the tests of character and to. witness documentaries with a delicate touch on. this al-jazeera. there are this is a new life from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. attack kills at least 22 people at a port where members of yemen's government who just arrived from saudi arabia. u.k. regulators greenlight the astra zeneca the health minister says could provide a pulse after the panda. british m.p.'s approved a break to trade deal with the european union that will kick in on january the 1st

. jubilation in relief or knowledge until there is the senate votes to legalize abortion in a decision that could echo across and that's an america. the wheel sports news the immediate future of english premier league is in question reports out so you can suggest wednesday's match between top and then film has been possible in because of coronavirus there are also calls for the entire leak to be suspended. so we begin this news in yemen where at least 22 people have been killed in an explosion in the southern city of 8. has the blast happened as members of yemen's new unity government arrived at the airport the ministers have all been transferred to safety ministry of information is blaming the attack on iran backed rebels but they say they had nothing to do with

it mohammed all the time has more from yemen's capital of sana'a. according to my speak on sources on the ground the media people there witnessed that the fall down or of 3 missiles from outside of their ports so the. number of people have been killed and also others injured as a result of the attacks the head of the parliament has called on the government all the members of the government to to come to aid in order to send a strong message to those so try to sabotage the reality agreement that this agreement would be implemented on the ground and that the government would return back despite of these attacks one more than one occasion the government tried to return back to aden but several attacks and confrontations have taken place

hopefully the last agreement which has been. stricken by all the parties would be implemented on the ground in order to put an end to the political vacuum and aid in and also in yemen. let's take a closer look at yemen's new government it was sworn in just days ago by a president who meant so heidi as part of a power sharing deal which was brokered by saudi arabia in 2019 headed by prime minister abdul malik saeed the new government represents yemen's northern and southern areas with equal numbers of members for each region its formation is or is the result of a compromise between the u.a.e. backed separatists in the southern transitional council and saudi backed loyalists of president heidi it's meant to end military clashes between those parties so they can fight as allies against the huth the rebel movement or let's explore this further we can speak to us rough who's a defense analyst and assistant professor of international relations at the

university of nottingham in the u.k. he joins us live from not to him via skype. first up the booth you say they have nothing to do with this others say it has the fingerprints of u.a.e. whoever it was a violence laden message has been sent to this new cabinet has none. it has indeed and that doesn't really bode well this campaign it was supposed to unite 2 factions that. initially supported by saudi arabia and then of course. one of them split away and was supported by the way both saudi arabia and we really should be on the same side and so this really continues to fragment and complicate an already complex and necessarily difficult situation which is causing enormous distress to innocent civilians in dade that well let's take a close look at it because it is complex as you say who would have most to gain

from an attack like this. well that's very hard to say because there's a lot of spoilers out that's part of the complexity of what is very simple terms if it isn't the who sees then it's very possibly al qaeda that's the group that very few people talk about but those people that are looked at that are in yemen now be wally for many months and years in fact well that this conflict has allowed now al qaeda in yemen to recruit and territorial gains it's probably one of the few we areas in the world that are quite as charitable in your control and that has come about simply because of its own so you could be the enemy could be. another outside's for and what we have here is a regional conflict between saudi arabia and your like coalition in the middle east and possibly iran and its proxies. and the innocent children

and the whole individual civilians in yemen and on paying the price for this. indeed as we come to the end of 2020 where do you look for optimism as we go into 2021. i'm afraid i don't have much optimism unless. the great powers the regional powers and indeed the the world powers that start changing their approach to international politics will be approach is way past its sell by date when no conflict in recent decades has resulted in a peaceful solution no conflict in recent decades and resulted in big tree decisive and sustainable betray for any hope that the sites involved in these conflicts but nobody well homme millions of civilians well what they actually

honed that off supposing one of the cost of this conflict is probably quite considerable already and if it isn't result it will involve a huge cost in financial and reputational terms for those powers that are fighting this conflict what is essentially regime change and you have to ask yourself whether any regime. that is does that deserves to be supported with their lives all media coalition 1000000 civilians which is what career and estimates this so i think the optimism will come when world powers and regional powers realize that the way they're playing politics is no longer effective in the modern world and they need to find a way to do her and in the meantime the said deeply troubling situation continues. we appreciate that thank you.

