moment the government has also enlisted the military to set up some vaccination centers and also at the same time it is a relatively small country with just about $9000000.00 people in terms of population and geographically it is also relatively small the vaccination campaign though does not include palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza where things have been becoming much much worse in gaza the world health organization is warning that the health care system there could really collapse if things continue along this trend of the numbers of infection the palestinian authority has made attempts at securing the vaccine but it doesn't really have the economic and logistical means to do so they have applied for

a world health organization program but that would really only provide about vaccinations to about 20 percent of the palestinian population now a human rights groups are saying that it is israel's responsibility to facilitate getting the vaccine to the op acquired west bank and gaza but really all that israel has said so far from the health minister who said that if they have any left over doses after they vaccinated all israelis then they may hand hand them over to the palestinian authority well that's the view from israel i mean also thank you in west jerusalem or let's cross over to chalons and london of course rory the rollouts in the u.k. appears to be slower than expected is not really a true reflection of what's really happening in the u.k. . well i think they certainly like it to be. doing more numbers than they are they're doing at the moment but i think it's gone pretty well so far the stats that have been released so far from from the government are that in the period from

the 8th of december which is when the 1st vaccination was given to the 20th of december they. more than 600000 people 616008 little over that. then since then we have had another maybe 200000 more a week taking is up to about $800000.00 where we currently stand they know that this is not enough and they know they have to be doing more and they are trying to do that the chief executive of n.h.s. england says the currently the national health service is in the eye of the storm when it comes to dealing with cove aids and the pressure the service is under we had to record set recently yesterday for the 1st time 40000 new cases were reported in a day and also we have 20000 people currently in the hospital with covais

it which is more than there were at the peak of the 1st wave so gives you an idea about the severity of the situation the problem with vaccinations as a cowardly stand that this pfizer biotech vaccination is fragile and it needs to be sort of very cold temperatures which means that it's quite difficult to actually get it to people there has to be done in facilities that have the real resources to do it. they will have to wait until the next generation of vaccinations come along which hopefully is in a matter of days or weeks the oxford astra zeneca one is that is the one that most of the hope is riding on. that will enable many more people to be vaccinated. and some are suggesting that they have to boost the numbers of vaccinations to 2000000 a week rather than the 200000 being got at the moment and of course rory that's why there are so many moving parts to this story because it's about rolling out the

vaccine that is available and inoculating as many people as possible it's waiting for new vaccines and of course this conversation is being replicated across europe because if they can't do this in time while we have these 2nd and 3rd waves of the virus we're looking at lockdowns it's a big debate in the u.k. it's a big debate across europe as to how lock down will be perceived in the future. yeah exactly i mean every country is grappling more or less with the same problem the moment certainly in europe they are and the united states as well we have news from russia that the death toll there is much bigger than they had previously admitted to now with regard to lock downs in the u.k. we currently have this 4 teared system and it is very possible in the coming days that the government will be forced to either implement and not the national lock down more stringent than the current highest heretofore is or put in another tear

here 5 that would do something similar but on a regional level and the reason for that is that this new strain of corona virus is much more transmissible than the old one some 56 percent more transmissible according to recent studies and the cover measures they have in place are not doing enough and the big worry among many people parents primarily is that schools are going to be closed because there is some evidence to suggest that the new strain is also hitting younger people in a way that the the previous strains didn't so the government is wrestling at the moment with this conundrum of should they close again nursery schools primary schools secondary schools and universities and the hits that this would have on the economy of course is severe and they will be reluctant to do so but they might have to reach islands in london thanks so much for the update now south korea has

secured vaccines for another 10000000 people as it grapples with a rapid rise in cave in 1000 infections to deal with maternal comes the same day as the country reported 40 new coronavirus deaths its highest ever one day toll now the government has also unveiled a new $8000000000.00 aid package for small businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic problem bryant is following the developments for us from seoul. south korea has faced an awful lot of criticism for what seen as an overly cautious program of vaccinations basically beginning in the spring and then taking up pretty much a full year before the bulk of the population will be vaccinated so this is a government which is largely been applauded around the world for its handling of the coronavirus when it comes to the thing that will finally solve the problem it really does seem to have taken a misstep here so we've seen the government respond with a conference call between the president being j.n. and the boss of modernity secure these extra vaccines and also to step up the

