the legacy of a profitable fossil fuel industry and being an active emanations souls' people in power finland's planet warriors just. al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news our live from doha coming out of the next 60 minutes hong kong police arrest more than 50 pro-democracy activists and former politicians accusing them of trying to overthrow the city's government. more into the senate. to work for georgia the u.s. state of georgia elects its 1st black senator moving democrats a step closer to securing a majority in congress. and labor mission from the north korean leader kim jong un

and the knowledge of his economic policies failed and says the country has learned painful lessons. one day after gulf leaders announced an end to the cartel blockade many questions remain. the sports at the cleveland browns playoff hopes suffered blown up to reaching the postseason for the 1st time in 18 years finally the team including the head coach test positive for can't get 19. but he's an on call have arrested more than 50 pro-democracy politicians and activists in early morning raids it's the biggest crackdown so far under the controversial national security law which china imposed last year beijing declared the polls illegal under war and that the 600000 people who voted broke the law we

begin our coverage with adrian brown in hong kong. form a legislator lam choking didn't seem surprised when police came knocking at his front door early on wednesday morning they tell him he's suspected of violating the new national security law a scene played out of more than 50 other addresses in hong kong the drama was recorded by an unidentified person inside lamb's home i'm later posted on his facebook page before he was taken away al-jazeera had interviewed him several weeks ago just after he resigned as a pro-democracy politician along with almost the entire opposition camp i will keep fighting for democracy of hong kong. and the guy that was in response to the disqualification of full fellow legislators following a ruling by china's highest political body police say wednesday's operation involve

more than a 1000 offices and involve raids on 3 media outlets as well as honor office where a solicitor who is also a us citizen was arrested we have. 53 presses for the all francis office of person under. the national security law the detentions were linked to an unofficial primary vote held last july to select candidates for the legislative elections due 2 months later a poll that was eventually canceled with the hong kong government citing covert 90 now all those involved in organizing a primary are suspected of subversion which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment a further sign of the tightening authoritarian grip says one analyst it seems to me this is the chinese communist party trying to. change the political culture of hong kong it's imposing leninism why did they arrest these people because.

they demonstrated capacity to organize. the u.s. president elect joe biden has said that china will be at the center of his foreign policy so it's possible hong kong will be an early point of friction with china's president xi jinping who has said the campaign against dissent here is justified in the name of safeguarding national security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. well in july hong kong's opposition held an unofficial primary vote to select candidates for the parliamentary election as adrian was explaining china said those primaries violated the wide reaching national security legislation it imposed on on call a month earlier now the law gives broad powers to punish political crimes and it was the result of a year of antigovernment protests china says the national security law is going to help return stability to the territory but human rights groups say it erodes

freedom countries like canada and the u.k. began making immigration easier for hong kong as a some activists began fleeing the territory well let's speak to sunny chung he's a pro-democracy activist he left hong kong in august thank you very much indeed for being with us i want to ask you 1st of all about the timing of the arrests that we've just seen is that significant. yes i think this is really significant because we go to start currently do you as is undergoing your last chance at attention at the same time you appeared in this trying to sign a new trade agreements with china and then china is trying to still use all the terrorism trying to wreck the case the whole pro-democracy camp in hong kong and i think that the international committee should be really adults about this phenomenon and try i think to help hong kong and conquer your fixation off the city

what do you think about the response that the international community has given to the pro-democracy protests and what's been happening to the activists since then i think actually many major big years of you know press already reported about the news which we really appreciate that however we hope that the governments of each fuel countries can also give a quick and strong response to the homeowners and to the governments because we dissipate that you will pee and union can also use them by this key at to ascension hong kong and page official who should be held responsible for this political crackdown it seems as though there seem to be 2 options for pro-democracy activists in hong kong either stay in the get arrested or they leave and they protest outside and they can talk to organizations like ours which do you think is more effective when it comes to garnering international attention about this. of course i think we