thank you. all right the battle against coronaviruses take another leap forward after health regulators in the united kingdom approved a vaccine developed by oxford university scientists and of the pharmaceutical company astra zeneca it is the 3rd vaccine to be approved in the western joins though is manufactured by pfizer biotech and medina russia and china are also distributing shots but have not completed mass testing now the also at astra zeneca vaccine has some advantages over the other 2 1st it's much cheaper to buy it can be kept in a regular fridge unlike the fires a shot which requires cold storage and even as approval was being announced in the u.k. orders for tens of millions of doses were confirmed by both taiwan and indonesia as many as $3000000000.00 doses are expected to be produced world wide by the end of next year while the approval came on the heels of the news that the u.k.

had had his biggest day of cases this year it's currently battling a fast spreading wave of infections driven by this new variant of british health secretary says the oxford vaccine will make a huge difference. enough of this vaccine. to vaccinate the whole population you know we've got a 100000000 doses on order add that to the 30000000 doses of pfizer and that's enough for 2 doses for the entire population so i can now say with confidence that we can vaccinate everyone except of course for children because this vaccine has not been child on children in any way children and much much less likely to have to have symptoms from the disease. the guys hospital in london and rory this is a very very big deal for the u.k. . it is nic and you can see behind me here a good visual example of why there are certain limitations in the fines

a biotech vaccine that's what's being administered behind me in those tents you can hear the hum of the generates is keeping people warm also the vaccine has to be super chilled it's why the government of the moment is struggling to vaccinate more than $200000.00 people every week and it's why there is so much riding on the oxford astra zeneca vaccine because it is so much easier to get so people essentially don't have to bring people to the vaccine you can take the vaccine to the people house and communities it doesn't have to be done in big hospital environments like the one behind me any doctor any nurse any medical team with a fridge can set up somewhere good job off the job off the job so the who pays well i mean this century has been recommended to the government that they have to get up to about sue 1000000 vaccinations a week to have any hope bridie of combating properly the spread of the new strain

of corona virus the health system is groaning under the strain at the moment you have more people in hospital with over than they were at the peak of the 1st wave of the virus you have record numbers it seems of new cases every day. so this is badly needed it won't be soon enough to stave off the worst of the 2nd wave but hopefully it will prevent a 3rd reich said to stave off the worst and 2nd wave i guess that means more restrictions and. well yeah i mean that's what we're looking at being announced this afternoon we have a flurry of briefings and announcements from government figures. you just heard a clip from they're speaking in parliament in about an hour's time then after him you have got gavin williamson who's the education secretary and there's a downing street press conference a couple of hours after that say 5 o'clock g.m.t.

where we believe we're going to hear from boris johnson the prime minister what does all this amount say well probably it's going to amount to. a fairly wide scale increase in the hearing systems bumping up parts of the country that are currently in tears to see if 3 bumping up parts of the country that are currently in tears 3 sets here for millions of people basically going into tighter lockdown restrictions we're also expecting to have some sort of announcement about schools and whether or not children who are currently on christmas holidays will be going back for the start of the school what we expect is that at least in some parts of the country schools are going to be kept closed for a few weeks so make sure the schools themselves don't become breeding grounds for the virus as the suspicion is that they have been contributing to the spread of this and highly infectious 2nd wave or rory that's in the u.k.

rory chalons there let's hear now from the head of vaccine group who's welcomed the approval and highlighted the need for all that it seems to get people just as quickly as possible. one of the reasons why we can't have asked as an actor is they share it are you not a prophet x.e. which could be distributed around the world and so that is by the fact that it can be distributed through print temperatures which helps it be able to get to what corners of the world but also they put in place manufacturing around the world that allows that supply chain of new acts seen at wherever you are to be available and i think that that's the key bit process and global distribution of the vaccine will india is also expected to roll out the all through the astra zeneca vaccine on a massive scale companies there been prepared using it for months this with her nom has been following developments in new delhi. we've heard from the c.e.o.