delivery timeline that's of the real concern here that people here in south korea are seeing vaccines being rolled out around the world in fact u.s. military from choose day here on south korean soil are being vaccinated the start of their vaccination program south koreans themselves won't see their 1st vaccines until the spring if it does come as we are having this 3rd surge this 3rd wave of around a 1000 new cases a day and also setting sadly in you daily death toll record of 40 deaths there that might not seem much compared to other parts of the world but south korea before this winter wave set in was having a number of days when we had no cases of people dying from covert 19 at all so south korea does not look as though it is on top of this thing as it once did sort of 100000000 is overall a just an electorate in biomedicine at lancaster university in the u.k. he explains why coordinating the distribution of vaccines is so critical. what we

have seen so far is a stream level of vaccine nationalism which means that most of the wealthy countries they have really school most of the vaccine pharmaceutical manufacturing capability is what's left with very little for the low and middle income countries and according to responses are extremely important when it comes to global pandemic like sauce to causing a covert 19 and as you actually have been saying is that this is really a break up call i'm certain that the lesson learned from this pandemic will be translational to the future perspective hope we will not see such type of diseases in the future but those are inevitable so we will learn and do more coordination than what we have done just in the start i think equitable access to the vaccine has been the most whole topic in the scientific community and also with the regulatory bodies as well but relatively little has been done in that perspective for example if we look on to developing nations usa u.k.

canada israel and japan they have basically scooped up 54 percent of the total vaccine capability which means 9 out of 10 people in the developing world will be vaccinated in 2021 and this means that even if the european countries if they can't manage to vaccinate majority of their population within 2021 which is what they are aiming for still that doesn't mean that the continent europe is protected from the infection because infection is can travel from whom to the rest of the world it can travel from any country to the rest of the work basically we all are in to gather so until the people who need it the vaccine they are not vaccinated compared to what who can afford the vaccine this pandemic would sustain around. oh plenty more ahead here on the news hour including pushed to the limit hospitals in california are at breaking point why the governor says the worst is yet to come also another group of younger refugees is moved to an isolated island despite fears that it could be vulnerable to floods and as long as there's time on the clock the game can

still be won syra will have more in sport. but u.s. president elect joe biden has accused the trumpet ministration of damaging the security agencies and impeding his access to intelligence as he prepares to take office with just 22 days left in the white house told trump is also told with members of his own party republicans in the house of the democrats to override a presidential veto on defense spending and he also refused trump's demands to back an increase in cash payments to americans also in jordan has more from washington d.c. . members of the u.s. house of representatives interrupt their holiday break to decide whether to give americans $2000.00 each in the midst of the covert $1000.00 pandemic the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table

the vote in favor came after us president donald trump finally signed into law on sunday a bill giving americans a one time check for $600.00 even though he had said the amount should be higher i hope it will enjoy a strong bipartisan support the president of the united states has put this forward is something that he wants to see and terms and part of his signing the legislation yesterday i hope that that will be that view will be shared by the republicans in the senate but some republicans worried about increasing the budget deficit $600.00 per person is all the government could afford but looking at this bill today it makes me feel like we're in the parliament of afghanistan burundi amun or bolivia do we really think the way to improve the quality of life for americans is to just

print more money from the fed if you look around we're going to be printing another $400000000000.00. the other business before congress overturning trumps veto of the annual military spending bill something both democrats and republicans agreed had to be done. as congress works to keep both ordinary americans and the military afloat the incoming president is accusing donald trump of interfering with national security for political purposes joe biden made the accusation after meeting with his national security team right now we just aren't getting all the information that we need are the on going out going from not going to do stray shoot in key national security areas it's nothing short of more of you of irresponsibility. no comment from president trump just a new campaign style video he posted on his twitter account even though he's

