it is always of interest that people all right the world people pay attention to what goes on here and i do see it is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes president trump is accused of pressurising georgia officials to recalculate the presidential vote just days ahead of a crucial senate runoff in the state. huge crowds gather in the iraqi capital baghdad to mark one year since the u.s. assassinated

a rainy and general kassim sulaimani. india approves 2 vaccines for emergency use the government says it aims to immunize 300000000 people by august. broyard in south korea at the mountain town famous for its ice festival that has plenty of ice though 1st of all. i'm gemma nash and i have all the sports a female and remain top of it's least syria after beating better vantage to know way. we start this news hour with some breaking news out of the united states the washington post has released them or do you take over an hour long phone call between president donald trump and the georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger in the recording which is running extensively on u.s.

media outlets trump is heard pressurizing the georgian politician to recalculate the presidential vote in his favor let's have a listen to an excerpt of this extraordinary conversation. the people of georgia are angry and these numbers are going to be repeated on monday night along with others that we're going to have by that time which are much more substantial even and the people of georgia are angry the people of the country are angry and is nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 2 that you've recalculated well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong you should want to have an accurate election and you're a republican we believe that we do have an active election no idea that. you don't have you don't have not even plus you've got you're off by hundreds of thousands of us you know what they did and you're not reporting it that's it you know that's a criminal that's

a criminal offense and you know you can't let that happen that's that's a big risk to you and to ryan your lawyers that's a big risk but they are shredding ballots in my opinion based on what i've heard and they are removing machinery. and they're moving it as fast as they can both of which are criminal fines and you can't let it happen and you are letting it happen you know i mean i'm notifying you that you're letting it happen so all i want to do is this i just want to find. $11780.00 lugs which is one more that we have because we won the state so so tell me bread what are we going to do we won the election and it's not fair to take it away from us like this and it's got to be very costly in many ways and i think you have to say that you're going to reexamine

it and you can re-examine it but but resemble it with people that want to find answers not people that don't want to find answers. that phone calls there between the georgia secretary of state and president donald trump alan fischer joins us live now from atlanta in georgia where 2 special elections are due to take place on tuesday which will decide the balance of power in the united states senate. and we heard a clip there pretty stunning conversation really between the u.s. president the secretary of state for georgia what did you make of it. i think what's incredible as well is the fact that the president's chief of staff was also on the call as was a lawyer from his campaign and both of them seem to be ok with what the president was saying the call lasted for more than an hour according to the washington post it didn't it donald trump variously tried to bully could jolt in college praise the georgia secretary of state to change the result the fact that he spoke in specific

figures that he wanted $11870.00 votes overturned it puts him in some sort of legal jeopardy here is the president of the united states are doing an elected election official to change the result of an election that has already been certified by the state and also certified by the governor of the state at the fact that donald trump would do it certainly speaks to the fact that he doesn't believe he lost the election in the call he said he believes without any evidence whatsoever that he won the state by hundreds of thousands of votes that simply not the case and he believes that if he could overturn the result in georgia they're not would give him a victory in the presidential race not even close a georgia has 16 electoral college votes even if you took them out of joe biden's total he has got more than enough to be sworn in as president on january the 20th which is exactly what will happen what will be interesting to see will be the

reaction from various republicans the paul ryan he used to be the speaker of the house has described what donald trump tried to do is undemocratic paul ryan has spoken out against donald trump in the past it will be important to see if people who have been considered allies of donald trump in the past start to speak out about this call there are certainly those on twitter in the last couple of hours who said that donald trump should face for that impeachment because of what he did it won't be able to go through the house in time before he leaves office but simply the point should be me. that this should be raised there are other people suggesting that perhaps this is a breach of electoral law and he should face some sort of legal action when he leaves office but then if you go into a parlor which is considered to be a right wing version of torture there are many there who are praising donald trump for highlighting to the secretary of state of georgia what they see without any foundation is the fact that the election was taken from them in georgia if he

