this began after the government passed 3 agricultural laws in september which encouraged and dia's farmers to sell directly to large corporations. they intensified in the van when farmers from the states of punjab and. marched hundreds of kilometers to delhi and occupied highways. there saying has been at the protest sign for 6 weeks. our demands have to be fulfilled by the government and then if all the farmers leave. but if the. family members back home. says no one knows. we left our family behind for this. fama say they are afraid that once the was implemented they lose a minimum prices for their projects which have been guaranteed by the government for decades dozens of farmers have died camping out in the cold over the past 6 weeks including want here. today the supreme court took note of the deaths the number of elderly people women and children of the demonstrations and said it's

extremely disappointed with the government's handling of the protests. the government maintains that the laws are in the interest of farmers by giving them access to new and bigger markets with pharma suspicious not just of the government but also the makeup of the supreme court's committee india's biggest protests since promised in the day the morty was 1st elected 6 years ago a set to continue elizabeth. we're going to weather our. questions about the timing of a sweeping coronavirus state of emergency declaration in malaysia i will tell you more an arrest warrant issued in connection with the oldest explosion in lebanon that killed more than 200.

for the perfect janet. place to say we've got an improvement in the weather for japan at long last we're saying goodbye to the snow for the time being but a bit of cloud rain sleet and snow pulling out into the open waters you see that cloud there across northern parts of honshu in sioux. temp just picking up now tokyo getting up to around 10 celsius western parts of the country still see a little bit of that see effect snow but is that the winds pushed around to more of a southwest direction or woman direction we will gradually see temperatures picking up 14 celsius in tokyo it does mean the risk of avalanches a rapid thaw and the potential for some localized flooding further west will find it dry across the korean peninsula 6 logic try to into a good part of china dry weather stretches down across indochina but we got some heavy showers into central and southern parts of the philippines plenty of showers there across malaysia pushing towards borneo some are seeing some heavy showers

from time to time but hopefully a little dry just around the middle a peninsula try to across the central and northern parts of india but for southern areas of india we have got some rather heavy rain still very much in the forecast heavy showers that sue for sri lanka as we go through the next couple of days north of that mist info problem still in place around the northern plains. sponsored poll qatar airways the last episode in the new series exposed the imperial origins of the drug trade commerce was a good fire coming our way it's good for our cities thanks very much want to come and tokens passage from the far east to europe and the united states. any money money money in these mountains is open. drug trafficking politics some power the era of empire is an al-jazeera. people have come to expect

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issues so far the vote is expected in the coming hours the resolution calls on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment declaring trump unfit to hold power. well president trump says there is 0 risk that vice president mike pence will take action he insists that his comments before the capitol hill riots appropriate and described proceedings against him as one of the witch hunt. of the u.s. secretary of state says that al qaeda has established a new home base in iran although he hasn't presented any hard evidence iran has described the allegations as ridiculous. but pictures from the u.s. house of representatives after representatives had the baited proceedings rules about rules they were debating ahead of the main debate on the democratic resolution calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to

dismiss donald trump and when that debate gets underway we'll take you. live. and we'll let you know who will sit through that debate and let you listen to it for yourself. in the meantime anyone flying to the u.s. will soon need to show proof of a negative test for covert 19 measure expands or rule already in place for travelers from the u.k. the centers for disease control says that it's trying to stop the spread of a more contagious variant of the virus the new measures take effect january 26th the u.s. has reported more than 22000000 cases more than 379000 deaths since the pandemic began latin america continues to experience a surge in covert 19 infections in chile health experts are warning of a catastrophic 2nd wave hospitals are filling up after infection rates jumped more

than 30 percent in a week. hospitals are also at breaking point in neighboring peru and the brazilian amazon city of manassas mexico has the world's 4th highest death toll and continues to record thousands of new cases every day are left in america editor you see in human reports now from santiago. right now infections have been surpassing 4000 a day which is already incredibly high in the last week alone just to give you an idea they've risen 36 percent if they reach 6 percent we will be at what the experts call a breaking point but if they surpass that and reach 9 percent that is what health experts say would be catastrophic already a hospital are struggling to deal with infections in many parts of the country we're seeing people being medivac from one part of the country to others where hospitals have more critical care units available so it is a very very difficult situation indeed made worse by the fact that we're in the

middle of the summer season people are on holidays they want to go to the beach they want to go from one part of the country to the other there are already indications that a far more contagious strain of the virus is in the country and in fact not may not have come from the u.k. as some aren't suggesting but rather already existed in the southernmost chile in the city of venice several months ago and it's been making its way up northward towards the capital and if that does happen if it becomes more prevalent then that's what authorities say they will simply not be able to handle the situation in all of latin america is incredibly dangerous right now it's like europe except without the resources to handle it just so that you get an idea and brule is perhaps the best country to illustrate that it has surpassed more than a 1000000 infections so far it is impossible to tell just how many really new new cases are coming up every day because there isn't enough testing and