already lost the election also in jordan al-jazeera washington. well because of the unofficial he's live for us in washington d.c. with other issues that we're also keeping an eye on of course that coded relief bill on the defense bill both. in the house but waiting for the senate and that final verdict where are we in the process allan. well 3 days from the end of 2020 you to thought the year could throw up some more surprises but here we are the republican president of the united states on the same page as the democratic speaker of the house of representatives no donald trump has vilified nancy pelosi said tat he's criticized there and suddenly he's on the same side he wants those $2000.00 checks to go out to every american she took this step in the house on monday to push it through and managed to do that and no hands it over to the senate mitch mcconnell well we should hear from him probably sometime around lunchtime

here in the united states but he's sure no interest atoll to raise the issue of an additional $2000.70 when he welcomed donald trump signing the bill on sunday he made no mention of the fact that donald trump was pushing for that extra $2000.00 and there are those in the republican party and sadly many many democrats who say if donald trump what the 4 winds the way he is what the forums about his alleged election loss and started calling republican senators they might be able to get it through but it seems unlikely that mitch mcconnell is going to raise a toll certainly chuck schumer who's the leader of the democrats in the senate is going to try and bring it up for a vote but if mitch mcconnell doesn't want to see it he could kill it in the senate now as for the defense bill that centrist thing because that relates to the 2000 dollars how does that what you're saying well if the house has already approved the over a ton of the president's veto 1st time that they've done in 4 years he's issued 9

vetoes during his 4 years in the white house this is the 1st time the house has voted to overturn this senate is likely to do the same thing but unless there's a vote on the covert $2000.00 checks there's a number of senators including bernie sanders who saying that he is going to use procedural motions to block the overwrite he wants the check debate to come 1st so that it should go through on the no. but it's unlikely to happen because there's going to procedure motions to hold everything up mitch mcconnell still believes he can get it done he needs to get it done before the new congress is seated and of course that happens on sunday so what we could get out of the senate and the next few hours all of words a lot of arguments lot of shouting but very little action and then some people would say well it's 2020 it seems like nothing has changed after all indeed of course we'll get more of an update later in the day for the moment allan thank you

well our travel in the united states has reached its highest level since the pandemic took hold in march the u.s. transport authorities than any $1300000.00 people were screened at airports on sunday and that's despite public health warnings against travel during the holiday season for fear of spreading the coronavirus further well california's governor says the recent spike in holiday travel will lead to a surge upon surge in case numbers record infection and those across the state are pushing intensive care units to capacity governor governor used and says it's likely the current stay at home order will be extended look at l.a. county at 11215000 pieces a day just in the last few weeks obviously having a big impact taking a big toll on our hospitals not only in terms of hospitals proper but obviously i.c.u. impact in terms of the queue care as well as just general emergency care within the system. now the philippines has extended travel restrictions to keep out the more

contained just strain of the coronavirus travelers from 19 countries and territories will be banned from entering until mid january earlier this month the government imposed and then extended a ban on flights from britain one of the countries where the virus mutated and was 1st detected. a global aviation data firm says the corona virus pandemic has wiped out 21 years of industry growth the syrian insights review for 2020 notes that the number of passengers worldwide has dropped to 999 levels it's forced airlines to cut the number of flights by half in relation to the previous year jeremy bowen is the c. of syrian which is a travel data and analytics firm joins me now from buckingham sure in the u.k. good to have you with us mr bone on the program i mean these figures and there's a whole range of areas that you've dealt with should not really come as a surprise but looking at them one has sort of take a sharp intake of breath when we see how the industry has really as a whole has been affected and it's across the globe. yet there's no way those

numbers should be for the industry they're catastrophic we see the number of slots in 20202019 globally as you said. the number of passengers traveling on those flights and that 21 year continuous year on year growth why is that in a matter of months to stream to turmoil was there but it didn't work there and struggle with it or indeed i mean there was a great deal of optimism i think are on the industry with sort of on time departures and arrivals apparently the best for years in 2019 can we assume things will only get better when covert is under control or gone completely the industry really is at the mercy of the virus. yet to say yes you can definitely say that the . child is the industry have a moment. of running out is what he forecast the start to become