. choices and then some people choose to stay and some people like your other prominent activist like. we try to free you from hong kong and try to use the space. that he's to keep contact to keep continuing for using laos for hong kong. at the same time when people whose troops to stay home home they will skip the fight on and with outspoken when you say that they're going to keep the fight on how do you see that working given the kind of arrests the kind of crackdowns that we're seeing in hong kong of course i mean the freedom the stays the opportunities will be really limited on the ground there for it to help you to national community because i think you know foreseeable future we can no longer

access the pace there will be any scale social cold has in hong kong due to the repression and those also difficult like. this in time when most of the politician activists are all arrested this is citizens and that these are all whole pro-democracy camp is being read to cater by the big government and that's why we help form the international community we should not abandon the whole of the and freedom of hong kong so society there has been a lot of vocal support from international communities for what's going on in hong kong for the pro-democracy movement doesn't seem to be a great deal of action how concerned are you that countries are going to put trade with china ahead of the democratic concerns of hong kong. i am really concerned about the upcoming you and china investment deal because

we built this that give you a good year and keep. keep attaching we're trying economy and the congress party can actually economy dominance try to impact the european union to a to ask them not true about the human rights issue in china and this is not just about hong kong was also about people who currently suffer get the facts and change and that's why we urged the fuel country express really that you. should start and stop sign in the new trade you answers as to that step back try to be consider at the. cost of. coming fast but you said it john we appreciate your joining us in our visitor thank you very much indeed thank you to the us now where democrats are close to taking control of the

u.s. senate 2 senate seats were at stake in runoff elections in the state of georgia tuesday in one democrat raphael warnock has beaten republican comment kenny love flood and the other race the democratic challenger has a slim lead and invasion reports from atlanta the result so close the stakes are high but for the democrats raphael warnock claiming a 1st victory defeating kelly loeffler so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this is dorothy moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we couldn't win this election but tonight we proved that with hope hard work. and the people by our side. anything. is possible. because the 1st african-american elected to the senate from georgia

a state which has been overwhelmingly republican for a generation the 2nd race remains too close to call democrat george off of leads the every vote no even more important as a possible game changer in washington the 1st victory is good news for joe biden but he really needs both seats without it he will be able to push on with his agenda and address issues he believes have been neglected over the past 4 years like climate change health care and racial injustice 3000000 early votes were cast in georgia a record and it's no clear that help the democrats there was a big turnout on the day a new problems reported with the running of the election we didn't have any issues the election our reporting has gone relatively smoothly so we feel like the counties are kind of getting in the groove despite the fact we know they're all exhausted from the last week georgia has been the center of the u.s. political universe the importance of the vote here couldn't have been more clearly illustrated with both the incoming and outgoing president spending time campaigning

in the state but even donald trump's appearance not enough to carry both candidates over the line georgia by the way all eyes are no on the 2nd senate race the final vote in the 2020 election so-called one that has changed the face of america but done nothing to heal the deep divisions in the country alan fischer al-jazeera atlanta georgia. underclass because an associate professor of the department of political science at emory university she says even if democrats control both chambers of congress there's no guarantee that joe biden will be able to get his agenda passed. what's at stake here is the potential to have a unified party control you know between the legislative and executive branches for the next 2 years and any president would want to have members of their own party in charge of the legislative branch it does not guarantee smooth sailing for

a president's legislative agenda but it does make it easier the other thing that's actually really important for president elect biden is the senate has the advice and consent power so they are the ones who get to approve judicial nominations and cabinet nominations and so we'd expect that under a republican controlled senate that president elect biden would have a harder time getting some of his high level political appointees approved and getting some of his judicial appointees approved senator mitch mcconnell's actually made it very difficult towards the end of the obama presidency for president obama to name anybody to the federal judiciary including that one supreme court seat that he held up and tell donald trump was president of the united states an important thing to point out is that even with a unified party control there is no guarantee that every democratic agenda would make it through the u.s. senate unscathed and in particular dare are is going to be some kind to station

between more moderate and more progressive democrats so there would have to be some compromise made in order for anything to get passed. they were ahead on the news hour including new and stricter cover prevention regulations take effect in germany . in the u.s. members of congress prepared to turn a ceremonial occasion into a partisan fight. bron james has a busy night rally voters in georgia and then his at a lakers team to victory that's coming up in the sports with joe. that of the world health organization says he's disappointed chinese officials have not finalized permissions for the arrival of experts into china to examine the all regions of covered 19 i'm very disappointed with this news given that 2 members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute

but i have been in contact with senior chinese officials and i have one is again made many it clear that the mission is a priority for doubly and the international team i have been assured of that china is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment we're going to get the mission underway as soon as possible. in the united states california has confirmed 4 new cases of the more contagious strain of covert 19 states recorded a single day high of 74000 of all coronavirus infections on monday the number of patients in i.c.u. wards is now quadrupled since november the head of health services in los angeles says hospitals are so overcrowded patients are being left in the hallways and ambulances. the u.k. reported more than 60000 coronavirus cases in a day for the 1st time until tuesday came as a government announced

a new national lockdown in england in some parts of the country an estimated one in 50 people now has covered 19 levels of the new strain growing rapidly in the capital of barker reports from london the sign painters went out at dawn reaffirming the rules the spread of corona virus in the u.k. is spiraling out of control after months of confusing on and off restrictions for many the new total lockdown lore in england from wednesday is a wearisome next step but the new variant of the virus 50 percent more transmissible than the 1st threatens to wreak havoc on the nation's health system in a downing street briefing the prime minister called for one last major national effort to stem the virus before massive vaccinations turned the tide in the number of patients in hospitals in england is not 40 percent higher the 1st peak in april

i think obviously everybody you want to be sure that we in government. i'm now using every 2nd of this lockdown to put that invisible shield around the elderly and the vulnerable in the form of vaccination only a few days ago the government was urging parents to get ready to send their children back to school after the holidays but now under the new restrictions they're close to virtually all people must work from home and all hospitality and non-essential shops shut and there are fines for rule breakers scotland wales and northern ireland have imposed similar measures it is almost a mirror image of the 1st national lockdown 10 months ago we're very familiar concerns about the impact on businesses in the economy which is why the british government says it will release extra billions to help soften the blow the streets in central london are quiet and empty but after days of government indecision other

areas seem slower to catch on. the majority of people packed the latest lock down but rather than the owner simply peeing on people to follow the rules that expose the rule breakers experts are calling for greater government clarity and support in many ways the problem doesn't lie with people's resilience with their psychology with their willingness to do things it lies with government policy so if you look at the areas where there is low at here it's low compliance like for instance of isolation in the u.k. it's very much to do with the fact that we give people precious little support to do something that is difficult for instance it's very difficult if you live in a multiple captaincy house to isolate from from others so we could as they do for instance in a number of countries we could give people who tell the accommodation to support people people are also more likely to follow the rules if the measures are working the fear is that the tactic employed in earlier waves won't be enough alone to

contain the new variant this remains one of the country's best hopes the rollout of the oxford astra zeneca jab began on monday the government sets number targets of inoculating 13000000 vulnerable people by the middle of february this is now a critical race between the virus and the vaccine needs park out london germany's knockdowns been extended for another 3 weeks this time the rules are even more stringent vaccinations there and in the rest of the 27 nation european union started over a week ago earlier on biden's day a nurse became the 1st person in the netherlands to receive a covert 1000 shots it's been criticized for being the last country in europe to do so well let's get more on this from donna cane who's live for us and barrel and dominic talk us through what the situation is in germany but also across the rest of europe. so in germany we know now that this country is facing a lockdown right through to the end of january

a tough lockdown and one which now has a bit more teeth to it in one sense because peace people living in parts of the country where the incidence of covert 19 is particularly high will lay now know that they're going to be facing a kind of lockdown in which they can't go any further than 15 kilometers from their from their residence in their residential area and that doesn't apply in some very big cities but it does apply anywhere which has an incidence of 1000 as a say that's particularly high that's the situation in germany but we know also that in the netherlands they are beginning their vaccination program using the violent tech pfizer vaccine one that's been approved for use for some time now across the european union and the other thing to report is that the european union at the institutional level is considering the mode done a vaccine today we know that the approval if it is going to come will come today and then formal approval formal release of it as it were will ensue on from

that so that would then mean to vaccines would be approved for use across the european union cross the $27.00 countries remember that the e.u. has not approved the astra zeneca vaccine for the oxford accident astra zeneca vaccine as yet so looking at for whether the madonna vaccine would be approved today germany bringing in some very tough for restrictions possibly the toughest so far what is the mood in terms of the government's strategy behind this. the interesting thing here is that for much of the last 9 months something like 2 thirds to 3 quarters of people have broadly been be in agreement with the broad scope of the strategy the government both federally and across the states that make up this federal republic of hats the interesting point now is this idea about the 15 kilometer radius in which people will be allowed to move if they live in

