as they put their lives on the line to. begin risking it's all in madagascar go on al-jazeera. lenat. al-jazeera. hello i'm sam is a than this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes defying humanitarian warnings the u.s. prepares to brand yemen's who 3 rebels as terrorists remove the president all we well u.s. democrats power pressure on republicans to accelerate the process of forcing out donald trump. no signs of any survivors and no clue as to what caused the crash of an indonesian passenger plane. will be live outside one of the mass

vaccination centers in the u.k. warnings of the worst weeks of the pandemic. and i'm far as. sporting clearing any a bad day to draw on the 3rd test against australia and a winner takes all. now the u.s. is designating yemen's hooty rebels also known as. as a terrorist group secretary of state says the blacklisting is intended to hold the group accountable for what he calls terrorist acts who thiis in response to clare it's the united states that is the source of terrorism especially the trumpet ministrations policies diplomats and humanitarian groups of warm the designation could threaten peace talks and further complicate the delivery of desperately

needed aid 80 percent of yemenis live in areas under control and that includes the capital sana'a and the country's main aid ports the u.s. backed coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates has been helping yemen's government fight the group since 2015. is in the capital with reaction from a leading rebel official mohamad. he says that the. latest move by the the outgoing administration of the as a denounced act he says that it's ending cation and also. a fact that the united states is part of a devastating war against yemen according to his speech and also that the that has participated in the killing and the and also pushing more people to the brink of famine he says that the outgoing administration proves that its policies are sort

of the source of terrorism in the world according to his spear remarks according to observers this would fall the worse in the direct humanitarian situation in the war ravaged country especially that percent of the population has been pushed to the brink of famine and the united. nations and also other non-governmental organizations are trying to help yemenis to overcome the devastating impacts of the the ongoing war many hope this the upcoming administration would facilitate and also bring that warring sides back to the negotiating table to resolve their differences peacefully rather than for the blockading the situation. over the view out of. yemen now we need to go as we rom let's head to iran where we have a line for us what kind of reaction we're getting from officials there. well the

reaction here has been quite muted we've only heard from the spokesperson from the foreign ministry site who during his weekly program briefing earlier this morning said that this is just the latest attempt by a lame duck president to further tarnish the reputation of the united states in the middle east and that these acts are meaningless this is of course being seen as the latest attempt by president donald trump and his administration in what they call the maximum pressure campaign to put pressure on iran and since they left the 2015 nuclear deal in 20 teen they also designated reigning in revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization in april of 2019 and since then they've really expanded this kind of behavior to iran's allies in the region from syria to iraq and now yemen being the latest one to be added to this list of punishments from the u.s.

government their weenie and see this as something that will not actually affect the who things themselves they see this as something that will affect the population that are under very very dire conditions at the moment living in that country in desperate need of humanitarian aid this will only hender those efforts of course the iranian ambassador to yemen has also been sanctioned by the u.s. government shortly after he was appointed and took position in november of last year in yemen he was sanctioned in december for what the u.s. called his assistance to the revolutionary guard and their alleged activity in yemen so this is for iran not something new it's not something they see as extremely vital they relationship will carry on they were a news have put forth a 4 point peace plan since 2015 to the u.n. which has yet to come to fruition but they see yemen as a very important ally in this region all right thanks for the. now yemen was

already the poorest country in the middle east before the war started it's since descended into the largest humanitarian crisis of our time the conflict has killed nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people over the past 66 years rather the united nations says almost $10000000.00 the emmys are risk of famine 80 percent of its population needs humanitarian aid and then there's the coronavirus pandemic which is adding strain to a devastated health system the world food program's executive director is among those who've been warning against the terrorist designation david beasley spoke to our disappear in december when the w.f. he was awarded the nobel peace prize. was in washington d.c. just last week speaking with the leadership explaining the consequences of the designation and the hurdles and the problems that we will face we'll do whatever we need to do we always have whether the sages are designations or not we'll do what we can to reach the people our job is to let the leaders understand clearly what

will be the ramifications and what the difficulties that will be for us to reach people yemen is oriented a dream really volatile fragile state with i can't begin to tell you we are on the brink of famine right now in yemen people are not getting enough food we don't have the access we need and we're going to i don't know how we don't face famine in a major way in the next 4 much here's how to humanitarian organizations are responding the international crisis group says it's the latest of the trumpet ministrations scorched earth policies before it heads to the exits one risks collectively punishing all yemenis by precipitating a famine while doing little to hurt the who thiis other than pushing them closer to iran. the norwegian refugee council says it will have a far reaching impact on the already dire humanitarian situation and will hamstring

the ability of aid agencies to respond or for more on this we're joined by a frog in gothenburg sweden she's a researcher at human rights watch good to have you with us so how concerned are you about the implications of this designation. i think it's just brutal what's happening if civilians in yemen. i don't know how wants war or something civilians and u.n. cantilever 8 like it was already 10 or a 1000000 civilians and who's going to be nation will just how disastrous the peace all and millions of people are giving under the control of the i'm cool and the north which consists of the largest. portion of the population and that many of their own lives the being human tagging and aids and it's it's parents often how do you see the timing of this the u.s.