cash positive in the latter half of next year and those organizations are telling can go. into refinanced got to see out the next 6 to 8 months cutting costs trying to entice passengers on to those aircraft as much as possible until as you say the vaccine really kicks in passenger numbers start to come back and of course i mean these are to stick should come as no surprise because i mean what does pump sink in is that sort of the number of people that would have been related to the industry and how their lives have really been completely changed in some cases for ever and i saw one british television report where one cabin crew member recently changed his career to become a care home assistant these are life changing scenarios for millions of people across the world. yeah absolutely we see that you don't see as we've seen further than we've seen in a case that in the us we see lots of those industries change when you see the

c.e.o.'s of most of the major manaus being interviewed all of them are saying that question that they expect their answers the smaller they consider their top to the future. and starts from the groups as they fly and they come out on the frequency they fly those routes so it's going to be a good couple of years before we start to say and start it was coming back from start to get there and start growing it will mean that i think i found very interesting in 2019 i think a sort of touched upon in your report is the fact that smaller regional hubs and countries if we just take an example like india and pakistan are benefiting from major airlines in the gulf for example using the most commuter hops port. fessler but even make an all seeing greece it would relate slightly to sort of low cost airlines in europe being able to take you to sort of isolated airports across europe that can make your journey even easier those areas and the investment in those areas have that have been damaged well the forseeable future. what we've seen

in the report there because international travel has literally just die away there's been a resurgence in domestic travel so you see airlines which are going to eternally they are to go to a leisure destination because that business traveler out there so eating is interesting report shows that 10 busiest airline routes are 2029 of them are in asia pacific and one of them is in the middle east. places that you wouldn't expect to have because you routes of that religion turn on their head it is worrying time for the moment very very good to get your insight but it's very much for joining us here on out to sara thank you. boeing's 737 max is about to take flight in the u.s. almost 2 years after it was grounded worldwide after 2 deadly crashes american airlines flight 718 from florida to new york will be the 1st passenger service since regulators cleared the aircraft to resume operations the 737 max crashed in

ethiopia and indonesia in 20182019 killing 346 people when some of the weather now his rob the flooding rain is receded the floods are receding from western turkey the skies are clear right story around there is no more snow forecast to run for about 10 degrees but there is a circulation attempting to form here which might produce some fairly big showers doesn't look too substantial produce an easterly wind to its northern flank so through iraq and jordan a man picks that up but the weather generally speaking is fine in those saudi gets the bulk of it the winds are not strong elsewhere as a light breeze in the dark $22.00 degrees now slightly less cold than it was that the active weather is further south which is coming into potentially hurricane season we set to go tropical cyclone officially it's a tropical storm shallow and i would imagine it's pronounced in the french were a 100 kilometer winds its early season so these aren't particularly damaging but

like down his possible the wave height at moment 3 meters and as it makes landfall $200.00 plus millimeters there are concerns in central mozambique as landfall is is doing wednesday morning that it spreads itself far and wide producing rain rather than strong winds and goes into the middle of zimbabwe but away will probably get it overhead as a lot of rain during thursday. well still ahead here on the news of the thai government warns of harsher restrictions the number of covert 1000 cases climbs this would mean for tourism. and the coronavirus interferes with the english premier league once again sorry we'll have those details in sports so do stay with us here on news that. if you look at the history of morphine if you look at the track on if you want to catch these things do not enter the world you will underworld drugs they enter

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera that means the whole rama reminder of our top stories a strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake has hit the central croatian town of patricia widespread damage to buildings is being reported but casualties are not yet known never islip vina has shut down a nuclear power plant as a precaution also the world health organization is warning that many countries are still not prepared to deal with the 2nd or 3rd wave of coronavirus even though they've started their vaccination programs by the u.s. house of representatives has voted to approve higher cash payments to americans struggling during the current virus pandemic but president trump's demanded for the $2000.00 checks now faces an uncertain future in the republican controlled senate.

let's return to our top story a lot of quake in croatia margarita said guru is a senior earthquake seismologist at the british geological survey joins me now from athens in greece could tell you with us live on the program when we talk about a quite registering 10 kilometers under ground what can we actually expect in terms of damage on the surface and how far wide can that be things 1st of all for the invitation to your program in new york goodness drago croatia wasn't sure no one. just thank you youngest baby and this means that knowing. that we might be expecting bending of course and the countries bending poles might be allied to having. how susceptible is this part of the world to earthquakes because in the last few days we've had 2 shocks.

