the leader on the one hand the enemy believe they're on the other hand the listening post strips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see them on the ground misinformation is right place better the body is a logical believe things because they want to believe that a done covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts on a 0. 0 . hi there i'm convinced this is the news on live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a large crowd gathers in baghdad's capital to mark a year since the us assassinated iranian general cast some sort of mandate to get a live update. india proves to vaccines for emergency use paving the way for the

immunization campaign of 300000000 people. as me prepares for a presidential runoff attack its raid 2 villages killing more than 70 people pass. i robot royd in south korea at the mountain town famous for its ice festival that has plenty of ice and opened the. town in sports a new era is underway. for a sharp or she'd seen a promising different titles and style so the french champions. would give this news are in iraq where crowds are gathering in the capital baghdad to mark one year since the us assassination of iran's top general. these are live pictures of tahrir square sort of man he was killed by a drone strike near baghdad international airport protesters are demanding u.s.

forces withdraw from iraq a rainy be disavowed retaliation and tensions between tehran and washington have escalated and the lead up to this anniversary. ok the latest from don't do barry in tehran in just a moment but this is going to child strength and in baghdad from the sun all of the protests charles just tell us what's happening there where you are. yes quite an atmosphere here on tahrir square a square of course that we've seen filled with protesters over the last year or so anti-government protesters today the message is very well defined i do use a message being led by iran backed groups here that are demanding the immediate all the swift withdrawal of all remaining u.s. troops in iraq they're also demanding a continuation of the crimes of heated rhetoric that we've heard in the last couple of days around the anniversary of the assassination of the leader of the

revolutionary guards qassam so limited they are demanding and promising revenge a very telling statement made by a spokesperson for one of the most powerful groups here a group called it has all of that spokesperson saying earlier the revenge will come soon blood is still boiling and that's because of this assassination last year we will not enter the devil's embassy a reference there to the u.s. embassy we will melt into the devil's embassy i will not stop will the government we still have time now we know that supporters of these groups have stormed the embassy on a couple of occasions be full when there were arrests and rockets fired against some of the bases but. a cool from that group that that should not happen today but you know still a huge signal that there is mounting pressure on this government and the u.s.

on this anniversary of this assassination and now a renewed demand that u.s. troops are withdrawn from this country ok so there's every new demand. the u.s. troop withdrawal u.s. officials had actually promised that there would be a drawdown didn't know where is that ass. well we understand it are probably still still stands according to president trump you know he wants it around 500 troops to leave iraq by meade january that would take the number down to around 2500 there are currently around 3000 u.s. military personnel in the country we also understand of we know the iraq prime minister stuff a car there may also once told us troops to leave when he was in washington in august and was told by washington officials that they saw the eventual troop withdrawal of all potential troops just taking up to 3 is. the people gathering

here on this square say that are being very much sort of led to listen to listening to these powerful iran back groups say that there is no way in foster enough they're also going for immediate with rule very much pointed the finger of blame a call to me for not implementing a resolution that was passed in parliament last year to say the full implementation of troop withdrawal would start immediately the people here in this square are saying that part of me has not acted fast enough in implementing that resolution passed in parliament. thank you for that live from baghdad. and speak not to don't jabari who is in tehran towards the house of pain in iran since cinema assassination and also what's being done to mark the day today.

well there was a lead up to today a series of commemorations that took place which began on friday at university we saw the head of the country's judiciary a prime raciest well as the head of the revolutionary guard major general hussein salmi who reiterated iran's position and that they have not finished avenging blood message this is very similar to what charles was just saying that they're hearing in baghdad it's very much the same thing here in the capital tehran and that is iran is not done with. avenging so the money's death that will come in due time it's something we've heard also from the supreme leader as well as the president earlier in december in terms of the actual events there was an event that's here on university and then there was a events that took place on saturday in seoul in monday's hometown where his body has been laid to rest and care on a number of people paid their respects to that grave and in terms of today this is a quiet day so far we heard from the rating foreign minister mohammad javad zarif