insists that somehow he is playing 3 dimensional chess and is ahead of the game on everyone else the reality is the result in georgia will not be overturned it will be confirmed by the senate and on the 20th of january joe biden will become the $46.00 president of the united states and donald trump will become ex president donald trump and alan obviously just to clarify the phone call is about the presidential election but on tuesday there is going to be a senate race in georgia itself that's why you're in atlanta right now and what was interesting is that the president mentioned this election on tuesday in the phone call saying that faulty election results for the presidential election could affect the turnout in this later an election on tuesday let's listen to what he said the lawyer is not allowed to give faulty election results ok you're not allowed to do that and that's what you've done this is a faulty election result and honestly this should go very fast you should be

tomorrow because you have a big election election coming up and because of what you've done to the president you know the people of georgia you know that this was a scam and because of what you guys are the president a lot of people are going to have to vote and a lot of republicans are going to vote negative because they hate what you did to the president ok they hated and they're going to go out and you will be respected really respected if this is a good be straightened out before the election you have a big election coming up on tuesday. so alan that one of the excerpts from that conversation the present they're kind of linking the results of the presidential one to what might happen on tuesday do you see any connection between the 2 and what do you think of the timing how do you think this could affect the result on tuesday. all 1st of all donald trump in this call brought up a number of conspiracy theories that have been disproven and it's important to point out that any allegations about electoral fraud have been or should have been

challenged in court and donald trump has not won a single case in georgia over that when he says that republicans will vote negative no one quite understands what he means by that as for affecting voting well it could impact republicans so he's talking down his own side's chances what is interesting is that an early voting here in georgia they've already been 3000000 votes which is by far and away a record for a senate race here in this state we got 5000000 votes in the presidential election donald trump says even dead people voted that was completely disputed by the secretary of state said they checked into there was only 2 dead people who voted no one is denying that there were a few problems here and there but nothing of the widespread nature of the donald trump is talking about and while he does that and while republicans may think that the election is rigged that may keep them away from the polls on tuesday and that me impact at the republican side donald trump would quite like to get 2 republican

senators elected from georgia because that will give the republicans the majority in the senate which makes it difficult for joe biden to rule to be president to to push forward his agenda and that would please don't all trump greatly however if the democrats win here then the senate is tied 5050 and then the casting vote is made by the vice president and from the 20th of january that will be coming the highest so donald trump is really treading a fine line here by almost depressing the republican vote while talking up his own chances and the secretary of state simply isn't going to budge he has made his decision he said he was always going to follow the law and that's exactly what he's done what is interesting is that donald trump is due to arrive in the state probably about this time to morrow. the get out the vote rally and there's going to be thousands and thousands of people there and we expect that he will spend a lot of time talking about his grievances the worries that he has about the

election in 2020 and then he will talk about how they should go out and vote for their senators but many people have been discouraged by what they've heard from the president so this could be a self-defeating step by donald trump and of course as we see every allegation that he's made has been challenged in court and he hasn't won a single case and there is nothing to support with the the stories that he is putting to the secretary of state from georgia who quite rightly said mr president you're walking with the wrong data on stuff i'm going to be a couple of interesting days coming up in georgia for the moment alan fischer with the latest from there arlen thank you. well so this president has continued to tweeting so he said sorry but the number of votes in the swing states that we're talking about is very large and totally outcome determinative only the democrats and some rhinos that's republicans in name only would there dispute this even

though they know it is true gabriel is under joins us live now from washington d.c. so gay what's the reaction been to these pretty startling developments. well i think fishel washington is a little bit in shock quite frankly the last hour or 2 as this news came out of the saudis this audio tape from president donald trump but we have been getting some reaction from key lawmakers here in washington primarily democrats we have adam schiff a congressman from california tweeting out trump's contempt for democracy is laid bare once again on tape another for a flagrant abuse of power by a corrupt man who would be a despot if we allowed him to we will not that from adam schiff we've also heard from bernie sanders who said no donald trump there are no more voice votes for you to find on january 20th you will be an ex-president of the united states