hotspots for covert well there are quite a few people who don't think that's practical and don't think it's a good idea from the ethical perspective and then you have also they real disagreement at a governmental level here in berlin about the length of time it's taken for a vaccine that's the biotech pfizer vaccine developed here in germany for it to be made available to people in germany so lots of dissent and lots of questions about the practicality of the unit of the decisions that were agreed upon yesterday about how they're going to work in reality here right across the country donna thank you very much indeed dominic came talking to us from berlin. so the arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt have all agreed to restore full diplomatic relations with qatar that's what followed tuesday's gulf summit in the saudi city of a little of qatar's emea it was his 1st visit to saudi arabia since the illegal blockade began 3 and a half years ago delegates from the gulf countries signed

a declaration calling for solidarity and stability. the all of the correlation. has achieved a settlement of all issues outstanding in a way that is entirely satisfied factory to all nations involved all the countries involved we are extremely pleased with having been able to achieve this very important breakthrough that we believe will contribute very much to the stability security of all our nations in the region we we have as you mentioned been working very hard towards achieving this breakthrough for many years and the timing is. just that it's that we were finally able to reach that conclusion and reach. a mechanism that was satisfactory to everyone and i am happy to report that we are at a place where everyone is satisfied and happy and yes all the outstanding. whether it's turning of diplomatic relations flights etc all of that will now go

back to normal. well for more on this let's speak to odyssey this husham. saudi foreign minister there saying that all issues have been settled to everyone's satisfaction i think there was a lot of expectation wasn't there that things were simply going to slip back into place within about 24 or 34 hours that doesn't seem to be happening so what do you think is it that they still have to deal with where robots think that general sentiment among many people that after the announcement they would go the day after to the grocery find the same products for example that were coming from saudi arabia before the 5th of june 2070 that people would be flying all the way from into saudi arabia the united arab emirates. or egypt on the spot in fact what happened yesterday was the end now as moment of fishel announcement that the chapter that of the crisis is over and this was reiterated by

the. by the sa the minister of foreign affairs when he was asked repeatedly about that particular issue and he said the crisis is over life is back to normal embassies will be resettled back and it will be back to normal and i think this is a process which is going to take some time because you're talking about logistics which is going to be taken into place different departments in different countries trying to work out new agreements new formalities for projects to start trickling in from saudi arabia into qatar and vice versa and for people to start traveling from doha to different distillations because throughout the last the is and half qatar has worked out a new model it has been looking for alternative routes it has been striking deals with different new economic financial partners to get products coming into qatar and this time with the crisis over to expect life to come to normal as soon as possible i think it is definitely going to take some time plus. the restrictions

that were imposed by covert 19 which are definitely going to further delay any swift resumption or a life coming back to normal in this part of the world and one of the other issues of course at the core of all of this is trust isn't it because moving ahead and build and solidarity which seems to be the goal of this declaration that was signed in saudi arabia is going to have to be based on mutual trust and that may take some time to rebuild exactly and this explains rob that yesterday the most interesting aspect about what happened yesterday when you look at the the embrace but with the of the qatari me and this idea crown prince. and the. the visit the the taken together to tourists side the side meetings they had together you feel like that on the subject with track that is quite significant progress we haven't seen any interaction between the. crown prince of with the.

vice president that would give you an indication of that all those particular tracks we might have to wait and give it some time and i think this is all about trust this is all about turning a chapter and starting a new one there are coal issues that have to be tackled in the near future about. how to deal with iran what kind of relationship that would like to have with iran turkey is growing influence in the region the role of political islam in the arab world the broadleaf occasions of the arab spring in 2011 and i think those war some of the main core issues that were the trigger of the g.c.c. crisis in 2017 they all understand that there is absolutely no way they can solve these problems while they were gathering in saudi arabia is going to

be a political process where they have to build trust but the same time they will have to understand that what happened in 2017 has created a new political reality and the saluki no way to ask a country to change what has been built as a new political reality or a new political affiliations or realignments. barbara thank you very much indeed for giving us that analysis here and. still ahead on al-jazeera. that is right as well as in its new parliament which seize control of the national assembly return to the ruling party and leaves the opposition out in the cold. no justice for jacob by the police officer who shot him 7 times in the back will not face charges. 2 college basketball teams take coronavirus precautions on the court as well as office does going to have that coming up in support.

