child soldiers and they have rethink exploitation of women the door to the palace a bad part of the radicalized scene and it's funny designer. iran says that it started enriching uranium up to 20 percent in breach of a 2015 nuclear deal. for them this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. 3 julian. the press. was. the u.k. court demise extradition to the u.s. for wiki leaks founder julian assange on mental health grounds. expect to school

for students in kenya despite the objection of teachers who are concerned about the spread of covert 90 plus. i use one of my. 11780. we look at the fallout from recordings of a phone call with donald trump pressuring officials to find enough votes to overturn his election defeat. iran says that it's taken the initial steps to start the process of enriching uranium up to 20 percent of that underground nuclear facility so iran's move is likely to escalate the already heightened tension with the united states in the last few weeks of donald trump's presidency the level of uranium enrichment is a significant step away from the limits outlined in the 2015 iran nuclear deal but well below the 90 percent required to build a nuke. weapon the european union has described it as quote

a considerable departure from the 2015 deal that israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons and that his country will not allow that to happen iran's foreign minister has tweeted saying quote we resumed 20 percent enrichment as legislated by our parliament the i.a.e.a. has been duly notified our remedial action conforms fully with power of $36.00 of j c p o 8 after years of noncompliance by several other j c p o a participant's all measures of fully reversible upon full compliance by all earlier and its weekly press conference iran's ministry of foreign affairs warned the us of what it calls adventurism in the region also sending a warning to regional powers. more. we've sent a direct message to the us via switzerland regional countries have been cautioned

to tehran has not received any special message from washington the u.s. will be blamed for the consequences of any adventurism in this region. al-jazeera sorry force that will bring us the reaction from west to slim in just a few moments then we'll get the u.s. perspective from castro in washington d.c. but 1st also jabari reports from tehran. well it's certainly important given the current political climate iran finds itself in mainly the rhetoric that's been coming out of tehran towards washington and their behavior in the region as iran puts it it's seriously significant because it shows that iran is actually fed up with this nuclear deal and there was supposed to be a grace period of 2 months from early december until early february when this law was passed in parliament demanding that iran's atomic energy agency resume 20 percent enrichment levels as a result of the united states leaving the nuclear deal and imposing sanctions on

iran this bill was called sanctions relief bill so since that hasn't happened the problem and terence who are very conservative voice in the country had said that iran needs to take further steps president hassan rouhani did completely agree with it but it appears now he has actually decided to go ahead with this because legally he's bound to but the iranians have told the i am december 30th that he intended to do this but they hadn't given the time we understood it to mean that iran was giving the incoming u.s. administration of president elect joe biden a grace period to see what he would do in terms of returning to the nuclear deal of 2015 before they took this step now it's important to note that iran was enriching at this level prior to that 2015 nuclear deal by about a western risler not a serious hurry for such as the prime minister benjamin netanyahu had to face i have to say about this. well he responded

very soon art announcement came from tehran he said that iran's actions cannot be explained in any other way than the further realisation of its plans to develop a military nuclear program and this of course has been one of netanyahu as key focuses throughout his time in office since he came to the prime ministership for the 2nd time in 2009 consistently warning israelis and the wider world about the implications of iran getting a nuclear weapon he lobbied very hard with the trumpet ministration to get it to pull out of the j.c. the iran nuclear deal which it did in 2018 and just last year there was a series of explosions in iran mysterious explosions the biggest of which will most significant at the natanz nuclear site but the centrifuge facility there sustained very extensive damage in a blast that israel certainly did admit to or claimed but that senior politicians did hint at in talking about iran not being able to continue with impunity in its

nuclear program and then of course came the assassination in november last year of the head of iran's nuclear program most advanced preside it iran certainly blaming israel for carrying out that assassination and of course the subsequent decision by the iranian parliament that came that those who was talking about shortly afterwards so now if those actions were designed to try to derail or deter iran's nuclear program in the short term at least the result appears to have been a return to 20 percent enrichment and that presents a big challenge for both the prime minister here benjamin netanyahu and the incoming by did ministration out zero's herefore sit there and western let's go live to washington to hide your caster is there for us and a response from the trumpet ministration how might this complicate things for president elect biden. so no official response from the white house nor the state