could have done this of course many years ago there are human rights organizations reports that do talk about both sides and the coalition as being suspected of of violating international humanitarian law when it comes to civilians . true true and it's very quick to mention that all of the quite into the conflict are responsible for gross human rights that we shouldn't and a war crimes of the point that they're not they're only human rights organization and that even u.n. experts. have published reports reviews thinking how the quantities to the conflict including the i have no and the so would you like question and other i live with that the print. on responsibility on human rights that we would expect the ignition point at some time now but the timing really it was very interesting because. the

siegmund why won't they will instead he was mentioning the attack of that and then he sort of silly of all the other attacks so it's was the question what the link is between the recent attack on and then and. what seems to me and i think what a lot of us this is like a good bye good bye to the term administration and for the saudis that what mission and it's the designation has completely disregard to the human eye for the protection of civilians and only feeds the interest of the robbers and harming the i'm as made important to say that we also in human rights watch the cold war where sanction against certain age and young men but to do this if you need all of that who will not part of the civilian population more than the sect. or

right now do you expect a change of direction under the by ministration by men's frustration has been more critical of course when it comes to saudi arabia so far at least. yeah so a during the campaign of biden he was very clear and saying i'm stating that. one of the one of the many things that when he became the president that you will and who are us and me in a war and it's not he added now biden we want to grow just as this. but where we will. live to his new ups to the situation and you know you would really want to address that but now that it's out that you're not to c.n.n. . so much time and that time really millions of yemenis cannot wait.

all right thank you so much for your analysis on the offer and also. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including israel approved plans to build more homes in the occupied west bank a decision short to displease the next u.s. president the rapid spread of covert 19 factions sends malaysia into another coronavirus lockdown. as professional rugby is about to resume in new zealand a legal case is said to have a major impact on the game details coming up later in the show. now in the coming hours moves will gather pace to take action against the u.s. president over the siege on capitol hill u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says 2 motions will be presented for monday one calls on

vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment declaring trump unfit to carry out his duties and forcing him out of office. well i like the fight with the man because it gets rid of him he's out of office but there is strong support in the congress for impeaching the president a 2nd time this president is guilty of inciting interest insurrection and he has to pay a price for that or the pens doesn't agree to that then pelosi says the democrat led house would move forward with impeachment 5 people died during the violence on capitol hill the pentagon has confirmed 25 cases of domestic terrorism are being investigated and the hunt continues for others involved in the attack while as for donald trump he's staying large the quiet let's go live to alan fischer who joins us from the white house any word about how the vice president might be taking the prospects of getting this ultimatum from the house of representatives alan. well

this of course is the last full week of the trump presidency in the united states we haven't heard from mike pence since whedon's decency declared in the early hours of thursday morning in fact that joe biden was the julian legally elected president of the united states there's been a lot of talk about the 25th but mike pence hasn't shown his cards on that at all in fact we understand that my parents hasn't spoken to donald trump a toll since wade in state you'll remember on the speech that donald trump made before the assault on the capital began he talked about how my parents were really the man that they had to rely on and then we saw protesters trump supporters in the capitol building chanting hang mike pence we think there might pence doesn't think the 25th amendment is a good idea for a number of reasons one it will take too long it can be legally challenged therefore has no impact on removing donald trump at this 2nd thing is he's not keen

to do it politically because he would like to run for the republican nomination in 2000 and $24.00 and he thinks by doing that he would alienate a lot of trump's supporters so it looks as if it's going to fall on nancy pelosi and congress to take the impeachment steps forward no there are more than $200.00 democrats who said that they are in favor of impeachment 2 republican senators spoke out over the weekend saying it's time for donald trump to go or what is likely to happen is that the impeachment proceedings will begin there may even be a vote in the house but there's a real possibility that nancy pelosi won't send anything to the senate until after the 1st 100 days of joe biden's presidency they want him to have a clear run on that important landmark so there could well be impeachment proceedings it could well be passed in the house by the end of the week and they will keep the focus of those impeachment proceedings very narrow but is it likely

