this is profound questions about the ties between the catholic church and the irish to. our limbs mother and baby stand. on a 0. as conflict hidden in jab prepares for a presidential runoff vote attackers raid 2 villages killing at least 50 people. in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraqis mark a year since the assassination of iranian general qassam son the money in baghdad while iran and the u.s. trade warnings india's drug regulator is set to approve to covert $900.00 fax scenes as the country looks to knock in $8300000000.00 people within 8 months plus . iraq royd in south korea at the mountain town famous for its ice festival

that has plenty of ice and go fast. at least 50 people are feared have been killed in 2 attacks on villages in the western asia it happened in the barrie region an unstable area neighboring mali and binny fighters a mom groups linked to al qaida and i still cross in and out via the poorest borders correspondent addresses in the capital manama and says the attack took place on the same day as election results were announced. and officials said the gunman who targeted the 2 villages have crossed in tunisia from the border with mali and that is not the only problematic area. the border with brooke you know faso is porous and has seen attacks from armed men on groups loyal to al qaida and

islamic state and on the border with nigeria we've seen increased activity in attacks targeting not only c.v.s. but also military personnel a senior security official confirmed to all jazeera that in one of the villages more than 50 people have been killed but it's not sutton the number of people killed in the 2nd village he said a government delegation is on its way to the village to assess the situation and offer help to the victims as well as properly secure that particular location and this is all coming at a time when the country is preparing to head into another election i don't know if election result of last sunday's outcome of the presidential vote no but no one was able to score the necessary 50 percent vote to avoid a runoff now the 2 contenders full of the senate for the pursuit of president in the jail here a former head of state in this country as well as i one time minister of foreign affairs as well as the interior minister and the syrians are putting their hopes

that with their experience in government they will build on the successes and also introduce measures that will help the country overcome its security challenges the amount of the can say is from the university of aberdeen he says the regional security challenge is a rule part of the structural problem. they distort many different things that are causing the security situation in our. growing population or climate change this islam is problem as well as the problem with this in this region is the ticklish state charged with kenya for so morally have a fundamental structural problems where over so many years many parts of this deeds and ran down and are now incapable practically incapable or providing security so that they did the main problems with the economy get all of

that i've been compounded by it is a problem that is deeds simply cannot wear that individual or collaborate he cannot provide security is the fact that we we need to deal with and accept and start thinking about how this deeds could be formed and mentally roof to meet the tactic challenges that they are facing in the 21st century they've been vigils and protests in baghdad marking a year since the u.s. assassinated the iranian general qassam solomonic he was killed in a drone strike near baghdad airport iran and the u.s. have accused each other escalating tensions in the run up to the anniversary earlier this week the u.s. conducted be $52.00 bomber fly overs in the gulf and also sent a nuclear submarine to the region 1st pokes fun for an iraqi militia with close ties to iran has demanded the removal of american troops but others who are unlucky but that the presence of these american forces who kill the leaders of victory is illegal in iraq they are not welcomed in iraq god willing the investigative

committee and the iraqi judiciary will continue to investigate this crime and will work hard to prosecute everyone who helped out of there was child stratford tells us more about the events in iraq's capital. this was for want of a better description some sort of memorial we are expecting the launch protests in the capital to a call out has been given to people in various cities across the country to come and join those protests those protests very much focused all on demanding that the iraqi government put pressure on the americans to withdraw the remaining soldiers and military personnel from the country and meanwhile every day people on the streets are very concerned about any potential escalation because as we've been reporting for months the protests that have dominated the streets of baghdad and other cities protesters demanding jobs better economic conditions wholesale

political change in an end to corruption all during a pandemic these people oversee very concerned about any kind of escalation any kind of deterioration in the security of this country. leaders in iran love warned against any hostile moves. they will witness severe ravines what has come so far has only been glimpses. do not presume that anyone even in the position of u.s. president who appeared as a murderer or a session may be immune from justice being carried out neither none of those involved in this assess nation in crime will be safe on earth. paul said oh and i explicitly say that the path of force and the path of resistance does not change with evils that the u.s. commits the past is still the same path. today we have no problem or apprehension

in encountering any of the world powers we will have our final words on the battlefield with our enemies. the devaluation of libya's currency has taken effect move it's hoped will help the economy exchange rates a varied across the country because of conflicts the black market and bank notes printed abroad al-jazeera as malik trainer reports now from misrata which is which is considered to be libya's economic hub. a new unified exchange rate comes into effect in libya on sunday the central bank has agreed to a devalued exchange rate of $4.00 dinars $2.00 while the official rate was $1.00 dinars a lack of availability of u.s. dollars and banks created a black market on which it currently trades at $5.00 dinars the bank's board members held a full meeting for the 1st time in 5 years on wednesday since libya split between warring factions in the west and east the central bank of libya is based in the