of the serum institute of india that is the world's largest vaccine maker and they have been testing and manufacturing the oxford astra zeneca vaccine here and dia and the c.e.o. other people in a lot of has said that the u.k. approval is great and encouraging news and they will now wait for emergency approval by indian regulators he said a few days ago that they had 50000000 doses of the vaccine ready that they are going to be manufacturing $50.00 to $60000000.00 every month they're going to scale that up to $100000000.00 a month by the end of march but he has always maintained that they are going to put aside half of the doses for use in india and other developing countries and also because the world health organization has to approve the use of the vaccine in the exports rather off the vaccine into other countries from india which can take up to a month he said that india will be the 1st beneficiary of the vaccine and right off the u.k. regulators gave approval we heard from india's regulatory body which said that it's

going to be holding a meeting later on wednesday to decide on its approval now the indian government is hoping to begin its vaccination drive in january the oxford astra zeneca is one all 3 vaccine candidates along with more and with another indian company by the name of god at the biotech and the indian government wants to vaccinate 300000000 people in the 1st off of 2021 even though it's the country with the biggest vaccination program in the world. the united states has reported its 1st case of a more contagious variant of corona virus which was originally discovered in the u.k. a man in colorado was confirmed to have the strain though he has no recent travel history and further agencies are efforts to vaccinate americans and stamp out uncontrolled outbreaks across the country all schools in the united states are struggling with the number of infections medical sentence in alabama say they are

at a crisis point with many intensive care units at or above capacity while california has extended stay at home orders in parts of the state as it battles record numbers of new infections. u.s. president elect criticized joe biden that is of course to criticize the trump administration for its handling of the vaccine rollout which is operating behind schedule biden says all of the 20000000 people meant to receive injections by the end of the only $2000000.00 that got them so chump administration's plan is to be vaccines is falling behind far behind we're grateful to the company's doctors scientists and researchers clinical trial participants and operation works speak for developing the vaccine as quickly but as i long feared in war the effort to distribute administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should. alan fischer joins us live from washington d.c.

and allan biden there very critical of the current government's response he says he's got a better way to tackle things but he'll sure have his work cut out. you know what is the biden team or is the fact that more of what dealing with know is this fight from thanksgiving that the experts warned about and as they come into the office on the 20th of january they'll start to see the spikes from christmas and also a new year and we could be the watch watch position on the 20th of january when we actually are no what we're hearing from joe biden is that he wants to issue 100000000 doses in the 1st 100 days it's a heck of a benchmark to say it but he's saying that he could do it he's put on another couple of people in 2 is covered by this advisory team they believe that with improved logistics they might be able to get those vaccinations out around the country but remember this is just the 1st stores there's more than 3w3cw people in the united states if he gets $100000000.00 in the 1st 100 days you're still talking

about possibly the end of the year a reality he's aware of he says this is the greatest operational challenge that the country's ever faced and he may well use the defense production act to try and make sure that he has the proper logistics but also the companies are turning out the vaccine in sufficient numbers to get out and around the country as a say is a heck of a benchmark to set and people will remind them of that 100 days in if he hasn't reached 100000000 particularly given the trump administration said they hope to have 20000000 people vaccinated by the end of the year here we are 2 days away from the end of the year and they've only managed to get as far as 2100000 people and those are just the 1st there was just a demonstrate the urgency of getting things done this variant of the virus as i was saying earlier is now showing up in colorado just as we get news of the death of congressman elect. that's right luke ludlow won the election in a runoff in december was due to be sworn in in congress on sunday he contract did

the disease and died aged 41 didn't have any underlying health issues but the fact that this variation has been found in colorado is a watery to health experts because the person that has the disease has no travel history so it didn't go anywhere that means that other people must have brought it to colorado which means that if it's in colorado it's probably elsewhere in the country that a huge concern for health professionals across the country as you're seeing that hospitals right across the united states are close to busting point at the moment simply dealing with all the goat from the such from thanksgiving island of timing thanks very much allan fisher there in washington d.c. . some breaking developments from yemen where a loud blast has been heard near the presidential palace in aden now that's where members of the newly formed yemeni cabinet were taken after an attack at the airport just a few hours ago that killed 22 people that attack it is unclear what caused this latest explosion there were no immediate reports of casualties will bring you more

on that as it comes in to us here at al-jazeera. the u.k. parliament has voted to approve a trade deal with the european union as it prepares for in an orderly split from brussels the ayes have it the eyes of a whole lot. british politicians have been holding an extraordinary session to ensure the agreement is in place before the deadline the deal still has to be debated in the house of lords in the coming hours the vote comes just a day before the u.k. automatically leaves the single market i mean while you chiefs of signed off on the future relationship agreements in brussels european council and commission president show michelle and us live on the land formalized books approval in brussels the papers have been flown out of the u.k. for signing their all 27 member states will abide by the agreement provisionally until it can be ratified by the e.u.