a 70 percent of the population is in the informal sector so it's impossible to or at least a foot of authorities believe it's impossible to put the genie back in the bottle and declare a complete lockdown in the country again because people just simply will not obey that. police in the u.k. are set to get tougher on lockdown rule breakers as the country fights an infection surge london's police chief says the people who preach restrictions are more likely to be fined while the home secretary says the current rules are tough enough but always under review the target more than $86000.00 coronavirus deaths in the u.k. . for brennan has been to richmond and southwest london to gauge the mood of people there the intervention of britain's most senior police officer into the discussion about coronavirus restrictions comes at a critical time just 24 hours after the chief medical officer pointed out that we were perhaps entering in the u.k.

the darkest period of this pandemic dame crested addict the metropolitan police commissioner talking about parties house parties raves in railway arches and gambling parties as well in clear defiance of the restrictions that are in place it was preposterous she said that anybody can pretend to be unaware of the need for restrictions given the state of the current pandemic now here in richmond the infection rate is remarkably low around $245.00 cases per 100000 but that said we've been out asking people exactly how corrosive it is to see other people breaking the rules how much does their behavior impact your behavior. i think it's quite irresponsible if you want more honest opinion on it. there's plenty trying to party as paint painted on to see your friends to socialize and if the government asking you at this moment in time to to to. a distance and be compliant i think

it's a small thing to toot to ask and to do i think is an impossible situation i don't think we have a race particularly in richmond. but if you're young you you probably don't think it applies to you a few people breaking those rules and then impacting on a lengthy lockdown for the rest of us that are trying desperately to abide by them is a severely damaging. in fact despite headlines of illegal raves and illegal gatherings compliance with the coronavirus restrictions here in the u.k. is actually pretty high that said the police as moved from engagements with gatherings to enforcement of fines and penalties is fraught with potential difficulties says the resourcing issue for a start are there simply enough police officers in order to do that job and 2nd of all is the sometimes confusion between what our guidelines and what are actual laws

that said the government is extremely worried about the way the infection rate is going the data is very bad indeed and as the policing minister has said there may be more restrictions coming down the line with the police and the government on tenterhooks. the european commission president is urging health ministers from the e.u. member states to stick to a joint strategy on coronavirus frank seems the e.u. is negotiating contracts with vaccine developers as a bloc but somebody may be breaking away to make deals with suppliers that's prompted commission president a slave on the lens to contact health ministers from all 27 member states for reassurance that they're sticking to the joint plan to trash a bottle reports from paris criticism of the e.u.'s vaccine rollout it's obviously a huge challenge for the e.u. because what the commission is trying to do is make sure that the nearly 500000000

people who are eligible for a vaccine within the european union get a vaccine and it's an incredible chance a huge amount of people across 27 member states now the e.u. strategy for the covert vaccine has been for the e.u. to actually negotiate contracts directly with the pharmaceutical companies and obtain doses of the kovac vaccine use me as a block so that is the individual countries don't negotiate those countries those contracts but the e.u. does it for on behalf of the $27.00 member states the idea being is that that is more fair that the rollout of those doses will be done equally shared equally amongst those $27.00 member states the problem is though that that hasn't actually happened we've seen some countries which seem to have more doses of vaccinating at a higher rate like germany or denmark and then other countries like france that are lagging behind governments are also really coming up against obstacles because

there are many countries in the european union where many people are skeptical about vaccines in france for example only one in 2 people actually say that they actually want the vaccine so that's also a difficulty. malaysia's king is to clear the state of emergency at the request of his country's embattled prime minister will get in the se and says that additional powers are needed to stop a surge in covert 19 cases the country is reporting almost 2 and a half 1000 new infections every day but critics say that it's an attempt by an unstable government to cling to power for a slowly reports. the emergency declaration comes just a day after the prime minister announced tighter restrictions for 5 states and the federal territories including the capital kuala lumpur a 3rd wave of virus infections has shown no signs of slowing down the government says the health care system is near breaking point in

a televised speech on tuesday prime minister yassin sought to reassure the public. let me assure you that this a 1000000000 government will continue to function the emergency proclaim by young people is not a military call and curfew will not be enforced king sort of dulles or down ahmed shah had an october project at wieden spring quest to declare an emergency deeming existing laws sufficient to curb the spread of the corona virus since then the number of cases has increased 5 fold but not everyone views the emergency as a necessary tool for slowing the virus to declared emergency at this period with perhaps an addition old and damage fighting value to the 8 so a lot of people are number one in its belief or what it decrees and of the

emergency and number one would look forward to learning more heroes as the hardest they will write would be for the. parliament and state assembly sittings will not continue and all elections are suspended civil rights activists say they are concerned that the government will now avoid parliamentary scrutiny the prime minister says the period of emergency will give the country much needed calm and stability weeden yassin has been facing a leadership challenge for months he holds a very thin majority in parliament and the largest party in his ruling coalition the united lays national organization has threatened several times to withdraw support to force an early general election a general election is not due till 2023. the prime minister has promised that polls will be held once it's deemed safe to do so flawlessly al-jazeera kuala lumpur. divers in indonesia have recovered one of the black box flight recorders from

a passenger plane that crashed into the java sea with 62 people on board the devices which are called the pilot's voices and flight data are expected to shed light on why the boeing 737500 plunged into the ocean just off to take off on saturday the days in military says that it expects to recover the 2nd black box soon jessica washington reports from jakarta. here a ton to preop whored this is where the search effort for the investigation into flight s j 182 is being coordinated you can see some of what crews have brought back from a search of the java sea north of jakarta near the 1000 islands that includes parts of the aircraft large and small mostly mangled beyond recognition crews have also found human remains and the belongings of passengers but what authorities announced just a few moments ago could provide the clearest picture of what happened to flight s j one a today announced that they found the flight data recorder just

a few hours ago they have not yet found the cockpit voice recorder however they are optimistic that that cockpit voice recorder should be in a close vicinity to where they found the flight data recorder. and. we believe that the cockpit voice recorder is also in that area because of the beacons reading that's why we believe it will be found. the flight data recorder is now in jakarta and in the hands of the quay and haiti that is indonesia's transport safety commission they are the ones who are conducting the investigation into what happened to this boeing aircraft this boeing 737500 flight from jakarta to pontianak in west delhi months they say that it could take 2 to 5. days just to download the data from the record and that it is likely to be a long process be commission has also announced some early findings that they are confident that the plane was fully intact before it and to the java sea based on

the size of the debris field which they say is around 300 to 400 meters. and its national arrest notice has been issued over the explosion that shattered large parts of beirut in august a lebanese judge wants to question the owner and captain of the ship the port highly explosive fertilizer to beirut in 2013 it was stored on safely in a warehouse for years more than 200 people died when it exploded last summer thousands more were injured and many well left homeless say the honda reports from beirut. the so far the interpol now heeding 11 aunts requests to arrest these 3 men the owner of the captain of the ship is not the portuguese knight free trader who visited the warehouse where a nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate it was stored for for many years if i just get out of the way that warehouse was very close to the silos and as you can see

nothing is left so many houses he is responsible for bringing this highly explosive material to lebanon on that ship set sail from georgia it was on its way to mozambique it made an unscheduled stop in beirut why this is a question that has not been answered media reports suggest that the owner of the ship wanted to make some money and he wanted to take heavy machinery from lebanon but the ship was not able to carry it at the end he was not able to pay for it to be used and the stick was impounded in fact that something off a week's coast in 2018 so nearly $3000.00 tons of ammonium nitrate and safely stored in a warehouse apparently caught fire the thing off the glass so will these men be arrested for judicial officials to question them 11 on at the end this is a non binding arrest notice this is not an arrest warrant but then arrest notice.

ugandan opposition candidate bobbie y. and says that his home has been raided by the military he's accusing the ruling party of intimidation and of thursday's general election one says that all his security guards were arrested but police have denied the allegations weina sauced supporters to report any suspicious activity at voting stations nice night. one of our team members my driver sometimes and was mainly as a mechanic. was shot by the military and he passed away this morning and again this morning my house was raided. taken away and my security guard was beaten very very badly well uganda's president seeking a 6th in power and he's been using the full weight of state security including the

army to crack down on this 10 opponents catherine sawyer reports from kampala. a mall cigar was by the towels as he was killed by soldiers during protests in the capital kampala last november he was 15 years old and had gone with hair to the family's shop in the city with news of opposition leader party lines arrest triggered a riot he was hit by 2 bullets as they hurried home more than 50 other people also died that. he fell on the ground and stopped moving he did not even call out for me to help him i did he was dead and i think there i just collapsed well wishers took us to hospital but my son was already gone the un and human rights organizations have blamed security forces for using excessive force while breaking up protests. several opposition candidates including wine and patrick on the

scene being arrested by police in this challenging president yoweri with seventies beat for a 6th time in office but they have been blocked from campaigning and detained to pull times. while the reagan 'd republican. government officials insist that opposition protests are balanced and the leaders have been defying 1000 regulations people are burning furze with. people i'm bursting with women. and extorting money. bringing drugs. and offloading ball does. election violence is not new to uganda some people have a say the stakes are high and now because more people want to change the crucial

security forces have been deployed heavily in sports like this one where protests by opposition supporters are common many people are afraid that he the presidential revolving. than being. on a key to tao says she is closing her shop and moving out of kampala until she can be sure how only total will be safe there and she says she has no intention of voting in an election she blames for her son's death catherine so al-jazeera. all ends government is to formally apologize over the legacy of the country's so-called mother and baby homes a report released on tuesday shows 9000 children died in the church from facilities between 120 to 1908 the facilities housed unmarried pregnant women received state funding they also acted as adoption agencies for children born out of wedlock andrew symonds reports. the word sorry isn't enough for survivors and those

bereaved spread right across the island the secrets of 18 institutions concealed the deaths of an estimated 9000 babies and young children hidden mass graves one in the corner here by a playground this is june county galway it was a home run by nuns when nearly 800 babies were buried in and around a disused sewage tank chuma 9 more mother and baby homes run by the catholic church took in younger unmarried mothers there were 8 other institutions the state was supposed to be paying for care yet the women lived like prisoners most survivors and bereaved relatives believe the report's findings and government action is too little too late it seems that our worst fears have been realized they are going to trivialize the major overarching topics that's related to the greys human rights

abuses in those homes birth outside marriage had been treated not only as a sin but a crime in a country where a staunch the conservative catholic church held considerable sway the penalty for young women was servitude often sexual abuse forced labor and loss of their babies thousands of infants died from on neglect cruelty and other abuses or they were sold by nuns in what they considered to be adoption this was my mother right just alice was my father william and i corrigan's mother bridget dolan was in june a book has been written about her she lost one son who died of neglect another was taken away by the nuns never to be seen or heard of again is it's a combination of a lot of years of racing and research. she says it was a series of government cover ups and deliberate delays and denials i am mantra was

still a tonight we'll go away and i my parents are gone my brother is a missing dead not dead my aunt is dumped in tests in gray and i'm never east and his voice has been allowed the name calling for justice and closure she says the report falls short of both no one has been brought to justice yet it went on for 76 years ending in 1998 the report says the church and state were partly responsible but they provided refuge the women weren't forced into the homes according to the report it says the fathers of their children and their families provided no refuge that assertion has been met with outrage what happened has often been termed the irish mother and baby scandal many may feel that's an understatement and the world atrocities may prove more accurate. andrew simmons al-jazeera. course of the past few hours we've been covering proceedings in

the house of representatives in washington where representatives are discussing a resolution calling on vice president by pence to invoke the 25th amendment to dismiss president donald trump the breaking era's right now is that vice president by pence has indicated that he will not invoke the 25th amendment he's written a letter saying so to house speaker nancy pelosi let's go live to washington. mike hanna is there and can tell us more mike. there is indeed a dream or what is happening is that the vice president has now written a letter to the speaker of the house nancy pelosi in which he makes very clear that he will not exceed to the motion in the house when it is passed he says in the letter to see that the 25th amendment which the house wanted to ask him to impose

does not deal with punishment it is not intended as punishing a president he said it has more to do with the incapacitation of a president now on previous occasions when and article 4 of the 20 for the men didn't was evoked it had to do with the president going into surgery as happened with george bush on 2 occasions for a few hours the basically the power was handed over to the vice president in terms of section 4 now that dealt with physical in cap of incapacitation not moral or political in incapacitation so what mike pence is saying is that he is not going to invoke the 25th amendment so it's not very clear where the vote that we are seeing in the house at the moment is going to go at this particular point where they carry ahead and continue to vote on the motion or not that's something we'll see in the coming hour but in pencil he makes clear is world that he is focused on creating an orderly transition and wants to direct all his energies in the next few days

leading to the inauguration on january 20th to ensuring an orderly transition to the incoming biden administration but as i said we'll only find out to the next hour of what impact this has on the debate taking place in the house of representatives at the moment. there are those who feel that that the amendment that the resolution rather will pass but of course we know that the vice president . to take any action on it it then moves to impeachment. mike. we had president trump for today saying that he had. 0 fear of that the a member of the 25th amendment but impeachment could be a different matter couldn't it it could be a very different matter indeed the whole issue of the 25th amendment has been up in the year quite frankly mike pence said indicated that he was not going to convene his.