libyan capital of tripoli also the seat of the internationally recognized government of national of court the eastern branch is based in benghazi stronghold of warlords liefer have 2 years libyan national army who had printed alternative banknotes in moscow the us government called them counterfeit libyan currency printed by a russian state owned company and ordered by an illegitimate parallel entity analysts say the alternative bank knows increased inflation in an already struggling economy here in this market people tell us prices for goods are going up . because there are long lines at the banks they give you 500 that's not enough to feed a family for one week. at the moment business is a cave but i think it will slow down salaries of 1000 dinars that's not enough for people to provide for their families the political divisions and the gap between

the official and black market rates has distorted libya's oil dependent economy the move to unify the central bank and the exchange rate has been welcomed by some business leaders or residents here fear that the price of everyday goods may increase as a result. abdul hamid is a professor of economy he says prices may increase in the short term the devaluation was the right choice to make in the long term. the central bank didn't have any other choice but to take its decision otherwise we would have seen a devastating rate of inflation the closure of oil fields by have tar in january 2020 meant libya wasn't getting dollars from exports i believe we'll see the rate stabilize after the 1st quarter for libya is the next few months will likely get harder before they get better training. an artillery strike has killed at least 5 people at a wedding in the yemeni city of her data the shell landed in front of the hole where people were celebrating the saudi led coalition and who the rebels are

accusing each other of being responsible and yemen's prime minister says an attack on wednesday at abrams international airport was an attempt to eliminate the new unity government it happened as a plane landed with members of the government on board 25 people were killed 100 others injured who he's going to i being involved but prime minister my an optimal excite insists they are responsible who. is a major terrorist attack that meant to eliminate government local authorities municipal appointees all those waiting at the airport it was a horrific attack thank god it didn't come to that but the planning and techniques of this attack are ones that who have used before with the same guided missiles the preliminary evidence and investigation points to the who these being behind this. in the us ted cruz says he'll spearhead an effort by nearly a dozen fellow republican senators to challenge joe biden's election victory plan to object to an electoral college results tallied in congress on january 6th but

the senate's role in certifying the results is largely symbolic president trump has refused to concede defeat former democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders described the move as a sad and tragic day to have a town as he has more now from washington d.c. . there are a lot of theories but this group of 11 senators drawings and other services under josh hawley touts 12 senators who say they will be challenging the certification process on the 6th of january that's almost a quarter of the republican senators and over a half of congress republican congress people are expected to challenge the results in the house and why are they doing it well this 11 this group of 11 says they're doing it not because they say they intend to overturn the results but because they want the 39 percent of americans who feel that the election was rigged to have best say so they're kind of threading the needle perhaps off of keeping true to a trump base who could punish them enormously over the next 4 years either in

primary challenges before the 2022. midterm elections or if they have presidential election. themselves they could be in trouble if they were seen to be not sufficiently trumpy and when they have the trends and the trump base is still going to be a big part of republican politics so they seem to be the reasons why they're putting up the symbolic fight but it's not going to change anything we think it's time for a short break here al jazeera when we come back the ongoing efforts to protect wildlife from large scale. hello there the weather looks nice and quiet across the middle east over the next couple of days the chance of one of 2 showers having said that to northern parts of saudi arabia a little more cloud just sliding through here was to go through the next day or so

nothing too much to speak of it is a similar picture as we go on into monday further south it is generate dry lots of hazy sunshine highs here in doha of around 22 degrees celsius full of the dry weather into the horn of africa somalia essentially set fair you call plenty of showers having said that across the heart of africa some heavy showers into uganda just around lake victoria whether they're into the democratic republic of congo pushing all the way across into northern parts of angola for southern africa this week we have some really heavy rain with pulling that tropical moisture out of central parts easing down across that eastern side of namibia the remnants of i wrote tropical cyclone charlayne there and that wetter weather that's going to continue just pushing its way into south africa so really peping up as we go on through monday some heavy downpours coming through here that wetter weather will gradually ease over towards the far south of mozambique and that is quite

a few showers there madagascar. back. to scarcity has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because it's life doesn't mean it's cannot be priced what about the guy that can afford it guys tell me it's water. al-jazeera examines the social financial and environmental impact of want to privatization loads of water on al-jazeera. am.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour at least 50 people have been killed in attacks on 2 villages in western asia where it happened in an unstable border region neighboring mali and then. have been vigils and protests in baghdad marking a year since the u.s. assassinated iranian general qassam salami iran and the u.s. have accused each other escalating tensions in the run up to the anniversary. and then we have a dozen republican senators say their challenge joe biden's election victory when electoral college results are tallied in congress on january 6th but the senate's role in certifying the results is largely symbolic so the effort has 0 chance of success. well more now on the fragile situation in an historic presidential election which was expected to and political instability has failed to produce an outright winner none of the 30 hopefuls got more than 50 percent of the votes it means they'll be a runoff next month but as armitage us reports now from the capital may or may many

voters may stay away the 2nd time around after tensed 5 day wait election commission came to a verdict that no political party was able to pass the few 50 percent threshold enough votes to avoid a runoff. this result has been signed by all representatives of the political parties the declaration will be passed to the constitutional court which has the powers to validate it. analysts say the $1000000.00 vote difference between the front runner on the run up out of $5000000.00 votes cast was both expected and deserved. the results show that frontrunner. campaigned hard. and while the opposition was wasting its time on the courts seeking to disqualify him his citizenship is suspect the opposition went to court 3 times to

try and buy. from the presidential election but the courts dismissed the cases the governing party was looking to win the election outright. presidential election to produce a winner in the by the country. in february. from one another and. across the many voters say they will still come out february 21 to vote in the. others not. only. the constitutional court has 2 weeks to validate or reject the declaration of the election commission but most believe the results will be ratified comedy greece.

india's drug regulator is set to approve the country's 1st code 900 vaccines the world's 2nd most populous nation has the highest number of cases behind the united states health care workers in india have taken part in a drill to test the delivery of coronavirus vaccines under schapelle reports. gearing up for the world's largest immunization campaign these health care workers are taking part in a nationwide drill to test the delivery of vaccines 300000000 indians are due to receive injections in the 1st half of this year. we're not worried to get rid of this pandemic we have to get injected i've been working in public health for the past year and i want an injection and to motivate others to do the same. india's drug regulator has received a recommendation for approval for the oscars seneca oxford university vaccine for

merchants to use it can be stored and transported understand her frustration that gives it an edge over those that need to be stored at extremely low temperatures it's also cheaper than the alternatives tens of millions of doses have been stockpiled and will be given for free to health care and front line workers in the 1st phase and more are being acquired fast others bought up india is what i was the only country where 4 vaccines are getting ready are one dying. and those others include copaxone a locally developed vaccine from behind a biotech that has been recommended for emergency use by a panel of experts but many are asking whether the vaccines will be effective or reach the right people. you don't know nobody. they don't know yet david bieber led me to believe there's often an example in fish said yes i did that not as often then i mean getting up now does that give it me yet i'm not sure that the brought me. up probably be that good all that is off as.

you know these jobs that i'm not really going to do. consummation we didn't. the sarah minster today of india has partnered with the u.k. based drug maker astra zeneca to produce 1000000000 doses for low and middle income countries but the anti-poverty charity oxfam says 9 out of 10 people in the world's poorest places may miss out on a vaccine this year and al-jazeera. now rising number of coronavirus cases in south korea is forcing many communities to cancel vital tourist events one of these is the ice festival in the county near the border with north korea bride went there to see how people are coping after the area's biggest annual draw was scrapped children because it's a special event to promote a particular type of river trout known as the sunshine or how to package it how to

prepare it in every way imaginable and staged in a town that finds it has a lot of it $77.00 tons to be exact question counties annualize festival is its biggest event and ice fishing on the frozen river the biggest draw for which it starts breeding fish a year in advance but this year there is to be no festival and the town is left to figure out what to do with its fish. we have been putting our heads together to research and develop waste there we can sell our fish and deceased the result we're taking a crisis situation and turning it into an opportunity. realizing months ago the festival was unlikely to go ahead the county did cancel more than half the fish it all did from farms across the country. if we had a regular festival they would have made money on all that fish so i expect they took a considerable hit this year over. the town itself is hurting to the harsh winter

in these mountains normally produces ice that is solid enough to support crowds of visitors beneath it pristine waters that can 5th day in a massive fish but this year no sign of any festival close to the border with north korea the town was already suffering from a ban on military personnel leaving nearby bases jewelry in the pandemic and restaurant owners like lee jones soon were counting on. influx of ice festival visitors who won't now become a. passion they battle with humans it's been difficult for everyone small businesses and employees no one has been spared it's also hurting the other towns around a year who supplies with produce everyone here is hoping that by the time the ice breaks up and melts away they'll also be seeing an end to the pandemic rob mcbride