department and the biden transition team typically mum on these foreign affairs issues saying one president at a time but of course we know president like joe biden who was such a take office in 16 days well in 2015 he was instrumental in the negotiation of the nuclear accord and he has said that the u.s. would reenter that accord if iran does the same to come into compliance of course today's development with the 20 percent enrichment takes the situation much further apart from the terms of that deal and yesterday prior to this development president joe biden's incoming national security adviser said that the u.s. would discuss returning to the deal only if iran also agrees to put its nuclear missile ballistic missile program also on the table we know from the start that has not been an issue that iran wants to budge on the more immediate concern of course are the waning days of president trump's time in office and he has been behaving

a radically in terms of domestic politics and that's led to some concern about how that may bleed into his handling of iran yesterday the pentagon announced that a u.s. warship would remain in the middle east that a reversal after just 3 days prior saying that ship would return to its base in washington state the reasoning given was the heightened threats against president trump and against other u.s. officials without giving specifics about what those threats were also unclear is how much of a role president trump had in that order to keep the u.s. warship in the media in the middle east but we know in november shortly after firing his defense secretary trump had sought military options to strike at iran and nuclear facilities ultimately he was talked out of that idea but again given the complications domestically all the criticism and heat. has been feeling in his efforts to overturn his electoral defeat the concern is whether or not he may use

this as a chance for a distraction or something for his own political gain of 0 as how does your castro there live in washington many thanks indeed heidi in all south korea is demanding the release of one of its all tankers seized by iran the hankook kemi was intercepted by iran's revolutionary guard in the gulf waters and its crew arrested in iran says the tanker was breaking maritime environmental laws and carrying of 870000 tons of oil chemical products so the sent one of its empty piracy shifts ships to the gulf. mexico says that it's ready to offer asylum to julian assange president manuel lopez obrador says that he supports a decision by a u.k. court not to extradite the wiki leaks founder to the u.s. and that he'd given protection.

for celebrated the british course assault just wanted on espionage charges for publishing thousands of secret american military documents in 2010 and 11 u.s. authorities are expected to appeal the decision the judge denied the request of a concern over his mental health and a risk of suicide. reports from. according to the presiding judge she said that the overall impression is all of a depressed and sometimes despairing man fearful for his future this 29. blade was found in his. had sought help from the samaritans expressing that he had been experiencing suicidal thoughts. of the cittie rejected all of the statements made by the defense that they felt would justify not going ahead with this extradition and it was purely on the grounds of the state of

his mental health at this extradition request has been rejected one of the most vocal supporters has been his partner morris as she was a member of his legal counsel when he was holed up in the ecuadorian embassy they are now engaged to be married and she is also the mother of 2 of his children fathered whilst he was in the ecuadorian embassy this is what she had to say about this ruling of the central criminal court. indictment in the u.s. has not been dropped. very extremely concerned that the u.s. government has decided to appeal this decision. it continues to want to punish julian. and make him disappear into the deepest darkest hole

of the u.s. prison system. for the rest of his life. so that you have a reflection of. ok this may well be a minor victory big given the implications that the prosecution in the u.s. are hoping to take this further an appeal this ruling there is still quite a significant amount of ground to cover still an awful lot more work to be done to ensure that julian assange is out of danger when it comes to extradition to the united states. it's back to school for the 1st time in 10 months in kenya 15000000 children but other restrictions stay in place we'll tell you more. plus tensions rise again in the central african republic ahead of the announcement of provisional election results.

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next couple of days more heavy showers to come it is likely to cause widespread disruption not only is it looking wet it's pretty cold as well we have got some snow across northern parts of the country warnings are in force up towards jumma in kashmir up towards a far north of india where the weather will make its way across new delhi as we go on through tuesday and on into wednesday notice showers continue further south as they die out to the north east to the south. sponsored paul qatar airways. what does that have been doing with the money that it's boring we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in argentina as congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars for the super rich poor families hit hard by condemning counting the cost on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound is another matter when you call man we'll

bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. to her. earlier. well again this is out 0 the main news this hour iran's foreign minister says that the country has resumed the process of it reaching uranium to 20 percent 7 serif says that the measure is fully reversible but only if the signatories of the 2050 nuclear deal comply with the agreed. the u.k. court says that wiki leaks founder julian assange will not be extradited to the united states a songe is wanted on espionage charges for publishing secret american military documents and 201011.

