one minute to. it took the family months to build their brick house and less than an hour to see it get demolished. al-jazeera. had them given al this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a large crowd gathers in baghdad's capitol to mark a years since the u.s. assassinated iranian general cause some sort of. india approves to vaccines for a merge it's a use paving the way for 300000000 people to get immunized. as the share prepares for a presidential run of vote attack is raid 2 villages killing more than 70 people plus

. i robot royd in south korea up the mountain town famous for its ice festival that has plenty of ice and though festival. and in sports a new era is underway at perri star in germany where it's sharp or should say no promising to bring titles and style to the friendship. forgiveness news are in iraq where for hours now a massive crowd has gathered in the capital to mark one years since the u.s. assassinated iran's top general said mommy was killed in a drone strike near baghdad's international airport protesters are demanding u.s. forces withdraw from iraq randi because it's a valid retaliation and tensions between tehran and washington have escalated in the lead up to this anniversary charles stratford is at the protests in baghdad with more. thousands of people gathered there intolerance. square in central

baghdad a square that has seen so many protests over the last year the message though today very clear. is people are demanding the fos withdrawal of all remaining u.s. military personnel from this country. and many of them a still demanding revenge for the assassination of cos i'm still a mommy that happened close to the airport in that u.s. drone strike a year ago. many of them are very angry not only with the us but they're angry with the leader of this country well i'm a club they are a community chaos medical what i like the image of the iraqi government is the same as the american government they're just working what i'm talkin interests would have to expend u.s. forces from iraq in general but nothing has happened if i really can still leave on their own accord even force them to be with our blood. their own people i made a step only step timetable for the phone with soul of u.s. military personnel from this country the people here say he is not trying to take

that off now there is no clear indication as to how the incoming 5 minute ministration in the u.s. will respond to the situation in this country one that many people here say is increasingly being dominated by neighboring iraq certainly the people in tahrir square today say the only way iraq's dignitary and sovereignty can be restored is if all u.s. military personnel leave this country and say. and sounds mentioned there's mounting pressure on iraqi prime minister mustapha that me on the anniversary of the monies assassination how they meet reiterated that iraq can all be a battleground for regional tensions i meant in the you will at the peak as month from day one in office i work towards defusing crises steering iraq away from a looming regional and global war iraq has been suffering for long as a result of wars it has not found stability since the 1960 s.

iraq is in no position to go to war as we have already lost many lives to wars therefore this government has been working hard to steer iraq away from the swirl of wars. well take a closer look at so the money is legacy he joined the revolutionary guard in the eighty's and forth on the front lines of the iran iraq war and the late ninety's he was appointed head of the could running iran's foreign ministry intend to stand operations after $911.00 he delegated iranian and american diplomats to meet it briefly works together against the taliban before the relationship deteriorated in iraq so the money helped iran back fine says during the fight against many iraqis are also angered by iran's influence and blame to run 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 american soldiers in syria so the money lead finally is backing president bashar assad and

was instrumental to that government survival throughout the civil war he survived many attempts on his life inside iran and abroad but it would be in iraq where he was assassinated at the age of $62.00. in tehran with more on what the situation looks like a year after his death. things that have happened since the miners 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 are 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 israel for that there is so there's been a sin there's a series of sabotage is that occurred at the tense nuclear site 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 they 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 belief since he's he's said in the past 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 thing stands at the moment and that's what the picture is from tehran. let's get the american perspective now she is live for us in washington d.c. she have not long to go now until joe biden's inauguration trump was very tough on iran will anything change. with joe biden's inauguration we're told we will expect change not least because joe biden wants to return to the jay jay c.p.o.