yes being someone we know so far is that the earthquake sequence as were only a series of comic and earthquakes and started yesterday morning in points you know with an intermediate sized there are quite welcome back it was like going to. base was followed today by a 6.4 when it is not unusual that moon. we've seen a few days or a few months stronger breaks heating in a region let me remind you that me actually observed the same phenomenon on on with plenty 16 in the neighboring leaf and in the center not far nines when a 6 magnitude 6 are we keep speaking about not meeting and was followed by 6.0 or just a few months there so it's part of the world ratings frequent to have. purpose of this magnitude so what should they all forward be concerned about when

it comes to aftershocks because inevitably the public sector by this earthquake will be wondering what happens next. so one thing we know for sure from the same expendable and the up to 6 equals will continue for months to come and the number of earthquakes will see only the time however we think base and next few months we cannot carry. the baby. an equal or even larger events hitting the area but i can respond i would like to underline that even smaller mag waves are not of the main sort that we saw today my close you can most significant damage when they come. to see or they become even more shocking all or so i think. the public as we advise if you don't mind me. telling my guideline soviet state should stay

away from buildings that they are not. preserving and case of an arms or just immediately after we finish say we are we should go outside the gate and they will keep a very close eye on what's going on of course any help with the last couple of hours might be to sergei thanks so much for joining us on the british geological survey and things like you. now spain has received its 1st batch of corona virus vaccines after an unexpected delay in delivery the pfizer vaccines were held back by temperature control issues at the distribution center hundreds of thousands of doses that are arrived at airports across the in the government's hoping to vaccinate 70 percent of the population by the 3rd quarter of next year. health officials in thailand are warning that case numbers could soon climb by tens of thousands a day if coated 1000 measures are not properly enforced bars nightclubs in the

capital bangkok a now under new restrictions in an effort to keep case numbers down similar measures have been rolled out in other provinces where an outbreak was discovered among migrant workers at a seafood market tony chain has more from thailand. this is we're about an hour and a half away from bangkok that would normally be absolutely jam packed with people here for the new year holiday the big holiday of the year in thailand but while some people have come out most people are heeding the prime minister's advice which is to stay within your own province now he spoke to the nation today after the cabinet meeting he said the government wasn't going to impose a nationwide lockdown they put in place a series of red amber and green alerts in all of the different provinces at the moment most places are on amber but we are still speaking seeing these little clusters of infections coming out 22 more in bangkok $45.00 in the populated province around and then now in $45.00 provinces across time and that's

a huge problem for a country which had seen 0 chance missing transmission in the country for months and it's got many people here very worried i would expect that most people are probably going to follow this government by. particularly after thailand has worked so hard to try and combat the coronavirus this was remember the 1st country outside china found a transmission since then it's closed off its borders it's put very strict quarantine controls in place the cost however has been huge too and thailand's tourist industry has been absolutely decimated and in fact i think many people concerned that after all of those sacrifices despite everything that thailand has done over the last month could be in vain. all this week we're looking back on what's been achieved since the 1st coronavirus cases were reported in china india is one of the worst hit countries of the virus sunday a sudden nationwide lockdown there in march prompted internal migration on

a massive scale tens of millions of workers returned to their villages after losing their jobs in the cities the government announced billions of dollars in aid but it hasn't reached anyone less of a problem reports now from new delhi. it's one of the 5 bicycles she was given after her journey home to the state of bihar made national headlines during india's lockdowns. in may the 17 year old cycled 1200 kilometers with her injured father sitting behind her she'd gone to take care of him after he was injured in a void accident and was unable to carry on working as a top took driver that the lockdown was imposed and with no money they were forced to leave the city of good girl all good ad does god allow the landlord with asking for rent out saying you're all a lot of money and so we thought what can we do then i said let's go home and we won't make it but i said we'll do it. but all public transport suspended.