to know no donald trump could well be impeached after he leaves office. we haven't heard a lot from donald trump lately also been up to. well of course he's been hamstrung because of course he was banned from twitter on friday he's not had a good weekend 2 of his favorite things twitter in golf and he suffered losses from both of them 1st of all twitter kicking him out on friday and then the p.g.a. of america saying they were not going to stage the p.g.a. championship at his golf course in new jersey and 2022 but he still intends to go ahead and do the things that a president should do in a few hours time he's going to have a medal of freedom said to me like the last 2 that's probably going to behind closed doors this is for jim jordan he's a congressman and he's a republican and he's a big supporter of donald trump and he's one of the few voices we heard over the weekend saying that it would be wrong to impeach donald trump because that would divide the country now there's also going to be a medal of freedom ceremony on wednesday for bill belichick who is the coach of the

new england patriots an american football team but on tuesday donald trump is traveling to the border in texas he says there's been 400 miles of wall built somewhere in the region of 550 kilometers and he says that this is a huge success essentially for the next week the white house wants to show what donald trump has achieved while in office this is all about protecting his legacy a legacy which of course was badly damaged by what we saw last week all right thanks so much alan fischer. the so-called free speech social media network apollo has now gone completely off line the science has become popular among trump supporters amazon google and apple early abandon the platform citing a lack of moderation of violent content by conservatives policy says the sides will likely be down longer than expected. president elect joe

biden is named his pick to head up the central intelligence agency william burns is 33 years as a u.s. diplomat from the reagan to obama administrations he held the post of deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014 burns is currently the president of the international affairs think tank the carnegie endowment for international peace israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu is moving ahead on the construction of nearly 800 homes for jewish settlers in the occupied west bank the announcement comes just days before u.s. president elect joe biden is sworn into office biden has been critical of israeli settlement policies in the past while donald trump has largely supported them for this let's cross over to harry for certain joining us now live from west jerusalem so it's not a coincidence is it that we've got all this illegal settlement activity which

contravenes international law just before biden comes into office is this the message being sent. that's certainly how it's being seen in many quarters here as you say it's not unexpected we had expected there to be a new settlement announcement to take place before the inauguration of joe biden on 23 january and there was a report locally here in israel that it was going to take place next week at a planning committee meeting 850 new units siver approved or in other ways sanctioned at various stages of the approval process and so benjamin netanyahu simply preempted that meeting next week and come out and confirm that report saying that yes there will be such. a large number of new units either approved or confirmed at that meeting it makes sense for him domestically in terms

of politics in the run up to an election where he is facing a substantial challenge from his right to try and satisfy some of those pro settler voices the numbers are about 100 new units approved at a northern settlement of tal menasha that's where. a woman was killed by a palestinian in an attack in december and her husband has been calling for more construction in it so again that is something of a of a move designed to play well with voters here 500 units approved elsewhere in the occupied west bank and 250 retrospective lee as you say this is very much in accordance with israeli plans it seems the current administration ahead of the biden administration taking office in the united states biden has long been against settlements and spoken out against them as obstructions towards a 2 state solution he may not go back on various trunk moves such as recognizing

jerusalem as israel's capital moving the u.s. embassy here but people are expecting him to try to clamp down on settlements and so this is very much a warning shot against him the leader of the opposition here in israel paid has called this irresponsible and he says that israel is being dragged into an unnecessary confrontation with the incoming administration. thanks so much harry for suits. and. 7 new large scale vaccination centers have opened in england the government is beating up vaccine delivery as the chief medical officer warns the worst weeks of the pandemic are ahead it's a mean to offer vaccinations to 15000000 people by mid february the elderly and frontline medical workers will be 1st paul brennan is that the excel center in london one of the vaccination sites so how does the vaccination program look.

well it looks rather slow to be perfectly honest that may be deliberate we're going to get some statistics we hope from the n.h.s. closer to the end of the day but there hasn't been a big flood people that we've spoken to who've been arriving here was sent letters on friday giving them appointments and those appointments were timed so that they were staggered throughout the day so there hasn't been a big crowd of people or queues not at this vaccination sense anyway i know that there were there was a queue that formed outside the newcastle vaccinations sense of but not here nevertheless these mass vaccinations centers are one of the main pillars of the government's attempt to try to get that 15000000 that you spoke of vaccinated by mid february and that 15000000 to be the bedrock from which to bounce on get vaccinations even more widely into this u.k. of 65000000 people that will be up to $1200.00 vaccination sites

up and running we hope by the end of this week with the government hopes by the end of this week when you include this 7 plus family doctor vaccination sites pharmacies will start to give vaccinations on a pilot basis and certain pilot schemes and the hope is that it will be that that the take up will be high as well people that we've spoken to here as they've been arriving for their vaccinations have been entirely enthusiastic that they would be because they're the ones who have received the appointment and agreed to attend this that maybe others who receive their report and said no actually i'm going to wait i'm not ready to have my vaccination yet so there's a couple of different factors which are dependent upon this making it a success. pull the warning that the worst still ahead i mean that means worse than even back in march and april how watery

that are people. people well people are worried medics are worried that the medics are worried that the people are not worried enough if i can put it that way we've had only the morning t.v. and radio broadcasts here in the u.k. this morning the chief medical officer for us chris witty and he has his appearance on that kind of venue that kind of arena is rather unusual it's not with the politicians that do those early morning broadcasts interviews but his message was it was very stark and he said frankly if you're not alarmed by the picture that we're seeing in the u.k. hospitals particularly in england at the moment you're not paying attention 30000 people are currently been hospitalized by curve it when it was 18000 back in april of last year so the big thing that he's pushing is minimize social contact whenever possible all right let's hope people listen to that paul brennan was there from

london indonesia has approved the chinese develops and of a vaccine for emergency use it's the 1st country outside china to give it the green light the head of indonesia's food and drug agency said a human trial there showed 65 percent effective the country plans to launch its mass vaccination program on wednesday malaysia is reimposing a 2 week coronavirus lockdown as infections surged to 3000 a day it will apply to kuala lumpur and 5 of the country's 16 regions travel between all states will be banned but the prime minister says essential sectors including construction and manufacturing can continue to operate under strict regulations the country is planning to begin vaccinations next month our correspondent florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. malaysia is recording an average of more than 2000 daily new cases this month compared that with august last

year when it was recording an average of 12 new cases a day now between the month of february and september last year malaysia recorded 10000 cases cumulate typically it reached that same number in the last 4 days so the prime minister has described the situation as alarming and he says the health care system in the country is at breaking point health authorities here want to bring the rate of infectivity down it's currently at $1.00 and projections show that if this number is not brought down malaysia could be recording daily new cases of 5000 by the 2nd week of april and as many as 8000 new cases by the 4th week of may now malaysia was doing quite well in containing the spread of coronavirus up till late september when a state election was held in sabah now and since then the 3rd wave cases have been going up malaysia imposed tighter restrictions on certain states in certain areas

in the month of october but this has yet to bring the number of new cases down and the government is now moving to impose even tighter restrictions but this is a limited lockdown it's only being the limited lockdown the tighter restrictions are going to affect 5 states and well as federal territories which include the capital kuala lumpur it is fairly strict people are not allowed to travel more than 10 kilometers from the house only sectors that are considered essential services will be allowed to continue operating people are allowed to exercise outdoors but they're limited to access to 2 from the same household if they want to be together restaurants can no longer offer dine and services only take away services this is going to be for a period of 2 weeks and then the government will reassess the situation and see whether the number of cases the number of daily new cases has been brought down by this limited lockdown announced in malaysia by the prime minister on monday. it's

time for the weather now here's evidence however that we've got more snow in the forecast for japan i'm afraid but as we go into the middle part of the week i'm optimistic that things will turn a little milder we've seen some very heavy snowfall recently route 100 vehicles trapped on the road here this is in central parts of a whole issue as we go on through the next couple of days have to say things will gradually start to improve but there have been power cuts it will take a while for things to work get sorted out here as you can really quite imagine as we go on through choose day ready get up to 5 celsius in tokyo some more snowfall coming in across honshu and into hokkaido and then the winds change the winds go around to move a westerly direction a milder direction should get up to around 10 degrees celsius it does bring with it a rapid thor so we are looking at the possibility the prospects of some flooding problems and that could also lead to major delays as a result of that avalanche risk of course will also be something of an issue behind

that there's that moderate 7 or 8 celsius the beijing and to solve china generally try and find come down into southeast asia heavy showers there into central and southern parts of the philippines heavy showers too continuing across a good part of malaysia with the possibility of further flooding around sumatra but she's. still ahead on al-jazeera there was a year ago when the 1st covered cases were reported from china a year later some victims are still feeling side effects china expresses outrage at the u.s. decision to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei. and the p.g.a. delivers a major blow to the golf about going u.s. president don trump details coming up in sport. it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishit you off trashing you know the next not

insignificant in the numbers that insignificant ideologically that is significant even as a crime against the very significant by dictating the government and the fact of policy. shalt not kill part of the radicalized series 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 india and minister kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate this type of food back home we simply don't know if we can teach you to bring you more award winning documentaries and light leaves on air and online.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now the united states is moving to designate yemen's who theme movement as a foreign terror group reacted to the u.s. action saying it's america that is the source of terrorism the u.s. backed saudi live coalition has been fighting the group in yemen since 2015 u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says she will go ahead with impeachment proceedings against own trumpet unless he is removed from office 1st the 25th amendment allows vice president mike pence to declare trump unfit to carry out his duties and alst. 7 new large scale vaccination centers have opened in england the government is

speeding up vaccine delivery as the chief medical officer warns the worst weeks of the pandemic still ahead. search and rescue teams in indonesia are trying to recover the black boxes of a passenger plane which crashed with 62 on board on saturday the devices are expected to shed light on reasons behind the sudden plunge of the plane into the java sea just minutes after takeoff jessica washington has the latest from jakarta . we're here at 240 injured hard here in north jakarta this is where the search effort is being coordinated we've been here all morning and we've seen search teams going out to the java sea north of jakarta to the area near the 1000 islands and coming back to this court and just a few moments ago a search team returned with the debris from the sri with jet we were able to see debris in the form of metal scraps about a metre large and you could actually see the blue and red colors of shri which also

just a few moments ago we saw an ambulance depart from the port heading to the police hospital most likely with human remains now at the police hospital that is where they are conducting an investigation and relying on support from relatives of those on board the plane to help identify some of the passengers but of course everyone is waiting for their teams here to to locate the black box divers here all still searching the seabed we do know that authorities say they are confident that the signals they have picked up on all coming from the plane's black box so it is likely that we should hear some good news soon however if the black box is not found today those efforts will of course continue tomorrow. china's foreign ministry has strongly condemned the decision by the u.s. to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei that's all to taiwan's foreign minister praised the move saying relations with washington have been elevated to a global partnership china considers taiwan to be its own territory catrina

you is following developments from beijing. they got busy very angry at this move beijing's foreign ministry spokesperson has said time and time again that taiwan is a red line issue and in terms of this particular move they've said that this violates the u.s. china joint communique which was signed in $7879.00 that is 1979 where the u.s. promised to relinquish any formal ties with taiwan so china's foreign ministry has said that it will not hesitate to hit back although we have seen this concrete language i mean this strong language in this these very strong threats we are yet to see a concrete response as to what steps beijing might take in response to this and this does raise the question as to whether they are taking this move from the trumpet ministration seriously knowing that the administration is in its last few days of office quaternion one of the foreign ministry spokesperson spokespersons

last week said that the trump administration is and what she called final madness and moving to subatomic the relationship between the u.s. and china as much as possible and that followed an announcement by mike pompei or that the u.s. would send its ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft to visit taiwan this week on wednesday but we have had an even stronger response today from chinese state media on monday writing an editorial saying that this move was dangerous for taiwan and that china wouldn't hesitate to use its military force to defend what it considers its own territory it's been a year since the 1st case of corona virus was before sit in china many of those who recovered some covert 19 are still struggling with long term effects of the virus a study published in the lancet medical journal found that 6 months after an acute infection it was still coping with city or muscle weakness sleep difficulties and

anxiety or depression some patients who were severely ill during their hospital stay had severe ongoing problems that infected their lungs and chests and a 3rd of the patients showed signs of kidney malfunctioning. sandile. so see a professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university he explained that even patients with less severe cases of covert 19 can suffer long term facts a still think that there is a conception out there around the world that cove it is a very mild illness and to be fair at the start we were saying 80 percent of people will have a mild illness and they'll get over the acute illness in 2 weeks but the reality is the proportion of people now this this study from who had was in hospitalized patients but a proportion of people who get curve it we don't even get hospitalized will go on to get these chronic symptoms which are quite debilitating now if you look at this

wound study they talked about 2 thirds of patients having for tea muscle weakness about a quarter had root disorders anxiety depression another quarter couldn't sleep well another quarter couldn't walk the normal distance that you'd expect from what we understand it seems that people who are sick or with code it more likely to have the persisting symptoms but it is not exclusively the case so even people with mild symptoms there are many reports of healthy young people who've had an acute covered illness but have managed to stay at her who will have ongoing stent so chest pains shortness of breath the brain fog except truck and nasty thing about it is it can fluctuate from day to day to the point where it does the symptoms disappear and some people think up i've beaten it but then a day or 2 later it comes back which of course is very disheartening. several towns and cities in france are organizing mass coronavirus testing is the scenery in the