way the iranian nuclear deal as it was originally negotiated that's something that's always being stressed it's clear that areas allies of the united states are saying oh look around is on the ropes that steps be much tougher in any negotiations but the biden team are always very clear that they're going back to it as it was signed and you can sort of see why because jake sullivan joe biden's national security adviser is one of those who negotiated the j.c. pierre way the idea of them that they would try to negotiate a tougher deal it was going to look very good for him it actually will sort of suggest that the original deal wasn't tough enough so you can see why they're very keen just to go back to the deal as it was they haven't ruled out further negotiations on follow on deals afterwards but then i mean just there with iran certainly we're expecting there to be to be that key moment which will hopefully lead to less heightened tension between between the 2 countries at the very least shout protest as in iraq a calling for u.s. troops to pull out what's the perspective on that from washington.

i suppose one way to answer that is to look at the experience that we've had now with 2 presidencies 2 presidents came into office vowing to remove troops from iraq and elsewhere to end endless wars donald trump then the 2nd president after president obama to failed in that mission now we're seeing this flurry of activity but even that only reduction to 2500 troops in iraq and as we've seen with donald trump's other troop drawdowns what usually happens there is it's not an end to endless war and bringing the troops back home often these troops just redeployed elsewhere in the region with a view to being on call effectively in all these other these other nations what we've also seen from all the books that have been written about the donald trump presidency concurrently with donald trump's presidency is that whatever adult trump values to bring troops home he's effectively quite slow road by the pentagon they

stand in the way of donald trump's attempts to take to bring troops back from various this is in the world and then boast about it you know to bob woodward and others the latest national defense authorization agreement that was passed one of the reasons why donald trump vetoed it was members of the senate lynne cheney dick cheney's daughter who's a senator you know call it like a like a father put in with democratic help. obstacles to withdrawing from afghanistan and iraq so they have to be like certification assessments that have to go to congress before any troops are given money to withdrawal so that was a failure of brock obama about talks about how he boasts in his books about how he brought 150000 troops back from iraq we have to remember he didn't want those 150000 troops to be removed from iraq they were they were desperately trying to negotiate with the iraqi government and pollens to try and keep the status of forces agreement on the president bush intact in a key part of that was giving american troops legal immunity which the iraqi parliament wasn't going to have so don't so obama was forced to remove those troops

but in the end he ended up surging more troops back into iraq anyway but what's interesting about biden since since we've mentioned him and you can't really avoid him is that he says the reason he picked defense secretary lloyd austin defense secretary nominee lloyd austin because it was because he was the one who oversaw the withdrawal of the 150000 troops from iraq the one of the biggest operations and american military history so that's interesting biden was never a fan of surges was never a fount of wars was never a fan of mass deployment of troops famously against a lot of obama's foreign policy adventures but what he does believe in there is rapid reaction force is what he said is he wants a force of 2000 troops in the middle east in a friendly country but who are prepared to deploy whenever they need it so what does that mean for solve them tea and dignity as we had in charles stratford's piece does some clear as well it's a bug he wants a small force in the middle east and not necessarily huge troop masses but he still wants to be in the middle east and he also wants the ability to strike wherever he

wants 7 times and washington d.c. thank you for. lebanon's hezbollah movement also commemorated the anniversary of qassam sort of mani's assassination members of the shia group raised a flag of sort of the slain iraqi commander of all. this while facing the border with israel so the money was reportedly in beirut before arriving in iraq where he was killed. by the more head on the news are including u.k. prime minister expects tens of millions to be vaccinated in the next 3 months but health bosses are skeptical. where an argentine is a bit out wetlands to meet those trying to protect its extraordinary wildlife reversed decades of damage. and in sport the n.b.a. player exceeding expectations soften his return from a 2 year injury the health. india's

drug regulator has approved 2 covered 19 vaccines and is preparing to roll out the world's largest immunization campaign yet both the oxford astra zeneca jab and other made by indian drug maker biotech have been approved for emergency use shelob else reports. outside the was a story here the rain thunder and lightning lit up the delhi sky but india with the worst conditions in 2020 recorded more than 10000000 cases of coded 19 and around 150000 deaths inside at a news conference in delhi on sunday he was hope that storm may pass off arctic grid examination. the 30 years your has decided to come and be found subject court and accordingly that scene from missouri and brought up by it they are being uprooted forest repaired was an emergency situation the announcement was