of the. winter is certainly shown its hand in the last few days these codes applied are all going into code which means it's snow that falls out of the cleric that lovin northern italy produced a vast amount of snow this rother the next that course this is what a few was in the high ground of northern italy but actually down to 300 metres even in the appetizing centralist you had that sort of picture memphis is today that still has moved on its lights now of austria or the crane beyond that but look what's happening down in spain that's just looking like a hint at the moment it would be rather more than that i suspect well time to get through to the end of the day in milan the focus not quite walking down the post alley it's cold to some snow around and it's clearly misty or foggy so this is

a place to look at i think with the cold air flowing down over the wall most mediterranean you tend to brew the storm there's more snow significant snow for the balkans running across to rumania but we should probably look more at spain this does a minor thing there this is a vast amount of snow spreading out through friday and saturday a great deal of spain affected and then from about eric's stormy weather sunder storms and wind. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest of rich

countries are fighting for it inside story on al-jazeera when the news breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in indian administered kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate the sky for food that we simply don't know if we can teach you to bring you more award winning documentaries and live on air and online.

i want to remind of our top stories this hour hong kong police have arrested $53.00 pro-democracy politicians and activists they're being accused of subverting state power it's the biggest crackdown under the controversial national security law in china imposed last year. democratic challenger raphael warnock has won a hotly contested u.s. senate runoff in georgia he beat republican incumbent kelly loffler and the other race democrat john also holds a slim lead over david produce but that race is still too close to call the outcome will decide the balance of power in congress. germany's lockdowns been extended for another 3 weeks this time the rules are even more stringent on wednesday the netherlands vaccinated aids 1st citizen a care home nurse making it one of the last countries in the e.u. to begin the rollout. supporters of president donald trump a big gun gathering outside the u.s. congress in washington d.c. as congress gets ready to certify the presidential election thousands are expected

to take part in one's days so-called march to save america they reject joe biden's victory and claim election fraud a baseless claim trump has repeated since the vote in november. well a set of occasion is set to take place later on by the state and is going to mark the final stage in the process to officially declare biden as the 46 president of the united states but a skeptical hangs planes in this era of donald trump it suspected to be controversial and unprecedented. this announcement of the state of the vote it's supposed to be a formality. the u.s. vice president along with members of congress receiving the certified votes from the states donald trump of new york has received for president of the united states 304 votes and declaring the election over by president al gore did it george w. bush of the state of texas has received for president of the united states 271 votes

and he just lost the election to george bush by just over 500 votes the vice president votes but his vice president my pence prepares to take the gavel he is under pressure to throw out joe biden's win and i hope mike headaches comes through for us after the was was crazy was a great vice president comes through for us he's a great guy. for us if he doesn't come through a lot like a quite as much according to the constitution the vice president doesn't have the power to do what the president wants but more than 100 house republicans and at least 13 senators have promised to try i and i was majority. on january 2nd and i'm really just to feel like charo it was . any they're calling for an emergency audit of the vote and are threatening to

challenge the results for key states if they don't get it we've got tens of millions of americans now think this election was stolen we need to get to the bottom of it again what's what's explained we need to explain. get that off the table to be clear there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud even though the trump campaign has filed almost 60 lawsuits claiming that there is all of which have been thrown out by the courts but if these republicans do object to certify the results from certain states then each chamber will debate each challenge for up to 2 hours before voting on whether to certify the results it's unlikely they have the votes to actually change the outcome challenges have been made in the past but never with these kinds of numbers i would like to see it named for what it is which is the republicans are making a plea to get rid of democracy and and and offer something else which looks like entrenched politicians get to decide who the next leader is and it's

absolutely breathtaking as a matter of constitutional basics never before has the loser of a presidential election refused to concede or call the election stolen but for president trump this is one more precedent breaking move on his way out a last ditch and likely futile attempt to stay in power patty going out is there. a police officer who shot a black man 7 times in the u.s. state of wisconsin in august will not face criminal charges can also a county district attorney cleared officer ruston cesky of any crime of a mass protests after he shot jacob blake in the back leaving him power lies to the waist down gabriel elizondo reports. in america the latest incident of a black man shot by police and the officer who pulled the trigger getting away with it in august