for $15.00 with the last of their money and they joined a group of people travelling in the same direction despite sleeping on the road at night for $7.00 days a father mohan says they were the lucky ones. the people who were in more distress were. the people with young children women carrying big young boys with blisters and this hard to small because i thought these people before us. it was a lockdown which laid bare the quality of the government asked people to stay at home more than 10000000 who worked in cities and states away from their homes to go back hundreds died on the journey. but warnings that workers might not come back to their jobs didn't come to fruition despite feeling abandoned by the government or their employers when the lockdown was announced many migrant workers have returned

to the city and to construction sites like this one and that's because there isn't enough work for them in rural areas. decided to leave his home in west bengal and travel the 1400 kilometers back from where he'd come he managed to find work again as a laborer. everyone was sitting idle at home and there were too many mouths to feed so i thought it's better if i leave because i'll get whatever work is going food and save some money too. but economists warn that with the government loosening labor laws this year those workers who have returned are often in a worse situation than they were in before so i would say systemic changes. are actually. providing protection even. if measures being provided. the government announced

billions of dollars in aid to help those without work. said they haven't received any the attention and money. have also dried up now she says she just wants to finish. elizabeth's al-jazeera you debbie. hong kong coulter sentenced teenage pro-democracy activist tony chong to 4 months in prison he was convicted of desecrating china's flag and taking part in an illegal protest in may last year and a separate case he's accused of sedition scientifically is under a controversial national security law for was student leader has been imprisoned since october to be kampala has walls local. not long ago a 4 month sentence for a teenager whose main crime was taking part in an on off advice protest and disrespecting a national flag would have been seen as a hefty sentence but now it is seen as mild particularly compared to the other charges that he is facing and those are under the national security law charges of

secession and sedition tony chang was a member of a group which advocated hong kong said dependence the group broke up hours before beijing imposed a national security law in hong kong but not long after he was accused of promoting his support for hong kong's independence overseas online and in social media in october he was nabbed outside the u.s. consulate and accused of trying to seek asylum so that he would have to face those charges here in hong kong this is seen as just the latest notch and beijing's crackdown on dissent in hong kong back since the protests of last year there have been more than 10000 arrests and countless cases through the courts many of them involving protesters and pro-democracy activists tony jones case sense a stark message to his generation young people who were born after the handover in 1997 they were brought up with the ideals that they could say and do what they want

even advocate independence so long as their activities remain peaceful they were a large part of the protest last year and now they're considered by many of the probating politicians and establishment support. at hong kong's last generation 50 journalists and media workers have been killed this year for their work mostly in countries not at war or reporters without borders reports says that there show an increase of reporters being targeted for their investigations into organized crime corruption or environmental issues mexico had the highest number of journalists killed this year along with india and pakistan. french designer. died at the age of 98 cutter died at a hospital west of paris has been credited for bringing stylish clothes and his visionary creations to ordinary people he worked briefly with christian dior before setting up his own fashion label in the 1950 s. his futuristic designs in the 1960 s.

made a mark in fashion and after that he successfully managed to supply retail stores with high end items are a feat for designers of the time. hundreds of rigor refugees have been arriving in the isolated island of going to that the bangladeshi government is moving up to 1800 people from overcrowded camps in cox's bazaar but the u.n. and human rights groups have condemned the relocations saying the new site is on the low lying island may not be safe well this is where the group are being taken in bashan china it's one of several unstable islands that emerge from the sea 20 years ago after silt bunched together at the mouth of a river but critics say it isn't safe because it's prone to flooding during the monsoon and has been known to be in the eye of many cyclons tommy cherry has more chittagong. well the 2nd batch of rowing i refuges on the process of getting into the navy vessel that on their way to the remote coastal island of boston john

nearly 1800 rowing or refuges were in the shot placed to be transported today to this remote coastal island you can see behind me the refugees are coming up to get into the naval vessel one vessel already relaxed there scouted by navy ships or patrol boats rather now this is the 2nd batch the 1st batch run on december for the government is determined to relocate at least 200000 refugees to this remote coastal island despite opposition from rights groups and even the un and the government on its part saying there's issues of congestion and a lot of crime and security issues in the camp and they want to gradually decongest the camp and many miles the congestion in. football long and also the government is under immense public pressure to resolve this crisis as the bangladesh people you talk to said that the international community is providing lip service not doing