and we've heard from chuck schumer as well the senate minority leader who tweeted it ted cruz a prominent republican in saying ted cruz if you're looking to investigate election fraud you can start with this and then linked to the audio recording from donald trump so clearly democrats are using this as an opportunity to again raise the questions of trump's fitness for the office and also questioning why he would do this and question saying it basically goes down to a threat against democracy we haven't heard from too many republicans so far but clearly this is going to be a this was a clear shock this audio tape when it came out and probably in the coming hours we'll be hearing from more people more lawmakers here yeah i mean i suppose it puts a lot of republicans in a difficult spot especially the ones like senator cruz for example who was mentioned in one of those tweet reactions who was very publicly supported the

president especially in the president's doubts about the election result. yeah that's right and on wednesdays be a key day is allen was insinuating there when he was talking a few minutes ago that that's when congress will be meeting on wednesday to basically count the electoral votes and ratify the election election electoral victory by joe biden it's normally just a formality but this year this it's anything but that as about 12 senators republicans conservative it said they're going to challenge the results of the election in which there are dozens more. house members that are republicans that say they will be doing the same thing on wednesday this is essentially a last ditch effort by republicans to try to overturn the election results which by all accounts simply will not happen but now these republicans that have come out and said that they're going to be doing this are going to be facing another question now do they pursed keep pursuing this given that this tape has now come

out this really explosive tape that donald trump is basically pressuring georgia officials to overturn the results in that state so it does put republicans in all sorts of a difficult situation including mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader who has told his caucus republicans don't go along with this we need to ratify the results according to mitch mitch mcconnell so now you have other republicans basically disagreeing with their own leader this just complicates what is already an incredibly complicated and confusing week ahead here in washington it is indeed gabrielle is on the way the latest there from washington d.c. gave thank you and we will be getting more reaction and analysis of this story a little later later in the news hour after the break so about 15 minutes from now stay with us for that still to come as news share prepares for a presidential runoff vote confirmation more than $100.00 people were killed when

attackers raided 2 villages and the new year just got a whole lot better for this england international the laces from the. coming up in sports. it's been a year since iran's top general kassim seen the man he was killed in a u.s. drone strike in iraq the anniversary of the assassination has been marked by protests in several countries in the middle east in the iraqi capital baghdad crowds them and that the expulsion of american troops charles stratford reports. thousands of people filled to tahrir square in central baghdad. we will not stop until we have our revenge they chant revenge for the killing of iranian revolutionary guard chief classroom solomonic and the deputy head of iraq's popular mobilization forces

. more on this like u.s. drone strike near baghdad airport one year ago them assure that america had the blood of the martyrs will not be wasted on the principle of a mom hussein this is a message for the world off the american spread language of sectarianism and killings our project will never end its an islamic while we are here to remember the martyrs who were killed in the u.s. drone strikes and we demand that u.s. forces leave this country wherever they go they cause destruction. i. will join with the 5th last year 2 days after saleman his assassination iraq's parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling for the approximately 3200 american military personnel to leave prime minister mustafa economy who took office in may promised a timetable for the withdrawal but many iraqis accuse him of dragging his feet and cal chowing to us to moms the iraqi prime minister mostafa called him a agrees with the files of people that have gathered here today that there must be

a withdrawal of u.s. troops from iraq but many people here accuse him of listening too much to water. i'm not saying force them off to ensure that all american troops. are going to be here maybe the iraqi government is the same as the american government they are just working for american interests parliament voted to expel us forces but nothing is happening that americans don't leave on their own accord we will force them to leave with our blood the outgoing trumpet ministration has promised to withdraw all 500 u.s. military personnel from iraq by mid january that would leave around 2500 still in the country. it is unclear how the next u.s. president joe biden will respond to the situation in iraq the country analysts say is being politically militarily and economically dominated by neighboring iran. but the message from these iraqis is clear. that al-jazeera backed out.