on saturday who took to twitter saying that they haven't the arabians have intelligence from iraq that the israelis might try to use instigate an attack against american forces there making it look like iran had done it or was behind it that the president u.s. president donald trump should not be fooled or tricked easily. things that have happened since a minus assassination you can say they are 2024 iranians began with that assassination and they also ended the year with another assassination of a high ranking official that is most and factories a nuclear scientists who work that iran's defense ministry he was very well versed in the country's ballistic missile program that assassination took place at the end of the just outside of the capital in broad daylight and iran blamed israel for that there is so there's been a series of sabotage as that occurred at the town's nuclear sites as. well over the summer so there's been

a flurry of activity that happened since the assassination all of which iran says points to the fact that the country is under attack one way or another and are now showing a lot of restraint but they will defend themselves if they are attacked any further for now there is some hope by their honey government that when the u.s. president elect joe biden comes into office on january 20th there will be some relief since he is said in the house that he's open to the idea of returning to that 2015 nuclear deal which would in turn have to mean that there will be some sanction relief for the iranians so that's where this things stand at the moment and that's what the cure is from iraq all right thank you for that interim. let's take a closer look and sort of mani's legacy he joined the revolutionary guard in the eighty's and fall from the front lines of the iran iraq war in the late ninety's he was appointed head of the kids for running iran's foreign ministry intend to stand

operations after $911.00 he delegated arabian and american diplomats to meet they briefly works together against the taliban before the relationship deteriorated in iraq so the money held to iran backfired his during the fight against i saw so many iraqis are also and good by iran's influence and blamed for political instability and sectarian divisions during the iraq war the u.s. says iran through the quds force and shia militias killed more than $600.00 american soldiers in syria so the money led front is backing president bashar al assad and was instrumental to that government survival throughout the civil war. he said not many attempts on his life inside iran and abroad but it would be in iraq where he was assassinated the age of 62. summits mousavi is a professor of political science at tehran university he joins us by skype from tehran thanks for your time what do you think it's changed in iran longer term as a result the sentiment is to. well i think it has really high tensions between

iran and the united states i mean iran and the united states have had hostile relations in the past 4 decades nevertheless relations have never been so bad you have to understand the awesome stealing money wasn't just a normal military general he was very close to your wrong sue crean leader and he was sort of like a celebrity in the monkey reigne and as you just pointed out he was instrumental in defeating isis and as a result of that assassinating him while the 2 countries were actually not at war was the crossing of a major red line a major red line and i think that will be very difficult to bridge once biden comes into power what about the wrong influence in iraq so the money his death had any longer term impact on that front. also so when the americans assassinated awesome soleimani the calculation was that it would serve

a severe blow to iran's influence and power in the region. and i want to say that it hasn't had any impact nevertheless i think iran's influence mainly in countries such as iraq levanon and syria or largely intact quite the contrary it has been the americans that have been on the retreat in the past year you know that their troop levels are reducing in they are reducing them in countries such as afghanistan and iraq in syria so i don't think it actually reached the objectives the americans were looking for are you concerned about the last few weeks of the trump administration the potential escalation before joe biden takes office yes so tensions unfortunately are escalating very fast the concern in tehran is that the americans are sending a lot of advanced weaponry to the region. and their excuse is that they are

preparing for the possibility of any iranian attack but the point of view from tehran is that perhaps they are using all of this as an excuse to launch a war in the next few weeks before donald trump leaves office and there are a lot of media reports the saudis and the israelis a lot being for a 1st such a war. in the wake of the attack the commander of centcom said that sort of money is death had a significant effect and establishing and reestablishing a rough form of deterrence in the theater that's a quote i know what you said earlier that the americans didn't reach their objectives but what do you think didn't serve as some form of deterrence. i really don't think so i think killing so they money was a was the crossing of a major red line. the calculation in the money when your leaders especially are told the harmony who was very close to sell

a money now is that the americans cannot be trusted i mean you're on a most successful in reaching a deal with the obama administration but the result of that was the donald trump left the deal put many sanctions on iran and killed you want most influential general so the calculation in teheran is that no matter what you do the americans will still come back and you know try to bully you around and i don't think that's going to be very easy to put aside once joe biden comes into power. we had only a about scott time as well from across one and there on the ground and amongst the u.s. troop withdrawal from iraq u.s. troop withdrawal from iraq but do you accept that some iraqis are also angry about the wrongs influence in the country. i think it's natural for other people to not have the influence of foreign powers. and i think