parliament so let's take a look back at how we got to this point u.k. voted to leave the european union by a narrow margin in the 2016 referendum then prime minister david cameron resigned after 18 months of talks his successor is in may reach to reach a withdrawal agreement with the failed to get it through parliament she was replaced by boris johnson in july 2019 britain formally left the e.u. back in january but months of negotiations followed a future trade arrangements they needed to be resolved before britain leaves the trade travel and business rules at midnight on thursday january the 31st but brennan is live for us in london say paul the prime minister. is very positive obviously outcome is not in doubt so now the question is how we set for generally the 1st. yes it was an ability and performance by prime minister boris johnson swatting away criticisms of the deal from the labor

opposition who said that it was a rather thin deal and the traders would be. overcome with an avalanche of red tape and bureaucracy and checks but the opposition parties know and knew that it was a done deal the battle was over and you can tell just from the surroundings i mean i know we're in the middle of a pandemic and an almost total lockdown tiff for us the restrictive measures around the parliament building but given the flags and the whistles and the horns on the shouting that we've seen in previous big parliamentary set pieces here the contrast is marked when you look around me now it was clear that the prime minister was cutting it fine but he knew that there was not really going to be any think that competes that could stop him and so as i say let's have a listen to a very a bully and prime minister boris johnson just to be rewarded trade barriers so we've also ensured the u.k. has full control of our laws and our regulations and there is

a vital symmetry between these 2 achievements because the central purpose of this bill is to accomplish something that the british people always knew in their hearts could be done and yet which we were continually told was impossible and told we could not have our cake and eat it you remember how we were told that i missed the speaker namely that we could trade incorporate as we will with our european neighbors on the closest terms of friendship and goodwill while retaining sovereign control of our laws and our national destiny. do you want to know is our disagreements over the e.u. history now in the europe question settled in the u.k. . i know is the short answer not least because you know this deal leaves open the possibility that future governments can re interpret the way that the relationship is going with the european union so

there are bound to be tweaks and nuances to the ongoing trading relationship labor has said that it will continue to pull up the governments given the fact that there are going to be lots of different checks that are put in place as a result of this trade deal is going to be rule of origin checks is going to be customs declarations there's going to be safety checks that have to be put into place as well so there's plenty of areas that the opposition can continue to snipe at the government over and i suppose biggest of all is the financial sector which is about 80 percent of the u.k. economy that's not really covered by this trade deal at all. the whole area of equivalence and how the trading relationship financially between the u.k. and the e.u. will go in the coming months and years as well so i suppose the question over in or out which has finished but the political debates of how britain continues to trade with europe and vice versa that's going to go on and on and on yes it is not

a pull britain thanks very much over in there in london there have been several aftershocks in central croatia here a day after a 6.4 magnitude quake killed at least 7 people and struck near the town of petunia 50 kilometers from the capital zagreb local mez says half the town has been destroyed many people spent the night in tents afraid to return to their homes rain fell overnight which turned rebel into mud. meanwhile scientists have warned they could be more aftershocks the latest tremors were felt throughout the region including both near serbia and slovenia tell you novak is in the village of perk up or near the epicenter with more on how residents are coping in the aftermath of the quake. they can see behind me some of them have nowhere to return to there are several houses that were completely flooded with earth during the earthquake the other houses in this small village of only about 100 houses maybe look

a little bit better from the outside but from the inside they are not safe to go into because their construction has been completely damaged so a lot of people from here this is a rural farming area decided to stay overnight they didn't want to go into their houses so they made that make up shift tents and spend the night outside they say that they don't want to leave their homes they have livestock here they don't want to leave their animals and they basically are afraid of the possible looting even though we didn't get any of visual confirmation that this was happening obviously the fear is much greater than just the earthquake and the ground is still shaking and they are fearful of even checking out on how their property is at the moment. but still ahead aaron al-jazeera an american who spent decades in prison off to spying for israel receives a hero's welcome in tel aviv. real madrid final much for 2020 could see them go top of the table if they avoided 3 to good soldier on wednesday.