a formality the begins the world's biggest vaccination campaign against corona virus. one vaccine was developed by oxford astra zeneca and another by indian drug maker biotech both a cheaper and easier to distribute than other covert $900.00 vaccines although they both require 2 doses and must be stored between 2 and 8 degrees the ox with estrogenic a jab has an efficacy of 70 percent and will be distributed by the serum institute of india the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines its c.e.o. tweeted it would be ready to roll out in the coming weeks india's prime minister narendra modi responded with congratulations tweeting a decisive turning point to strengthen a spirited fight it would make every indian proud that the 2 vaccines that have been given emergency use approval made in india. india hopes to vaccinate 300000000 people within the next 8 months

a quarter of its population to do that it's been holding nationwide drools so far almost 100000 health workers have been trained to give the shots we expect but in demand will continue to be high and what. do you think troubles women face in the initial rollout stages should hopefully be tackled real time behind the united states india is the most covert infected nation these approvals give hope the developing nations won't be left behind in the fight against the virus shelob ellis al-jazeera. the u.s. says the past more than 350000 covered 19 deaths since the pandemic began a further 270000 people tested positive for the virus and new daily record that takes the total number of cases in the united states to more than 20000000. british prime minister bronze johnson expects tens of millions of people will be immunized of the next 3 months he says half

a 1000000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine will be ready on monday the u.k.'s seen yet another record jump in new infections with almost 58000 on saturday and the u.k. government is facing backlash and legal action teaches of a plans to reopen schools lawyers for head teachers union have written to the government demanding proof that it is safe to resume promises during the pandemic schools amounts of the country due to reopen in the coming weeks the teachers unions say that's putting the public's health at risk well as are some of the joins me now live from london andrew boss johnson is saying he hopes to have tens of millions of doses distributed over the coming 3 months is that logistically possible. yes people are trying to work out whether that's possible right now there are a lot of health care professionals who are very skeptical about this there are also suggestions that maybe a slight sort of question of the wording of this because the chief medical officers

a few days ago where saying that by the end of march there will be tens of millions of doses available either way it doesn't seem that the u.k. is in a good position with this in the sense that it has access to more of the vaccine than other places the only question is that there just ticks and there is some research that's taken place already suggesting that only one in 4 of only one in 4 people in the u.k. are now in a position whereby they can't get the vaccination centers that are near them so that is a rather disturbing figure there are plans to roll out more centers of the key issue to it all is the release on monday of 530000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca. vaccine which is much more easy to distribute and also to to actually give compared to the pfizer a vaccine which needs

a more complicated process before vaccination and also the government is hoping that this vaccine the pfizer in only having the 1st doses initially canceling the 2nd doses or postponing the 2nd doses is going to give more production rates but those are all really moves to try and get this thing moving more quickly but the guarantee of tens of millions before march well again skepticism about whether or not that's another boris johnson promise that isn't quite accurate remains to be seen and i wonder as we were saying earlier some teaches in the u.k. feel it's really not safe to go back to school in the next few weeks what are the chances the government might backtrack or chris strike of sorts be on account of. again the jury is out on that one that has been a huge turn already in the capitol where there was a large proportion of schools are not reopening and we say schools we're talking

about the early returns which will be for the under eleven's the primary schools in the u.k. all london schools now are going to be closed for at least 2 weeks the primary schools in a government u. turn but johnson has said on sunday that he feels that in the rest of the country they can go back to school most of them they would take the advice of public health authorities as far as the teachers are concerned the biggest trade union representing teachers says full stop that teachers should not return to school they should not go back to the classrooms this coming week until there's an absolutely cost on guarantee the full safety is in place and that there is no risk that right now is something the government possibly as you alluded to earlier may backtrack on it won't be the 1st time but as far as boris johnson is concerned