that's true everywhere never thought that the important thing here is that. while the rockies or asking the rains for iraq's oil not to be used as a battleground for the united states which of course which that should not happen but at the same time from teheran point of view your rocky soil should not be used as a launching pad in a in an attack against iran the killing of soleimani i think was a major intelligence gap among the iraqis i mean awesome so they money did night he was assassinated he was supposed to meet the iraqi prime minister for breakfast the very next morning so assassinating him on your blog he soil essentially put iraq in the middle between iran and the united states and of course that's unfortunate but that's something that's already happened that's for that thank you for that tom had must ave professor of political science at tehran university. i

do my head on the news are including why a group of republican senators is still supporting trump's baseless claims about the result of the november election. is essential goods will be made on affordable in libya by measures meant to shore up its economy. and support the n.b.a. player exceeding expectations after his return from a 2 year injury layouts. the world health organization has welcomed an important breakthrough in the fight against covert 19 in india 2 vaccines have been approved for emergency distribution by the country's health regulator one is the vaccine developed by oxford university and astra zeneca the other is domestically developed and produced the nationwide drills to prepare for the large scale rolled out the government wants to inoculate 300000000 people in the next 6 to 8 months at least one of the biggest and most

ambitious vaccination campaigns in the world prime minister narendra modi welcome to the approvals he called it a sign of self-reliance praising the fact that both vaccines are manufactured inside the country joining us now from put a chair is dr. amen he is a specialist on india's health care system and the global coordinator for people's health movement thank you for your time we spoke yesterday when we spoke yesterday just one vaccine had been approved now there are 21 is locally made what was your initial reaction to that use. much of the scientific community my sense is that we didn't buy stuff but i say we ought to be at action network has actually been arrested at a show and he didn't sign does have been a good job it is accident but this is not to be mature. you would need derbies going to go dry and salt all of it and then. start to really be in that big mess i made up and i why are we better be off by being up with something better but

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all of it didn't. manage. so i. mean that's a knowledge that. by being. not better may not be the lord's and. that. would be the goal why do you think. why do you think that this then has been approved so quickly do you think it's just a matter of the government wanting to be prepared to inoculate so many people or is this about being fast and being 1st. well i think it's a bald hole politically that is because for. all of the no real. you are all children all. the time boy don't go or

anything. 'd but i think i hope. this. is only for the media. after it's all did because there's a lot of find a way. to predict structure. and. i think this is being. something. this is more political there is only the acting. is going to be good all. right. thank you so much for your time here perspective from put it cherry dr amen. the u.s. has surpassed more than 350000 covered $1000.00 deaths since the pandemic began

a further 270000 people tested positive for the virus and new daily record takes the total number of cases in the united states to more than 20000000. the u.k. government is facing backlash and legal action from teaches a plans to reopen schools lawyers for a head teachers' union have written to the government demanding proof that it is safe to resume classes during the pandemic calling for remote learning to resume as a more contagious coronavirus variant spreads across the u.k. schools in parts of the country and due to reopen in the coming weeks the teachers union say that's putting the public health at risk. this comes as the u.k. has had yet another record jump in new infections announcing more than 57000 on saturday it's adding to the urgent need for widespread that the nation's 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 biotech and you

simmons joins me now live from london so a lot of developments there in the u.k. andrew just bring us up to speed what's the latest. the latest is burroughs johnson the u.k. prime minister has been interviewed on t.v. and he's from acing tens of millions of doses of vaccine being given in the next 3 months that's what he hopes he says will be the case now on monday we're going to see the roll out of her familia the start of a half a 1000000 jobs from the oxford university at astra zeneca development which is this is the approved latest approved vaccine in the u.k. giving a lot of hope to a lot of people but the government has been getting into a situation whereby there is concern amongst the backbone of community health in the u.k. a general practitioners there a furious about suggestions and recommendations from the government to get the best

out of the situation they will actually not abide by the recommended dosage for the pfizer drug which is the 1st dose followed 21 days later by the 2nd dose but actually to delay that 2nd dose so it was a get more. or out there in the way of resource to get more vaccines now that is quite sensitive ground for health care professionals and indeed for these g.p.'s who say this should not be the case that they should really do it as recommended earlier so you've got that going on and you also have as you've touched on in your introduction the situation with the backbone of education in the u.k. teachers threatening not to go to their classrooms on monday for the primary schools these are the under eleven's in the u.k. because they don't feel safe now boris johnson again in that interview