so let's take a closer look now at kasim silly money who went from a soldier on the front lines of the iran iraq war to be considered by some the 2nd most powerful person in iran in the late 1990 so the money was named head of the could force running iran's foreign military and clan the stein operations after the september 11th attacks delegated iranian and american diplomats to meet they briefly work together against the taliban before the relationship the terrier rated since 2003 the u.s. says iran through the could force and shia militias killed more than 600 american soldiers while in syria so the money lead fighters backing president bashar al assad and was instrumental in that government's survival soo out the civil war. well evidence has bolland movement has also commemorated the anniversary of the his

assassination members of the shia group raise the flag for so many and the slain iraqi commander abu mock the other $100.00 s. while facing the border with israel the money was reportedly in beirut hours before arriving in iraq where he was killed. india's regulator has approved a 2 covert $1000.00 vaccines and is preparing to roll out the world's largest immunization campaign both the oxford astra zeneca vaccine and another made by indian drug maker bharat biotech have been approved for emergency use shelob ellis reports. outside the was a story heavy rain thunder and lightning lit up the delhi sky but india with the worst conditions in 2020 recorded more than 10000000 cases of covert 19 and around

150000 deaths inside at a news conference in delhi on sunday there was hope that storm may pass after a record examination. the 30 years your has decided to accept a common they found subject court and accordingly that scene for us and bothered by it there are being approved forestry paired you with 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 covered $900.00 vaccines or though they both require 2 doses and must be stored between $2.00 and $8.00 degrees the ox with astra zeneca jab has an efficacy of 70 percent and movie 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 bad in demand will continue to be high and whatever 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. well mark eccleston turner is a lecturer in global health floor at kiel university here in the u.k. me joins us via skype sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we were just watching that report about india with the government is saying they plan to vaccinate 300000000 people in 8 months which sounds like an extraordinary number considering that in a country like the u.k. they are admitting that they'll struggle to at the vaccinate 50000000 in over a year so do you think that india's over promising all what do you think of the distribution processes in various parts of the world so i think the really the key question that india has been very clear with with what in its aims are but there is that danger of over promising and under to live brand which is what 'd we've seen in the u.k. government initially said that they would have 30000000 doses by the end of 2020 and of ended up with 50000 doses and 500000 doses rather and that's that's

obviously disappointing but it's also a huge problem for the public trust and confidence as well so that's one thing that we have to take into account i think the the licensing of the astra zeneca vaccine the one which is being manufactured by the serum institute in india is a huge boon for for the immunization campaign in low income countries it's a much cheaper much more accessible much easier to rollout baxi however one thing we have to bear in mind is that vaccines don't save lives vaccine campaigns save lives vaccines when they're in people's arms and they've been given on mass that's what saved people's lives a vaccine which has been developed and licensed but a sit in in a factory and doesn't get rolled out because there's infrastructure problems i view is no good to anyone. up until this point in the pandemic all we've been focusing on is is development is research and development and actually inventing new vaccines to tackle coronavirus and that has been an extraordinary effort and there

have been key achievements with the astra zeneca vaccine but in the u.k. we've also licensed the pfizer vaccine and there's also the post the maternal vaccine as well but what we have what we have not taken into consideration of the huge logistical and infrastructural problems with rolling that vaccine up not just in the u.k. but worldwide as well so for example we now need more glass files to store the vaccine and then we have ever needed in human history we need more of the actual needle the injectable which goes into iraq than we've ever needed at any point to human history and we need more health care workers to administer the vaccine than we've ever needed needed in human history and one of the problems is that we have neglected those issues up until this point because we've just been focusing on research and development and those those areas that i talk about that could create potential of the next in the birth of the next and forget he forgave me for interrupting you there when you say we are you talking about the u.k. or do you mean more generally most countries in dealing with this pandemic and can

you think of any success stories when it comes to the distribution of vaccines. so i think i was talking about the u.k. but also the global system generally the multilateral system through the world health organization gavin kovacs it's very much been focused on research and development and we've we've not paid enough attention to roll out and india is doing these these these trials or these these these dummy runs of rolling out the immunization rolling out the vaccine which is. one success story is is israel israel as managed to immunize nearly 10 percent of its population already and there are some interesting lessons to be learned that no vaccination happened pretty much 24 hours a day in israel round the clock immunization and they've also brought in the military to support that vaccination campaign that seems so it worked quite successfully in israel where the relationship where the israeli military is held in quite high regard with most of the local population we have to be careful about