right now he's saying if the advice is you can go back to school that's what you should do that's really really a point of great consternation at the moment and the situation here also is that the government and the n.h.s. are putting out the message that the u.k. is ahead of the rest of the world in getting vaccinations underway but it has to be said that the u.k. is no exception to the trend that most countries if not all in europe are behind the curve of this rapid out of control increase in the infection rates in the 5th day running the u.k. as recorded a record figures there in a bad position in terms of the infection rate in the new variant being involved so this race against time for the vaccine is key and the. political points being made but should should be some people some official saying put them aside for now all the corporation possible is needed on the european point of view the you is

emphasizing it's not so much a question of distribution it's a question of the manufacture of the vaccine that's the problem in europe but has to be said they have a much slower process of actual approving the vaccines in europe than elsewhere and certainly in the u.k. ok andrew simmons there live from london thank you for more than 70 people have been killed in 2 attacks on villages in western knees where it happened in the tilbury region an unstable area neighboring mali became faster binny fighters from groups linked to al qaeda and i saw a cross in an out by the porous borders the specter of interests who is in the shias capital the army med just give us an update what more do we know about these latest attacks. right now the very high powered government delegation is visiting the area mongers a in particular where there is

a military base 20 kilometers away from that military bases where the attack happened on the 1st village where more than 50 people were confirmed dead and the minister we understand is also visiting the 2nd village to see the situation there said yesterday no official was willing to commit to how many people were killed in that village but what we're hearing now is the total number of persons killed in those villages have exceeded 70 and officials are insisting that no military casualty in that attack no group has claimed responsibility but like you said in the introduction we've seen armed groups across thing over from burkina faso to launch attacks in that area to liberia in particular now. we understand also that the government has sent reinforcement and also a team to go and search the area to run after the attack is if they're still within the sheer territory i am ed of course is

a sensitive time in the country the 1st round of elections have and no one was declared the outright winner it's going to a runoff election next month could these attacks have any impact on that. i think the genre seen worse attacks before and that didn't impact very much on plans of or on things last year i remember last year there were more than 70 military personnel that were killed in one attack by these armed groups operating from mali. one of the armed groups insisted that if you killed more than 100 people the government is going with more than 70 people killed or most of the military officers now what. expecting that whoever wins the table rerun of will be id quickly prepared to deal with the situation or build upon what has so far been achieved to keep the numbers down the candidate the leading candidate is

of course was of course a former foreign minister and also former minister of interior and then his opponent in the runoff is in fact a former president of this country so nice here in thinking that these people are at least know the terrain and i please we have an idea of how to deal with these problems whether it's going to impact in the elections it's an image remains to be seen however the fears that were that these groups will attack and even stop the elections did not happen during the 1st round of the voting so an insurance are expecting things should be calmer and they vote in a president who probably can build on the successes recorded so far as there's a mad interests in the army thank you. well you tack in asia is just the latest in a region that's been blighted by violence for almost a decade around 5000 french troops are deployed in western sahara supporting local

forces in the fight against various armed groups including book and others links to eisele and al qaeda mali advocated faso have been worst his there's been an increase in attacks in the share thousands of civilians have been killed and the u.n. agency refugee agency rather says 2700000 people have been forced to flee their homes but the armed conflict is just one of many threats facing the people of the region there's also food insecurity climate change and covert 19. is a lecturer at the university of aberdeen in scotland and author of inherent and contemporary challenges to african security he says the violence is partly fueled by local ethnic divisions. this region that the attackers happened is where the core did try border region couldn't get enough gas so marmion year we also have a number of different ethnic groups and different communal groups that have between themselves are the issues to do with identity issues to do with land and all of