anything tangible for the refuges it's up to bangladesh to resolve this crisis and the international community need to do far more than just a lip service. for military cooperation with turkey despite pressure from the u.s. washington has imposed sanctions over its deployment of a russian missile defense system after a meeting. reiterated that countries plan to cooperate. thousands of people in nepal demonstrated calling for the prime minister to resign cut the car press are only dissolve parliament and call for new elections after falling out with his own ruling party and he says internal politics made his job impossible but former prime ministers have joined protesters saying the decision was unconstitutional demonstrators say if parliament isn't restored their movement will grow. argentina's senate world decide later on tuesday as to whether to

legalize abortion or not hundreds of anti abortion activists protested outside congress ahead of what's expected to be a very close vote the lower house of congress back to legalizing the procedure earlier this month. chile's indigenous people are experiencing a cultural revival goes beyond teaching their language and history at schools is also being woven thread by thread by a picture a woman as art as there is to see in human explains from the way that imperial. speaking rule is about all this time. even though these days it's rare to find anyone who knows how to do it but didn't rule something chile indigenous might put you women joining forces to revive an ensure strong skill that wasn't sufficiently valued until recently map which you women were paid almost nothing for these traditional hand-woven blankets rugs and pawn jewels you may be able to say to me

there are here this piece was inspired by the map which is symbol for worry or i feel that we are women are warriors. it's that perseverance that led them to form large cooperative set decent prices for their work and even begin exporting it to europe and the us these are all natural colors this was dive for example with barks from the aloe tree and this with onion peels which is what makes it aren't here we have green made with chili in chilies all of this is part of the effort to enrich the cultural fiber of the map which people. need to buy your meal is one of the main organizers for a grandmother taught her to die wool and leave when she was 8 but the technique was being forgotten even to see a lot of c.d.'s and suddenly we had the opportunity to organize workshops and teach those women what they didn't know that many people were burning or burying their

sheep's wool but we said no we have to take advantage of our heritage you know human of. these symbols represent our eyes for us it has to do with being observed because my approach has a tour that we must be good and that someone is always watching. dying and weaving these pieces of art require time and talent they also provide much needed income from up which is families and most infant that are in water. when i 1st started a lot of women couldn't speak spanish they were afraid to bargain but no longer now we're more dacia. and they're also more proud and independent thanks to an ancient craft that experiencing a long awaited revival. you see in human al-jazeera normally imperiously. let's return to our top story that earthquake in croatia that happened a few hours ago 6.4 on the richter scale we can join novak from our sister

channel al jazeera balkans who joins me in zagreb tania we know that obviously zagreb felt the quake but hasn't heard any of the effects just tell us what it felt like. well i am standing 11th for our business building at that point and i was here in zagreb. march early march this year when it's our group was hit by this very strong earthquake it was really shaking it was really. very very scary it lasted for about 30 seconds and when you are swaying like that and of course we know that the disaster zone is about 50 kilometers away from pristina we seem to have lost time but we will try and come back to her later in the program so that was croatia but let's cross over to sport now because cyrus here with the

rest of what's been going on globally is the health thank you very much for there and when india have leveled their cricket series against australia in the 2nd test in melbourne the home side resume play on day 48133468 slender lead of just 2 cameron green reached $45.00 which was the top score for the australians he loves to slick it somehow maserati took 3 wickets as a host roll out for exactly $200.00 india needed just 70 runs to win and it wasn't too much trouble for them withstanding captain ajinkya honey hitting a winning runs to square the series at $11.00 with 2 tests to play. i think this will go down. as one of the great comebacks in the history to get to be 36 and. get up and be ready to punch. was outstanding and i think the boys deserve all the credit for this you real character dropping a number of catches but when you know. that bit of