about thinking that that is a pleasurable to all settings and there are many parts of the world where involved in the military and public health campaigns is a very dangerous precedent to set we only have to look at the military was involved in the ebola outbreak in the sea to see that involved in military actors in public health campaigns tends to and quite badly so we do have to bear that in mind but israel seems to be doing very well at the moment and so i mean bearing in mind that as you say you know each country is different with different dynamics what would you say overall are the key factor is the should be in place to have some kind of successful distribution of this vaccine. i think one of the most important things is trust is the relationship between individual and government and and the individual having an awareness and a trust in that the promises being made by government and the assurances being made by government and the vaccine being offered by government is safe and effective and will work that is key and it's not just key in corona when coronavirus that in this case with all public health care i want you the problem you get when government an

over promise is an under deliver is that erodes trust of confidence and that is key cheer in the pandemic and from the u.k. perspective public trust is something the u.k. government has handled very very badly the communication from government and the messaging coming out from governments throughout this pandemic has been incredibly poor and that's something they really need to step up with the rollout of the vaccine mark eccleston turner lecture of global health law and he'll university here in the u.k. sir thank you for sharing your views with us thank you. still to come in this news hour boldly going where no chinese spacecraft has gone before can when one prepares to enter the orbit of laws. and one of the world's most grueling rallies is underway details coming up in sports with gemini.

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a year since iran's top general kassam somali was killed in a u.s. drone strike in iraq anniversary was marked by protests in several countries in the middle east india's drug regulator has approved to covert 1000 vaccines and is preparing to roll out the world's largest immunization campaign and u.s. media outlets have obtained an audiotape of an extraordinary hour long phone call between president obama and the georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger in it trump appears to be pressurising him to recalculate the presidential election in his favor. let's listen now to the entire washington post compilation of that phone call the people of georgia angry and these numbers are going to be repeated on monday night along with others that we're going to have by that which are much more substantial and the people of you're angry the people of the country

are angry and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 that you've reached. well mr president determines that you have is the data you have as well now do you think it's possible that they shredded ballots and counting has that's one of the rumors and also that your minions regimes. dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their. machinery you know anything about. is absolutely right and your money no the 1000000 is not moving the machinery out of the county or. you have they have very moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts. you know if you're right i'm sure you should want to have an accurate election and

you're a republican we believe that we do have an active election no idea that. you don't have you don't have not even plus you got you're off by hundreds of thousands of us you know what they did and you're not reporting it that's it that you know that's a criminal that's a criminal offense and you know you can't let that happen that's that's a big risk to you and to ryan your lawyers that's a big risk but they are shredding ballots in my opinion based on what i've heard and they are removing machinery. and they're moving it as fast as they can both of which are criminal fines and you can't let it happen and you are letting it happen you know i mean i'm notifying you that you're letting it happen so all i want to do is this i just want to find. $11780.00 lugs which is one more that we have

because we won the state so so tell me brad what are we going to do we won the election and it's not fair to take it away from us like this and it's going to be very costly in many ways and i think you have to say that you're going to reexamine it and you can re-examine it but but resemble it with people that want to find answers not people that don't want to find answers. first i'm hearing ryan and he's probably i'm sure a great lawyer and everything but he's making statements about those ballots that he doesn't know but he's making it was said he did make up with your teeth but now i think he's less sure because the answer is they all went to by and that alone with the election by a lot. you know mr if. you have people that

submit information and we have our people that's made information and then it comes in for the court and the court then has to make a determination we have to stand by our numbers we believe our numbers are right on the law you're not allowed to give full the election results ok you're not allowed to do that and that's what you've done this is a faulty election result and honestly this should go very fast you should meet tomorrow because you have a big election election coming up and because of what you've done to the president you know the people of georgia does that this was a scam because of what you've done to the president a lot of people are going out to vote and a lot of republicans are going to vote negative because they hate what you did to the president they hated and they're going to go out and you would be respected if it really respected if this thing could be straightened out before the election you have a big election coming up on tuesday steve clemons is the host of al jazeera as the