a police officer in ocean wisconsin shot jacob blake 7 times in the back as he was walking to his vehicle his kids were inside blake was left paralyzed from the waist down. the shooting brought can osha to a standstill as protests broke out by people angry and calling for justice lawyers for the officer claimed the shooting was justified because blake was acting erratically allegedly armed with a knife and officers on the scene said they thought blake was trying to kidnap his children during a custody dispute on tuesday afternoon district attorney said after an extensive investigation there was no legal foundation for charging the officer and it is my decision now that i announced today before you know can osha law enforcement officer in this case will be charged with any criminal offense based on the facts and the laws as i will describe them to you now so it is our decision that no

charge will be filed blake's family was left frustrated and saddened by the decision there's no justification what we've done 2 months because your story was you were free that my son was going to kidnap his children if he was fearful of that why did he fire into the car so it would be children in the car so is he going to be you know i don't keep flip flop this is not half scotch snap. this is my son. my son cannot walk right now. blake's attorney said the video of his client being shot should have been enough for the officer to be charged with the crime we believe that obviously the district attorney's office somehow believes that as we roll in the 2021 that all of a sudden we're the the country legally blind or something we think that the 22nd

video is very clear we don't need it so our explanation for what our eyes can see. activists are trying to make sense of the decision from kenosha becomes on the heels of a summer in which millions of people took to the streets across the country to protest police brutality and injustice in the wake of several high profile killings of unarmed black people on the one hand i'm not surprised because we have over a 400 year history of not holding folks accountable when it comes to lethally taking black life or even wounding black life like we have in this case but i'm also a little bit surprised because last year we had the largest civic on record in america's history we demanded for reimagined policing structure and we demanded accountability here less than one week into 2021 we have neither. the department of justice says the federal civil rights investigation into the shooting is ongoing gabriel is on doe al-jazeera washington dinners are charged with murder for opening

fire during the unrest that followed blake's shooting has pleaded not guilty collets and haas appeared in court by video link the 18 year old faces 6 charges for the fatal shooting of 2 men and the wounding of a 3rd in can osha at the height of protests in august. we're getting is founder julian assange will soon learn of he'll get his 1st taste of freedom in more 8 years a bail hearings being held in london on monday a judge rejected a request by u.s. prosecutors to extradite a songe on espionage charges he's accused of endangering lives by publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents an extradition attempt was blocked on account of his mental health. well let's cross over to westminster magistrates' court in london where paul brennan is live for us paul this is clearly a crucial day for julian assange. indeed on his

freedom ressa point the 1st possible taste of freedom that he will have had for more than 8 years now of course since he fled into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 the hearing itself will last around 2 to 3 hours it got underway at around 10 past 10 local time and what we've heard from for us is the lawyer for us authorities who are hosting the bail application and they are seeking to keep julian assange in custody clad alban is the lawyer and she said and i quote that a summons was someone who chose himself willing to go to extreme lengths to avoid justice the decision to resign to sit not to extradite him she said hangs on a single thread that is a song which is mental health they will be appealing against that decision and she oh it's this court not to make that appeal academic by granting bail today now clearly ass on his lawyers will have their own version of events arguing that he

needs to be set free after such a long period of time. first of all in the ecuadorian embassy and the last 18 months in a high security prison at bell lost in south east london they argue that the risk of infection rates coronavirus is one of the main reasons why they say he should be allowed out under strict bail conditions it would be for the judge vanessa but it sets a make a decision somewhere we expect around lunch time and obviously paul we're going to be checking back in with you as we get closer to that but for now thanks very much indeed paul brennan talking to us from london. north korea's leaders made a rare admission of failure speaking during the country's largest political event kim jong un said its economic plan had failed significantly and acknowledged painful lessons have been learned broad reports from seoul. a rarely held event it is normally the propaganda set piece for the ruling workers' party of korea to trumpet its achievements but in his opening address north korea's leader

kim jong un admitted his country has failed economically going through what he called the worst of the worst. in the country's 5 year economic development plan finished last year and we fell short of our goal significantly in almost every sector already facing international sanctions the country has virtually sealed itself off from the outside world during the global pandemic it suffered further during typhoons and flooding over the summer that damaged infrastructure and crops . and the end of the trumpet ministration means the end of the road for the unprecedented period of summit diplomacy with the united states in october north korea put on an impressive show of strength at the 75th anniversary of the ruling party's founding but kim seem to be suffering the strains of recent setbacks kim

jong un must be really really frustrated even so disappointed are barred lack of any progress you specially on the front of economic development since the breakdown of the summit meeting with the u.s. president on trial in a noisy so the north korean leadership has been basically flailing trying this and that without any well coordinated strategy north korea watchers will be looking in the coming days of this congress for any clues about kim's likely approach to the new administration of u.s. president elect joe biden and whether there will be a return to more traditional arm's length diplomacy. the 1st test could come soon with the possible announcement of resumed military exercises between u.s. and south korean forces in the spring which had been largely suspended during trump's term you have a very narrow window of opportunity very limited amount for biden or the musicians

to. strike a conversation and dialogue with north korean regime so close to the inauguration north korea's position for now seems to be a cautious wait and see. mcbride al-jazeera sold. opposition figures in central african republic want last month's election and nulled because of what they're calling numerous irregularities president fast in our hands 20 was reelected with more than 53 percent of the vote but the opposition says half the population were unable to cast ballots because of violence from rebel groups. has declared 3 days of national mourning following a massacre of 100 civilians armed fighters carried out a series of attacks in 2 villages in the southwestern region of betty witnesses say over 100 gunmen on motorbikes surrounded the villages and saturday before they opened fire flash flooding in bolivia has killed at least 4 people to ensure rain

and hail hit the city of sucrose on monday washing away vehicles and kiosks the city's largest farmers' market was in the worst affected areas but didn't say drains blocked by rubbish made the flooding worse. well as well as president nicolas maduro has tightened his grip on power with the swearing in of a national assembly controlled by his socialist party that marks the end of control but the opposition boycotted last month's election because they said it wasn't free or fair there is a bill has more. the pictures of latin america's independence hero. and laid precedent to go chavis i return to venice way less national assembly a symbolic act by the ruling socialist party to let the world know little is now in control of the legislative body. i tell you this without any rhetoric that we cannot fail we cannot but succeed this time we have to repair what has been damaged

we have to rebuild what has been destroyed to rebuild what has been damaged by hatred betrayal and violence but it took what critics say was a fraudulent election last month for my little to take power in the assembly venezuela's opposition has been in control since 2016 and since then has been in constant confrontation with a government denouncing what it called dictatorial ways 2 years ago the president of the body white proclaimed himself president claiming model was elected the country's leader in a fragile involved why the last mandate in the assembly expired on tuesday but members of the opposition have extended for another year not as leader of the assembly but of a parallel body to challenge my daughter's legitimacy. to this effort and this sacrifice it's worth it this need for change and this scream for freedom it's worth it the parliament is worth it this resistance by each venezuelan it's worth it this

country is worth it yes it's worth it the sacrifice the determination respecting our constitution it's worth it to fight for men and women who are giving everything for venezuela but with the assembly now in my daughter's hands analysts wonder what will happen to why though i. the opposition now that model has taken control of what many see as venezuela's last democratic institution emery secure his capacity to mobilize people has deteriorated the opposition is divided the confidence that they can remove madeira from office is small but he still has a stock for a political fight the united states will continue to recognize and more continue to support him even with biden and power canada japan and other countries recognize him to controlling the national assembly gives my lula the legal tools he lacked in the past and the appearance of legitimacy in front of international law. with the sma duro from a legal point of view he can validate the national assembly in front of his allies

like russia china and turkey to sign agreements or oil concessions that legally need to be done by the assembly aside from their madeira from a real point of view already controlled every institution. grip on power remains strong despite why those efforts as he has failed to turn the bolivarian on forces against him. but disenchantment with the economic and political situation in the country is significant and growing and that's why the confrontation with the opposition is unlikely to end anytime soon. that is how will and. still ahead in sport there's a new team of the top of the test cricket rankings chose because the action in this particular area.

all of the all. time this court hears joe thank you very much just 2 days after reaching methodist n.f.l. playoffs in 17 seasons the cleveland browns have suffered a big blow as 5 of that team have tested positive for corona virus among them head coach kevin stefanski into assistant coaches 2 players are also infected will miss cleveland's 1st playoff games the 2002 season the browns have been hit hard by the virus they were missing 6 players and 3 coaches last week after a number of positive tests if he had to close down the training facility again on tuesday and it's throwing that preparations for sunday's wild card game against the pittsburgh steelers into disarray the game is unlikely to be rescheduled by because of the n.f.l.'s rules and their opponents understand what cleaving the going 3.