western turkey has joined most of the middle east was the temperature regimes of fall spring infects the flowers are already blew me and yes i know they were the end of december that there is still all of the eastern side of turkey in our ground vans and 4 degrees otherwise this general area is now fine and dry but there are shelves of a few in central sabby dentals necker across towards sudan maybe across wisconsin any light showers us and nothing much coming out of the sky but sure. well cloudy regime not much strong wind anyway you'll notice but as you had sex we have tropical soccer but let's talk about the landfall as happened just about of the top of bay or just the northwest and the winds are seeing steady about 70 i could

augusta twice that and that is damaging when the rain is falling steadily so far correct about 25 millimeters the potential is over 100 so it's like a very bad day you know i don't think too destructive hopefully the rain will be welcomed that will produce flooding as it goes across through zimbabwe that's for the rest of thursday and then it carries on going west into botswana during friday but when it does that of course it will eventually fall apart and they leave behind showers in about a good scratching shaft 2 hours southern africa. on and it's going to highlight india killed his youngest workers close to. one woman is travelling to the villages where parents tell their underwrites to have effect. on al-jazeera. january on al-jazeera it's 10 years since the arab spring sought

to bring change to the middle east al-jazeera looks into how successful look at pollutions what a new documentary series examine for history and gee it only takes a drug trafficking and the way states and drug lords abused it as an instrument of power as vaccinations are being doled out around the world hope of returning to normal comes back again we meet chinese constantly changing listening post continues to analyze how the music is coming up to one of the most intense election campaigns the u.s. is set to inaugurate its cool to 6 president. january on al-jazeera. you're.

watching the mind of our top stories this and at least 22 people being killed and dozens injured in yemen after an explosion struck the airport in the city of aden happened as members of yemen's new unity government arrived there it's information minister is blaming the rebels who have denied involvement. millions more people in the u.k. will join the toughest chair of covert 1000 restrictions from thursday u.k. health regulator approve the onset astra zeneca corona virus vaccine for emergency use the government has already preordered 100000000 doses. of the. u.k. parliament has voted to approve a trade deal with the european union has for an orderly break from brussels the vote comes just a day before the u.k. automatically leaves the single market. for let's get more on our top story now that attack in yemen mohammed joins us from the yemeni capital of sana'a so this

attack on the airports was then followed by another attack near the presidential palace in aden where members of the newly formed yemeni cabinet were taken after the airport attack what more do we know about both theater. yes i have received news from media outlets that another was heard near the presidential palace of our mashi which is a fortified area where only one brode leads to the presidential palace is situated in a to lie and also another explosion has been also reported in the way which is as a residential area near the presidential palace. we couldn't confirm such a news but we but according to the media outlets that sure that this incident has taken place also writers have reported as reportedly taken about so one residence

who spoke about hearing a loud explosion in the near the presidential palace so these these these all of these incidents confirm that the the there the newly formed the government of 22 members. have been also have received threats that are not to reach aden there are there are towns to prevent the return back of the internationally recognized government which has been so agreed with the transitional council in order to have this power sharing government in order to fight where they say the whole of these bubbles in the in the in the north northern areas such as also has been condemned by the prime minister during his press hole says that the criminals will not reach their goal by sharing or unifying the members of the government that they will continue and will stay and they don't until the with the store security and

stability to the coastal area and also to hold the responsibility also the hope is from this side we have you have denounced such attacks and the. supreme council of the supreme authority of the whole of these says that the can. them the can also be say that they don't have anything. to not couldn't be blamed for this. there is such an attempt to engage them in such what they describe the conflict in the south that the dark anything to do with this. this kind of attacks have taken place in a number of occasions that some. servers blame the united arab emirates as it's the only one who is interested to keep the situation as it is and also to keep control of the aid in and because the line as it has already established its. capacity is there but many or hold the. return of the government will restore

stability and security to the causal area and also to the whole country with forming a national reconciliation with all groups. have it thanks from so on and they will get more from you as things develop a habit a lot have in flight. a historic victory for women's rights in latin america where senators in argentina are passed a bill legalizing abortion after marathon sessions 38 senators voted to allow terminations up to 14 weeks up to 520000 women seeking legal abortions in argentina every year through as opposed reports from. historic decision ending the criminalization of abortion in this mostly catholic country. after a long debate women outside congress waited anxiously for the vote to happen. and