bottom line and the washington editor at large on the hill he joins us again from washington d.c. via skype steve good to see you again we were talking to you the past hour as well i guess that you know we listen to it it's had more time to the sort of thing can do you think that some of what the president said and that there could be considered illegal. oh yes i mean i think that many people in the country will consider what he did to pressure tactics the efforts to threaten to overturn an election david frum has been now actually tweeting the legal code that would specify that that kind of act would be considered illegal but the president of the united states can get away with a lot and he is near the end of his term so who knows what will really happen but i have to tell people that it was 5 minutes of intense conversation between these

people and this is a one hour long tape of that killing i've been listening to large segments of it it's an hour long of that so take everything by that and multiply it by 20 and asked that question again was this a criminal act it certainly feels that way. more widely how do you think that this is going to affect the already you know pretty tenuous they now make say in washington right now between the political parties. well i think it's not only just between the parties but within the republican party the ex republican speaker of the house of representatives paul ryan just spoke and he says it is difficult to conceive of a more anti democratic and anti conservative act than a federal intervention to overturn the results of a state certified election and disenfranchise millions of americans that is coming

from somebody who just recently stepped down as one of the top republicans in the nation so you have a deeply divided republican party and of course you have a contest between the trump franchise and the biden political franchise as biden comes into power and i think donald trump's efforts not only to hold on to office but also to hold on to that franchise when by does come in and to make biden look illegitimate and to and to end a sort of look at the you know try to make some of those legs that have held up the by election win as wobbly and suspect and that could provide ongoing fundraising opportunities for the trump part of the republican establishment and to keep parts of this engine going even if donald trump is not in the white house so what it means is we're in for a storm a set of storms that will continue long after this next week long after the inauguration of by both within the republican party and then between the parties

one of the things that the president keeps on repeating even just in that 4 and a half minute clip that to brad raffensperger is when the president says there's no way i lost george and that's a point he makes again and again even when the georgia secretary of state effectively just tells him that that's not true i mean i suppose we always suspected that he didn't accept the election result that this is just the stock proof that he just doesn't believe he's lost is that really you see it. well i think i think that's trademark donald trump i mean he wrote a book about it you know when that when truth is not what you want it is you assert the opposite and we're seeing a textbook case where donald trump is denying reality and kind of blustering and muscling his way towards a different reality and the truth is that let's just face it donald trump has succeeded over and over and over again through massive bankruptcies massive

failures massive collapses of of trust in him and yet he's been able to muscle through by fear you know sheer force of will into a different position into printing people long long and threatening institutions in such a way that they ended up supporting him and i'm talking primarily of his business community but he's done that to institutions like fox news he's done that to the entire republican establishment where it's both a complex array of threats and force of will you have to give donald trump credit that he is able to bring a lot of people along to a reality that that a majority of americans don't see but nonetheless they create a cohesive group and he has brought them along and made many united states senators and many house members come along that journey and it's a very dangerous one for them because i think at the end of the day when donald trump is not in the white house he cannot reward them he cannot protect them he

cannot prevent them from being taken down by people who see reality a little bit differently than they do and steve this is pretty extraordinary listening for anyone but i think the view is especially from outside of the united states you know we've often hail that the u.s. how that out there is the example the prime example of democracy just particularly shocking how much do you think this and what's been happening over the past few weeks and months how much do you think that damages american democracy. i think it damages it enormously i think the era of american as exceptionalism this this notion that america is the beacon on the hill you know the gold label of democracy is over i think that we've been coming apart in other ways before this i think the 20082009 financial crisis which harmed lots of the rest of the world not only middle class americans was

a time when american financial markets looked highly corrupt and they were supposed to be the best in the world now we're seeing the wheels come off american governance itself and off you know the american style democracy if we look as if we need you know election monitors from other parts of the world to come watch our elections this is ridiculous and people are appalled and offended by it both domestically and i think they're frightened by it because it really undermines the ability of the united states to be at the forefront of trying to comment about democratic practice elsewhere you know i found or you know there are a lot of things like this president trump just pardoned soldiers that had been convicted of killing innocent civilians in iraq and i think if you know when that happens it's very very difficult when pakistan. releases someone from prison you know convicted of killing danny pearl we're seeing a collapse of american leadership over basic norms on human rights and democratic