a sloppy performance the think. in the field and you know as it is not runs again. i'll swear south african african pleated a big win over sri lanka in their 1st test series in centurion the stray lankans resume their 2nd innings on 65 for 2 and despite a 64 by para and 59 from one end when india rather has surrender of the tourists were eventually out of out for 180 give south africa the win by an innings and 45 runs as well as a one nil series lead and there was an entertaining day of cricket in mt maunganui new zealand trying to force victory against pakistan in their 1st test over tom's lundahl top scored with 64 as the kiwis declared on 185 that's that pakistan 373 for victory tim southee dismiss the ch'an starwood and middle order batsman harrison hale in the process south the reach 300 test wickets pakistan 71

for 3 at the close of play on day 4. french champions paris and german are finally confirmed the sacking of their coach thomas to show the news was 1st reported 5 days ago but on tuesday the club at long last confirmed to has contract had been terminated the church the german to charge of the league one carbon june 28th you know won 2 league titles he also led p.s.g. to the champions league final former tottenham boss mary so pictured senos understood to be the favorite to replace to hull manchester city's premier league match on monday against everton was called off due to covert 19 cases at city the game which was cancelled 4 hours before kickoff was meant to take place at everton's home ground go to stand part this is the 2nd premier league game to be called off the season because of coronavirus now city confirmed for positive cases on friday including striker gabriel and defender call walker their training ground

is now closed for a deep clean. and a decision will be made in the next few days as to whether the city's match with chelsea can go ahead on sunday ron paul's side were in action on monday they drew one more with aston villa they went ahead through and if you hold button while it was equalize for velo who move up to 5th one place above chelsea and with 2 games in hand over so we have to get safety paramount i believe that's why the game's been called off tonight because of the fear of the spread within the squad for man city. from our point of view in terms of our find out more the next day or 2 to make sure as to be sorry for the 2 teams if not the game won't go ahead i think the premier league had their rules and directives on that but yeah it's a tough time it was the same score line between us to city in crystal palace less to go above everton into 2nd on goal difference following news of the opposite moment at goodison park all the talk after the game was about how clubs and the

league can prevent the spread of coronavirus so i think what this is showing the in a moment in time where the virus is spreading quite rapidly it's impossible for people to have those children they are going to be leaving them by only protocols that we have it's impossible to totally shield people from from getting it because the fact is they are human beings and they leave the football club in the they go home and leave their children who are coming back from school and they have to do their shopping etc etc etc so it is very very concerning. they'll be 5 matches in the premier league on monday barring any more interference is by the current a virus the headline fixture of the day is arguably the late match between manchester united and wolves man united boss only gonna so cia is expected a tough examination of his players but without so many tight games against them we are improving definitely we're getting better and better at. finding different

solutions in different games. we know that there will ramp and they've got quality as well that there was build give us problems if we were to open so we got to put a plan together now on to the n.b.a. and the late score has helped the utah jazz pull off a 1st win on the road against their coma city thunder since oct 2010 it was a closely contested game with stars on both sides of the court against the top score to create high 26 points for the fund but it was jonathan mitchell's night with only 7 seconds left on the clock he took matters into his own hands won 102-1092 the jazz. i don't feel like we played our best but that's. you know that's a challenge to figure out how to win when you're you know you don't have your best game so we hope we can take this and build on him keep getting better. trey young continued his impressive recent form by scoring 29 points for the atlanta hawks as

they defeated the destroyed the detroit rather poseurs 128120 the best 3rd straight when they haven't started a season this well since 2016 on the other hand the pistons of last all 3 of big games this season well it's all the sport from me more later thanks ira let's bring up to speed on our breaking news story of course that 6.4 earthquake from croatia hitting the epicenter town of patrolling or with a population of 200000 people 10 kilometers deep it struck at 11 30 in the morning that's what about 2 and a half hours ago. as you can see collapsed roofs people on the streets and many waiting to see if any aftershocks are coming we do know from reuters that one person has died a small child and the prime minister is on his way more not on the other side of the break.

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on not just iraq. when the news breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in indian administered kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate the sky for food back home we simply don't know if we contiki to bring you more award winning documentaries and livelihoods on ash and online.

a powerful earthquake hit central croatia bringing down buildings including the capital including the capital. the rommany watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha hole so coming up the global race to roll out vaccines a climb in covert cases prompts calls to speed up that distribution but challenges remain in rich and poor countries alike also. many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous.