it's 6. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and this is. you're watching the news hour coming up in the next 60 minutes and outgoing president donald trump permanently for inciting his supporters to march to the u.s. capitol move to impeach donald trump gains further traction the groundwork spin laid to take action against the president monday and anxious wait families gather for any news after

a plane goes missing after takeoff. and coping through creativity after years of civil war and a pandemic would be an artist find a way to he'll. have all the day's sport including the golden state warriors star steph curry puts on a match winning performance continues his comeback from. now for years twitter was dog go to platform to promote his policies that attacked his critics and spread false hoods now it's suspended the u.s. president's account permanently it's the latest consequence of an attack on capitol hill by trump's supporters which could also see him face a 2nd impeachment. reports from washington d.c.

. there will be no more tweets from donald trump twitter on friday night suspending his account permanently saying the decision was taken due to the risk of further incitement of violence trump had 88000000 followers and said he used his account to go around the mainstream media to get his message out but he was increasingly tweeting or re tweeting misleading or false information sometimes even disproven conspiracy theories this is a very big deal i will say it's had a sense of inevitability remember twitter did temporarily suspend his account back on the 2 days ago when the the violent mob marched on the capitol and they required him to delete 2 tweets and then they reinstated him and he made a few more tweets but if you remember when they said that they said further violations may result in permanent suspension or language to that effect in the halls of congress calls are growing for trump to be impeached a group of democrats has circulated the draft of the articles of impeachment

against trump that is expected to be taken up in the house as soon as monday it accuses trump of high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting an insurrection and says trump has demonstrated he will remain a threat if allowed to stay in office the white house called the articles of impeachment politically motivated and will only further divide america he must be removed from office house speaker nancy pelosi said if trump doesn't resign she'll move forward with impeachment is said to have yet to sign off on the final wording of the impeachment language in a letter to her congressional colleagues on friday called trump unhinged and said she spoke to a top military commander about ensuring trump's access to the nuclear codes was limited in his final days in office so he couldn't launch a nuclear war with only 11 days left in trump's presidency it's unclear if that will be enough time for congress to vote on impeachment. yet trump is facing the

prospect of being the 1st president in us history to be impeached twice in already less a 48 hours we have over $150.00 co-authors of this article of impeachment and that does show i think very strong momentum we also have the fact that most people multiple people die in this attempted coup and it's something we can't just ignore . the pressure on trump to step down is also gaining steam the latest call comes from republican lisa murkowski a senator from alaska who told a local newspaper that the president is no longer fit to serve out the individual terms on friday president elect joe biden announced the final group of his cabinet secretary picks and said fighting the pandemic in creating jobs remains his top priority when asked if trump should be removed from office he said this i've had

a number of my republican colleagues former colleagues i've served in the senate for a long time call me they are many of the more eyes outraged and disappointed and embarrassed and mortified by the president's conduct as i am and democrats. want as for the rioters that set off the crisis several were arrested on friday including this man richard barnett seen here in a widely circulated photo sitting at nancy pelosi s desk the department of justice has issued 13 federal indictments related to the rioting and more arrests are expected in the coming days trump tweeted from his official presidential account hours after his personal account was taken down he said twitter was trying to ban free speech and silence not only him but also his supporters minutes later those tweets were also taken down by the social media giant.

washington let's cross over now live to washington d.c. where. standing by and also how do we expect this impeachment process to unfold on monday hey there sammy well quickly and then possibly trying to slowly let me explain that so it looks like the house will take up impeachment as early as monday they only need a simple majority and the democrats have that so it seems likely that those articles will pass they'll then transmit them immediately to the u.s. senate so the current majority leader about to be minority leader mitch mcconnell has laid out the memo to his staff this to the senators how this would go forward they could take it up pretty quickly but that would require the consent of all $100.00 senators given that there are at least a handful of pro trumps senators that seems unlikely so then that would have to either january 19th or daniel the 20th and january 20th right ring a bell that's the day 'd that joe biden becomes president so why would they

continue with that well there is precedent that they could go ahead and impeach even once he's out of office why would they do that well politically democrats are going to want these republicans on the record for when they run for reelection and also if he isn't peached and that's a much higher hurdle in the senate 2 thirds would have to vote to impeach him they could also vote for a simple majority and say he's banned from ever holding public office again that seems more likely considering that there are a lot of republicans who want to run in 4 years and they don't want the threat of donald trump hanging over them as running for reelection again so you can see how it plays out over the next couple of days but it is definitely gaining momentum here on the hill also gaining momentum is the band's against the president on social media are we getting any reaction from the white house to the. well obviously you heard gabe say that the president not pleased and there's

a lot of skepticism here about why the social media companies are now taking this step obviously donald trump has violated their policies over and over and over again why are they doing it just now well there are some high up democrats who think it's because they realize the democrats are taking over in just about 12 days and they have said it is time to regulate big tax because they have given a platform to donald trump and the other on the other side you can see people say this is way too much power for one accountable company to have to be able to silence the president of the united states so obviously big tech is in the spotlight here they're going to be in the spotlight for the coming months because we've seen senators and congress people say that it is time to put some regulations and to this huge monopoly that is twitter facebook instagram and all the social media companies. thanks for that. had

a tumultuous relationship with twitter for once the platform began fact checking the president's tweets on may the 28th of last year it labeled his assertions about mail in ballots and fraud is potentially misleading in the following day twitter flagged another trump tweet as glorifying violence that's when he said when the looting starts the shooting starts it was a reference you might recall to those protests over the death the killing of george floyd and trump was temporarily long the talent of twitter 2 days ago and supporters stormed capitol hill well this is we know has since become permanent eliot brennan is a research associate to the united states studies center at the university of sydney he says banning trump on twitter will only fire up his supporters. this is really speaking to the incredible incredible political tension that is evident

across the united states at the moment. having a social media company put in the position of having just weigh up the public good of hearing from the president directly versus the potential for a sitting president to incite violence is not something i think anyone would have predicted in the heyday of social media when everyone was excited talking about what were good force for democracy it was how far we've come since then is really evident at the moment don't trump has had a tumultuous relationship with twitter and he's also been pushing for changes to the way social media companies are regulated for what he said is the census censorship of free speech so right now donald trump and he supporters will be incredibly riled up about the threat posed to free speech in the country at the moment i think a lot of a lot of those who stormed the capitol earlier this week with citing freedom as as the reason that they were doing that they were taking their freedom back so this is something that at once it cuts that line it's quite clear that there was

a motivation from the president for people to go and do that at the capitol if it damages his ability to do that but at the same time it makes those same people it confirms their beliefs and emboldens them in their anger and. their political actions president elect joe biden says those who storm the capital and wednesday should be regarded as terrorists should be treated as they're a bunch of thugs insurrectionist white supremacist and i semites 6 and there's not enough i mean come on you know this church there were these are a bunch of thugs thugs. and their terrorist mess to tears and that'll be a judgment for the the justice department to make as to what the charges should be but the fact is they should be prosecuted and should be prosecuted the difference here is this had the active encouragement of

a city president of the united states and the way in which the breakdown in security occurred needs to be thoroughly investigated karen greenberg is from fordham university school of lol we spoke to her about security failings in the run up to the riots. the worry in particular has to do with the run up to the inauguration on january 20th and the question is were they talking about and are they talking about mounting some kind of other demonstration i mean if you think about it there were somewhat like 40000 people they think earlier this week who knows how many and they're worried about could come in the inauguration so i think the idea is if there is no top person opinion pinpointing what to do and blasting it out that makes it a little bit safer you know there was a lot of talk running to earlier this week talking about what might happen on the

day congress was supposed to approve the presidential vote and it happened and yet they weren't ready and so the question is you know can we take questions now to make sure it doesn't happen again knowing that there were going to be people assembly is very hard to say we're going to have to get to the bottom of it was it that the police were told the capitol police were told do whatever you can not to confront them so that it will reduce violence or where they told where they part of something broader in terms of breaching the perimeter of the capitol and so we don't know and we don't want to make any you know conclusions but there are a lot of questions out i think that the law enforcement intelligence and military has been ramped up in terms of being aware and vigilant and i think everybody make paying attention you know where they should be paying attention on wednesday. more pictures are emerging from the moments capitol hill was overrun and they appear to reinforce perceptions that

a spouse police force was outnumbered an overwhelmed one officer was killed his anger chapelle. was. was a police officer is crushed in the doorway of the capitol building cop a tween an angry crowd and an outnumbered police force. was. the a lapse in security on the stage with joe biden and comma harris will be sworn in as the us president and vice president in a few days' time. they point out that i was. inside the chamber members of congress to cover before supporters of president donald trump enters. dozens have been arrested by the. they include richard barrett who broke into nancy pelosi office and later bragged on television about taking her mail the activities of those involved in the siege of

our capital were violent they were destructive. they resulted in the tragic loss of life and they threaten our nation's security and those actions. cannot be tolerated in those people must be held accountable and it was amazing to be the president talked to some and did not survive the. air force veteran ashley babbitt was filmed attempting to enter the speaker's lobby through a broken window before being shot by an officer the scene captured on several videos according to the journalism website belenkaya officer brian sick nick died from injuries he suffered on wednesday flags in the capital are being flown at half staff in his memory police say some protestors were armed including with homemade explosives this person is suspected of leaving pipe bombs at the democratic and republican party headquarters. another man was arrested with guns and 11 bombs containing homemade napalm in his truck others are expected to be prosecuted many

had not worn masks and were filmed health officials are also warning that the event could have spread coronavirus and may have consequences for public health and or chapell al-jazeera now trump allies to fall out of favor with the president of being targeted by his supporters. the. republican senator lindsey graham was shouted at while being schooled to through ronald reagan national airport on friday just outside washington d.c. having initially backed trump's objections to the election outcome graham voted to formalize joe biden's victory saying enough is enough. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including the british capital at crisis point london's mayor declares a major incident overcovered 19 says hospitals in the city are overwhelmed. came german says the u.s. remains his country's biggest enemy after joe biden called north korea's leader

a fog. sport one english premier league manager says it's time for football to take a break we'll have that story coming up later for you later in the show. now an indonesian passenger plane has gone missing shortly after taking off from the capital their craft is operated by the country's budget sure we have more than 60 people of thought to be on board this go live now just to washington in jakarta so jessica officials have just been speaking in a press conference haven't they wouldn't have been signing. some we've just heard from indonesia as minister of transport who's given us a breakdown of the passengers on the plane we've heard that there were 43 adults 7 children and 3 infants on board we've heard from the airlines 3 with giant airlines

who have said that there were 12 crew on board here's what we know so far this is a developing situation a plane took off from cyclone hunter airport in tunisia main airport and was heading to point the ana in west valley month on the into the asian government police search and rescue teams have set up a crisis center and they will be delivering a press conference soon where we do expect more information but we do know so far from flight tracking data is that the plane lost contact just 4 minutes after takeoff local search and rescue teams at the 1000 islands which aren't. chain of islands very close to jakarta believe that they have found debris from the plane invasion government has said that military vessels will be available for them to continue their search efforts because there is limited visibility it is nighttime here in indonesia so crews are working quickly to try and establish what happened

we also know from local media of the relatives of those on board waiting at the airport waiting for news to know what happened to their loved ones all right thanks so much jessica watch from. north korean leader kim jong un says the united states is his country's biggest enemy he's threatening now to expand his nuclear arsenal kim said the u.s. must withdraw its hostile policy if it wants to establish new relations problem by reports from seoul. north korean leader kim jong un's extensive reports in the opening days of this ruling party congress has mostly concentrated on his country's claimed achievements in the 5 years since the last congress. but he referred again to the economic failings he admitted at the beginning of this gathering the result of isolation from

international sanctions and the global pandemic not say as always because the situation is bad and. so denying probably means as a counter to such negative views kim was able to highlight big advances in his nuclear arsenal he referred to new missile development such as in submarine launched weapon technology and a new longer range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering multiple warheads with greater accuracy kim jong un also spoke about the need for the testing of new weapons opening up the possibility of more provocative longer range missile launches but north korea has suspended during the past few years of unprecedented summit diplomacy with south korea and the united states it's

a far cry from the commitments to denuclearize ation made in the singapore summit with the us president donald trump just 2 and a half years ago and as he prepares for his successor joe biden to take over came once again identified the united states as his country's biggest main enemy rob mcbride al-jazeera sold. the covert 19 hour break in the u.k. continues to surge breaking 2 more records on friday the country reported more than 1300 deaths the highest since the pandemic began there was also a record number of new infections london's mayor has declared a major incident he says the spread of the virus is out of control and the city is that crisis point. let's go live now to neve barker joins us from london so officials and doctors talking really tough are people listening.

well that's the question i think the message is really sinking in but progressively you do get the sense that the authorities feel they need to go much further in hammering home how serious the situation is over leicester square center of london on a saturday tens of thousands of people pass through here ok nothing like those scenes now but still people are here they're milling about they're going to bars and rest restaurants and cafes that are still offering takeaways so there are reasons for people to be here but exactly that is the cause for concern for many scientists because of this new strain of the virus that's 30 percent more transmissible them the 1st variety the feeling is that we need to go much much further to be able to hammer down the increase in cases according to a study in the mayor of london as many as one in 20 in london now have the virus there are also some new figures out to suggest that in certain parts of the city in the east and south in barking and dagenham a nice number could be much worse than that one in 16 according to one source and

the real concern of the the reason why the national lockdown was introduced in the 1st place is concerns about this new strain spreading beyond london to the rest of the country and that's why new campaign is being launched by the government where the government basically trying to tell people act as if you have the virus already and that's the only way we're going to be able to control this before people get hold of vaccine or we don't cases shooting up even though the country of england much of england's in the top tier what's next there are there tougher restrictions to move to if the top tier isn't working. you want to how further you can actually go the assumption is maybe they will be a stricter approach to dealing with cafes and restaurants that are offering takeouts for instance at the moment the message is that only essential shops should

stay open to it enable businesses to continue to not lose complete amount of trade some or are able to for instance off the coffer coffees and things like that but of course that means queues of people outside premises and that's the last thing that your thirty's want to see at the moment the next pope of course is for the vaccine we know that the british government is now previews the maternal vaccine made in the united states so 3 of them are now available 367000 1000000 rather doses have been ordered we know that by the middle of february the government's hoping to have inoculated 15000000 people 13 and a half 1000000 of those are in the top 4 vulnerable category so elderly people people with preexisting conditions it will require military precision to make sure that the vaccine is rolled out as quickly as possible one and a half 1000000 vaccines have been ministers so far that figure needs to be rounded

up pretty quickly. thanks so much need barkha studies found mosco in 1000 patients still feel the effects of the disease 6 months later 76 percent of more than 1600 patients who were followed up said they had at least one symptom for t. muscle weakness and difficulties thinking were the most common problems just under 100 patients whose antibody levels were measured found they dropped by 50 percent in the past 6 months back would suggest immunity reduces over time the study's authors warn larger sample size isn't needed to be certain. oxana physick is a senior lecturer and global health advisor at university college london school of pharmacy she says chronic covert $900.00 symptoms for long term pressure on health systems patients have to be seen over

a period of 6 months or longer due to complications of contracting the virus that means that we're going to have even less capacity less health care workforce available for treating these individuals and that will have a knock on consequences on care for all sorts of chronic conditions cancer care of sexual so this is going to even further put what we see globally is not to health systems are under extreme amount of strain here in the u.k. there have been as a result. austerity measures for many years even just coping with flu or the winter has led to a shortage of bed c can imagine now london is an 8 of essentially emergency nearly with a major incident was declared by mayor because of the lack of hospital beds but when we look at sort of the in right now we're not even discussing the long term

consequences that this very important study has highlighted the head of the world health organization has repeated his warnings against vaccine nationalism saying it will end up hurting everyone he says deals between drug companies and wealthy governments could limit the supply following come countries that ease a computer problem that low and most middle income countries are not receiving the vaccine yet this is a problem we con and we have to give them through callbacks. i urge countries that have contracted more vaccines done they will need and out of controlling the global supply to also dani and release them to call backs immediately which is ready today to roll up to roll out them out quickly bogota and several other cities in colombia are under curfew the streets of the capital were mostly deserted overnight apart

from police officers and forcing the lock down the country is trying to contain a sharp increase in corona virus cases in these pressure on intensive care units it's recorded more than 18000 new infections in the past day the united arab emirates has reopened its air and sea borders with cutter that's after saudi arabia the u.a.e. rain and the agree this week to restore ties with qatar follows 3 and a half years of blockade kothari ways is already rerouted some flights through saudi airspace. aid groups are concerned about 50000 people have been displaced by widespread flooding in malaysia red crescent crews have been rescuing people as the floodwaters continue to rise across several states the group is worried about those who are crammed into emergency shelters jutes the covert dine team pandemic

it says the situation is getting worse by the hour and some areas have been turned into inland see. an unusual and persistent the blizzard has blanketed large parts of spain with snow it's frozen traffic and travel leaving thousands of people trapped in cars train stations and airports whether it is one of the worst hit cities 3 people have died as a result of the storm it's time for get some more weather news then here's rob. last couple days of thunderstorms seem likely in the western side of saudi arabia they've been showers around for a while and they're still in the forecast on sunday but to get to monday or tuesday it seems less likely at least in mecca so they tend to be dying is more of a breeze coming down the gulf a brief shamar which will bring temperatures down a little bit in doha as an example otherwise things are quiet rather rabia and also the levant they run not so in turkey turkey does get rain or more snow just

catching the north coast the more active weather we've been following in southern africa is still with us and for the time being for the time being then the low is still there that tropical cycler the wet season which is january february march for places like the libya is pretty apparent from the forecast when talks right in the sheriff of the coast not so disgusting coast remains dry for reasons that cold current and the cold wind up to $26.00 in cape time showers are going to vote in some parts of south africa wind took represents that wet season if you like 3 more days of showers and now done either has disappeared it looks like it will not become anything they will be showers in moorish is medically for probably no more than that. so ahead on al-jazeera a fire breaks out inside the maternity ward of a hospital in india at least 10 babies have dived full steam ahead to how the bangladesh ship building industry is trying to stay afloat despite the economic

downturn. added spall the baseball world mourns one of the league's most decorated managers. who started as a modest man. carry a soldier who'd never imagined he might one day become president of egypt. he had an ambitious wife and son he became an ultra pro and was imprisoned for the unlawful killing of protesters. the story of the rise and fall of hosni mubarak the famine episode one on i was just. the latest news as it breaks the explosion near an 18 to a transmission site knocked out mobile phone and internet service for miles with details coverage many have told us that they have voting for peace. they are

worried about the security situation in of the country from around the world times like this are dependent on the success of the that seems to prove. that will to stop it since the beginning of the outbreak. back here watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now twitter has permanently suspended u.s. president donald trump's account citing a risk of him fueling further violence that after the deadly attack on capitol hill by trump supporters on wednesday. north korean leader kim jong un says the united

states is this country's biggest enemy he's threatening tweaks and his nuclear arsenal now he says the u.s. must withdraw its hostile policy if it wants to establish new relations and indonesian passenger plane has gone missing shortly after taking off from the capital the aircraft is operated by the country's budget true with. more than 60 people on board to be on board. back to our top story now social media is donald trump's preferred method of communicating with the public but in the past week those platforms now turned against him as we mentioned twitter has permanently blocked trump's personal account it says his most recent tweets were in violation of its glorification of violence policy facebook and instagram have suspended trump's account for the remainder of his term in office see mark

zuckerberg accuse trump of using the sites to incite violent insurrection social network site reddit has also taken action deleting one of its biggest pro trump forums it had about 52000 members. and another app called apollo which is a free speech twitter style site has become popular with from supporters google has now suspended it from its app store while apple has threatened to block it if it doesn't comply with content moderation requirements julie norman is a lecturer in politics and international relations at university college london joins us live by skype from london good to have you with us so how crippling is this social media ban on the president's ability to reach the public well sammy ever since trump took office and even before that twitter has ben his

main megaphone he had over 88000000 followers and really used it quite readily tweeting often dozens of times a day and that included until and through the events that we saw on wednesday at the capital so right closing that account as well as restricting terms ability to tweet from any other accounts it certainly does not feel that make a phone however terms messages are really going out very far there are many other apps and groups that have taken up his messaging and so even though this war much of the effects of that many of trying to messages will continue to get out and you will still find other outlets to continue his rhetoric when you talk about rhetoric when you listen to what some of those who stormed the capital were saying like antelope man or the one i'm not sure what he was the man they seem quite angry about the concept the idea that their freedoms were being muzzled while this play into that narrative. well that was certainly one of the considerations for

twitter facebook and the other social media sites and making this decision trump himself throughout his term has criticized the social media sites as cracking down on him personally and restricting free speech and so this move while perhaps constraining trump and keeping some of his messaging a little bit more subdued it will however probably have this back by are a fact of further mobilizing his base further making those who follow him feel aggrieved and see him as a victim by this decision what happens to all these bans once dollar from police office. well for twitter and for twitter at least this is seen as a permanent ban and so trump will not be able to reuse the site even after his term in office and for facebook the initial ban that they announced was for the next 2 weeks and till the end of trump's term but that is most likely going to be extended

beyond as well and for other apps it's yet to be seen probably it will depend on how much of a threat they consume continue to see trump to be and if his comments continue to be seen as perhaps inciting violence or an extremism. is it likely that we're going to see. more of a polarized nation more of an echo chamber and i mean if these apps are seen those not extending a platform to those elements of the right wing of american politics they're going to create their own platforms surely people are going to be even more in their own echo chambers right. stanley that's exactly right we've already seen this living begin a bit even before a time span from twitter with many of his followers going to sites like parlor and alternative states and indeed why not trip twitter is arguments for keeping trump on twitter for as long as they did was to enable or even trying critics to see what

the president was saying to be knowledgeable and to have that transparent and have that be out there by pushing many of trump's supporters into more of the shadow restates their role be more of a challenge for the general public to know what is being said however it's important to note that most analysts intelligence groups that follow extremist movements are right wing movements are already quite aware of many of these states . thanks so much for your analysis on that julie norman 10 newborn babies have died in a hospital fire in western india staff rescued 7 other infants at the government run hospital in the state of maharashtra there is thought the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit this is the 3rd fatal hospital fire in india in the last 6 months there's a problem has more from india's punjab state. the fog broke out at around 2 o'clock

in the morning and what's called the special newborn care unit of the band out of district hospital the district's administrator says that there were 2 nurses and to help at the time in the ward that they immediately raise the alarm that the fire brigade was called and the staff managed to rescue 7 babies but couldn't get to the 10 others because there were explosions in the ward the police say that the fire was most likely caused by an electrical short circuit a senior doctors has most of the 10 babies died from smoke inhalation but one from severe burn and to resign before the blaze was pushed out of the fog a did manage to stop the blaze from spreading to other parts of the hospital they moved all the patients to safety. deputy leader has ordered an urgent order of all the hospitals in the state and his national commission for the protection of child rights has asked for an urgent report into what happened but unfortunately this is just the latest disaster to raise concerns doubts about the safety of

india's hospitals with uncommon last year at least 8 people 8 coronavirus patients were killed in a fire in august in the station. and another 5 car the patients were killed and another blaze in the same state in the event. the united nations says violence and insecurity following the central african republic presidential election is false holding 30000 people to flee into neighboring countries. tells us many of them seeking refuge in cameroon. bearing scars of unspeakable violence is going to wear maxime and his family they fled the central african republic to cameroon after armed groups to go over control of their town who are a unesco world heritage site is now in the control of the anti christian militia group carrying out what maxine describes as a reign of terror and. i was on my motorcycle when they chained my legs.

look they stabbed me in a stomach and in the back then they stole all i had amid a presidential election a coalition of armed groups that fought each other in 2013 have joined forces capturing almost 2 thirds of a nation the size of france they are threatening to march on the capital bangui accusing president ouattara who has won a 2nd mandate of failing to implement a peace agreement as a result hundreds of thousands of people are on the move filling to neighboring countries including cameroon where they are sheltering in makeshift camps u.n. staff say they are being overwhelmed by the number of refugees you have to consider that in some traffic and public cool to all of the population is displaced by foreigners it's 630000 refugees have crossed the borders of the country and was in the country you have 600 scientists aus and washington displaced which is

a staggering amount of people in need of assistance you know help and any improvement of the security situation. people can return home and account is out of . the presidential election was supposed to bring peace to this war torn country instead it has unleashed a wave of uncontrollable violence despite 12000 un peacekeeping troops russian fighters and the country's e.u. trained soldiers. and his family are not ready to return home fearing the worst is yet to come nicholas hawk al-jazeera. now least 50 people have drowned after a ferry capsized on the congo river it happened in the city of kissing gammy north democratic republic of congo on friday authorities say overloading of the boat was the likely cause of the incident now china says it's ready for

a visit by the world health organization scientists investigating the origins of cope with 19 earlier this week members of the team were denied entry at the last minute they included dutch for ology professor marian months she spoke to al-jazeera step fasten wost about the delay and what comes next we got a message that the visa had not been resolved so that we were asked to stay where we were. waiting for for what else would would follow and so far so w.h.o. is discussing with china. you know what the issue is and there you have reschedule work has already started you have been asked to do with deep dive into what exactly happened at the early stages of this pandemic. and we have been preparing that in discussions with our chinese colleagues the

chinese government has been accused of a lack of transparency about the origins of call that 19 if this mission is gonna happen how optimistic are you that you can find the truth well truth what we are there for is to really look at what is what is there and of evidence so the idea is to go really to the place where the 1st problem was china so far has really agreed to that of reference of course there is. nervousness which is you know the. the discussion about the origin of the pandemic has become a little bit politicized it's a blame game it's a blame game and i think that that's wrong frankly. so as it is i hope that we will be able to get into the position to stay away from the blame game and just do the evidence professor cope months as the assumption

that covert 19 originated from an animal market in who is now in doubt after china published findings about earlier infections the team will also look into possibilities that the pandemic started elsewhere as chinese authorities have suggested but copen sans china is the right starting point for their investigation from the similarities between the virus found in people and viruses that were already circulating and bats in the region. and the most likely is that that's the rare rare the virus originally came from from bats from bats but are i think it's well possible that there's an intermediate step are you still looking into the possibility that it might have been i'm human mistake there were of course these these theories that maybe by accident has leaked from a laboratory is that something that you're looking into as well if that leads us to

the possibility of a bird free situation then yes we have discussed and we also want to have a look at that and are the chinese authorities willing to let you go into the laboratories so it's been discussed so i'm assuming yes yeah what you want to do is to prevent another pandemic like we are facing today so how crucial is it that the chinese authorities are going to cooperate with this nation if we want to stay ahead of these things that we really have to collaborate and share information to learn to prevent them. now the ship building industry in bangladesh had been thriving for a decade before the pandemic hit shutting down dockyards but a recent increase in domestic orders is keeping it afloat and providing much needed jobs from his child to read reports from the outskirts of the capital dhaka. bangladesh has always been known as one of the world's leading ship demolition

centers but it has also a long history of ship building dating back centuries and that's been recognised more and more after a layoff during the coronavirus lock down workers at this year are back and busy there are ships to be delivered and there is confidence in the industry has a bright future consistently growing domestic demand for ships in bangladesh both from government and private sector have held this industry to you know company a state of one religion short a span of time at least 10 years in this country are now you could be building facilities orders from the global market have slowed down but domestic demand has given you hope the ship yards are slowly coming back to life here in. the capital city it's difficult to here. in this. industry has managed to withstand the economic shock. unlike the ship breaking in the street the ship building industry has

a much higher worker safety standards and compliance regime child labor is virtually nonexistent in major shipyards but safety issues still remain a concern in smaller unregulated shipyards where workers face the risk of injury and even that many workers say wait just could be better and there is a lack of job security as most work is on a contract basis but for others a job is a job. i have been working here for 13 years now safety is pretty good wishes are reasonable but sometimes the salaries are paid a bit late in general it's a. the shipyards i brought new opportunities around 200 chip building companies now employ nearly 30000 people however there is still no workers union to fight for their rights they're going to follow. the overall working conditions are good here the shipyard has all the required equipment so it makes work a bit easier but not all shipyards have such facilities and working conditions the

director of this shipyard say it's not all smooth sailing and there are financial and other challenges ahead bangladesh has a huge potential for she building in future and at the moment we also have we have the technology we have the manpower but we have been doing issues with the financial sector as well as we need some sort of government between ideation the that these tools but we are gradually picking a man with there is a relatively small player in the global shipbuilding arena but with low cost labor and decades of experience industry experts believe the country could emerge as a major competitor in the market for small to medium size ocean going vessels chandra charger i'll just. now a collective of libyan artists and musicians have banded together to highlight the impacts of coronavirus on a country torn apart by conflict maybe as counted more than 104000 infections since

the pandemic started trying to reports from tripoli. deep within tripoli's old city under house of libya's musicians and artists a space to express themselves in titled persistence this exhibition highlights the covert 1000 pandemic in a country already torn apart by years of conflict it brings together photographers and artists who want to prove through their art that they can overcome the challenges. unfortunately in libya support for artists is absent this is why we created this art house so artists can express themselves and send messages through their art people's hopes fears and experiences of living with a lack of basic services like electricity or all expressed here the city of tripoli saw intense violence for 14 months when warlord khalifa haftar is libyan national

army or was the military offensive in april last year his forces later retreated towards the east after the internationally recognized tripoli government we took l n a held territory in june and as well as war the difficulties of living through a pandemic but on a gun somebody anyone of that and i'm a doctor 1000 was really hard for us i was afraid i would spread kavi to my family from the hospital there was fear and panic when i would leave the hospital they feelings were a heavy burden only so i would express them in colors in my art to lighten the load for these people persistence shows the importance of perseverance through hardship . either war or to see a stop in artists from creating as artists. we express our experiences in our campuses in our music that's why we organize this is that to give a space to express themselves now after nearly 6 months of call me tripoli these

artists are beginning to hope that the pain and fear there start to fade a new life in libya maybe. now a trainer al-jazeera tripoli. and still ahead on al-jazeera installed the young guns that gave the english football champions a real scare football action coming up in a moment. she's 7 years old she's a hard worker she's cool and a dad is a best friend. to get that they were cod to make their dreams come true. and you find. china's little rock star. on al-jazeera. the hillbilly

a 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 stereotype then becomes dangerous it's only a region of trash so. why not trash it what's in a name hillbilly but witness documentary on al-jazeera. right sports fans that catch up with all the news his father a semi thank you so much basketball star steph curry is once again showing the form

that made him a 2 time most valuable player in the n.b.a. he scored 38 points for the golden state warriors as they came back to beat the l.a. clippers 11521058 also scored a career high 62 points against portland last sunday the 3 time n.b.a. champion who spend to much of the last 14 months recovering from a broken left hand and missed most of last season. every night is cable looking entirely different when you're trying to figure you know yourself out and stay competitive and again i just like the way we responded the length of the season is going to require everybody to stay engaged stay committed stay in the fight and know that you can have an absolute help us win games australia put themselves on a strong position to win the 3rd test against india in sydney the aussies ended play on day 3 on a 103 for 2 in their 2nd innings with a lead of 197 runs marin a slot machine and steve smith will resume on sunday on 47 and 29 runs respectively

earlier they had dismissed the tourists for just 240 for the series is currently level at one game apiece the other big thing to keep that laid you know get up a 300 or did it hoping that we could keep it here id and mike got a really tough time to score and you know like die for it for. russian qualifier ana says i guess you know by stan former world number one carolina plus given the 2nd round of the abu dhabi open doesn't over who is ranked 200 and 92nd in the world to just 72 minutes to seal a 626 victory. this is just the 2nd ever match victory at a $500.00 event for the 21 year old after winning her opening round the. second seed alina's filina had no trouble in her match against various vonna raver as fit a leader past the veteran russians 6 or 61. really champions liverpool are through

to the 4th round of the english f.a. cup they beat an aston villa team that was severely weakened due to coronavirus villa were missing all of their senior squad because of copa casey's their starting lineup was made up of players from the under $23.18 squads they still managed to give liverpool a scare is 17 year old louis barry with the goal that made it $11.00 at half times before liverpool took over after the break it ended for one to liverpool newcastle united manager believes it's time for football in england to take a break because of coronavirus premier league said they were 40 positive coronavirus tests in their last round of weekly checks that was more than double the previous weekly high. it's difficult it could take difficult stop and of course it leaves people sick so i have to be i'm sure look at europe you know it. financially it's right to play off of call. for but for me more elite morally it's probably wrong so you know i used to stand that people want to see

a game of football but you know we're just. at the country this is everybody else's now the n.h.l. says the dallas stars will have to delay their season opener the stanley cup finalists have had to shut down training to tweak over 900 this is footage from the stars earlier in the week since then 6 players in 2 staff members a test of positive for the virus the defending western conference champions were due to open their season on the 14th but that is now been pushed back a week. that the baseball world is remembering the life of longtime l.a. dodgers manager tommy lasorda who died at the age of 93 the sort of who spent more than 70 years with the dodgers organization led the team to 2 world series titles as their manager died of a heart attack at his home in california on thursday. ok and that is all your support for now send me back to you thanks so much for the bats it made for this news hour in

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