al-jazeera fortune county south korea zimbabwe has gone into its 2nd national lockdown only places like hospitals pharmacies and supermarkets will be allowed to open for the next 30 days and then overnight curfew is in force there's been a huge spike in infections over the holiday season in a country already struggling with a deepening economic crisis soaring inflation and high unemployment. for u.k.'s had yet another record jump in new infections announcing more than 57000 on saturday many are being attributed to what scientists say is a more contagious strain of covert 19 that's particularly rampant in london it's adding to the urgency of vaccine rollouts hospitals have been getting their 1st doses of the one developed by oxford university and astra zeneca it's the 2nd to be approved along with pfizer via tek the british government says it will allow mixing of different vaccinations if supplies a short as well as delays between doses police in northwestern france have shut down an illegal new year's eve raid 36 hours after it started that 2 and

a half 1000 people attended close to the city of police arrested 7 people including the suspected organizers for breaking covert 19 restrictions rescuers in norway are searching for 6 more people including children 4 days after the village was buried in a landslide at least 4 people died a hillside collapsed over the village of ask 25 kilometers north east of the capital. only helicopter rescue operations are possible because the ground is still unstable more than a 1000 people have been moved from their homes. at least 3 people have been killed after a small plane crashed into a house in the us state of michigan police believe the pilot on the 2 passengers on board lost their lives no one died in the house is not yet known what caused the crash the incident happened in the city of detroit argentina's iberia wetlands are one of the most biodiverse regions in the world but over the last few decades they've been severely impacted by industrial farming conservation groups that are

working to reverse that damage reason by reports now from their national park in korean this. means in the local indigenous quote any language water the chimes and here in the province of korea in this in with eastern argentina there is splendid of it. but in the past few decades the wildlife in the event and national park that covers more than a 1000000 hectares of land began disappearing because of human activity. and that's what people like my. trying to change the loss of a country where you are has left that i mean that we are working to really wild argentina this means reintroducing crucial species that disappeared from the ecosystem in this case we're working with the jaguars the main objective is to generate a sustainable population. these jaguars

now will and i.c.'s are kept here so their cubs can one day repopulate the area jaguars are seen as a threat to agricultural settlements in the area and that's why their numbers have plummeted and this past years in fact in the province of korea because they have been extend for over 70 years now and that's why projects like this one are crucial to reintroduce this kind of species into the eco system. a little but there are 7 other jaguars who have almost no contact with the humans and i ready to be released they are kept in 30 hector corel's. it's extremely difficult to see them but using our stay one of them. needed a g.p.s. color changed our 30 that are. going to be set free this is likely the last contact we will have with her so we are digging all the possible samples that how she sees them bio meant in the area along. with.

the project is part of rewilding argentina more than 20 years ago american philanthropist douglas tomkins and his wife kristen began buying up land in argentina and she led to protected and then donated to a national park was free world in argentina has now given thousands of hectares of land to at least 6 national parks. and. it's very strange in argentina that a private owner donates to the state but when we do it all the prejudices crumble we start to see the projects because the animals start to appear like the giant anteater the pompous to the tourist out to come and communities get involved this is a model of producing nature because it leaves resources to communities it's an economic alternative. the rewilding foundation says it's about helping

nature heal and local species are crucial to that process. the giant and eater bear had disappeared from even a mainly because of hunting but thanks to rewilding the bears they brought here have started to reproduce. but it is here where we found medicine and her cub. data was born in the region and says attitudes in this rural area are slowly changing and. there's lots of people that have never been here they did not know that it was a natural reserve sometimes they get missed is when they let me know they saw a bear they're starting to become aware that it's not ok to hunt here. argentina has tough economic problems to deal with and that's not being helped by the coronavirus pandemic which is why preserving nature is a major challenge but it's not just about protecting the wildlife it's the wildlife

that would generate i'll turn to work opportunities that would convince locals to protect their natural wealth they already have. already in place argentina police in pakistan that arrested one of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 mumbai attacks zajac rahman lucky he was detained in the eastern city of lahore on saturday on charges of financing terrorism in a separate case has long been suspected of planning the mumbai siege which 166 people were killed like he was detained days afterwards but a pakistani court released him on bail in 2015 kazakhstan has abolished the death penalty almost 20 years after executions were suspended president. signed the legislation on saturday the central asian country joined the un international covenant on civil and political rights last year it only allows executions in times of war for particularly serious crimes. one of portugal's most renowned singers has

died at the age of 81 last look at him all was known as the sinatra of father music because. he. has declared monday a national day of mourning in 2014 the cardamom was the 1st portuguese artist to receive a lot in grammy lifetime. headlines here on al-jazeera at least 50 people are feared to been killed in 2 attacks on religion in the west and. it happened in a tele barre region that's an unstable area in neighboring mali fastow and binny fighters the mom groups linked to al qaida an icicle cross in and out the poorest borders correspondent address as more from them a nation's capital well.