a short time ago said no no it's old down to public health advice but his government has made a u. turn already. in the capital closing all schools for at least an extra 2 weeks before returning these primary schools when originally that was not the case it was a patchy sort of return to school know what the biggest union for teachers is saying is that the government should not be doing this they should close all schools until they're absolutely sure so really apache situation but the government is insisting that it has the most successful so far in the vaccine programs the biggest bigger than europe a 1000000 doses already distributed we'll see how that runs out in the coming week all right thank you for that as you symonds live in london. zimbabwe has ended its 2nd national markdown for the next 30 days only essential locations like hospitals pharmacies and supermarkets will be open and an overnight curfew is in place is

going to huge spike in infections over the holiday season in a country already struggling with a deepening economic crisis soaring inflation and high unemployment. 11 republican senators say they'll refuse to certify joe biden's election victory the group led by senator ted cruz plan to objects when electoral college results are tallied in congress on january 6th but they need a majority in both chambers to uphold the objection president donald trump has refused to concede defeat repeating baseless claims of electoral fraud chipper tansey is following this from washington d.c. he explains why some republicans are supporting trump's false claims about vote. there are a lot of theories but this group of 11 senators drawings and other services under george surely just 12 started says who say they will be challenging the certification process or the 6 of judges that's always a quarter of the republican senators and over a half of congress republican congress people are expected to challenge the results

in the house or so why are they doing it well really this 11 this group of 11 says they're doing it not because they they intend to overturn the results but because they won't the 39 percent of americans who feel that the election was rigged to have better say so very kind of threading this needle perhaps off of keeping true to a trump base who could publish them enormously over the next 4 years either in primary challenges before the 2022. midterm elections or if they have presidential election issues themselves they could be in trouble if they were seen to be not sufficiently trumpy and when they have the trolls and the trump base is still going to be a big part of republican politics it's a very seemed to be the reasons why they're putting up the symbolic fight but it's not going to change anything we think in the homes of the most senior politicians in the u.s. mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi have been targeted by vandals angry about congress' failure to increase funding to help people struggling to turn the pandemic a senate majority leader's home in kentucky was covered in spray paint with explosives

and messages like where's my money close he's home in san francisco was also spray painted with graffiti and a pig's head in fake blood but left the front door. police in pakistan have arrested 20 of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 mumbai attacks stockier ayman locks he was detained in the eastern city of lahore on saturday on charges of financing terrorism in a separate case he's already suspected of planning the mumbai seach in which 166 people were killed. was detained days afterwards but a pakistani court released him on bail in 2015. at least 11 coal miners have been shot dead after being kidnapped in pakistan's blotch start reaching armed militants took them from the coal fields and opened fire several others were injured and investigation is now underway so far no one has claimed responsibility the miners belong to a community of minorities she has our muslims. still ahead on al-jazeera we are in

argentina's wetlands to meet those trying to protect its extraordinary wildlife and reverse decades of damage. fast and falsetto with the red planet and updates on the progress of china's monster probably. at its core the penalties frustrated teen with their eyes on the top of general league tables. hello once again we've got more very wet weather into central parts of the mets right in plenty of snow was where you can see this massive storms just swirling away that is a rare of low pressure around the low will the winds travel in an attic like clockwise direction and so that's putting up warm moist air op into a good part of italy through into the balkans and not a little further north is where that warmer bumps into the cooler air that's where

we're seeing some very heavy rain significant snowfall which will gradually make its way across greece into that western side of the a fair bit of rain the snow it's a pushing into remaining a little quieter into central pass but without the poles but it's there when you've got these temperatures very close to freezing beilin one degree celsius 5 celsius there for london 3 degrees in paris are picking up that easterly wind never a pleasant direction particularly at this time of year in the cold swings all the way background across spain and portugal more of the same as we go on into choose to choose day we'll see more the way of rain the snow coming in across the northern half of at least pushing up into poland still just up there into a good part of to keep making its way east was disturbed weather too across the northwest of africa with a possibility some heavy snow for much of morocco. but . take the worst possible material eurabia ground

into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live it is a cause colossal event. as well and so many people are thinking this is the silent heat. but doesn't make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera 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 india and minister kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate these type of food that we simply don't know if we can teach you to bring you more award winning documentaries and life needs on air and online.