when it did there was pure joy among those campaigning for that result. that we are friends affected because there are no legal and safe abortion and it's a dead that we have as a society the state needs to deal with this issue we couldn't just continue ignoring it i'm so happy. you know what is the debate lasted for about 12 hours and the bill was turned into law with $38.00 votes for and $29.00 against. the bill legalizing abortion in argentina after 14 weeks into pregnancy it allows women to get a free abortion in a public hospital and will end the fears of women have of being reported to the police if they try to terminate a pregnancy. we men in argentina have been campaigning for years to legalize abortion in this country for this women it's a matter of public health because already around half a 1000000 abortions are carried out every year and many of them end up with complications thousands of women end up in

a hospital because of those complications so for this women legalizing abortion is crucial to save lives. but not everyone celebrated on wednesday and they couldn't help crying when asked about the possibility of legalizing abortion. we're going to cry a lot there are a lot. of lies they want to sell something that is not true that abortions happen everywhere we poor women do not want to have abortions we love our children. the catholic church is a powerful body here pope francis is argentinean and has been lobbying against the law. he says the church needs to lead up to current times if you stand there taxpayers they must be frightened. by people they say began to take this very hard and these are not my think that they meet on a day i don't think that they had latin america that was there larry and

he would not have anybody around and you know if they had the but he doesn't tolerate them or funny latin america so i think you need to do some reflection about. the vote in argentina sets a precedent in a region that has some of the toughest loss against abortion in the world but this movement of women's groups has spread throughout the region and has become a force for change. and to see that when a scientist. health workers in argentina have been among the 1st to be vaccinated against covert 19 that's after the 1st batch of the russian produced sputnik very short arrived in the country argentina is the 1st country in the americas to use that talk of vaccine gets pandemic it will be rolled out nationwide after frontline doctors and nurses in the knives for germany's coronavirus daily deaths have crossed $1000.00 for the 1st time the health minister jens spawn's says the spike

in death rate things are far from returning to normal germany has started vaccinating the elderly and health care workers is currently under a 2nd hard lockdown until january 10th. pakistan is yet to purchase a vaccine but one developed by the chinese company can see now is seen as a likely choice more than 6000 pakistanis have taken part in phase 3 trials of all haters at a center in islamabad where the trials are underway augustana it in the grip of a gain more deadly wave of the corona wireless where they did also at the forefront of the campaign to find a suitable vaccine right now $6000.00 volunteers have already been tested where dad rags and the signs of course are encouraging that of course showing that pakistan is likely to vote for the chinese option this. trial has. facilitated by the government of pakistan nationally stripped of health and when the chinese

government and the chinese complete and final biologics. in china so far this trial has been going very smoothly the most encouraging thing is this that people are not getting any side effect. the other encouraging part is that people who are affordable barked and antibody titan's tested on their own and after 4 weeks of vaccination and their antibody titers were high that means that our exene is consigning immunity so that's an objective assessment of how as to how much affect him vaccine is and that goes to show that we can make our nation i mean into this dynamic although the government has allocated 150000000 dollars to buy directly in the aggregate on science and technology and our ramón saying there's a great take at least 2 months for pakistan to get that vaccine but there are

encouraging signs that people are already roland caring they want to be in the forefront of the campaign to find a suitable solution mean that his saying what the i volunteered myself a trial of the culprit vaccination so that i can serve humanity and after i got vaccinated i feel perfectly fine which meaningless to pakistan or florida for country b. adviser also acknowledging the fact that richard viguerie countries have already paid for this tragedy and they're smaller countries will find it difficult if not impossible to procure it in large numbers given the fact that pakistan is a country of over 200000000 people it will be a huge undertaking but the reports coming out from these trials showed that the signs are encouraging shared by international hospital is amongst the leading members who is now conducting those trials turn to hong kong activists to try to free the charity by speedboats have been handed jail terms by chinese courts part

of a group of 12 for trying to escape to taiwan back in august after beijing imposed sweeping national security law on hong kong 2 youngest of them have been sent back to authorities in hong kong a jim brown has this report. a day of drama both inside and outside court the 2 youngest defendants age 16 and 17 when they absconded were driven across the border to hong kong shortly after being freed by mainland police both were hooded they've swapped one detention for another as they now face serious charges in hong kong related to last year's protests as well as leaving hong kong illegally yeah why need i mean nancy and because these 2 males are also subjected to a 14 day compulsory quarantine we will file a request to the courts for our 14 day delay in handling their cases we will bring them to the courts for their hearing after they have finished a quarantine. the 2 free teenagers leave behind 10 other activists now beginning

jail terms that between 7 months to 3 years the campaign for their release continues the group fled hong kong by speedboat 4 months ago hoping to seek asylum in democratic taiwan before their vessel was intercepted by the chinese coast guard their detention drew international attention but diplomats as well as foreign journalists were denied permission to attend the trial it's rare for a trial to be wrapped up so quickly in china especially as the 12 had initially been branded as separatists by china's government and then there's the timing of it all coming on the very day that china is due to conclude a major trade deal with the european union that's been calling on china to free all the activists to both the hong kong and central governments though this case will serve as a warning to others facing charges over last year's unrest who may also try to

obscure on adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. the emir of qatar has been invited to next month's gulf cooperation council summit by the king of saudi arabia conference is being seen as a possible step to end a crisis that began in 2017 when saudi the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut ties with doha blockading countries accused carter of supporting terrorism and meddling in their internal affairs claims that carter a strongly denied summit will be held in riyadh on tuesday. an american who spent 30 years in the u.s. prison for spying as arrived in israel jonathan pollard was greeted by the prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the airport the former u.s. navy intelligence analyst sold military secrets to israel or worked at the prince can back in the 980 s. followed the last month followed 5 year parole term ended allowing him to leave the united states are enough so has more now from west germany. pollarded was greeted

by prime minister netanyahu at the airport he was even handed an israeli id upon his arrival right there on the spot now going to the on who has really tried to support and campaign for the release of pollarded for decades during his 1st run as prime minister he even granted him israeli citizenship so pollarded was accused by the u.s. of selling u.s. intelligence information some of that included a nuclear weapons development by arab countries intelligence information on russia as well as satellite images of tunisia those satellite images were also used by israel in a raid in the 1980 s. against the palestinian liberation organization's headquarters in tunis and 60 people were killed in that raid so his case cole arts case has really been seen as a long bargaining chip between israel and the u.s.

and some see today this moment of him arriving in israel as a parting gift by president trump ahead of him leaving office in january this is one of many that he has given israel in his 4 years in office including recognizing drusilla as the capital of israel recognizing the occupation israel's occupation of the whole lot of heights and brokering normalization ties between israel and 4 arab countries this is also coming ahead of elections that are supposed to take place here in. march could bolster netanyahu ahead of those elections but that support will really come only from those who are already voting for him and supporting him . the government of central african republic is insisting that sunday's general election was legitimate and credible despite election officials say hundreds of polling stations did not open off to be attacked by groups some people say the competition for dominance between foreign countries for the threatens

a fragile political and security situation catherine so i reports now from bungie. this is president. to our data at a reasoned political rally in bondi his armed guards are russia randa central african and also members of a un peacekeeping force randa recently sent troops and russia says it has deployed hundreds of military structures to help fight armed groups that controlled much of the country is also a big presence of private security contractors from the russian based group a supplier of mass in the east this makes begins to explain the country's complex geopolitics central african republic is afraid to drive a country. it have never been alone to. exploit. all the resources. that we have.

and that make. you know fragile. megohms put us in a situation where we need to have partners some central africans are worried about the motive behind the increasing power play between russia and. the fronts on one hand and round against other regional countries like chard on the other. russia is reconquering areas we lost at the end of the cold war rhonda is a small country but deploying troops not only as part of un but also all in the context of bilateral agreements gives it diplomatic weight france has been losing ground. the battle between france and russia and the republic is now playing out online facebook was really. branding me

from both countries. seem to have taken. our is reaching. and other natural resources yet it's one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the wild this president want an end to violence they say they need the international help but also want to feel they're in charge of their country's political affairs and go off. hundreds of refugees and migrants in both the areas still without proper shelter after being transported from a compass troyer last week they collect their belongings from what remained of the camp in. puerto and stayed on buses overnights post in authority say the hoops relocate them on wednesday the camp had been heavily criticized by aid groups for providing adequate shelter. people stranded in freezing in squalid conditions with

little food. people happy because live this didn't. have too much cord and not have life here is a good life and not have food not. yet but i don't know also scared i don't know. what peter. and herzegovina representative for the international organization for migration and he says the predicament that those refugees find themselves in is not the result of a lack of resources. it was very bad then what we're seeing action always in this collation of a problem that has been reduce fort stewart 3 months we've just insufficient accommodation for 250-3000 migrants and refugees finding cells in canton the decision to relocate migrants ridges that were stuck up a little. staking month state council of ministers was the right decision unfortunately operationalise all that when there was local resistance in the area