in the coming hours britain's prime minister boris johnson is expected to announce more measures to control the spread of covert 19 a new variant there has been driving up the number of infections we hold them 50000 new cases reported every day the 7 straight days now the country's just announced 58784 confirmed new cases a new record and scotland's 1st minister has already announced a lockdown in her country starting at midnight tonight nicholas surgeon says that she spoke concerned about the situation but then she has since the peak of the pandemic in march but go live now to london and zeros andrew symonds can tell us more what are we expecting up morris johnson to announce later. or 1st of all no surprise that that figure has gone up nearer to 59000 now those 7th straight day of increases beyond what was the peak of the pandemic in the

u.k. in march early april now what boris johnson is likely to say is he's going to set out some new restrictions how tough they'll be remains to be seen but we're expecting them to be tough whether they'll amount to a full national lockdown arm of the sort we saw in march remains to be seen but whatever he's got to say will evidently be put to parliament for approval because parliament's being recalled on wednesday now or this announcement from downing street or about the prime minister's t.v. address which will take place of 20 g.m.t. that came after what should have been a day of fanfare with the release of the new. a jab the new vaccine from astra zeneca an oxford university look the that the vaccine

that carries the hope of the world in the sense that it's search cheaper vaccine it's easier to dispense it only needs a normal fridge temperatures and of course this rollout was meant to be some sort of beacon of hope with with 100000000 doses ordered by the u.k. being rolled out with this half 1000000 dosage which has arrived already and is being distributed around the country will be thousands of vaccine centers but the timeframe for this at least 3 months doesn't in any way match the need for a reduction in this infection rate which is rapid and totally out of control and scotland's 1st minister announcing a full lockdown which will last at least until the end of the month. yes nicholas sturgeon recalled her devolved parliament in scotland that she's the 1st minister and this is what she had to say we have decided to introduce from midnight

tonight for the generation of january a legal requirement to stay at home except for essential purposes this is similar to the lockdown of march last year. so there you have it or another lockdown in scotland which will apply right the way up until the end of the month and could be extended one thing to note with this is that she's kept all scottish cause closed beyond the holiday the christmas holiday which it's felt that has more effect in terms of bringing down the our number that the the rates of infection now in the in england there's a big controversy over this because boris johnson has stated repeatedly that he thinks that in areas of the country it's quite safe to reopen the schools and that indeed is what's happened in many parts of the country on monday now whether or not

he will shut the schools down with his announcement this evening in england remains to be seen is quite likely and then there's also the issue of whether when students return to university but the bottom line here is that the u.k. now is in a situation far more serious it would seem that it was back in march and april because the rate of infections is going up beyond the peak in march april did actually level out but this is still showing a steep curve and there's no doubt whatsoever about it that the politicians are well behind the curve of a serious injury simmons lives in london and are many thanks in kenya a nightly curfew has been extended until the middle of march large public gatherings have also been restricted but schools are reopening not serious but i would add oh is a primary school in nairobi. 15000000 schoolchildren are back in school across

kenya 10 months of the schools were closed as part of the precautions to stop the spread of the core of 1000 pandemic the government says it has put everything in place and has provided $140000000.00 to schools across the country to ensure they have mosques stations where children can wash their hands and also desks to ensure that the. social distancing in the classroom but here in a young the primary school in nairobi we are seeing a totally different scenario is not only shortage of mosques but also not and maff stations where the children come and wash their hands teachers are complaining that their biggest challenge to please is the overcrowding in the classrooms due to lack of enough desks to ensure that the social distancing between the school children when they're in class the costumes themselves are also really tiny the head teacher

of this school told us that they have not received any funds from the government and that all the super on the government was some masks which are not enough for the 1500 school children of course some parents are choosing to keep their children at home fearing that they will contract the virus and have been homeschooling them we've been seeing a decrease in the number of 19 cases in the country in the past few weeks but there are fears across the country that we could see an uptick in the virus once again. in a recording that's been leaked to the public u.s. president or trump told the top election official in the state of georgia to find enough votes in order to overturn his election defeat that georgia was one of the battleground states that shipped in favor of president elect joe biden it's an unprecedented move by a sitting president with just a few weeks to go before joe biden to. x. office trump still refuses to concede that repeating baseless claims for alan

fischer reports from atlanta georgia. from a president who insists without evidence the election was stolen from him pressure on a tough election official to find votes to help overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to george's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warming of big legal consequences if you didn't do something i here's one of. $11780.00 loans which is one more that we have because we want to say. it's a move that may create legal problems for the president he's pressuring an elected official to change the result of an election already certified by the state president trump claimed again without evidence he'd won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes he didn't the state went for biden and he raised other

conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is why donald trump has refused to accept the 2020 presidential election congress meets on wednesday to confirm the result although a number of republican senators plan to object he summoned election officials from various states to the white house and field in almost every legal effort to contest results one longtime washington observer says even for donald trump this call is remarkable it's an outrage is the person in the united states putting pressure on a public official to lie to cheat possibly to steal votes so that he can win the state of georgia vice president elect harris has been in georgia for an election rally ahead of tuesday's senate runoff where the president's call was there hanging over her comments was yes certainly the worse the desperation. most

certainly than. and it was a. the use of power by the president of the united states even if donald trump did manage to flip georgia it doesn't matter joe biden won more than enough electoral college votes to secure the presidential election. will actually be in georgia on monday he's here supporting 2 republican senators whose fate in a runoff election will decide the balance of power in washington a race which is no been overshadowed by the most controversial oval office tapes since nixon in the 1970 s. alan fischer atlanta georgia let's just pick up on what alan was saying there the end the 117th u.s. congress has begun work democrats kept control of the house of representatives and november's election but the balance of power in the senate has will be decided by the 2 runoff elections in georgia on tuesday here's

a look at the numbers at the moment republicans have 50 of the 100 senate seats and democrats have 48 so this is what makes these 2 undecided seats in georgia so important republicans david purdah and kelly loffler are running against democratic candidates john also off a raphael warnock if the democrats take both seats the senate will be split $5055.00 president comma harris will be the deciding vote giving democrats control the republicans need to win only one of the seats to hold the majority in the name reports from atlanta. there is a real concern among republicans that trump's repeated and baseless attacks on the electoral integrity in georgia will depress voter turnout in the state of georgia and in fact during that now infamous call trub reference the election saying that he people were angry at georgia people were angry at the governor and that this

could have big consequences for the senate runoff this is a high stakes senate runoff and a short time ago one of the people involved in this leaked audiotape the georgia secretary of state spoke his name is brad raffensperger if you've been following as many people in the nation have the senate runoff his name will be familiar to you he spoke at a during a morning show and he said with regard to the audio call that he had not been wanting to talk to trump because there is pending litigation the trump camp has filed lawsuits in georgia but that that george that trumps the data was wrong he said that the state has followed the law and the process now right now the there's a democratic of elected official on the state election board that is asking the secretary of state to launch an investigation into possible civil and criminal violations there is also a legal debate underway regarding whether or not president trump may have violated

a law that prohibits interference in state and federal elections rebels in the central african republic are advancing on multiple fronts as ahead of the announcement of provisional election results groups threatening to end to the capital bangui just trying to columbus as a way of supporting russian fighters and force of the government to fail to push back rebels who've taken control of the town of bhangra sue because hawk reports style from some goals capital dhaka. we've really seen an uptick of violence just hours before the official or the provisional official results of these election and these attacks that happened in benghazi was a real blow to president 1st on twitter on who went ahead with this election despite calls from the opposition and some international actors to postpone this election saying that this situation isn't stable enough to hold these elections now in benghazi which is one of the major towns in central african republic we've seen

sporadic attacks until now the rebel forces that calling themselves the coalition for patriotic change have taken over the town itself this bite the central african forces the u.n. forces and the support of russian fighters on the ground despite all this while they've lost that town and we now know that these rebel groups which is made up of a coalition forces that were once fighting each other each other that are now united against president. well they're just 20 kilometers away from the capital president try to write is announced to be the favorite in this race and if he does win then he'll be in charge of a country that has very happy that he has very little control over most of the country right now is in the hands of these armed rebel groups so a tense situation just hours before the presidential election results are announced . on every day that it all breaks the news but 2 brothers in bangladesh and doing

all they can to bring attention to a rare breed that's on the brink of extinction the surreal holland has been treasured for centuries but only a few dozen remain in the region the rabid us brothers are using social media to set up mating dates with pure breed believed to descend from english greyhounds owned by google era nobility puppies can reach a price of up to $500.00. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera iran's foreign minister says the country has resumed the process of enriching uranium to 20 percent of its serif says the measure is fully reversible but only if other signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal comply with the agreement barri reports. said that they are reducing their commitment to the new.