that so they there are always many dynamics between this is these groups but most importantly here is the fact that elections are just a peon part taking place in egypt and there is some sort of international attention so this kind of what you need to be approaching need keep activities get. a time when is don't want her around this kind of period so there's so many dynamics going on to justify this particular incident the political insecurity in the whole region is the main one of the key problems in. the states in this somehow i just keep people or dealing with the problems that the bay of pigs for example need is one of the poorest countries on earth about 20 percent of the just population depend on food aid so we're we're not talking about poverty we're

talking about beyond poverty here so that the main challenges facing these dates is simply incapable of dealing with at least 17 people have died after a roof collapse at a predatory in india is so tough to gestate $21.00 people of a rescued from the rubble and according to a government official foreigners had come to attend a man's last rites and took shelter in the building from heavy rain when they were felling aside after the weather has evidence. hello we have a tropical cycle now affecting australia this is tropical cyclone image and it's well it's the typical low strengthens in the gulf of carpentaria and now it's throwing some very heavy rain across northern parts of queensland around the cape york peninsula as it goes through the next 24 hours or so damaging winds gusting to around 75 kilometers per hour some very heavy rain the rain i suspect will be the significant feature widespread flooding is likely over towards kansas that system

drifts a little further east was funny a shower was stabbed the eastern side of the road across that eastern side of new south wales eastern parts of victoria some wet weather also making its way into new zealand's further west this fine in try for perth a very different story warm sunshine here temperatures around 36 degrees now as cold crisp sunshine across a good parts of northern china and it's getting colder still. clear skies here temperatures in beijing struggling to get to around freezing not too great there in south korea as well we will see some snow coming in across the korean peninsula and yet we're back in the snow there $400.00 shoe and also for more of that as we go on into choose day by choose day central to china could also catch one or 2 braincells . still ahead on al-jazeera faster and faster toward the red planet update on the progress of time is miles probably. central goods will be made on affordable and

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illegal ever talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are huge refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to being more. watching al-jazeera or a mind of our top stories this hour thousands are gathering in the center of baghdad to mark one year since the us assassination of iran's top general cut some sort of money he was killed by a drone strike at baghdad's international airport. india's drug regulator has

approved 2 coronavirus vaccines for emergency use one is the oxford astra zeneca jab and the other is produced by indian drug mica biotech the world health organization says it's an important break. u.k. prime minister abbas johnson expects tens of millions will be vaccinated in the next 3 months he says over half a 1000000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine will be ready by monday. in the u.s. congress is set for some new faces with a new sessions that set to start later today democrats kept control of the house of representatives in november the balance of power in the senate is set to be decided by runoff elections in georgia on tuesday and joining me now to talk about this is scott lucas he's in birmingham he is a professor at the university of birmingham and co-founder of america unfiltered it's in news and analysis sites on american politics and foreign policy thank you for your time as always mr lucas so this is largely ceremonial right everything

getting under way again but with republicans objecting to certify the election results later this week it is still a big week for u.s. politics isn't it oh exactly today is just simply that the new members of the house and the senate will be sworn in to take their seats and there are quite a few of them from both parties but there really is nothing of substance to the fireworks start in the next 72 hours on tuesday we have these 2 vital run offs for senate seats in georgia that will determine whether republicans or democrats have a slim majority in that opportunity for and then on wednesday what should be a straightforward process to confirm joe biden as president a lot is going to be turned into a spectacle but 12 republican senators by within $140.00 republican representatives who took effect are going to refuse to accept the november election are going to insist there not be a sort of occasion of biden which of course will reinforce donald trump's ongoing

attempt through descent formation to claim that he was robbed of the vote that will have repercussions he won't change by being president that will still occur in january the 20th but it's pointing to a serious split in the republican party for the rest of 2020 let's talk about that the split in the republican party how much of a factoring is there in that party right now. i think the republican party is probably at its most critical point 0 month since the 1930 s. when it suffered a humility humiliating landslide defeat franklin roosevelt and the reason why i say that is that you actually have 2 groups within the same party you have the established republicans who will disagree on policy with democrats they'll probably possibly to obstruct the by the ministration but they'll play within the rules they'll play within the system and then you have donald trump who of course doesn't play by the rules who trashes u.s. agencies who criticizes members of the republican party if they don't agree with

him and now it's not just donald trump it's these republican senators and these representatives who whether it's for their own political futures whether it's because they want to join the trump a spectacle they have for what is in effect an insurgent foundation and that is going to be very difficult for the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to control when his priority was to be how can we try to sort of push back on the by the destruction and prepared to retake power in 2022. you go to an insurgent faction why is this in so it's a faction refusing to satisfy the results when their man donald trump is on the way out i mean are they looking ahead to another potential trump run a what do you think the calculation is there. because they think a lot of people support donald trump out of the united states and they're right that there's a significant minority there was a poll taken last month which amounts to republican voters said who would you support for president in 2024 doll trumped up 54 percent support the 2nd most was

mike pence the current vice president with 12 percent so some of these insurgent republicans or ted cruz and josh ali both senators they want to be president in 2024 so they are facing the possibility they would have to deal with trump if he tries to run and avoids being in prison and of course of trump doesn't run they want to climb all those trump voters and these really isn't on the basis of policies and issues there are there are policies amongst the troposphere it's on slogans and soundbites which means it's not just the republican party that i think basis for their damage is the american system that continues to be a threat despite the outcome of november's election if it a tad attention to the democrats i mean they kept control of the house of representatives but only just i mean there is a going to be some soul searching going on there to well there really has been some soul searching i mean that the democrats of course you know have a wide range of of opinions as well from the center across to what you might call

the progressive wing but the reason why i think the split in the democratic party is not as serious is because there is general agreement on a couple of things 1st of all there's general agreement. my apologies we seem to have lost scott lucas that was scott lucas a professor at the university of birmingham let's return now to the coronavirus pandemic residents of sydney australia will face a $150.00 fine for failing to comply with new compulsory ma schools from midnight on sunday face coverings will be mandatory shopping centers places of worship transport and other public venues south wales police say the fines will be a last resort for enforcing the measures come as the state reports 8 new grown virus infections 5 links to a pastor in western sydney. some bob has entered its 2nd national lockdown for the next 30 days only essential locations like hospitals pharmacies and supermarkets will be open and an 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. experts in the u.k. have warned that the pandemic is taking its toll on mental health the stress of successive lock downs and the economic fallout has given rise to depression and anxiety previously healthy people the country's leading psychologists called it the biggest risk to mental health since world war 2 we're joining us now from london is donna dawson she's a psychologist and a personality behavior specialist thank you for your time. well a guardian newspaper investigation says more than 6000000 people in the u.k. received antidepressants in the 3 months to september that was the highest figure on record but i want to talk to you about this more globally i guess it's not just a u.k. thing is that with the lack of funding for talking therapy are you concerned about the global impact that an increased use of and to use that antidepressants might have. well i think we all have to be concerned about it it is inevitable in in the

times of pandemic but we are understanding of depression is not complete there are lots of different things that cause depression fall to regulation of mood in the brain genetic susceptibility stress medical problems or you know other issues such as medications you might already be on so it's in the future in an ideal world we'll have individualized medical treatment chemical treatment for each person at the moment it's a kind of hit and miss affair where we're trying out these antidepressants hoping that they will help and they will certainly help some people who are feeling suicidal and. and have given up on life but there are many people with moderate depression who will help at all and that will be transparent or are apparent for a few months and so you know it's not an overall panacea and it doesn't work for

everybody and there are other things that we should be doing and yes talking therapies you mentioned this one of the most important things there's also something else called cognitive behavioral therapy which is changing the way we look at the world so it's changing our attitudes in order to change our ways of thinking and the way we act and a lot of those things can be assessed online now thank goodness for the internet and for people who are feeling particularly low but may not want to go the antidepressant route you can ask your doctor if you can it access those online to see if you can't help yourself to start with however i mean i have to say for some people events it push them to the point where they will need a chemical boost for their nervous systems because they are so depressed i mean yeah as you say antidepressant antidepressants very useful for some people in some and some circumstances what do you think might be the long term impact of having a large portion or a growing portion of the population around the world on antidepressants.

well antidepressants tend to take away the highs and the lows where everything becomes a kind of middle gray you don't feel anything too much so we may lose our ability to respond emotionally to each other or to situations that are affecting us in to any great degree so everything becomes very moderated you know you can you can get through life you may lose you assessed for life but you know this is painting a very black picture but of course it depends on what surrounding the individual and we have the hope of the vaccine so in my opinion i'm hoping that this will only be needed the use of. antidepressants for a couple more months until we all get vaccinated we have to have an end goal in sight it's not something that anybody should stay on for any great length of time what you need to do is eventually get back to your normal reactions to life with the hope that they are have become more positive don't stay in

a kind of gray area forever where you you don't feel particularly motivated and nothing really affects you very much is that does that raise a problem in itself though if if people are going to be coming off you know even if they're going to end as he presents for a short amount of time or for however long they need what about the issue of of coming off those drugs because they are drugs. yes and the body does get used to them a lot of doctors try to say they're not addictive but the body gets used to them which means you have to come off them slowly you can't come off them go turkey you've got to reduce the deficit show you over a period of weeks so you know this is also something else you need to take into consideration that there are certain problems with the medications as well they interact with other drugs in a negative way and you really need to discuss with your g.p. what might be appropriate to you but the in an ideal world if you've got a lot which is severe depression medication plus talking therapy is what we all should be aiming for whether we have the counselors available right now is another

issue but certainly if you're feeling just low levels of depression start by talking to somebody in your family a trusted friend or work colleague just to get stuff off your chest you're not alone who are going through this yeah thank you so much your time donna dawson there a psychologist from london thank you. a rising number of. south korea is forcing many communities to cancel economically vital tourist events brides travels to county in the mountains of north korea to see how it's dealing with the loss of that annual festival. 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. we 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 had ordered 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 but needed pristine waters that can stay in 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 the influx of ice festival visitors who. won't now becoming bored in print that he passionately about will 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 you 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 watch on county south korea. and devaluation of libya's currency has taken effect of its hopes will help the economy exchange rates have varied across the country because of the conflict the black market bank notes printed abroad trying to reports from

misrata the b.s. economic help. 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 $2.00 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 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's base 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 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 dinars 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 hear that the price of every day goods may increase as a result. abdulhamid is a professor of economy he says prices may increase in the short term devaluation

was the right choice to make in the long term. 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 will see the rate stabilize after the 1st quarter for libyans the next few months will likely get harder before they get better trainer. misrata. argentina is a better wetland so one of the most biodiverse regions in the world but of the last few decades have been severely impacted by industrial farming conservation groups and are working to reverse that damage there is a. national park this. means in the local indigenous quote any language water the chinese and here in the province of quality in this in northeastern argentina they resplendent 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 all of us will condoleezza 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 and. at least jaguars now will and dioceses 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 in the past years in fact in the province of korea because they have been extended 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 of. little but there are 7 other jaguars who have almost no contact with humans and i ready to be released they are kept in 30 hector corel's. it's extremely difficult to see them but ewing are stay one of them might he was needed a g.p.s. collar changed. going to be set free this is likely the last contact we will have with him so we are digging all the possible samples that how she said and then buy a mint 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. 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 pump 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. 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 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 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 alternative work opportunities that would convince locals to protect the natural wealth they already have. korean base argentina. still ahead on al-jazeera in sports states one of the world's toughest offered rally is under way and is here with that story.