every morning at 6 am i am looking at my phone waiting for verification of the previous day's test results. you know we in the clear are all we are and what necessary adjustments need to be made what investigations if any did to be made that is beyond our life and not only ours you know best for but ours collectively as members of the national football league says july and so there are daily reminders there are continually continual reminders of how fragile the circumstances are so what's transpiring what's transpired in cleveland is not reinforcement or verification is just more of the same for us like it has been it for everyone else well of course it is joining us sport has had to adjust to the circumstances that the country having recorded moment 21000000 cases of current virus since the start of the outbreak among those taking the pandemic seriously is

boston university they have a rule in place for their basketball teams to wear masks on court hearing play that resulted in what's believed to be the 1st men's college game this season which both teams more than on tuesday boston university playing against holy cross or some mosque slipped down and needed adjusting it's only a boston university rule though and not mandated by the end seat of a life as i've been hearing the u.s. is also in the midst of counting votes in the senate runoff election in georgia something the n.b.a. star le bron james has been passionate about the l.a. lakers forward wore a shirt saying pole up georgia to his team's game against the memphis grizzlies on tuesday to remind people to get out and vote james is more than a photo organization has works to combat voter suppression in the u.s. and i hope that we look to you to shed light on situations that one if we believe in to it's in our home and it's an art that we can talk about and discuss it and

also just be knowledgeable about any situation that comes out. well bron james was a busy man on tuesday because as well as campaigning for voters to turn out in georgia he scored 26 points to help rally l.a. his to a 94 to 92 win over the grizzly's james added 11 rebounds and 7 assists and the davis also contributed $26.00. speaking of rallying the chicago bulls fought back from 20 points down to beat the portland trailblazers 111-2108 coby white had 21 points and 10 rebounds exactly 3 pointer but the ball is in front late on and they didn't get back from their. south america's top club competition the couple of those world stages final had an empty medical in rio brazil has the 2nd highest number of world wide deaths from growing virus much is set for january the 30th in the competition is currently at its semifinal stage the continental governing body calmer balls says the 2nd tick opposite americana final also be played without fans

boston as a league match against athletic bilbao will go ahead on wednesday despite 2 positive cases among staff members the players all returned negative results they trained on tuesday ahead of the much they really need to win as they sit outside the champions league places and women's world cup champion alex morgan has also been infected the u.s. team co-captain says she and her family caught the virus while in california recently woman says her body has fully recovered and is expected to link up with her teammates from the national team duty soon. taught them a breach the english league cup final but still the head coach isn't happy spurs beat 2nd tape brantford 2 nil in the semifinals on tuesday rooney is only the 3rd manager to reach the league cup final with 3 different clubs but the portuguese boss says there's room for improvement. we've always courtroom holes we could score a couple more but. i'm not happy i think we have to play better

sometimes bad decisions sometimes technical mistakes so job done. we are in the final i suppose we'll face one of the 2 manchester clubs sitio united at wembley their semifinal is on wednesday and it's a rematch of last season's darby at the same stage which city won on their way to clinching the trophy for 3rd successive year united maybe one win from going top of the premier league but in cup competitions they've lost 3 semifinals under their current manager. it's always a good question of how important is it and then then i can answer that very. the next game is always important but of course the semifinal is a chance to get to get to the final to get your hands on a trophy in the next round it's not just learning to win semi's we've all we're also all. right to feel that we can go all the way with our performances we are confident we go into the game in good form so there's no excuses these

ilands cricketers have gone top of the test rankings for the 1st time after hammering pakistan by an innings and 176 runs to win the 2nd test in christchurch pakistan were 841 at the start of quite young pace bowler jamie kyle jamieson picked up his career best figures of 6 for 48 with none of pakistan's batsmen passing 37 kiwis dismissing their opponents 496 to wrap up a victory clincher a series 2 nil as well and england's cricketers can breathe a sigh of relief touring party have been given the all clear in sri lanka after being retested for kovan 19 they'll resume training on wednesday comes off to a random 0 in alley test positive on arrival on monday he's now isolating for 10 days at the team hotel. all right that is useful for now i'll have more field joe thanks very much indeed so how raman is going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories i'm rob us and thanks very much

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