rights and civic justice across the board and you're seeing other nations basically you know move in a different orbit and i think i think right now that beacon on the hill is basically dark and on that very sobering note we're going to have to leave it steve clemons host of al-jazeera is the bottom line and washington editor at large of the hill thank you so much for sharing that you have views and i thank you both. now in other news in the shares government says that at least 100 people are now known to have been killed in 2 deadly attacks in the west of the country armed groups who made it to villages and buried region this is a part of my share that's been unstable for years fighters linked to al qaeda and i still regularly stage attacks in the region which borders mali and work in a fast and we did receive as this update from the capital. prime minister bruges address the nation late sunday evening confirming that about 100 people have been

killed in the attacks on the 2 villages now this is one of the worst massacres in the history of this country since these attacks began now the mayor of the local commune said the attackers came on about 100 motorcycles and in 2 columns attacking the 2 religious symbol to news lee sources say there has been some form of lynching by the local community killing 2 armed men just days days before and some believe that this could be a prize a little by the groups who continue to launch attacks on civilian and military targets across the border with mali and then retreat into the ungoverned space in these 2 countries now the north or to have sent mostly in force mint in the area and to beef up security for the protection of local communities now the local community is facing a very difficult situation cooperating with the military will mean crossing the armed groups that have been invading their communities and also cooperating with

the armed groups will mean treason or even breaking the law with the civilian or military authorities in egypt so that's a bit a difficult situation for them and on the board in the border with nigeria is also having to do with attacks by boko haram. i saw has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 11 coal miners in pakistan stan region the miners were members of the house minority community gathered outside much hospital to mourn those killed the coal miners were kidnapped and taken to nearby mountains some were able to escape the execution style attack while others were injured and taken to hospital at least 17 people died when the roof collapse that a crime a tory in india's state 21 people were rescued from the rubble and has the about according to a government official mourners were attending a man's last rites and took shelter in the building from heavy rain when the roof

caved in a local official is called for an inquiry into the incident. nearly 80000 exiled tibetans are voting in a general election to the side who will head the new tibet in parliament in exiled the election is taking place in india's northern city of that i'm salah the 2nd vote is due in april india is home to about 100000 tibetans and that i'm salah is the seat of the government in exile it's also the base of their spiritual leader the dalai lama. china's space agency says it expects the mars probe t.n. when one that to enter the red planet's orbit next month the probe is being in space for $163.00 days and travelled 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 back in july the mars probe was captured in

images showing both earth and the moon as well as taking several selfies are sent him to say he has a height about the probe is flying at a speed of about 23 kilometers per 2nd which is 2000000 kilometers per day its relative speed to the earth now is about 21 kilometers per 2nd that is 1800000 kilometers per day it is flying about 200000 kilometers per day towards mas the probe is flying faster and faster as it gets away from the sun's gravity. so to come on the news hour the korean i specify all that's been put on ice and that make it forces the cancellation of an annual tradition. and then sports the argentinian striker lighting up the italian title race for the collection coming up in just a moment with gemma.

the hillbilly harmless caricature or a malicious label denying a people their culture to justify the exploitation of their natural resources that divide and conquer thing has been so successful that even people in the region believe the real type then becomes dangerous it's only a region of trash so. why not trash it much in the name hillbilly but witness documentary on al-jazeera. setting the discussion millions of americans feel disaffected by both political parties examining the headlines this group of activists and relatives are marching band clinton right now where they're calling for the morning edition and nothing else to explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform why is the only solution for tall as young as 10 months of age and inspired you to see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera.

the and. every year a south korean county breeds about $77.00 tons of fish for an ice festival in january well this year they have the fish but due to the pandemic no festival robert pride visited one county near the border with north korea to see what organizers plan to do with all that extra fish. children it's a special event to promote a particular type of river transit known as the sunshine of how to package it and now 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 day we can sell our feast and deceased a result which is 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 and. the town itself is hurting to the harsh winter in these mountains normally produces ice that is solid enough to support crowds of

visitors beneath it pristine waters that can sustain 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 during the pandemic and restaurant owners like lee jones soon were counting on the influx of bestival visitors who won't now become a. passion to push him and it's been difficult for everyone small businesses an employee no one has been spared it's also hurting the other towns around here who supply us 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. kids get the sport with gemma now thanks barbara we start with football in

a similar manner remained top of italy's syria despite having a man sent off in the 1st half of benevento 2 nil away on sunday rafael layout scoring a quite spectacular go to seal the win the result means they stay one point ahead of into milan were briefly ever taken by enzo you thrashed 62 earlier in the day tara martinez scored his 1st half trick for the club the game was finally poised to allow half time before into an martinez took control after the break the argentinians efforts helping his side to an 8th straight victory in syria. not as it was just another museum to continue like this is important because we created a lot in the tank and we are also scoring a lot of goals this is going to do with the 2 goals we conceded one from a set piece where they took us by surprise. right missed a 3rd after beating some durian one time at inject post scoring the winner that's

his 7th fleet goal of the season. napoli it's 2 points behind roma in 4th but they do have a game in hand. school to great goals for napoli as they hammered calgary $41.00 their opponents reduced to 10 men in the 2nd half it ends a run of 3 league games without a win and happily in the english premier league manchester city have pushed him one of the most impressive performances of the season to be chelsea's 3 want to weigh in are going to and phil foden kevin de bruyne are on target to city for calum hudson a joy pulled him back in stoppage time for chelsea so when main city an out 4 points behind the top 2 liverpool and manchester united but they do have a game in hand for chelsea down an 8. that is play really well just. say thank you to the older players in this difficult time because friends players unbearable must have suffered they had to compete. and they make a step forward to make an incredible display playing one of the best teams in the

you know it is time for bridge and it would result for us to be close to the top of the league but still we are away and still now recovering play the semifinals and then x. games on the man has to be real i was row after late we're not talking tenders i'm real now sign this club has to take some pine to get we want to get to because any build or rebuild baron we had no problems with brought in take part in any are just big problem and it means prime beyond sings pine on the pitch occasionally and fire and carrots and that's how you build at last came a dritte a return to the top of spain's league of a.b.l. of as they want a way to go 2 points clear of city rivals route with 2 games in hand at s.k. of also received some good news about their defender karen trivia his 10 week ban for breaching betting rules in england has been suspended by football's world governing body fifa to allow the spanish clubs to appeal the decision triffitt was

punished by the english football association after information linked to his move from tottenham in 2019 was used by associates for betting purposes. a game in portugal's top league between santa clara and benfica was called off and when you see these pictures we're about to show you i think you'll understand why the rain was absolutely pouring down making conditions very unpleasant for the players and the officials and the referee while he'd had enough after just 5 minutes and he complained and he called off the match as everyone went back in to take cover the game will now be played on monday and hopefully a much drier weather now says cricket now and have made a measurable start to the 2nd test against south africa in johannesburg the tourists were dismissed for just $157.00 and make no kit in destructive form taking 6 wickets with south africa ending the day on 148 for one in response the preaches lead the team match series one nil next up for sure anchor after that or south

africa is a 2 test series at home against england and their opponents have arrived in preparation the matches should have taken place in march last year but the tour was abandoned juta the coronavirus the england team confirmed that all players and supporters off a tested negative for cave in $1000.00 pry it to that departure defending champion carlos science has the lead off to stage one of the dakar rally 9 time world champion sebastian love it some trouble here early on the rallies taking place in saudi arabia for the 2nd time science finished the opening day just ahead of red bull team mate to stefan petra hansel in the cock up to great spoil sport for now barbara thank you. now that is almost it for this news hour movie you can get much more know everything that we're covering on our website the address al-jazeera going to call will stay with us so i'm going to be back in just a few minutes with more of these things it's one of my.

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