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examines the social financial and environmental impact of water privatizing loads of water on al-jazeera. the a. time export has and thank you so much came well winning titles with stars which are portrayed seen as stated aim as the new head coach of our son jim and the former club captain has replaced almost sokol as manager of the french champions to go far just 4 months after taking pictures the champions league final and that is the title the club wants more than any other it's in a play for the french team in the early 2000 knowledge and cinema recently in charge of english the top man for 5 years before leaving that club at the end of

$29.00 st. we're in a massive global 0 but essentially men that is not only important to win. is winning but with the style and i thin all together of those with the believe that the most important to remember from those the 200 are still in room playing football in both of the brands with old friends. yes. and we didn't do the funds going back to the the back of the brands and make the play year nor fly on the beach in the last few minutes in some manner of gone top of the table in its silly insulated attorney sixth's who in the early kick off lads are martina scoring a hat trick city rivals ac milan can retake top spot with a win over ben of and so a little later on our beloved city of gone top of the german league after one a one of a start gart stuttgart goalkeeper gregor coble doing his best to keep lying to get

base saving that penalty from an all forsberg downie armor eventually got past him in the 2nd half live cedar point clear by munich fine taken meit's a little later on. have a look at this for a goal from bar-lev accusers that dana merry that gave his team the lead away on track frankfurt and win would have taken them top of the table but frankfurt with a hit back they went on to win $21.00 and i am goal here from became the 1st i defend the edm on top so be giving them a victory. manchester city manager pep guardiola has hit back at comments made by premier league rivals evidence and everton unhappy that last monday's game against city was called off due to 3 city players testing positive for corona virus on the day of the match total of 5 city players are unavailable for the fixture at chelsea a little later on because of current 19 but that game for now is set to go ahead. there collapsed making a statement complaining there were days when he just didn't care about the health

of the u.k. he's done a. lot of people every day him being contaminated area local of people with killing machine so the world is. there are lots of people working at chelsea within our bubble who have by bees parents friends sisters brothers whoever grandparents and they come here and go to work and then they go home and they're obviously are in the environment where were 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 john wallace 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 has made returns by this way to school 28.6 assists as well for him as james harden said that this can lead to

injury the rockies beating the kings when it suits a 94 for facts about wins against sacraments. last year has been a lot of minami a lot of adversity a lower. you can force your injuries. more and screw. you lower the pain they make all those i read that into and i just put a lot of work into the case and try to get myself back to this day in your lanes pelicans coming out on top in a tight contest against the trends or raptors bronzer ingram scored 31 points. zein williamson out of 21 of the game all side up by 3 points in the night short of the when the clock is hanging on for the 121663. now new zealand i was shot i think number one in the world test cricket rankings they're taking on pakistan in christchurch in the 2nd and final test of that series so far go was making his test debut for pakistan with caps in barbarism still ruled out

with injury pakistan just lost out in the 1st test of the series they were all out for 297 on day one. jameson taking 5 wickets. and england of arrived in sri lanka for a tutor series the matches should have taken place in march but that's always abundant due to corona virus the insane confirming all players and support staff have tested negative coverage 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 of the next couple of weeks competitors will aim to complete the routes covers more than 7000 kilometers or 5 categories spain's color cites that says karma is the defending champion ok more from me in a couple of hours but that is so i will have infinite thank you for that and a as news article i'll be back in just a moment with more of the day's news here on al-jazeera.

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one of the last remaining ancient forests in southeast asia is a lifeline to hundreds of lumberjacks and drivers. we follow that treacherous journey as they walk through extreme conditions. to gather and transport this dangerous but precious cargo risking it all. on al-jazeera. for many young adults a coming of age brings greater responsibility. for this young man the responsibility of 800 years of family tradition weighs heavy on his shoulders. the choice. but the decision must be made soon.

part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. a large crowd gathers in baghdad's capital to mark a year since the us assassination reign in general cause some sort of money. i'm tempted al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up india proves to back scenes from urgency use paving the way for 300000000 people to get immunized. as they prepares for a presidential runoff vote attack is raid 2 villages killing more than 70 people plus. i robot royden so.