the. the world. you're watching are just there a reminder of our top stories this hour crowds are gathering in the center of baghdad to mark one years since the u.s. assassination of iran's top general some sort of money it was killed by a drone strike near baghdad's international airport. india's drug regulator has approved to grow out of ours that seems from urgency use the oxford astra zeneca jab and another produced by indian drug maker bot biotech the world health organization says it's important breakthrough. u.k. prime minister cross johnson says over half a 1000000 oxford astra zeneca vaccines will be ready to administer by monday it

follows another record jump of new infections announcing more than 57700 on saturday. more than 70 people have been killed in 2 attacks on villages in western asia it happened in the to bury region an unstable area neighboring mali and the need fighters from armed groups linked to al qaida and i saw across that in l.t. the porous borders let's talk to armitage racin the shias capital the army what more do we know about these latest attacks. well an official confirmed yesterday that the number of people killed in one particular village is more than 50 and already the defense minister is on his way to the region to assess the situation initial suspicion fell on groups that have been active in that area mostly crossing in from mali and targeting civilians and military what the official told us was that there was so far so far there was no

casualty on the military side but the one of the villages a time was actually less than 20 kilometers from military bases in the region in monkeys monger's i so right now officials are saying that dozens more have been taken to hospital and some homes have been destroyed in the aftermath of the attack what we are not sure of right now is whether or not these attacks are carried out by the regular armed groups that have been infiltrating border into directing music to live in a region from mali and broken a fossil or by. fighters belonging to several communities of war in that area that area has also been rocked by communal violence that doesn't lead to several deaths in the past. thank you for that live for us. where the attack is just the latest in a region that's been blighted by violence for almost

a decade around $5000.00 french troops are deployed in western sahara they're supporting local forces in the fight against various armed groups including boko haram and others legs to eisele and al qaeda mali and became a fossil have been worst hit but there's been an increase in attacks in the share thousands of civilians have been killed in the un refugee agency says 2700000 people have been forced to flee their homes but the ob conflict is just one of many threats facing people of the region is also food insecurity climate change and of course covert 19. is a lecture at the university of aberdeen in scotland and author of inherent and contemporary challenges to african security joins us now live from aberdeen thank you for your time here on the news hour tell us one of the aims of these groups carrying out these attacks if they're literally going into remote villages carrying out massacres of civilians what's the modus operandi here. thank you very much for having me ken. i think with this attacks as your report rightly

say there are both the link between it took established groups already known linked to al-qaeda. linked to isis and also be a local dynamics is a region that the attackers happened is wardak or did try a border region couldn't it cannot cross so mali and there we also have a number of different ethnic groups and there's been no groups that have each shoes between themselves or the issues to do with identity issues to do with land and all of that so they always many dynamics between this is these groups but most importantly as you mentioned in that group is the fact that elections that just keep in part taking place. and there is some sort of international attention

so this kind of what you need to be approaching is keep a t.v. good morning. a time when is don't have around this kind of period so disorder many dynamics going on to justify this particular incident speaking of that vote i mean is trying to have its 1st peaceful transfer of power since independence and how does this history of political insecurity play into what we're seeing today. it very much part of the political insecurity in the whole region is the main one of the key problems in. the states in the somehow i just keep people all dealing with the problems that the big things for example is one of the poorest countries are not about 20 percent population depend on food aid so we're not talking about poverty we're talking about beyond poverty here so

they've been in challenges facing these dates is simply to keep the ball of dealing with it and whether you have elections or you don't have elections this issue's keep coming and i've been here or nigeria to talk about this many times but sure as how repeated it is issues are so it's really time for the international community for africans governments do think that you know what is really going on this states are now working how do we really bend this dates in the 21st century to meet the challenges facing with a climate change will raise communal violence whether it's islam is i'm all for all of this things are now open for everyone to see is just how do you deal with it no one seems to understand we see just more violence like you mentioned our friends our courses there you have the jihad by some have foresees you have. in you have all sorts of the e.u.