around where the new center would be established and so the result was that $100.00 people had to spend the night in 20 busses only women then it's really g council provided human systems and things we will do in the night but we are now early afternoon that are in starting to fall and we still do not have a solution for these people and sitting in those 8500 migrants in the country it's going to succumb to a 3500000 people so it's not. it's not like jordan or eliminate the situation for example when it comes to polls years ago it's not doing its own its own irony of the situation it's sufficient international funding available to help properly house feet and take care of the a person. there and what is lacking simply easy decision where the 2nd steps once those decisions are taken if we can actually ringback see just which is not so easy as we have seen yesterday the european union order to enter at your own whim

units your not partners or reduced or meet nice once really not an issue of resources. still ahead here in algeria coming up with 2014 olympic champion showing its arrival and see exactly how it's done it's.

going to sport has are. a lot going on wednesday's english premier league match between saddam and tottenham is being postponed off for a number of people tested positive for coated 19 at's for them on the most recent

round of weekly testing across the e.p.l. there have been 18 confirmed positive cases among the plays and stuff on monday they haven't seen a man just a city game was called off just 4 hours before kick off and west brom boss sam out of a diet has called for a shutdown of all play. you know i'm 66 year old the last thing i want to do is catch catch covert so with that's what we need to do that's what we need to do i mean probably all of the players will will overcome it even more difficult for me by quarter to overcome it than that so yes somebody comes from myself. and football in general not choose those matches were able to go ahead and they complete it 20 times english football champions manchester united and now 2nd in the premier league thanks to a one no win over walls it wasn't easy though they have to wait right until the end marcus rushford netting the winning goal it's all traffic on the 90 minute mark yet

fantastic. great results of the desire to keep going. to create a. little bit of luck that we. don't look to go by by the desire to keep going barcelona's media can start to the spanish league a season is showing no signs of ending on tuesday the had to fight back just to secure a draw at home to 15th place eyeball melts in bray with a wave mate's rather a penalty missed a penalty and then had a goal disallowed as a ball took the lead. who without this domino messi in this match meanwhile bosses face rivals real madrid could go top of the table if they avoid defeats against a wednesday ryall of 3 points behind it is athletic a bomb thanks to run a fine straight wins could join them city rivals that top of the standing have a real may have played 2 games more then after that ok. and the portuguese

primarily get benefit can have one to stay in touch with the league leaders sporting lisbon the 37 times portuguese champions were at home against bottom of the table for 2 moments on choose day basic you'd a 21 win thanks to goals from don't win money as an rafa silver school inside the 1st 25 minutes at a feat all 2nd in the standings 2 points behind sporting. benefit his old rivals f.c. poole to war also in action on the knights played out of 5 goal thriller against victoria gay marriage that's the theme and while you can see just there on your screen the home side to really twice and with some style to bots pool to fall back on both occasions to level matches and then with 10 minutes left to play louise diaz hit the winning goal for the visitors their 3rd on the table for points behind the leaders. and i just move on to n.b.a.

because the washington wizards are still winless in this new season they were beaten on tuesday by the chicago bulls 115-2107 zach levine school 23 points for the bulls they now have their 1st win of the season at the 5th time of asking us for the wizards while their record reads like page for last fall making it their worst start since losing 12 in a row in 2012. and the and the new no new york knicks complete is a 9586 win over the cleveland cavaliers it was a night to remember for julius randle with 28 points 12 rebounds and 11 assists randle completed his 1st trip double in 2 years cleveland going down for the 1st time this season while new york have now wanting to and they've also lost 2. and in the world of cricket new zealand have won their 1st test against pakistan by 101 runs in mt maunganui pakistan was 71 for 3 at the start of play chasing an

unlikely 373 victory after losing an early wicket captain $100.00 strong then followed them held out for the tourists the pair battled for more than 4 and a half hours as one was out for a 60 and i fell for 102 after that my home bowlers cleaned up the tail and pakistan were all out for 271. now 2014 olympic downhill skiing champion not just may has taken 1st place in the men's world cup event in italy his photo australian vincent christian meyer in wednesday's race the course on the sylvia mounts and paulson nothing more than its me is considered one of the most challenging on the entire professional circuit came out on top but just 400th of a 2nd. a lot of the sports for me for now but i'll be more from london they grow taller thanks very much they thank you for that so that is it for this news i'll be back with more news in

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