north 6 drop in centers are open there with the aim of testing hundreds of people every day health officials want to find out if the christmas holidays go to a spike in cases where number of recorded covert 19 cases in africa has passed 3000000 south africa has been hardest hit and in cape town there's a shortage of coffins forcing many families to delay funerals robyn adams reports. done is known the world over for it brisk taking sides but for all its beauty the city is battling to cope with the 2nd wave of the good old vida spent demick covert fatalities have skyrocketed in recent weeks overworked and exhausted undertakers say they cannot keep up at the moment we could hardly cope extremely busy with funerals of specially you know the carpet. even running out of space.

coffins manufacturers of coffins are working overtime to make up the shortages and meet demand is a big roadie but it's not really the shortage of the coffins or the shortage of the wood it's really the problems more but in flux all that is happening many believe the situation here is only going to get worse for the city of cape town. overall for the problems we had 5000 this in the 1st in the 1st wave we projecting to have between 500-7000 this for the 2nd wave the steep increase in coburg related deaths is also putting additional strain on burial sites this is my plan cemetery it is cutdowns oldest and largest burial site that's we met on 135 years casualties of world war one and world war 2 a baby is also the final resting place of those who succumb to the smallpox epidemic in the $8100.00 it's actually that it wouldn't make that leap to its

construction now nearly a year from so africa's 1st reported cut out of virus case they are growing fears that this place would see the amount of space for victims of code 19 government officials have confirmed they are down to their last dedicated area for those killed by covert at 2 of the biggest grave sites but they say they are prepared for any eventuality. if it's in the 1st wave a number of last images were identified if needs be. to be committed it is important to me to add that mysterious is not that we would like to make use of it's a tough situation and while some are able to give their loved ones a dignified sendoff others are left to wait and wonder if they'll be able to do the same items al-jazeera kept on. the 1st commercial flight between qatar and saudi arabia more than 3 years has landed in riyadh. saudi arabia the u.a.e.

behind and egypt last week agreed to restore ties with culture after a blockade that began in 2017. was there for the inaugural flight from the international airport that is the 1st qatar airways aircraft to travel now now the arabia direct from go up the airways flight heading to the saudi capital riyadh on board family members who were previously separated from their loved ones because of the blockade over the past 3 years not only is this seen as a positive move following the reconciliation declaration that was signed into law last week between qatar and the former blockading countries because of what it means for the people of the region because of what it means for the political stability of the movie region but particularly here in the airports where the airline industry has been hit so hard because of the pandemic not just in qatar but

around the world this resumption and flights between destinations is something that is extremely welcome so it's very historic moments in what would have seen seemed to be normally a monday in flights between. countries but historic because of all the implications it has following 3 years of a bitter dispute which now seems to be somewhat in the process of being or of being in the distance. preliminary results in kyrgyzstan presidential election show nationalists. as one almost 80 percent of the vote part of claim victory and pledged to bring stability to the central asian country after a political crisis put him on the path to power the story from charles stratford in kyrgyzstan's capital bishkek now. this is a monument to kyrgyzstan soviet cost a reminder of a time before the beginnings of democracy after the breakup of the soviet union 30

years ago after months of political chaos there are questions of what lies ahead in the journey towards good governance and rule of law those people cost that ballots in presidential elections $1.00 man who has dominated kyrgyzstan's politics in recent months is at the forefront of voters' minds his opponents say he's afraid to kyrgyzstan's political future his supporters say he is the country's only hope. souther just par of comes from ordinary people and it's very honest he's a worth a candidate his thoughts and speeches are close to the people this is southern japan after he was freed from jail by his supporters before they stormed the parliament building protests off the parliamentary elections in october those elections were an old of the widespread allegations of vote buying to power describes himself as a conservative curious nationalist he says kyrgyzstan's 10 year experience of

a parliamentary system has failed. he wants to revert back to a presidential system which his critics say is a threat to democratic progress and would give him additional power if as expected he becomes president support base comes from kyrgyzstan's a rule population who have suffered decades of economic and political neglect. his critics are often keen to point out that this deeply politicized country has overthrown as 3 presidents in revolutions in the last 30 years and their opinions often come with a warning. was laid to our society is mature enough and highly politicized whoever wins the election is quite difficult to stop open democratic processes people have woken up they cannot be stopped the point is how politically mature were the leader be and how will he work. some analysts say the democratic evolution of kyrgyzstan will continue but more chaos cannot be ruled out i think this is not the end of

democracy and i thought as a shrink he said this is more like a that a serious at the very supporters the very people who brought power these people into power are not going to be waiting for that long. to deliver proper governance and with this sort of constitutional reform and this sort of power centralization it's not going to work out the central election commission says that with more than 95 percent of votes counted song georgia power has won the presidential election it also says that in the constitutional referendum there's been a convincing yes to a return to some form of presidential system of governance now to polish supporters will be pleased with both outcomes but his critics will say the journey towards democracy has been delayed again shall strafford al jazeera bishkek recovery efforts continue at the site of a sunken ship in the democratic republic of congo hundreds of bodies are believed

to be. trapped on the wooden vessel that capsized on friday while crossing the congo river investigators say they're considering filing criminal charges. are they on reports. the sinking boat is part of a potential criminal investigation with dozens of bodies believed to be trapped underneath passengers were heading to the regional capital on this wooden boat when it capsized. and 5 a 2nd get in the boat had 3 separate levels all of them were full of people and their belongings there were hundreds of passengers including kids older men and women who were swallowed by the water i myself lost 5 members of my family. and these people had relatives on board and now they're using fishing nets to recover bodies. survivors say the boat was carrying too many people and too much

cargo including bags of cement. crossing lakes and rivers after nightfall is illegal in the d.r. sea at least report agents are under arrest for allowing the boat to leave the owner and members of the crew are under investigation so. i'm horrified and heartbroken this tragedy is the result of fraudulent behavior on friday evening a boat owner and his crew undertook to travel at night despite a ban on nighttime crossings unfortunately they defied it and that resulted in the events we all deploy. on lookers do what they can to help but finding out how many people were on board those difficult one of them are so much to do that but that is the business people here are always hiding the data and authorities don't share honest information because they're the ones in charge of registering all the passengers before each trip and river. travel by boat is commonly used in the d.r. sea waterways link areas that are unconnected by rose and with limited regulation

that makes disasters like these more likely. to the young al jazeera. one of gaza's biggest sporting events has taken place the annual horse race was staged in the airport's bombed out runway as harry foresaw reports from many spectators it's a chance to escape the realities of israeli occupation. the horse racing fans this is garza's premier annual occasion the runway of the territories airport bombed by israel in 20013 years after it opened has become literally a wasteland at this event in southern russia still draws a crowd from across the gaza strip. and we come here for some fun because of the siege covered 19 and all the other difficulties of life this is an escape from all the bad things and i look forward to it every year. with guys in the grip of a coded 900 crisis putting a further strain on its overburdened health system and resulting in weakened

shutdowns and likely curfews the organizers have found themselves defending the decision to press ahead. for the race last less than a minute and a half and the airport is a big open area we tried our best to avoid crowds and this event should have taken place at the end of 20202021 so we had to do it after preliminary round 6 entrants had qualified for the final but at least a nod towards health and safety concerns only 3 were able to run 4 year old local favorite not a wacko born in russia side by a racehorse imported from israel easily outrun the competition narrowly evaded the crowds for a clear victory for the winning jockey his moment of triumph but with it a coon sense of awareness of everything that's missing now and then. the race track isn't up to standard sometimes the horses as you see there are no response but organizers lots of people lots of disorder no prizes for the winner we want to be

able to travel abroad and take part in international races but because of the siege we can't go as a has a long tradition of a question is i'm right. does here compare themselves favorably to their counterparts in the occupied west bank is not uncommon for wealthy enthusiasm to import european horses with tens of thousands of dollars the contrast with gaza's ruined economy when more than a 1000000 live below the poverty line is stuck and it's reflected every year in the images of the sport's biggest day that al-jazeera. scoring. all the details coming up in sports. business leaders there's no brass pot.

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earth. and let's catch up on all the sports news with sammy thank you so much for start with cricket in india save the 3rd test in sydney against australia having mean sat an unlikely target of 407 the tour has batted all day to force a draw it means the series is level at one all going into the final match but things could have been very different with australia's wicket keeper captain dropping a number of catches on day 5. bitterly disappointed no problem so if. we. were stays in that. it's a horrible feeling knowing that you know a fastball is now and. their hearts out and direct and. we feel the

condensed. a message. just hang in there. and one more that that's not. what is after the last bicycle you'd actually own thing or. the professional rugby a bad to begin in new zealand a legal case against a sport's governing body is said to have a major impact on the game so far 9 x. players the alleged that were run in was negligent when it came to managing head injuries when he reports from auckland. in new zealand rugby is a sport and culture here many boys and girls grow up dreaming of playing the game for as long as possible and ultimately representing their country but having a long career could also mean long term health problems the more injuries you get in the more severe and significant. the more the higher the likelihood some individuals will go on to the vellum path earlier cognitive problems and on mood problems later in life and that's what

a group of former players say they are experiencing and are taking world rugby to court some including former england player steve thomson have been diagnosed with early onset dementia which they say was caused by repeated blows to the head playing rugby they want compensation and 15 demands minutes including a limit on the amount of contact training and for world rugby to accept that playing professionally can lead to brain disease in response the governing body issued a statement saying player welfare is its number one priority john mayhew was a doctor to new zealand's all blacks and a medical advisor to world rugby and says proving that rugby caused the players' health problems will be difficult but he concedes the sport continues to learn how to manage head injuries and i think we have to be careful when you look back to 20 or 30 years ago with a 2020 perspective that you know some of those players may have been managed by the best possible medical practice at the time which i mean i was looking back. of the

not good enough more players are being asked to join the legal case but some are saying no even after being forced out of the game early because of repeated concussions personal felt or was. incredibly well looked after or was due to forced. professional sport has seen this before like in 2013 when the national football league in the united states agreed to pay damages totaling up to $1000000000.00 to former players but the n.f.l. did not admit that the injuries were caused by football it's taken a long time but there's no doubt that in countries like new zealand the issue of concussion and rugby is taken a lot more seriously than it used to be but it's a high impact game and head injuries will continue to happen the question is scientifically and legally can those head injuries be linked to long term health problems at the very least the legal action is creating more discussion about head injuries in rugby which is too often been treated as

a sensitive topic among the game's administrators bring it further into the open can only help the game survive for future generations wayne hay al-jazeera or clones the organizers of next year's u.s. p.g.a. championship are taking a turn meant away from a course that's owned by outgoing u.s. president donald trump trump national in new jersey was due to host a major championship in may 2022 but tournament is one of games for biggest annual events the u.s. and professional golfers association said it was time to cut ties with trump it's become clear that conducting the p.g.a. championship trumpet minister would be detrimental to the p.g.a. of america bram would put at risk peter's ability to deliver on many programs and sustain a long generally were mission. top seed in defending australian open champion sphere cannon has been knocked out of the open american won the 1st set but can get past her opponent great number 9 seed maria cari so sorry you lost both her

previous encounters against cannon came out on top in $0.03 and advances to the semifinals. christiane of an older scored a historic goal in the event to says $31.00 win over assess wallow on sunday he now has a joint most official goals for club and country at $759.00 strikes and sits alongside yosef. we played between 19311955 were all those efforts also helped give a climb to 4th in syria 7 points off leaders ac milan with a game in hand. and the cleveland browns are celebrating their 1st and f.l. playoff victory since 1905 on sunday they secured 848237 1st round when over the pittsburgh steelers the browns also overcame comit $1000.00 challenges which disrupted their preparations for the match. ok and that is all yours for for now sammy back to you thanks so much for bad from me for this news hour but i'm back in

a moment with another food bulletin so stay with us here on al-jazeera. it's being seen as the bloodiest general election in uganda's history dozens have been killed and a crackdown on the opposition is ongoing as voters head to the polls on january 14th we'll examine whether this election can pave the way for change uganda election on al-jazeera the brazilian journalist investigating a politically struction of land grab all the farmers helped elect and he's repay them that's empowering everyday people to profit from the destruction of the rain forest people are almost willing to give their life away to guarantee the occupation of the land is journalism the last hope in the fight for sleep the amazon this is not only a land conflict but a construct of narrative brazil the age of boston are all whose truth is it anyway

on al-jazeera she was a society hostess in beirut in the 1940 s. she was in touch with a lot of people from the live amused the reclusive make this work. was apparent and she spied for mossad in lebanon to perform this what she was doing it was something brave as a woman al-jazeera world to house a story of schumer cohen. the beirut spy. joggers in new delhi take advantage of the relatively clean air after weeks of toxic small to stop people from venturing outside institutions including harvard say air pollution is leading to more severe cases of the coronavirus and more deaths from it and nowhere in india is the situation worse than in daddy the number of. desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 north indian states

health experts and environmentalists and been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those because of the 19. defying humanitarian warnings the u.s. prepares to brand yemen sooth the rebels as terrorists. i'm sam is a damn this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up remove the president all we will democrats are pressure on republicans to accelerate the process of forcing our dollar from.