or the or groups there but nothing changes it's still the same thing every day an attack in mali and attacking another in booking of christ or another in nigeria which are the same story over and over again so it's really time for us to rethink what is happening and that main thing is the political crisis in keep people's deeds and then we look at how to address climate change the cheap food insecurity and communal violence thanks i think your analysis of modern the can say they're an actor at the university of aberdeen in scotland. and you can have a devaluation of libya's currency has taken effect a move it's hoped will help the economy exchange rates have varied across the country because of the conflicts the back market and bank notes printed brought by to try to report sell from misrata 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 enormous 2 dollars while the official rate was $1.00 do you know ours a lack of availability of u.s. dollars in banks created a black market which it currently trades at $5.00 dinners 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 easterner branches base in benghazi stronghold of warlords relief to 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 notes increased inflation in an already

struggling economy here in this market people tell us prices for goods are going up . there are long lines at the banks they give you $500.00 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 in 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 hear that the price of every day goods may increase as a result abdulhamid is a professor of the economy he says prices may increase in the short term the devaluation was the right choice to make in the long term and. the central bank didn't have any other choice but to take this 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 in see the rate stabilize after the 1st quarter for libyans the next few months will likely get harder before they get better trainer. misrata. residents of sydney will face a $150.00 fine for failing to comply with new compulsory mask rules for midnight on sunday face coverings will be mandatory in shopping centers places of worship transport and other public venues yourself whilst police say the fines will be a last resort for enforcing the measures come as the state reports 8 new coronavirus infections 5 links to a cost in western city. if you don't have a good excuse will you be found. we understand that there are people who for example may have been ill at home and have not been. there on their way to for example a pharmacy or shop to buy

a mask those are issues which are very good wells police members will take into account in the next few days. but at the end of the day it is no time for avoiding masks it is now a time for wearing masks please ensure you do a rising number of cases in south korea is forcing many communities to cancel economically vital terrorist events. and travel to a county in the mountains near the border with north korea to see how it's dealing with the loss of its annual i specced of all children 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 county's annual ice 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. dri have been putting our heads together to research and develop ways that we can sell our fish and deceased a 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. the town itself is hurting to the harsh winter in these mountains normally produces ice that is solid enough to support crowds of visitors and beneath it pristine waters but conflicts there in matters of 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 during the pandemic and restaurant owners like lee jones soon were counting on the influx of ice festival visitors who won't now becoming. passionate about push him and it's been difficult for everyone small businesses and employees no one has been spared it's also hurting the other towns around here who supplies with produce everyone here is hoping that by the time the ice breaks up and melts away their loss so be seeing an end to the pandemic rob mcbride al-jazeera watch on county south korea. norwegian rescue is a searching for 6 more people including children after a village was buried in a landslide on wednesday at least 4 people have died only helicopter rescue operations are possible because the ground is unstable or than a 1000 people have been evacuated from their homes in and around the village of ask

25 kilometers northeast of the capital. china's space agency says it expects the mars probe when one to enter the red planet's orbit next month probus been in space for $163.00 days and traveled 400000000 kilometers so far after entering mars orbit it will spend about 3 months checking out potential landing sites before touching down in may since its launch last july the miles probes captured an image showing both earth and the moon as well as taking several selfies are such a me to say as i write about the probe is flying at a speed of about 23 kilometers per 2nd which is 2000000 kilometers per day that's relative speed to the earth now is about 21 kilometers per 2nd bettors 1800000 kilometers per day it is flying about 200000 kilometers per day towards mars the probe is flying faster and faster as it gets away from the sun's gravity argentina

is it better wetlands are one of the most biodiverse regions in the world but of the last few decades have been severely impacted by industrial farming conservation groups are now working to reverse that which there is of all reports from a better national park in this. event or means in the local indigenous what 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 long trying to change in a sort of noticeable condoleezza that i mean the hell 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. at least jaguars now will and i seas 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. he's. going to be set free this is

likely the last contact we will have with him so we had to get all the possible samples the cheese and then buy a mint in the area. 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 service rewilding 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 the pumpers dia the tourist start 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 their beers they brought here have started to reproduce. but it is here where we found medicine and her cub. was born in the region and says attitudes in this rural area are slowly changing. there's lots of people that have never been here they did not know that it was a natural reserve sometimes they get messages when they let me know they saw a bear they're starting to become aware that it's not ok to hunt you. argentina has tough economic problems to deal with and that's not being helped by

the corona virus 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 alternative work opportunities that would convince locals to protect the natural wealth they already have. already in this argentina. one of portugal's most renowned singers has died at the age of 81 kabul stick autumn all was known as the sinatra of music who crossed the. border. to go has declared monday a national day of mourning 24 tane locata mall was the 1st portuguese artist to receive a lesson in grammy lifetime achievement award he died of heart of questions on new year's day all being treated and then this but hospital. still ahead on al-jazeera

and sports stage one of the world's toughest off-road rally is underway and he's here with that story. the big. water 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 lloyd's. approach what about the guy that can afford it and that guy still needs water. al-jazeera examines the social financial and environmental impact of war to privatisation loads of water on al-jazeera the british iraqi journalist who's visualizing complex statistics and a simple. i think your office a summary sites of opportunities to break apart from most systems of power and to collect data in a way that makes a represents different community challenging mainstream misconceptions i hope the

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the argentinian was in charge when you saw tottenham for 5 years before leaving the club at the end of 2019 the player will do when want to live through fees. we are here to try to quell the club on the players. to achieve what they won in the same time we have been asked of course to achieve them. to. remember and that's the. afternoon playing football in part of the brands with i would fancy. yes. and waitin. to the to the fans come back to the part of the brands and make it plain no fly. ramit have gone top of spain's league after a tuna when have a sort of a go goes for me because vast question mark or a sense you're deciding this game at let's come dread just a point behind them with 3 matches in hand they play hours later this sunday so now

i'll be live say give me top of the german league after a 10 when i was stood got still got keeper gridlock coble headroom is best to keep watch to get base saving up and we'll see from forsberg that i am a eventually got past him in the 2nd half leipzig are quite clear if i mean if you take on mine it's a little late so. because it is going from pile of accused ins and they're doing a merry. it's gave his team the lead away on track frankfurt's would have taken him top of the table. but frank foer hit back and went on so when see one an own goal here from became a fast so defender edmonds outside over giving them the victory the manchester city manager has hit back at comments made by premier league rivals everton everts an unhappy that last monday's game against city was called off shoots 3 city players testing positive for corona virus on the day of the match a total of 5 city players unavailable for the fixture at chelsea later on this

sunday because of coverage 19 but that game is set to go ahead of their collapse making a statement complaining there were days when he just did get about the help the u.k. is that a. lot of good people are doing in being good to me needed a really a local of people so we're going to miss it so the world is. there are lots of people work in chelsea within our bubble who have diabetes parents friends sisters brothers whoever grandparents and they come here and go to work and then they go home and obviously are in the environment where we were in another surge of car which seems to be more contagious just the right word than than we previously thought or is so i think safety and security is absolutely paramount now john wall is continuing his successful comeback to the n.b.a. he led the houston rockets to victory against the sacramento kings after spending

the last 2 years out with injury the 30 year old made his return to supply just this way all scoring 28 points also 6 assists this james harden sent this one out due to injury the rockets beating the kings want to take the 94 banks about wins against sacraments. last year has been a lot of you know me a lot of adversity a lower. voice no injuries. more and school. you know with the pain they make all those i would add into it i just put a lot of work into the case and try to get myself back to day. it's a new orleans pelicans came out on top in a tight contest against a strong star raptors random ingram's calls $31.00 points for the telecoms wells and williamson added $21.00 more the game outside of it was at that sos 3 pointer to make sure all there when you're on for once when you see 116th actress new

zealand have a shot so i think number one in the world test cricket rankings that's taking on pakistan in christ church in the 2nd and final test of that series is a father who was making his test debut for pakistan with cats and still ruled out with an injury pakistan just lost out in the 1st test of the series they were all out that c. 197 on day one. carl jamieson taking 5 wickets. and then of arrived in sri lanka for 2 test series the matches should have taken place in march for the tours a bounden duty coronavirus immense in confirming all players and support staff and tested negative for covert 19 prior to their departure and the 1st stage of the world's toughest off road rally is under way in saudi arabia it's day one of the dakar rally over the next couple of weeks competitors or aim to complete a route that covers more than 7000 kilometers there are 5 vehicle categories spain's color signs he is the defending car champion ok more from

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